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Fiona Beddall: Alexander the Great

Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: Alexander the Great has fascinated people since his death more than 2300 years ago. By the age of thirty he ruled the biggest Empire the world had ever known. This remarkable leader brought civilization to millions and shaped our world.

Jane Austen: Emma

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, clever and rich. She likes to arrange marriages between her friends and neighbours in the village of Highbury. But Emma makes a lot of mistakes and causes more problems than happy marriages. Then she almost loses her own chance of love.

Maeve Binchy: Evening Class

Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: Thirty people join an Italian evening class. All have their own reasons. Connie needs to escape from an unhappy home life; Lou has criminal intentions. Aidan and Signora have organised the classes. All their lives are changed forever.

Mario Puzo: The Godfather

Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: Don Vito Corleone is the Godfather' of New York's richest Mafia family. His business is built on fear and murder. Vito's son Michael wants a quiet life away from the family business. But that's not easy, and slowly Michael becomes the most dangerous gangster of them all.

Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind: Part 2

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: «Gone with the Wind» is a great romantic story of love and war and one of the best-selling books of all time. In Part 2, the American Civil War has destroyed Scarlett O’Hara’s comfortable world. Will she lose her home too? Or can she save it and rebuild her life?»

Anthony Bruno: Seven

Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: Detective Somerset has seven days before he can retire from work and escape from the city. Detective Mills is starting his first week on the job. This story is about seven days and seven shocking murders. The serial killer has one thing on his mind — seven deadly sins.

David Evans: Women in Business

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: At the beginning of the twentieth century, the idea of women in business seemed strange. Today more and more women are reaching the top of business life. This book tells the business success stories of five very different women: Coco Chanel, Hanae Mori, Anita Roddick, Oprah Winfrey and Madonna.

D.H. Lawrence: British and American Short Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: These stories paint colourful pictures of life in Britain and America in the past. We meet some unusual people. There’s the dreamy boy who wakes up one day to find a bird making a nest in his hair! And there’s the man who tries to catch a ghost.

Richard Curtis: Four Weddings and a Funeral

Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: Four Weddings and a Funeral – one of the most successful films from Britain. It’s a Saturday morning, and Charles is still asleep. He should be on his way to Angus and Laura’s wedding! Charles is always late, and he is worried that he will never find the right woman to marry. Then he meets Carrie…

John Grisham: The Pelican Brief

Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: In Washington, two Supreme Court judges are murdered and only the young and beautiful law student Darby Shaw knows why. She has uncovered a deadly secret but will anyone believe her? Can she stay alive long enough to persuade them she is right?

John Grisham: The Rainmaker

Скачать книгу (размер 524 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 104) Аннотация: I have no job. I have no money. I have debts I can’t pay. I do, however, have a case. Rudy Baylor is ready to finish law school but loses his first job before he has even started. Then Dot and Bud Black ask for his help in their fight against a powerful insurance company. Their son, Donny Ray, is dying. His claim for medical insurance has been refused. Can Rudy, an inexperienced student, really…

John Grisham: A Time to Kill

Скачать книгу (размер 524 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 104) Аннотация: Ten-year-old Tonya Hailey is attacked and raped by two local men. Carl Lee, Tonya’s father, shoots them. Now only his lawyer and friend, Jake Brigance, stands between him and the electric chair. Is there a legal defense for Carl Lee’s actions?

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (+ CD-ROM)

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Huck and Jim travel down the Mississippi from St. Petersburg to Cairo. Jim is a runaway slave so they have to be careful. They have a lot of adventures on the river. They even meet a king! But is he real? Huck soon finds out the truth.

John Escott: The Hat (+ CD-ROM)

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Bernardo likes hats. One day he buys a new hat at a street market and people laugh at it. “Why do you want another hat, Bernardo?” his wife says to him. “You have twenty”. But what can she do?

Rod Smith: The Long Road (+ CD-ROM)

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Terry Fox has cancer and he has an artificial leg. He runs across Canada for sick children and he gets $10,000,000. Read about his Marathon of Hope, his pain, and his short life. This is the true story of a strong athlete—and a Canadian hero.

Longman Dictionary of American English (+ CD-ROM)

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The Longman Dictionary of American English is the only intermediate learner's dictionary completely based on natural spoken and written corpus of American English. — 95,000 words and phrases, including all words on the Academic Word List — 36,000 examples based on the Longman American Corpus — Hybrid e-Tutor CD-ROM containing interactive practice, Thesaurus, videos, and audio of words and sample…

H.E. Bates: The Darling Buds of May (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Meet the Larkin family! They enjoy a wonderful country life, never worrying about money, work or the law. But then, one day, a man arrives from the tax office. Is the taxman going to change the Larkin's lives? Or is his life going to change forever?

William Shakespeare: Othello (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Othello is a popular soldier who is in love with his beautiful new wife. He also has good friends – like Iago, another soldier. So when Iago tells him terrible stories about his wife, Desdemona, who should Othello believe? Will jealousy destroy all their lives? This is one of William Shakespeare’s greatest plays.

Stephen Rabley: The Pearl Girl (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Kate Grant comes from Canada. She is visiting Europe with her mother and father. One evening she sees two men in a museum. They are taking a very famous picture…“Girl with a Pearl Ear-ring”. What can Kate do?

Bill Bliss: Word by Word Picture Dictionary English/Russian Edition

Скачать книгу (размер 1 075 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 212) Аннотация: The Word by Word Picture Dictionary is the centerpiece of the complete Word by Word Vocabulary Development Program. The program’s unique interactive methodology makes vocabulary learning come alive as a dynamic communicative experience that prepares students at all levels for success using English in everyday life. — More than 4,000 vocabulary words are presented through vibrant illustrations and…