Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Curtis Sittenfeld's sparkling debut is set in an American boarding school, a hotbed of privilege, ambition and neurosis, every bit as snobbish and competitive as anything dreamed up on this side of the Atlantic. Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts; she leaves behind her affectionate family in South…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 156 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 424) Аннотация: After the irresponsible, ignorant bliss of financial boom, stockbroker Jimmy and his family are forced to confront financial meltdown in this hilarious and deeply pertinent domestic drama.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 661 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 523) Аннотация: Stephen Swan is amazed when he hears that the uncle he thought had been killed in the Blitz is actually alive. For nearly four decades, Eldritch Swan has been locked away in an Irish prison and now, at last, has been released. Shocked and suspicious, Stephen listens to the old man’s story and is caught up in a tale that begins at the dawn of World War II, when Eldritch worked for an Antwerp…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 947 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 383) Аннотация: Joanna Trollope's most heartfelt and enthralling novel in years, Second Honeymoon explores what happens when the empty nest is suddenly full again. Ben Boyd is leaving home. At twenty-two, he's the youngest of the family and the last to leave. His mother Edie, an actress, is distraught. His father Russell, a theatrical agent, is hoping to get his wife back after decades of family life. Ben's…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Dennis Milne is a man with a past, and a past that involves murder. A former cop, he's earned his living killing the bad guys — drug-dealers, corrupt business men — people who, in his opinion, deserve to die. For the past two days, he's been in Manila, waiting for his next target: a young woman who's made herself some poor life-choices, and some even worse enemies. DI Tina Boyd is a woman on a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Chrissie always believed that Richie loved her, had loved her for all the twenty-three years they'd been together, loved their three daughters and their house in Highgate and their happy, lively existence. But if she really was the love of his life, why had he never given her the one thing that would have made her life perfect? The ring she wore was not a wedding ring, and it did not bring her…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come, Wyoming. Twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. Meals remain untouched on dining room tables. Cars are still parked in garages. The human occupants have vanished, seemingly into thin air. This is the unsettling place where Maura Isles finds herself trapped during a snowstorm. She has joined a group of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? These are just some of the questions considered in an internationally acclaimed masterpiece by one of the world's greatest thinkers. It begins by reviewing the great theories of the cosmos from Newton to Einstein, before delving into the secrets which still lie at the heart of space and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Shipcott in bleak mid-winter: a close knit community where no stranger goes unnoticed. So when an elderly woman is murdered in her bed, village policeman Jonas Holly is doubly shocked. How could someone have killed and left no trace? Jonas finds himself sidelined as the investigation is snatched away from him by an abrasive senior detective. Is his first murder investigation over before it's…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Has Jack Reacher finally met his match? 61 Hours ended with Reacher trapped in a desperate situation from which escape seemed impossible. Even for him. Was that really the end of the road for the maverick loner?
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: A gripping psychological thriller played out in cyberspace, from the bestselling author of Chocolat and The Lollipop Shoes. Once there was a widow with three sons, and their names were Black, Brown and Blue. Black was the eldest; moody and aggressive. Brown was the middle child, timid and dull. But Blue was his mother's favourite. And he was a murderer. Blueyedboy is the brilliant new novel from…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Sex in the City or Sex in the Country? Saffron loves the London party and fashion scenes. So she's extra nervous about abandoning it all for six months in the country to Write Her Novel. Of course, she'll miss gorgeous boyfriend Tom but at least his supermodel twin brother will be there to keep her company. So when does keeping her company cross the line? Harriet has swapped her country life for…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he's back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck... Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive, because he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his younger self how to be a good copper and change the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Featuring Jack Reacher, hero of the new blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise, in an explosive follow-up to the cliffhanger ending of 61 Hours. Has Jack Reacher finally met his match? 61 Hours ended with Reacher trapped in a desperate situation from which escape seemed impossible. Even for him.Was that really the end of the road for the maverick loner? Worth Dying For is the kind of explosive…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: After filming a group of footballers' wives in a bust-up on a plane using only her camera phone, Eva Valentine is offered the chance of a lifetime — a job as an undercover TV reporter. But, as always, there's a downside — the fabulous offer means uprooting little daughter Daisy and moving to London.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Despite her fascination with Jack the Ripper, DC Lacey Flint has never worked a big case or seen a dead body up close. Until now... As she leaves a south London estate one night, she is horrified to find a woman has been viciously stabbed, right next to Lacey's car. Thrown headlong into her first murder hunt, Lacey's quiet life changes overnight. Then Lacey receives a familiar hand-delivered…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 549 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 501) Аннотация: Mary Soames is the only surviving child of Winston and Clementine Churchill. Younger than her siblings by several years, she went to day school and enjoyed an idyllic childhood played out in her very own Garden of Eden — Chartwell. This title tells her story.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Moist von Lipwig was a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It was a tough decision. But he's got to see that the mail gets though, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) 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 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Jack Reacher is alone, the way he likes it. He watches a man cross a New York street and drive away in a Mercedes. The car contains $1 million of ransom money. Reacher's job is to make sure it all turns out right — money paid, family safely returned. But Reacher is in the middle of a nasty little war where nothing is simple. What started on a busy New York street explodes three thousand miles…