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Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: As he drove his chief down to Kidlington, Lewis returned the conversation to where it had begun. 'You haven't told me what you think about this fellow Owens -- the dead woman's next-door neighbour.' 'Death is always the next-door neighbour,' said Morse sombrely. The murder of a young woman... A cryptic 'seventeenth-century' love poem... And a photograph of a mystery grey-haired man... More than…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: In the second volume of Tove Jansson's humorous yet melancholic Moomin comic strip, we get four new stories about jealousy, competition, child rearing, and self-reinvention. The Moomins try to hibernate in the fashion of their ancestors but insomnia places them smack-dab into a winter carnival with the winter-sports-loving Mr. Brisk. The fickle and eternally lovestruck Mymble and Snorkmaiden find…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: When I went off to college, I started telling people that my mother died in a car crash. Ellie and Izzy have lived a crazy life, with a mother whom they adored, but who wasn't without problems. From long midnight baths, to dancing in the dark in the rain, to driving the family car straight into the lake, she's been a magic but maniacal figure, someone whose colourful stunts and bold lies have…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «This work tells the true story of a death foretold. On December 7th 2006, in a Highgate Cemetery drenched with London rain, a Russian was buried within a stone's throw of the grave of Karl Marx. He was Alexander Litvinenko, Sasha to his friends, a boy from the deep Russian provinces who rose through the ranks of the world's most feared security service. Litvinenko was the man who denounced…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Winner of the Portico prize 2006, Anthony Burgess has always attracted acclaim and notoriety in roughly equal measure. He is admired for his literary novels, but known to a wider audience as the author of the ultra-violent shocker, A Clockwork Orange. Burgess was a brilliant polymath, a composer, and a man for whom chaos and creativity, fact and fiction, existed in a complex and unique balance.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 778 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 350) Аннотация: Through a crisis of medical malpractice emerges evidence of how the medical profession itself is being harmfully transformed by the intrusion of powerful business interests. Not least is the growing prevalence of 'Concierge Medicine' where public-service doctors will take on private patients for a fee. In this thrilling story, which again features Dr Laurie Montgomery and Dr Jack Stapleton (whose…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The thought suddenly occurred to Morse that this would be a marvellous time to murder a few of the doddery old bachelor dons. No wives to worry about their whereabouts; no landladies to whine about the unpaid rents. In fact nobody would miss most of them at all... By the 16th of July the Master of Lonsdale was concerned, but not yet worried. Dr Browne-Smith had passed through the porter's lodge…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: A hilarious work that evokes the terrible beauty of youth like a young Bob Dylan, frothing with furious anger.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 411 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 474) Аннотация: Life was never black and white in Italy... Something about the place both disturbed and interested him. Venice reminded him of a bad yet familiar relative, dangerous to know, difficult to let go. As their exile in Venice draws to a close, Roman detectives Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni are ordered to investigate an apparently open-and-shut case, a fire in a glass foundry that has claimed two lives,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: In a brave new post-9/11 world jumpy Seattle bears little resemblance to the city Lucy Bengstrom dreamed of as a girl. Living alone with her eleven-year-old daughter Alida, she looks to her journalism to make sense of it all. Yet with Alida drifting into adolescence and the home she's built up for them under threat, it's clear to Lucy that life is changing. Finding herself under intense scrutiny…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: «As well as being the UK's most successful picture book author, Julia Donaldson is a gifted songwriter for children. This volume contains nine of her best-loved songs, including «Room on the Broom», «The Snail and the Whale» and «The Smartest Giant in Town», as well as a number of fun-filled action songs. Each score includes piano accompaniment and guitar chords. The songs will be familiar to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: By September 2003, six months after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the anarchy had begun. Rory Stewart, a young Biritish diplomat, was appointed as the Coalition Provisional Authority's deputy governor of a province of 850,000 people in the southern marshland region. There, he and his colleagues confronted gangsters, Iranian-linked politicians, tribal vendettas and a full Islamist insurgency. Rory…

Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: Human interest, Humor, Crime/Detection & Adventure/Thriller/Spy A recounting of the humorous adventures of a young orphan boy living beside the great Mississippi River in 1844.

Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: Human interest & Adventure / Thriller / Spy s modern, action-packed detective story. Salahadin El Nur is an inspector in the Antiquities Department of the Egyptian police. The death of a visiting European archaeologist leads Salahadin to investigate the whereabouts of a priceless statuette. He is soon on the trail of a gang of international smugglers.

Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: Three short stories by one of the most witty and popular writers of the nineteenth century.Stories include: The Canterville Ghost, The Model Millionaire and Lord Arthur Savile`s Crime.

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Summer vacation. Dawson pursues his amateur film career with the reluctant help of Joey and Pacey. Jen enrols in lifeguarding classes and Pacey joins her, thinking that this will be an excellent way to meet girls as he is on the rebound from an illicit affair. Believing Dawson is now Jen's boyfriend, Joey makes him jealous by meeting other boys. Who will Dawson choose.

Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: James Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the sudden disappearance of the island's Governor and his assistant. When he arrives, 007 begins to suspect that the Governor's absence is in some way linked to Dr No, the reclusive owner of a remote island which lies between Cuba and Jamaica. There have been several strange deaths on this island, which the local people blame on a mysterious and…

Скачать книгу (размер 350 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 70) Аннотация: Through this powerfully retold version, students have an opportunity to read one of the most famous horror stories ever devised.

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Essential Business Grammar Builder — новый практический справочник по грамматике для студентов, которые изучают деловой английский язык на уровне Elementary или выше. Его можно использовать как в аудитории, так и для самостоятельной работы. Essential Business Grammar Builder состоит из 60 грамматических модулей, которые охватывают наиболее важные структуры и функции делового английского языка. В…

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Here's Patch the Puppy is a two-level, song-based course for very young learners that takes into account the problems of managing a class of very young students. Each Pupil's Book comes with a free songs CD for children to listen at home to the songs they will learn with Patch. Key features: — TPR activities. — Songs, chants, games, routines and role plays. — Sticker Activities and press out…