Скачать книгу (размер 1 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 308) Аннотация: William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive, Enter Gibson's unique world — lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting — where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 400 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 864) Аннотация: In A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin has created a genuine masterpiece, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill the pages of the first volume in an epic series sure to delight fantasy fans everywhere. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 314 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 259) Аннотация: «Instead of nostalgia, Binchy evokes contemporary life; instead of Christmas homilies, she offers truth; and instead of sugarplums, she brings us the nourishment of holidays that precipitate change, growth, and new beginnings. The stories in This Year It Will Be Different powerfully evoke many lives — step-families grappling with exes, long-married couples faced with in-law problems, a wandering…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Alternate History is historical fiction that examines the ramifications of a change or changes in known history. Alternate History can use science-fiction devices — such as time-travel — to change history, or it can simply pick a point where, had things merely happened differently (for example: Abraham Lincoln decided not to go to the theater that night, or Henry VIII stayed married to his first…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: They had been inseparable in college, Mary Stuart, Tanya, and Zoe. But in the more than twenty years that followed, the three had moved on with their lives, settled in different cities, and found successful careers and new roles as mothers and wives. By chance, each would find herself alone for a few weeks one summer, wrestling with the present and the past. At a sprawling ranch in the foothills…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: A raw, powerful first novel, The Football Factory centres on Tom Johnson, a seasoned 'Chelsea hooligan' who represents a disaffected society operating by brutal rules. We are shown the realities of life — social degradation, unemployment, racism, casual violence, excessive drink and bad sex — and, perhaps more importantly, how they fall into a political context of surveillance, media manipulation…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: «Set in New Orleans before the American Civil War, this is the story of the «Free People of Color», descended from slaves, and their French and Spanish owners. Among their number is Marcel, an artist in the making, also his gentle sister Marie and Anna Bella, a beautiful young courtesan.»
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: «Bob Lee Swagger has seen — and delivered — dozens of deaths. As a United States Marine sniper in Vietnam, his astonishing accuracy with a rifle earned him the nickname Bob the Nailer; twenty years later he was forced to kill again to unravel a brutal conspiracy (in Stephen Hunter's classic Point of Impact). Now happily secluded with his wife and young daughter in the Arizona desert, Swagger…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Records case studies of parapsychology and the contacts made with entities throughout the New England states and presents historical research attesting to the actual lives of these spirits.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Abraham Van Helsing refuses to rest until he has killed Dracula himself, but now he risks his very soul as he confronts an even more evil force, the Lord of the Vampires.
Скачать книгу (размер 4 563 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 896) Аннотация: Jean M. Auel's enthralling Earth's Children series has become a literary phenomenon, beloved by readers around the world. In a brilliant novel as vividly authentic and entertaining as those that came before, Jean M. Auel returns us to the earliest days of humankind and to the captivating adventures of the courageous woman called Ayla. With her companion, Jondalar, Ayla sets out on her most…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The personal conflict between two cousins is set against the backdrop of Hollywood and Las Vegas, in a story of the operations and machinations of America's last great crime family, the Clericuzios.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Turner, high-corporate commando, is abruptly reactivated by the Hosaka Corporation for a mission even more dangerous than the one he's still recovering from. Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D is defecting, and Turner must get him out, intact, along with the biochip he's perfected. With voodoo on the Net, he thinks he's only trying to get out alive. But he hasn't met the angel...
Скачать книгу (размер 1 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 324) Аннотация: Madelene is married to Burden, an ambitious zoologist, comfortably off and a chronic alcoholic. The ape is Erasmus, who comes ashore in London from sailing boat called The Ark. Burden aims to use the ape as the means to fulfil his ambition to direct the London Zoo. Erasmus and Madelene elope.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 125 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 418) Аннотация: This book contains the first ever selection of her stories, from her earliest published work in 1968 to her latest in 1994. Her star is in the ascendant — winner of the 1994 W. H. Smith Award, shortlisted for the second time in 1995 for the Irish Times International Fiction Award. This wonderful selection of the greatest stories will demonstrate her genius, her versatility, her extraordinary…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: «He is Harry Pendel: Exclusive tailor to Panama's most powerful men. Informant to British Intelligence. The perfect spy in a country rife with corruption and revolution. What his «handlers» don't realize is that Harry has a hidden agenda of his own. Deceiving his friends, his wife, and practically himself, he'll weave a plot so fabulous it exceeds his own vivid imagination. But when events start…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Stephen Lewis, an author of children's books, takes his 3-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From there, he spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and time itself.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Every Jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and a least one juror is convinced he's being watched. Soon, they have to be sequestered. Then, a tip from an anonymous young woman suggests she is able to predict the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: A legal thriller from the author of THE PELICAN BRIEF, THE CLIENT and THE FIRM, about what goes on behind the scenes when a jury retires to deliberate and decide whether the accused is innocent or guilty.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane... At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation. Airframe is nonstop reading:…