Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: Command Authority sees the return of Tom Clancy's greatest hero, Jack Ryan. There's a new strong man in Russia, but his rise to power is based on a dark secret hidden decades in the past. The clue to the mystery lies with a most unexpected source: President Jack Ryan. Tom Clancy's Command Authority is a brand new full-throttle all-action adventure for 2013. It follows Threat Vector and Locked On…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Half Bad by Sally Green is a breathtaking debut novel about one boy's struggle for survival in a hidden society of witches. You can't read, can't write, but you heal fast, even for a witch. You get sick if you stay indoors after dark. You hate White Witches but love Annalise, who is one. You've been kept in a cage since you were fourteen. All you've got to do is escape and find Mercury, the Black…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard's Walk and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking) and War of the Worldviews (with Deepak Chopra) here examines how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world, and how, for instance, we often misperceive everything from our relationships with family, friends and business associates, the reasons for our investment…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 676 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 330) Аннотация: Don Tillman is a socially challenged genetics professor who's decided the time has come to find a wife. His questionnaire is intended to weed out anyone who's unsuitable. The trouble is, Don has rather high standards and doesn't really do flexible so, despite lots of takers, he's not having much success in identifying The One. When Rosie Jarman comes to his office, Don assumes it's to apply for…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 019 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 201) Аннотация: «Harvey Cheyne, the pampered fifteen-year-old son of an American millionaire, is sailing to Europe when he falls overboard. Saved from drowning by a New England fishing schooner, he finds his rough new companions unimpressed by his wealth and shocked by his ignorance. He will have to prove his worth in the only way the captain and crew will accept: through the slow and arduous mastery of skills…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a newspaper columnist in Colombia decides to give himself 'a night of mad love with a virgin adolescent'. But on seeing this beautiful girl he falls deeply under her spell. His love for his 'Delgadina' causes him to recall all the women he has paid to perform acts of love.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: This is Brendan Simms' formidable, game-changing history of Europe. In this marvelously ambitious and exciting book, Brendan Simms tells the story of Europe's constantly shifting geopolitics and the peculiar circumstances that have made it both so impossible to dominate, but also so dynamic and ferocious. It is the story of a group of highly competitive and mutually suspicious dynasties, but also…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: This is the extraordinary story of the Kremlin — from prize-winning author and historian Catherine Merridale. Both beautiful and profoundly menacing, the Kremlin has dominated Moscow for many centuries. Behind its great red walls and towers many of the most startling events in Russia's history have been acted out. It is both a real place and an imaginative idea; a shorthand for a certain kind of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Includes an Introduction by Anne Perry and a New Afterword by Regina Barreca. Indisputably the greatest fictional detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes lives on — in films, on television, and of course through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's inimitable craft. These twenty-two stories show Holmes at his brilliant best.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: The first young adult book by a #1 New York Times bestselling author! Whidbey Island may be only a ferry ride from Seattle, but it's a world apart. When Becca King arrives there, she doesn't suspect the island will become her home for the next four years. Put at risk by her ability to hear whispers — the thoughts of others — Becca is on the run from her stepfather, whose criminal activities she…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: «The inside story of the world's most powerful central bankers — and the most intense exercise in economic crisis management the world has ever seen. Suddenly, without warning, in August 2007, three men who had never been elected to public office found themselves the most powerful people in the world. They were the leaders of the world's three most important central banks: Ben Bernanke of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: A haunting debut novel set against the background of New York City in the 1920s... From the first page was absorbed... Suzanne Rindell's story of a 1920s police stenographer who becomes increasingly obsessed with a glamorous new typist reminds me at points of Notes on a Scandal and Patricia Highsmith, but has creepy charms all its own. Confessions are Rose Baker's job. A typist for the New York…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Bestselling author Marisa Silver takes Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother photograph as inspiration for a story of two women — one famous and one forgotten — and their remarkable chance encounter. In 1936, a young mother resting by the side of the road in central California is spontaneously photographed by a woman documenting migrant laborers in search of work. Few personal details are exchanged and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: The Last of the Mohicans, one of the world's great adventure stories, dramatizes how the birth of American culture was intertwined with that of Native Americans. In 1757, as the English and the French war over American territory, the frontier scout Hawkeye — Natty Bumppo — risks his life to escort two sisters through hostile Huron country. Hawkeye enlists the aid of his Mohican friends…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: When Alice follows the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole, she finds herself in an enchanted world, filled with creatures like the Mad Hatter, the disappearing Cheshire Cat, and the Queen of Hearts. Alice quickly finds out that nothing is as it seems in the wild world of Wonderland...
Скачать книгу (размер 1 549 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 305) Аннотация: «A Scheherazade for our time». (Daily Telegraph). What if everything we thought about power was wrong? What if, in the ancient story of the shepherd boy who topples a giant, David actually had the advantage? This thought sets Malcolm Gladwell on an extraordinary journey that takes him from art to basketball, the brain to revolutions, along the way weaving unforgettable stories of misfits,…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Tina Seskis's stunning debut novel, One Step Too Far, is a gripping and haunting psychological thriller. An apparently happy marriage. A beautiful son. A lovely home. So what makes Emily Coleman get up one morning and walk right out of her life? How will she survive? And what is the date that looms, threatening to force her to confront her past? No-one has ever guessed her secret. Will you?
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Extraordinary stories of transformation in a quest to uncover the fundamentals of cooking — from writer and cooking star Michael Pollan. Michael Pollan's Cooked takes us back to basics and first principles: cooking with fire, with water, with air and with earth. Meeting cooks from all over the world, who share their wisdom and stories, Pollan shows how cooking is at the heart of our culture and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «From the unique mind of Douglas Adams, legendary author of «The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy», comes «Shada», a story scripted for the television series «Doctor Who» but never produced — and now transformed into an original novel...» A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Imagine how dangerous a LOT of knowledge is... The Doctor's old friend and fellow Time Lord, Professor Chronotis, has…