биографии и мемуары
Тайны звезд №46/2018
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Журнал «Тайны звезд» рассказывает самые правдивые и откровенные факты из жизни российских звезд. Дельные советы по всем сферам жизни: здоровье, финансы, красота, семья, дети, кулинария, путешествия. Множество конкурсов с возможностью выиграть...
Звезды и советы №42/2018
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О звездах – самое главное, в советах – самое нужное! Легкий, понятный и доступный женский еженедельник, дарящий оптимизм. Откровенные переживания и интригующие подробности жизни кумиров. Лучшие советы для тех, кто ценит время и деньги....
Звезды и советы №43/2018
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О звездах – самое главное, в советах – самое нужное! Легкий, понятный и доступный женский еженедельник, дарящий оптимизм. Откровенные переживания и интригующие подробности жизни кумиров. Лучшие советы для тех, кто ценит время и деньги....
Звезды и советы №44/2018
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О звездах – самое главное, в советах – самое нужное! Легкий, понятный и доступный женский еженедельник, дарящий оптимизм. Откровенные переживания и интригующие подробности жизни кумиров. Лучшие советы для тех, кто ценит время и деньги....
Звезды и советы №45/2018
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О звездах – самое главное, в советах – самое нужное! Легкий, понятный и доступный женский еженедельник, дарящий оптимизм. Откровенные переживания и интригующие подробности жизни кумиров. Лучшие советы для тех, кто ценит время и деньги....
Пуговица Дантеса
Виктор Сенча
Виктор Сенча – писатель, публицист; по образованию военный врач-эксперт и юрист. В своей книге «Пуговица Дантеса» исследует причины гибели великого русского поэта. И не только. Со смертью Пушкина его дуэль не закончится – она продолжится в...
Солдатские истории. Рассказы
Виталий Сыров
Армия. Слово это для меня не просто определение из энциклопедии. Армия, хотя слово женского рода, но женского в ней я ничего не заметил. Это двухлетний период в жизни, в течение которого было многое: и ощущение жуткой бесправности и...
История рока. Во всём виноваты «Битлз»
Максим Капитановский
Максим Капитановский – режиссер-документалист и сценарист фильмов «Пол Маккартни. 73 часа в России», «Во всем прошу винить «Битлз», «Таймашин. Рождение эпохи» и других, писатель, журналист, участник культовых групп «Добры молодцы», «Лейся,...
Стивен Хокинг. Жизнь среди звезд
Джон Гриббин
История ученого и личная биография объединились в этой книге, чтобы сделать полным рассказ о выдающемся человеке. Стивен Хокинг был необычным физиком: ему, возможно, удалось сделать больше, чем многим другим представителям академической...
Высший командный состав РККА. Комкоры 1935-1940 гг.
Денис Юрьевич Соловьев
Вторая книга из серии "Военачальники СССР" представляет собой подробные послужные биографии 40 человек из 116 комкоров РККА – имеющих фамилии на буквы А-З и получивших персональное воинское звание комкор с 1935 по 1940 годы. Книга составлена на...
Несгибаемые
Борис Рогатин
Книга посвящена ушедшему в прошлое поколению, не сломленному годами репрессий и военного лихолетия, жившему суровой романтикой ударных строек и созидания родной страны. Массового читателя ожидают встречи с известными и безвестными героями:...
Семь дней ТВ-программа №51/2018
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«Семь дней ТВ-программа» – развлекательный иллюстрированный журнал для семейного чтения, содержащий аннотированную телепрограмму. Телепрограмма с 17 по 23 декабря.
Сталин. 1878-1953. Главные документы
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Вслед за книгами «Главные документы Великой Отечественной войны» и «Главные документы ВЧК» выходит альбом «Сталин. Главные документы». Вы увидите фото подлинников более 1000 архивных документов, фотографий, рисунков и карт, прежде хранившихся...
Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: The Autobiography
Steven Tyler
The long-awaited, no-holds-barred memoir from the legendary Aerosmith frontman. Finally, all the lurid tales of debauchery, sex, drugs and rock n' roll are told straight from the horse's lips as The Demon of Screamin' describes his unimaginable...
Come, Tell Me How You Live: An Archaeological Memoir
Агата Кристи
Agatha Christie’s personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels.Think you know Agatha Christie? Think...
Thatcher’s War: The Iron Lady on the Falklands
Margaret Thatcher
The definitive inside account of the Falklands War, written by Margaret Thatcher herself.On 21 May 1982, the British people watched with a mixture of pride and fear as their troops landed under heavy aerial bombardment at San Carlos Bay in the...
