Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Christmas comes but once a year. Luckily... The Christmas holiday is, traditionally, a time when families gather together. In Ralph's case, this means ten or more relatives coming to stay, including assorted aunts and uncles, nutty Great-Aunt Ida (the Home tells them to be careful not to let her out) and his ghastly cousins: Titania in her silly, sick-making frilly fairy dresses and the twins…
Скачать книгу (размер 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 28) Аннотация: Uh-oh. Mrs. Wishy-Washy is at it again. Rubbing and scrubbing all the animals on the farm. But this time they aren't standing for it. Duck, Cow, and Pig are leaving mean old Mrs. Wishy-Washy for good! They run away to the big city. But they get lost, wander into a restaurant, and even stumble into a hardware store and get covered in paint! Where is Mrs. Wishy-Washy when they need her? Maybe her…
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: Things are always a little rowdy in a class of twenty-six kindergartners, but there are some days when chaos reigns. Watch what happens in Miss Bindergarten's rambunctious class when water overflows, ants are on the loose, and oozy paint smudges. How will Miss Bindergarten and the kindergartners get everything back in order? This is one kindergarten adventure not to be missed!
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Arranged thematically—from Class and Character, Sex and Snobbery, to the Foreigner’s Eye View—here is the definitive collection of the British nation’s funniest quotations. Among the many great and good who dazzle us with their wit are Martin Amis, Jane Austen, Billy Connolly, Quentin Crisp, Roald Dahl, John Lennon, Queen Victoria, and Oscar Wilde.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 758 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 346) Аннотация: Deborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music icon Carlos Santana — a thirty-year bond that endures to this day. But as a girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white mother and a black father — the legendary blues guitarist Saunders King-her life was charged with its own drama long before she married. In this beautiful, haunting memoir, Deborah Santana shares for…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: A condensed, board-book version of the P. D. Eastman canine classic Big Dog... Little Dog, staring Fred and Ted-mutts who are opposite in every way, but best friends nevertheless.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: His originality lay in his gifts as a traveller. He had the foreign ear and eye for the strangeness of ordinary life and its ordinary crises' V. S. Pritchett In 1936 Graham Greene set off to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar West African republic founded for released slaves. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast of Grand Bassa with a chain of porters, he came to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: When the people of the underground city of Ember follow Lina and Doon to the surface, little prepares them for what they will encounter. Leaving behind the darkness that has been their home for generations, they discover a world of colour, warmth and light. The people of the small village of Sparks seem willing to help them... at first... but life on the surface has its dark side too. Before long…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: An extraordinary, harrowing, endlessly surprising novel from a literary master. In 1946, two brothers and a Jewish girl fall into alignment in pogrom-poised Moscow. The fraternal conflict then marinates in Norlag, a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the coveted House of Meetings will haunt all three lovers long after the brothers are released. And for the narrator, the…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: From Alice and Abe to Zeb and Zipper, an alphabetical array of guests turns out for the biggest birthday party ever. But Hooper Humperdink isn't on the guest list.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 516) Аннотация: The third volume of the great Knights Templar tetralogy from Wolfgang Hohlbein The year 1179 in the Holy Land. In order to save her own life, Robin is once again compelled to take to the sword and fight for the cause of the Templars. With the army of the Crusaders in the process of disintegrating, she saves the life of Balduin, King of Jerusalem, and is the witness of a sinister murder. Suddenly…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 456) Аннотация: «For MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle the nagging complications of her private life are quickly forgotten at Monday's Counter-Terrorist meeting. An invisible may have entered mainland Britain. An «invisible» — a terrorist who is an ethnic native of the target country, who can cross its borders unchecked and move about unnoticed — is the ultimate nightmare. For Liz this signals the start of an…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 549 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 305) Аннотация: «The official novelization of the upcoming film from Warner Bros. that reveals the exciting origins of the ultimate crime fighter. Directed by Christopher Nolan («Memento») and starring Christian Bale and Michael Caine, the film is set for release on June 17, 2005. Original.»
Скачать книгу (размер 2 146 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 422) Аннотация: In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 738 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 342) Аннотация: A collection of thirty-two classic stories of fantasy and science fiction.
Скачать книгу (размер 310 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 62) Аннотация: In 1957, Dr. Seuss published the very first Beginner Book, The Cat in the Hat, and made a major impact on the world of education. Proving that learning to read can indeed be fan. Now, for the first time, children can hear their favorite Beginner Books on compact disk.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: As any herpetologist will tell you, the fer-de-lance is among the most dreaded snakes known to man. When someone makes a present of one to Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin knows he's getting dreadully close to solving the devilishly clever murders of an immigrant and a college president. As for Wolfe, he's playing snake charmer in a case with more twists than an anaconda — whistling a seductive tune he…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: It is 1955. Michael Corleone has won a bloody victory in the war among New York's crime families. Now he wants to consolidate his power, save his marriage, and take his family into legitimate businesses. To do so, he must confront his most dangerous adversary yet, Nick Geraci, a former boxer who worked his way through law school as a Corleone street enforcer, and who is every bit as deadly and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 487 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 489) Аннотация: With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come. This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: «The №1 «New York Times» bestselling memoir by President Clinton — he top-selling presidential memoir of all time — arrives in a two-volume mass market release. Concentrating on his early life, this first volume contains new photographs and new material by the author.»