Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially — kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. There are irritating flies in the ointment, though, including a missing wife, a nagging cocaine habit, a dramatic deterioration in his genital health, a string of increasingly demanding extra-marital affairs.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: It's Christmas Eve in Washington DC, Detective Alex Cross is at home with his family decorating the tree and enjoying a Cross family tradition, a big bowl of egg nog, when he receives a phone call that causes the festivities to be put on hold. Across town in a mansion house, Henry Fowler, a hard-nosed corporate lawyer turned small-time drug hustler, is holding his children, his ex-wife, her new…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 880 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 566) Аннотация: In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: «Inspired by the master of literature, this is a humorous retelling of George Lucas' epic «Star Wars». The text is accompanied by fantastic Elizabethan woodcut illustrations of Chewbacca, C-3PO and other classic characters. Students, scholars and general readers will appreciate the humour and impressive attention to detail. Who knew iambic pentameter could be so funny?»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The Wheel. A ring of ice and steel turning around a moon of Saturn, and home to a mining colony supplying a resource-hungry Earth. It's a bad place to grow up. The colony has been plagued by problems. Maybe it's just gremlins, just bad luck. But the equipment failures and thefts of resources have been increasing, and there have been stories among the children of mysterious creatures glimpsed…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Roll up! Roll up! Read all about it! Ladies and Gents, Sir Jack Dodger brings you a most excellent Guide to London! Did you know? If a Victorian couldn't afford a sweep, they might drop a goose down their chimney to clean it! A posh lady's unmentionables could weigh up to 40lbs! Parliament had to be suspended during the Great Stink of 1858! From the wretches of the rookeries to the posh nobs at…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, their daughter, Tandy, knows just three things: she was one of the last people to see her parents alive; she and her brothers are the only suspects; she can't trust anyone — maybe not even herself. Having grown up under their parents' intense perfectionist demands, none of the Angel children have come away undamaged. Tandy decides that she will…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The Novrosk Peninsula: the Soviet naval base has been abandoned, the nuclear submarines are rusting and rotting. Cold, isolated, forgotten. Until the Russian Special Forces arrive and discover that the Doctor and his companions are here too. But there is something else in Novrosk. Something that predates even the stone circle on the cliff top. Something that is at last waking, hunting, killing.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: When the Tardis makes a disastrous landing in the swamps of the planet Sunday, the Doctor has no choice but to abandon Martha and try to find help. But the tranquility of Sunday's swamps is deceptive, and even the Tardis can't protect Martha forever. The human pioneers of Sunday have their own dangers to face: homeless and alone, they're only just starting to realise that Sunday's wildlife isn't…
Скачать книгу (размер 524 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 104) Аннотация: The Badger is back! At Toad Hall, lair of multibillionaire. Baron Aristotle Krapaud, a cabal of industrialists and fat cats plot the violent overthrow of the French state by the intervention of horribly beweaponed automaton soldiers. Meanwhile, the brutal murder of a famous Parisian artist, mysteriously stabbed to death in his locked and guarded studio, is subject to the investigations of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: BBC radio and television played crucial roles during The Beatles' initial breakthrough and subsequent global domination. This book reveals how the relationship between the UK's foremost broadcasting organization and the world's most celebrated pop group developed between 1962 and 1970. This in-depth account of The Beatles' BBC appearances features transcripts of broadcast interviews plus…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: If a country wants to remain economically vibrant, it needs to manufacture things. In recent years, however, many nations have become obsessed with making money out of selling services, leaving the real business of manufacturing to others. Makers is about how all that is being reversed. Over the past ten years, the internet has democratised publishing, broadcasting and communications, leading to…
Скачать книгу (размер 26 595 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 5216) Аннотация: Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King’s Landing. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert’s name. There his family dwells in peace and comfort: his proud wife, Catelyn; his sons Robb, Brandon, and Rickon; his daughters Sansa and Arya; and his bastard son, Jon Snow. Far to the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: When the Tardis materialises in medieval Worcester, the Doctor finds the city seemingly deserted. He soon discovers its population are living in a state of terror, afraid to leave their homes after dark, for fear of meeting their doom at the hands of the legendary Devil's Huntsman. For months, people have been disappearing, and the Sheriff has imposed a strict curfew across the city, his militia…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: A gloriously witty novel from Sebastian Faulks using P.G. Wodehouse's much-loved characters, Jeeves and Wooster, fully authorised by the Wodehouse estate. Due to a series of extenuating circumstances, Bertie Wooster, recently returned from a very pleasurable sojourn in Cannes, finds himself at the home of Sir Henry Hackwood. Bertie is, of course, familiar with the set-up at a country house. He…
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: This rhymed retelling of the hit PBS Kids holiday special The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About Christmas! is bound to become a cherished keepsake. Written in a style reminiscent of Clement Moore's 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, the book retells the story from the Cat's Christmas Eve Party through his various mishaps while attempting to return young reindeer Ralph home in time to pull Santa's…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: The Cat in the Hat learns all about cats--wild and domestic--in this feline-focused Cat in the Hat's Learning Library book! Traveling aboard his Kitty-Cat-Copter, the Cat takes Sally and Nick to meet lions in Kenya, tigers in Bangkok, Siamese down the block — learning along the way those traits that all cats share: scratchy tongues, padded paws, sensitive wiskers, sharp claws, and those things…
Скачать книгу (размер 55 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 12) Аннотация: The Cat in the Hat travels the world to learn about baby animals in this simple, sturdy board book with 30 fact-filled flaps! From the Galapagos Islands to the Australian Outback, the forests of India to the islands of Hawaii and Madagascar, the Cat visits with babies of all shapes and sizes, among them land iguanas, lava lizards, kookabura, koalas, kangaroos, flying foxes, giant squirrels,…
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: «Animals under the sea and up in the air fly and swim on the pages of these not-your-average coloring books (see also Count and Color: Swim). Young artists will have a splash coloring in beautiful block prints of an amazing array of sea creatures and airborne animals — and will strengthen counting skills, learn a little about printmaking, and pick up a few fancy collective nouns, to boot — e.g.,…
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Animals under the sea and up in the air fly and swim on the pages of these not-your-average coloring books (see also Count and Color: Fly). Young artists will have a splash coloring in beautiful block prints of an amazing array of sea creatures and airborne animals — and will strengthen counting skills, learn a little about printmaking, and pick up a few fancy collective nouns, to boot — e.g., Is…