Iris Murdoch: A Life: The Authorized Biography
Peter Conradi J.
A full and revealing biography of one of the century’s greatest English writers and an icon to a generation.Dame Iris Murdoch has played a major role in English life and letter for nearly half a century. As A.S.Byatt notes, she is ‘absolutely...
Four Mums in a Boat: Friends who rowed 3000 miles, broke a world record and learnt a lot about life along the way
Janette Benaddi
A TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 SPORTS BOOK AWARDSLONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017The incredible true story of four ordinary working mums from Yorkshire who took on an extraordinary challenge...
Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters
Оскар Уайльд
Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, but apparently it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost and his autobiography was never written, but his letters reveal him at his...
Banco: The Further Adventures of Papillon
Анри Шарьер
The sensational sequel to ‘Papillon’.‘Banco’ continues the adventures of Henri Charriere – nicknamed Papillon – in Venezuela, where he has finally won his freedom after thirteen years of escape and imprisonment. Despite his resolve to become an...
Blood Sisters: Part 2 of 3: Can a pledge made for life endure beyond death?
Julie Shaw
It’s 1983 and best friends Vicky and Lucy swear that they will always be there for each other, that they’ll never let anyone come between them. But fast forward 4 years and life on the Canterbury Estate has gotten very messy.Lucy has fallen for...
Blood Ties: Part 2 of 3: Family is not always a place of safety
Julie Shaw
Family is not always a place of safety.Kathleen was just eight years old when her mother was tragically killed in a car accident. And when her father remarries it is to the bitter and resentful Irene who has two children of her own and no space...
Call Me Evil, Let Me Go: A mother’s struggle to save her children from a brutal religious cult
Sarah Jones
Sarah had lived in fear for over a decade. Humiliated, ostracised and brainwashed, her spirit had been crushed. But as the realisation of what she was subjecting her children to began to sink in, she found new strength and determination – the...
Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel
Benjamin Wardhaugh
August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne.In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in. Sunlight, or rain. Scudding clouds and backbreaking labour. Three hundred feet underground, young Charles Hutton is at the coalface....
History Play: The Lives and After-life of Christopher Marlowe
Rodney Bolt
What if Christopher Marlowe staged his own death, fled to the Continent and went on to write the works we now attribute to Shakespeare?'About anyone so great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we can never be right; and if we can never be...
How Many Camels Are There in Holland?: Dementia, Ma and Me
Phyllida Law
Following Phyllida Law’s wonderful and acclaimed ‘Notes to my Mother-in-Law’ – which comically and tenderly documented the author’s relationship with her husband’s mother who lived with the family for 17 years – we now have a chronicle of...
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: Thirty Years with a Rolling Stone
Jo Wood
Previously published in hardback as Hey Jo, this is a moving and candid memoir from the woman who married the most controversial member of the Rolling Stones, and had the strength and courage to bounce back from heartbreak.When young model and...
Ngaio Marsh: Her Life in Crime
Joanne Drayton
The Empress of Crime's life was the ultimate detective story – revealed for the first time in this forthright and perceptive biography.While Ngaio Marsh had a flamboyant public persona, she was fiercely protective of her private life. And no one...
Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks
Агата Кристи
Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks brings together for the first time Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making, two volumes that explore the fascinating contents of her 73 notebooks. This includes illustrations, deleted extracts,...
The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train and Three American Heroes
Anthony Sadler
The 15:17 to Paris is the amazing true story of friendship and bravery, and of near tragedy averted by three heroic young men who found the unity and strength inside themselves when they – and 500 other innocent travellers – needed it most.On...
Gilchrist on Blake: The Life of William Blake by Alexander Gilchrist
Richard Holmes
LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLDPart of a radical series – edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Gilchrist’s ‘The Life of William Blake’ is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and...
Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-earth
Ian Nathan
The definitive history of Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth saga, Anything You Can Imagine takes us on a cinematic journey across all six films, featuring brand-new interviews with Peter, his cast & crew. From the early days of daring to dream it...
The Toltec Art of Life and Death
Barbara Emrys
Internationally bestselling author of The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz gives us a mystical tour of his life and calling as a “Nagual” in this gripping spiritual and autobiographical teaching novel.Internationally bestselling author Don...
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Bryan Mealer
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURED DIRECTED BY AND STARRING CHIWETEL EJIOFOR.When William Kamkwamba was just 14 years old, his family told him that he must leave school and come home to work on the farm – they could no longer afford his fees....
The Girls Who Went to War: Heroism, heartache and happiness in the wartime women’s forces
Duncan Barrett
The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a...
