Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart and sets his heart on destroying her marriage. His equilibrium is further disturbed when his friends all decide to come and keep him company and Charles finds his…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 778 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 546) Аннотация: A fire at the Cathedral of Turin and the discovery of a strangely mutilated body attract the attention of Italy's special Art Crimes Department. Chief Marco Valoni leads a crack team of investigators in a race to solve a crime he's certain is about to shock the world — someone is planning to steal the Holy Shroud.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 236) Аннотация: Bestselling author and political pundit Podhoretz reveals Hillary Clintons plan to take over the White House. He offers a detailed blueprint for derailing Hillary and warns that it will succeed only if conservatives begin working now to keep their worst dreams from becoming true.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Fixated on the crimes which have been committed against his people, but unable to live among them, Max moves away, and draws cartoon histories of Jewish suffering in which no one is much interested. He is drawn into the Holocaust obsessions from which he realises there can be, and should be, no release. This book is a comedy of cataclysm.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: This book features pregnant women, students and journalists; farmers and birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers — and dancing girls. All ordinary people or are they? In this collection of short stories, Margaret Atwood maps human motivation we scarcely know we have.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: For Arthur Rowe the charity fete was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and a murder. Then he guesses the weight of the cake, and from that moment on he's a hunted man, the target of shadowy killers, on the run and struggling to remember and to find the truth.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: «From the bestselling author of «Between Husbands and Friends» and «An Act of Love» comes a wise, wonderful, and delightfully witty «coming of age» novel about four intrepid women who discover themselves as they were truly meant to be: passionate, alive, and ready to face the best years of their lives. Meet Faye, Marilyn, Alice, and Shirley. Four women with skills, smarts, and secrets — all…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 552) Аннотация: Brilliant plotting, relentless suspense, raved the Washington Post, A new synonym for terror, crowned the Detroit Free Press. The critics agree: no one writes suspense like Karin Slaughter, whose thrillers featuring medical examiner Sara Linton and her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, have propelled her to the top of bestseller lists the world over. Now Slaughter fuses her unmatched…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: «Yambo, a sixty-ish rare book dealer who lives in Milan has suffered a loss of memory; not the kind of memory neurologists call 'semantic' (Yambo remembers all about Julius Caesar and can recite every poem he has ever read), but rather his 'autobiographical' memory: he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, doesn't remember anything about his parents or his…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Steel explores the perils of dating, relationships, and love within the intoxicating, infuriating world of three charming single men, also known as Toxic Bachelors.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against deep-rooted prejudices. Sephy, her mother, has told Rose virtually nothing about her father, but as Rose grows into a young adult, she unexpectedly discovers the truth about her parentage,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 778 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 350) Аннотация: «From her appearance in a small magazine in 1906 to her death in 1965, Anna Akhmatova was a dominant presence in Russian literary life. But this friend of Pasternak and Mandelstam was a poet in a country where poetry was literally a matter of life and death, as she found when Mandelstam and her own husband, Gumilyev, were executed, and her son imprisoned for many years in the Gulag. Akhmatova's…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: «In his latest «New York Times» bestseller, Koontz delivers «a good, old-fashioned, barn-burning, beat-the-clock thriller that pits an innocent man against the worst sort of evil» («Denver Post»).»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: An extraordinary, harrowing, endlessly surprising novel from a literary master. In 1946, two brothers and a Jewish girl fall into alignment in pogrom-poised Moscow. The fraternal conflict then marinates in Norlag, a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the coveted House of Meetings will haunt all three lovers long after the brothers are released. And for the narrator, the…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: When my parents split up they didn't know what to do with me... My family always lived at Mulberry Cottage. Mum, Dad, me — and Radish, my Sylvanian rabbit. But now, Mum lives with Bill the Baboon and his three kids. Dad lives with Carrie and her twins. And where do I live? I live out of a suitcase. One week with Mum's new family, one week with Dad's. It's as easy as A B C. That's what everyone…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «Meredith Gentry, P.I., a.k.a. Princess Merry, heir to the throne of Faerie, faces dark and erotic encounters which grow ever stronger, threatening to consume her as she challenges new and ominous enemies in this fourth book of the sexually charged series by #1 «New York Times» bestselling author Hamilton.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 758 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 346) Аннотация: Deborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music icon Carlos Santana — a thirty-year bond that endures to this day. But as a girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white mother and a black father — the legendary blues guitarist Saunders King-her life was charged with its own drama long before she married. In this beautiful, haunting memoir, Deborah Santana shares for…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: December 1, 1941It is seven days before the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Days that are numbered for Sondegger, a Nazi spy captured in London while on a mission to take down the Twenty Committee, a German network of spies the British have turned.For American Tom Wall, the days have run together as he awakens to find himself locked in a British military asylum. Wounded and shell-shocked, all he…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The TARDIS lands in 22nd century Africa in the shadow of a dormant volcano. Agri-teams are growing new foodstuffs in the baking soil to help feed the world's starving millions — but the Doctor and Rose have detected an alien signal somewhere close by. When a nightmare force starts surging along the dark volcanic tunnels, the Doctor realises an ancient trap has been sprung. But who was it meant…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Mandy has been picked on at school for as long as she can remember. That's why she is delighted when cheeky, daring, full-of-fun Tanya picks her as a friend. Mum isn't happy — she thinks Tanya's a bad girl and a bad influence. Mandy's sure Tanya can only get her out of trouble, not into it...or could she?