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Dodd L.: Hairy Maclary's Caterwaul Caper

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Scarface Claw, the biggest cat in the neighbourhood, is out exploring when he gets stuck up a tree. The noise is terrible — so terrible that it draws Hairy Maclary and all his friends from Donaldson's Dairy to investigate. Young children will love to join in making all the different noises.

Dodd L.: Hairy Maclary's Hat Tricks

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Hairy Maclary's Hat Tricks is a hilarious rhyming story by Lynley Dodd. It's a blusterous, gusterous, dusterous day and Hairy Maclary is ready to play. So he trots down to the park where, while enjoying a game of catch, he comes across a windblown wedding party. Poor Grandmother Pugh (a vision in blue) tries to hold on to her hat, but the wind whistles through it and blows it clean away. It's no…

Dodd L.: Hairy Maclary's Showbusiness

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: «In Riverside Hall on Cabbage Tree Row, the Cat Club were having their Annual Show ...» When Hairy Maclary bounces and pounces his way into the cat show, his flustering and blustering bring a very unexpected result...This title presents another rollicking, rhyming adventure with Hairy Maclary (from 'Donaldson's Dairy') and friends!»

Dodd L.: Slinky Malinki

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Slinky Malinki is a hilarious rhyming story by Lynley Dodd. Slinky Malinki steals anything from a clothes peg, to a slipper, to a string of sausages, to a clock! Our hero is a BAD cat! The story is told in wonderful rhyme and through pictures full of life and movement. Lynley Dodd is an award-winning author/illustrator who lives in New Zealand. She is enormously popular for her rhyming stories of…

Dodd L.: Slinky Malinki Catflaps

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Slinky Malinki Catflaps is a hilarious rhyming story by Lynley Dodd. Slinky Malinki wakes from a cosy sleep, stretches and slips out through the catflap and into the night. He's soon joined by his friends Greywacke Jones, Butterball Brown, the Poppadum kittens and the rest of the gang. Hobnobbing happily on the wall, ten in a row, the cats are disturbed by the crotchety Scarface Claw. The cats…

Mead R.: Vampire Academy: Last Sacrifice

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: The international Number 1 bestselling Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead is NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE. Read it before it hits cinemas in February 2014! Higher Learning. Higher Stakes. MURDER, LOVE, JEALOUSY. AND THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE. The Queen is dead and the Moroi world will never be the same. Rose Hathaway is awaiting wrongful execution and there exists only one man who can stall this…

Taleb Nassim Nicholas: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: The hottest thinker in the world. In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. Here Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better. Just as human…

Thackeray William Makepeace: Vanity Fair

Скачать книгу (размер 4 645 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 912) Аннотация: Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design In William Thackeray's Vanity Fair, no one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp,…

Burgess Anthony: A Clockwork Orange

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But what will his re-education mean?

Smith Keri: Everything is Connected

Скачать книгу (размер 254 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 51) Аннотация: Keri Smith's Everything is Connected is not just a book of postcards. It's a series of experiments designed to shake us out of our ruts. Through the ingenious use of the common postcard, Keri Smith encourages us to embark on a quest to reanimate everyday life. No matter how hard we try, everyday life always becomes predictable. From the toothpaste we use and the clothing we wear, to the way we…

Curtis Richard: The Empty Stocking

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: The Empty Stocking is a brilliantly funny Christmas story by Richard Curtis and Rebecca Cobb. Brilliant read by the one and only Dawn French. In this fantastically funny and heartwarming story by Richard Curtis, scriptwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Love Actually, it's Christmas Eve and there's one very important question on everyone's mind — have you been good this year? For twins Sam…

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck

Скачать книгу (размер 1 105 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 218) Аннотация: Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard luck story?

Saunders Jennifer: Bonkers: My Life in Laughs

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: 'As the steady march of time takes its toll on my memory and the vultures circle, I thought I should have a stab at recollecting how it all happened'... Jennifer Saunders' brilliant comic creations have brought joy to millions for three decades. From Comic Strip to Comic Relief, from Bolly-swilling Edina in Absolutely Fabulous to Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia, her characters are household names. But…

Whitman Walt: Leaves of Grass

Скачать книгу (размер 2 467 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 485) Аннотация: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our…

Mabey Richard: A Good Parcel of English Soil

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Richard Mabey, one of Britain's leading nature writers, looks at the relationship between city and country, and how this brings out the power of nature — part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground. Exploring the creation of Metro-land as a powerful symbol of the English ruralist myth, A Good Parcel of English Soil looks at how individuals become sensitized…

Cline Elizabeth L.: Overdressed: Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion

Скачать книгу (размер 1 309 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 258) Аннотация: Cheap fashion has fundamentally changed the way most Americans dress. Stores ranging from discounters like Target to traditional chains like JCPenny now offer the newest trends at unprecedentedly low prices. And we have little reason to keep wearing and repairing the clothes we already own when styles change so fast and it's cheaper to just buy more. Cline sets out to uncover the true nature of…

Cussler Clive: Poseidon's Arrow

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Dirk Pitt is oceanography's answer to Indiana Jones, praises the Associated Press. And now the Cusslers bring us Pitt's most dangerous adventure of all.

Feynman Richard P.: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Quantum electrodynamics — or QED, for short — is the revolutionary theory that explains how light and electrons interact. Thanks to Richard Feynman and his colleagues, who won the Nobel Prize for their ground-breaking work in this area, it is also one of the rare parts of physics that is known for sure, a theory that has stood the text of time. Based on a series of lectures delivered to the…

Rossiter Joanna: The Sea Change

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A tsunami and a war, a mother and a daughter, a husband and a wife: Joanna Rossiter's haunting novel explores how these relationships are welded and dissolved by extraordinary circumstances beyond human control. Beautifully observed and moving, A Lost Place is a novel for fans of Sadie Jones' The Outcast, Amanda Hodgkinson's 22 Britannia Road and Natasha Solomons' The Novel in the Viola.…

Richards Justin: Doctor Who: Essential Guide to 50 Years of Doctor Who

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: This essential anniversary guide to fifty years of Doctor Who includes all eleven incarnations of the Doctor and fascinating facts on his adventures in space and time, helpful companions and fearsome foes like the Daleks, Cybermen and Ice Warriors! Find out all about the Doctor's Tardis, his regenerations and much much more!