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Harry Turtledove: Opening Atlantis

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Atlantis lies between Europe and the east coast of Terranova. For many years, this land of opportunity has lured dreamers from around the globe with its natural resources, offering a new beginning for those willing to brave the wonders of the unexplored territory. It is a new world indeed, ripe for discovery, for plunder, and eventually for colonization. But will its settlers destroy the very…

Clive Cussler: Skeleton Coast

Скачать книгу (размер 2 227 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 438) Аннотация: Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon have barely escaped a mission on the Congo River when they intercept a mayday from a defenseless boat under fire off the African coast. Cabrillo takes action, saving the beautiful Sloane Macintyre — who's looking for a long-submerged ship that may hold a fortune in diamonds. But what surprises Cabrillo is her story about a crazy…

Jane Green: Second Chance

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: A group of friends that hasnt seen one another in years is reunited through tragedy. Working through their grief together, they find that each of their lives is impacted in ways they could have never foreseen, in this story of friendship, family, and life coming full circle.

Dean R. Koontz: Shadowfires

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: «A woman's relief over the death of her husband gives way to mind-numbing terror, in this shockingly suspenseful thriller from «New York Times»-bestselling author Koontz. This newly repackaged edition features a new Afterword by the author. Reissue.»

E. E. Knight: Valentine's Resolve

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: After three years of exile from humanity’s war against the Kurians, David Valentine returns to battle. The Lifeweavers, Earth’s allies in the conflict, have mostly vanished, but those that remain are held captive by an overlord known as the Seattle Kurian. To free them, Valentine must convince the legendary resistance fighter known as the Marshal to join his cause. But the Marshal is something of…

Lee Child: Without Fail

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Skilled and unknown, Jack Reacher is the perfect man to assassinate the vice president of the United States — in theory. Hired by the VP's Secret Service security detail, it's Reacher's job to find holes in the system before a group of assassins do. Now repackaged with an electrifying new cover.

Ken Follett: World Without End

Скачать книгу (размер 6 113 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1200) Аннотация: WORLD WITHOUT END is the №1 New York Times bestselling sequel to the international bestseller THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH. The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge. Ken Follett is the author of sixteen novels, most recently the instant New York Times bestsellers HORNET FLIGHT, and CODE TO ZERO.

Jonathan Coe: The Accidental Woman

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: For Maria, nothing is certain. Her life is a chain of accidents. Friendship passes her by, and she's unimpressed by the devoted Ronny and his endless proposals of marriage. Maria lives in a world of her own — yet not of her own making. Stumbling through university, work, marriage and motherhood, she finds it hard to see what all the fuss is about. Will she ever be able to control the direction of…

Jonathan Coe: The Dwarves of Death

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Music, murder...and Madeleine William has a lot on his mind. Firstly there's The Alaska Factory, the band he plays in. They're no good and they make his songs sound about as groovy as an unpressed record. In fact they're so bad he's seriously thinking of leaving to join a group called The Unfortunates. Secondly, there's Madeleine, his high-maintenance girlfriend whose idea of a night of passion…

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Gambler Bobok: A Nasty Story

Скачать книгу (размер 1 207 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 238) Аннотация: The stories in this volume demonstrate Dostoyevsky's genius for fusing caricature, irony and the grotesque to create a powerful dark humour. Jessie Coulson's introduction examines the personal and financial dramas that influenced Dostoyevsky.

Jonathan Coe: The House of Sleep

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Robert has had his life changed for ever by the misunderstandings arising from her condition; Terry, the insomniac, spends his wakeful nights fuelling his obsession with movies; and the increasingly unstable Dr Gregory Dudden sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which must be eradicated. A group of students…

Nicci French: Losing You

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Nina Landry has given up city life for the isolated community of Sandling Island, lying off the bleak east coast of England. At night the wind howls. Sometimes they are cut off by the incoming tide. For Nina though it is home. It is safe. But when Nina's teenage daughter Charlie fails to return from a sleepover on the day they're due to go on holiday, the island becomes a different place…

Chris Kuzneski: The Lost Throne

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Hewn into the towering cliffs of central Greece, the Meteora monasteries are all but inacessible. The Holy Trinity is the most isolated, its sacred brotherhood the guardians of a long-forgotten secret. In the dead of night, the sanctity of the holy retreat is shattered by an elite group of warriors, carrying ancient weapons. One by one, they hurl the silent monks from the cliff-top — the holy men…

Daniel Silva: Secret Servant

Скачать книгу (размер 2 288 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 450) Аннотация: Assassin, art-restorer and spy, Gabriel Allon, is summoned once more by his masters to undertake what appears to be a routine assignment: travel to Amsterdam to purge the archives of a murdered Dutch terrorism analyst. But once in Amsterdam, Gabriel soon discovers there is a conspiracy of terror festering in the city's Islamic underground, a plot that is about to explode on the other side of the…

A.P. Chekhov: The Shooting Party

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The Shooting Party wraps a story of concealed love and fatal jealousy into a classic murder mystery. When a young woman dies during a shooting party at the country estate of a dissolute count, a magistrate is called to investigate. But suspicion descends upon virtually everyone, for, as we soon learn, the victim was at the center of a tangled web of relationshipsawith her elderly husband, with…

Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin: Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Alexander Pushkin was Russia's first true literary genius. Best known for his poetry, he also wrote sparkling prose that revealed his national culture with elegance and understated humour. Here, his gift for portraying the Russian people is fully revealed. The Tales of Belkin, his first prose masterpiece, presents a series of interlinked stories narrated by a good-hearted Russian squire — among…

Ken Kesey: One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's «One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest» is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her.…

G.W. Dahlquist: The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

Скачать книгу (размер 3 839 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 754) Аннотация: A spy, a killer, an imposter, and three extraordinary heroes are featured in one unique novel. In The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters...three most-unlikely but nevertheless extraordinary heroes become inadvertently involved in the diabolical machinations of a cabal bent upon enslaving thousands through a devilish 'process': Miss Temple is a feisty young woman with corkscrew curls who wishes only…

Adele Parks: Young Wives' Tales

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Lucy stole her friend Rose's 'happily ever after' because she wanted Rose's husband, Peter, and Lucy always gets what she wants. Big mistake. Rose was the ideal wife and is the ideal mother; Lucy was the perfect mistress. Connie — best friend to both Lucy and Rose — is stuck in the middle. She's got Lucy's worries about being wife, mother and career bitch in one ear and Rose's struggle at being a…