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Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Mark Thomas is one of the UK's most effective and best-known political activists, as well as being a highly successful stand-up comedian. His show, The Mark Thomas Product, ran for six highly acclaimed series on Channel Four. Amazingly, this is his first book. As Used On the Famous Nelson Mandela is a deeply funny, deeply disturbing account of Mark's rampage through the arms trade. Under a fairly…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Obabakoak means 'events that happened in Obaba', the village at the centre of a novel composed of 26 inked tales and parodies written with a delicate sense of childlike innocence. But underlying these stories is a darker theme of loss, as the narrator of the book becomes a victim of his own tales.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 589 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 509) Аннотация: Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ever imagine. Two young couples are on a lazy Mexican vacation-sun-drenched days, drunken nights, making friends with fellow tourists. When the brother of one of those friends disappears, they decide to venture into the jungle to look for him. What started out as a fun day-trip slowly…

Скачать книгу (размер 417 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 83) Аннотация: We all came out from under Gogol's Overcoat.' Fyodor Dostoevsky From the father of modern Russian fiction comes a hilarious look at holding a grudge. Gogol's classic story about friendship gone bad highlights the fierce wit and sharp sarcasm of the Russian master. This novella has never before been published as a stand-alone edition.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: George Hall doesn't understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. 'The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely.' Some things in life, however, cannot be ignored. At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels, listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie, his…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: He's one of America's most recognisable and acclaimed actors — a star on Broadway, an Oscar nominee for The Aviator, and the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing during his eleven years on MASH. Now Alan Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances. 'My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six', begins Alan Alda's…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: India lives in a large, luxurious house with a mum she can't stand and a dad she adores, though he hasn't had much time for her recently. She seeks solace in her journal, which she keeps in sincere imitation of her heroine, Anne Frank. Treasure lives on the local council estate with her loving and capable grandmother. She is devoted to her nan but lives in fear of having to go back to live with…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart and sets his heart on destroying her marriage. His equilibrium is further disturbed when his friends all decide to come and keep him company and Charles finds his…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: After a trip to the zoo, the Doctor and Martha go in search of a real live dodo, and are transported by the TARDIS to the mysterious Museum of the Last Ones. There, in the Earth section, they discover every extinct creature up to the present day — billions of them, from the tiniest insect to the biggest dinosaur, all still alive and in suspended animation. Preservation is the Museum's only job —…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The Doctor and Martha are about to find out if a sonic screwdriver is more powerful than a six-shooter in the latest in the bestselling series of Doctor Who novels. The peace and quiet of a remote homestead in the 1880s American West is shattered by the arrival of two shadowy outriders searching for 'the healer'. When the farmer refuses to help them, they raze the house to the ground using guns…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The Doctor's been everywhere and everywhen in the whole of the universe and seems to know all the answers. But ask him what happened to the Starship Brillant and he hasn't the first idea. Did it fall into a sun or black hole? Was it shot down in the first moments of the galactic war? And what's this about a secret experimental drive? The Doctor is skittish. But if Martha is so keen to find out…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Tiermann's World: a planet covered in wintry woods and roamed by sabre-toothed tigers and other savage beasts. The Doctor is here to warn Professor Tiermann, his wife and their son that a terrible danger is on its way. The Tiermanns live in luxury, in a fantastic, futuristic, fully-automated Dreamhome, under an impenetrable force shield. But that won't protect them from the Voracious Craw. A…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The old village well is just a curiosity — something to attract tourists intrigued by stories of lost treasure, or visitors just making a wish. Unless something alien and terrifying could be lurking inside the well? Something utterly monstrous that causes nothing but death and destruction? But who knows the real truth about the well? Who wishes to unleash the hideous force it contains? What…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young scottish woman, goes to Occupied France on a dual mission: to run an apparently simple errand for a British special operations group and to search for her lover, an English airman who has gone missing in action. In the small town of Lavaurette, Sebastian Faulks presents a microcosm of France and its agony in 'the black years'. Here is the full range of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 436) Аннотация: George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood or of manly bonhomie. The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely. Some things in life cant be ignored, however: his tempestuous daughter Katies deeply inappropriate boyfriend Ray, for instance, or the sudden appearance of a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A highly acclaimed writer and editor, Bill Buford left his job at The New Yorker for a most unlikely destination: the kitchen at Babbo, the revolutionary Italian restaurant created and ruled by superstar chef Mario Batali. Finally realizing a long-held desire to learn first-hand the experience of restaurant cooking, Buford soon finds himself drowning in improperly cubed carrots and scalding pasta…

Скачать книгу (размер 126 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 26) Аннотация: Would you rather be a clarinet... a trombone... or a drum? (How would you like to have someone going BOOM-BOOM on your tum?) Beginning readers are asked to ponder these-and a host of other odd choices-in this charming, provocative book by Dr. Seuss that encourages children to let their imaginations fly.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: April knows she was found in a dustbin fourteen years ago as a new-born baby. And now she's fairly happily settled with her foster mother, Marion. But she's desperate to recall what happened in the intervening years, and to see if she can find out where she really came from in the first place. This is a highly moving but very accessible novel, in Jacqueline Wilson's unique, acclaimed and adored…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: In Daisy's guide to life, nothing is quite black and white. The trouble with life is it's so not fair. The trouble with Mums is that you can't swap them for other mums when you need to. And the trouble with being grounded is it's so boring. You absolutely can't go anywhere at all. No hopping jumping, flying or parachuting... Daisy's got ever so much time to think about what she's done. Really, it…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Take a spellbinding journey around Wales to discover the tales buried deep in the country's history. Packed full of legends, firsts, birthplaces, inventions and adventures, I Never Knew That About Wales visits the thirteen traditional Welsh counties and unearths the hidden gems that they each hold. Discover where history and legends happened; where people, ideas and inventions began; where dreams…