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Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Now, you would obviously never, ever look up your exes on Facebook. Nooo. And even if you did, you most certainly wouldn't run off trying to track them down, risking your job, family and happiness in the process. Posy Fairweather, on the other hand... Posy is delighted when Matt proposes — on top of a mountain, in a gale, in full-on romantic mode. But a few days later disaster strikes: he backs…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The streets of London are the perfect place to discover your dreams... They may be twin sisters, but Lizzie and Penny Berry are complete opposites — Penny is blonde, thin and outrageous; Lizzie is quiet, thoughtful and, well, definitely not thin. But they both share a desperate desire to DO something with their lives. When, out of the blue, they learn they have a grandmother living in Chelsea,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: On a bitterly cold night on the steps outside an empty office in New York's financial district, a woman lies dead. It seems like a mugging gone wrong, but Eve Dallas soon discovers that the body was dumped there deliberately. Now she has to find out why. Eve has a host of suspects for Marta Dickenson's murder. Using her husband Roarke's business know-how and with Detective Delia Peabody by her…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The apocalypse begins on the day Rabi, Miguel and Joe are practicing baseball near their town's local meatpacking plant and nearly get knocked out by a really big stink. Little do they know the plant's toxic cattle feed is turning cows into flesh-craving monsters... ZOMBIES! The boys decide to launch a stealth investigation into the plant's dangerous practices, unknowingly discovering a greedy…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 385 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 469) Аннотация: Imagine a world that is one of infinite parallel worlds, that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Presiding over this world is the Concern, an all-powerful organisation whose operatives possess extraordinary powers. There is Temudjin Oh, an unkillable…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Stephanie Harker is travelling through security at O'Hare airport with five-year-old Jimmy. But in a moment, everything changes. In disbelief, Stephanie watches as a uniformed agent leads her boy away — and she's stuck the other side of the gates, hysterical with worry. The authorities, unaware of Jimmy's existence, just see a woman behaving erratically; Stephanie is wrestled to the ground and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: The unforgettable silhouette of Eilean Donan Castle at the confluence of three sea lochs in the Highlands, seen against the majestic backdrop of the mountains of Kintail, is an iconic image of Scotland and of Scottish history that adorns calendars, shortbread tins and whisky bottles worldwide. Not many people realise that the castle was only built in 1932. Along with Lutyens's slightly better…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Everything we know about solving the world's problems is wrong. Out: Plans, experts and above all, leaders. In: Adapting — improvise rather than plan; fail, learn, and try again In this groundbreaking new book, Tim Harford shows how the world's most complex and important problems — including terrorism, climate change, poverty, innovation, and the financial crisis — can only be solved from the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Rosie Hopkins, city girl to the end, is about to face major upheaval. Her elderly aunt Lily, who lives slap bang in the middle of nowhere, is ill and so, taking a leave of absence from the bustling London hospital where she works, Rosie is putting her friends, her boyfriend and her entire life on hold to move to the depths of the Peak District to help. She's fairly certain she won't be able to…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: David Bowie — famously described as rock's greatest chameleon — has lived an extraordinary life. From his early years in post-war, bombed out Brixton to a troubled later childhood in Bromley, to the decadent glamour of Ziggy Stardust to his controversial Berlin period, Bowie's life has been filled with drama. One of our most fascinating stars, his story has never been satisfactorily told until…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Rowan Tripp is addicted to danger. She's been fighting the annual forest fires in the rugged Montana mountains since she was eighteen years old. She can read a wildfire like no one else — and is prepared to put her life on the line again and again to save others. But now she is mourning the death of her good friend and jump partner, Jim — and haunted by the fact that she might have been able to…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Twelve years ago, Eve Dallas was just a rookie NY cop when her instincts led her to the apartment of Isaac McQueen, a man she discovered to be a sick murderer and paedophile, who was keeping young girls in cages. Now a homicide Lieutenant, Eve is one of the most distinguished officers in the city — and then she learns that McQueen has escaped from jail. Bent on revenge against Eve and with a need…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 392) Аннотация: Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness, until she meets Ernest Hemingway. After a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they soon fall in with a circle of lively and volatile expatriates, including F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and Ezra Pound. Ernest and Hadley are thrust into a life of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: No tennis player since Andre Agassi has captivated the world like Rafael Nadal. He's a rarity in today's sporting arena — a true sportsman who chooses to let his raw talent, dedication and humility define him. This autobiography, written by Nadal with award-winning journalist John Carlin, includes memorable highlights such as winning the Wimbledon 2008 final in what John McEnroe called, the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out — she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: There is one serial killer who has shaped and defined police profiler Tony Hill's life. One serial killer whose evil surpasses all others. One serial killer who has the power to chill him to the bone: Jacko Vance. And now Jacko is back in Tony's life. Even more twisted and cunning than ever before, he is focused on wreaking revenge on Tony — and DCI Carol Jordan — for the years he has spent in…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The year is 1016 and England burns while the Viking armies blockade the great city of London. King Ethelred lies dying and the England he knew dies with him; the warring kingdoms of Mercia, Wessex and Northymbria tremble on the brink of great change. One man lives to bear witness to the upheaval: Godwin, barely out of boyhood and destined to become one of his country's great warriors. When…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Even down to its well-set Georgian townhouses, Edinburgh is a hymn to measure and harmony. But on Scotland Street, domestic accord is in short supply. Matthew and Elspeth welcome three new arrivals, though the joys of multiple parenthood are somewhat lost due to sleep deprivation and the difficulties of telling their brood apart. Angus and Domenica are to marry, and Domenica has ambitious and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In What's Wrong with America? Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze those challenges — globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption — and spell out what needs to be done now to…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 329 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 458) Аннотация: My name is Budo. I have been alive for 5 years. 5 years is a very long time for someone like me to be alive. Max gave me my name. Max is 8 years old. He is the only human person who can see me. I know what Max knows, and some things he doesn't. I know that Max is in danger. And I know that I am the only one who can save him. For readers who loved Room and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the…