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Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he & his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in — & fascination with — big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. It is an examination of the lure of the hunt & an impassioned portrait of the…

Скачать книгу (размер 692 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 137) Аннотация: This collection of short stories essentially reproduces Ernest Hemingway's 1925 book In Our Time, with the addition of the early story Up in Michigan and the title story, first published in Esquire in 1936 and widely regarded as one of Hemingway's great works, inspiring the 1952 film adaptation starring Gregory Peck. The other stories here are On the Quai at Smyrna; Indian Camp; The Doctor and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Why do some people lead happy successful lives whilst other face repeated failure and sadness? Why do some find their perfect partner whilst others stagger from one broken relationship to the next? What enables some people to have successful careers whilst others find themselves trapped in jobs they detest? And can unlucky people do anything to improve their luck — and lives? Ten years ago,…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: In a recent series of ground-breaking psychological experiments, volunteers were shown a 30-second film of some people playing basketball and told to count the number of passes made with the ball. After just a few seconds, a man dressed as a gorilla slowly walked into frame, beat his chest at the camera, and sauntered off. Unbelievably, almost none of the people watching the film noticed the…

Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: Miss Bindergarten and her kindergarteners are stepping out of the classroom and going to all sorts of places. Franny gets to decorate a cake at the bakery, Jessie learns to Stop, Drop, and Roll at the fire station, Patricia gets to push the mail at the post office, and all of the kindergarteners read colorful picture books at the library! They even have time to play at the park and have a picnic.…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: A playful take on a topic that all parents can relate toagetting sick! The ever-lovable Miss Bindergarten is not feeling well. The flu strikes on Sunday, so she has to stay home from kindergarten on Monday. Mr. Tusky (who is a wee bit rusty) will be her substitute, but it just wonat be the same. The kindergartners miss Miss Bindergarten! They pass the time by making get-well cards and singing…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Dick, Jane, Sally, Mother, and Father are not the only family having fun. This time, meet Mike, twin sisters Pam and Penny, and their parents. Two families mean twice the laughs and twice the fun. Beginning readers will love the way each chapter is an individual story, and parents and educators will appreciate the way this format encourages young readers? progression.

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: At the playground, at the pet store, on a car trip, or at home: Dick, Jane, and Sally always have fun. Will Dick get another dog? Will Sally finally win a game of hide-and-go-seek? And who are Dick and Jane's favorite friends? With short stories and text from the original Dick and Jane basic readers, this is a perfect chapter book for eager new readers!

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: NO ONE HAS illustrated animals with as much warmth, humor, and realism as Garth Williams. This classic, full of soft and furry animal babies, features his work at his best. This longtime favorite has been reissued for a new generation of kids who will love to pet the animals on each page!

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull upt ot the curb...Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Die junge Friesin Robin ist in der Rüstung eines Tempelritters unterwegs ins Gelobte Land. Sie gerät in die Fänge eines Sklavenhändlers und soll als Haremsdame verkauft werden! Als einziger Schutz bleibt ihr der geheimnisvolle Ring, den sie einst von ihrem treuen Freund und Begleiter Salim bekam. Der neue große historische Abenteuerroman von Erfolgsautor Wolfgang Hohlbein.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: «Includes such plays as «The Seagull» and «Three Sisters», with universal themes of humor and the general lifelong struggles experienced by the middle class.»

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: In 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Chechens. During this war a great Avar chieftain, Hadji Murad, broke with the Chechen leader Shamil and fled to the Russians for safety. Months later, while attempting to rescue his family from Shamil's prison, Hadji Murad was pursued by those he had betrayed and, after fighting the most heroic battle…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death... The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief... To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 171 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 623) Аннотация: Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Once Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi — a pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years. Now the judge is a shadow of his former self, a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home. Knowing the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: An English boy raised by a community of apes in the jungles of Africa encounters other human beings for the first time.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 074 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 408) Аннотация: «The official novelization based on the screenplay of the upcoming sequel to the blockbuster «X-Men».»

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: «The economy was booming. People had more money than they knew what to do with. And then the earthquake struck. For the characters in After the Quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago. Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man: a lover who destroyed her chances of having children. Did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Junpei's estranged parents live…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. After responding to several calls with paramedics, he notices that all the dead children were read the same poem from the same library book the night before they died. It's a 'culling song' — an ancient African spell for euthanizing sick or old people. Researching it, he meets a woman who killed her…