Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: A compelling, finely-crafted, intelligent thriller set in the Second World War. It is 1940, and war is raging in Europe. With forty million citizens of German ancestry, there is great pressure within America to stay out of the fight. Elements ranging from the Nazi-sympathetic German-American Bund to the WASP-led America First movement are working feverishly to make sure America does not intervene…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Meet Alex Hoffmann: among the secretive inner circle of the ultra-rich, he is something of a legend. Based in Geneva, he has developed a revolutionary system that has the power to manipulate financial markets. Generating billions of dollars, it is a system that thrives on panic — and feeds on fear. And then, in the early hours of one morning, while he lies asleep, a sinister intruder breaches the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: In a hospice in Bury St Edmunds, a man called Daniel is slowly fading away. His friend Maggie sits with him every day; she holds his hand and she listens to the story of his life, to his regrets and to his secrets. And then he tells her about the children he has never met and never will. He talks of them wistfully. His legacy, he calls them. Lydia, Dean and Robyn don't know each other. Yet. And…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We're out of oil. We've wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In the run up to the biggest NASCAR race week of the year, Dr Temperance Brennan is called to a landfill site backing onto the Charlotte speedway track in North Carolina. Someone has discovered a barrel of hardened asphalt with a human hand poking through the top. With the country's press trained on Charlotte, it is up to Tempe to try to release and identify the body in the barrel. But there is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: «History has known no monarch like her. She has travelled farther than all her predecessors put together and lived longer than any of them. She has known more historic figures than anyone alive — from Churchill to Mandela, de Gaulle to Obama. Now, the distinguished royal writer Robert Hardman has been granted rare and privileged access to the world of Queen Elizabeth II to produce this…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: «NEW YORK TIMES «BESTSELLER Includes exclusive bonus material Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone has received an anonymous note carrying an unfamiliar Web address. Logging on, he's shocked to see Cassiopeia Vitt, a woman who's saved his life more than once, being tortured at the hands of a mysterious man who has a single demand: «Bring me the artifact she's asked you to keep safe.»…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 297 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1040) Аннотация: «THE BOOK BEHIND THE SECOND SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES, AN ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO. A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: BOOK TWO In this thrilling sequel to «A Game of Thrones, «George R. R. Martin has created a work of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination. «A Clash of Kings «transports us to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare unlike any we have ever experienced. A comet the color…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Geoff Dyer, described by the Daily Telegraph as 'possibly the best living writer in Britain', takes on his biggest challenge yet: unlocking the film that has obsessed him all his adult life. Magnificently unpredictable and hilarious (and, surely, one of the most unusual books ever written about cinema), Zona takes the reader on an enthralling, thought-provoking journey. The ostensible subject of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: When a young woman returns from holiday to find her elderly neighbour dead, she immediately alerts the police. Commissario Brunetti is called to the scene but, though there are signs of a struggle, it seems the woman has simply suffered a fatal heart attack. Vice-Questore Patta is eager to dismiss the case as a death from natural causes, but Brunetti believes there is more to it than that. His…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Proud and solitary, Eel Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral Mrs Alice Drablow, the house's sole inhabitant, unaware of the tragic secrets which lie hidden behind the shuttered windows. It is not until he glimpses a wasted young woman, dressed all in black, at the funeral, that…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Daunted by the singular tastes and dark secrets of the tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house. But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, Ana cannot resist. Soon she is learning more about the harrowing past of her damaged,…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: When unworldly student Ana Steele first encountered the driven, damaged young entrepreneur Christian Grey, it sparked a sensual affair that changed both their lives irrevocably. Now, finally together, they have love, passion, intimacy, wealth, and a world of infinite possibilities. But Ana always knew that loving her Fifty Shades would not be easy and being together poses challenges neither of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 615 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 514) Аннотация: When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating. Convinced that their meeting went badly, she tries to put him out of her mind — until he turns up at the store where she works part-time, and invites her out.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Max Ride and her best friends have always had one another's backs. No matter what. Living on the edge as fugitives, they never had a choice. But now they're up against a mysterious and deadly force that's racing across the globe — and just when they need one another the most, Fang is gone. He's creating his own gang that will replace everyone — including Max. Max is heartbroken over losing Fang,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Who knows what might happen in a summer of love? Sian Bishop has left the hustle and bustle of the city behind and has thrown herself into a new life in the country. With her young son, her picture-postcard garden and her small thriving business, she's happy and very busy. She is not — repeat not — looking for love. And then, one glorious summer evening, Gus Beresford arrives. One-time explorer,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: 'Don't forget,' Wexford said, 'I've lived in a world where the improbable happens all the time.' However, the impossible has happened. Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired. He and his wife, Dora, now divide their time between Kingsmarkham and a coachhouse in Hampstead, belonging to their actress daughter, Sheila. Wexford takes great pleasure in his books, but, for all the benefits of a more…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: When Ravi Kapoor, an over-worked London doctor, is driven beyond endurance by his obnoxious father-in-law, he asks his wife: 'Can't we just send him away somewhere? Somewhere far, far away'. His prayer seems to have been answered when his entrepreneurial cousin, Sonny, sets up a retirement home, recreating a lost corner of England in a converted guesthouse in Bangalore. Travel and set-up are…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene of the biggest case he's ever been part of. The President's son and daughter have been abducted from their school — an impossible crime, but somehow the kidnapper has done it. Alex does everything he can but is shunted to the fringes of the investigation. Someone powerful doesn't want Cross too close. A deadly contagion in the DC water supply…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: The star of The Lorax by Dr. Seuss makes his Step into Reading debut in this rhymed reader that offers kids easy suggestions for going green! After explaining how the trash in a wastebasket ultimately ends up in a landfill or incinerator, the Lorax suggests realistic ways children can reduce waste, such as by carrying a lunch box, donating old clothes and toys, sharing magazines with friends,…