Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: A poignant new novel from this West Country bestselling author. Out of heartbreak comes a new life... Gussie, Ned and Jannie are not quite siblings, but they share a fiercely close and affectionate family bond. In their bohemian Cornish home, with a famous and distinguished artist as their father figure, they glory in their unusual upbringing and their unconventional, loving family life. Until…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: 2010 is the year that the relationship between politics and television will come of age. In the last election politicians clashed live on TV in the first ever televised Prime Ministerial debate — an unprecedented event in the history of political broadcasting. It follows a year in which media coverage of politics has become more immediate, more intense, and far more personal. The 2010 election…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Easter, as the last snows melt on the Swedish island of Oland, Per Morner is preparing for his children's visit. But his plans are soon disrupted when he receives a phone call from his estranged father, Jerry, begging him for help. In his blazing woodland studio, Per finds Jerry close to death. He's been stabbed and two dead bodies have been discovered alongside him in the burnt-out building. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 263 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 249) Аннотация: Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 467 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 289) Аннотация: What happens after death is now less of a philosophical question than a question of actual reality. On the disc, as here, they need Death. If Death doesn't come for you, then what are you supposed to do in the meantime? You can't have the undead wandering about like lost souls. There's no telling what might happen.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 977 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 389) Аннотация: In the beginning was the Word And the Word was: Hey, you! For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 722 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 339) Аннотация: The alchemists of the Discworld have discovered the magic of the silver screen. But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood hill? It's up to Victor Tugelbend (Can't sing. Can't dance. Can handle a sword a little.) and Theda Withel (I come from a little town you've probably never heard of) to find out. Moving Pictures, the ninth Discworld novel is a gloriously funny saga set against the background of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 467 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 289) Аннотация: It seemed an easy job. After all, how difficult could it be to make sure that a servant girl doesn't marry a prince? But for the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick, travelling to the distant city of Genua, things are never that simple. Servant girls have to marry the prince. That's what life is all about. You can't fight a Happy Ending At least — up until now.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher — and you have a badly set, freshly busted nose — it isn't easy to hitch a ride. At last, he's picked up by three strangers — two men and a woman. Within minutes it becomes clear they're all lying about everything — and there's a police roadblock ahead.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: 1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where has the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive (some said mad, others dangerous) scientist when she finds a curious gadget — a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Some people help the less fortunate. Others kill them. Evil has many guises. Jack Taylor has encountered most of them but nothing before has ever truly terrified him until a group called Headstone rears its ugly head. An elderly priest is viciously beaten until nearly dead. A special needs boy is brutally attacked. A series of seemingly random, insane, violent events even has the Guards shaken.…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 481 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 880) Аннотация: It began with Eragon... It ends with Inheritance. Not so very long ago, Eragon — Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider — was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now, the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders. The Rider and his dragon have come further than anyone dared to imagine. But can they topple the evil king, Galbatorix, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Mighty battles! Revolution! Death! War! (and his sons Terror and Panic, and daughter Clancy). The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise. What I did on My Holidays. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. Warlords are struggling for power. War (and Clancy) are spreading throughout the ancient…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: It's September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War, but in 1917 Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious objector and was shot as a traitor, an act which has brought shame and dishonour on the Bancroft family.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen, Anya von Bremzen grew up singing odes to Lenin, black-marketeering Juicy Fruit gum at school, and longing for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, drab, naively joyous, melancholy and, finally, intolerable. In 1974, when Anya was ten, she and her mother fled to the USA, with no winter…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: In this funny, moving memoir, Danielle Steel tells the story of how she met a dog the size of a mouse, with a personality that could light up an entire room. From Minnie's arrival at home in San Francisco to clothes shopping jaunts in Paris, her adventures provide the perfect backdrop for a heartfelt look at the magic that dogs bring to our lives, and how they become part of the family. We meet…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: From Randi Zuckerberg, social media and technology expert and former marketing executive at Facebook, comes a welcome, essential guide to understanding social media and technology, and how they influence and inform our lives online and off. Technology and social media have changed, enhanced, and complicated every facet of our lives — from how we interact with our friends to how we elect…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Jess Penhaligon is on her way to Devon to receive an award for her botanical painting. Hosting her will be Kate, who gladly welcomes her into her home. Jess' own family fell apart several years ago, so she is grateful for Kate's friendliness — and her close unit of extended family and friends, who embrace Jess just as warmly. As this group begins reminiscing on their pasts and sharing their…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The Kill List: a top secret catalogue of names held at the highest level of the US government. On it, those men and women who would threaten the world's security. And at the top of it, The Preacher, a radical Islamic cleric whose sermons inspire his followers to kill high profile Western targets in the name of God. As the bodies begin to pile up in America, Great Britain and across Europe, the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Imagine being happily married for 28 years. You have three children, a lovely house and a husband who travels a lot — but even after all this time, you still love each other. Or: imagine being happily married for 17 years. You have one daughter, a lovely home and though your husband travels a lot, you still love each other passionately. Then one day you get a call that turns your world upside…