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Ali Monica: Alentejo Blue

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: «Alentejo Blue» is the story of the Portuguese village of Mamarrosa told through the lives of those who live there and those who are passing through — men and women, children and old people, locals, tourists and expatriates. For some, such as Teresa, a beautiful, dreamy village girl, it is a place from which to escape; for others — the dysfunctional Potts family — it is a way of running from…

Christopher Fowler: The Water Room

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Originally built to house the workers of Victorian London, Balaklava Street is now an oasis in the heart of Kentish Town and ripe for gentrification. But then the body of an elderly woman is found at Number 5. Her death would appear to have been peaceful but for the fact that her throat is full of river water. It falls to the Met’s Peculiar Crimes Unit, led by London’s longest-serving detectives,…

Kinsella Sophie: Shopaholic to the Stars

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) is in Hollywood! It's as if all her life has been leading to this moment! She's hanging out with the stars a or at least she will be, when she finally gets to meet movie superstar Sage Seymour, whom Luke is now managing. There's so much to see and do! And getting Minnie through the hurdles for her A-list Hollywood pre-school will require someaerahelp. Becky sets her…

Child Lee: A Wanted Man

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher — and you have a badly set, freshly busted nose — it isn't easy to hitch a ride. At last, he's picked up by three strangers — two men and a woman. Within minutes it becomes clear they're all lying about everything — and there's a police roadblock ahead.

Vernon Roland: The Good Wife's Castle

Скачать книгу (размер 1 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 356) Аннотация: «The unexpected suicide of an apparently happy family man; a woman held captive for three years in a forgotten underground bunker; a middle aged clergyman at a crisis point in his life, drawn into an uncomfortable relationship with a teenaged girl. Against the backcloth of these interwoven tales comes the story of two very different men who meet accidentally and are dramatically thrown together.…

Brill Marius: How to Forget

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Do you hold on to your memories? Or do they hold on to you? Magicov the Magnificent, grand illusionist, earns his living entertaining the geriatrics of Lotus House Care Home. But Mr Magicov (also known as Peter) envies them — they've mastered a trick that eludes him. They can forget. Peter yearns to forget. But memories haunt him: the shameful moment an eight-years-old wrecked his life; the FBI…

Steel Danielle: Pure Joy

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: In this funny, moving memoir, Danielle Steel tells the story of how she met a dog the size of a mouse, with a personality that could light up an entire room. From Minnie's arrival at home in San Francisco to clothes shopping jaunts in Paris, her adventures provide the perfect backdrop for a heartfelt look at the magic that dogs bring to our lives, and how they become part of the family. We meet…

Steel Danielle: Betrayal

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Tallie Jones is a Hollywood legend. An ambitious and passionate film director, her award-winning productions achieve the rare combination of critical and commercial success. But she has little interest in the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles, instead focusing intently on her work and family. She has close, loving relationships with her daughter, her elderly father and Hunter Lloyd — her…

Imogen Edwards-Jones: Pop Babylon

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: «How do you make it as a pop star? Packed with scandal and intrigue, «Pop Babylon» takes you to the dark heart of one of the world’s most wicked and secretive industries. Tracking a year in the making of a brand new boy band, «Pop Babylon» is pure, unadulterated reading pleasure. Disgraceful, revelatory and great down-and-dirty fun, it’s essential reading for anyone who wants to know what it…

Kinsella Sophie: Shopaholic Ties the Knot

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: For once in Becky Bloomwood's life, things are going smoothly. She's got the dream job as a personal shopper (spending other people's money — and getting paid for it.) She's got a fabulous Manhattan apartment with her boyfriend Luke. They've even opened a joint bank account (although they can't quite agree on whether a Miu Miu skirt counts as a household expense). Then Luke proposes — and all of…

Dan Brown: Deception Point

Скачать книгу (размер 3 002 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 590) Аннотация: Rachel Sexton works for the National Reconnaissance Office as an intelligence officer. She is also the daughter of a Senator currently running for President. Her father's main offensive, and a very popular one, against the incumbent President is to attack the huge amount of NASA funding. Rachel is barely on speaking terms with her father, believing him to be totally corrupt, but is still worried…

Robinson Nick: Live from Downing Street

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: 2010 is the year that the relationship between politics and television will come of age. In the last election politicians clashed live on TV in the first ever televised Prime Ministerial debate — an unprecedented event in the history of political broadcasting. It follows a year in which media coverage of politics has become more immediate, more intense, and far more personal. The 2010 election…

Terry Pratchett: Feet of Clay

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: A Discworld Howdunnit Who's murdering harmless old men? Who's poisoning the Patrician? As autumn fogs hold Ankh-Morpork in their grip, the City Watch have to track down a murderer who can't be seen. Maybe the golems know something — but the solemn men of clay, who work all day and night and are never any trouble to anyone, have started to commit suicide... It's not as if the Watch hasn't got…

Giordano Paolo: The Solitude of Prime Numbers

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: «Mesmerizing...an exquisite rendering of what one might call feels at the subatomic level.» -The New York Times A prime number is a lonely thing. It can only be divided by itself or by one, and it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia are both «primes»-misfits haunted by early tragedies. When the»

Boyne John: The Absolutist

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: It's September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War, but in 1917 Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious objector and was shot as a traitor, an act which has brought shame and dishonour on the Bancroft family.…

Rubenhold Hallie: Mistress of My Fate

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Georgian England, 1789. Under a cloud of scandal, Henrietta Lightfoot flees her home at Melmouth Park. She has little money and no worthwhile talents, for what use is a neat stitch and a pretty voice outside the drawing room? Without family support, her only hope of survival lies with the dashing but elusive Lord Allenham... In a desperate quest to find him, Henrietta embarks on a journey through…

W.Somerset Maugham: Up at the Villa

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Mary Panton walls up her desires in a beautiful villa high up in the hills above Florence, as she calmly contemplates her disastrous marriage. But a single act of compassion begins a nightmare of violence that shatters her serenity. She turns for help to the notorious Rowley Flint, and through him comes to realise that to deny love, with all its passions and risks, is to deny life itself.

Brown Dan: Digital Fortress

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine — encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage... not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it will cripple U.S.…

Pratchett Terry: Wyrd Sisters

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folks; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle. Three witches gathered on a lonely heath. A king cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. A child heir and the crown of the kingdom, both missing. The omens are not auspicious for the new incumbent, for whom ascending this…

Andy McNab: Crisis Four

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Nick Stone, ex SAS, now working for British Intelligence, is tough, resourceful, ruthless. Sarah is beautiful, steel willed, intelligent. As the pair are purued through the backwoods of the American South, Stones mission becomes a journey to the heart of a dark and deadly conspiracy to which only Sarah hold the key.