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Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Paris, 1878: Eccentric antiquarian Lord Littleby and his ten servants are found murdered in Littleby's mansion on the rue de Grenelle, and a priceless Indian shawl is missing. Police commissioner Papa Gauche recovers only one piece of evidence from the crime scene: a golden key shaped like a whale. Gauche soon deduces that the key is in fact a ticket of passage for the Leviathan, a gigantic…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Naples, Italy, during four fateful days in the fall of 1943. The only people left in the shattered, bombed-out city are the lost, abandoned children whose only goal is to survive another day. None could imagine that they would become fearless fighters and the unlikeliest heroes of World War II. They are the warriors immortalized in Street Boys, Lorenzo Carcaterra's exhilarating new novel, a book…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: An elderly butler is on a five-day motoring trip through the West Country in the 1950s. The climax of his journey is to be a reunion with his former housekeeper. This 1989 Booker Prize-winner attempts to capture a period in British history and draw a portrait of a man in old age.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 370 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 466) Аннотация: Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, from the world he lives in — no phone, no address, no commitments-ex-military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. In Lee Child's astonishing new…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 574 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 310) Аннотация: Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC Championship game, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually got into the game. With a 17-point lead and just minutes to go, Rick provided what was arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL. Overnight, he became a national laughingstock — and was immediately cut by the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Jo Edwards never planned to live on a barge. She's not even sure she likes boats. But when her husband trades her in for a younger model, she finds her options alarmingly limited. Dora Hamilton never planned to run out on her own wedding. But as The Big Day approaches, her cold feet show no signs of warming up — and accepting Jo's offer of refuge aboard The Three Sisters seems the only…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Lost in the jungle! Bruno is on a trip to Colombia in his school holidays. His anthropologist uncle has taken him along on a visit to Don Rafael de Castillo, a descendent of a great explorer who is claimed to have discovered a lost City of Gold. But the secret of the city died with the explorer — until now... His uncle and Don Rafael believe they know where to find the city and Bruno gets to go…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: «Kellerman's 17th «New York Times» bestseller featuring psychologist-sleuth Alex Delaware is now in mass market paperback. Delaware joins a chilling police hunt for a killer who preys on promising young artists.»

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: With this latest entry in a bestselling series that evokes all the passion and heroism of history’s most heartbreaking conflict — the war that was meant to end all wars — Anne Perry adds new luster to her worldwide reputation. Angels in the Gloom is an intense saga of love, hate, obsession, and murder that features an honorable English family — brothers Joseph and Matthew Reavley and their…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: From the author of What the CEO Wants You to Know comes essential reading for everyone who must make decisions that affect the long-term health and prosperity of a business.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Danny Wallace is about to turn thirty and his life has become a cliche. Recently married and living in a smart new area of town, he's swapped pints down the pub for lattes and brunch. For the first time in his life, he's feeling, well... grown-up. But something's not right. Something's missing. Until he finds an old address book containing just twelve names. His best mates as a kid. Where are…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: David Kepesh, an adventurous man of intelligence and feeling, tries to make his way to both pleasure and dignity through a world of sensual possibilities. Temptation comes to him in both its ordinary and spectacular forms, and the novel charts the history of his desire from the early years, when he is acceded to it totally, to the time when he attempts to domesticate his passions (and his wife's)…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The First Management Classic of the New Millennium! A bold experiment is taking place these days, as leading-edge companies turn upside down the management paradigm that has dominated corporate thinking for more than one hundred years. Southwest Airlines is perhaps the most visible practitioner, soaring through economic downturns while its competitors slash their budgets and order massive…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Fifth in the Kurt Wallander series. In an African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered — the death of the unknown woman covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his secluded…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: New York Times bestselling author Dale Brown pits men and technology against impossible odds, in vividly realized stories. Now, in his eleventh novel, he brings aerial combat hero Patrick McLanahan out of retirement and plunges him into the most personal war he's ever fought. His old enemy Gregory Townsend has come to America to ignite a reign of terror that will sweep across the nation. The…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: From the author of the classic study of the aviation industry, The Sporty Game, a new book that chronicles the high-stakes rivalry between the world’s two largest aircraft manufacturers — companies that will bet the house on a single airplane.Long one of America’s most successful and admired corporations — and its biggest exporter — Boeing struggled to maintain 50 percent of the market share for…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of... Dean Koontz's City of the Night They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever created — and they must be destroyed. But not even…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Edwin Fisher is on holiday at the English seaside — but this revisiting of childhood haunts is no ordinary holiday. Edwin is seeking to understand the failure of his marriage to Meg, but it turns out that her parents are staying at the same resort — whether by accident or design — and are keen to patch up the relationship. As the past and his enigmatic wife loom larger, deeper truths emerge and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Hi! I'm Charlie (DON'T call me Charlotte — ever!). History is boring, right? Wrong! The Victorians weren't all deadly dull and drippy. Lottie certainly isn't. She's eleven — like me — but she's left school and has a job as a nursery maid. Her life is really hard, just work work work, but I bet she'd know what to do about my mum's awful boyfriend and his wimpy little son. I bet she wouldn't mess…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations. One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings, and streets that surround us. And yet a concern…