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Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The Lost Estate is Robin Buss's translation of Henri Alain-Fournier's poignant study of lost love, Le Grand Meaulnes. This Penguin Classics edition also contains an introduction by Adam Gopnik. When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and charisma. But when Meaulnes disappears for several days, and returns with tales of a strange…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Zoe Martinique has turned her unusual ability into a career. When she's traveling, she can't be seen which makes her an ideal professional snoop. Industrial espionage, surveillance, whatever. But one night things get out of hand while she's outof — body. She witnesses a murder and a soul stealing, and discovers she has unwelcome company: Trench — Coat, a ghostly killer who can see and hurt her.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life, he follows. After their all-nighter ends, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo has disappeared.

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: A little learning library using artwork from Eric Carle's classic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Introducing first concepts, this wonderful board book collection makes a perfect first library. Each book is filled with Eric Carle's much-loved collage art and large, simple text. Ideal for little hands to hold the sturdy board pages are durable enough to withstand the rough and tumble of toddlers.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born. Of unnatural parentage, he grows at an uncanny pace to an unsettling height, but the boy’s arrival simply precedes that of a true horror: one of the Old Ones, that forces the people of the town to hole up by night, fearful for their lives, by day able only to trace the wreckage wrought by the gigantic,…

Скачать книгу (размер 75 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 16) Аннотация: It`s snowing and Peppa and George can`t wait to get outside and play. Suitable for fans of Peppa Pig, this board book lets you find out what happens when they build a great big snow man in this delightful little winter`s tale.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twain's early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel, «Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.»

Скачать книгу (размер 2 385 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 469) Аннотация: After one troubled college-age student disappears and two are found slashed to death, Lucas Davenport finds himself hunting what appears to be a modern-day Jack the Ripper. But Lucas keeps getting the sneaking suspicion that there is something else involved. Something very bad, very dark, and as elusive as a phantom.

Скачать книгу (размер 146 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 30) Аннотация: «The newest title in Natasha Wing's bestselling «Night Before» series! It's the night before New Year's, and the whole family is determined to stay up until midnight! Everyone's stocked up on sparkly streamers and festive party hats, but after a night filled with card games and too many cupcakes, the little ones are getting sleepy... Can they make it until the clock strikes twelve?»

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: First published in 1949, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four has lost none of the impact with which it first hit readers. Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening,…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: After Charlie convinces Lola to recycle her old toys instead of throwing them away, Lola discovers a recycling competition. If she can recycle one hundred plastic, metal, and paper items, she can get her very own real live tree to plant. But she only has two weeks, so Lola decides to ask her classmates to help. They turn out to be extremely very good recyclers indeed. This adventure is printed on…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Physics of the Impossible takes us on a journey to the frontiers of science and beyond, giving us an exhilarating insight into what we can really hope to achieve in the future. Everyday we see that what was once declared 'impossible' by scientists has become part of our everyday lives: fax machines, glass sky-scrapers, gas-powered automobiles and a worldwide communications network. Here…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: There are many ways prospective authors routinely sabotage their own work. Misstep by misstep, How Not to Write a Novel shows how you can ensure your manuscript never rises above the level of unpublishable sputum, that the characters in your opus are unpleasant, dimensionless versions of yourself, that your plot is digressive, tedious and unconvincing, and that your style is reliant on mangled…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Learning by heart is the best way to experience a poem, but the method has fallen from favor as part of the educational system. This small collection of the best English poems offers the reader the chance to re-engage with poetry. Filled with favorites, and thoughtfully selected by Laura Barber (editor of Penguin's Poems for Life and the forthcoming Penguin's Poems for Love) this anthology is an…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: It's Christmas, and half the Partickhill police squad is down with flu. Not good timing, with a series of cyanide poisonings in the area, plus two small boys reported missing in the space of a few days. And then there's the monumental task of providing concert security for rock legend Rogan O'Neill... But for Detective Inspector Colin Anderson, the nightmare is about to get terrifyingly close to…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Jack King is about to learn the truth behind the saying: see Naples and die! Expert profiler Jack King is on the trail of Luciano Creed, a psychologist obsessed with the cases of five missing woman. Jack is convinced Creed is not all he seems! Then the burnt bones of one of the women are uncovered on the foothills of Mount Vesuvius. Within days a serial killer's secret graveyard is laid bare. For…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The place is Dublin. The time is the present. Five characters — two Irish, three from eastern Europe, all seeking success from wildly different starting points — become entangled with one another in a web of politics, property, sex and violence. Chris Binchy's novel is a beautifully observed portrait of a place and a time, and a thrillingly paced story of an unforgettable group of characters…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future. With its sensitive depiction of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journals, Ackerley recorded the Maharajah's fantastically eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court. Hindoo Holiday is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fiction — tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written when she was still in her twenties, these extraordinary stories combine an unsettled, probing,…