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Mario Puzo: Six Graves to Munich

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: In the final days of the Second World War, Michael Rogan, an American intelligence officer, is tortured by a group of seven senior Gestapo officers who need to discover the secrets he alone can give them. Ten years later, when he has recovered from the appalling injuries he suffered, and determined to revenge the death of his wife at the hands of the same men, he begins a quest to track down and…

Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Скачать книгу (размер 2 758 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 542) Аннотация: Tie-in edition to the major U.S. Columbia Pictures/Sony production starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, directed by David Fincher. The first volume in Stieg Larsson's phenomenal Millennium Trilogy, with combined sales of over 55 million worldwide. Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never…

Lil Chase: Boys for Beginners

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: 'I'm just saying that if you ever want, like, a boyfriend or anything — not that I think you should get one right now — but if you did want a boyfriend ever, you might have to start being a bit more like a girl than a boy.' Thirteen-year-old Gwynnie is just about to turn fourteen. While other girls in her year are all about boys and make-up, the closest she's got to a boy is in a tackle on the…

Susie Hodge: 50 Art Ideas: You Really Need to Know

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: The perfect guide to the most important ideas and concepts that underpin Western art: Romanesque; Byzantine; International Gothic; Early Renaissance; High Renaissance; Northern Renaissance; Mannerism; Baroque; Caravaggism; Dutch Golden Age; Rococo; Neoclassicism; Romanticism; Academic Art; Orientalism; Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; Realism; Impressionism; Symbolism; Post-Impressionism;…

Richard Overy: The Third Reich: A Chronicle

Скачать книгу (размер 2 074 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 408) Аннотация: The Third Reich was the name Hitler and the Nazi Party gave to the dictatorship that began in 1933 and ended twelve years later with the utter destruction of Germany and Hitler's suicide. Defined by the messianic, iconic figure of the Fuhrer, the Third Reich was one of the pivotal periods of the modern age. From small beginnings in the 1920s, Hitler's movement came to dominate German society in…

Keith Mansfield: Johnny Mackintosh: Battle for Earth

Скачать книгу (размер 1 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 276) Аннотация: People in London are being taken away in unmarked police vans, never to be seen again... While trying to keep up with his school studies and ensuring his football team stays top of the league, it's Johnny's job to safeguard planet Earth. Suspicious of the strange occurrences, Johnny investigates to find that alien enemies are feeding humans to their Queen on a nearby planet. He then discovers a…

Daniel Suarez: Freedom

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The Daemon is now firmly in control and moving towards its endgame, using an expanding network of real-world, dispossessed darknet operatives to tear civilization apart and build it anew. As the global economy begins to fail, the world's most powerful organizations — monolithic corporations, complete with armies of their own — prepare to fight their unseen enemy. When a brutal civil war breaks…

Vasily Grossman: The Road: Short Fiction and Essays

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: By the author of Life and Fate, now a major Radio 4 drama starring Kenneth Branagh. Vasily Grossman is widely recognized as one of the outstanding literary figures of the twentieth century. The short fiction collected here — satire, comedy, tragedy and pure narrative — illustrate the remarkable breadth of his work, and demonstrate all the bold intelligence, delicate irony and extraordinary…

Larsson Stieg: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Скачать книгу (размер 2 758 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 542) Аннотация: Tie-in edition to the major U.S. Columbia Pictures/Sony production starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, directed by David Fincher. The first volume in Stieg Larsson's phenomenal Millennium Trilogy, with combined sales of over 55 million worldwide. Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never…

Hollingsworth Mary: The Borgias

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The Borgia family of Renaissance Italy has become a byword for pride, lust, cruelty, avarice, splendour and venomous intrigue. They have inspired abomination and fascination in almost equal measure, comparable to the Corleone clan depicted in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather. Indeed, Puzo himself featured the Borgias in his last novel, The Family, and the Borgias have inspired many other works of…

