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Brown Dan: The Lost Symbol

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: WHAT WAS LOST WILL BE FOUND...Washington DC: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned at the last minute to deliver an evening lecture in the Capitol Building. Within moments of his arrival, however, a disturbing object — gruesomely encoded with five symbols — is discovered at the epicentre of the Rotunda. It is, he recognises, an ancient invitation, meant to beckon its recipient towards a…

Granger Pip: Up West: Voices from the Streets of Post-War London

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Bestselling author Pip Granger remembers her childhood in a vibrant part of London where working girls swung their keys on street corners and coffee bars throbbed to the beat of rock and roll.

Davis Anna: The Jewel Box

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Grace Rutherford is the one and only Diamond Sharp, the `It` girl of 1920s London. Caught up in the glitz and glamour of the day, Grace begins a passionate affair with charming, flirtatious American author Dexter O`Connell. Soon, though, she finds herself falling for John Cramer, the charismatic neighbour her widowed younger sister adores.

Lee Child: Nothing to Lose

Скачать книгу (размер 2 788 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 548) Аннотация: Two small towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, nothing but twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher can't find a ride, so he walks. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets are four redneck deputies who want to run him out of town. Mistake. They're picking on the wrong guy. Jack Reacher is a big man, and he's in shape. No job, no address, no baggage. Nothing, except…

Andy McNab: Brute Force

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: A cargo ship is apprehended by the authorities off the coast of Spain, loaded to the gunwales with enough arms and ammunition to start a war. Twenty years later, an unknown aggressor seems intent on eradicating those responsible for the treachery, one by one. The last victim was brutally tortured with a Black & Decker drill, then shot through the head. And Nick Stone — ex-SAS, tough, resourceful,…

Terry Pratchett: The Folklore of Discworld

Скачать книгу (размер 1 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 360) Аннотация: «Most of us grow up having always known to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone, yet sadly some of these things are now beginning to be forgotten. Legends, myths, fairytales: our world is made up of the stories we told ourselves about where we came from and how we got there. It is the same on Discworld, except that…

Imogen Edwards-Jones: Material Girl

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: What is fashion? Who decides what's in and what's out? Is the catwalk really catty? And what's so super about supermodels? Based entirely on true but anonymous stories, Material Girl covers six months in a designer's life and gives you exclusive access to a world where women get paid thousands for getting dressed in the morning and where the wrong shirt length can cost you your career. Tracking…

Terry Pratchett: Nation: The Play

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: «Following the National Theatre's success with plays based on novels by well-loved children's writers like Philip Pulman («His Dark Materials»), Jamila Gavin («Coram Boy») and Michael Morpurgo («War Horse»), the National now stages Mark Ravenhill's exhilarating adaptation of Terry Pratchett's witty and challenging adventure story in a major Christmas production for 2009. Its a parallel world,…

Radulescu Domnica: Train to Trieste

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In the summer of 1977, seventeen-year-old Mona Manoliu falls in love with Mihai, a mysterious boy who lives in the romantic mountain city where she spends her summers. She can think of nothing and no one else. But life under Nicolae Ceausescu is difficult. Hunger, paranoia and fear infect everyone. One day Mona sees Mihai wearing the black leather jacket favored by the secret police... is it…

Lesley Downer: The Last Concubine

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Japan, 1865, the women’s palace in the great city of Edo. Bristling with intrigue and erotic rivalries, the palace is home to three thousand women and only one man — the young shogun. Sachi, a beautiful fifteen-year-old girl, is chosen to be his concubine. But Japan is changing, and as civil war erupts, Sachi flees for her life. Rescued by a rebel warrior, she finds unknown feelings stirring…

Simon Montefiore: Sashenka

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Winter, 1916. In St Petersburg, snow is falling in a country on the brink of revolution. Beautiful and headstrong, Sashenka Zeitlin is just sixteen. As her mother parties with Rasputin and her dissolute friends, Sashenka slips into the frozen night to play her role in a dangerous game of conspiracy and seduction. Twenty years on, Sashenka has a powerful husband and two children. Around her people…

Danielle Steel: Rogue

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: For Maxine Williams, being married to Blake was an amazing adventure. Brilliant, charismatic, and wholly unpredictable, as an entrepreneur he had made millions and grabbed headlines. His only shortcoming was as a husband, and now they have worked out an odd but amicable divorce, and share three children they both adore. Blake gets to keep his globe-trotting lifestyle — dating a succession of…

Andy McNab: Seven Troop

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Seven Troop is Andy McNab's account of the time he served in the company of a remarkable group of men — from the day, freshly-badged as a member of the SAS Regiment, he joined them in the Malayan jungle, to the day, ten years later, that he handed in his sand-coloured beret and started a new life.

Danielle Steel: A Good Woman

Скачать книгу (размер 2 100 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 413) Аннотация: A spellbinding tale of war, loss, history, and one woman's unbreakable spirit. Annabelle Worthington, born into a life of privilege, was raised amid the glamour of New York society. But everything changes on a cold April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic alters her world forever. Finding strength within her grief, Annabelle throws herself into volunteer work, nursing the poor and…

Laurell K. Hamilton: Swallowing Darkness

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Merry Gentry is not your average private investigator. Half human, half faerie, she's caught in a struggle that threatens not only her life, but the lives of those she desires and holds dear. Her very existence and her rightful place on the throne of Faerie have long depended on her ability to produce an heir — and now, after many failed attempts, the services of her royal guards have found her…

Jo Rees: Platinum

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Three sassy, but very different heroines: knock-out brunette Peaches Gold, LA's most influential madam, who in her late thirties is certainly fooling everyone that she's much younger than she looks; twenty-something blonde South African yacht stewardess Frankie Willis, and English socialite Lady Emma Harvey — in her prime at nearly fifty. The hooker, the maid, and the lady. They have every reason…

Dan Brown: Digital Fortress

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: When the National Security Agency's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power.

Dan Brown: Angels and Demons

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: CERN Institute, Switzerland: a world-renowned scientist is found brutally murdered with a mysterious symbol seared onto his chest. The Vatican, Rome: the College of Cardinals assembles to elect a new pope. Somewhere beneath them, an unstoppable bomb of terrifying power relentlessly counts down to oblivion. In a breathtaking race against time, Harvard professor Robert Langdon must decipher a…

Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to…

Jim Cartwright: Supermarket Supermodel

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Sitting among the rows of tills in Supersafe supermarket in the North of England, the fortunes of a young checkout girl are on the brink of change … Linda works the tills at Safeshop. It's what everyone does. The grammar school girls get the careers; the comp girls get the two-bit college courses and the low wage jobs. But when model agent Rafe brings his disposable razors to Linda's till, he…