Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen knows how to expertly dissect a brilliantly suspenseful story, all the while keeping fascinated readers riveted to her side. By turns darkly enthralling and relentlessly surprising, The Keepsake showcases an author at the peak of her storytelling powers. For untold years, the perfectly preserved mummy had lain forgotten in the dusty basement of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and — most extraordinary of all — he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now — the war took it away. Maybe it took him, too. Now in 1949, employed as an extra in a war film that echoes his real experience, Day begins to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: It started as a joke. From the moment she first meets him Alice is aware that David is impotent. 'I'm impotent', he says, 'in so many ways.' He's separated from his wife and daughter, an HR executive worried for his job at a Glaswegian TV company. She's American, wants to be an artist. They move in together. To start with she tells him stories, bedtime stories about couples having sex, them…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 534 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 302) Аннотация: A model of efficiency and order, the aerodrome stands on the hill looking down on the village below. Roy, coming of age in the messy, violent and adulterous world of the villagers, is simultaneously attracted and repelled by this strange place and by the powerful figure of the Air Vice-Marshal. Soon he is led to leave his family, his friends and his love in order to join the aerodrome and…
Скачать книгу (размер 968 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 191) Аннотация: With twin daughters finishing high school, a son at Dartmouth, and a kindergartner from her second marriage, there seems to be nothing Olympia can't handle…until one sunny day in May when she opens an invitation for her daughters to attend the most exclusive coming-out ball in New York.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: It is almost Halloween in the sleepy New England town of Blackwood Falls. Autumn leaves litter lawns and sidewalks, paper skeletons hang in windows, and carved pumpkins leer from stoops and front porches. The Doctor and Martha soon discover that something long-dormant has awoken in the town, and this will be no ordinary Halloween. What is the secret of the ancient chestnut tree and the mysterious…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 676 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 330) Аннотация: «The bitingly funny paranormal romance series that began with «Dead End Dating» continues in this second book which finds the sassy proprietor of a vampire dating service mixed up with murder, a pack of lovelorn lady werewolves, and her own undead ex.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Obabakoak means 'events that happened in Obaba', the village at the centre of a novel composed of 26 inked tales and parodies written with a delicate sense of childlike innocence. But underlying these stories is a darker theme of loss, as the narrator of the book becomes a victim of his own tales.
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Black Dogs is built around a brilliant short story, a memerically slow-motion encounter with two terrifying dogs by an English couple who are honeymooning just after the war in a French mountain village.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 436) Аннотация: George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood or of manly bonhomie. The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely. Some things in life cant be ignored, however: his tempestuous daughter Katies deeply inappropriate boyfriend Ray, for instance, or the sudden appearance of a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 452 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 286) Аннотация: The official prequel to the upcoming blockbuster film from executive producer Steven Spielberg, Paramount Pictures, and DreamWorks — the action-packed storyof the battle between the Autobots and the Deceptions.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: «Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world existing in parallel to our own, each Other owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light. The «Night Watch», first book in the «Night Watch» trilogy, follows Anton, a young Other owing allegiance to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 589 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 509) Аннотация: Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ever imagine. Two young couples are on a lazy Mexican vacation-sun-drenched days, drunken nights, making friends with fellow tourists. When the brother of one of those friends disappears, they decide to venture into the jungle to look for him. What started out as a fun day-trip slowly…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 554 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 306) Аннотация: «The law touches almost every aspect of life, and the language of law is accordingly as broad and complex as human experience itself. Defining, refining, debating, interpreting, and applying the words of constitutions, statutes, contracts, wills, judicial opinions, and other legal writings is a major preoccupation of the law. It is, in fact, a fundamental preoccupation, for to question the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Collected for the first time, here are the twelve extraordinary illustrated volumes that form the graphic novel of THE VAMPIRE LESTAT. Evocative full-color paintings and an artful abridgment of the original text capture the inimitable spirit and atmosphere of this passionate, complex, and thrilling tale. The story begins in our own time with Lestat, tall, blond, and handsome, a world-renowned…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The citizens of the One State live in a condition of 'mathematically infallible happiness'. D-503 decides to keep a diary of his days working for the collective good in this clean, blue city state where nature, privacy and individual liberty have been eradicated. But over the course of his journal D-503 suddenly finds himself caught up in unthinkable and illegal activities — love and rebellion.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young scottish woman, goes to Occupied France on a dual mission: to run an apparently simple errand for a British special operations group and to search for her lover, an English airman who has gone missing in action. In the small town of Lavaurette, Sebastian Faulks presents a microcosm of France and its agony in 'the black years'. Here is the full range of…
Скачать книгу (размер 417 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 83) Аннотация: We all came out from under Gogol's Overcoat.' Fyodor Dostoevsky From the father of modern Russian fiction comes a hilarious look at holding a grudge. Gogol's classic story about friendship gone bad highlights the fierce wit and sharp sarcasm of the Russian master. This novella has never before been published as a stand-alone edition.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: «Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak and read English you can write poetry. But it is no fun if you don't know where to start or have been led to believe that Anything Goes. Stephen, who has long written poems, and indeed has written long poems, for his own private pleasure, invites you to discover the incomparable delights of metre, rhyme and verse forms. Whether you want to write a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: «Economics is changing radically. This paradigm shift, the biggest in the field for over a century, will have profound implications for business, government and society for decades to come. In this groundbreaking book, economic thinker and writer Eric Beinhocker surveys the cutting-edge ideas of the leading economists, physicists, biologists and cognitive scientists who are fundamentally…