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Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: America has dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But Japan has only begun to fight... In 1945, history has reached a turning point. A terrible new weapon has been unleashed. Japan has no choice but to surrender. But instead, the unthinkable occurs. With their nation burned and shattered, Japanese fanatics set in motion a horrifying endgame – their aim: to take America down with them.…
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: In Bittersweet, Danielle Steel has written a novel for our times, a story of choices and new beginnings. India Taylor lived in a world of manicured lawns and neatly maintained calendars: a merry-go-round of Little League, piano lessons, and Cape Cod summer vacations. With four wonderful children, India believed in commitment and sacrifice, just as she believed in Doug, the man she married 17…
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding school’s glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls in kilts hold lacrosse sticks on…
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Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations.