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Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Set against the Great Depression of 1930s America, The Grapes of Wrath is a classic example of grand-scale American storytelling. When the book arrived in 1939 it met with some harsh criticism, as it contained strong language and posed many uncomfortable questions about society, politics and humanity. There is, undeniably, a bleakness about it, but this is outweighed by an unshakeable sense of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Blamed by her parents for the tragic death of a friend, Clodagh has been banished from their home in the countryside to a dingy basement flat and a meaningless existence in the city. Then she meets the inhabitants of the top floor of 15 Russia Road. Charismatic Silver, brutal Johnny, paranoid Liv and exotic Wim range across a London of roofs, eaves and ledges, unseen by the ordinary inhabitants,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Early in the new millennium the investment banks were on their knees. Beaten by the boom and bust of the dot.com bubble, mixed up in corporate scandals and accused of uncontrolled and rampant conflict of interest, the game seemed over for the masters of the universe. Then the bounce back came. New rules, promises to be more vigilant and rising markets took the heat off. Having learned their…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: A young prince meets with his father's ghost, who alleges that his own brother, now married to his widow, murdered him. The prince devises a scheme to test the truth of the ghost's accusation, feigning wild madness while plotting a brutal revenge. But his apparent insanity soon begins to wreak havoc on innocent and guilty alike.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: ‘I’m still in love with her … I’d give my life for her. But she bores me’ Proud, wilful and intensely charismatic, Pechorin is bored by the stifling world that envelops him. With a predatory energy for any activity that will relieve his ennui, he embarks on a series of adventures, encountering smugglers, brigands, soldiers, lovers and rivals – and leaving a trail of broken hearts behind him. With…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Philip Marlowe’s on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband’s collection. That’s the simple part. It becomes more complicated when Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead. That’s also unlucky for a private investigator, because…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 406 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 473) Аннотация: Husbands: you're really only allowed one at a time ... Bella secretly married Stevie, over a decade ago; they were at university, two big kids playing at being grownups. When it all unravelled and reality hit, Bella simply got up and left. Years later, Bella meets Philip and, despite her vow never to marry again, she can't resist him. He is a catch. Funny, charming, interesting and kind. Only…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Indie's mum loves the colour blue. Blue is the colour of her favourite things — bluebirds, bluebells, the sky. So much so that she named her children Indigo and Misty — shades of blue, special colours, magical colours. Indie loves her mum. But blue isn't always a happy colour — and there's a lot of sad stuff in her mum's life. And now suddenly she wants them to run away from their lovely house…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: KILLER IN THE RAIN, THE MAN WHO LIKED DOGS, THE CURTAIN, TRY THE GIRL, MANDARIN'S JADE, BAY CITY BLUES, THE LADY IN THE LAKE AND NO CRIME IN THE MOUNTAIN It was in the pulp detective magazines of the 1930s that Raymond Chandler's definitive take on the hard-boiled detective story first appeared. Here then, from the pages of the Black Mask and Dime Detective Magazine, are eight of his finest…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Eccentric Jarvis lives in a crumbling schoolhouse overlooking the tube line, compiling his obsessive history of the Underground. A group of misfits are also drawn towards his strange house: Alice, who has run away from her husband and baby; Tom, the busker who rescues her; truant Jasper who finds his terrifying thrills on the tube; and enigmatic Axel, whose deadly secret casts a shadow over all…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: More classic twisted tales from Roald Dahl, which explore desire, deceit and the macabre with shocking results. In 'Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat', a spurned woman tries on the glossy mink coat her lover has given her as a parting gift. 'Landlady' tells the story of the sinister hotel where the guests check in and never leave; in 'William and Mary' a wronged wife takes the ultimate revenge on…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Abbie Devereaux wakes in the dark, hooded and bound … She doesn’t know where she is nor who it is feeding her, talking to her – threatening to kill her. Yet Abbie has courage and, above all, hope. She escapes her captor and runs back into the light. But the real world, the safe one, isn’t as she remembers it. There are days missing before she disappeared – days when she quit her job and left her…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Evil sees you Two years ago William Bantling was put on death row by Florida’s Assistant State Attorney, CJ Townsend — for the torture and murder of eleven young women. Evil hears you Now three cops crucial to Bantling’s conviction have been brutally slain. CJ knew them all — and the shocking secret they took to their graves. Evil knows you But it’s clear that somebody else also knows the truth —…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Charlie Ashanti is on the run from an amazing floating circus with six homesick beautiful Lions and an extraordinary sabre-toothed creature. Charlie has promised to help the Lions find their way home to Morocco but he has his own problems: his Mum and Dad have been kidnapped and he is determined to find them. His new friends, King Boris of Bulgaria and his security chief, Edward, have promised to…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Encircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when Iain Sinclair sets out to walk this asphalt loop – keeping within the ‘acoustic footprints’ – he is determined to find out where the journey will lead him. Stumbling upon converted asylums, industrial and retail parks, ring-fenced government institutions and lost villages, Sinclair discovers a Britain of the fringes, a…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: To begin with he was another good time drunk in a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith outside the terrace of The Dancers. A little later he turned up as a vagrant on Hollywood Boulevard. For no reason other than curiosity Philip Marlowe came to the rescue. Then he brought Terry Lennox a drink. Which may be why he finds himself driving Lennox to Tijuana on the same night his very rich wife is found with her…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Problem: Women full of impossible contradictions. Result: Bewilderment. Misunderstanding. Anger. Solution: Not known. Complicated by fact that you are also full of impossible contradictions. Down-but-not-quite-out advertising exec. Daniel Savage is one of the walking wounded – a casualty of the sex war. All his relationships have ended in defeat; one in divorce. Now he’s starting over. Starting…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Men are like puppies – they need training. Otherwise: 1. They wee on the floor 2. They stay out late and scratch at the door to be let in 3. They whine when you say No 4. They think they can get away with murder by gazing mournfully into your eyes. Katie Wallace had her heart broken once, and she’s not going to let it happen again. What’s more, she doesn’t want it to happen to anyone else if she…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: 'How lovely — green velvet and silver, I call that a dream, so soft and delicious, too.' She rubbed a fold of the skirt against her cheek. 'Mine's silver lamé, it smells like a bird cage when it gets hot but I do love it. Aren't you thankful evening skirts are long again?' The dresses, but oh the boredom of the Season, even for Polly Hampton, with her outstanding looks and excellent social…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: A vast apparition towered over her on the doorstep. It wore a loose salmon pink coat... and tucked under its arm was an enormous imitation crocodile skin handbag... 'I'm Madame Doubtfire, dear.' Lydia, Christopher and Natalie Hilliard are used to domestic turmoil and have been torn between their warring parents ever since the divorce. But all that changes when their mother takes on a most unusual…