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Jealousy: A Strange Angels Novel	Quercus/MacLehose Press
Автор: Lili St. Crow Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press, 2010	DjVu, 304 страницы, 12.16 МБ 0 Оценка:
Dru has made it to Schola, the leading school where the vampire-fighting Order is based. There she is up against the capricious Anna, the only other female who shares her powers. Dru must unlock the mystery of who betrayed her mother, battle her intensifying feelings for both Graves and Christophe, and try to stay hidden from Sergej's deadly nosferat — bloodthirsty hunters who'll stop at nothing to destroy her.
1102 stalker1965 7 декабря 2012	Скачать книгу

The Tenderness of Wolves	Quercus/MacLehose Press
Автор: Stef Penney Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press, 2008	PDF, 496 страниц, 14.88 МБ 0 Оценка:
It is 1867, Canada: as winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a man is brutally murdered and a 17-year old boy disappears. Tracks leaving the dead man's cabin head north towards the forest and the tundra beyond. In the wake of such violence, people are drawn to the township — journalists, Hudson's Bay Company men, trappers, traders — but do they want to solve the crime or exploit it? One-by-one the assembled searchers set out from Dove River, pursuing the tracks across a desolate landscape home only to wild animals, madmen and fugitives, variously seeking a murderer, a son, two sisters missing for 17 years, a Native American culture, and a fortune in stolen furs before the snows settle and cover the tracks of the past for good. In an astonishingly assured debut, Stef Penney deftly weaves adventure, suspense, revelation and humour into a panoramic historical romance, an exhilarating thriller, a keen murder mystery and ultimately, with the sheer scope and quality of her storytelling, one of the books of the year.
1797 neptun 15 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

To Dream of the Dead	Quercus/MacLehose Press
Автор: Phil Rickman Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press, 2009	DOC, 528 страниц, 1.00 МБ 7 Оценка:
December, and the river is rising. The village of Ledwardine has never been flooded in living memory. Within days it will be an island. There's no electricity. The church is serving as a temporary mortuary for two people who drowned. Only one man feels safer. An aggressively-atheist author has been moved, for his own safety, Rushdie-style, into a secluded house just outside the village. Fundamentalist Christians have hated him for years. Now he's offended the Muslims. Bad move.Meanwhile, archaeologists, assisted by Merrily's teenage daughter, Jane, are at work in Coleman's Meadow, unearthing an ancient row of standing stones which some people would rather stay buried. The atheist's temporary home is close to the site. And his young wife is becoming conspicuously agitated. Is it the fear of discovery — or the kind of fear that she, of all people, could never disclose? One thing is clear: the last person who's going to be welcome in that house is an exorcist. With the flood water washing up Church Lane towards the vicarage and the shop running out of cigarettes it looks like a cold and complex Christmas for Merrily Watkins in an ancient community forced to untangle its own history against the swirling uncertainty of the future.
1914 carabin 11 октрября 2012	Скачать книгу

Vintage Caper	Quercus/MacLehose Press
Автор: Peter Mayle Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press, 2010	PDF, 240 страниц, 7.20 МБ 8 Оценка:
A diverting and witty crime novel by the renowned author of A YEAR IN PROVENCE.
870 admin 23 февраля 2012	Скачать книгу

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest	Quercus/MacLehose Press
Автор: Stieg Larsson Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press, 2010	PDF, 746 страниц, 22.38 МБ 0 Оценка:
Salander is plotting her revenge — against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in Intensive Care, and is set to face trial for three murders and one attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must not only prove her innocence, but identify and denounce the corrupt politicians that have allowed the vulnerable to become victims of abuse and violence. Once a victim herself, Salander is now ready to fight back.
2705 relaxy 7 октрября 2013	Скачать книгу

The Girl Who Played with Fire	Quercus/MacLehose Press
Автор: Stieg Larsson Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press, 2009	PDF, 608 страниц, 18.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
The second installment in the Millennium Trilogy sees Lisbeth Salander wanted for murder while Blomkvist tries desperately to clear her name. Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about sex trafficking in Sweden are murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society — but no-one can find her. Mikael Blomkvist, editor-in-chief of Millennium, does not believe the police. Using all his magazine staff and resources to prove Salander's innocence, Blomkvist also uncovers her terrible past, spent in criminally corrupt institutions.
2204 cool10den 7 декабря 2011	Скачать книгу

