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Harriet Carew is the endearing heroine of Cristina Odone's popular weekly 'Daily Telegraph' column, 'Posh But Poor'. Based on the character from the column, 'The Dilemmas of Harriet Carew' is the story of her struggle to juggle family life, work and money.Meet Harriet Carew, mother of three and juggler of work, home and family. Harriet only wants to do her best for her husband Guy, her children, and herself. But while their friends flourish, and other parents look on pityingly, the Carews are...
| Автор | Cristina Odone |
'Afghanistan is just like Iraq – hot, dusty and full of people who want to kill you', SSgt Simon Fuller, Royal Engineer Search AdvisorBomb Hunters tells the story of the British army's elite bomb disposal experts, men who face death every day in the most dangerous region of the most lethal country on earth – Helmand Province, Afghanistan.Bomb Hunters are up against the Improvised Explosive Device – the IED – the deadly homemade bombs planted by the Taliban. Hard to detect and easy to trigger, an...
| Автор | Sean Rayment |
Zaskakująca kontynuacja jednego z największych bestsellerów ostatnich lat Ryfka ma jeden cel – przetrwać. W swojej kryjówce pielęgnuje na wpół przytomnego Jakuba Szapirę, który niczym nie przypomina niegdysiejszego postrachu stolicy. Kobieta nocami wychodzi na gruzowisko, którym po polskim powstaniu stała się Warszawa. Zdobywa pożywienie, obmyśla plan dalszej ucieczki, pieniądze wymienia na coś znacznie cenniejszego – na broń. Jej oczy widzą upadek dawnego „królestwa” Szapiry, jej nozdrza...
| Автор | Szczepan Twardoch |
Zaskakująca kontynuacja jednego z największych bestsellerów ostatnich lat Ryfka ma jeden cel – przetrwać. W swojej kryjówce pielęgnuje na wpół przytomnego Jakuba Szapirę, który niczym nie przypomina niegdysiejszego postrachu stolicy. Kobieta nocami wychodzi na gruzowisko, którym po polskim powstaniu stała się Warszawa. Zdobywa pożywienie, obmyśla plan dalszej ucieczki, pieniądze wymienia na coś znacznie cenniejszego – na broń. Jej oczy widzą upadek dawnego „królestwa” Szapiry, jej nozdrza...
| Автор | Szczepan Twardoch |
A little boy lost. A country at war. A promise made long ago that cannot be forgotten. As a sixteen-year-old in the Fifties, Miki Patrick is forced to surrender her baby son. It's now 1971 and the anti-war activist with a price on her head risks her freedom to find her somewhere child and keep him out of an unrighteous war. The drama played over two decades revolves around the feud between Miki and her best friend since childhood, the whip-smart, potty-mouthed Jude Brenner. The troubled...
| Автор | Jan Murray |
In 1914 men of colour were expressly forbidden from joining the Australian Imperial Force but a number like Aboriginal man Robert Green, enlisted anyway. Deployed to Gallipoli, Green becomes a skilled sniper earning fame as «Killer Green», a nickname he deplores. As the campaign progresses Green's skills and intelligence are recognised by Brigadier John Monash. Monash employs Green to good effect, and protects him from military justice when Green assaults an officer who was unnecessarily...
| Автор | Max Carmichael |
Wade Ross, Aboriginal, ex Australian SAS had been on 'Walkabout' when two assassins tried to take him down. Returning to civilisation he learns they are also hunting his new girlfriend. His search for answers uncovers a web of intrigue that includes the multiple personality sister of ex US Vice President Daniel Cooper to a group of satanic ritualistic billionaires. As those close to him start to get hurt the hunt becomes revenge. A fast paced international thriller that transports...
| Автор | D.K. Wilde |
After the horror of Pearl Harbor, American forces in the Pacific had a long way to come back. With the nucleus of their battleship and carrier fleet destroyed, they had to rely on the much-scorned submarines of the Silent Service. <P> Jack McCrary, like his comrades in the submarine service, was determined not to let them down. In his battered «pig boat,» the 'Manta,' he led an ocean-wide attack on Japanese freighters and battleships that held the vaunted Imperial Navy to a...
