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Christopher Winn: I Never Knew That About London

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «Bestselling author Christopher Winn takes us on a captivating journey around London to discover the unknown tales of our capital's history. Travelling through the villages and districts that make up the world's most dynamic metropolis «I Never Knew That About London» unearths the hidden gems of legends, firsts, inventions, adventures and birthplaces that shape the city's compelling, and at…

Christopher Winn: I Never Knew That About Scotland

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Bestselling author Christopher Winn takes us on the ultimate journey around Scotland. Travelling county by county, this irresistible miscellany unearths the enthralling stories, firsts, birthplaces, legends and inventions that shape the country's rich and majestic history. To uncover the spellbinding tales that lie hidden within Scotland's wild and romantic shores, to experience what inspired the…

John Grisham: The Innocent Man

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he…

Ian McEwan: Atonement

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia…

John Grisham: The Brethren

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Trumble is a minimum security federal prison, home to an assortment of criminals, including three former judges. When one of their scams goes awry, it ensnares the wrong victim, an innocent on the outside, a man with dangerous friends.

Anne Tyler: Digging to America

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: «Friday August 15th, 1997 — The night the girls arrived, two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. First there are the Donaldsons, decent Brad and homespun, tenacious Bitsy (with her 'more organic than thou' airs, who believes fervently that life can always be improved), two full sets of grandparents and a host of big-boned, confident…

John Grisham: The Partner

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: They found him in a small town in Brazil, near the border with Paraguay. He had a new name, Danilo Silva, and his appearance had been changed by plastic surgery. The search had taken four years. They'd chased him around the world, always just missing him. It had cost their clients three and a half million dollars. But so far none of them had complained. The man they were about to kidnap had not…

Yevgeny Zamyatin: We

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The citizens of the One State live in a condition of 'mathematically infallible happiness'. D-503 decides to keep a diary of his days working for the collective good in this clean, blue city state where nature, privacy and individual liberty have been eradicated. But over the course of his journal D-503 suddenly finds himself caught up in unthinkable and illegal activities — love and rebellion.…

Terrance Dicks: Doctor Who: Made of Steel

Скачать книгу (размер 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 100) Аннотация: Since its return to the screen in 2005, masterminded by Russell T Davies, Doctor Who has become a genuine phenomenon picking up countless awards, attracting huge audiences and selling lots and lots of books — over half a million so far. This latest adventure sees the Doctor pitted against one of his most famous adversaries — the deadly Cybermen. It is the first book to feature the Doctor's new…

Lesley Pearse: Ellie

Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: Ellie is a sweet-natured brunette, generous of heart with a sparkling smile and an accent which reveals her East End background. Bonny is beautiful and spoilt, with cascades of blonde hair, the brightest pair of blue eyes and a mouth like Cupid's bow. The two girls meet in London at the end of the war when, seduced by two American airmen, they pool their wits and resources and set off to make a…

Lesley Pearse: Georgia

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: From the seedy backstreets of London's Soho in the 60s to the tough, sexy world of international rock-stardom in the 70s, Georgia sees it all-When nine-year-old orphan Georgia James is unexpectedly fostered by the kindly Celia and her bank manager husband she can hardly believe her luck. But then — on her fifteenth birthday — she suffers the cruellest betrayal of all at the hands of her foster…

Howard Jacobson: Kalooki Nights

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Fixated on the crimes which have been committed against his people, but unable to live among them, Max moves away, and draws cartoon histories of Jewish suffering in which no one is much interested. He is drawn into the Holocaust obsessions from which he realises there can be, and should be, no release. This book is a comedy of cataclysm.

Walter M. Jr. Miller: Canticle for Leibowitz

Скачать книгу (размер 1 590 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 313) Аннотация: In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the great saint himself, including the blessed blueprint, the sacred shopping list, and the hallowed shrine of the Fallout Shelter. In a terrifying age of darkness and decay, these artifacts could be the…

Lara Adrian: Kiss of Midnight

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwell's deepest fantasies. But nothing about this night — or this man — is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly. In that shattering instant she is thrust into a realm she never knew existed — a realm where vampires…

Lara Adrian: Kiss of Crimson

Скачать книгу (размер 1 967 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 387) Аннотация: He comes to her more dead than alive, a towering black-clad stranger riddled with bullets and rapidly losing blood. As she struggles to save him, veterinarian Tess Culver is unaware that the man calling himself Dante is no man at all, but one of the Breed, vampire warriors engaged in a desperate battle. In a single erotically charged moment Tess is plunged into his world — a shifting, shadowed…

Ian Mcewan: Black Dogs

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Black Dogs is built around a brilliant short story, a memerically slow-motion encounter with two terrifying dogs by an English couple who are honeymooning just after the war in a French mountain village.

Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. This is a lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this story — a black man charged with raping a white girl in the Deep South of the 1930s.

John Grisham: The Summons

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the university of Virginia who is forty-three and newly single. He has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi; a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for many years and is now a recluse. With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons to Ray to return home to Clanton,…

John Grisham: A Time to Kill

Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: «When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old child, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood and call for his acquittal. But when extremists outside Clanton hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything and anyone that opposes their sense of justice. Jake Brigance has been hired to defend Hailey. It's…

Margaret Atwood: Dancing Girls

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: This book features pregnant women, students and journalists; farmers and birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers — and dancing girls. All ordinary people or are they? In this collection of short stories, Margaret Atwood maps human motivation we scarcely know we have.