Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: When two young women meet under extraordinary circumstances in the eighteenth century West Indies, they are unified in their desire to escape their oppressive lives. The first is a slave, forced to work in a plantation mansion and subjected to terrible cruelty at the hands of the plantation manager. The second is a spirited and rebellious English girl, sent to the West Indies to marry well and…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Mankind has always been fascinated by space — prehistoric man built temples to honour the moon and sun, early civilisations developed theories about what went on up there, and scientists and philosophers from Pythagoras to Copernicus have been drawn to it ever since. Our obsession has led us in to space itself. Not to mention the numerous amazing books, films and UFO 'experiences'. Everything…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Maybe some people just like to keep things private. Secret, I guess you'd say. Love came late to Meri, but in a rush: she met Nathan at thirty-six, he moved in a month later, and they married a month after that. Now they are moving to New England and a house of their own — a new life that Meri is not sure she even wants. She loves her husband, but feels there may be trouble ahead. Nathan,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The moment Jem joins her class, Alice knows her life is irrevocably changed. Glamorous, different, a subversive, Jem seduces Alice — and then vanishes as abruptly as she came, leaving Alice bereft. Then, five years on, Jem blazes across her sphere again, trailing mystery, chaos and large-scale casualty. And the infuriating, demoniac Giovanni appears who, sharing Jem's gift for suffusing life with…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: It would have been hard to have missed what was written on the wall. Painted in giant whitewashed letters: SHARKEY IS A GRASS. I hadn't a clue who Sharkey was, but I knew one thing. Sharkey's a dead man, I said. Leo knows the value of never grassing: never grass on your best friends, for starters. Everybody, too, knows the gang leaders in town. And you don't grass on them. Not unless you don't…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Sparky Christina and her saintly adopted sister Pam couldn't be more different. And when they meet similarly mismatched friends Jago and Peter, the four embark on a dazzling series of pairings and partings, outrageous coincidences and eleventh-hour entrances interrupted one disastrous Halloween when schoolboy revelry turns horribly wrong. Three years on, as Christina analyses the wit, cruelty and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The year is 2140. Peter and Anna are now living on the Outside as Legals. Impatient to see action as an agent in the Underground, Peter is tasked by Pip, its charismatic leader, to infiltrate Pincent Pharma Corporation and find out what's going on in the secret Longevity programme. Peter must feign a reconciliation and win the trust of his grandather, Richard Pincent, one of the most powerful men…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: On 20 July 1944, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped death when an assassin's bomb failed to kill him. The conspirators, among them Axel von Gottberg, were hunted down and hanged from meat-hooks, and their executions were filmed. Sixty years later, Conrad Senior is left a legacy of von Gottberg's papers and letters and becomes obsessed with what they reveal and with finding the film of those brutal…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: St Petersburg, 1914. Dr. Otto Spethmann, a famous psychoanalyst, is implicated in a murder. But he is preoccupied with Avrom Rozental, the brilliant chess master who is due to play the most important competition of his life but is on the verge of a breakdown. With the city rife with speculation and alarm, Spethmann broods over his own chessboard, its pieces frozen mid-battle, and contemplates the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Marvel at the sheer brilliance of invention, from glass to underpants, the noble compass to the humble pencil. Not forgetting, of course, the undeniably indispensable banana suitcase. Filled with fascinating details about everything from the most common everyday object to inventions which changed society, it will also distinguish the strokes of genius from discoveries of sheer chance, or…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: On 4 October 1957, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union secretly launched Sputnik, Earth's first artificial moon. Powered by a car battery, it passed over the stunned American continent once every 101 minutes and propelled the USSR from backward state to superpower and pioneer of the Space Age. This is the pulse-racing story of a time when two nations and ideologies were pitted against…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: «Princess Lois has been kidnapped by Anatoly the Handsome, who wants to marry her. Cue ‘damsel in distress’ to be rescued by none other than our own heroic Blart. He sets out on the good ship «The Golden Pig» with Olaf the innocent – who believes what everyone says all the time – and Kupverstich the Strange – an explorer-come-scientist whose ingenious explanations for the natural world have one…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: It is August 1616, the whaling ship Heartsease has ventured deep into the Arctic, but the crew must return home before the ice closes in. All, that is, save Thomas Cave. He makes a wager that he will remain there alone until the next season, though no man has yet been known to have survived a winter this far north. So he is left with provisions, shelter, and a journal — should he not live to tell…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 748 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 344) Аннотация: Tip and Teddy are becoming men under the very eyes of their adoptive father, Bernard Doyle. A student at Harvard, Tip is happiest in a lab, whilst Teddy thinks he has found his calling in the Church, and both are increasingly strained by their father's protective plans for them. But when they are involved in an accident on an icy road, the Doyles are forced to confront certain truths about their…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Enter the world of Gossip Girl – a world where espadrille sandals are flown in from Spain, crisp cotton sundresses are made to order, and jealousy and betrayal are the ultimate summer accessories... Serena and Blair are now co-muses to a super-famous designer, who just happens to live next door to Nate’s Hamptons estate... But how neighbourly are these new neighbours going to get? And what’s this…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where Gossip Girl and her friends are the biggest stars ...whether or not the cameras are rolling. Lights, camera, scandal! Hollywood is invading New York and Serena is set for her big screen debut. She's already having an off-screen romance with her onscreen lover, Thaddeus. What will that mean for Hamptons-bound Nate? And if Nate is free, what about…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: When the battered body of a young woman is discovered on a remote Greek island, the local police are quick to dismiss her death as an accident. Then a stranger arrives, uninvited, from Athens, announcing his intention to investigate further. His methods are unorthodox, and he brings his own mystery into the web of dark secrets and lies. Who has sent him, on whose authority is he acting, and how…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: «Published by the Children's High Level Group in association with Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, «The Tales of Beedle the Bard» is the first new book from J. K. Rowling since the publication of «Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows». «The Tales of Beedle the Bard» played a crucial role in assisting Harry, with his friends Ron and Hermione, to finally defeat Lord Voldemort. Fans will be thrilled to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: It is Moscow, in 1939. The great author Isaac Babel is spending his last days in the infamous Lubyanka prison, forbidden to write. His final works have been consigned to the young archivist Pavel Dubrov, who must destroy them. But Pavel makes a reckless decision in the face of a vast bureaucracy of evil: he will save the stories of the writer he so admires, whatever the cost.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: When Hitler invaded Vienna in the winter of 1938, Sigmund Freud, old and desperately ill, was among the city's 175,000 Jews dreading Nazi occupation. Here Mark Edmundson traces Hitler and Freud's oddly converging lives, then zeroes in on the last two years of Freud's life, during which he was rescued and brought to London. Edmundson probes Freud's ideas about secular death and the rise of fascism…