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11Crime and Punishment , Fyodor Dostoevsky (2008)
"Crime and Punishment" is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel of fearful tension, physical, and… 485 руб12Study in Scarlet , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2010)
The very first Sherlock Holmes story, "A Study in Scarlet" was also the first of Conan Doyle's books to be published. His two creations, Holmes, the master of the science of detection and Watson, the… 450 руб13The Venetian Betrayal , Steve Berry (2008)
For ex-field agent Cotton Malone the stakes have never been higher: a deadly virus that could wipe out civilisation as we know it - and a cure that lies buried in the past. A secret international… 573 руб14Stalin's Children , Owen Matthews (2009)
On a midsummer day in 1937, Boris Bibikov kissed his two daughters goodbye and disappeared. One of those girls, Lyudmila, was to fall in love with a tall young foreigner in Moscow at the height of… 481 руб15Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie , Holly Black (2006)
The "New York Times" bestselling author follows up her stunning debut" Tithe" with this rich, harrowing, and compulsively readable parable of betrayal, abuse, friendship, and love 735 руб16Exit Wound , Andy McNab (2010)
Three tons of Saddam Hussein's gold in an unguarded warehouse in Dubai... For two of Nick Stones closest ex-SAS comrades, it was to have been the perfect, victimless crime. But when they're… 583 руб17Faithless , Karin Slaughter (2006)
Brilliant plotting, relentless suspense, raved the Washington Post, A new synonym for terror, crowned the Detroit Free Press. The critics agree: no one writes suspense like Karin Slaughter, whose… 656 руб18Between Shades of Gray , Ruta Sepetys (2011)
One night fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother and young brother are hauled from their home by Soviet guards, thrown into cattle cars and sent away. They are being deported to Siberia. An unimaginable… 615 руб19The Road: Short Fiction and Essays , Vasily Grossman (2011)
By the author of Life and Fate, now a major Radio 4 drama starring Kenneth Branagh. Vasily Grossman is widely recognized as one of the outstanding literary figures of the twentieth century. The short… 927 руб20My Name is Will: A Novel of Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare , Winfield Jess (2009)
Struggling UC Santa Cruz grad student Willie Shakespeare Greenberg is trying to write his thesis about the Bard. Kind of... Cut off by his father for laziness, and desperate for dough, Willie agrees… 1164 руб
