Скачать книгу (размер 1 947 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 383) Аннотация: At the age of twelve my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world. Henry Hill Wiseguy is Nicholas Pileggi's remarkable bestseller, the most intimate account ever printed of life inside the deadly high-stakes world of what some people call the Mafia. Wiseguy is Henry Hill's story,…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Like the sayings of the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu in the Tao Te Ching, Warren Buffett's worldly wisdom is deceptively simple and enormously powerful in application. In The Tao of Warren Buffett, Mary Buffett joins noted Buffetologist and international lecturer David Clark to bring you Warren Buffett's smartest, funniest and most memorable sayings, with an eye towards revealing the life…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: When Lou Winter picks up a dog-eared magazine in the dentist's waiting room and spots an article about clearing clutter, she little realises how it will change her life. What begins as an earnest spring clean soon spirals out of control. Before long Lou is hiring skips in which to dump the copious amounts of junk she never knew she had. Lou's loved ones grow disgruntled. Why is clearing out…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 156 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 228) Аннотация: Tras el suicidio de su mejor amigo, Manuel se ve acosado por la sombra de la enfermedad mental de aquel, por su mundo de violencia y por la tortuosa relacion sentimental con su novia, que fue inicialmente pareja de Gregorio, el amigo muerto; citas no cumplidas, extranos mensajes y la sombra de un policIa que aparece como vengador de una infidelidad que lo llevo a la locura. Escrita con la…
Скачать книгу (размер 957 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 189) Аннотация: Cuando Malinalli conoce a Hernan Cortes, asume que se trata del propio Dios Quetzalcoatl que regresa a liberar a su pueblo. Los dos se enamoran apasionadamente, pero este amor pronto es destruido por la desmedida sed de conquista, poder y riqueza de Cortes. A lo largo de la historia de Mexico Malinalli/Malinche ha sido conocida por su traicion al pueblo indio. Pero recientes investigaciones…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 726 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 928) Аннотация: The Prize recounts the panoramic history of oil — and the struggle for wealth and power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations. The Prize is as much a history of the twentieth century as of the oil industry itself. The canvas of history is enormous — from the drilling of the first…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 309 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 454) Аннотация: Puede un padre o una madre amar demasiado? O es que acaso tanto amor nunca es suficiente? Anna Fitzgerald no esta enferma, aunque pudiera parecerlo. Con apenas trece anos de edad ha soportado innumerables operaciones, inyecciones y transfusiones para que su hermana mayor Kate pueda de alguna manera sobrevivir a la leucemia que la aqueja desde su ninez. Anna, al ser geneticamente compatible con su…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 971 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 976) Аннотация: It began with two men. They came from very different worlds—entirely different universes, in fact—one using sorcery and the other using mental powers and steam-age technology. They met in a virgin forest on a duplicate planet Earth. Neither side knows who shot first, but each blames the other, and it doesn't really matter, now, because war has begun. War between the universes is the last thing…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: In a dazzling celebration of the power of friendship and love, acclaimed bestselling author Fern Michaels brings her trademark wit and warmth to an action-packed story featuring a group of diverse women who bond Survivor-style under the most unlikely of circumstances...and find romance along the way. When Samantha Rainford, newly wed to Douglas Cosmo Rainford III, returns home from her honeymoon…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 972 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 388) Аннотация: Temperance Brennan, like her creator Kathy Reichs, is a brilliant, sexy forensic anthropologist called on to solve the toughest cases. But for Tempe, the discovery of a young girl's skeleton in Acadia, Canada, is more than just another assignment. Evangeline, Tempe's childhood best friend, was also from Acadia. Named for the character in the Longfellow poem, Evangeline was the most exotic person…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 992 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 784) Аннотация: No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through... A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 915 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 769) Аннотация: No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through... A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Introducing a major literary talent, The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen. Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Now that news of Horus' treachery is in the open, a time of testing has come. Some Legions have already declared their allegiance to the Warmaster, while the loyalty of others lies firmly with the Emperor. As Horus deploys his forces, loyalist Astartes learn that a massive Wordbearers fleet is heading to Ultramar, home of the Ultramarines. Unless they can intercept and destroy it, the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 620 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 515) Аннотация: Daniel Clay, a once-respected psychiatrist, has gone missing. His daughter insists that he killed himself after allegations surfaced surrounding the harm done to patients in his care. Now a killer obsessed with finding the truth about his own daughter's disappearance is seeking revenge — and Charlie Parker finds himself trapped between those who want the truth about Clay to be revealed, and those…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Celebrate the many joys of life through the beautiful paintings and words of artist Thomas Kinkade. This inspirational kit contains 32 cards with Thomas Kinkade's art on one side and joyful quotes on the other from the artist himself and others, such as Mark Twain, Martha Washington, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. «A Little Box of Joy» by Thomas Kinkade also comes with a decorative easel to display…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 451 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 678) Аннотация: Mississippi, 1951: The last place any sane man wants to visit is Thebes State Penal Farm. Of the few who make the journey there, even fewer return. But when an old friend disappears inside Thebes, ex-Marine and Arkansas State Police Sgt. Earl Swagger takes a personal interest in the case. As he infiltrates the prison, what he experiences defies his wildest nightmares — a savage world where death…
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Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: The day before Christmas, snuggled on his floor, Bear sleeps soundly with a great big snore... Bear's friends are determined to keep Bear awake for Christmas So they wake Bear up and have him help them find a Christmas tree, bake cakes, hang up stockings, and sing Christmas songs. Bear stays up — by discovering that giving is one of the best Christmas presents How a SURPRISE visit from someone…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Once upon a time, a fellow named Richard Bachman wrote Blaze on an Olivetti typewriter, then turned the machine over to Stephen King, who used it to write Carrie. Bachman died in 1985 («cancer of the pseudonym»), but this last gripping Bachman novel resurfaced after being hidden away for decades — an unforgettable crime story tinged with sadness and suspense. Clayton Blaisdell, Jr., was always a…