Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: «Sir Claud Amory’s revolutionary new formula for a powerful explosive is stolen. Locking his house-guests in the library, Sir Claud switches off the lights to allow the thief to replace the formula, no questions asked. When the lights come on, he is dead, and Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings have to unravel a tangle of family feuds, old flames and suspicious foreigners to find the killer and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Based on the true story, this is the tale of the 18th Century Irish giant, Charles O’Brien. He was exhibited in London and eventually dissected by the surgeon Charles Hunter, and his bones hang to this day in the Hunterian Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Field. Charles O’Brien, bard and giant. The cynical are moved by his flights of romance; the craven stirred by his tales of epic deeds. But what of his…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The second collection of short stories from the highly acclaimed author of the novels ‘The Mysteries of Pittsburgh’ and ‘Wonder Boys’. There are the two boys of the title story, locked in their own world of fantasy and make-believe, reaching out to each other to survive the terrible prospect of fatherlessness. ‘House Hunting’ shows us the grim spectacle of a couple whose marriage is in its death…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: A preliminary to Dick's masterwork, Valis, in which Phil appears as an explicitly named autobiographical character for the first time. As America gasps in the stranglehold of a skull-crushing totalitarian regime, a supernatural intelligence speaks from the stars...ARAMCHEK...the word scratched in the sidewalk of the President's childhood home. ARAMCHEK...the name of the subversive society 'with…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: This style biography reveals the details — fashion and otherwise — of Audrey Hepburn's appeal. It draws on interviews with Hubert de Givenchy, Gregory Peck, Nancy Reagan, Doris Brynner, and Audrey Wilder, as well as reminiscences of professional friends like Steven Spielberg and Ralph Lauren.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Winter's icy grasp is loosening on the world. The Emerald Queen's vanquished army has its broken back to the Bitter Sea. And treachery is its only recourse. A lackey has declared himself Lord of the defeated, amassing the still fearsome remnants of a ruthless fighting force together for one final assault on a weakened, vulnerable realm. For the warriors who remained steadfast against terrible…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: «Immerse yourself in an electrifying reading experience like no other — international bestselling author Paulo Coelho's «The Fifth Mountain.» A stunning novel in the tradition of the highly acclaimed «The Alchemist, « this is Coelho's daring retelling of the prophet Elijah. During the chaos of the ninth century B.C., Jezebel, wife to Israel's ruler, orders the execution of all prophets who refuse…
Скачать книгу (размер 126 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 26) Аннотация: I can do it! is the confidence-building message of this fun-filled interactive picture book. A variety of familiar animals, depicted in colorful collages, invites young children to copy their antics as they wiggle, stomp, thump, and bend across the strikingly designed pages.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Sharpe and Patrick Harper set sail for Chile in order to track down a friend gone missing. As a favor to Napoleon, they carry a seemingly harmless gift with them — one that embroils them in a web of conspiracy and danger.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: «The «Washington Post» has hailed «Sharpe's Battle» as a book that «combines those strengths that have come to characterize Bernard Cornwell's fiction — immaculate historical reconstruction and the ability to tell a ripping yarn».»
Скачать книгу (размер 218 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 44) Аннотация: This beloved Eric Carle classic returns once again in a colorful new board book format. For generations, The Grouchy Ladybug has delighted readers of all ages with the story of a bad-tempered bug who won't say please or thank you, won't share, and thinks she is bigger and better than anyone else. As children follow the Grouchy Ladybug on her journey, they will learn the important concepts of…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Who do you call when a squirrel is trapped in a mud puddle or a baby opossum is stuck in a drainpipe? Meet Jeffrey, Beaner, Raymond, and Mike — the Animal Resuce club Adventures wait around every corner as this intrepid band of kids, working with a Wildlife Rehabilitator, helps the wild animals in our neighborhood. John Himmelman's action-packed story and lively art is based on his firsthand…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Help Baby Penny is lost This sounds like a job for Detective Dinosaur and Officer Pterodactyl The prehistoric police pair from Detective Dinosaur is back on the beat with new cases to crack. But what will happen when Dective Dinosaur loses his way in the dark? Will he be found at a loss? Comically clueless Detective Dinosaur and his loyal sidekick, Officer Pterodactyl, are back with three new…
Скачать книгу (размер 233 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 47) Аннотация: Silly Tilly Mole can't remember why today is special. Is it because it's snowing and the wind is swirling colored snowflakes all around her? Or maybe it's the bright red something special in her mailbox that makes this a special day.Beginning Readers will enjoy discovering what Tilly forgot to rememeber in Lillian Hoban's third charming story about this delightfully silly character.
Скачать книгу (размер 141 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 29) Аннотация: Everything is ready for Biscuit to take a bath'everything except Biscuit After rolling in the mud and playing in the garden with his friend Puddles, will Biscuit ever get clean? Whether or not they share Biscuit's reluctance to take a bath, beginning readers will adore reading about his appealing antics in this My First I Can Read Book, the third in the best-selling series about the popular…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Издание полностью на английском языке.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 743 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 343) Аннотация: The magnificent new novel by the internationally bestselling author of The Other Side of Midnight and Morning, Noon and Night. He wanted power, she wanted revenge! Dear Diary: This morning I met the man I am going to marry. It was a simple enough entry in a young woman's diary which gave not the slightest portent of the elaborate chain of events that was about to occur. The Best Laid Plans tells…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 400 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 864) Аннотация: Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun. As Warden of the north, Lord Eddard Stark counts it a curse when King Robert bestows on him the office of the Hand. His honour weighs him down at court where a true man does what he will, not what he must! And a dead enemy is a thing of beauty. The old gods have no power in the south, Stark's family…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Jack Ryan returns to take on Irish terrorists in Clancy's third No 1 bestselling thriller — now reissued with a new cover. When Ryan foils an Ulster Liberation Army terrorist attack on the Prince of Wales and his family, his courageous actions not only win him the admiration of an entire nation, they also arouse the enmity and hatred of that nation's most dangerous men. Now a ULA target himself,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Girls, memory, parenting, millennial fear — all served Coupland-style. Karen, an attractive, popular student, goes into a coma one night in 1979. Whilst in it, she gives birth to a healthy baby daughter; once out of it, a mere eighteen years later, she finds herself, Rip van Winkle-like, a middle-aged mother whose friends have all gone through all the normal marital, social and political traumas…