Tales from a Young Vet: Part 2 of 3: Mad cows, crazy kittens, and all creatures big and small
Jo Hardy
Tales from a Young Vet can either be read as a full-length ebook or in 3 serialised ebook-only parts.This is PART 2 of 3.The funny, touching and entertaining story of how Jo Hardy, the star of BBC2’s Young Vets, gets to grips with animals big...
Tales from a Young Vet: Part 3 of 3: Mad cows, crazy kittens, and all creatures big and small
Jo Hardy
Tales from a Young Vet can either be read as a full-length ebook or in 3 serialised ebook-only parts.This is PART 3 of 3.The funny, touching and entertaining story of how Jo Hardy, the star of BBC2’s Young Vets, gets to grips with animals big...
Angels in Our Hearts: A moving collection of true fostering stories
Casey Watson
A moving collection of 6 short stories – Helpless, A Small Boy’s Cry, Two More Sleeps, Unexpected, Just a Boy and At Risk – previously available as individual e-shorts.A collection of inspiring and emotive real-life short stories from foster...
Not Without My Sister: The True Story of Three Girls Violated and Betrayed by Those They Trusted
Kristina Jones
The bestselling, devastating account of three sisters torn apart, abused and exploited at the hands of a community that robbed them of their childhood. It reveals three lives, separate but entwined, that have experienced unspeakable horror,...
The Girl From Aleppo: Nujeen’s Escape From War to Freedom
Christina Lamb
Previously published as ‘Nujeen’‘She is our hero. Everyone must read her story. She will inspire you’ Malala YousafzaiAn inspiring tale of a young disabled girl and her escape from the hell of war.Nujeen Mustafa has cerebral palsy and cannot...
More Power: The Story of Jurgen Grobler: The most successful Olympic coach of all time
Christopher Dodd
Arguably the greatest coach in British sporting history. Jurgen Grobler’s Olympic coaching career is one of legend , yet the man himself has remained resolutely out of the spotlight. Over the last twenty years he has masterminded British...
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
Артур Конан Дойл
A collection of letters between Arthur Conan Doyle (author and creator of Sherlock Holmes) and his mother, covering most of his life, written between 1867 and the year of her death in 1921.Doyle was raised almost solely by his mother in...
To Fight Alongside Friends: The First World War Diaries of Charlie May
David Crane
‘I do not want to die. The thought that we may be cut off from each other is so terrible and that our babe may grow up without my knowing her and without her knowing me. It is difficult to face. Know through all your life that I loved you and...
Hunting El Chapo: Taking down the world’s most-wanted drug-lord
Douglas Century
This is the untold story of the American federal agent who captured the world’s most-wanted drug-lord.Every generation has its larger-than-life criminal legend living beyond the reach of the law: Billy the Kid, Al Capone, Ronnie Biggs, Pablo...
A Clear Blue Sky: A remarkable memoir about family, loss and the will to overcome
Duncan Hamilton
THE SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR Daily MailAs a young boy of eight, Jonny Bairstow was dealt a cruel blow. His father David ‘Bluey’ Bairstow, the combative and very popular wicketkeeper and captain of Yorkshire, took his own life at the age of...
Hannah’s Choice: A daughter's love for life. The mother who let her make the hardest decision of all.
Hannah Jones
The moving and inspirational true story of one little girl's battle against the medical odds and a mother's unwavering love for her daughter.'If I could have any wish it wouldn't be a part in High School Musical. I'd like to live just one day...
The Sweethearts: Tales of love, laughter and hardship from the Yorkshire Rowntree's girls
Lynn Russell
Whether in wartime or peace, tales of love, laughter and hardship from the girls in the Rowntrees factory in Yorkshire“On a warm Monday morning in 1932, just two days after leaving school, fourteen-year-old Madge was about to join her nine...
The Times Great Military Lives: Leadership and Courage – from Waterloo to the Falklands in Obituaries
Ian Brunskill
The Times for over 150 years has been providing the most respected and perceptive verdicts on the lives of outstanding individuals. The Times Great Military Lives is an authoritative and fascinating collection of obituaries depicting the great...
I Know What You Are: The true story of a lonely little girl abused by those she trusted most
Jane Smith
The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend.Taylor had always struggled to make friends – she felt ‘different’. Taylor never knew her father and her mother wasn’t...
I Know What You Are: Part 1 of 3: The true story of a lonely little girl abused by those she trusted most
Jane Smith
The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend.Taylor had always struggled to make friends – she felt ‘different’. Taylor never knew her father and her mother wasn’t...
