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A. A. Milne: The Red House Mystery

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Far from the gentle slopes of the Hundred Acre Wood lies The Red House, the setting for A.A Milne's only detective story, where secret passages, uninvited guests, a sinister valet and a puzzling murder lay the foundations for a classic crime caper. And when the local police prove baffled, it is up to a guest at a local inn to appoint himself 'Sherlock Holmes' and, together with his friend and…

Danielle Steel: A Good Woman

Скачать книгу (размер 1 916 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 377) Аннотация: From the glittering ballrooms of Manhattan to the fires of World War I, Danielle Steel takes us on an unforgettable journey in her new novel-a spellbinding tale of war, loss, history, and one woman's unbreakable spirit... Filled with breathtaking images and historical detail, Danielle Steel's new novel introduces one of her most unique and fascinating characters: Annabelle Worthington, a…

David Loyn: Butcher and Bolt

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Afghanistan has been a strategic prize for more than 200 years. Foreign invaders have continually fought across its beautiful and inhospitable terrain. A century ago, the common sneer about how British soldiers treated Afghan tribesmen was that they would 'butcher' them, then 'bolt'. This book recounts this violent history.

Jacqueline Rayner: Doctor Who: The Sontaran Games

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Every time the lights go out, someone dies... The Tardis lands at an academy for top athletes, all hoping to be chosen for the forthcoming Globe Games. But is one of them driven enough to resort to murder? The Doctor discovers that the students have been hushing up unexplained deaths. Teaming up with a young swimmer called Emma, the Doctor begins to investigate — but he doesn't expect to find a…

Philip Roth: Indignation

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he here and not at a local college in Newark where he originally enrolled?

Ian Mortimer: The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Explains what life was like in the most immediate way, through taking readers, to the middle ages, and showing various things from the horrors of leprosy and war to the ridiculous excesses of roasted larks and haute couture.

Kurt Vonnegut: Timequake

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: According to Vonnegut's alter ego, science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13 February 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to back up a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja vu and a total loss of free will-not to mention…

Katie Fforde: Wedding Season

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Sarah is a wedding planner who doesn't believe in love. Or, not for herself anyway. And now with all her working hours spent planning the wedding of the year, she certainly doesn't have time to even think about love... Or does she? From the Hardcover edition.

Chuck Palahniuk: Snuff

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, this is a full-frontal Triple-X novel that goes where no work of fiction has gone before. 'Six hundred dudes. One porn queen. A world record for the ages. A must — have movie for every discerning collector of things erotic'. 'Didn't one of us on purpose set out to make a snuff movie?' — Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary…

Julian Barnes: Staring at the Sun

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we learn cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsatisfactory…

Alfred Wertheimer: Elvis 1956

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: In 1956, a twenty-one-year-old Elvis Presley was at the beginning of his remarkable and unparalleled career. Photojournalist Alfred Wertheimer was asked by Presley's new label, RCA Victor, to photograph the rising star for a one-day assignment that quickly developed into an odyssey. With unimpeded access to the young performer, Wertheimer was able to capture the unguarded and everyday moments in…

Gail Buckland: Who Shot Rock and Roll

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: More than 200 spectacular photographs catch and define the energy, intoxication, rebellion, and magic of rock and roll. This work explores the photographs and the photographers who captured rock's message of freedom and personal reinvention.

Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life: 1990-2005

Скачать книгу (размер 2 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 472) Аннотация: I don't have two lives, Annie Leibovitz writes in the Introduction to this collection of her work from 1990-2005. This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it. Portraits of well-known figures-Johnny Cash, Nicole Kidman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Keith Richards, Michael Jordan, Joan Didion, R2-D2, Patti Smith, Nelson Mandela, Jack Nicholson, William Burroughs,…

Jo Nesbo: The Redbreast

Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: Harry Hole, drunkard, loner and brilliant detective is reassigned to surveillance after a high profile mistake. He's bored by his new job until a report of a rare and unusual gun being fired sparks his interest because of its possible links to Neo Nazi activity. Then a former soldier is found with his throat cut. Next Harry's former partner is murdered. Why had she been trying to reach Harry on…

Gale Wiersum: Little Golden Book Christmas Favorites

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Three beloved Christmas Little Golden Books are gathered together in this charming mini-treasury: The Night Before Christmas, The Christmas Story, and The Animals' Christmas Eve. Perfect for gift-giving, and at the value Golden Books is known for!

Hamish Bowles: The World in Vogue: People, Parties, Places

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «This one-of-a-kind book features more than 300 color and black and white photographs of some of the most celebrated actors, artists, models, first ladies, and social figures that have appeared in the pages of «Vogue» over the past four decades.»

James Patterson: Alex Cross's Trial

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «While you wait for the next exciting installment in the «Alex Cross series», «I, Alex Cross» (published November 2009 by Century), get your hands on a new book written by Alex Cross himself! Ben Corbett is a brilliant young lawyer in early-twentieth-century Washington DC. Yet he is a disappointment to his wife and father, who believe he wastes his talents by doing poorly-paid and thankless work…

Stieg Larsson: Vergebung

Скачать книгу (размер 4 400 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 864) Аннотация: «Die Ermittlerin Lisbeth Salander steht unter Mordverdacht. Ihr Partner Mikael Blomkvist schwört, ihre Unschuld zu beweisen. Er weiß, dass es um Salanders Leben geht. Als seine Ermittlungen die schwedische Regierung in ihren Grundfesten zu erschüttern drohen, setzt er alles auf eine Karte. Nach «Verblendung» und «Verdammnis» der grandiose Höhepunkt der Trilogie um das…

Glenn Cooper: Library of the Dead

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: A murderer is on the loose on the streets of New York City: nicknamed the Doomsday Killer, he's claimed six victims in just two weeks, and the city is terrified. Even worse, the police are mystified: the victims have nothing in common, defying all profiling, and all that connects them is that each received a sick postcard in the mail before they died — a postcard that announced their date of…

Carol Willis: New York Deco

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: New York Deco profiles the architecture of the city during its most stylish and dazzling decades: the 1920s and early 1930s. New York City landmarks were born in this age — the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, and the Waldorf-Astoria — as well as dozens of lesser-known office buildings and apartment houses. Together, they make the skyline of New York what it is…