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Marianne Curley: The Dark

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A dark and compelling sequel to The Named, The Dark crackles with suspense and intrigue. Hell-bent on avenging the death of one of their best, the Order of Chaos gain the upper hand in their battle against the Guardians. As the Order's attempts to change history bear fruit, Ethan and Isabel notice subtle changes in their daily lives as an altered past impacts on the future. Before they can…

Alyxandra Harvey: My Love Lies Bleeding

Скачать книгу (размер 1 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 248) Аннотация: The Blakes are rather different to your usual neighbours. They are vampires and some of the members of the family date back to the twelfth century. One of the children, Solange, is the only born female vampire known and, as such, she poses a direct threat to the vampire queen. Her best friend Lucy is human, and when Solange is kidnapped Lucy and Solange's brother, Nicholas, set out to save her.…

Carrie Jones: Need

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Zara collects phobias the way other high school girls collect Facebook friends. Little wonder, since she's had a pretty rough life. Her father left when she was a baby, and her stepfather just died. Her mother's pretty much checked out — in fact, she's sent her to live with her grandmother in cold and sleepy Maine to 'keep Zara safe'. Whatever that means. Zara doesn't think she's in danger; she…

Liz Jensen: The Rapture

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds, Gabrielle Fox's main concern is a personal one: to rebuild her career as a psychologist after a shattering car accident. But when she is assigned Bethany Krall, one of the most dangerous teenagers in the country, she begins to fear she has made a terrible mistake. Raised on a diet of evangelistic hellfire, Bethany is violent,…

T.C. Boyle: The Women

Скачать книгу (размер 2 294 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 451) Аннотация: In a rural backwater in Wisconsin lies the rambling estate of Taliesin. Here, tempestuous affairs rage behind closed doors, broken hearts are tossed aside and fires have ripped through the wings of the house. Paparazzi lie in wait outside the front door, hounding for the latest scandal, the latest tragedy in this never-ending drama. For this is the home of the great architect of the twentieth…

Ben Macintyre: Agent Zigzag: Most Notorious Double Agent of World War II

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agent Zigzag. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, the traitor was a patriot inside, and the villain a hero. The problem for Chapman, his many lovers and his spymasters was knowing who he was.…

Neil Gaiman: Blueberry Girl

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Neil Gaiman wrote Blueberry Girl for a friend who was about to become the mother of a little girl. He has turned the deeply personal wish for a daughter into a book that celebrates the glory of growing up. Illustrated throughout with gorgeous art by Charles Vess, whose work can also be seen in Susanna Clarke's The Ladies of Grace Adieu.

Kamila Shamsie: Burnt Shadows

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, she is twenty-one, in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss. In a split second, the world turns white.

Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love: Film Tie-In Edition

Скачать книгу (размер 1 880 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 370) Аннотация: Elizabeth Gilbert is in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby — and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realizes it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance.

Colum McCann: Let the Great World Spin

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: New York, August 1974: a man is walking in the sky. Between the newly built Twin Towers, the man twirls through the air. Far below, the lives of complete strangers spin towards each other: Corrigan, a radical Irish monk working in the Bronx; Claire, a delicate Upper East Side housewife reeling from the death of her son; Lara, a drug-addled young artist; Gloria, solid and proud despite decades of…

Jeanette Winterson: The Battle of the Sun

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Jack is the chosen one, the Radiant Boy the Magus needs in order to perfect the alchemy that will transform London of the 1600s into a golden city. But Jack isn't the kind of boy who will do what he is told by an evil genius, and he is soon involved in an epic and nail-biting adventure, featuring dragons, knights and Queen Elizabeth I, as he battles to save London.

Helen Szirtes: 101 Things to Do to Become a Superhero

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: You are just 101 Things away from global fame (and possibly world domination). Inside this book is everything you need to transform yourself from mere mortal into exciting, dynamic total superhero material. Make things, learn amazing tricks, and be inspired by genius ideas in order to complete the transition from ordinary person to object of worship and admiration. Develop your... Stealth…

Janet Skeslien Charles: Moonlight in Odessa

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian meets Desperate Housewives in this wry and sparkling debut.

Colum McCann: This Side of Brightness

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: On a bitter winter's day in 1916, deep below the streets of New York, a group of men are working in one of the huge pressurised tunnels that will make up the subway system. Suddenly, a tiny hole appears in the roof of the tunnel and air rushes in, sucking the men up through the bed of the Hudson, to be suspended on a plume of water high above the river. Almost ninety years later, a homeless man…

William Boyd: Ordinary Thunderstorms

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: One May evening in London, as a result of a chance encounter and a split-second decision, the young climatologist Adam Kindred loses everything — home, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, money — never to get them back. With the police and a hit man in merciless pursuit, Adam has no choice but to go underground.

Alyxandra Harvey: Blood Feud

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: It has been centuries since Anais St. Croix survived the French Revolution. Now she's made her way back to the living and must face the ultimate test by confronting the evil British lord who turned her into a vampire and left her buried for two hundred years. That's if she can control her affection for Logan Drake, a vampire whose bite is as sweet as the revenge she seeks...

Ben Macintyre: Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War. Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception. This title tells the story of Operation Mincemeat.

J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Harry Potter is a wizard. He is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Little does he know that this year will be just as eventful as the last... even getting there is an adventure in itself! The three firm friends, Harry, Ron and Hermione, are soon immersed in the daily round of Potions, Herbology, Charms, Defence Against the Dark Arts, and Quidditch. But then horrible…

J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Harry Potter, along with his best friends, Ron and Hermione, is about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry can't wait to get back to school after the summer holidays (who wouldn't if they lived with the horrible Dursleys?). But when Harry gets to Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense.

J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: It is Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As Voldemort's sinister forces amass and a spirit of gloom and fear sweeps the land, it becomes more and more clear to Harry that he will soon have to confront his destiny. But is he up to the challenges ahead of him? In this dark and breathtaking adventure, J.K. Rowling skilfully begins to unravel the complex web she…