| Автор | Richard Deming |
Tricked once more by his wily half-brother, Lysaer arrives at the tiny harbour town of Merior, to find that his brother’s ship yards have been meticulously destroyed and abandoned. But where is Arithon? The forces of light and shadow circle and feint, drawing ever closer to a huge conflict.Tricked once more by his wily half-brother, Lysaer, Lord of Light, arrives at the tiny harbour town of Merior to find that Arithon’s ship yards have been abandoned and meticulously destroyed, and that the...
| Автор | Janny Wurts |
Where there is light, there must always be shadow… The fourth volume in Janny Wurts’s spectacular epic fantasy.The schism began with two half-brothers empowered to subdue a Mistwraith. In revenge it cursed them to a life of perpetual conflict. Each believes absolutely in his cause, and loathes the other for opposing it…Lysaer, Prince of the Light – a charismatic leader sworn to set humanity free from sorcerous oppression. He claims divine power to safeguard his people from an enemy he is...
| Автор | Janny Wurts |
The stunning first volume in Janny Wurts’s epic tale of two half-brothers cursed to life-long enmity.The world of Athera lives in eternal fog, its skies obscured by the malevolent Mistwraith. Only the combined powers of two half-brothers can challenge the Mistwraith’s stranglehold: Arithon, Master of Shadow and Lysaer, Lord of Light.Arithon and Lysaer will find that they are inescapably bound inside a pattern of events dictated by their own deepest convictions. Yet there is more at stake than...
| Автор | Janny Wurts |
A breathtaking tale of adventure, survival and loyalty.When the thief Jeniche finds her prison cell collapsing around her, she knows it is not going to be a good day.Certainly, the last thing she wanted once she escaped was to become involved with a group of monks and nuns being hunted by the Occassan soldiers who have invaded the city. Nor did she want to help the group flee by being their guide through the desert and mountains. Unfortunately, Jeniche’s skills are their only hope of making it...
| Автор | Graeme Talboys K. |
Where there is light, there must always be shadow… The fifth volume in Janny Wurts’s spectacular epic fantasy, now re-released with a striking new cover design along with the rest of the series.The wars began when two half-brothers, gifted of light and shadow, stood shoulder to shoulder to defeat the Mistwraith. Their foe cast a lifelong curse of enmity between them that has so far woven three bitter conflicts and uncounted deadly intrigues.It is a time of political upheavel, fanaticism and...
| Автор | Janny Wurts |
Осенью 2020 года весь мир с волнением наблюдал за вооружённым конфликтом между Арменией и Азербайджаном. Почему вновь вспыхнула война в Нагорном Карабахе? Исчерпывающий ответ даёт новая книга М. Велимамедова «Карабахская война 1991 – 1994». Исторический экскурс в недавнее прошлое показывает истоки конфликта, зародившегося ещё в эпоху распада СССР. В книге детально описан ход первой Карабахской войны – от локальных стычек 1991 года до последних боёв на Агдамском и Тертерском направлении в 1994...
| Автор | Мамед Велимамедов |
The complete Timothy Lea confessions from the CONFESSIONS series, the brilliant sex comedies from the 70s, available for the first time in eBook.Save over £16 on the individual purchase RRPContains:CONFESSIONS OF A WINDOW CLEANERCONFESSIONS OF A DRIVING INSTRUCTORCONFESSIONS FROM A HOLIDAY CAMPCONFESSIONS FROM A HOTELCONFESSIONS OF A TRAVELLING SALESMANCONFESSIONS OF A FILM EXTRACONFESSIONS FROM THE CLINKCONFESSIONS FROM A HEALTH FARMCONFESSIONS OF A PRIVATE SOLDIERCONFESSIONS OF A POP...
| Автор | Timothy Lea |
„Kai dingo balandžiai“ – tai estų kilmės Suomijos rašytojos Sofi Oksanen trečiasis romanas iš tetralogijos apie netolimą Estijos praeitį ir politinį Europos suskaldymą. Ankstesnės dalys – „Stalino karvės“ ir „Valymas“. Romane vaizduojami neramumų ir tariamos taikos dešimtmečiai: Estijos Respublikos pirmojo laikotarpio pabaiga, Antrasis pasaulinis karas ir „atšilimas“ bei stagnacijos pradžia Sovietų Sąjungoje. Tai pasakojimas apie žmogaus santykius su valdžia, apie gebėjimą ir nenorą...
