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Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Impressed into service aboard the seal-hunting Ghost, Humphrey Van Weyden becomes an unwilling participant in a tense shipboard drama. With a wary eye, he watches the vessel’s abusive captain, Wolf Larsen, an enigma who can abandon two sailors on the open water, then return to reading the moral philosophers. One of the best sea novels ever written, The Sea-Wolf tells of mutiny, shipwreck, and a…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last! But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. And the winners are: Augustus Gloop, an enormously fat boy whose hobby is eating; Veruca Salt, a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents are wrapped around her little finger; Violet Beauregarde, a dim-witted gum-chewer with the fastest jaws around; Mike Teavee, a toy pistol-toting…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk at the Central Office of Information and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Brittania, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo 58 — the biggest World's Fair of the century, and the first to be held since the Second World War. As soon as he arrives at…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: The 2-million-copy bestselling modern fable from Korea that is winning hearts around the world This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild — and to hatch an egg of her…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 411 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 474) Аннотация: As a Christmas Eve blizzard whips out of the north, several people converge on a remote family house. As the storm worsens, the emotional sparks-jealousies, distrust, sexual attraction, rivalries-crackle, desperate secrets are revealed, hidden traitors and unexpected heroes emerge.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 292) Аннотация: Sid Halley's glory days as a jockey are over, but he still finds a certain satisfaction in successfully solving a case. His latest one, though, could prove to be his undoing.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: For Jack Ryan, Jr., and his comrades at the covert organization known as The Campus, the fight against America's enemies is never over. But the danger has just hit home in a way they never expected... The Campus has been discovered. And whoever knows they exist knows they can be destroyed. Meanwhile, President Jack Ryan has been swept back into the Oval Office — and his wisdom and courage are…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: The colorful, compelling novel about two lonely souls who find love-and redemption-in Lunacy, Alaska.

Скачать книгу (размер 95 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 20) Аннотация: In this timeless new split-page board book, children can find the bottom half of a page that matches the top half. When they find the right pairs, they will learn to identify all kinds of shapes.

Скачать книгу (размер 95 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 20) Аннотация: The beloved Eric Carle offers colorful puzzles that help the youngest of readers learn about colors and shapes. Readers can find the bottom half of a page that matches the top half.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Gene Hawkins takes on the job of locating a missing priceless breeding stallion. But he gets more action than he bargained for from a group of horse thieves who want to put Hawkins out to pasture — permanently.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 325 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 261) Аннотация: When a hurricane-chasing plane is downed on a Caribbean island, TV meteorologist Perry Stuart barely escapes with his life. But he can't escape what he saw on the island — and if the people who've tracked him back to England have their way, Stuart will have a zero percent chance of survival.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Taking the centuries-old form of a dervish handbook, a guide to life and love updated for the twenty-first century Part meditation book, part oracle and part collection of Sufi lore, poetry and stories, THE SUFI BOOK OF LIFE offers a fresh interpretation of the fundamental spiritual practice found in all ancient and modern Sufi schools — the meditations on the 99 Qualities of Unity. Unlike most…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: When George the giant spies a shop full of wonderful clothes, he decides to treat himself to a new outfit. He puts on his new shirt, pants, shoes, and tie, and is immediately transformed from the scruffiest giant in town to the spiffiest giant in town. But on his way home, George runs into various animals who need his help. And little by little, George finds himself giving away all his new…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: One girl, one nation, one chance... Esther's story is one of the most dramatic in the Bible: a renowned beauty, she used her feminine wiles to capture the heart of a king and so win the deliverance of her people from the threat of death. The Gilded Chamber creatively re-works the famous story to show us how this young girl came to be in the harem of King Xerxes and how her path to womanhood…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: There's a message in your inbox. Then, a few moments later, your computer crashes. Leela Zahir, Bollywood actress and temperamental star, is being catapulted from the fringes of fame into a million inboxes. Arjun Mehta, computer geek, looks up from his screen to find that he does, after all, have a role to play in the world. Guy Swift, marketing executive with his own agency, a beautiful…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Abbie Fenton wants a baby. Her husband Felix, not unaware of the thunderous ticking of Abbie's biological clock, wants to oblige but their home has still to be blessed. Cue the usual round of doctors, tests, probes and scans all to no avail. So Abbie adopted at birth decides that if she can't have a child then she must at least discover whose child she is. Soon, she and Felix are caught up in a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: At the start of World War One, German warships controlled Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa. The British had no naval craft at all upon 'Tanganjikasee', as the Germans called it. This mattered: it was the longest lake in the world and of great strategic advantage. In June 1915, a force of 28 men was despatched from Britain on a vast journey. Their orders were to take control of the lake. To reach…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: This beautiful novel opens on the eve of World War II as a group of middle-class Jews arrive in the resort town of Badenheim, somewhere in Austria, ready to spend another idyllic summer vacation. But Europe in 1939 is no vacationland. Rumours of war rumble into the resort town, but the characters struggle to convince themselves that everything is perfectly normal.

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: «When Mouse takes a stroll through the woods, he meets a fox, an owl, and a snake who all want to eat him! So Mouse invents a gruffalo, a monster with «terrible tusks and terrible claws, terrible teeth, and terrible jaws.» But will Mouse's frightful description be enough to scare off his foes? After all, there's no such thing as a gruffalo . . . is there? Sturdy pages and a cozy trim make this…