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North Anna: America Pacifica

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: America Pacifica is an island hundreds of miles off the coast of California — the only warm place left in a world in the grip of a new ice age. Darcy Pern is seventeen; her mother has gone missing, and the novel details her quest to find out the truth about her disappearance — a quest which soon becomes an investigation of the disturbing origins of America Pacifica itself, and its sinister and…

Hamilton Ian: The Deadly Touch of the Tigress

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Petite Chinese-Canadian accountant Ava Lee is not quite what she seems. Ava is a specialist at recovering stolen money — through any means necessary. With razor-sharp intelligence and unorthodox rules of engagement, Ava works for a Hong Kong-based 'Uncle'. She's also the person the impossibly wealthy turn to when their money goes missing. Employed to track down $5 million for a family friend,…

Candlish Louise: The Day You Saved My Life

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: A child falls into the river. A stranger jumps in to rescue him. And four lives are changed for ever... On a perfect summer's day in Paris, tourists on the river watch in shock as a small boy falls into the Seine and disappears below the surface. As his mother stands frozen, a stranger takes a breath and leaps... From the internationally bestselling author of Since I Don't Have You comes a…

McCaul Kathleen: Grave Secrets in Goa

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Ruby Jones just needed to relax and take a holiday. She made a bad decision when she headed for Goa... Famed for beaches and full moon parties, Goa is also home to one of the most famous Christian shrines in Asia — St. Francis Xavier, his body still miraculously intact after five hundred years. But when the head of the saint is stolen, Ruby discovers there's a lot more going missing in Goa than…

Jess-Cooke Carolyn: The Boy Who Could See Demons

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: I first met my demon the morning that Mum said Dad had gone. Alex Broccoli is ten years old, likes onions on toast, and can balance on the back legs of his chair for fourteen minutes. His best friend is a 9000-year-old demon called Ruen. When his depressive mother attempts suicide yet again, Alex meets child psychiatrist Anya. Still bearing the scars of her own daughter's battle with…

Valentine Niki: Possessed

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Who do you trust when you can no longer trust your own mind? A state school girl at a prestigious music school, Emma is determined to excel. Then the impossibly chic twins, confident Sophie and quieter Matilde, come crashing into her life. Surrounding her with champagne and parties, they demand Emma's full attention. Struggling to balance it all, the girls are plunged into insomnia and bitter…

Zara Devereux: Silken Bonds

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: You've finished Fifty Shades... Now treat yourself to Silken Bonds this Christmas. Christmas is never a good time to break up with someone but Tamzin has had enough of Tim; he isn't man enough for her. Bored and frustrated, Tamzin agrees to attend a Christmas party hosted by a colleague, unaware of how out of hand things will get. Tamzin discovers startling things about her desires — and she…

McNamara Ali: From Notting Hill to New York: Actually

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Scarlett O'Brien, utterly addicted to romantic films, has found her leading man. She's convinced Sean is Mr Right, but the day-to-day reality of a relationship isn't quite like the movies. With Sean constantly away on business, Scarlett and her new best friend Oscar decide to head to New York for the holiday of a lifetime. From one famous landmark to the next, Scarlett and Oscar make many new…

Ashton Juliet: The Valentine's Card

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Asta Looney (yes, she's heard all the jokes) is a prodigal daughter, returning to the small Irish town she ran fled as a teenager. Sent home by her boss to research a magazine story, Asta brings Kitty, the daughter she's raising single handedly, to meet her large and noisy family for the first time. Ireland has a few surprises up its sleeve for Asta. Her relatives want answers about why she…

Krentz Jayne Ann: Copper Beach

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Within the pages of very rare books, some centuries old, lie the secrets of the paranormal. Abby Radwell's unusual psychic talent has made her an expert in such volumes — and sometimes has taken her into dangerous territory. After a deadly incident in the private library of an obsessive collector, Abby receives a blackmail threat, and rumours swirl that an old alchemical text known as The Key has…

Colfer Chris: Struck by Lightning

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal follows the story of outcast high school senior Carson Phillips who blackmails the most popular students into contributing to his literary journal to bolster his college application; his goal in life is to get into Northwestern and eventually become the editor of The New Yorker. At once laugh-out-loud funny, deliciously dark, and remarkably smart,…

Brodrick William: The Day of the Lie

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: They came for me in November nineteen fifty-one and took me to Mokotow prison. Cambridge, the present day. And out of the past, a cry for help: Father Anselm, the brilliant Benedictine, receives a visit from an old friend with a dangerous story to tell — the story of a woman betrayed by time, fate, and someone close to her... someone still unknown. As a young woman, Roza Mojeska was part of an…

Betts Charlotte: The Painter's Apprentice

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: 1688. Beth Ambrose has lead a sheltered life within the walls of Merryfields, her family home on the outskirts of London; a place where her parents provide a sanctuary for melancholic souls. A passionate and gifted artist, Beth shares a close bond with Johannes the painter, a troubled resident at Merryfields, who nurtures her talents and takes her on as his apprentice. But as political tensions…

Godden Rumer: Breakfast with the Nikolides

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to escape her mother's suffocating influence. Her days are spent exploring the canals and gardens of East Bengal, and admiringly observing her glamorous, dignified neighbours, the Nikolides. But just as the cracks in Emily's family home are papered over, so do the Pools strive to maintain an outward impression of respectability,…

Bainbridge Beryl: Sweet William

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: People came in and out, chairs were moved, dishes gathered up on trays, but it was happening at a great distance; she concentrated entirely on his pink face crowned with foppish curls. Genteel, passive Ann works for the BBC in London and is engaged to a successful academic, fulfilling her snobbish mother's ambitions — more or less — while the Swinging Sixties happen elsewhere, to other people.…

Rothschild Hannah: The Baroness

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The fascinating, intimately told story of the wild and romantic life of Pannonica Rothschild, the author's great aunt, which moves from London to Africa during World War II and finally to the postwar jazz world of New York City.

Cornwell Patricia: The Bone Bed

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why. But as events unfold with alarming speed, Scarpetta begins to suspect the paleontologist's disappearance is connected to a series of crimes much…

Du Maurier Daphne: The Rendezvous and Other Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The stories in this collection, some written before du Maurier published her first novel, reflect many human emotions: romance, disenchantment, fantasy, nostalgia, ambition, irony, the longing for adventure. Each of them is based on something observed, something overheard, and all will provide pleasure for every mood.

Galbraith Robert: The Cuckoo's Calling

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case. A war veteran, wounded both physically and psychologically, Strike's life is in disarray. The case gives him a financial lifeline, but it comes at a personal cost:…

Denny Joanna: Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Adulteress? Sorceress? Immoral Temptress? No English Queen has been so persistently vilified as Anne Boleyn. Even after her execution in May 1536 — on trumped-up charges of adultery — the portrait that has come down to us is the one drawn by her enemies. Joanna Denny's compelling new biography of Anne presents a radically different picture of her — a highly literate, accomplished and intellectual…