Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The French Connection is a heart-stopping account of an extraordinary narcotics case told as it actually happened. The story is spread over many suspense-filled months and involves plush Manhattan night clubs, dark tenements in Brooklyn and the Bronx, tree-lined suburbs on the upper East Side, Paris, Marseilles and Palermo. The case involves both American and French criminals, including Jean…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't show concern for much else. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn't much to save. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets; she's fourteen and pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: 1919. Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of the First World War to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. Among the letters being carried on the aircraft is one which will not be opened for almost a hundred years. 1998. Senator George Mitchell criss-crosses the ocean in search of an elusive…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Every morning a very large and very snappy crocodile shouts this selfish message: 'Stay away from my river! It's MY river! If you come in my river, I'll eat you all!' The animals in the forest don't know what to do. They are frightened of the crocodile. Even the fish, tadpoles, frogs, crabs and crayfish stay out of the water. Until one day the creatures are woken by a loud groaning sound which…
Скачать книгу (размер 11 254 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 2208) Аннотация: This new edition defines the language we use in the 21st century and brings English to life. It includes over 12,000 new terms, over 400,000 words, phrases and meanings, and extensive help to solve spelling and language problems.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: It's February and most cities are a cold, grey wasteland, but not New York. Everyone who's anyone has sent in their college application and now it's time to run a little wild! Could it be that Serena is smitten with Blair's stepbrother or will the Fashion Week parties pull her away from true love? Dan and Vanessa are mad about each other and pursuing their creative dreams — but be careful of what…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: It's the Spring break and love is in the air. Or is that a blend of Chanel no 9 and Gucci Rush? Blair moves in with Serena and they're back to being best friends. But will the love-fest last or will they end up tearing out one another's newly highlighted hair? Nate is on the straight and narrow with his crazy girlfriend, Georgie. And Vanessa, wait, is that Vanessa shopping at Barneys with a guy…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Also... the moment of truth has finally arrived. Everyone's back from a week of apres-ski hot tub fun in Sun Valley and cream-coloured envelopes from the Ivy League are beginning to drop all over Fifth Avenue doorsteps. The question is: are the envelopes thick or thin? Has Nate's devotion to his misbehaving heiress dimmed his chances of getting into Brown? Is Blair too busy daydreaming in Eric's…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 869 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 956) Аннотация: Harry Potter is due to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizadry. He is desperate to get back to school and find out why his friends Ron and Hermione have been so secretive all summer. However, what Harry is about to discover in his new year at Hogwarts will turn his whole world upside down ... But before he even gets to school, Harry has an unexpected and frightening…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 900 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 766) Аннотация: Harry Potter is due to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizadry. He is desperate to get back to school and find out why his friends Ron and Hermione have been so secretive all summer. However, what Harry is about to discover in his new year at Hogwarts will turn his whole world upside down ... But before he even gets to school, Harry has an unexpected and frightening…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 860 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 366) Аннотация: Harry Potter is a wizard. He is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As Harry and Ron embark on their journey to Hogwarts in a flying Ford Anglia, little do they know that this year will be just as eventful as the last as ghosts from Hogwarts past return to haunt the school corridors. The texts of the Harry Potter adult editions are identical to that of the standard…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 380 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 468) Аннотация: Harry Potter, along with his friends, Ron and Hermione, is about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry can't wait to get back to school after the summer holidays. (Who wouldn't if they lived with the Dursleys?) But when Harry gets to Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. There's an escaped mass murderer on the loose, and the sinister prison guards of Azkaban…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 053 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 796) Аннотация: Harry Potter can't wait for the start of the school year. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and there are spells to be learnt and Divination lessons (sigh) to be attended. Harry is expecting these: however, other quite unexpected events are already on the march ... The texts of the Harry Potter adult editions are identical to that of the standard editions; only…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: When a letter arrives for unhappy but ordinary Harry Potter, a decade-old secret is revealed to him that apparently he's the last to know. His parents were wizards, killed by a Dark Lord's curse when Harry was just a baby, and which he somehow survived. Escaping his hideous Muggle guardians for Hogwarts, a wizarding school brimming with ghosts and enchantments, Harry stumbles upon a sinister…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Dinah and her sister Lisa are growing up in 1950s South Africa, where racial laws are tightening. They are two little girls from a dissenting liberal family. Big sister Lisa is strong and sensible, while Dinah is weedy and arty. At school, the sadistic Mrs Vaughan-Jones is providing instruction in mental arithmetic and racial prejudice. And then there's the puzzle of lunch break.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining patient. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is English, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and betrayal. The only clue Hana has to his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire — a copy of…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: «In this enigmatic, surreal, wonderfully entertaining tale, three mysterious figures set out from Willowdale, travelling by handcar. On the way to nowhere in particular they pass a number of odd characters and observe a series of baffling phenomena, from a house burning down in a field to a palatial mansion perched precariously on a bluff. At once deeply vexing and utterly hilarious, darkly…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: A beautifully illustrated edition of Lewis Carroll's nonsense verse: most people are familiar with the verse from Alice through the Looking-Glass, for example The Walrus and the Carpenter, and also other classics such as You are Old, Father William and The Jabberwocky. These are of course all included, alongside some lesser-known poems that are a delight to discover, including The Three Badgers,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Vladimir is a young Russian-American immigrant whose capitalist dreams and desire for a girlfriend lead him off the straight and narrow into uncharted territory. From the dreary confines of New York City's Emma Lazarus Immigrant Absorption Society to the hip frontier wilderness of Prava — the Eastern European Paris of the nineties, whose grand and glorious beauty is marred only by the shadow of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: When Moose Flanagan and his family move home, yet again, and become residents of the famous prison island Alcatraz, things get interesting. First of all, they share the island with a few other families and a lot of pretty heavy-duty criminals including Al Capone. And secondly, Moose's sister is starting a new school, which everyone hopes will help her become more integrated with those around her.…