Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: In the picturesque mountains of Squaw Valley, Colorado, a girl's dreams are about to be shattered. At just seventeen, Lily Thomas is already a ski champion training for the Olympics, her heart set on winning the gold. But in one moment, Lily's future is changed forever — her hopes for Olympic triumph swept away in a tragic accident. Her father, Bill, refuses to accept Lily's fate, while her…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 937 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 381) Аннотация: Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love — all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story. Welcome to Christine's life.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 355 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 463) Аннотация: This is the winner of the 2013 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. Though Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail, its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, was never content with being just a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become 'the everything store', offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To achieve that…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 569 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 505) Аннотация: Nero's turbulent reign draws to a close and Gaius Valerius Varens returns in his fourth brutal and bloody adventure. He's been Rome's hero, its defender and its avenger, and now he is the Empire's sword. The story I now commence is rich in vicissitudes, grim with warfare, torn by civil strife, a tale of horror even during times of peace. Tacitus, The Histories AD 68. The Emperor Nero's erratic…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Ex-Detective Lacey Flint has quit the police for a safer, quieter life. Or that's what she thinks. Living alone on a houseboat, she is trying and failing to get over the love of her life, undercover Detective Mark Joesbury. But Mark is missing in action and impossible to forget. And danger won't leave Lacey alone... When she finds a body floating in the river, wrapped in white burial cloths, she…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Four strong women. All working in a family business. But what happens when they begin to want different things? And what about the men — and the children — in their lives? Susie Moran has always been the breadwinner in her family. Her husband was the one who was there for their three girls. But now he wants something of his past back — the life he had before Susie's career took off, before they…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Authorised by Mr Lipwig of the Ankh-Morpork and Sto Plains Hygienic Railway himself, Mrs Georgina Bradshaw's invaluable guide to the destinations and diversions of the railway deserves a place in the luggage of any traveller, or indeed armchair traveller, upon the Disc. Mrs Bradshaw has travelled the length of the great permanent way to Quirm, Sto Lat and even as far as Ohulan Cutash,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: An unwinnable war: Cocaine is worth billions of dollars a year to the drug cartels who spread their evil seed across Western society. It causes misery, poverty and death. And slowly its power is spreading...A man on a mission ex-CIA special ops, Paul Devereux, intellectual, dedicated and utterly ruthless, is given what seems like an impossible task: Stop the drug barons, whatever it costs. At his…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Five past midnight, three years after the End of the World, and, as usual, there was nothing to be seen or heard in the catacombs — except, of course, for the rats and (if you believed in them) the ghosts of the dead. Runelight is set in a world coming back to life, but it is also a world in conflict. For Maddy, born with the mark of magic on her hand, the return of the old gods and the overthrow…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Where five senses meet, a sixth is born... In a quiet, residential neighbourhood of Portland, Oregon, an unknown young woman uncovers a shocking crime scene by inexplicably sensing the evil within its walls. To the police, she herself is a mystery. She appears on no government records, has no past and can't even tell the police her own name. Christened Jane Doe and suffering terrifying…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: A Violent Death: When a hand is found in an alley in Boston's Chinatown, it is detective Jane Rizzoli who finds its owner — a woman whose throat has been slashed so deeply that her head is nearly severed. A Revealing Clue: Two strands of silver hair cling to her body. They are Rizzoli's only clues, but they're enough for her and pathologist Maura Isles to make a startling discovery. This violent…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: Set among the apple orchards of rural Maine, it is a peverse world in which Homer Wells' odyssey begins. As the oldest unadopted offspring at St Cloud's orphanage, he learns about the skills which, one way or another, help young and not-so-young women, from Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder — a man of rare compassion and an addiction to ether.Dr Larch loves all his orphans, especically Homer…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: It isn't often you receive a letter from the dead. When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she has no choice but to follow the wind that blows her back to Lansquenet, the village in south-west France where, eight years ago, she opened up a chocolate shop. But Vianne is completely unprepared for what she finds there. Women veiled in black, the scent of spices and peppermint…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Tallie Jones is a Hollywood legend. An ambitious and passionate film director, her award-winning productions achieve the rare combination of critical and commercial success. But she has little interest in the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles, instead focusing intently on her work and family. She has close, loving relationships with her daughter, her elderly father and Hunter Lloyd — her…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: At a tender age, Pak Jun Do, is plucked from his orphanage of Long Tomorrows to be trained as a tunnel assassin, kidnapper and spy. Subjected to the random rules and arbitrary violence of his Korean overlords, Jun Do's life is filled with absurd eventualities — wrestling with sharks, engaging with torturers, and finally, becoming the imposter of the Beloved Leader himself, Kim Jong Il. How far…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking. To save someone else's life. The odyssey of a simple man, original, subtle and touching. (Claire…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Bill is a dedicated young lawyer working in New York. He leaves everything he trained for to follow his dream to become a minister in rural Wyoming. Jenny, his fashion stylist wife, leaves the milieu and life she loves to join him. The certainty they share is that their destinies are linked forever. Fast forward thirty-eight years.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Whether we want to improve education or cut crime, to enhance public health or to generate clean energy, we need the experimental methods of science — the best tool humanity has yet developed for working out what works. Yet from the way we're governed to the news we're fed by the media we're let down by a lack of understanding and respect for its insights and evidence. In The Geek Manifesto Mark…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: CERN Institute, Switzerland: a world-renowned scientist is found brutally murdered with a mysterious symbol seared onto his chest. The Vatican, Rome: the College of Cardinals assembles to elect a new pope. Somewhere beneath them, an unstoppable bomb of terrifying power relentlessly counts down to oblivion. In a breathtaking race against time, Harvard professor Robert Langdon must decipher a…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to…