Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A strange novel for strange young people. Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Hallowe'en. Which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with Satanism. But it just happens to coincide with a malfunction in the Large Hadron…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Four generations of the Haldanes are gathering for a family celebration. It ought to be the perfect reunion, but behind the doors of Fortune House, their beloved family home, life is not as idyllic as it seems. Caroline and David's marriage, scarred by a tragic loss many years before, is back in the spotlight as David's retirement is thrust upon them. Meanwhile, their three daughters, Fiona,…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Have you every felt like partners or colleagues constantly misunderstand what you are saying to them? Do you and your partner go round in circles? This book shows you how to break the cycle and really connect with everyone in your life — at work, at home and with friends. You will learn how to enhance your communication style to really get what you want out of your relationships, so you can move…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Here's how it works: you read a book you enjoy and you tell a friend. That friend tells another friend, the next friend tells the next, and so on and so forth, until the book becomes that year's word-of-mouth bestseller. That first recommendation gives birth to many. Simple. The concept of pass-it-on is not so new and not so revolutionary — think Tupperware parties — that is, until…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: ANNA CAMERON is a new Sergeant in the Flexi Unit. On her first day in the new job she discovers she'll be working with her ex, Jamie. In at the deep end emotionally, she's also plunged headlong into the violent underworld of Glasgow's notorious Drag — the haunt of working girls, drug dealers and sad, seedy men. CATH WORTH, Jamie's wife, watches jealously from the sidelines, having given up police…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: It's the night of the full Cold Moon — the month of December according to the lunar calendar. A young man is found dead in lower Manhattan, the first in a series of victims of a man calling himself the Watchmaker. This killer's obsession with time drives him to plan the murders with the precision of fine timepieces, and the victims die prolonged deaths while an eerie clock ticks away their last…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: When a move to a new house coincides with his baby sister's illness, Michael's world seems suddenly lonely and uncertain. Then, one Sunday afternoon, he stumbles into the old, ramshackle garage of his new home, and finds something magical. A strange creature — part owl, part angel, a being who needs Michael's help if he is to survive. With his new friend Mina, Michael nourishes Skellig back to…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: When Thor's hammer goes missing, Thor will stop at nothing to get it back!
Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: The Student Book is divided into 15 units or Themen. The aim is to study Themen 1-9 in year 10 and Themen 10-15 in year 11. Each Thema covers a key topic area, which is further divided into sharply focused sub-units. The topic areas correspond closely to those offered by the three main awarding bodies.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: The delta-wing design of the subsonic bomber Avro Vulcan was years ahead of its time in terms of design when the Ministry accepted the proposal in 1947. This book provides a history of the Avro Vulcan, covering the period from 1947 to 1984, when it was withdrawn due to mounting costs.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: This is a bold and dazzling new story from the controversial creator of A Million Little Pieces. Welcome to LA. City of contradictions. It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping sprees and gun sprees. Bright Shiny Morning takes a wild ride through the ultimate metropolis, where glittering excess rubs shoulders with seedy depravity. Frey's trademark…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Odysseus and his Greek soldiers must find a way to break into the city of Troy or they will never be able to win the war...
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Jane had always lived in somebody's shadow. Escaping a childhood of abuse by marrying oceanographer Oliver Jones, she finds herself taking second place to his increasingly successful career. However, when her daughter Rebecca is similarly treated, Jane's dramatic stand takes them all by surprise. Jane and Rebecca set out to drive across America to the sanctuary of the New England apple orchard…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: The Spanish House is a hotch-potch of designs, Georgian, Gothic and Moorish, as if whoever started it had simply got bored. It has long been known as an architectural folly to locals, and is now nearly derelict to boot. When its reclusive owner dies intestate the Spanish House is left to his city-dwelling niece. For Isabel, recently widowed, the house is a potential lifeline — the only hope she…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 901 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 374) Аннотация: 'There were many staff at Kensington, fulfilling many roles; a man who was employed to catch rats, another whose job it was to sweep the chimneys. That there was someone expected to hunt Demons did not shock the new Queen; that it was to be her was something of a surprise.' London, 1838. Queen Victoria is crowned; she receives the orb, the sceptre, and an arsenal of blood-stained weaponry.…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: To celebrate Clarice Bean's 10th birthday, Orchard Books are publishing three superly good and flapped new editions of the hilarious, award-winning and bestselling picture books.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 309 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 454) Аннотация: The murdered man had been an agent — once, long ago. But George Smiley's superiors at the Secret Service want to see the crime buried, not solved. Smiley will not leave it at that, not when might lead him all the way to Karla, the elusive Soviet spymaster ...Smiley's People is a thrilling confrontation between one of the most famous spies in all fiction and his Cold War rival, Karla. Like Tinker…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: New York City is thrown into chaos by the assaults of the Bone Collector, a serial kidnapper and killer who gives the police a chance to save his victims from death by leaving obscure clues. The cops go to Lincoln Rhyme, an ex-NYPD forensics expert left paralysed after an accident on the job. Rhyme reluctantly postpones his ambitions towards suicide and puts together a forensic investigation…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Summer, 1940. Hitler's army is advancing towards Paris, and millions of French civilians are on the run. Amidst the chaos, two British children are being hunted by German agents. British spy Charles Henderson tries to reach them first, but he can only do it with the help of a twelve-year-old French orphan. The British secret service is about to discover that kids working undercover will help to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Charles Henderson is the last British spy left in occupied France in 1940, living on a farm near Calais with four runaway kids cut adrift by the war. He and his young agents are playing a dangerous game: translating for the German high command and sending information back to Britain about the Nazi plans to invade England in September, on Eagle Day. The RAF must destroy the Nazi invasion fleet,…