Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: The year was 1963, and Beatlemania was only just beginning. Soon the Beatles had fans all around the world. For the rest of the 1960s their music led the way and they changed modern music forever. This book tells the story of the greatest band in the world from the early days in Liverpool to the Beatles’ music in the world today.
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: A mysterious stranger has come to the island where Costas lives. Why is the man there, and why is he looking at Eagle’s Rock? Costas wants to be the first person to climb the dangerous rock. But will the stranger climb it first?
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: For a number of years, William plays a game with a ghost before he goes to sleep. The ghost is a poltergeist that William calls ‘Poldy’. At the beginning William and Poldy play a friendly game every night, but then the game begins to change. It becomes a dangerous game. Who will win?
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Farm work isn’t Joe’s idea of holiday fun. He wanted to spend the summer surfing. But when he finds himself in the middle of a disagreement about GM (genetically-modified) crop trials, life becomes more interesting. He also meets two very different girls. But what do they really want from him?
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: In the 1930s Grey Owl was the most famous North American Indian in the world. He wanted to save his land, its forests and animals. He wanted to change the world. He also had a very strange secret. This book tells his true story.
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Miranda Hilliard does not live with her husband, Daniel. He wants to see the children more often, but they live with Miranda. One day Madame Doubtfire comes to work for Miranda and help with the children. But Madame Doubtfire seems strange, more like a man than a woman...
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Every year, millions of tourists visit New York—the most exciting city in the world. Read about its history, its sights and its people. What makes New York “the city that never sleeps?”
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Anna Scott is an American film star. She is rich, beautiful and very famous. William Thacker is a shy man who has a small, unsuccessful bookshop in London. Their lives are different in every way, but they are both looking for someone special. Can a future together be more than a dream? Notting Hill is a wonderful and very funny love story.
Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: A secret organisation plans to assassinate the French President, General de Gaulle. Their leader, Colonel Marc Rodin, decides to hire a professional, someone unknown to French police. He and his men choose the Jackal. Can police detective Claude Lebel stop the killing and save the President's life?
Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: In London, Christmas is coming and the people in this story have love on their minds. Some have found love; some have lost it. Some accept their loneliness; others live in hope. Even the new British prime minister's thoughts are not always on his job because love, actually, is all around us.
Скачать книгу (размер 524 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 104) Аннотация: Inman leaves the horrors of the American Civil War and begins a long, dangerous journey home to Ada, the woman he loves. Along the way, he witnesses great poverty, cruelty, and violence. Will he ever see Ada again? And if he does, will she recognize the man he has become?
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: «Close your eyes … imagine idyllic white sands and coral gardens». Richard arrives in Thailand. He hears about ‘the beach’, a secret island. It is paradise on earth. He goes there, but paradise soon turns into hell…»
Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: The horror of death row is that you die a little each day. The waiting kills you. Seventy-year-old Sam Cayhall is on Mississippi's death row. Sam hates lawyers but his date with the gas chamber is close, and time is running out. Then Adam Hall, a young lawyer arrives. Can he and his secret persuade Sam to accept his help?
Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: Nate O’Riley is a powerful Washington lawyer. Returning to work after a long stay in hospital is difficult for Nate. Then he is sent on a journey that takes him from the tense courtrooms of Washington to the dangerous swamps of Brazil. It is a journey that will change his life forever…
Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: Only the Woman in White knows the truth of Laura Fairlie's cruel husband. Can Walter Hartwright discover the terrible secret? From the moment Walter meets this mysterious woman, his future and that of Laura are linked forever.
Скачать книгу (размер 75 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 16) Аннотация: One of Hollywood's most successful actors, Tom Cruise has starred in numerous films since his debut in Risky Business. Read about his life and career, his major film roles, his involvement with Scientology and his marriages.
Скачать книгу (размер 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 68) Аннотация: Don Quixote wants a different life, so he leaves his village with Sancho Panza. The two men want to be a knight and his squire from an earlier age. Will they find adventures? Will they be famous? Will they change the world? This is their story.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Will Freeman wants an easy life with no responsibilities. But then he meets Marcus – an unusual twelve year old boy with serious problems. About a Boy is a modern classic – a very funny story about a very serious subject: love. It’s also a popular movie starring Hugh Grant.
Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: A tree full of enormous spiders, a living thing with no face, a picture that comes alive, and a boy with no heart. These are some of the frightening things in these stories by M. R. James, one of the greatest horror writers of all time.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: The House of the Seven Gables is the home of an important family: the Pyncheons. They have the house and a lot of land, but no money and many problems. Is there a curse on the family? This is a story about money, murder, and love.