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Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: As young boys, Orville and Wilbur Wright loved all things mechanical. As young men, they gained invaluable skills essential for their success by working with printing presses, bicycles, motors, and any sort of machinery they could get their hands on. As adults, the brothers worked together to invent, build, and fly the world's first successful airplane. This is the fascinating story of the two…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 671 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 329) Аннотация: The extraordinary new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from the grand master of adventure. In October 1943, a U.S. destroyer sailed out of Philadelphia and supposedly vanished, the result of a Navy experiment with electromagnetic radiation. The story was considered a hoax — but now Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon colleagues aren’t so sure. There is talk of a new weapon soon to be…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Mark Twain's great American masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Dead Men's Bones is the fourth novel in James Oswald's phenomenal Inspector McLean series set in Edinburgh and is already a Sunday Times Top Five best-seller. A family lies slaughtered in an isolated house in North East Fife... Morag Weatherly and her two young daughters have been shot by husband Andrew, an influential politician, before he turned the gun on himself. But what would cause a rich,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Robin, a postgrad student in Coventry, has spent four and a half years not writing his thesis. Now it languishes in a drawer, and Robin hides in his room, increasingly frightened by a world he doesn't understand. His friends have failed him and romance eludes him. His only outlet is his short stories, scribbled in notebooks and expressing his secret obsessions and frustrations. Then, when an…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Lesley Pearse, No.1 bestselling author of The Promise and Belle is back with Survivor, the story of Mariette, a born fighter. It is 1938 and headstrong eighteen-year-old Mari Carrera leaves a gossipy small town in rural New Zealand aboard the SS Rimutaka. Rather too careless with her reputation, Mari is bound for the bustling anonymity of London — but she is all too willing to be seduced by the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The groundbreaking follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Great Stagnation The United States continues to mint more millionaires and billionaires than any country ever. Yet, since the great recession, three quarters of the jobs created here pay only marginally more than minimum wage. Why is there growth only at the top and the bottom? Renowned economist and bestselling author Tyler Cowen…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The Complete Polysyllabic Spree is Nick Hornby's wickedly funny journey through reading. This is not a book of reviews. This not a book that sneers at other books. This is a book about reading — about enjoying books wherever and however you find them. Nick Hornby, author of the bestsellers About a Boy and Fever Pitch — takes us on a hilarious and perceptive tour through the books he bought, the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Cress is the third book in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles series, following Cinder and Scarlet. Incarcerated in a satellite, an expert hacker and out to save the world — Cress isn't your usual damsel in distress. Cress grew-up as a prisoner. With only net screens for company she's forced to do the bidding of the evil Queen Levana. Now that means tracking down Cinder and her handsome accomplice…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The Marquis de Custine's unique perspective on a vast, fascinating country in the grip of oppressive tyranny. In 1839, encouraged by his friend Balzac, Custine set out to explore Russia. His impressions turned into what is perhaps the greatest and most influential of all books about Russia under the Tsars. Rich in anecdotes as much about the court of Tsar Nicholas as the streets of St Petersburg,…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Truth be told, there's a lot I still don't know. My superior Nightingale, previously the last of England's wizardly governmental force, is trying to teach me proper schooling for a magician's apprentice. But even he doesn't have all the answers. Mostly I'm just a constable sworn to enforce the Queen’s Peace, with the occasional help from some unusual friends and a well-placed fire blast. With the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 748 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 344) Аннотация: A beautifully drawn study of what is at risk when you lose control of your own life. Unique, gripping, and viscerally moving — this impressive debut novel heralds the arrival of an extremely talented writer. Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of The Storyteller and Lone Wolf Destined to be a book club favorite, a heart-wrenching debut about two people who must decide how much they're…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The Victoria System is Eric Reinhardt's novel of sex, power, capitalism and deception. It is shortlisted for The Prix Renaudot, The Prix Goncourt and The Grand Prix Du Roman De L'Academie Francaise. David Kolski is in charge of the construction of a huge Paris tower block, and the pressure is crushing him. But then he meets Victoria — a high-powered and ruthless executive by day and insatiable…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In the newest novel in the USA Today bestselling series, Jessica Fletcher must diagnose a killer with a taste for bad medicine... Jessica's latest book tour brings her to Tampa, Florida, where she meets up with an old friend, Cabot Cove's Dr. Seth Hazlitt. Seth is in town visiting Alvaro Vasquez, a renowned physician who is developing a potentially groundbreaking cure for Alzheimer's disease. If…

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies of the Summer with a beautiful new cover. This new edition of Cicely Mary Barker's classic Flower Fairy title features a beautiful and catwalk-inspired cover. Intricate and reminiscent of lace, the new cover pays homage to the delicate beauty of Cicely's original illustrations. The book includes all the original classic poems and illustrations of the Flower…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: When young Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris in October 1900 he made his way up the hillside of Montmartre... The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills — artificial and real — and in the cafes and cabarets of Montmartre…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: This book is a record of what has moved me between Uxbridge and Dagenham. My hope is that it moves you, too. Nairn's London is an idiosyncratic, poetic and intensely subjective meditation on a city and its buildings. Including railway stations, synagogues, abandoned gasworks, dock cranes, suburban gardens, East End markets, Hawksmoor churches, a Gothic cinema and twenty-seven different pubs, it…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 971 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 976) Аннотация: It has become all too common for Napoleon Bonaparte's biographers to approach him as a figure to be reviled, bent on world domination, practically a proto-Hitler. Here, after years of study extending even to visits paid to St Helena and 53 of Napoleon's 56 battlefields, Andrew Roberts has created a true portrait of the mind, the life, and the military and above all political genius of a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Driving Honda by Jeffrey Rothfeder takes a revealing look inside the world-beating car maker. Honda Motors has quietly become one of the most successful multinational corporations in history. Since its founding in 1949 with the very first motorcycle, Honda — the world's fifth largest car manufacturer and Japan's second biggest — has abided by three unorthodox principles that value innovation over…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: After seven years of marriage the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. Brilliantly combining tragedy, comedy and savage irony, A Handful of Dust captures the irresponsible mood of the 'crazy and…