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…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In A Touch of Magic, Lauren is worried when her little brother Max stops caring for his puppy — how can she and Twilight help him to realize that looking after a pet is very important? In Snowy Dreams, Twilight's magic is fading! Lauren can't believe it. No more magic, no more flying, no more helping others in need — but the worst thing is how unhappy this is making Twilight — what can Lauren do?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne (1572-1631) was also among the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan age. A sensualist who composed erotic and playful love poetry in his youth, he was raised a Catholic but later became one of the most admired Protestant preachers of his time. The Selected Poems reflects this wide diversity, and includes his youthful…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: When Sandra is widowed tragically early in her early 40s, with no children to distract her, and a career as a college lecturer only keeping her mildly busy, she feels she needs a new direction in her life. This comes in the unlikely shape of Martha, a woman she meets completely randomly when they both stop to help in a medical emergency in a shopping mall. Martha has also experienced grief, but…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Ross O'Carroll-Kelly thought he knew all he needed to about women's bodies... So there I was, roysh, in a state of basically very blissful ignorance, when suddenly Sorcha's up the Damien and I have to listen to, like, women's stuff. And now he's getting a biology lesson he could have so lived without... I am telling you, roysh, I never even knew nipples could crack and I was very happy not…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Dense woodland — twisting paths — it's easy to lose your way in the wilderness... The rugged Rocky Mountains are a place some go to hide inside, some to escape into and others to hunt in. Dr Matt Seleckis has never been one for the woods: he remembers his childhood vacations there with his mother and father — and the looming threat of an unexplained death... Now Matt lives in the mountains'…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: In a great courtroom drama, Maigret has to explain why he does not believe that Gaston Meurant was capable of slitting his aunt's throat for money and smothering a small child. But in saving him from the gallows, Maigret must expose some dark secrets about Meurant's life. This is a painful story of an oppressive domestic tragedy and the compassionate insight of a remarkable detective. A truly…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: It is 1993 and Thomas Penmarsh has lived in Finisterre, the house by the sea, all his life, sleeping each night in the room with the barred window. He's only 48 but has been an old man since one evening in 1967 when he lost everything he valued... However now his controlling mother has died and he is master of the house. When Esmond, his cousin and childhood confidante, comes to live with him…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Back in 1964, Peter Redburn and his best friend Richard had spent a golden summer holiday playing out their special game — a private world of secret rituals and oaths of loyalty sworn for eternity. It was all very innocent — until James and Kate joined in... And then, one night, their childish game turned to tragedy... Now an adult, Peter has never been able to escape his own feelings of guilt…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: A Wayne in a Manger includes some wonderfully funny and touching nativity play anecdotes, including children forgetting their lines, ad-libbing, falling of the stage, picking their noses and showing their knickers. One hilarious anecdote tells of an innkeeper who generously says there's plenty of room for Mary and Joseph, while another child, jealous of Joseph's starring role, allows Mary to come…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Clarkson on Cars is a revamped, rejuvenated and expanded edition of Clarkson's classic collection of car journalism. Clarkson rewrote the rule book for motor journalism and here's how. Opinionated, original and laugh-out-loud funny, this is Clarkson at his best.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Beetles, Bugs and Butterflies is Lola’s absolute favourite book ever in the whole wide world. So naturally she is distraught when it’s not at the library. Someone else has borrowed it! Charlie tries everything he can think of to placate her but nothing is ever going to beat Beetles, Bugs and Butterflies. That is, until Charlie finds Chimps and Chimpanzees and then Lola has a new best book ever!
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key... The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open? So begins a quest that takes Oskar — inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective — across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives and complete…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: George Mikes has been studying the British for a long time; here in one book are his three major works, in which he unstintingly offers the fruits of forty years of field research to all aspirant Brits. Having himself been born abroad, Mr. Mikes is in the ideal position to counsel others in the same unhappy state — and even Brits born and bred may pick up a few unexpected tips from his…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: It will come as no surprise to anyone that Jeremy Clarkson loves machines. But it's not just any old bucket of bolts, cogs and bearings that ring his bell. He's scoured the length and breadth of the land, plunged into oceans and taken to the skies in search of those rare machines with that elusive certain something. Along the way he's discovered — 'the safest place to be in the event of nuclear…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: In a revamped, refreshed and expanded edition, Motorworld appears in paperback for the first time. From Iceland to Australia, Clarkson travels the world exploring car culture. This is comic travel writing at its laugh-out-loud funniest.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: The second picture book from Madonna with beautiful artwork by American artist Loren Long. Tommy Tittlebottom sees Mr Peabody taking an apple from Mr Funkadeli's fruit market and is very surprised that he doesn't pay. Then Tommy sees it happen again and decides that Mr Peabody is a thief. Word spreads quickly around the town. When Mr Peabody arrives at the baseball ground, ready for the usual…