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King Stephen: The Eyes of the Dragon

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Everyone in the kingdom talked about the King-in-waiting, Roland's elder son, Peter. And one man thought and planned and brooded on something else: how to make sure that Roland's younger son, Thomas, should be crowned King instead.The King is dead, murdered by an unusual poison. While evidence is gathered, and the land of Delain mourns, Flagg the King's magician, unscrupulous, greedy and…

Kate O'Hearn: Pegasus and the Flame

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: When Pegasus, the majestic winged-horse, crashes on to her roof in the middle of a storm that blacks-out New York City, 13-year-old Emily's life becomes that of legend: epic battles with gruesome monsters, desperate chases from a corrupt governmental agency, captivating flights astride the beautiful winged-horse, and one heroic quest to save Olympus before the Olympic flame burns out... A must…

L. J. Smith: Bloodlust

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Stefan and Damon Salvatore are now vampires, and must deal with the consequences of their fate. They escape their small hometown of Fell's Church, which is overrun with vampire hunters, and travel to New Orleans. While Stefan revels in his powers, Damon continues to mourn the loss of Katherine, the beautiful vampire that turned them both. But New Orleans offers temptations and dangers. Stefan…

Ann Brashares: My Name is Memory

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Daniel tells me that he's always loved me. That I feel the same. That I always have. Not just in this life, but in my last life, and all my lives before. But I don't remember him. He says he is always searching for me. Always hoping that one day I will remember. But it is only he that carries the memory of our love. I know that finding true love is never easy. Perhaps you have fought for it.…

John Connolly: The Whisperers

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Charlie Parker returns in the chilling new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE LOVERS. The border between Maine and Canada is porous. Anything can be smuggled across it: drugs, cash, weapons, people. Now a group of disenchanted former soldiers has begun its own smuggling operation, and what is being moved is infinitely stranger and more terrifying than anyone can imagine.…

Mike Gayle: The Importance of Being a Bachelor

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Despite the example of their own parents' enduring marriage, the three Bachelor brothers show no signs of settling down. Adam has a string of glamorous girlfriends, but they aren't suitable wife material. Luke has just proposed to Cassie but his refusal to consider having children looks like an insurmountable barrier. And baby of the family Russell is in love with the one woman he can't have.…

Gerald Seymour: The Dealer and the Dead

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: A bold revitalization of this legendary author, which began with THE COLLABORATOR — one of the 5 'best thrillers of the year' — Observer, 2009.

Jojo Moyes: The Last Letter from Your Lover

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: «From the bestselling author of «Me Before You» and two-time winner of the RNA Novel of the Year award. When journalist Ellie looks through her newspaper's archives for a story, she doesn't think she'll find anything of interest. Instead she discovers a letter from 1960, written by a man asking his lover to leave her husband — and Ellie is caught up in the intrigue of a past love affair. Despite,…

John Grisham: Theodore Boone: The Abduction

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Following on from John Grisham's first massively successful foray into the children's market, Theodore Boone 2 will once more feature his loveable, know-it-all young lawyer solving another tricky legal case in his native Strattenburg.

Gyles Brandreth: Oscar Wilde and the Nest of Vipers

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The fourth of Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed series of Victorian murder mysteries, Oscar Wilde and the Nest of Vipers opens in the spring of 1890 at a glamorous reception hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Albemarle. All London's haut monde is there, including the Prince of Wales, who counts the Albemarles as close friends. Although it is the first time Oscar and Bertie have met, Oscar seems far more…

Andrei Makine: The Life of an Unknown Man

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: One night in St Petersburg, two men meet, both adrift in the brash new Russia: Shutov, a writer visiting after years of exile in Paris, and Volsky, an elderly survivor of the Siege of Leningrad and Stalin's purges. His life story — one of extreme suffering, courage and an extraordinary love — he considers unremarkable. To Shutov it is a revelation, the tale of an unsung hero that puts everything…

Lloyd Jones: Hand Me Down World

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This is a story about a woman. And the truck driver who mistook her for a prostitute. The old man she robbed and the hunters who smuggled her across the border. The woman whose name she stole, the wife who turned a blind eye. This is the story of a mother searching for her child. This is a novel you cannot stop thinking about.

Jeffery Deaver: The Burning Wire

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: New York is being held to ransom. Manhattan's electricity grid has been the victim of a horrific attack... and more are planned. While the FBI and Homeland Security try to determine who's behind the carnage, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs race to decode the forensics in order to prevent the next assault. But all is not what it seems. Electricity can be as lethal as it is vital, and Lincoln Rhyme…

Sara Paretsky: Body Work

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Club Gouge: Chicago's edgiest night spot, where a woman calling herself the Body Artist invites the audience to use her naked body as a canvas. The show attracts all kinds of people, from a menacing off-duty cop to Ukrainian mobsters and Iraq war veterans. A tormented young painter comes too, and the designs she creates on the Body Artist drive one of the soldiers into a violent rage. When the…

Sara Gruen: Ape House

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Isabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab, doesn't understand people, but animals she gets — especially the bonobos. Isabel feels more comfortable in their world than she's ever felt among humans ...until she meets John Thigpen, a very married reporter who braves the ever-present animal rights protesters outside the lab to see what's really going on inside. When an explosion rocks…

Kate O'Hearn: Pegasus and the Fight for Olympus

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Reborn as the Flame, Emily has saved Olympus from destruction. The Olympic flame now burns strong, and peace has been restored. But not for long... When the gruesome Nirads begin a new invasion, Emily and her friends become entangled in the conflict as old grudges are unearthed and new enemies are discovered. And all the while, Emily yearns for her father, still a prisoner of the sinister CRU,…

John Grisham: The Litigators

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Oscar Finley: street cop turned street lawyer. Wally Figg: expert hustler and ambulance-chaser. David Zinc: Harvard Law School graduate. Together, this unlikely trio make up Finley & Figg: specialists in injury claims, quickie divorces and DUIs. None of them has ever faced a jury in federal court. But they are about to take on one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the States. David gave…

Stephen King: The Shining

Скачать книгу (размер 2 533 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 498) Аннотация: Danny is only five years old, but in the words of old Mr Hallorann he is a 'shiner', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, Danny's visions grow out of control.As winter closes in and blizzards cut them off, the hotel seems to develop a life of its own. It is meant to be empty. So who is the lady in Room 217 and who are the masked guests going up and…

Stephen King: Rose Madder

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Roused by a single drop of blood, Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realisation that her husband is going to kill her. And she takes flight — with his credit card. Alone in a strange city, Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill Steiner and she finds an odd junk shop painting, 'Rose Madder', which strangely seems to want her as much as she wants it. But it's hard for Rosie not to…

Stephen King: Needful Things

Скачать книгу (размер 4 808 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 944) Аннотация: There was a new shop in town. Run by a stranger. Needful Things, the sign said. The oddest name. A name that caused some gossip and speculation among the good folks of Castle Rock, Maine, while they waited for opening day. Eleven-year-old Brian Rusk was the first customer and he got just what he wanted, a very rare 1956 Sandy Koufax baseball card. Signed. Cyndi Rose Martin was next. A Lalique…