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Stephen Clarke: Dial M for Merde

Скачать книгу (размер 1 610 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 317) Аннотация: Englishman Paul West has just received an offer he can't refuse: two weeks in the sun, all expenses paid, with a beautiful blonde called Gloria Monday. M, as Gloria likes to be known, is down south to report on caviar trafficking but it soon becomes obvious that she s interested in something a lot more fishy than caviar. Meanwhile Paul s best friend Elodie is marrying a French aristocrat, and…

John Godey: The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (film-tie in)

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Grand Central station, New York. 1:23pm. What starts as a normal day on the New York City subway becomes a race against time when a commuter train is hijacked. It is packed with passengers and the ransom is one million dollars. The NYPD frantically pursue the train on the city streets, but the question remains: the subway is a closed system – surely there is no way out... But the four hijackers,…

Afsaneh Knight: Slaughterhouse Heart

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: What makes a father violent? It takes a brave man to find out... As a volunteer at St Margaret’s Hospice, eager and helpful Meryl is looking for a role in life. The arrival of Jamie, the son of a patient, may be just what she is after. He is good-looking, young and, above all, troubled. Jamie’s father has only a few days to live, but between father and son is a lifetime of misunderstanding and…

Vikas Swarup: Six Suspects

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: «There's a caste system even in murder. Seven years ago, Vivek 'Vicky' Rai, the playboy son of Cabinet Minister, murdered Ruby Gill at a trendy restaurant in New Delhi simply because she refused to serve him a drink. Now Vicky Rai is dead, killed at his farmhouse at a party he had thrown to celebrate his acquittal. Six guests are discovered with guns in their possession — and each one is equally…

Ildefonso Falcones: Cathedral of the Sea

Скачать книгу (размер 3 818 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 750) Аннотация: A masterful epic of love, war, treason, plague, famine, witchcraft, anti-Semitism and the Inquisition 14th-century Spain, the medieval city of Barcelona is enjoying a golden age of prosperity. Its humblest inhabitants are building, stone by stone, a magnificent church to overlook their harbour. This is the Cathedral of the Sea: a church to be built for the people by the people. In its shadow,…

Rankin Robert: Nostradamus Ate My Hamster

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Robert wants to be a star in the movies. He has invented a system with his computer that could put the old stars back on the screen, alongside him. He has the script and the money, but Hollywood isn't keen. Could the perfect partnership lie with Ernest Fudgepacker of Fudgepacker's Emporium?

Eddings David: Demon Lord of Karanda

Скачать книгу (размер 2 023 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 398) Аннотация: In this third book of The Malloreon, the company now knows that Garion's baby son has been kidnapped by Zandramas and is to be used in a ritual which will make the Dark Destiny supreme. The group, however, has been detained by Zakath, Emperor of Mallorea, and taken to Mal Zeth.

McCaffrey Anne: Dragonsong

Скачать книгу (размер 896 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 177) Аннотация: Every two hundred years or so, shimmering Threads fall from space, raining death and black ruin on Pern. The great dragons of Pern hurl themselves through the beleagured skies, flaming tongues of fire to destroy deadly Thread and save the Planet. But it was not Threadfall that made young Menolly unhappy. It was her father who betrayed her ambition to be a Harper, who thwarted her love of music.…

Danielle Steel: Amazing Grace

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: On a warm May night in San Francisco, a glittering, celebrity-studded crowd gathers for a charity event. Just minutes before midnight, the room begins to sway. Glass shatters, the lights go out, and people start to scream.... In the earthquake's aftermath, the lives of four strangers will converge: Sarah Sloane, the beautiful wife of a financial star, watches her perfect world fall to pieces.…

Lee Child: Bad Luck and Trouble

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: You do not mess with the Special Investigators! The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reacher’s drifter life in a practical way. In addition to his folding toothbrush, he now needs to carry photo ID to get around. Yet he is still as close to untraceable as a human being in America can get. So when a member of his old Army unit manages to get a message to him, he knows it has to be deadly serious. The…

Markus Zusak: The Book Thief

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: The story of a young orphan girl who steals books, about her foster family and the Jewish boxer hidden in their basement as they struggle to survive in Nazi Germany, narrated by the voice of Death.

Hawking Stephen: Black Holes and Baby Universes

Скачать книгу (размер 1 008 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 199) Аннотация: Readers worldwide have come to know the work of Stephen Hawking through his phenomenal bestseller A Brief History of Time. Now in his first collection of essays and other pieces — on subjects that range from warmly personal to the wholly scientific Stephen Hawking is revelaed varioulsy as the scientist, the man, the concerned world citizen, and — as always — the rigourous and imaginative thinker.…

Frederick Forsyth: The Afghan

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: The Afghan is Izmat Khan, a five-year prisoner of Guantanamo Bay and a former senior commander of the Taliban. The Afghan is also Colonel Mike Martin, a 25-year veteran of war zones around the world, a dark, lean man born and raised in Iraq. In an attempt to stave off disaster, the intelligence agencies will try to do what no one has ever done before – pass off a Westerner as an Arab among Arabs…

Danielle Steel: Coming Out

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Could one calamitous evening ruin the perfect life? No challenge was too great, or so she thought...All round high-flier Olympia Crawford Rubinstein has it all, a busy legal career, a solid marriage and a perfect family. She manages her life with grace and energy and there seems to be no challenge to which she cannot rise. Until one day she opens an invitation for her twin daughters to attend an…

McCaffrey Anne: Acorna's Children: First Warning

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough are two of science fiction's favorite authors. Together, they have created the world of Acorna, the unicorn girl. Now, Acorna's children start to have their own adventures. First Warning: Acorna's daughter, Khorii, must contend with an overwhelming legacy to forge a path of her own. A simple journey to visit her relatives turns into a race against time…

McCaffrey Anne: Acorna's World

Скачать книгу (размер 1 942 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 382) Аннотация: Although she has made peace with her Linyaari heritage, Acorna knows that only by returning to the frozen stillness of space will she ever feel truly at home.

Cordy Michael: The Messiah Code

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: At the moment of his supreme triumph, a man of science dodges an assassin's bullet and loses everything that truly matters in his life. Now only a miracle can save Dr. Tom Carter's dying daughter: the blood of salvation shed twenty centuries ago. In the volatile heart of the Middle East, amid the devastating secrets of an ancient brotherhood awaiting a new messiah, Tom Carter must search for…

Steel Danielle: Impossible

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: When two hopelessly mismatched people share a love for art, a passion for each other and a city like Paris, nothing is truly impossible... or is it? Sasha is a traditionalist — now widowed, she knows she was married to the most wonderful man in the world. Liam is an artist, half-in and half-out of a marriage that his own impossibly impulsive behaviour has helped tear apart. But while Sasha has…

Ben Elton: The First Casualty

Скачать книгу (размер 2 253 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 443) Аннотация: From Ben Elton, author of the hugely successful Past Mortem, a gut-wrenching historical drama which forces us to handle the truth. Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while he was recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, is charged with his…

Irving John: A Son of the Circus

Скачать книгу (размер 4 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 832) Аннотация: The doctor was fated to go back to Bombay; he would keep returning again and again — if not forever, at least for as long as there were dwarves in the circus. Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen — a 59-year-old orthopaedic surgeon, living in Toronto. Once, twenty years ago, Dr Daruwalla was the examining physician of…