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Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Is Emilia, the wicked stepmother incarnate? Passionately in love with her husband, Emilia has a secret, guilty loathing for her precocious little stepson, William — a forty-year-old in a five-year-old's body, whom she picks up from nursery every Wednesday afternoon. He is lactose intolerant, she feeds him dairy products; he mustn't get cold, she pushes him — accidentally — into the pond in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Mitch is a 25-year-old with commitment issues. Leonard is a five-year-old kid with asthma and vision problems, who captivates everyone he meets. Pearl is Leonard's teenage mother, who's trying to hide a violent secret from her past. Life has given Pearl every reason to mistrust people, but circumstances force her to trust her neighbour, Mitch. Then one day, with a heart full of agony, Pearl drops…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), it turns out that the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Meet Annie Valentine: stylish, savvy, multi-tasker extraordinaire. As a personal shopper in a swanky London fashion store, Annie can re-style and re-invent her clients from head to toe. In fact, this super-skilled dresser can be relied on to solve everyone's problems...except her own. Although she's a busy single mum to stroppy teen Lana and painfully shy Owen, there's a gap in Annie's wardrobe —…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Toys — from teddy bears to Barbie dolls to train sets — define our image of childhood innocence. But the truth is that toys represent a $21 billion a year industry, and with so much money at stake, the toy business is anything but child's play. In «The Real Toy Story», investigative journalist Eric Clark exposes the startling truths behind Britain's favourite toys. Drawing on interviews with over…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: You're about to turn thirty, all your friends are getting engaged and pregnant — and your body-clock is ticking. Then you get an offer to move to New York. So you take a chance and break up with your boyfriend — only to land yourself in the singles capital of the world. When Bridget Harrison arrived in Manhattan to work for America's most famous tabloid, the «New York Post», she was in at the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: San Francisco, 1976. A naive young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing landladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry, touching, and outrageous — unmistakably the handwork of Armistead Maupin.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: In the course of their investigations into Leonardo da Vinci and the Turin Shroud, Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince found clues in the work of the great Renaissance artist that pointed to the existence of a secret underground religion. More clues were found in a twentieth-century London church. These were the beginnings of a quest through time and space that led the authors into the mysterious…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: »The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld» is a collection of the wittiest, pithiest and wisest quotations from this extraordinary universe, dealing one-by-one with each book in the canon. Guaranteed to transport you back to your favourite or forgotten Discworld moments it is the perfect book for die-hard Pratchett fans, as well as anyone coming to the Discworld for the first time.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: What started out as an innocent board game inspired Rich Smith to undertake a daring crime spree across the United States — a journey to break the dumbest American laws on the statute books. In the Land of the Free, it is illegal to: lie down and fall asleep in a cheese factory (South Dakota); play a trumpet with the intention of luring someone to a store (California); and, catch a fish with a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Written between 700 and 1000AD, the original 3,000 line poem is sometimes called 'England's national epic'. It recounts the story of a Scandinavian warrior, Beowulf, who pledges to save King Hrothgar's people from the monstrous creature Grendel that has been terrorising his kingdom. In the ensuing fight, Beowulf rips off Grendel's arm and the now-mortally wounded monster flees back to his lair…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. His argument could hardly be more topical. While Europe is becoming increasingly secularized, the rise of religious fundamentalism, whether in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: ‘Something strange occurs to guests as soon as they check in. Even if in real life they are perfectly well-mannered, decent people with proper balanced relationships, as soon as they spin through the revolving hotel doors the normal rules of behaviour no longer seem to apply.’ All of the following is true.Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. All the anecdotes, the stories, the…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: ‘ Thousands of people have written to tell me that I am wrong not to believe in God. The most hostile of these communications have come from Christians. This is ironic, as Christians generally imagine that no faith imparts the virtues of love and forgiveness more effectively than their own. The truth is that many who claim to be transformed by Christ’s love are deeply, even murderously,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: English society beauty Genevieve Shelby King parties to the utmost with the Anglo-American artists and writers of Montparnasse. She has a rich husband, a glamorous apartment and an enormous shoe collection. But there is something hollow at the centre of Genevieve's charmed life. When she spots a pair of unique and exquisite shoes on the feet of an arch rival one night, her whole collection —…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 330 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 262) Аннотация: DON`T GO TO FRANCE WITHOUT READING THIS BOOK!

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: A controversial artist is found dead in her own art installation inside a riverside gallery with locked doors and windows — the only witness is a small boy who insists the murderer was a masked man on a horse. A television presenter is struck by lightning while indoors… Two seemingly impossible crimes that only Arthur Bryant and John May of the Met's Peculiar Crimes Unit might be able to solve.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The little cat Deric Longden saw sitting forlornly on an upturned bucket belonged to the neighbours, but somehow when it began to rain it seemed only natural to bring him inside. Once there he slipped so easily into Deric and Aileen's lives that there was an unspoken agreement that he had found his real home. Little did he know that he had entered the Longden world, in which the unexpected…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Late at night, in a New York cafe, Jack Reacher orders coffee in a cup made of foam, not china. So he can move on at a moment's notice. He owns nothing, carries less. He has never met a woman who said no or a case he couldn't solve. But now Reacher faces a new case so disturbing that the truth eludes him. He has to sweat the details and work the clues. Doing it the hard way, until what started on…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: When Masterharper Zist takes over as Harper for Natalon's coal-mining camp, he takes with him his apprentice, the orphaned Pellar, and Pellar's fire-lizard Chitter. Pellar has become a gifted tracker and Zist gives him his own mission — to find out if the thefts of coal are the work of the criminals condemned to a life of wandering and hardship.