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Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Twenty-something Londoner Natalie Bowen is envied by many, but her personal life is a disaster. Men can't cope with her career success and Natalie thinks she'll never find real happiness. Then she hears about an exclusive weekend retreat called The Haven, a place that specialises in introducing you to pleasures you could never have imagined. Shocked at the idea, but unable to resist finding out…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: SPELLBOUND. A fast-paced story of spells and consequences — a bewitchingly beautiful lady casts a thousand-year love spell on the man of her dreams — and unleashes a nightmare that only true love can conquer. EVER AFTER. Wearing an ancient star pendant, an enchanting woman journeys to an otherworldly land — and introduces a skeptical stranger to the magical powers of love...

Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: From her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time at Harvard, where she studied the Victorian ancestors of the form, and later as a writer and reviewer, Margaret Atwood has always been fascinated with science fiction. Here she brings together three Ellmann lectures: 'Flying Rabbits' begins with her early rabbit superhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Two very different women... Linked by destiny and a power struggle for the English crown. Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I, is determined to win back her crown from Stephen, the usurper king, against all odds and despite all men. Adeliza, Henry's widowed queen and Matilda's stepmother, has always been on Matilda's side but now she is married to William D'Albini, a warrior of the opposition.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Madeleine Masterson is deathly afraid of bugs, especially spiders. Theodore Bartholomew is petrified of dying. Lulu Punchalower is scared of confined spaces. Garrison Feldman is terrified of deep water. Which is why this may be the scariest summer of their lives. Worse than detention or summer school. Worse even than the dentist. The foursome must face their phobias head-on at the exclusive and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The year is 1939. Raybould Marsh and other members of British Intelligence have gathered to watch a damaged reel of film in a darkened room. It appears to show German troops walking through walls, bursting into flames and hurling tanks into the air from afar. If the British are to believe their eyes, a twisted Nazi scientist has been endowing German troops with unnatural, unstoppable powers. And…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Revenge, courage and murky pasts collide in these two exclusive J. D. Robb short stories Midnight in Death Eve's name has made a Christmas list, but it's not for being naughty or nice. It's for putting a serial killer behind bars. Now he's escaped and has her in his sights. With her husband, Roarke, at her side, Eve must stop this madman from exacting his bloody revenge — or die trying...…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Life is so unfair, and it sends many things to try Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, author of Portuguese Irregular Verbs and pillar of the Institute of Romance Philology in the proud Bavarian city of Regensburg. There is the undeserved rise of his rival (and owner of a one-legged dachshund), Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer; the interminable ramblings of the librarian, Herr Huber; and the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: On a sunny day in the countryside, Jenny finds just what she had been searching for: a beautiful vintage china tea set. With a delicate forget-me-not pattern, gold edging and in mint condition, it's an absolute bargain. A young bride on a budget, Jenny will be giving an afternoon tea to all her wedding guests. Trawling car boot sales has finally come up trumps but she quickly realises she's not…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no party girl, but she's managing to have a reasonably good time at the celebrity-packed bash celebrating The Icove Agenda, a film based on one of her famous cases. It's a little spooky seeing the actress playing her, who looks almost like her long-lost twin. Not as unsettling, though, as seeing the actress who plays Peabody-drowned in the lap pool on the roof of the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Is there really such a thing as a good luck charm? Ex-soldier Logan Thibault thinks he just might have found one. Haunted by memories of the friends he lost in Iraq, Logan knows how fortunate he is to be home. He believes that a photograph he carried with him, a picture of a smiling woman he's never met, kept him safe. Even though he knows nothing about this woman, he hopes she might hold the key…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: 'Don't look back. It wants you to look back.' London's soul has gone missing. Lost? Kidnapped? Murdered? Nobody knows — but when Sharon Li unexpectedly discovers she's a shaman, she is immediately called upon to use her newfound powers of oneness with the City to rescue it from a slow but inevitable demise. The problem is, while everyone expects Sharon to have all the answers — from the Midnight…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The historic hotel in BoonsBoro has endured war and peace, changing hands, even rumored hauntings. Now it's getting a major facelift from the Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother. As the architect of the family, Beckett's social life consists mostly of talking shop over pizza and beer. But there's another project he's got his eye on: the girl he's been waiting to kiss since he was…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: The 20 projects included here are easy to make and readily customised with personal details and keepsakes, they range from the everyday and accessible to the slightly more elaborate for the committed steampunker.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 244) Аннотация: Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Englishness is an ancient and powerful concept, but no one seems sure exactly what it means in the twenty-first century. In exploring our national identity, Tony Thorne has compiled a fascinating compendium of the hundred words and phrases that have become the cornerstones of modern English, and have been used — sometimes deliberately, but often inadvertently — to stake out our common ground, to…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: 1920. The Great War has been over for two years, and it has left a very different world from the Edwardian certainties of 1914. Following the death of his wife and baby and his experiences on the Western Front, Laurence Bartram has become something of a recluse. Yet death and the aftermath of the conflict continue to cast a pall over peacetime England, and when a young woman he once knew…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 196 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 628) Аннотация: It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right she will need the help of the Culture. It begins in the realm…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe has a perfectly ordered life? Solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and the painting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient. Desperate to understand the secret that torments this genius, Marlowe embarks on a journey that leads him into the…