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Steven Levy: The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The iPod has become a full-blown cultural phenomenon, giving us a new vocabulary (we shuffle our iTunes on our nanos), revolutionizing the way we experience music and radio through the invention of podcasting, opening up new outlets for video, and challenging the traditional music industry as never before. The design itself has become iconic: there is even a shade of white now called iPod White.…

Pamela Aidan: These Three Remain: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: «One of the most beloved romantic heroes in all of literature, Fitzwilliam Darcy remains an enigma even to Jane Austen's most devoted fans. No longer. With this concluding volume in the «Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman» trilogy, novelist and Austen aficionada Pamela Aidan at last gives readers the man in full. «These Three Remain» follows a humbled Darcy on the journey of self-discovery, after…

Diane Setterfield: The Thirteenth Tale

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve enchantingstories, has spent the past six decades penning a series of alternate livesfor herself. Now old and ailing, she is ready to reveal the truth about herextraordinary existence and the violent and tragic past she has kept secret forso long. Calling on Margaret Lea, a young biographer troubled by her ownpainful history, Vida…

Steve Niles: 30 Days of Night: Immortal Remains

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Existing in shadow, thriving in night, a terrifying serial killer stalks theresidential streets of Savannah, Georgia — one whose brutal signature is now drawing the attention of other denizens of darkness, for better or worse. Butthere is more than meets the eye here, and the horrifying truth behind these savage killings is about to be revealed — a truth that has dire implications forthe very…

Greg Cox: Ghost Rider

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: When he was seventeen, motorcycle stunt rider Johnny Blaze proved he would do anything to save his terminally ill father — even make a deal with the sinister Mephistopheles that would cost him everything, from the woman he loved, the beautiful Roxanne Simpson, to Johnny's own immortal soul. Years later, as Roxanne reenters Johnny's life, Mephistopheles returns to collect on his part of the…

Julie Kenner: The Givenchy Code

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: A mind-bending code spawned from the mind of a madman...or maybe just a jealous ex. A desperate race through the cathedrals and hotels of New York City...with a teeny bit of time for shopping, it's true. An astonishing truth concealed for years, unveiled at last...with more than a little help from a supercute new guy. As if a recent breakup, scrounging for rent money, and lusting after designer…

Debby Holt: Annie May's Black Book

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Entries from Annie May's Black Book: October 15th, 1974: Miss Baker for telling me how to blow my nose and not believing when I still couldn't do it. February 6th, 1977: David Llewellyn for saying my landscape painting looked like a pig's trough and then making honking noises every time he saw me. April 12th, 1987: Peter Elton for 'borrowing' my cigarettes and never buying any of his own. 9th…

Lisi Harrison: Best Friends for Never

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The Clique is back... Massie Block — Still gorgeous. Still trendsetting. Still ruling the social scene at school... she hopes. To keep her spot at the top, Massie decides to throw the school's first boy/girl Halloween party. But her parents are making her invite the entire grade AND share the party with Claire. She's not sure which is scarier... Dylan Marvil — Lost the weight. Kept the attitude.…

Lisi Harrison: Clique v: 1

Скачать книгу (размер 1 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 220) Аннотация: Meet the Clique: Massie Block — with her glossy brunette bob and clear white smile, Massie is the uncontested ruler of the Clique and the rest of the social scene at Octavian Country Day School, an exclusive private school at Westchester, New York. Dylan Marvil — Massie's second in command, Dylan divides her time between sucking up to Massie and sucking down Atkins shakes to try to get rid of the…

Lisi Harrison: Invasion of the Boy Snatchers

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Alicia knows her Spanish cousin, Nina, is the hottest thing to come from Europe since Versace and Prada. But when Nina arrives from Spain and starts flirting with all the Briarwood boys, including Massie's crush, the Clique decides that foreign imports are totally Out! Alicia is forced to choose between her friends and her own overexposed flesh and blood... especially when Nina is clearly edging…

Lisi Harrison: Revenge of the Wannabes

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Just weeks before Christmas and the girls are busy at the Body Alive Dance Studio. As Alicia and her exhausted dance friends change out of their Nuala gear (not just for yoga anymore), they discuss their plans for the weekend. Alicia is hands down the most popular girl in the class, not only because she's the best dancer, but because Massie isn't there. Massie hates to dance, so for three hours a…

Matt Dunn: From Here to Paternity

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Will Jackson is a desperate man — desperate to be a dad, that is. Tired of his laddish lifestyle, he's redecorated the spare room, traded in his beloved sports car for a 4x4, and even drawn up a list of his favourite baby names. In fact, there's only one thing left he's got to do — find a female who'll have his child. But where on earth is he going to find a woman who meets his exacting…

Jennifer Weiner: The Guy Not Taken

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In The Guy Not Taken, a young married woman happens upon her ex boyfriend's wedding registry and wonders what life would have been like if she'd ended up with him after all — only to wake up and find out her dream, for better and worst, has come true. In Tour of Duty, a young man visits an ivy league college with his mother who does not know how to tell him that his father has left and is moving…

Kathy Lette: How to Kill Your Husband (and Other Handy Household Hints)

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «All women want to kill their husbands some of the time «Where there's a will, I intend to be in it», wives half-joke to each other. Marriage, it would appear, is a fun-packed frivolous hobby, only occasionally resulting in death. But when Jazz Jardine is arrested for her husband's murder, the joke falls flat. Life should begin at 40 — not with life imprisonment for killing your spouse. Jazz,…

Pele: The Autobiography

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Even people who don't know football know Pele. The best of a generation of Brazilian players universally acknowledged as the most accomplished and attractive group of footballers ever to play the game, he won the World Cup three times and is Brazil's all-time record goalscorer. But how did this man — a sportsman, a mere footballer, like many others — become a global icon? Was it just by being the…

Mary Higgins Clark: A Stranger is Watching

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: In two days time, the state of Connecticut is to take the life of teenager, Ronald Thompson — found guilty of the murder of Nina Peterson two years before. His death will not stop the pain and anger of Nina's husband, Steve, nor will it still the fears of Nina's six-year-old son, Neil, who witnessed his mother's brutal slaying. Only time, perhaps, can heal their wounds. But Ronald Thompson knows…

Justin Somper: Blood Captain

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: For Connor, these are testing times aboard notorious pirate ship, The Diablo — not least when Captain Wrathe's obnoxious nephew Moonshine joins the crew. And, as things reach breaking point, Connor finds himself crossing a line from which there is no return. Meanwhile Grace and Lorcan journey to Sanctuary, a mountain retreat presided over by vampirate guru, Mosh Zu Kamal. If anyone can heal…

Bernard Knight: The Elixir of Death

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Set in 1195: Prince John plots to seize the throne from his brother, Richard the Lionheart — and in his wicked schemes he is supported by King Philip of France, who offers to help John financially by sending him a mysterious alchemist, a Mohammedan named Nizam, who claims to be able to transmute base metals into gold.

Kathleen McGowan: The Expected One

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: A deadly political rivalry that ended in two brutal executions... An intricate love triangle that altered the course of history... A religious revolution that changed the world... THE TREASURE... For two thousand years, an undiscovered treasure rested in the rocky wilds of the French Pyrenees. A series of scrolls written in the first century by Mary Magdalene, these startling documents hold the…

The Medieval Murderers: Sword of Shame

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: From its first arrival in Britain with the Norman forces of William the Conqueror, violence and revenge are the cursed sword's constant companions. From an election-rigging scandal in 13th century Venice to the battlefield of Poitiers in 1356, as the Sword of Shame passes from owner to owner in this compelling collection of interlinked mysteries, it brings nothing but bad luck and disgrace to all…