| Автор | Sofi Oksanen |
Gabrielis Bagratianas su žmona Žiuljete ir sūnumi Stefanu 1915-ųjų pavasarį grįžta į gimtąjį kaimą Musa Dago papėdėje. Gabrielis – turkų kariuomenės atsargos karininkas – Antiochijoje aplanko keletą pažįstamų, nueina į krašto valdytojo biurą; vyras visur jaučia priešiškas nuotaikas armėnų tautai. Turkas, senas šeimos draugas, aga Rifaatas Bereketas pataria jam nekišti nosies į valdiškas institucijas ir pažada nuvykti į Stambulą ir armėnus užtarti. Blogos nuojautos jau sklando ore, prasideda...
| Автор | Franz Werfel |
Planet by planet, galaxy by galaxy, the inhabited universe has fallen to the alien Xul…This bundle includes the complete Inheritance Trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas.Now only one obstacle stands between them and total domination: the warriors of a resilient race the world-devourers nearly annihilated centuries ago . . .A power vast, ancient, and terrifying, the mighty Xul have lost track of the insignificant humans hundreds of years after devastating their home...
| Автор | Ian Douglas |
Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, this is the new novel from the author of ‘King of the Badgers’ and the Man Booker-shortlisted ‘The Northern Clemency’.“I was a baby during the war. We stayed inside for months. All my aunts took turns in feeding me. I couldn't be heard to cry. You see, there were soldiers in the streets. They would have known what a crying baby meant. So I had to be kept silent. No, not everyone came out of the war alive.”One family’s life, and a nation –...
| Автор | Philip Hensher |
A contemporary novel from the author of A Woman of Substance about a young woman finding herself and her place in life, in love and in the world.Valentine Denning is a courageous photojournalist on the frontline in Kosovo. Her colleagues – Tony Hampton and American Jake Newberg – are her comrades-in-arms, men whom she loves and trusts. One is her best friend; one her lover. In a nightmarish ambush, all three are shot, Tony fatally, and for Val an even worse nightmare begins.For there are...
| Автор | Barbara Taylor Bradford |
It’s 1943 and Hitler’s Germany is a terrifying place to be.But Magda Ritter’s duty is the most dangerous of all…Assigned to The Berghof, Hitler’s mountain retreat, she must serve the Reich by becoming the Führer’s ‘Taster’ – a woman who checks his food for poison. Magda can see no way out of this hellish existence until she meets Karl, an SS officer who has formed an underground resistance group within Hitler’s inner circle.As their forbidden love grows, Magda and Karl see an opportunity to stop...
| Автор | V.S. Alexander |
In the future, earth's warriors have conquered the heavens. But on a distant world, humanity is in chains…This bundle includes the complete Legacy Trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas.Many millennia ago, the human race was enslaved by the An – a fearsome alien people whose cruel empire once spanned the galaxies, until they were defeated and consigned to oblivion. But a research mission to the planet Ishtar has made a terrifying – and fatal – discovery: the Ahanu, ancestors of...
| Автор | Ian Douglas |
A controversial, throught-provoking and witty novel about the pursuit of perfection – the perfect appearance, relationship and life, from a young, hot talent.Sunny Weston is bright, breezy and fun. She is also fat.Well, less fat that she was. In her pursuit of the perfect figure – and the life to match – Sunny has lost seven stone, with two to go. Yet as her thighs shrink her problems grow. When gorgeous Adrian at work decides that the new streamlined Sunny is the girl for him, she should be...
| Автор | Louise Kean |
Passion, adventure, struggle for survival and love for life – on a remote island.You’re fed up with your office job, your flatmate, your bank manager and yourself. Fate throws you a lifeline. You’re now the sole inheritor of a cottage on a remote island off New Zealand. Do you take it? Of course you do.So, off sets Rosie Trethewey, not knowing what she’s in for but pretty certain it can’t be worse than what she’s got. She’s not counted on her reclusive neighbours: a traumatised refugee of the...
| Автор | Derek Hansen |