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Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Fear, revenge and deadly superstition collide in these two exclusive J. D. Robb short stories. Haunted in Death Lieutenant Eve Dallas doesn't believe in ghosts. But when a very recent corpse shows up in a haunted abandoned nightclub, alongside the bones of the famous missing singer, Bobbie Bray, everyone is spooked — especially the new owner. Did Bobbie's ghost finally get her revenge, or is…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The girl he thinks he loves needs to disappear. I don't want tonight to be irreversible, so I pull away, breathing him in one last time. Ella and Micha have been best friends since childhood, until one tragic night shatters their relationship and Ella decides to leave everything behind to start a new life at college, including Micha. But now it's summer break and she has nowhere else to go but…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Applied Ethics — which addresses such questions as 'Truth telling in sexual relationships' — and she also hosts The Sunday Philosophy Club at her house in Edinburgh. Behind the city's Georgian facades its moral compasses are spinning with greed, dishonesty and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Her eyes were black, wide as though with some sustained surprise, the skin from their outer corners to her small ears taut. Her lips were pale, and nearly too full for her small mouth, like something bled but bruised. He had never seen anyone or anything quite so beautiful in his life. Graham Park is in love. But Sara Fitch is an enigma to him, a creature of almost perverse mystery. Steven Grout…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: 'Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through'. Enter — if you can bear it — the extraordinary…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Scotland Street witnesses the wedding of the millennium of Angus Lordie to Domenica Macdonald, but as the newlyweds depart on honeymoon Edinburgh is in disarray. Recovering from the trauma of being best man, Matthew lurches into the arms of a Dane called Bo, while Cyril eludes his dog-sitter and embarks on an odyssey involving fox-holes and the official residence of a cardinal. Narcissist Bruce…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Alex and Conner Bailey have not been back to the magical Land of Stories since their adventures in The Wishing Spell ended. But one night, they learn the famed Enchantress has kidnapped their mother. Against the will of their grandmother (the one and only Fairy Godmother), the twins must find their own way into the Land of Stories to rescue their mother and save the fairy tale world from the…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 832) Аннотация: Some years ago, a remarkable manuscript long rumoured to exist was discovered: The Legend of Broken. It tells of a prosperous fortress city where order reigns at the point of a sword — even as scheming factions secretly vie for control of the surrounding kingdom. Meanwhile, outside the city's granite walls, an industrious tribe of exiles known as the Bane forages for sustenance in the wilds of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Poor Jean Collins. She stepped out into the road without looking and now lies broken in hospital. But what distracted her? And why was she carrying a box of vanilla slices, the cream cakes she only ever bought for special occasions? Jean's daughter Anne travels back up north to find out. But her mind is on her teenage sons in London — boys on the brink of becoming not very nice men. What damage…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: I remember everything about that day, like the images have been burned into my brain by a branding iron. But I wish they would blow away in the wind. Callie has grown up keeping her feelings locked away from the outside world, and as her painful past threatens to consume her life, most days it's a struggle just to breathe. For as long as Kayden can remember, suffering in silence has been the only…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilisation. An ancient people, organised on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Two fragile people. One desperate second chance. Reeling and desolate, Adrienne Willis needs space to rethink her life after her husband leaves her for a younger woman. Fleeing everything, she jumps at the chance to look after her friend's guesthouse in the coastal town of Rodanthe, North Carolina. But there is a storm heading for Adrienne, in more ways than she can imagine. Stranded and isolated…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 206 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 630) Аннотация: Provides an extraordinary account of Steve Jobs' professional and personal life, drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews conducted with Walter Isaacson, as well as extensive interviews with Jobs' family members, key colleagues from Apple, and its leading competitors... 'a fitting legacy to a flawed genius'. From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Joe Coughlin is nineteen when he meets Emma Gould. A smalltime thief in 1920s Boston, he is told to cuff her while his accomplices raid the casino she works for. But Joe falls in love with Emma — and his life changes for ever. That meeting is the beginning of Joe's journey to becoming one of the nation's most feared and respected gangsters. It is a journey beset by violence, double-crossing,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Cassie Smith has been out of work for a while but she has an idea. Drawing on her love of Christmas, she begins charging for small things: wrapping presents; writing cards; tree-decorating. She's soon in huge demand and Cassie's business, Calling Mrs Christmas, is born. Carter Randall wants to make Christmas special for his children, so he enlists Cassie's help, and his lavish requests start…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The gift of heaven on earth. It will become the biggest story in the world... When the residents of a small town on Lake Michigan start receiving phone calls from the afterlife, they all become the subject of widespread attention. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to find out. This is a story about the power of belief —…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: As a psychiatrist, Nadine Lavoie wants to help people, but she has dark troubles of her own — some she can't even think about and some she can't even remember. When a distraught young woman is taken to the hospital where Nadine works, it triggers horrific memories for Nadine. Digging deeper, she forces herself to confront her past and the damage done to her when she and her brother were brought…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 982 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 390) Аннотация: The Montgomery brothers have been the talk of Boonsboro, ever since they decided to renovate the old Inn into an intimate and handsome new Bed and Breakfast. Beckett and Owen have both found love in the process, but what of Ryder, the third Montgomery brother? Can the Inn Boonsboro weave its magic one more time? Ryder is the hardest Montgomery brother to figure out — with a tough-as-nails outside…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 992 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 784) Аннотация: The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive, compelling and uplifting, Nelson Mandela became the democratically elected, first black president of the republic of South Africa on 27 April 1994.is the exhilarating story of an epic life; a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Five years after Charles II's triumphant return to London there is growing mistrust of his extravagant court and of corruption among his officials — and when a cart laden with gunpowder explodes outside the General Letter Office, it is immediately clear that such an act is more than an expression of outrage at the inefficiency of the postal service. As intelligencer to the Lord Chamberlain,…