Palmer Douglas: Earth in 100 Groundbreaking Discoveries

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Uncovered here are the 100 groundbreaking discoveries that reveal why Earth is the one lucky blue planet in our Solar System that can support life and how this has come about in its myriad forms. The Material World: clay and quartz, feldspar and diamond, satellite image of deltaic muds, sandy desert, feldspar crystals, diamond, crystal, the water cycle, seawater, clouds, glacier ice, volcanic gas…

Parsons Paul: Science in 100 Key Breakthroughs

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Science in 100 key breakthroughs presents a series of clear and concise essays that explain the fundamentals of some of the most exciting and important science concepts you really need to know. Paul Parsons profiles the important, ground-breaking, and front-of-mind scientific discoveries that have had a profound influence on our way of life and will grow in importance with our advancing…

Petrizzo Francesca: Memoirs of a Bitch

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The bitch. That's what the crew call me. The bitch. They say it behind my back. But I can hear them. My name's Helen, I was born in Sparta, but I went away for love. They used to say I was the most beautiful woman in the world. The minstrels are already making up stories about how little I've won and how much I've lost. Lying tales. They weren't there, after all. But I was. From her childhood in…

Baksi Kurdo: Stieg Larsson, My Friend

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Five years after his death, Stieg Larsson is best known as the author of the Millennium Trilogy, but during his career as a journalist he was a crucial protagonist in the battle against racism and for democracy in Sweden, and one of the founders of the anti-facist magazine Expo. Kurdo Baksi first met Larsson in 1992; it was the beginning of an intense friendship, and a fruitful but challenging…

May Peter: The Blackhouse

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: A MURDER: A brutal killing has taken place on Scotland's most remote island. Detective Fin MacLeod is sent from Edinburgh to investigate. For Lewis-born MacLeod, the case represents a journey both home and into his past. A SECRET: Something lurks beneath the close-knit, God-fearing facade of the Lewis community. Something primal. As Fin investigates, old secrets are unearthed, and soon he, the…

Richard North Patterson: The Devil's Light

Скачать книгу (размер 2 477 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 487) Аннотация: August 2011. An Al Qaeda operative masterminds the theft of a Pakistani military weapon: a two-hundred-pound nuclear warhead, capable of causing destruction on an unprecedented scale. A chilling transmission is then broadcast to the world, promising a major attack on a US city to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Intelligence indicates that the bomb has been smuggled out of Pakistan and is en…

Sparrow Giles: Cosmos Close-up

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Using a wealth of high-resolution images collected by a fleet of telescopes, satellites and inter-planetary probes, Cosmos Close-up embarks on a voyage across the universe, pausing only to zoom in on the most spectacular planets, stars, galaxies and nebulae. After a fly past of our planetary neighbours we reach the edge of the solar system — a mere 15 light hours away — emerging into interstellar…

Stieg Larsson: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest: Film Tie-In

Скачать книгу (размер 3 798 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 746) Аннотация: Salander is plotting her revenge — against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in Intensive Care, and is set to face trial for three murders and one attempted murder on her eventual release. With the…

Mickey Spillane: The Goliath Bone

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: On an amateur dig in Israel, two students discover what appears to be the femur of a very large humanoid, and there's compelling evidence to suggest that it's the thigh bone of the Biblical giant, Goliath. Back in New York, they head into the subway carrying the carefully wrapped bone when a hitman attempts to kill them. Hammer comes to their rescue. It is only the beginning of their troubles.…

Keith Mansfield: Johnny Mackintosh: Star Blaze

Скачать книгу (размер 1 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 276) Аннотация: Invaders have exploded the sun's nearest star. Will the death of Earth's sun be next? While trying to keep up with his school studies and ensuring his football team stays top of the league, it's Johnny's job to safeguard planet Earth. When invaders turn a nearby star into a supernova, Johnny must act to protect the sun. Johnny and his sister Clara prepare to travel in their space ship to the…