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Скачать книгу (размер 1 666 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 328) Аннотация: Nowadays a top Premiership football club can spend 50 million on a Portuguese pin-up or a legendary Italian goalkeeper, but you cannot take into account the effects of a dodgy takeaway meal, a dropped bottle of aftershave on a goalkeeper's toe, or the fact that your most creative player has to leave town because of a chance drunken encounter with another player's wife. It is these random moments…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: In less than twenty-four hours a vicious and virulent viral epidemic destroys virtually all of the population. Billions are killed, within minutes. There are no symptoms and no warnings; within moments of infection each victim suffers a violent and agonising death. At the end of ten minutes, only a handful of survivors remain. By the end of the first day those survivors wish they were dead. By…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Originally published in 1955 Jack Finney's sinister SF tale has outgrown the initial debate about whether it satirized Communism or the conformity of US society at the time, to become a classic of paranoia; an examination of our fear of 'the other'. Most people know the story from seeing THE INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, the classic 1978 remake (one of the few Hollwood remakes said to better…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 360) Аннотация: Harold Pinter and Antonia Fraser lived together from August 1975 until his death thirty-three years later on Christmas Eve 2008. MUST YOU GO is, in essence, a love story based partly on Antonia Fraser's own diaries, which she has kept since October 1968. She has also used her own recollections, both immediate reactions and memories. She has quoted Pinter where he told her things about his past,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In the seamy theatre world of 1970s New York, where rents are cheap and love is free, aspiring actor Edward Day joins his friends for a summer weekend on the New Jersey Shore. But something happens — and Edward's life will never be the same again. He is saved from drowning by the mysterious Guy Margate, a man with whom he shares both a marked physical resemblance and an implacable attraction to…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: Born in 1918 into a working-class Edinburgh family, Muriel Spark ended as the epitome of literary chic, one of the great writers of the twentieth century. It is a Cinderella story, the first thirty-nine years of which she presented in her autobiography, CURRICULUM VITAE (1992), politely blurring the intensity of her darker moments: her relations with her brother, mother, son, husband; a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Paris, 1815. Napoleon has just surrendered at Waterloo and is due to begin his exile. Meanwhile, Daniel Connor, a young medical student from Edinburgh, has just arrived in Paris to study anatomy at the Jardin des Plantes — only to realise that his letters of introduction and a gift of precious coral specimens, on which his tenure depends, have been stolen by the beautiful woman with whom he…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Mike Mackenzie is a self-made man with too much time on his hands and a bit of the devil in his soul. He is looking for something to liven up the days and settles on a plot to rip-off one of the most high-profile targets in the capital — the National Gallery of Scotland. So, together with two close friends from the art world, he devises a plan to a lift some of the most valuable artwork around.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: From the team that brought you the bestselling SECRETS OF THE CODE and SECRETS OF ANGELS AND DEMONS comes the first literary companion to Dan Brown's latest blockbuster. SECRETS OF THE LOST SYMBOL builds upon the expertise and wisdom of Nobel prize-winning scientists, historians, technologists and conspiracy theorists to help readers fully understand the mysteries behind THE LOST SYMBOL.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 356) Аннотация: Myron is summoned to Paris at the behest of an old lover, Terese. She is in unspecified trouble and needs his help. When he gets there, he discovers that her husband has been murdered and she is the main suspect. The interesting thing is that more than one blood-type has been discovered at the scene — and the other blood can only be attributed to her daughter. But she died 10 years before. As…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux knows she's the best — but she doesn't know if she's good enough for this job. Hired by the dangerously beautiful Archangel Raphael, a being so lethal that no mortal wants his attention, only one thing is clear — failure is not an option ...even if the task she's been set is impossible. Because this time, it's not a wayward vamp she has to track. It's an archangel…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: From New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner, author of Alone and The Killing Hour, comes a thriller that goes from heartbreaking to heartstopping in the blink of an eye.… When someone you love vanishes without a trace, how far would you go to get them back? For ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, it’s the beginning of his worst nightmare: a car abandoned on a desolate stretch of Oregon highway, engine…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Heartbreak, danger, passion and glamour: all in a day's work... The LaFata family have it all — obscene wealth, talent, good fortune and beautiful genes. Or at least they used to...until the head of the family, Giancarlo 'Fatty' La Fata, vanishes over the side of his yacht one dark night in Monaco. His widow (and fourth wife) Jade, his son, Carlo Jr, and daughters, Francesca and Angelica, are…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: For more than 40 years after the Second World War the Iron Curtain divided Europe physically, with 300 km of walls and barbed wire fences; ideologically, between communism and capitalism; psychologically, between people imprisoned under totalitarian dictatorships and their neighbours enjoying democratic freedoms; and militarily, by two mighty, distrustful power blocs, still fighting the cold war.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast — recently returned to New York — and Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta find themselves investigating the murder of a friend when reporter William Smithback and his wife Nora are brutally attacked in their apartment. The assailant is identified by eyewitnesses as their strange, sinister neighbour — a man who, by all accounts, died ten days earlier. Shunning the…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Horrid Henry and Moody Margaret cook up trouble making Glop!

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Horrid Henry is determined to win the class football match and defeat Moody Margaret, by whatever means necessary...

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Horrid Henry has got nits — again! But as an impending visit from Nitty Nora the Nit Nurse looms, Henry's determined he won't be the only one...

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: Bitter and merciless war is coming to the frozen north. It's bloody and dangerous and the Union army, split by politics and hamstrung by incompetence, is utterly unprepared for the slaughter that's coming. Lacking experience, training, and in some cases even weapons the army is scarcely equipped to repel Bethod's scouts, let alone the cream of his forces. In the heat-ravaged south the Gurkish are…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 318 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 848) Аннотация: In the Sultanate of Oman over two hundred hostages are being held at gunpoint. And the world watches helplessly as the madness begins. The spirit of the Mahdi is abroad, intent on complete financial and political domination. Evan Kendrick, a quiet Congressman, is an unlikely hero. But in his past is a violence that he cannot forget. On the other side of the world, five very eccentric, very rich…