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Zusak Markus: The Book Thief

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel Meminger's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as…

Palahniuk Chuck: Damned

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Thirteen year old Madison has problems: she's overweight, ignored by her movie star parents, and in love with her adopted brother. She's also dead. But not just dead. Madison is in Hell. Chuck Palahniuk's latest, Damned, takes us on Madison's journey through Hell, as she navigates the Hillocks of Discarded Nail Pairings and the River of Vomit, meeting everyone from Charles Darwin to Marilyn…

Brake Colin: The Price of Paradise

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Laylora, the Paradise Planet. A world of breath-taking beauty, where peace-loving aboriginals live in harmony with their environment. Or do they? The Doctor and Rose arrive to find that the once-perfect eco-system is showing signs of failing. The paradise planet has become a death trap as terrifying creatures from ancient legends appear and stalk the land Is there a connection between the human…

Rayner Jacqueline: The Stone Rose

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Mickey is startled to find a statue of Rose in a museum a statue that is 2,000 years old. The Doctor realises that this means the TARDIS will shortly take them to Ancient Rome, but when it does, he and Rose soon have more on their minds than sculpture. While the Doctor searches for a missing boy, Rose befriends a girl who claims to know the future a girl whose predictions are surprisingly…

Allan Nicholas: The Queen's Knickers

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Everyone can see the Queen's smart coats and dresses, but what does she wear underneath, particularly for a school visit? Through the eyes of a little girl hoping for a school visit by the Queen, the range of royal underwear is revealed, in all its regal glory — garden party and Christmas speech knickers to the VIP (Very Important Pair) for the opening of Parliament. This is a gently humorous…

Dahl Roald: Dirty Beasts

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Meet the dirtiest beasts in the world! The comic creations in these rhymes can be bloodthirsty, gruesome and often act in unexpected ways. A collection of hilarious and naughty rhymes with a touch of the magical, and a dash of the dangerous...

Williams John: Stoner

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death his colleagues remember him rarely. Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of…

Burgess Anthony: Byrne

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Byrne is Anthony Burgess' final work: an epic verse novel. Michael Byrne is a minor modern composer with greater talent in bed than in the concert hall. A bigamist, a charmer and a thug, Byrne sells his talents as a composer and painter, ending up in Hitler's Third Reich. He moves opportunistically from country to country and from bed to bed, leaving a small tribe of children across the globe. He…

Pratchett Terry: Mort

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job. Henceforth, Death is no longer going to be the end, merely the means to an end. It's an offer Mort can't refuse. As Death's apprentice he'll have free board, use of the company horse — and being dead isn't compulsory. It's a dream job — until he discovers that it can be a killer on his love life...

Pratchett Terry: Snuff

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse. And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies and an ancient crime more terrible than murder. He is out of…

Fleming Ian: Moonraker

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: 'For several minutes he stood speechless, his eyes dazzled by the terrible beauty of the greatest weapon on earth.' He's a self-made millionaire, head of the Moonraker rocket programme and loved by the press. So why is Sir Hugo Drax cheating at cards? Bond has just five days to uncover the sinister truth behind a national hero, in Ian Fleming's third 007 adventure.

Fleming Ian: For Your Eyes Only

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: 'Private armies, private wars. How much energy they siphoned off from the common cause, how much fire they directed away from the common enemy!' From A View to A Kill; For Your Eyes Only; Quantum of Solace; Risico; The Hildebrand Rarity Five stories. Five missions. Five glimpses into the mind of a spy. From Jamaican estates to brooding French forests, Bond is tested to his limits by the world's…

Barnes Julian: The Sense of an Ending

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is in middle age. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm…

Wilson Jacqueline: The Worst Thing About My Sister

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Being a sister isn't always easy... but what's the very worst thing about your sister? Marty and her sister Melissa couldn't be more different. Marty loves her converse trainers, playing football, hiding in her secret den and helping her dad with his die. But Melissa loves Justin Bieber and all things pink, girly and pretty. The sisters can manage to live together, despite their occasional scraps…

Carle Eric: A Very Busy Sticker Book

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: From the very hungry caterpillar to the big brown bear and many more, the World of Eric Carle brings all of the beloved illustrator's creations together. Boys and girls ages 3-7 will have hours of fun adding their own colorful and creative touches to the art of Eric Carle in this deluxe coloring book that features more than 300 stickers!

Davis Wade: Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles, it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country and a people bled white by war. Of the twenty-six British climbers who, on three expeditions (1921-24), walked 400 miles off the map to find and assault the highest mountain on Earth, twenty had seen the…

Peters Steve: The Chimp Paradox: The Acclaimed Mind Management Programme to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence and Happiness

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Do you sometimes behave irrationally or impulsively? Do you face some situations with fear and trepidation? Do feelings of self-doubt consume everyday activities? Leading forensic psychologist, Dr. Steve Peters, knows more than anyone how impulsive behaviour or nagging self-doubt can impact negatively on our professional and personal lives. In this, his first book, Steve shares his phenomenally…

Groom Winston: Forrest Gump

Скачать книгу (размер 1 156 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 228) Аннотация: First published in the late 1980s and then made into a multiple Academy Award-winning film starring Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump is a heartwarming classic about the amazing adventures of a modern (and unexpected) hero, now in a 25th-anniversary edition.

Forman Gayle: Where She Went

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: If you had a second chance at first love... would you take it? It's been three years since Adam's love saved Mia after the accident that annihilated life as she knew it... and three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever. Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Julliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam…

Bailey Scarlett: Married by Christmas

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The countdown to her winter wedding has begun... Anna Carter wants the perfect Christmas Eve wedding. It's been on her 'to-do' list since she was a little girl stuck living in a children's home and dreaming of a far happier family life than she'd ever experienced. Now she's found the perfect Georgian country manor as a venue, to which she will be taken in a reindeer-drawn sleigh. She's got a…