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Erin McCarthy: My Immortal

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In the late eighteenth century, plantation owner Damien du Bourg struck an unholy bargain with a fallen angel: an eternity of inspiring lust in others for the gift of immortality. But when Marley Turner stumbles upon Damien's plantation searching for her missing sister, for the first time in two hundred years it's Damien who can't resist the lure of a woman. But his past sins aren't so easily…

Robert Graysmith: Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killers Revealed

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: After painstaking investigation, and more than 30 years of research, Robert Graysmith finally exposes infamous Zodiac killer’s true identity. With overwhelming evidence he reveals the twisted private life that led to the crimes, and provides startling theories as to why they stopped. America’s greatest unsolved mystery has finally been solved. Includes photos and a complete reproduction of the…

Jeremy Clarkson: Born to be Riled

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Jeremy Clarkson, it has to be said, sometimes finds the world a maddening place. And nowhere more so than from behind the wheel of a car, where you can see any number of people acting like lunatics while in control (or not) of a ton of metal. In Born to be Riled, Clarkson takes a look at the world through his windscreeen, shakes his head at what he sees – and then puts the boot in. Among other…

Jeremy Clarkson: And Another Thing

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Everyone knows that Jeremy Clarkson finds the world a perplexing place – after all, he wrote The World According to Clarkson. Yet despite this, things don’t seem to have improved much. However, Jeremy is not someone to give up easily and he’s decided to have another go. In And Another Thing, our exasperated hero discovers that: He inadvertently dropped a bomb on North Carolina... We’re all going…

John Mortimer: Rumpole and Penge Bungalow Murders (Celebration Ed)

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Horace Rumpole — cigar-smoking, claret-drinking, Wordsworth-spouting defender of some unlikely clients — often speaks of the great murder trial which revealed his talents as an advocate and made his reputation down at the Bailey when he was still a young man. Now, for the first time, the sensational story of the Penge Bungalow Murders case is told in full: how, shortly after the war, Rumpole took…

Charles Nicholl: Leonardo Da Vinci

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades. Prize-winning author Charles Nicholl has immersed himself in manuscripts, paintings and artefacts to produce an intimate portrait of Leonardo. He uses these contemporary…

Jack Kerouac: The Dharma Bums

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Following the explosive energy of On the Road comes The Dharma Bums in which Kerouac charts the spiritual quest of a group of friends in search of Dharma or Truth. Ray Smith and his friend Japhy, along with Morley the yodeller, head off into the high Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude and experience the Zen way of life. But in wildly bohemian San Francisco, with its poetry jam sessions,…

John Updike: Rabbit at Rest

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: It's 1989, and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, are giving him cause for concern. His son Nelson is a wreck of a man, a cocaine addict with shattered self-respect. Janice, his wife, has decided that she wants to be a working girl. And as for Pru, his…

Stephen King: The Mist

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The storm rolled across Long Lake in Maine with a fury, leaving David Drayton and his family with fallen trees, downed power lines, and no electricity. At his wife’s request, David heads to the local supermarket to stock up on supplies, taking his young son and neighbor along for the ride. But the strange white mist that lingered on the lake has followed them to town, stranding them all in the…

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Beautiful and Damned

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Here is a portrait of greed, ambition, and squandered talent, as depicted in the lives of the very wealthy Anthony Patch and his willful wife Gloria.

Nora Roberts: Blood Brothers (The Sign of Seven Trilogy, Book 1)

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: In the town of Hawkins Hollow, it's called The Seven. Every seven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, strange things happen. It began when three young boys-Caleb, Fox, and Gage-went on a camping trip to The Pagan Stone. And twenty-one years later, it will end in a showdown between evil and the boys who have become men-and the women who love them.

Tanya Huff: Blood Trail (Blood Ties)

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: For centuries, the werewolves of Toronto have managed to live in peace and tranquility, hidden quietly away on their London, Ontario farm. But now, someone has learned their secret — and is systematically massacring this ancient race. The only one they can turn to is Henry Fitzroy, Toronto-based vampire and writer of bodice rippers. Forced to hide from the light of day, Henry can’t hunt the…

Tanya Huff: Blood Lines (Blood Ties)

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: An evil being has been sealed away for centuries in a sarcophagus never meant to be opened, waiting patiently for his chance to rise again. Now, brought to the Egyptology Department of Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum, the seals and spells that imprisoned him chipped away from his discoverers, he has reached forth to claim the minds and souls of Toronto’s unsuspecting citizens. And only three…

Tanya Huff: Blood Pact (Blood Ties)

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Vicki Nelson has received the call that no daughter ever wants to receive — that her mother has died. Marjory Nelson’s coworkers at the Queen’s University Life Science Department told her that she suffered a heart attack, and that they’d be waiting for Vicki to arrive in Kingston to make the funeral arrangements. But what begins as a personal tragedy turns into the most terrifying case of Vicki’s…

Tanya Huff: Blood Debt (Blood Ties)

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A ghost has invaded his home, beginning a dangerous nightly game in which Henry is allowed to ask a single question. If the answer is no, an innocent and unsuspecting person is killed. Henry soon comes to the horrifying realization that this wraith — and the others who join it — is using him to wreak vengeance on the people it holds responsible for its death. Henry can’t find the source of these…

Mikhail Bulgakov: A Dead Man's Memoir: A Theatrical Novel

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: This is Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers.

Victoria Beckham: That Extra Half an Inch: Hair, Heels and Everything in Between

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: 'I've always been a girls' girl. And I know from experience that making the very best of yourself is something any woman can do. I was never the six-foot-tall pin-up ...I've always been the girl-next-door who got lucky. I've come a long way in the last ten years, but this book isn't my attempt to tell you what or what not to do. It's just to share some of what I've learned'. Based on the…

Antony Beevor: Stalingrad

Скачать книгу (размер 2 508 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 493) Аннотация: In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town...Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure'. The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the gruesome, vicious war on the eastern front. The citizens of Stalingrad endured unimaginable hardship; the battle, with fierce hand-to-hand fighting…

Anthony Horowitz: Ark Angel

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The sniper’s bullet nearly killed him. But Alex Rider managed to survive... just in time for more trouble to come his way. When kidnappers attempt to snatch a fellow patient from the exclusive hospital where Alex is recovering, he knows he has to stop him. But the boy he saves is no ordinary patient: He is the son of Nikolai Drevin, one of the richest men in the world. The eccentric billionaire…

Robert Asprin: Myth-Told Tales

Скачать книгу (размер 1 289 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 254) Аннотация: It's a nightmare when master magician Skeeve and Aahz the Pcrvect fall into Dreamland... Massha gets married with something old, something new something borrowed, and something blew... up. Bunny turns to Skeeve for help when an inter-dimensional beauty contest turns ugly. Reality shows were never quite like this. Contestants hunt down Princess Gloriannamarjolie for a chance to win the greatest…