Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This is the story of life at the centre of the world's most dangerous sport, by its brightest and biggest star. Guy Martin, international road-racing legend, maverick star of the Isle of Man TT, truck mechanic and TV presenter, lives on the edge, addicted to speed, thoroughly exhilarated by danger. In this book we'll get inside his head as he stares death in the face, and risks his life in search…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 467 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 485) Аннотация: As Rome's war with Carthage continues, two friends — now on opposing sides — confront each other in one of the most brutal sieges of all time. A new Hannibal novel by the Sunday Times best-selling author of The Forgotten Legion series. 213 BC. Syracuse. Under the merciless Sicilian sun, a city is at war. Outside the walls, a vast Roman army waits. Yet the city's incredible defences, designed by…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty changed the way people cook and eat. Its focus on vegetable dishes, with the emphasis on flavour, original spicing and freshness of ingredients, caused a revolution not just in this country, but the world over. Plenty More picks up where Plenty left off, with 120 more dazzling vegetable-based dishes, this time organised by cooking method. Grilled, baked, simmered,…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Over the decades, London has become a diverse landscape for all forms of graffiti and street art. From the better-known artists, down to the constant stream of fresh new talent attracted to the streets, London is a graffiti artist's paradise and the images represent a London simmering with artistic flair. Featuring glossy photos of ground-breaking graffiti, London Graffiti and Street Art is the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Unstoppable comedian Russell Brand wants you to join the revolution. Are you like him, fed-up with the status quo? Do you ask yourself why 1 per cent of the world owns nearly half the wealth? Are you appalled that in a year of a double dip recession, banker's bonuses rose by around 64 per cent? Does it anger you that multi-million pound corporations pay not one penny in tax? Do you, honestly,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 671 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 329) Аннотация: Madison Spencer, the liveliest and snarkiest dead girl in the universe, continues the afterlife adventure begun in Chuck Palahniuk's bestseller Damned. Just as that novel brought us a brilliant Hell that only he could imagine, Doomed is a dark and twisted apocalyptic vision from this provocative storyteller. The bestselling Damned chronicled Madison's journey across the unspeakable (and really…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 288 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 450) Аннотация: The tale of The Wolf Gift continues... In Anne Rice’s surprising and compelling best-selling novel, the first of her strange and mythic imagining of the world of wolfen powers (I devoured these pages... As solid and engaging as anything she has written since her early Vampire Chronicles fiction — Alan Cheuse, The Boston Globe; A delectable cocktail of old-fashioned lost-race adventure,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Written by Bear Grylls, this book contains the inspirational true stories of one of the world's most intrepid explorers.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Cynthia LOVES Christmas. So much so that her flockmates send her off to the North Pole to help Father Christmas. But it turns out that there isn't much an enthusiastic sheep can do to help with Christmas — until one crucial moment...
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: Late on Christmas Eve, after the town has gone to sleep, a boy boards a mysterious train that waits for him: the Polar Express bound for the North Pole. When he arrives there, Santa offers him any gift he desires. The boy modestly asks for one bell from the reindeer's harness. It turns out to be a very special gift, for only believers in Santa can hear it ring.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Join Alfie and Annie Rose for Christmas! Alfie opens his advent calendar and makes cards and presents. He sings carols and decorates the tree. And he writes a special letter to Father Christmas... But what will Father Christmas bring on Christmas Day? It's going to be such an exciting day!
Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: This is a new edition to celebrate Alan Turing's centenary, that includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter. Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. But his vision went far beyond this crucial achievement. Before the war he had formulated the concept of…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: «Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.» This classic Christmas verse is well known to every parent and child preparing for Christmas and this beautifully illustrated new edition is the perfect Christmas gift for young and old.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: This is a heartwarming new Christmas novel from Debbie Macomber, internationally bestselling author of Rose Harbor in Bloom and Blossom Street Brides. Harry Mills thinks he knows all there is to know about humans. Being an angel, he has spent a long time studying the people down below, and is confident that during his assignment down on Earth, helping them will be a simple task. But soon after…
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: From Aquaman in Atlantis to Batman battling bad guys and zooming off on an exciting adventure, the Super Friends help make learning the alphabet as easy as A B C! With 300 colourful reusable stickers, and activities designed to support early years development, your little super hero will love helping the Super Friends to save the day. Plus, look out for the QR code inside the book, to download a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Ukrainian Diaries is acclaimed writer Andrey Kurkov's first-hand account of the crisis in his country. Written from his flat in Kiev, just 500 metres away from Independence Square, Kurkov can smell the burning barricades and hear the sounds of grenades and gunshot. The diaries begin on the first day of the pro-European protests in November, and are a mix of commentary on current events, Ukraine's…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: «Release the Doctor — or the killing will start.» An asteroid in the furthest reaches of space — the most secure prison for the most dangerous of criminals. The Governor is responsible for the cruellest murderers so he's not impressed by the arrival of the man they're calling the most dangerous criminal in the quadrant. Or, as he prefers to be known, the Doctor. But when the new prisoner…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Gabby Nichols is putting her son to bed when she hears her daughter cry out. 'Mummy there's a daddy longlegs in my room!' Then the screaming starts. Kevin Alperton is on his way to school when he is attacked by a mosquito. A big one. Then things get dangerous. But it isn't the dead man cocooned inside a huge mass of web that worries the Doctor. It isn't the swarming, mutated insects that make him…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: On a lonely stretch of Welsh coastline a fisherman is killed by a hideous creature from beneath the waves. When the Doctor and Rose arrive, they discover a village where the children are plagued by nightmares, and the nights are ruled by monsters. The villagers suspect that ancient industrialist Nathanial Morton is to blame, but the Doctor has suspicions of his own. Who are the ancient figures…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: «Vastra and Strax and Jenny? Oh no, we don't need to bother them. Trust me.» Marlowe Hapworth is found dead in his locked study, killed by an unknown assailant. This is a case for the Great Detective, Madame Vastra. Rick Bellamy, bare-knuckle boxer, has the life drawn out of him by a figure dressed as an undertaker. This angers Strax the Sontaran. The Carnival of Curiosities, a collection of…