Скачать книгу (размер 4 155 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 816) Аннотация: Nigel Hamilton brings all the magisterial authority he brought to his Whitbread-winning biography of Monty, and all the talent for tracking down and verifying hidden, controversial material that he showed in JFK: Reckless Youth, which topped the American bestseller charts for months, in this new biography of Bill Clinton. Born into a 'white trash' family in backwoods, racially segregated…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: 'You want more time Mr Brown, of course you do. We all want more time. Let me make you an offer'... Andrew Brown never has enough time. No time to call his sister, no time to prepare for that important presentation at the bank where he works... The train's late, the lift jams, the all-important meeting's started by the time he arrives. Disaster. If only he'd had just a little more time. Time is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: England, today. Between the housing estate and the motorway lies an ancient wood. The motorway bends to avoid it. Last week, teenager Laura Brown went missing. Tonight, Vicky Caine will miss her bus and take a shortcut through the wood. And she will disappear too. England, 1917. Between the village and the main road lies an ancient wood. The old Roman road bends to avoid it. Tonight Emily Bostock…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Completely revised and updated, the Doctor Who Encyclopedia is the ultimate fan's guide to all things Doctor Who. Packed with photos, concept drawings, illustrations and artwork, and including the Christopher Ecclestone, David Tennant, and Matt Smith incarnations of the Doctor, learn every fact and discover every figure from every episode.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: En el verano de 1816, el poeta Percy Bysshe Shelley y su esposa Mary se reunieron con Lord Byron y su m?dico Polidori en una villa a orillas del lago Leman. A instancias de Lord Byron y para animar una velada tormentosa, decidieron que cada uno inventar?a una historia de fantasmas. La m?s callada y reservada, Mary Shelley, dio vida as? a quien ser?a su personaje m?s famoso: el doctor…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 018 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 397) Аннотация: Ever y Damen han viajado a trav?s de incontables vidas pasadas y luchado contra los m?s temibles enemigos s?lo para poder al fin estar juntos. Pero el amor eterno tiene un alto precio: Roman les ha lanzado una poderosa maldici?n para que no puedan tocarse. Y, con una simple caricia o un suave roce de labios, Damen podr?a hundirse en el inh?spito abismo de las almas perdidas. Desesperada por…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Nina, the littlest elf in Santa's workshop, doesn't finish the teddy bear she's making in time for it to get loaded onto Santa's sleigh — but, encouraged by Santa Claus himself to not give up, she works far into the night to finish it. While Santa is out delivering presents, a baby is born. Santa comes back for Nina's now — finished bear — and guess who he takes along to deliver it?
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Exterminate! The chilling battle cry of the Daleks has terrorised and terrified countless billions across thousands of worlds throughout time and space, from Skaro, Vulcan and Exxilon to the Medusa Cascade, Churchill's War Room and the opening of the Pandorica. This is the comprehensive history of the greatest enemies of the Doctor. Learn about the Daleks origins on the planet Skaro, how a Time…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: My word, it just gets worse and worse doesn't it? Collapsing banks, collapsing countries, massive government cuts, rising debt, inflation and the possibility of a double dip. It's amid all this uncertainty that the already embattled modern man needs the best advice he can get about how to be the best he can. Keep Calm for Chaps offers the same pearls of life wisdom as Keep Calm and Carry On…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: In a spaceship that can travel at the speed of light, Ulysse, a journalist, sets off from Earth for the nearest solar system. There they find a planet which resembles their own, but on Soror humans behave like animals, and are hunted by a civilised race of primates. Captured and sent to a research facility, Ulysse must convince the apes of their mutual origins. But such revelations will have…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: If someone hurts your sister and you're any kind of man, you seek revenge, right? If your brother's accused of a terrible crime but says he didn't do it, you defend him, don't you? When Mikey's sister claims a boy assaulted her, his world begins to fall apart. When Ellie's brother is charged with the offence, her world begins to unravel. When Mikey and Ellie meet, two worlds collide. This is a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to them, none more so than the blooming young starlet Rosemary Hoyt. When Rosemary falls for Dick, the Diver's calculated perfection begins to crack. As dark truths emerge, Fitzgerald shows both the disintegration of a marriage and the failure of idealism. Tender…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster. In A Sort of Life Greene recalls schooldays and Oxford, adolescent encounters with psychoanalysis and Russian roulette, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and how he rashly resigned from The Times when his first…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: This title comes with an introduction by Ben Kane. Oliver Tressilian, a Cornish gentleman, is blessed with 'youth, wealth, and good digestion'. He is betrayed by his half-brother and becomes a renegade and Barbary corsair winning the title of Sakr-el-Bahr — hawk of the sea. This is the thrilling, full-blooded adventure of how a man wronged became the scourge of the Mediterranean and the terror of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Part fiction, part travelogue, the narrator of this compelling masterpiece pursues his solitary, eccentric course from England to Italy and beyond, succumbing to the vertiginous unreliability of memory itself. What could possibly connect Stendhal's unrequited love, the artistry of Pisanello, a series of murders by a clandestine organisation, a missing passport, Casanova, the suicide of a dinner…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite being surrounded by Long Island's bright and beautiful, Gatsby longs only for Daisy Buchanan. In shimmering prose, Fitzgerald shows Gatsby pursue his dream to its tragic conclusion. The Great Gatsby is an elegiac and exquisite portrait of the American Dream.
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: This 1949 Little Golden Book edition of the famous poem, The Night Before Christmas, was a staple in the Golden Book line for many years. Recently found in the Golden Books archives, Corinne Malvern's artwork for this title has been digitized and beautifully reproduced for today's kids!
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: From the very hungry caterpillar to the big brown bear and many more, the World of Eric Carle brings all of this beloved illustrator's creations together. Now children can make this very unique and very timeless world a part of their own with this imagination-tickling coloring and activity series! The big activity book with a die-cut handle features 24 of Eric Carle's biggest and best animals to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Adelia Aguilar is a rare thing in medieval Europe — a woman who has trained as a doctor. Her speciality is the study of corpses, a skill that must be concealed if she is to avoid accusations of witchcraft. But in Cambridge a child has been murdered, others are disappearing, and King Henry has called upon a renowned Italian investigator to find the killer — fast. What the king gets is Adelia, his…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Dr. Seuss's Fox in Socks has been troubling tongues — and garnering giggles — since 1965. Written specifically to be read aloud, it features a tricky fox in socks and the progressively more difficult tongue-twisting games he plays on his exasperated friend Mr. Knox. Now available for the first time in an abridged, sturdy, board book edition, this beloved classic will have babies of all ages…