Скачать книгу (размер 4 889 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 960) Аннотация: Jack Burns’ mother, Alice, is a tattoo artist in search of the boy’s father, William, a virtuoso organist, who has fled America to Europe. To fund her journey, she plies her trade in the seaports of the North Sea as she tracks her four-year-old son’s errant father. But Alice is a mystery, and William can’t be found. And even Jack’s memories are subject to doubt. Jack returns to the United States,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: How can a drug that makes people fall madly in love be a bad thing? So thinks Professor Bacci when he inadvertently unlocks the biochemical key to falling in love, and develops a drug capable of creating emotions indistinguishable from the real thing. Determined that the world should benefit from his discovery, he seeks funding and business advice from a private Swiss bank, owned by the secretive…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Connie Farrell, a New York restaurant critic, is sitting in a first class seat on her way to Venice for the second honeymoon of a lifetime. There’s only one problem – Tom, her high school sweetheart and husband of ten years, is not sitting next to her. It seems downright rude. And not the least bit romantic. Enter Marco, an impossibly handsome gondolier, who guides her through the unimaginable…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Cairo, June 1942. A city blistering under the lash of a relentless summer and panicked by the implacable advance of Hitler's most talented general, Erwin Rommel. It is the worst possible time and place for the body of a senior British officer to be found in a rubbish bin, bathed in blood. His murder has been made to look like a political assassination by local extremists opposed to British rule,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: It is New Year’s Eve when the storm of the century hits northern California. For Quinn Thompson, what happens in the storm’s wake will bring down a barrier he has built around himself since his wife’s death. For neighbor Maggie Dartman, it will spark friendship at a time when she needs it most. And for Jack Adams, a carpenter who will repair Quinn’s and Maggie’s homes, the storm brings an…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into terror. But within hours the cops have it solved. A slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man claims: You got the wrong guy. After that, all he’ll say is: Get Reacher for me. Jack Reacher lives off the grid. Lone righter of wrongs, irresistible to women. What could connect the ex-military cop to this obvious psychopath? Those who…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: Pat Conroy’s inspired masterpiece relates the dark and violent chronicle of an astounding family: the Wingos of Colleton, South Carolina. No reader will forget them. And no reader can remain untouched by their story. All Wingos share one heritage … shrimp fishing, poverty and the searing memory of a single terrifying event – the source of Tom Wingo’s self-hatred and of his sister Savannah’s…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: ‘The newspapers referred to it as the case of the seventy-seven clocks. There was quite a fuss at the time. We got into terrible trouble. Dear fellow, it was one of our most truly peculiar cases. I remember as if it was yesterday’. In fact, Arthur Bryant remembers very little about yesterday, but he does remember the oddest investigation of his career… It was late in 1973. As strikes and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Control was the word Dr Toby Harper lived by. She strove to keep her life in order, her ER in order. But no one could have been prepared for the man she admits one quiet night to the Springer Hospital. Delirious and in critical condition from a possible viral infection of the brain, he barely responds to treatment. And then he disappears without trace. The subsequent search leads Toby to a second…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Kenzie and Gennaro have been hired to find four-year-old Amanda McCready, abducted from her home without leaving a trace. Despite extensive news coverage and dogged investigation, the police inquiry has so far uncovered nothing. The case is rife with oddities: Amanda’s strangely indifferent mother and her dangerous, drug-addled friends; her loving aunt and uncle; and two cops who have found so…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: In the great floating city of Sanctaphrax, blizzards howl through the streets as the Edgeworld descends into an endless winter. Quint, the son of a sky pirate, has just begun his training at the Knights Academy — training that involves heading out over the Edge on tethers to develop his flying skills. But when Quint breaks the rules and head out to Open Sky on his own, he runs into the great sky…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Saturday night is a nightmare when youre single. Saturday night is for couples and everyone knows it. Victoria Total Bloody Relationships Disaster Shepworth is single and knows all about Saturday nights alone. A broken relationship with the guy she thought was the one has led to a string of disastrous dates. Now shes fed-up with being on her own and is once again in search of the man of her…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident — an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander — until he becomes a suspect. With «Case Histories», Kate Atkinson showed how brilliantly she could explore the crime genre and make it her own. In «One…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Pern AL 50: the geneticist Wind Blossom is nearing the end of her long life and is painfully aware that the colonists are running out of the modern technology the settlers brought with them to Pern and that they are forgetting how to use what they do have. Society is beginning to revert to a feudal system.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: A year after arriving in France, Englishman Paul West is still struggling with some fundamental questions: What is the best way to scare a gendarme? Why are there no health warnings on French nudist beaches? And is it really polite to sleep with your boss' mistress? Paul opens his English tea room, and mutates (temporarily) into a Parisian waiter; samples the pleasures of typically French…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 432 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 282) Аннотация: A book of short stories from the author of CHOCOLAT Take your partners, please. Suburban witches, defiant old ladies, ageing monsters, suicidal Lottery winners, wolf men, dolphin women and middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear. In these twenty-two short stories from the author of HOLY FOOLS and FIVE QUARTERS OF THE ORANGE, the miraculous goes hand-in-hand with the mundane, the sour with…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: A Discworld Howdunnit Who's murdering harmless old men? Who's poisoning the Patrician? As autumn fogs hold Ankh-Morpork in their grip, the City Watch have to track down a murderer who can't be seen. Maybe the golems know something — but the solemn men of clay, who work all day and night and are never any trouble to anyone, have started to commit suicide... It's not as if the Watch hasn't got…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: When Titanic set sail in 1912, she was the largest, most luxurious and most technologically advanced man-made moving object in the world. Built by the great industrial communities that made Britain the pre-eminent superpower of the age, the famous ocean liner signalled the high-water mark of our nation's manufacturing industry. A must-read for any Titanic enthusiast, this fascinating book tells…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: »Mesmerizing...an exquisite rendering of what one might call feels at the subatomic level.» -The New York Times A prime number is a lonely thing. It can only be divided by itself or by one, and it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia are both «primes»-misfits haunted by early tragedies. When the
Скачать книгу (размер 1 620 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 319) Аннотация: Meet Rebecca Bloomwood. She has a great flat, a fabulous wardrobe full of the season's must-haves, and a job telling other people how to manage their money. She spends her leisure time ...shopping. Retail therapy is the answer to all her problems. She knows she should stop, but she can't. She tries Cutting Back, she tries Making More Money. But neither seems to work. The letters from the bank are…