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Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: After the betrayal at Isstvan, Horus begins his campaign against the Emperor, a galaxy-wide war that can lead only to Terra. But the road to the final confrontation between father and son is a long one — seven years filled with secrecy and silence, plans and foundations being formed across distant stars. An unknown history is about to be unveiled as light is shed on the darkest years of the Horus…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The good news is that the great thinkers from history have proposed the same strategies for happiness and fulfilment. The bad news is that these turn out to be the very things most discouraged by contemporary culture. This knotty dilemma is the subject of The Age of Absurdity — a wry and accessible investigation into how the desirable states of wellbeing and satisfaction are constantly undermined…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 120 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 417) Аннотация: The Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica are at war. The Imperial Cartological Society, led by Richard Burton, have collected all of the doors from the Keep of Time, and are building a new tower in our world at the request of an old enemy: The Winter King's Shadow. He has a terrible weapon — The Spear of Destiny — that can be used to command the shadows of anyone it touches... including the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: After centuries of calm, the Nameless One is stirring. An army is gathering: thousands of fellcreatures joining forces from across the Desolate Lands, united for the first time in history under one black banner. By the spring, or perhaps sooner, the Nameless One and his forces will be at the walls of Avendoom.Unless Shadow Harold, master thief, can stop them. Epic fantasy at its best, Shadow…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: 1067. In the desolate wastes of Greenland, a band of hunters stumble across a strangely-shaped stone which has fallen from the sky. At first, the mysterious 'sky-stone' seems to bring good luck. But the villagers are soon cursed with violence and murder as they fight to gain control of the precious object. Over the next six hundred years, the Sky-Stone will fall into the hands of crusading…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Olive Kitteridge might be described by some as a battle axe or as brilliantly pushy, by others as the kindest person they had ever met. Olive herself has always been certain that she is 100% correct about everything — although, lately, her certitude has been shaken. This indomitable character appears at the centre of these narratives that comprise Olive Kitteridge. In each of them, we watch…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Number 1 bestselling author Philippa Gregory continues her series, «The Cousins War», with Jacquetta Woodville, mother of the White Queen. Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Cannie Shapiro never wanted to be famous. The smart, sharp, plus-sized reporter was perfectly happy writing about other people's lives for her local newspaper. And for the past twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her job, her friends, her…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Nikki Maxwell has been writing in a diary since the start of the school year, and she usually takes it everywhere she goes, so she can't believe it when one morning she can't find her diary! The hunt is on, and while she looks, pursuing various theories about where it could be, Nikki can't help putting together a list of important diary-keeping lessons to remember in case of missing diary…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Isabelle Goodrow has been living in self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy for 15 years. Shamed by her past and her affair with Amy's father she has submerged herself in the routine of her dead-end job and her unrequited love for her boss. But when Amy, frustrated by her quiet and unemotional mother, embarks on an illicit affair with her maths teacher, the disgrace intensifies the shame…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 472) Аннотация: Inside a Los Angeles church, on the altar steps, lies the blood-soaked, decapitated body of a priest. Carefully positioned, legs stretched out, arms crossed over the chest, the most horrifying thing of all is that the priest's head has been replaced by that of a dog. Later, the forensic team discover that, on the victim's chest, the figure 3 has been scrawled in blood. At first, Detective Robert…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: A national symbol of romance since the 1970s, Redford's stardom has often eclipsed the life and trials of the man himself. In this biography — written with Redford's personal papers, journals, script notes, correspondence, and hundreds of hours of taped interviews — Michael Feeney Callan strips away the Hollywood facade, exposing the complicated, surprising man beneath. The life of Robert Redford…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Red is now living at Elvesden Manor under her real name, Rowan, and trying to put her past behind her. But staying on the straight and narrow isn't as easy as she had hoped... Hounded by fairy messengers who are trying to convince her to participate once more in the changeling trade, Rowan is haunted by dreams of the Hedgewitch's cottage and the chained-up Eldritch, who threatens revenge against…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: After a bruising divorce, headstrong Juliet Miller invests in a flat and advertises for a flatmate, little believing that in her mid-thirties she'll find anyone suitable. But along comes self-employed copywriter Floz, raw from her own relationship split, and the two woman hit it off. When Juliet's twin brother Guy meets Floz, he is overcome with a massive crush. But being a shy, gentle giant, he…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Mientras trabaja en la restauracion del Portico de la Gloria de Santiago de Compostela, Julia alvarez recibe una noticia devastadora: su marido ha sido secuestrado en una region montanosa del noreste de Turquia. Sin quererlo, Julia se vera envuelta en una ambiciosa carrera por controlar dos antiguas piedras que, al parecer, permiten el contacto con entidades sobrenaturales y por las que estan…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 722 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 339) Аннотация: High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in his imagination, he finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a land that is…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. All well and good, so long as they kept to themselves. But now the Kibou-daini are attempting to franchise out their Fountain of Youth wares to the rest of the galaxy and the Barrayar Galactic Empire is none too pleased with the implications. Cue Miles Vorkosigan, malformed royal troublemaker — but also heir and savior of empire. On…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund, Boswell, are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Halloween, which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Road. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with the underworld, but when they unknowingly call forth Satan himself, they create a gap in the universe, a gap through which a pair…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 380 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 468) Аннотация: In John Connolly's thriller, Charlie Parker is haunted by a man and a woman who appear to have only one purpose: to end to Parker's existence.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: A comedic fantasy masterpiece years in the making, here are the complete Myth tales of New York Times best-seller Robert Asprin collected for the first time. Included is all the short fiction set in Asprin's legendarily hilarious mythic world of sword, sorcery and wordplay. These tales chronicle the misadventures of Skeeve and Aahz, a magician who has lost his power and his hapless human…