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Quercus/MacLehose Press
Автор: Stieg Larsson Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press, 2008	PDF, 554 страницы, 16.62 МБ 0 Оценка:
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle, Henrik, is convinced that she was murdered by someone in her own family — the deeply dysfunctional Vanger clan. Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomqvist is hired to investigate, but when he links Harriet's disappearance to a string of gruesome murders from forty years ago, he needs a competent assistant — and he gets one: computer hacker Lisbeth Salander — a tattoed, truculent, angry girl who rides a motorbike like a Hell's Angel and handles makeshift weapons with the skill born of remorseless rage. This unlikely pair form a fragile bond as they delve into the sinister past of this island-bound, tightly-knit family. But the Vangers are a secretive lot, and Mikael and Lisbeth are about to find out just how far they're prepared to go to protect themselves — and each other.
2007 aleksey22376 04 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

Lullabies for Little Criminals	Quercus/MacLehose Press
Автор: Heather O'Neill Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press, 2008	PDF, 432 страницы, 12.96 МБ 5 Оценка:
Baby is twelve years old. Her mother died not long after she was born and she lives in a string of seedy flats in Montreal's red light district with her father Jules, who takes better care of his heroin addiction than he does of his daughter. Jules is an intermittent presence and a constant source of chaos in Baby's life — the turmoil he brings with him and the wreckage he leaves in his wake. Baby finds herself constantly re-adjusting to new situations, new foster homes, new places, new people, all the while longing for stability and a 'normal' life. But Baby has a gift — the ability to find the good in people, a genius for spinning stories and for cherishing the small crumbs of happiness that fall into her lap. She is bright, smart, funny and observant about life on the dirty streets of a city and wise enough to realise salvation rests in her own hands.
1565 olen33 20 сентября 2013	Скачать книгу

Raised by Wolves	Quercus/MacLehose Press
Автор: Jennifer Lynn Barnes Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press, 2010	DjVu, 304 страницы, 12.16 МБ 0 Оценка:
Pack life is about order, but Bryn is about to push all the limits, with hair-raising results. At the age of four, Bryn watched a rabid werewolf brutally murder her parents. Alone in the world, she was rescued and taken in by Callum, the alpha of his pack. Now fifteen, Bryn's been living as a human among the werewolves, adhering to pack rule. Little fazes her. But the pack's been keeping a secret, and when Bryn goes exploring against Callum's orders she finds Chase, a newly turned teen Were locked in a cage.
1102 stalker1965 7 декабря 2012	Скачать книгу

Frightfully Friendly Ghosties	Quercus/MacLehose Press
Автор: Daren King Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press, 2010	PDF, 128 страниц, 3.84 МБ 7 Оценка:
Tabitha Tumbly, Charlie Vapour, Rusty Chains and friends can't understand why the still-alives in their house are so mean. When Pamela Fraidy gets locked in the attic by a still-alive, the ghosties are determined to make the still-alives like them. But the more friendly they are — hiding under beds and rushing out to read them a bed-time story, rushing down the chimney to say hello, the meaner the still-alives become; they even go so far as to run out of rooms shrieking! When the family start putting nasty garlic around the house and then call in a priest, the ghostie gloves are off: Tabitha and Charlie decide to call in The Ghoul to sort out the still-alives once and for all: But could the terrifying ghoul prove much more than even the ghosties bargained for? The cast of classic characters, brilliant one-liners and a clever plot will delight children and their parents.
464 liego55 21 августа 2012	Скачать книгу

Frightfully Friendly Ghosties: Ghostly Holler-day	Quercus/MacLehose Press
Автор: Daren King Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press, 2010	PDF, 128 страниц, 3.84 МБ 7 Оценка:
It's winter and what better than a ghostly holler-day by the sea? But how are Tabitha Tumbly, Charlie Vapour, Humphrey Bump and the other ghosties to decide between Frighten-on-Sea and Scare-borough? A postcard from their friend Headless Leslie decides for them: Headless is in Frighten and cannot remember how to get home. He wrote the address on the postcard, then he forgot what the address was. 'I'd lose my head if it wasn't screwed on — which it isn't.' So the friends descend on Frighten and set off on an exciting ghostie caper, involving a haunted Frighten pier, a mysterious phantom magician, a fun fair and an extremely infuriating Headless Leslie.
464 liego55 21 августа 2012	Скачать книгу

