Название: Lady Justice Series
Автор: Robert Thornhill
Издательство: Createspace
Год: 2012-2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 41 Мб
Язык: английский / English

How old is too old to dream? Walt Williams always dreamed of being a hero. When retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be, Walt decides it's the perfect time to achieve his dream and give Lady Justice a helping hand. So, he decides to become a cop! Follow Walt as he leaves the real estate world and retirement to solve crime and bring perps to justice. It's a bumpy but often hilarious ride. Walt and Ox, his partner in the Kansas City Police Department, find very unorthodox ways of bringing criminals to justice. After all, Walt has to rely on his ability to outsmart the bad guys. And --- they have plenty of help from others in the Senior Set.

Название: Bakeshop Mystery Series
Автор: Ellie Alexander
Издательство: St. Martin's
Год: 2014-2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 20 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Welcome to Torte-a friendly, small-town family bake shop where the treats are so good that, sometimes, it's criminal... After graduating from culinary school, Juliet Capshaw returns to her quaint hometown of Ashland, Oregon, to heal a broken heart and help her mom at the family bakery. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is bringing in lots of tourists looking for some crumpets to go with their heroic couplets. But when one of Torte's customers turns up dead, there's much ado about murder...

Название: Sigma Force Series
Автор: James Rollins
Издательство: William Morrow
Год: 2009-2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 40 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The explosive first adventure in James Rollins' bestselling Sigma Force series! A freak explosion in the British museum in London ignites a perilous race for an earth-shaking power source buried deep beneath the sands of history. Painter Crowe is an agent for Sigma Force, a covert arm of the Defense Department tasked with keeping dangerous scientific discoveries out of enemy hands. When an ancient artifact points the way toward the legendary "Atlantis of the Sands," Painter must travel across the world in search of the lost city-and a destructive power beyond imagining. But Painter has competition. A band of ruthless mercenaries, led by a former friend and ally, are also intent on claiming the prize, and they will destroy anyone who gets in their way. Ancient history collides with cutting-edge science-with the safety of the world at stake!

Название: Lanny Budd Series
Автор: Upton Sinclair
Издательство: Open Road Media
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 19 Мб
Язык: английский / English

From the acclaimed author of The Jungle: The first in a Pulitzer Prize–winning historical saga about the son of an American arms dealer during WWI. Lanning “Lanny” Budd spends his first thirteen years in Europe, living at the center of his mother’s glamourous circle of friends on the French Riviera. In 1913, he enters a prestigious Swiss boarding school and befriends Rick, an English boy, and Kurt, a German. The three schoolmates are privileged, happy, and precocious—but their world is about to come to an abrupt and violent end.

Название: A Whispering Pines Mystery
Автор: Shawn McGuire
Издательство: Shawn McGuire
Год: 2017-2022
Формат: EPUB, AZW3
Размер: 12 Мб
Язык: английский / English

If you love small-towns with quirky characters, slow-burn romances, and witchy mysteries this is the series for you. Find out why readers wish they could live here . . . despite the dead bodies. Welcome to Whispering Pines, Wisconsin. A place for those who don't belong. Sixteen years after a family feud drove her from the cozy Northwoods village of Whispering Pines, Wisconsin, former detective Jayne O'Shea returns to prepare her grandparents' lake house for sale. Once there, not only does she find that the house has been trashed, her dog discovers a dead body in the backyard. Jayne intends to stay out of it, but when it becomes obvious the sheriff isn't interested in investigating the death.

Название: Innocence
Автор: Roald Dahl
Издательство: Penguin
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 61 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Think you know Dahl? Think again. There's still a whole world of Dahl to discover in a newly collected book of his deliciously dark tales for adults . . . What makes us innocent and how do we come to lose it? Featuring the autobiographical stories telling of Roald Dahl's boyhood and youth as well as four further tales of innocence betrayed, Dahl touches on the joys and horrors of growing up. Among other stories, you'll read about the wager that destroys a girl's faith in her father, the landlady who has plans for her unsuspecting young guest and the commuter who is horrified to discover that a fellow passenger once bullied him at school. Featuring extraordinary cover art by Charming Baker, whose paintings echo the dark and twisted world of Dahl's short stories.

Название: War: Tales of Conflict and Strife
Автор: Roald Dahl
Издательство: Penguin
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 46 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Think you know Dahl? Think again. There's still a whole world of Dahl to discover in a newly collected book of his deliciously dark tales for adults . . . In war, are we at our heroic best or our cowardly worst? Featuring the autobiographical stories from Roald Dahl's time as a fighter pilot in the Second World War as well as seven other tales of conflict and strife, Dahl reveals the human side of our most inhumane activity. Among other stories, you'll read about the pilot shot down in the Libyan desert, the fighter plane that vanishes inside a mysterious thick white cloud and the soldier who returns from war but has been shockingly changed by his experiences. Featuring extraordinary cover art by Charming Baker, whose paintings echo the dark and twisted world of Dahl's short stories. Roald Dahl reveals even more about the darker side of human nature in seven other centenary editions: Lust, Madness, Cruelty, Deception, Trickery, Innocence and Fear.

Название: Under the Never Sky Trilogy
Автор: Veronica Rossi
Издательство: HarperCollins
Год: 2012-2013
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 10 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Perfect for fans of the Hunger Games and Divergent series, Veronica Rossi's trilogy has been called "inspired, offbeat, and mesmerizing" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) and "incredibly original" (Seventeen.com). This collection includes all three novels and two novellas in the series.

Under the Never Sky: Exiled from her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland—known as The Death Shop—are slim. Then Aria meets an Outsider named Perry. He's wild—a savage—and her only hope of staying alive. A hunter for his tribe in a merciless landscape, Perry views Aria as sheltered and fragile—everything he would expect from a Dweller. But he needs Aria's help too; she alone holds the key to his redemption.

Название: The Iremonger Trilogy
Автор: Edward Carey
Издательство: Hot Key Books
Год: 2013-2015
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 37 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Young Clod Iremonger and his eccentric family, the “kings of mildew, moguls of mold,"? made their fortune from this collected detritus. The Iremongers are an odd old family, each the owner of the birth object they must keep with them at all times. Clod is perhaps the oddest of all—his gift and his curse is that he can hear all of the objects of Heap House whispering. Yes, a storm is brewing over Heap House and the house’s many objects are showing strange signs of life.

Название: Тарас Бульба
Автор книги: Гоголь Н.В.
Художник: Е.Кибрик
Издательство: Детгиз
Год выпуска: 1948
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 164
Язык: русский
Размер: 92,7 Mb

Перед вами уникальное, возможно самое лучшее, издание бессмертного творения Николая Васильевича Гоголя. "Тараса Бульбу" в СССР многократно издавали и переиздавали. Эта книга входила в обязательную школьную программу. Как правило это были довольно скромные и дешевые издания. В данном случае оригинал книги - это здоровенный фолиант с множеством иллюстраций. В качестве иллюстраций здесь представлены потрясающие автолитографи Е.Кибрика, создавшего хрестоматийные образы героев повести.