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Roald Dahl: The BFG: Plays for Children

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Following the success of his stage adaptation of The BFG, David Wood has now written a series of scenes, or playlets for performance by children in schools and other amateur groups. With notes on simple staging, props and costumes, these plays can be performed with the minimum of experience or resources.

Oliver Bowden: Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: 'I will seek Vengeance upon those who betrayed my family. I am Ezio Auditore da Firenze. I am an Assassin...' Betrayed by the ruling families of Italy, a young man embarks upon an epic quest for vengeance. To eradicate corruption and restore his family's honour, he will learn the art of the assassins. Along the way, Ezio will call upon the wisdom of such great minds as Leonardo Da Vinci and…

Pamela Conn Beall: Wee Sing and Move (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: A new title to get you on your feet and moving! This brand-new title from the Wee Sing library guarantees to get you on your feet and moving along with the songs! From aRing Around the Rosya, to aThe Hokey Pokeya to aThe Animal Parade, a adults and kids alike will love dancing and singing to these special and classic songs. With a book and CD, this package is a bargain at $9.99!

Jay Asher: Thirteen Reasons Why

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Jay Asher has worked at an independent bookstore, an outlet bookstore, a chain bookstore, and two public libraries. He hopes, someday, to work for a used bookstore. When he is not writing, Jay plays guitar and goes camping. Thirteen Reasons Why is his first published novel.

Victor Pelevin: The Sacred Book of the Werewolf

Скачать книгу (размер 1 692 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 333) Аннотация: The worldas first Zen Buddhist paranormal romanceapublished to coincide with Halloween. One of the most progressive writers at work today, Victor Pelevinas comic inventiveness has won him comparisons to Kafka, Calvino, and Gogol, and Time has described him as a apsychedelic Nabokov for the cyberage.a In The Sacred Book of the Werewolf, a smash success in Russia and Pelevinas first novel in six…

J.D.Robb: Salvation in Death

Скачать книгу (размер 1 896 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 373) Аннотация: «Ancient church rituals meet cutting-edge crime-solving in the latest novel in the №1 «New York Times»-bestselling series. In the year 2060, sophisticated investigative tools can help catch a killer. But there are some questions even the most advanced technologies cannot answer.»

Dreiser Theodore: Sister Carrie

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: This epic of urban life tells of small-town heroine Carrie Meeber, adrift in an indifferent Chicago. Setting out, she has nothing but a few dollars and an unspoiled beauty. Hers is a story of struggle? From sweatshop to stage success? And of the love she inspires in an older, married man whose obsession with her threatens to destroy him.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Notes from Underground and the Double

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: «Notes from Underground» (1864) is a study of a single character, 'the real man of the Russian majority', and a revelation of Dostoyevsky's own deepest beliefs. One of his best critics has said of the first part that it forms his 'most utterly naked pages. Never after wards was he so fully and openly to reveal the inmost recesses, unmeant for display, of his heart'. «The Double» (1846) is the…

Nabokov Vladimir: Glory

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: «In general «Glory» is my happiest thing.» «The fun of «Glory» is... to be sought in the echoing and linking of minor events, in back-and-forth switches, which produce an illusion of impetus; in an old daydream directly becoming the blessing of the ball hugged to one's chest, or in the casual vision of Martin's mother grieving beyond the time-frame of the novel in an abstraction of the future…

Insight: Insight Guides: Russia, Belarus and Ukraine

Скачать книгу (размер 1 962 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 386) Аннотация: Insight Guides, the world's largest visual travel series, capture the unique character of each destination's culture with a perspective only an insider can provide. Picturesque, romantic, historic or exotic, Insight covers the world's most popular destinations.

Finnamore Suzanne: Split

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: He came home from work. She fixed him a martini. He said she looked beautiful. And then four catastrophic words hung in the air between them: I Want A Divorce. That was it. Suddenly Suzanne Finnamore was alone, with no idea of what to do next. What would she say to her young son when he woke up the next morning? How would she tell the world that he'd chosen to move on and leave her behind? She…

Dunmore Helen: Counting the Stars

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: In the sticky summer heat unruly desires stir the blood... For Catullus, the brilliantly witty and outrageous young poet, and Clodia, his older, married lover, a borrowed villa in Rome is a secret, illicit meeting-place. When they are apart, Catullus burns with desire for 'his girl', while Clodia goes her own way among his rivals. Other passions simmer in the heat: the streets threaten to erupt…

Bedell Geraldine: The Gulf Between Us

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: For most people, being a single mother to three boys (two of them teenagers), sorting out your feelings for an ex-boyfriend who's now an international film star, pacifying an elderly father who keeps asking why you're not married, tolerating your bigoted brother, while keeping out of the way of a dismissive film producer who seems to have made a mission out of annoying you, would be quite enough…

McCarthy Aine: A Dance in Time

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Lover. Mother. Writer. Each of these roles has meant the world to Izzy Mulcahy. But now, as she stands accused of killing her elderly father, Izzy sets out on a journey of self-discovery and finds the three roles colliding in ways that both surprise and sustain her. However, her journey also leads her to conclude that when she stands up in court her testimony will have a devastating effect on the…

Oliver Neil: Amazing Tales for Making Men Out of Boys

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Captain Robert Falcon Scott didn't start out life as a hero. In fact, as a boy and young man he was considered small, frail and shy. So what was it that turned this ordinary man into a legend? Through his gripping new account of how this modest naval officer became Scott of the Antarctic, Neil Oliver vividly relates the awe-inspiring tales that inspired Britain's greatest hero. And alongside…

McPartlin Anna: Pack Up the Moon

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: What if your boyfriend died right in front of you? It was a night of laughter and celebration. But when John dies in a dreadful accident, his girlfriend Emma is plunged into despair. She loved John more than life itself — and now death has taken him from her. She feels nothing, she has lost everything, her world spins out of control. Or so she thinks. For Emma has friends — good friends who rally…

Updike John: Endpoint and Other Poems

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Endpoint opens with a series of connected poems which were written on the occasions of Updike's recent birthdays and culminate in his confrontation with his final illness. They look back on the boy that Updike once was, on his family and little town and the circumstances that fed his love of writing. Then there are 'Other Poems', ranging from fanciful musings about what it would be like to be a…

Stannard Dorothy: Insight Guides: Egypt

Скачать книгу (размер 1 819 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 358) Аннотация: Insight Guides present the full breadth of each nation in a large format suitable for a thorough introduction to the people and sights, while cities and regions are presented in a portable format ideal for the discriminating urban explorer in pursuit of the best the area has to offer.

Schuman Scott: The Sartorialist

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Scott Schuman just wanted to take photographs of people on the street who looked great. His now famous blog ('the bellwether American site that turned photo blogging into an art form' — New York Times) was an attempt to showcase the wonderful and varied sartorial tastes of real people — not only those of the fashion industry. The book is a beautiful anthology of Scott's favourite shots from…

Gerrard Nicci: The Winter House

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: When Marnie Still receives a phone call that summons her to the side of a once-beloved friend, she is wrenched from her orderly London life and sent back into a past from which she has fled but never escaped. Ralph, Marnie and Oliver once knew each other well and are still inextricably bound by ties of love and betrayal. Now at last they meet again in Ralph's secluded cottage in the Scottish…