Life According to Lubka	Quercus/MacLehose Press
Автор: Laurie Graham Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press, 2010	PDF, 320 страниц, 9.60 МБ 8 Оценка:
Pittsburgh was too small for Beryl Wexler. Barely out of high school, she changed her name to Buzz and set off for the bright lights of London. She never looked back. Now she's at the top of her game in the music PR business, looking after the coolest groups on the planet. And for a woman who was forty-two last birthday she certainly keeps up the pace. But her life is about to change. Some twenty-year-old has been given the new Japanese girl band predicted to go stellar, and Buzz is being sidelined. Instead, Buzz gets to tour with the Gorni Grannies, Bulgarian singers of a certain age. These ladies may not be the tantrum-throwing celebs Buzz is used to, but they present other challenges. How to stop Lubka straining yogurt through her knee highs? How to dissuade Kichka from stealing everything not nailed to the floor? Fuelled by copious shots of home-brewed plum rakia, Buzz and Lubka address life's ups and down, until the world tilts and a different future beckons.
1160 admin 19 марта 2013	Скачать книгу

A Serving of Scandal	Quercus/MacLehose Press
Автор: Prue Leith Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press, 2010	PDF, 320 страниц, 9.60 МБ 8 Оценка:
Kate McKinnon is thirty-six and mother to five-year-old Toby. She has a small but thriving business catering for private clients. Her life is on an even keel. That is, until she gets a job cooking lunch at the Foreign Office and has her first fateful meeting with Oliver Stapler, Secretary of State. He's powerful and charismatic, but also married and a father and totally out of bounds, yet she falls for him. When a journalist spots them together, he alerts the gutter press. Who cares whether Kate's affair with Oliver is true or not? It's a great story and will shift a ton of newspapers — and destroy several lives in the process.
1160 admin 19 марта 2013	Скачать книгу

Lennox	Quercus/MacLehose Press
Автор: Craig Russell Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press, 2010	PDF, 425 страниц, 12.75 МБ 0 Оценка:
Glasgow, 1953: the war may be over but the battle for the streets is just beginning. Three crime bosses control the murky streets, but a small-scale con is trying to invade their territory. The balance is shifting. Lennox, a hard man in a hard city at a hard time, finds himself caught in the middle — a dangerous place to be. One night, a body is discovered on the road, his head mashed to pulp, and Lennox is in the frame for murder. The only way of proving his innocence is to solve the crime — but he'll have to dodge men more deadly than Glasgow's crime bosses before he gets any answers. The first in a unique and memorable crime series, Lennox is gritty, fast-paced, mordantly funny and totally compelling.
1541 milena 13 февраля 2012	Скачать книгу

Let Me In	Quercus/MacLehose Press
Автор: John Ajvide Lindqvist Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press, 2010	PDF, 480 страниц, 14.40 МБ 8 Оценка:
Oskar and Eli. In very different ways, they were both victims. Which is why, against the odds, they became friends. And how they came to depend on one another, for life itself. Oskar is a 12 year old boy living with his mother on a dreary housing estate at the city's edge. He dreams about his absentee father, gets bullied at school, and wets himself when he's frightened. Eli is the young girl who moves in next door. She doesn't go to school and never leaves the flat by day. She is a 200 year old vampire, forever frozen in childhood, and condemned to live on a diet of fresh blood. John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel is a unique and brilliant fusion of social novel and vampire legend, a deeply moving fable about rejection, friendship and loyalty.
1740 admin 12 марта 2013	Скачать книгу

The Imperfectionists	Quercus/MacLehose Press
Автор: Tom Rachman Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press, 2011	PDF, 355 страниц, 10.65 МБ 0 Оценка:
The newspaper was founded in Rome in the 1950s, a product of passion and a multi-millionaire's fancy. Over fifty years, its eccentricities earned a place in readers' hearts around the globe. But now, circulation is down, the paper lacks a website, and the future looks bleak. Still, those involved in the publication seem to barely notice. The obituary writer is too busy avoiding work. The editor-in-chief is pondering sleeping with an old flame. The obsessive reader is intent on finishing every old edition, leaving her trapped in the past. And the publisher seems less interested in his struggling newspaper than in his magnificent basset hound, Schopenhauer. The Imperfectionists interweaves the stories of eleven unusual and endearing characters who depend on the paper. Funny and moving, the novel is about endings — the end of life, the end of sexual desire, the end of the era of newspapers — and about what might rise afterward.
1288 gena7777777 28 мая 2014	Скачать книгу

