Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: A man-made plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives, along with the green-eyed Crakers — a gentle species bio-engineered to replace humans. Toby, onetime member of the God's Gardeners and expert in mushrooms and bees, is still in love with street-smart Zeb, who has an interesting past. The Crakers' reluctant prophet, Snowman-the-Jimmy, is hallucinating; Amanda is in shock from a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: As summer blooms in Edinburgh's gardens and Bertie Pollock's birthday appears on the horizon, all at 44 Scotland Street is not cake and sunshine. Newlywed Angus Lordie has been booked by his bride into what he must not call the loony bin; Bruce's first encounter with hot wax brings more anguish than he bargained for; and Bertie's birthday dreams of scout camp and a penknife look set to be…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Louise Young is a devoted single mother whose only priority is providing for her daughter, Mia. Louise has a good job as a PA in a huge international corporation and she's grateful for it. The only problem is her boss who can't seem to keep his hands to himself, but Louise can handle him. What she really doesn't have time for is romance — until she meets the company's rising star, Josh Wallace.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: They were teenage sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks — with a passion that would change their lives for ever. But life would force them apart. Years later, the lines they had drawn between past and present are about to slip... Called back to their hometown for the funeral of the mentor who once gave them shelter when they needed it most, they are faced with each other once again, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Movie addict Scarlett O'Brien is finally living the jet-setting life she's dreamed of, but it all hangs by a shiny, golden thread. Flying between London and New York, running two businesses, and planning her wedding to handsome fiancé Sean along with her best friends Oscar and Maddie—life couldn't be better. Then Scarlett meets paparazzi darling Gabriella Romero, and life suddenly becomes…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The Drop follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski through a cover scheme of funelling cash to local gangsters -- 'money drops' -- in the underworld of Boston bars. Under the heavy hand of his employer and cousin Marv, Bob finds himself at the centre of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighbourhood's past where friends, families and foes all work…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 023 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 398) Аннотация: Iona Sheehan has always felt a powerful connection to Ireland. So when her beloved grandmother confesses an extraordinary family secret, she can't resist visiting County Mayo to discover the truth for herself. Arriving at the atmospheric Castle Ashford, Iona is excited to meet her enigmatic cousins, Connor and Branna O'Dwyer. And when she lands a job at the local riding school she is soon drawn…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: There's an epidemic sweeping the nation Symptoms include: *Acute embarrassment at the mere notion of 'making a fuss' *Extreme awkwardness when faced with any social greeting beyond a brisk handshake *An unhealthy preoccupation with meteorology Doctors have also reported several cases of unnecessary apologising, an obsessive interest in correct queuing etiquette and dramatic sighing in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Is school out forever at the School of Fear? A nosy reporter is planning a scandalous expose on eccentric Mrs. Wellington and her unorthodox teaching methods, and the news is sure to put an end to the school. Madeleine, Theo, Lulu, Garrison, and the new student Hyacinth must convince Sylvie that their teacher and the school are perfectly normal. But how can they accomplish this when Mrs.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: For decades, Britain's warlocks have been all that stands between the British Empire and the Soviet Union — a vast domain stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the shores of the English Channel. Now each wizard's death is another blow to Britain's national security. Meanwhile, a brother and sister — the subjects of a twisted Nazi experiment to imbue ordinary people with superhuman abilities —…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that takes over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer, the invading 'soul' who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too-vivid memories. But there was one difficulty…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Features 2 romantic tales from the phenomenal storyteller. «In Dreams» tells the story of a beautiful young woman who becomes the link to a stranger's past and «Winter Rose» sees a young queen risk her life to heal a badly wounded warrior prince.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five years in exile his presence is required at the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston, and even though the last time Stu saw the Murstons he was running for his life, staying away might be even more dangerous than turning up. An estuary town north of Aberdeen, Stonemouth, with it's five mile beach, can be beautiful on a sunny day. On a bleak one it can…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Stephanie Harker is travelling through security at O'Hare airport with five-year-old Jimmy. But in a moment, everything changes. In disbelief, Stephanie watches as a uniformed agent leads her boy away — and she's stuck the other side of the gates, hysterical with worry. The authorities, unaware of Jimmy's existence, just see a woman behaving erratically; Stephanie is wrestled to the ground and…
Скачать книгу (размер 978 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 193) Аннотация: Can you resist the depths of the human heart? It is 1958 and seventeen-year-old Landon is revelling in his youth: dating girls and even claiming to have been in love. He is a world apart from shy, reclusive Jamie Sullivan, a Baptist's daughter who carries a bible with her school books, cares for her widowed father and volunteers at the orphanage. But fate will intervene. Forced to partner up at…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: As dawn breaks over the Pont Neuf, and the pavements of the great city start to come to life, Claire Stanton is already awake and at work; already mixing and stirring the finest, smoothest, richest chocolate to be found anywhere; made entirely by hand and sold for a fortune in tiny amounts to the grandes dames of Paris. It is a huge shift from the chocolate factory she worked in back home in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 325 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 261) Аннотация: Mma Ramotswe, normally a sound and peaceful sleeper, finds her slumbers disturbed by a dream of a tall man beneath an acacia tree. But she is not quite ready to discover what this vision may portend. Soon even Mma Makutsi, now in the first flush of married bliss, has to admit that untoward things are occurring around the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, not least with the construction of her new…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status — and fluent French — will be of service to a greater, more dangerous cause. Trained in sabotage,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Nick Carraway, a young virgin from Minnesota, moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to find love. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, a wealthy but unfashionable area populated by the new rich — a group prone to garish, extravagant parties full of wild, erotic activities. And Nick's next-door neighbour is the worst of them all: a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby who throws…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Kit doesn't know who his mother is. What he does know, however, is that his father, Guy, is dying of cancer. Feeling his death is imminent, Guy gathers around him his oldest friends — or at least the friends with the most to lose by his death. Paul — the rising star in the Labour party who dreads the day a tape they all made at university might come to light; Alison and Robbie, corporate bunnies…