Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Just seventeen years old, Henry IX, known as William, is a king bound by the restraints of the regency yet anxious to prove himself. With the French threatening battle and the Catholics sowing the seeds of rebellion at home, William trusts only three people: his older sister Elizabeth; his best friend and loyal counselor, Dominic; and Minuette, a young orphan raised as a royal ward by William's…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: It is 1955. Michael Corleone has won a bloody victory in the war among New York's crime families. Now he wants to consolidate his power, save his marriage, and take his family into legitimate businesses. To do so, he must confront his most dangerous adversary yet, Nick Geraci, a former boxer who worked his way through law school as a Corleone street enforcer, and who is every bit as deadly and…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: A collection of tongue twisters for the young reader to read by himself is accompanied by a sound disc.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of female pleasure. Sisters will be doing it for themselves. And doing it. And doing it. And doing it some more... Penny Harrigan is a low level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A family Christmas in Cornwall for the newly single? Thea's parents have split up but still seem to be together. Both her younger sister and her brother are Smug Marrieds. But Thea is newly single and very much wishes she wasn't. When her mother and father plan a great family Christmas in a big house by the sea, the idea is to make it all great fun and tremendously civilised — not remotely…
Скачать книгу (размер 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 76) Аннотация: Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in The Bear Came Over the Mountain — the basis for Sarah Polley's film Away From Her — her prodigious talents are once again on display. As she follows Grant, a retired professor whose wife Fiona begins gradually to lose her memory and drift away from him, we slowly see how a lifetime of intimate details can create a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 232) Аннотация: «The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The authors present provocative new perspectives on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: There was a bloodied knife on Allbran's bed. Lady Gateway Barker knew what she had to do; what all the royals in Summerseve did when somebody tried to kill a member of their family: gather up a bunch of people and horses, and go from one place to another.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Two worlds are about to collide. Justin and Angela Kennedy are doing fine. Better than fine. They have wealth, position, love, children and a limitless future. Jo-Jo Mackendrick is a pillar of Dublin gangland, a man determined that nothing endangers his hard-earned supremacy. Into their lives comes Frankie Crowe, an ambitious criminal tired of risking his life for small change. Together with a…
Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: All I did was go to the library to borrow some books. On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library finds himself wondering how taxes were collected in the Ottoman Empire. He pops into the local library to see if it has a book on the subject. This is his first mistake. Led to a special reading room in a maze under the library by a strange old man, he finds himself…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Safiye had more to worry about than simply birthing this child. Her only son might not live to hear the call for morning prayers. If there ever was a time when the Empire required a male heir it was now. In the opulent royal palace of Murat III, on the shores of Constantinople, midwife Hannah Levi is charged with ensuring the Sultan's harem provides him with a male heir. If she fails, the entire…
Скачать книгу (размер 44 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 10) Аннотация: One fish, two fish, three, four, five...This one has a car to drive...This bouncy counting board book comes with five beads shaped like Seussian fish that toddlers can move across the top of the book as they count along. Based on Dr. Seuss' s celebrated classic, this sturdy board book will be a hit with all the little fish in your family.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 457 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 483) Аннотация: The woman astride the ghostly stallion reaches out desperately, the latest spirit to enlist the aid of Odd Thomas, the unassuming young fry cook whose giftNor curseNit is to see the shades of the restless dead, and to help them when he can. Available in a tall Premium Edition.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Will love or loyalty conquer? Lady-in-waiting Lucy Morgan is once again torn between her dangerous attraction to William Shakespeare and her loyalty to Queen Elizabeth I. England is facing its gravest threat yet. The Spanish have declared war, and Elizabeth finds herself attacked by sea — and by Catholic conspiracy from within her own court. Master Goodluck goes undercover, tasked with…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 832) Аннотация: Edward Rutherfurd's great Irish epic reveals the story of the people of Ireland through the focal point of the island's capital city. The epic begins in pre-Christian Ireland during the reign of the fierce and powerful High Kings at Tara, with the tale of two lovers, the princely Conall and the ravishing Deirdre, whose travails echo the ancient Celtic legend of Cuchulainn. From this stirring…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 028 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 399) Аннотация: Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return She is the girl with the dragon tattoo a genius hacker and uncompromising misfit. He is a crusading journalist whose championing of the truth often brings him to the brink of prosecution. Late one night, Blomkvist receives a phone call from a source claiming to have information vital to the United States. The source has been in contact with a young…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: In this magisterial and wide-ranging survey of political leadership over the past hundred years, Archie Brown challenges the widespread belief that strong leaders — those who dominate their colleagues and the policy-making process — are the most successful and admirable. Within authoritarian regimes, a more collective leadership is a lesser evil compared with personal dictatorship where…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: A threat has been made. An ultimatum delivered. Innocent people are in mortal danger. The gripping new bestseller from the master of the race-against-time thriller. The Threat 8am: an explosion blasts through a cafe in Central London. The Ultimatum: Minutes later, a call from an unknown terror group warns that a far greater attack will be launched in 12 hours' time. The Prisoner: William Garrett,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Hal Treherne is a young and dedicated soldier on the brink of a brilliant career. Impatient to see action, his other deep commitment is to Clara, his beautiful 'red, white and blue girl', who sustains him as he rises through the ranks. When Hal is transferred to the Mediterranean, Clara, now his wife, and their baby daughters join him. But Cyprus is no 'sunshine posting', and the island is in the…