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Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own. Officer Lena Adams is hiding secrets from him, and while her role in the death of the county's popular police chief is unclear, that man's widow, Dr. Sara Linton, desperately needs Trent's help to crack the case of a prisoner's death. While the police force investigates the murder of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: In 1882, after six years of foreign travel and adventure, renowned diplomat and detective Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow in the heart of Mother Russia. His Moscow homecoming is anything but peaceful. In the hotel where he and his loyal if impertinent manservant Masa are staying, Fandorin's old war-hero friend General Michel Sobolev (Achilles to the crowd) has been found dead, felled in his…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: «On a Midwestern campus in the 1960s, a charismatic guru and his young acolytes perform a secret ritual in a local meadow. What happens is a mystery — all that remains is a gruesomely dismembered body and the shattered souls of all who were present. Forty years later, one man seeks to learn about that horrifying night, and to do so he'll have to force those involved to examine the unspeakable…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: «#1 «New York Times» bestselling author Iris Johansen provides her trademark blend of seductive romance and pulse-pounding suspense in this classic tale of a woman who unexpectedly finds herself living — and loving — on the edge of danger. Lisa Landon makes her living with her voice — a voice fueled by a heartbreak she vows never to experience again. But despite her renown, Lisa's real ambition…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: It's 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day — July 15th — of each year. Dex and Em face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Ivan Grigoryevich has been in the Gulag for thirty years. Released after Stalin's death, he finds that the years of terror have imposed a collective moral slavery. He must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Anne Rice's extraordinary new novel summons up for us the world of fifteenth-century Rome: of Michelangelo and Raphael, of the Holy Inquisition and of Leo X, second son of a Medici, holding forth on the papal throne... a city of domes and rooftop gardens and rising towers. And into this time, into this century, Toby O'Dare, former government assassin is summoned, by the angel Malchiah, to solve a…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: It is the story of Zhivago, poet and physician, and his struggle to keep his family alive in the midst of the overwhelming chaos of the Russian Revolution. And, it is about Zhivago's love for the beautiful Lara, the woman he pursues beyond all reason, the human symbol of life's sweetness and joy...

Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: Offering visitors the most up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of Germany, this Fodor's Gold Guide contains information on lodgings, restaurants, and points of interest, and comes with a pullout map.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The Alien Hunter is playing with fire... Daniel X is on an impossible mission: to eliminate every intergalactic criminal on the face of the Earth. Using his incredible superpower to create objects out of thin air, he's taken on some of the most fearsome and fiendish aliens in the universe.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Set in a Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak, Nemesis is a wrenching examination of the forces of circumstance on our lives. Bucky Cantor is a vigorous, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground director during the summer of 1944. A javelin thrower and weightlifter, he is disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Impelled by the desire to recapitulate and amplify those subjects that have chiefly interested me during the course of my life, Somerset Maugham wrote The Summing Up when he was sixty-four. Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing the private self, The Summing Up is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo. It is not only a classic…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: Rudy Baylor is a newly qualified lawyer: he has one case, and one case alone, to save himself from his mounting debts. His case is against a giant insurance company which could have saved a young man's life, but instead refused to pay the claim until it was too late. The settlement could be worth millions of dollars, but there is one problem: Rudy has never argued a case in court before, and he's…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the monsters who have raped his ten-year-old child, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood and call for his acquittal. But when extremists outside Clanton hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything and anyone that opposes their sense of justice. Jake Brigance has been hired to defend Hailey. It's…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marraige, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy, cognitive-behaviour therapy or acupuncture can cure his puzzling knee pain or his equally inexplicable mid-life angst. As Tubby's life fragments under the weight of his self-obsession,…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 451 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 678) Аннотация: Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem's Lot in the hopes that living in an old mansion, long the subject of town lore, will help him cast out his own devils and provide inspiration for his new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods and only one comes out alive, Mears begins to realize that there may be something sinister at work and that his hometown is under siege by forces of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: This is a sparkling and sexy tale of glamour modelling, romance and the treacherous promises of fame. When Angel is discovered by a model agent, her life changes for ever. Young, beautiful and sexy, she seems destined for a successful career in modelling and, very quickly, the glitzy world of celebrity, fame and riches becomes her new home. But then she meets Mickey, the lead singer of a boy…

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: This 1949 Little Golden Book edition of the famous poem, The Night Before Christmas, was a staple in the Golden Book line for many years. Recently found in the Golden Books archives, Corinne Malvern's artwork for this title has been digitized and beautifully reproduced for today's kids!

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: When Miss Hazelstone of Jacaranda Park kills her Zulu cook in a sensational crime passionel, the gallant members of the South African police force are soon upon the scene: Kommandant van Heerden, whose secret longing for the heart of an English gentleman leads to the most memorbale transplant operation yet recorded; Luitenant Vekramp of the Security Branch, ever active in the pursuit of Communist…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: «The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. A divorcee falls in love with a mysterious European waitress; a widower relives a favourite holiday; two writers rehearse familiar arguments; a couple bond, fall out and bond again over flowers and vegetable patches. And…