Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: «Charles Darwin's masterpiece, «On the Origin of Species», shook society to its core on publication in 1859. This title takes on creationists, including followers of 'Intelligent Design' and all those who question the fact of evolution through natural selection.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: This is a hymn to what makes England, especially the English countryside, so special, in a collection of passionate, eclectic and thought-provoking pieces. It includes Bill Bryson on seaside piers, Michael Palin on crags, Eric Clapton on Newlands Corner, Bryan Ferry on Penshaw Monument, Sebastian Faulks on pub signs, Kate Adie on deer parks, Kevin Spacey on canal boats, Gavin Pretor-Pinney on…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 410 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 670) Аннотация: «Six years in the writing, «The Lost Symbol» is Dan Brown's extraordinary sequel to his internationally bestselling Robert Langdon thrillers, «Angels & Demons» and «The Da Vinci Code». Nothing is ever what it first appears in a Dan Brown novel. Set over a breathtaking 12 hour time span, the book's narrative takes the reader on an exhilarating journey through a masterful and unexpected landscape…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: 1925, a damp wintry night in Berlin. Englishman Philip Gibson, in Germany to seek the answers to a tantalising mystery surrounding the Grand Duchess Anastasia, witnesses an attack on Natasha, a young woman who has fled from Russia. When Philip takes the fragile, lonely Natasha in to help her recuperate, she quickly falls for his kind and caring nature. But when further threats are made on her…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: «This work combines two of Bill Bryson's best-loved books and demonstrates his take on life — from either side of the pond. The books, «Notes from a Small Island» and «Notes From a Big Country», went on to become major bestsellers. «The Complete Notes» combines these two popular books into one volume. Written in the form of bite-sized essays, both books are gently humorous as they highlight the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In this wonderfully written memoir of Jacqueline Wilson’s life as a teenager, stories about family problems, first love, school life and friends build up a fascinating picture of a real teenager and her inner life. She uses extracts from her real diary to cover issues as diverse as how she created beehive hairdos to her troubled school life.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: «Coco Barrington was born into a legendary Hollywood family, her last name loaded with expectations. Her mother is a mega-bestselling author who writes under the name of Florence Flowers and her sister, Jane, is one of Hollywood's top producers. They're not your typical family, by any means... Jane has lived with her partner, Liz, for 10 years; Florence, widowed but still radiant, has just begun…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 492) Аннотация: On 12th June 1812, Napoleon's Grande Armee forded the River Niemen and crossed the Rubicon — its invasion of Russia had begun. Charged with delaying the enemy's inexorable march on Moscow, a group of Russian officers summon the help of the oprichniki, a band of mercenaries from the outermost fringes of Christian Europe. As rumours of a plague travelling west from the Black Sea reach the Russians,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Lara has always had an overactive imagination. Now she wonders if she is losing her mind. Normal twenty-something girls just don't get visited by ghosts! But inexplicably, the spirit of Lara's great aunt Sadie — in the form of a bold, demanding Charleston-dancing girl — has appeared to make one last request: Lara must track down a missing necklace Sadie simply can't rest without. Lara's got…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: It`s New York, 1926. Rocco Campobello, the great tenor collapses on stage. He emerges from this brush with death a changed man: a fallen, but enlightened colossus, casting off the mantle of celebrity, he embarks on a journey into his dark and sinister past which takes him back to his impoverished early life and to the city that made him: Naples.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: January 1972: the tiny outpost of British Honduras is threatened with imminent invasion by battle-hardened, US-trained Guatemalan paratroops. Britain's response must be immediate and decisive. But there is only one deterrent the government can offer: HMS Ark Royal, once the Navy's most powerful warship, now a white elephant on the verge of being scrapped. To save the small colony, she must launch…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: From the day he was born, Nick Traina was his mother's joy. By nineteen, he was dead. This is Danielle Steel's powerful, personal story of the son she lost and the lessons she learned during his courageous battle against darkness. Sharing tender, painful memories and Nick's remarkable journals, Steel brings us a haunting duet between a singular young man and the mother who loved him-and a…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: When junior manager Frank Dominio is suddenly demoted and then fired, it seems there was more than a grain of truth to his persecution fantasies. But as he prepares to even the score with those responsible for his demise, he unwittingly finds an ally in a dark and malevolent force that grants him supernatural powers. Frank takes his revenge in the most ghastly ways imaginable—but there will be a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: A world away from the killing fields of France was a battle that could have changed the face of history. Over the course of 1917, German bombers threatened to engulf London in firestorms – a portent of the London Blitz and the Battle of Britain over twenty years later. They were determined to bring London to its knees. The First Blitz took place over eight nights in 1917, but it was the second…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Meet Rebecca Bloomwood. She's a journalist. She spends her working life telling others how to manage their money. She spends her leisure time... shopping. Retail therapy is the answer to all her problems. She knows she should stop, but she can't. She tries cutting back, she tries making more money. But neither seems to work. The stories she concocts become more and more fantastic as she tries to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A former tiffinboy from Mumbai, Ram Mohamad Thomas, has just got twelve questions correct on a TV quiz show to win a cool one billion rupees. But he is brutally slung in a prison cell on suspicion of cheating. Because how can a kid from the slums know who Shakespeare was, unless he has been pulling a fast one? In the order of the questions on the show, Ram tells us which amazing adventures in his…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Autumn,1942: Hitler’s legions have swept across Europe. Soviet Russia reels under the German onslaught while across the channel, Britain struggles on. And in North Africa, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps have routed the 8th Army, threatening the oil fields of the Middle East. The war hangs in the balance...Out of this, the British hatch a desperate plan — to send a small, heavily…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Ariana Franklin combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the drama of historical fiction in the enthralling second novel in the Mistress of the Art of Death series, featuring medieval heroine Adelia Aguilar. Rosamund Clifford, the mistress of King Henry II, has died an agonizing death by poison-and the king's estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, is the prime suspect. Henry suspects…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: You can always trust a man — to do the dirty on you. When Lucy finds out her football coach hubby's been playing away from home, she's devastated. But when she discovers just who he's been scoring with, she wants to kick a few balls of her own. So now that Lucy's learnt that her perfect marriage was like most of her orgasms (faked), the big question is are all men bastards, or will she find the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: «Generation Kill» is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have never really met any of these people, who serve as front-line troops. For whatever reason, the media simply doesn't get them. As we all know, news accounts of the last two wars focused almost…