The Redemption of Alexander Seaton	Quercus/MacLehose Press
Автор: Shona MacLean Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press, 2009	PDF, 356 страниц, 10.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
Is the young man simply drunk or does his staggering walk suggest something more sinister? When he collapses in front of the two sisters on that dark, wet night, the women guess rightly that he's been poisoned. So begins this gripping tale set in the town of Banff, Scotland in the 1620s. The body of the victim, the apothecary's apprentice, is found in the house of Alexander Seaton — a fallen minister, the discovery of whose clandestine love affair has left him disgraced and deprived him of his vocation. Why was the body moved to Seaton's house? What is the significance of the unusual poison used to kill him? And why would anyone want to murder this likeable young man? Seaton sets out to find answers to these and many other questions, embarking on a journey where he encounters the witch hunt, extreme religious prejudice, cruelty and the darkness in men's souls. It is also a personal quest that leads Alexander to the rediscovery of his faith in God and his belief in himself. Among her many strengths, Shona MacLean is brilliant at evoking period and place. You feel you are in those cold, dark, northern rooms, eavesdropping on her characters. You are totally involved in the rich, convincing world she has re-created.
1290 vlad22 14 марта 2012	Скачать книгу

The Beautiful Assassin	Quercus/MacLehose Press
Автор: Michael White Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press, 2011	PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
Elizabeth Moynihan, a young journalist, has hit the jackpot. It's 1992 and a chance remark has sent her to a small farm in the middle of nowhere in Colorado. There resides Russia's most notorious sniper-turned-spy, the one-time beautiful assassin, Tat'yana Levchenko, and she's ready to tell her story. During the Second World War, Tat'yana was Russia's secret weapon. After the Germans killed her daughter, aged four, she enlisted as a sniper for the Russian army. Having finally achieved her goal of killing three hundred Germans, she was badly injured in a siege and shipped back to Moscow. She was presented to Stalin, paraded among the ranks of high society and before the world's press. Her duty to her country not yet over, she was sent to America, to befriend Eleanor Roosevelt, touring the nation with her, securing support for the war. And all the while, she was to send vital information about American armament and troop plans back to her homeland. Before long, Tat'yana was ready to defect, putting her own life — and that of the man she loves — in more grave danger than ever before.
1451 admin 16 февраля 2013	Скачать книгу

The Crossing Places: A Case for Ruth Galloway	Quercus/MacLehose Press
Автор: Elly Griffiths Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press, 2009	PDF, 288 страниц, 8.64 МБ 7 Оценка:
Dr Ruth Galloway is in her late 30s. When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, she lectures at a university in Norfolk. She lives, alone but happily so, in a bleak, marshy area called Saltmarsh overlooking the sea and Norfolk's vast skies with her cats and Radio 4 for company. She's a salty character — quirky. When a child's bones are found in the marshes, near a dig that Ruth and her former boyfriend Peter worked on ten years before, Ruth is called upon to date them. They turn out to be bronze-age bones and DCI Harry Nelson, who called on Ruth for help, is disappointed. He had hoped they would be the bones of a child called Lucy who's been missing, presumed dead, for ten years. He has been getting letters about her ever since — odd letters with references to ritual and sacrifice, and including quotes from the Bible and Shakespeare. Then a second girl goes missing and Nelson gets another letter — like the ones about Lucy. Is it the same killer? Is it a ritual murder, linked in some way to the site near Ruth's remote home? Then one of Ruth's cats is killed and clearly she's in danger from a killer who knows that her expert knowledge is being used to help the police with their enquiries.
1044 vitalysev 14 сентября 2014	Скачать книгу

The King's Speech	Quercus/MacLehose Press
Автор: Mark Logue Издательство: Quercus/MacLehose Press, 2011	DjVu, 352 страницы, 14.08 МБ 5 Оценка:
One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century — amazingly he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed 'The Quack who saved a King'. Logue wasn't a British aristocrat or even an Englishman — he was a commoner and an Australian to boot. Nevertheless it was the outgoing, amiable Logue who single-handedly turned the famously nervous, tongue-tied, Duke of York into the man who was capable of becoming King. Had Logue not saved Bertie (as the man who was to become King George VI was always known) from his debilitating stammer, and pathological nervousness in front of a crowd or microphone, then it is almost certain that the House of Windsor would have collapsed. The King's Speech is the previously untold story of the extraordinary relationship between Logue and the haunted young man who became King George VI, drawn from Logue's unpublished personal diaries. They throw extraordinary light on the intimacy of the two men — and the vital role the King's wife, the late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, played in bringing them together to save her husband's reputation and his career as King. The King's Speech is an intimate portrait of the British monarchy at a time of its greatest crisis, seen through the eyes of an Australian commoner who was proud to serve, and save, his King.
1277 anarho 25 июня 2013	Скачать книгу

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