Скачать книгу (размер 1 406 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 277) Аннотация: Book Four of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle. Years ago, they had escaped together from the sinister Tombs of Atuan — she, an isolated young priestess; he, a powerful wizard. Now she is a farmer's widow, having chosen for herself the simple pleasures of an ordinary life. And he is a broken old man, mourning the powers lost to him through no choice of his own. Once, when they were young, they…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Air bags cause accidents, because well-protected drivers take more risks. This well-documented truth comes as a surprise to most people, but not to economists, who have learned to take seriously the proposition that people respond to incentives. In The Armchair Economist, Steven E. Landsburg shows how the laws of economics reveal themselves in everyday experience and illuminate the entire range…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Suffering from Fifty Shades withdrawal symptoms? Then meet Travis...Good Girl. Abby Abernathy doesn't drink or swear and she works hard. Abby believes she has created enough distance between her and the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college, her dreams of a new beginning are quickly challenged by the university's walking one-night stand. Bad Boy. Travis Maddox, handsome, built,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The lives of four sensuous, bold and remarkable women intersect in the year 70AD, in the desperate days of the siege of Masada, when supplies are dwindling and the Romans are drawing near. All are dovekeepers, and all are keepers of secrets — about who they are, where they come from, who fathered them, and whom they love. There is Yael, the assassin's daughter whose heartbreak leads to her true…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: From the boardroom to the bedroom, the catwalk to the kerbside... Starry-eyed ingenue Coco Raeburn is passionately ambitious. She will do anything — and anyone — to get her own editorship at a top fashion magazine. And her ruthless boss Victoria Glossop, editor at top UK fashion magazine Style, will do everything in her power to stop her... But Victoria has her own ambitions — she wants the top…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Beth, Lara and Rio — three exotic women with a common cause and vengeance in their hearts. They're out to avenge a murder and they'll go to any lengths. Their targets: the heirs of the Bassalino crime family. Their weapon: sex. The result: a bloodbath of sexual mayhem through the lethal corridors of organized crime. Three beautiful women set out to prove that when it comes to revenge, the female…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: 'And you still love him?' 'Every second of every minute of every hour of every day'... While on holiday in Dorset one summer, Alice meets Joe, a guy working at the local pub. She's eighteen and on the brink of starting university, while Joe's life is seemingly going nowhere. But despite their differences, the pair fall in love. And then summer comes to an end and they are dramatically torn apart.…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: Arnold Schwarzenegger's TOTAL RECALL is a larger-than-life portrait of his illustrious, controversial and entertaining life in and out of the public eye. Total Recall is the unbelievably true story of Arnold Schwarzenegger's life. Born in the small city of Thal, Austria, in 1947, he moved to Los Angeles at the age of 21. Within ten years, he was a millionaire business man. After twenty years, he…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: London's Detective Chief Inspector Anna Travis returns in the seventh installment of her popular series of thrillers from award-winning and international bestselling author La Plante, author of the Prime Suspect novels.
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Congratulations! You're about to have a kid? Well, Bro, you might be asking yourself a series of important questions: Will I ever be able to do awesome things again? Will I be able to afford this? Can I ever have sex again? Will I be a good parent? Am I able to love this child as much as I love my own life? Well, the answer to all of these questions is a rock solid no. But just because your life…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: London, 1811. The twisting streets of riverside Wapping hold many an untold sin. Bounded by the Ratcliffe Highway to the north and the modern wonders of the Dock to the south, shameful secrets are largely hidden by the noise and glory of Trade. But two families have fallen victim to foul murder, and a terrified populace calls for justice. John Harriott, magistrate of the new Thames River Police…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 318 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 848) Аннотация: The bestselling collaboration between #1 bestselling author Stephen King and Peter Straub — an epic thriller about a small American town held in the grip of unspeakable evil — and the spectacular follow-up to The Talisman. Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her Twinner from an agonizing death that would have…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 472 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 486) Аннотация: From the much-loved New York Times bestselling author of First Impressions and Wild Orchids comes a heart-wrenching story about unrequited love and dangerous secrets.
Скачать книгу (размер 4 691 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 921) Аннотация: The iconic, extraordinary (The Washington Post) collaboration between #1 bestselling author Stephen King and Peter Straub — an epic thriller about a young boy's quest to save his mother's life. Jack Sawyer, twelve years old, is about to begin a most fantastic journey, an exalting, terrifying quest for the mystical Talisman — the only thing that can save Jack's dying mother. But to reach his goal,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: King returns to the rich landscape of Mid-World, the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower fantasy saga. Roland Deschain and his friends encounter a ferocious storm on their way to the Outer Baronies. As they shelter from the howling gale, Roland tells not just one strange story, but two... and in so doing, casts new light on his own troubled past.
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Since Whitney Houston's tragic and untimely death, the public has gotten to know heretofore private family members such as Pat Houston, who is married to Whitney's brother and served as a trusted manager of the singer's career. She will express her sense of loss, her love and memories of Whitney Houston in the closing pages of this book. Clive Davis, the legendary music industry mogul who guided…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 763 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 543) Аннотация: Alek and Deryn are on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love. The first two objectives are complicated by the fact that their ship, the Leviathan, continues to detour farther away from the heart of the war (and crown). And the love thing would be a lot easier if Alek knew Deryn was a girl. (She has to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 426 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 477) Аннотация: Deep in the Arctic, a long-forgotten Soviet military base enshrouds a weapon of unimaginably destructive force — a Cold War doomsday device with the power to obliterate the planet. When a mysterious and brutal terrorist group known as the Army of Thieves seizes control of the remote base and unleashes the weapon upon an unsuspecting world, there is only one team close enough to sabotage them: a…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The Lady of the Rivers is #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory's remarkable story of Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford, a woman who navigated a treacherous path through the battle lines in the Wars of the Roses. Descended from Melusina, the river goddess, Jacquetta always has had the gift of second sight. As a child visiting her uncle, she met his prisoner, Joan of Arc, and saw her…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: In 1916, in the middle of the First World War, two men secretly agreed to divide the Middle East between them. Sir Mark Sykes was a visionary politician; Francois Georges-Picot a diplomat with a grudge. The deal they struck, which was designed to relieve tensions that threatened to engulf the Entente Cordiale, drew a line in the sand from the Mediterranean to the Persian frontier. Territory north…