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Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The book was called Pleasuring: One Couple's Journey to Fulfillment. The title, when the children had first heard it and begun to understand it, was so incontestably mortifying that it threatened to stunt them forever, leaving them clocked in time and steadfast refusal to enter the adult world. This is more or less what happens to Holly and Michael, Dashiell and Claudia, after they read the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: When the people of the underground city of Ember follow Lina and Doon to the surface, little prepares them for what they will encounter. Leaving behind the darkness that has been their home for generations, they discover a world of colour, warmth and light. The people of the small village of Sparks seem willing to help them... at first... but life on the surface has its dark side too. Before long…
Скачать книгу (размер 534 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 106) Аннотация: Equipped with space suits, golf clubs and a flag, the Doctor and Rose are planning to live it up, Apollo mission-style, on the Moon. But the TARDIS has other plans, landing them instead in a village on the south coast of England; a picture-postcard sort of place where nothing much happens.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 411 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 278) Аннотация: An automobile breakdown strands Nero Wolfe and Archie in the middle of a private pasture — and a family feud over a prize bull. A restaurateur's plan to buy the stud and barbecue it as a publicity stunt may be in poor taste, but it isn't a crime... until Hickory Casear Grindon, the soon-to-be-beefsteak bull, is found pawing the remains of a family scion. Wolfe is sure the idea that Caesar is the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: When a naval cruiser sinks in mysterious circumstances in the North Sea, all aboard are lost. Rose is saddened to learn that the brother of her friend, Keisha, was among the dead. And yet, he appears to them as a ghostly apparition, begging to be saved from the coming feast... the feast of the drowned.
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: From Alice and Abe to Zeb and Zipper, an alphabetical array of guests turns out for the biggest birthday party ever. But Hooper Humperdink isn't on the guest list.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 028 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 399) Аннотация: Patrick Bateman is handsome, well-educated, intelligent. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. His nights he spends in ways we cannot begin to fathom. He is twenty-six years old and living his own American Dream.
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 549 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 501) Аннотация: A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the…
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 998 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 393) Аннотация: «Stone Barrington finds intrigue abroad in the sensational thriller from «New York Times» bestselling author Stuart Woods. Stone Barrington is no stranger to schemes and deceptions of all stripes — as an attorney for the premier white-shoe law firm Woodman & Weld, he's seen more than his share. But when he travels to Europe under highly unusual circumstances, Stone finds himself at the center of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: «Laurie R. King’s bestselling mystery series featuring Mary Russell and her husband and partner, Sherlock Holmes, is beloved by readers and acclaimed by critics the world over. Now the illustrious duo returns for their most dangerous exploit yet, in a rich and atmospheric tale that takes them to India to save the life of one of literature’s most fabled heroes. It’s the second day of the new year,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: In 1878, aspiring entomologist Hans Bengler travels to the Kalahari Desert in hopes of making a name for himself by discovering a previously unknown insect or two. There he encounters a boy named Molo, an orphan whose family has been killed by European colonists. Bengler civilizes the boy by rechristening him Daniel, teaching him to pray to the Christian god, and finally bringing him home to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: The past will always find you. A woman is found brutally murdered in a sordid Atlanta apartment. Her blood-soaked body bears a chilling similarity to a woman found dead almsot 40 years earlier. Soon Special Agent Will Trent finds himself returning to the home he grew up in, and a past that could hold the clue to the killings...
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Rubble lives in a caravan and works on a battery farm. Totally oblivious to the outside world, he spends his days disposing of the sick and injured chickens. But all the while he dreams of a life in the army — despite the fact his numerous applications have been rejected. Then one day a mysterious visitor arrives and sees Rubble's child-like naivety combined with an ability to kill without…
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