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Leveen Lois: The Secrets of Mary Bowser

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: I spy with my little eye, where the bird goes when he doesn't fly, Mama said one mid-day, her words floating on the Richmond heat as we carried empty cookpots through the yard to the kitchen. Mama, your little girl is all grown up, and still playing our best game. I am a spy... Based on the true story of Mary Bowser, this perfect reading-group novel follows a slave who is freed by her mistress'…

Williams Tad: The Dirty Streets of Heaven

Скачать книгу (размер 2 064 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 406) Аннотация: THE DIRTY STREETS OF HEAVEN is the first in a new set of fantasy-fuelled thrillers from the author George R. R. Martin cites as one of the major inspirations behind Game of Thrones: Tad Williams, international bestselling author of The Dragonbone Chair. BOBBY DOLLAR ISN'T YOUR AVERAGE ANGEL. Sure, he takes the occasional trip to Heaven, but his job as an advocate — arguing the fate of the…

Hitchings Henry: Sorry! The English and Their Manners

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Most of us know a bit about what passes for good manners — holding doors open; sending thank-you notes; no elbows on the table. We certainly know bad manners when we see them. But where has this patchwork of beliefs and behaviours come from? How did manners develop? How do they change? And why do they matter so much to us? In SORRY! Henry Hitchings presents an amusing, illuminating and quirky…

Leather Stephen: Nightshade

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The fourth in the Jack Nightingale supernatural thriller series by bestselling author Stephen Leather. When a murdered young girl miraculously returns to life saying she's spoken to God, it's clear that sinister forces are at play. And when those who speak to her inexplicably commit suicide shortly after their encounter, Nightingale is called in to investigate. As he probes deeper into the…

Gaiman Neil: The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is a fable that reshapes modern fantasy: moving, terrifying and elegiac — as pure as a dream, as delicate as a butterfly's wing, as dangerous as a knife in the dark, from storytelling genius Neil Gaiman. It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed.…

C. L. Parker: A Million Dirty Secrets

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: You can't put a price on love — so they say... When a medical condition threatens to tear apart Lanie Talbot's family, she makes the ultimate sacrifice. With no time and no other option, Lanie puts herself up for sale at an underground, high-end establishment where women are auctioned off to influential, wealthy men with more money than sense. Enter Noah Crawford: millionaire business mogul and…

Gaiman Neil: American gods

Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the time until his release ticks away, he can feel a storm brewing. Two days before he gets out, his wife Laura dies in a car crash, in adulterous circumstances. Dazed, Shadow travels home, only to encounter the bizarre Mr Wednesday claiming to be a refugee from a distant war.

Bowen James: The World According to Bob

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The sequel to the bestselling A STREET CAT NAMED BOB continues the remarkable adventures of James and Bob showing — through new stories — how Bob's extraordinary street wisdom has shown James the meaning of friendship, loyalty, trust — and happiness.

George Elizabeth: Just One Evil Act

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: When Hadiyyah Upman disappears from London in the company of her mother, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers is as devastated as the girl's father. They are her close friends as well as neighbours, but since the child is with her mother, nothing can be done. Five months later, Hadiyyah is kidnapped from an open air market in Lucca, Italy, and this triggers an investigation in the full glare of the…

King Stephen: Doctor Sleep

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: An epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon. King says he wanted to know what happened to Danny Torrance, the boy at the heart of The Shining, after his terrible experience in the Overlook Hotel. The instantly riveting DOCTOR SLEEP picks…

Child Lauren: Clarice Bean Spells Trouble

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: There are so many things in life you can't explain. Like why isn't YOU spelt U? Why isn't WHY spelt Y? And why can just opening your mouth get you into some very BIG trouble? Clarice Bean is in non-stop trouble these days — almost as much as Karl Wrenbury, and he is the naughtiest boy in school. Clarice just wants to star in the school play and impress Mrs Wilberton in the spelling bee, but…

Bowen James: For the Love of Bob

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Best friends James Bowen and street cat Bob have been on a remarkable journey together. In the years since their story ended in BOB: NO ORDINARY CAT James, with Bob's help, has begun to find his way in the world. Along with the adventures and the fun there have been tough times too, but through moments of real danger and sometimes illness Bob has always been there as James' protector and guardian…

Ferguson Alex: Alex Ferguson: My Autobiography

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Over the past four years, Alex Ferguson has been reflecting on and jotting down the highlights of his extraordinary career, and here he reveals his amazing story as it unfolded, from his very early days in the tough shipyard areas of Govan. Sir Alex announced his retirement as manager of Manchester United after 27 years in the role. He has gone out in a blaze of glory, with United winning the…

Deaver Jeffery: The Kill Room

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The tenth novel in the critically acclaimed Lincoln Rhyme series, from Number One bestselling author Jeffery Deaver. Robert Velasquez, an American citizen living in South America, is shot in the Bahamas by a sniper. The killing was commissioned by the U.S. government, who received a tip-off that Velasquez was planning a terrorist attack on a U.S. oil company headquarters. But this intelligence…

Treadwell James: Anarchy

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: In Cornwall, they have seen it rise: in an angel of death and endless, unseasonal snow. Across the ocean, on a remote Canadian island, the blood and offerings and smoke of England seem nothing more than distant rumours of hysteria. Until the girl disappears. And the whale comes. And The Plague spreads. And nothing is as it was before.

Pilkington Paul: The One You Fear

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The gripping sequel to the million-downloaded The One You Love. Emma Holden and her friends are trying to move on from the horrific events surrounding Dan's kidnap, when a shocking revelation drags them back into the nightmare and forces them to question everything they once believed to be true. More secrets will be revealed, more lies will be told, and more lives under threat. An extended…

Deaver Jeffery: The Coffin Dancer

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The Coffin Dancer, America's most wanted hit man, is back. He's been hired by an airline owner who wants three witnesses taken care of before his trial, and has got the first, a pilot, by blowing up his entire plane. Enter quadriplegic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme, who can find forensic evidence to hang a man in the smallest debris, and his assistant Amelia Sachs. Their job is to keep the remaining two…

Kellerman Jonathan: The Golem of Hollywood

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A unique blend of crime thriller, paranormal love story and horror saga, which only No. 1 bestselling author and master of criminal psychology Jonathan Kellerman could create. The in world of superheroes and monstrosities, the Golem towers. The Golem to accrue the greatest mystique is the terrifying colossus said to have been fashioned by the 16th century Czech Rabbi Judah Loew. What if this…

Davis Lindsey: Enemies at Home

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: From renowned author Lindsey Davis, creator of the much-loved character, Marcus Didius Falco and his friends and family, comes the second novel in her all-new series set in Ancient Rome. We first met Flavia Albia, Falco's feisty adopted daughter, in The Ides of April. Albia is a remarkable woman in what is very much a man's world: young, widowed and fiercely independent, she lives alone on the…

Arnold Michael: Assassin's Reign

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The forces of King Charles are victorious; their Parliamentarian enemies in deep crisis. In the west, the crucial port city of Bristol has fallen, and Royalist eyes fall quickly upon neighbouring Gloucester. Its walls are weak, its garrison under strength, and its governor — Sir Edward Massie — suspected of harbouring sympathy for the King. Stryker and his men are with the army as it converges on…