Скачать книгу (размер 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 28) Аннотация: When the little hermit crab finds a shiny new shell he doesn't want to share it — not with a blobby purple anemone and a tickly bristleworm. Join Crab, Blob and Brush in the rock pool for a sparkly story of sea, shells and friendship.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: It’s a hot Californian summer and Suze’s best friend, Gina, is visiting from New York. Bliss! All Suze wants to do is check out the cute guys down at the beach. Unfortunately, being a mediator makes hanging out like any normal teenager pretty hard. So Suze is hardly surprised when a fatal car accident wreaks havoc on her perfect summer. The spirits of four high-school students are hungry for…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: «To the Romans, the greatest enemy the Republic ever faced was not the Goths or Huns, nor even Hannibal, but rather a ferocious and brilliant king on the distant Black Sea: Mithridates Eupator VI, the last king of Pontus, known to history as Mithridates the Great. At age eleven, he inherited a small mountain kingdom of wild tribesmen whom his wicked mother governed in his place. Sweeping to power…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: «The Battle of Gettysburg has become the great «what if» of American history. Gettysburg unfolds an alternate path and creates for General Robert E. Lee the victory he might have won. Full of dramatic battle scenes, military strategy, and captivating period details, Gettysburg stands as a remarkable entry in the pantheon of Civil War literature and as a vivid novel of the realities of war. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Additional reading material to accompany the Jump Aboard course.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Saucy, shimmering, loud and larger than life — come get your sugar fix! It's survival of the fittest at Ravendene Comprehensive — the terrifying teenage jungle for which Kim Lewis must trade her safe, posh private school. But help is at hand — in the unlikely form of the rude, raucous, toxic and tantalising Maria (aka Sugar) Sweet, queen of the 'Ravers'. As Kim falls quickly under her spell, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: The Student's Book of Level 2 of Get Ready for Business. •A workplace context with characters students can relate to •An optional TOEIC® test-type practice page for each unit
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: This book contains four complete practice tests for the KET exam. Ideal for using in the classroom or as a self-study book, these practice tests will help students develop the confidence and language skills they need to take the Key English Test.
Скачать книгу (размер 4 808 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 944) Аннотация: 'It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.' So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security…
Скачать книгу (размер 6 032 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1184) Аннотация: The third volume in the 'Night's Dawn' trilogy Hell just went quantum... The Confederation is starting to collapse politically and economically, allowing the 'possessed' to infiltrate more worlds. Quinn Dexter is loose on Earth, destroying the giant arcologies one at a time. As Louise Kavanagh tries to track him down, she manages to acquire some strange and powerful allies whose goal does not…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: On an isolated river station at the last inhabited point in the jungle, Dr Forle and his band of international scientists are carrying out their work. Connected to the outside world only by satellite and email, they study the eerie forest glades that local tribes call 'devil's gardens', predicting that these poisoned places will help unlock an evolutionary puzzle. When an unannounced boat docks…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Sixteen year old Shelley and her mother move to Honeysuckle cottage in the middle of the countryside, fleeing their fears and anxieties and hoping to put behind them years of suffering at the hands of others. Shelley has endured terrible bullying from the girls who used to be her best friends, and her mother has been left reeling following a divorce from her selfish, demanding husband. For…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Following his investigations in The Holy Thief, which implicated those at the very top of authority in Soviet Russia, Captain Alexei Korolev finds himself decorated and hailed as an example to all Soviet workers. But Korolev lives in an uneasy peace his new-found knowledge is dangerous, and if it is discovered what his real actions were during the case, he will face deportation to the frozen…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: It's a bad enough day for NYPD detective Callum Doyle when his cop partner is murdered. It's about to get a hell of a lot worse... When the dead man's replacement is also brutally killed, suspicion falls on Doyle himself. Then he receives an anonymous message. This is just the beginning, it says. Anyone he gets close to will die and that includes Doyle's own family. The only way to keep them…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Nothing on the tundra rotted... The whole history of human settlement lay exposed there, under that big northern sky. There was nowhere here for bones to hide. On Craig Island, a vast landscape of ice north of the Arctic Circle, three travellers are hunting duck. Among them is expert Inuit hunter and guide, Edie Kiglatuk; a woman born of this harsh, beautiful terrain. The two men are tourists,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: An uplifting, inspiring and heartwarming story of a woman truly ahead of her time. Of loves lost and found, of courage and determination. It is the 1930s and when her beloved husband, John, suddenly dies, young Ellie Hogan decides to leave Ireland and return to New York. She hopes that the city's vibrancy will distract her from her grief. But the Depression has rendered the city unrecognisable…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 356) Аннотация: Wendy Everly can barely remember what it was like to feel like a normal girl. She'd wished for her life to be different but everything is so much more complicated than she'd expected. And she certainly hadn't dreamt she'd be getting married at eighteen to man she didn't love all for the sake of duty. As the big day approaches, Wendy can't stop thinking about two different men and neither of them…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 074 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 408) Аннотация: This is an another outstanding adventure from one of the world's best loved storytellers. Hazel Bannock is the owner of the Bannock Oil Corp, one of the major global oil producers. While cruising in the Indian Ocean, her yacht is hijacked by Somalian pirates and her nineteen year old daughter Cayla kidnapped. Major Hector Cross is an ex-SAS operative and the man behind Cross Bow Security, the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Rennie Airth was born in South Africa and has worked as a foreign correspondent for Reuters. The first novel in his John Madden trilogy, River of Darkness, was published in 1999 to huge critical acclaim, was shortlisted for four crime fiction awards and won the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere in France. The sensational sequel was The Blood-Dimmed Tide, and The Dead of Winter forms the final…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: 1588. In the height of her power is the legendary Elizabeth Tudor, history's most enigmatic queen. She is the virgin with many suitors; the victor of the Armada who hated war; the jewel-bedecked woman always pinching pennies. Elizabeth's flame-haired cousin, Lettice Knollys, is her bitter rival. In love with Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and mother to the Earl of Essex, the mercurial nobleman…