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Скачать книгу (размер 1 085 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 214) Аннотация: Fiercely suspicious of being lumped together as an advertiser's target market, they have quit dreary careers and cut themselves adrift in the Californian desert. Unsure of their futures, they immerse themselves in a rgime of heavy drinking and working at no-future McJobs in the service industry. Underemployed, overeducated, intensely private and unpredictable they have nowhere to direct their…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 314 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 455) Аннотация: A little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing. Innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to pop and fashion, the Elect of God of a small but committed Stirlingshire religious cult: Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager. When her cousin Morag — Guest of Honour at the Luskentyrian's four — yearly Festival of Love — disappears after renouncing her faith, Isis is marked out to…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Some things never change. New York City, 1896. Hypocrisy in high places is rife, police corruption commonplace, and a brutal killer is terrorising young male prostitutes. Unfortunately for Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt, the psychological profiling of murderers is a practice still in its infancy, struggling to make headway against the prejudices of those who prefer the mentally ill — and…

Скачать книгу (размер 5 379 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1056) Аннотация: Rand al’ Thor, the Dragon Reborn, strives to bind the nations of the world to his will, to forge the alliances that will fight the advance of the Shadow and to ready the forces of Light for the Last Battle. But there are other powers that seek to command the war against the Dark One. In the White Tower the Amyrlin Elaida sets a snare to trap the Dragon, whilst the rebel Aes Sedai scheme to bring…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic litt commercial wars in the civilisation based around the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz, a religious cult which believes that she is the last obstacle before the faith’s apotheosis, and her only hope of escape is to find the last of the apocalyptically powerful Lazy Guns before the Huhsz find…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time ... Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones ... And Bascule the Teller, in search of an ant, is about to enter the chaos of the crypt ... And everything is about to change ... For this is the time of the encroachment and, although the dimming sun still shines…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Elaine, a painter, returns to Toronto and finds herself overwhelmed by her past — memories of her childhood, betrayals and cruelties surface relentlessly. She must face the spectre of Cordelia who has been her best friend and her tormentor, and who has haunted her for 40 years.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: From fat girl to thin, from red hair to mud brown, from London to Toronto, from Polish count to radical husband — Joan Foster is confused by her life of multiple identities. She decides to escape to an Italian seaside resort to take stock of her life. But first she must plan her death.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: In 1137 the ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey has decided to acquire the remains of Saint Winifred for his Benedictine order. Brother Cadfael is part of the expedition sent to her final resting place in Wales and they find the villagers passionately divided by the Benedictines' offer for the saint's relics. Canny, wise and all too worldly, Cadfael isn't surprised when this taste for bones leads…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 289 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 254) Аннотация: Set in 12th century Shrewsbury, this story features the further adventures of Brother Cadfael, as he investigates another mystery. Other titles featuring this character include «The Summer of the Danes», «Monk's Hood» and «The Sanctuary Sparrow».

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Alex had given up all hope of finding the right woman until he saw the beautiful Raphaella — young, wealthy and desperately lonely. Trapped in an empty life by a sense of honour and duty to her elderly husband, she denied herself any right to personal happiness, until she met Alex.

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: In the turbulent Germany of the 1930s, Kassandra von Gotthard met Dolff Sterne, the man who was to change her life. She was the beautiful wife of a wealthy Berlin banker, he a Jewish writer. Together they shared a love that happens only once in a lifetime, but it was fated to end in tragedy.

Скачать книгу (размер 4 726 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 928) Аннотация: In this fifth book of «The Wheel of Time», legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. The Chosen are free and already planning the Great Day of Return, when the Dark One will walk the Earth again.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: This novel follows three women in Toronto whose lives are badly affected by the mischief of their former university friend. When she dies they assume that their troubles are over, but then she reappears, apparently more malevolent than ever. Other works by the author include The Handmaid`s Tale.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 345 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 265) Аннотация: A fiction debut from the author of «The Weight of Water» and «The Pilot's Wife».

Скачать книгу (размер 1 738 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 342) Аннотация: To the doctors the woman in the ambulance was just another casualty, just more beautiful than most, more badly hurt. She was Daphne Fields, a famous author whose stories were drawn from her own struggle; to choose between the two men she loved.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: For Michael, handsome heir to a business empire, and Nancy, beautiful young orphan, the carefree days of innocence were drawing to an end. That fateful day after graduation, they sealed a bond for the years to come — a vow of love that would have to prove itself in the face of terrible tragedy.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Kate and Tom were the original star-crossed lovers. Kate is a beautiful model; Tom a successful football star at the peak of his career. It seems as though nothing can come between them. Together, they are invincible. But then one day, tragedy strikes… A gunshot ends Tom's career and puts him in a sanatorium — for ever. Kate is left alone in the world with nothing to live for. And she must face…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: At 21 Annabelle Driscoll was the acknowledged beauty, but it was her sister Audrey — four years older — who had the spine and spirit. She had talent — a lot of talent — as a photographer; she had the restless urge of a born wanderer. Inevitably it was Annabelle who was the first to marry, leaving Audrey to wonder if life were passing her by. Sometimes she would dream of a man like a her father,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 610 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 317) Аннотация: Little Woody Swope was gravely ill. Treatment was possible, if painful. But his parents, members of a bizarre sect called the Touchers, threatened to take him out of hospital. Then Woody was gone. So were the Swopes, leaving their motel suite heavily bloodstained. Enter Alex Delaware, child psychologist, young, burned out and semi-retired. He and his LA cop friend Milo find a heap of suspects —…