Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: In Dorian Gray, Wilde's full-length novel, a fashionable young man sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Also included in the volume are three of the Irish master storyteller's short works.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: MEET NATTY BUMPPO The first volume in the famous Leatherstocking Tales, The Pioneers introduces Natty Bumppo, the quintessential American hunter and frontiersman who struggles to defend his cherished freedom.
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: A little magic can take you a long way. After James Henry Trotter's parents are tragically eaten by a rhinoceros, he goes to live with his two horrible aunts, Spiker and Sponge. Life there is no fun, until James accidentally drops some magic crystals by the old peach tree and strange things start to happen. The peach at the top of the tree begins to grow, and before long it's as big as a house.…
Скачать книгу (размер 95 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 20) Аннотация: Kids will love flipping through these chunky board books! These two mini board books are childrenas first steps to reading Eric Carle books on their own. Each book shows ten images and ten easy words from one of Eric Carleas classic Very books. First-time readers will love to learn these words and pictures and then find them later in the original picture books!
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Set in the lush world of the tropical rain forest, this classic picture book about a slow moving sloth who is smarter than he looks is an exquisite showcase for Carle's colorful collage art with a meaningful message.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Someone's been stealing from the three meanest farmers around, and they know the identity of the thief—it's Fantastic Mr. Fox! Working alone they could never catch him; but now fat Boggis, squat Bunce, and skinny Bean have joined forces, and they have Mr. Fox and his family surrounded. What they don't know is that they're not dealing with just any fox—Mr. Fox would rather die than surrender. Only…
Скачать книгу (размер 95 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 20) Аннотация: Feast your eyes on the latest split-page board books from Eric Carle. In the sumptuous My Very First Book of Food, children can match each animal with the food it eats. Do you know what a squirrel eats? How about a seal? In My Very First Book of Motion, children can match each animal with the way it moves. Which animal hops? Which one waddles? Only you can match them. These fun books are full of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 875 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 369) Аннотация: Sid knows the perils of racing all too well, but in his day jockeys didn't usually cross the finish line with three. 38 rounds in the chest-which is how he found Huw Walker, the winner of a coveted race only a few hours earlier. Now Halley's quest for answers will push him to his very limits-both on and off the track.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time — phrases such as 'iron curtain', 'business as usual', 'the few', and 'summit meeting' passed quickly into everyday use — Winston Churchill used language as his most powerful weapon at a time when his most frequent complaint was that the armoury was otherwise empty. In this volume, David Cannadine selects thirty-three orations ranging over…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Ten Days That Shook the World is John Reed's eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution. A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power. Containing verbatim reports both of speeches by leaders and the chance comments of bystanders, set…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: When brutal terrorists strike at the heart of Washington, the usual suspects are blamed. But this time, America's worst nightmare has come true — the terror comes from within. Former 'black ops' soldier Jason March is the mastermind behind the vicious attacks. Only one man has the power to stop March's bloodlust — the man who trained him — Ryan Kealey. Once an elite but maverick Special Forces…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Families are toxic... Thanksgiving, New England, and writer Cynthia has been persuaded by elder sister Frances to come and visit for the autumn holiday. Cynthia is reluctant to join in this family reunion because she'd rather not see their long-estranged father. Yet Frances is adamant that they must all meet to clear the air — poisoned ever since their mother died when they were children. But…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: In India, at the birth of the last century, an infant is brought howling into the world, his remarkable paleness marking him out from his brown-skinned fellows. Revered at first, he is later cast out from his wealthy home when his true parentage is revealed. So begins Pran Nath's odyssey of self-discovery — a journey that will take him from the streets of Agra, via the red light disrict of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Captain Cleve Connell arrives in Korea with a single goal: to become an ace, one of that elite fraternity of jet pilots who have downed five MIGs. But as his fellow airmen rack up kill after kill — sometimes under dubious circumstances — Cleve's luck runs bad. Other pilots question his guts. Cleve comes to question himself. And then in one icy instant 40,000 feet above the Yalu River, his luck…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: In exile, in danger, on the run, for six years Alec Milius has been trying to escape his past. But his past refuses to release him. Abandoned by MI6 after a disastrous operation with the CIA, Milius has slowly rebuilt his life in Madrid: he has a flat, a job — and a relationship with the wrong woman. Older and wiser than the young spy who first caught the eye of British Intelligence, Milius still…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: For nine years, Adam has been the centre of his mother, Cara's world. And, she thinks, she has been the centre of his, until the day he disappears. When he is found in the woods behind his school, beside the body of a little girl whom Cara has never heard of before, it feels as if her world has been torn apart. As Adam is locked into silence, unable to tell his mother what he has seen, Cara's…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: By the age of 32, Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man. But when Ronit's father dies she is called back into the very different world of her childhood, a world she thought she had left far behind. The orthodox Jewish suburb of Hendon, north London is outraged by Ronit and her…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler team up again to create this funny and adorable sequel to The Gruffalo. One night, the Gruffalo’s child wanders into the woods to search for the Big Bad Mouse. But instead, she comes upon a small mouse in the woods . . . and decides to eat him! But wait, what is that? A shadow of a very large, scary creature falls on the ground. Could it be the Big Bad Mouse…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: The novel (1915) chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family over a period of more than 60 years, setting them against the emergence of modern England. The central figure of ursula becomes the focus of Lawrence's examination of relationships and the conflicts they bring, and the inextricable mingling of the physical and the spiritual. Suffused with biblical imagery, The…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: On one level the novel is about the homecoming of Lavretsky, who, broken and disillusioned by a failed marriage, returns to his estate and finds love again — only to lose it. The sense of loss and of unfulfilled promise, beautifully captured by Turgenev, reflects his underlying theme that humanity is not destined to experience happiness except as something ephemeral and inevitably doomed. On…