Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: My word, it just gets worse and worse doesn't it? Collapsing banks, collapsing countries, massive government cuts, rising debt, inflation and the possibility of a double dip. It's amid all this uncertainty that the already embattled modern man needs the best advice he can get about how to be the best he can. Keep Calm for Chaps offers the same pearls of life wisdom as Keep Calm and Carry On…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: In a spaceship that can travel at the speed of light, Ulysse, a journalist, sets off from Earth for the nearest solar system. There they find a planet which resembles their own, but on Soror humans behave like animals, and are hunted by a civilised race of primates. Captured and sent to a research facility, Ulysse must convince the apes of their mutual origins. But such revelations will have…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: If someone hurts your sister and you're any kind of man, you seek revenge, right? If your brother's accused of a terrible crime but says he didn't do it, you defend him, don't you? When Mikey's sister claims a boy assaulted her, his world begins to fall apart. When Ellie's brother is charged with the offence, her world begins to unravel. When Mikey and Ellie meet, two worlds collide. This is a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to them, none more so than the blooming young starlet Rosemary Hoyt. When Rosemary falls for Dick, the Diver's calculated perfection begins to crack. As dark truths emerge, Fitzgerald shows both the disintegration of a marriage and the failure of idealism. Tender…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster. In A Sort of Life Greene recalls schooldays and Oxford, adolescent encounters with psychoanalysis and Russian roulette, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and how he rashly resigned from The Times when his first…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: This title comes with an introduction by Ben Kane. Oliver Tressilian, a Cornish gentleman, is blessed with 'youth, wealth, and good digestion'. He is betrayed by his half-brother and becomes a renegade and Barbary corsair winning the title of Sakr-el-Bahr — hawk of the sea. This is the thrilling, full-blooded adventure of how a man wronged became the scourge of the Mediterranean and the terror of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Part fiction, part travelogue, the narrator of this compelling masterpiece pursues his solitary, eccentric course from England to Italy and beyond, succumbing to the vertiginous unreliability of memory itself. What could possibly connect Stendhal's unrequited love, the artistry of Pisanello, a series of murders by a clandestine organisation, a missing passport, Casanova, the suicide of a dinner…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite being surrounded by Long Island's bright and beautiful, Gatsby longs only for Daisy Buchanan. In shimmering prose, Fitzgerald shows Gatsby pursue his dream to its tragic conclusion. The Great Gatsby is an elegiac and exquisite portrait of the American Dream.
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: This 1949 Little Golden Book edition of the famous poem, The Night Before Christmas, was a staple in the Golden Book line for many years. Recently found in the Golden Books archives, Corinne Malvern's artwork for this title has been digitized and beautifully reproduced for today's kids!
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: From the very hungry caterpillar to the big brown bear and many more, the World of Eric Carle brings all of this beloved illustrator's creations together. Now children can make this very unique and very timeless world a part of their own with this imagination-tickling coloring and activity series! The big activity book with a die-cut handle features 24 of Eric Carle's biggest and best animals to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Adelia Aguilar is a rare thing in medieval Europe — a woman who has trained as a doctor. Her speciality is the study of corpses, a skill that must be concealed if she is to avoid accusations of witchcraft. But in Cambridge a child has been murdered, others are disappearing, and King Henry has called upon a renowned Italian investigator to find the killer — fast. What the king gets is Adelia, his…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Dr. Seuss's Fox in Socks has been troubling tongues — and garnering giggles — since 1965. Written specifically to be read aloud, it features a tricky fox in socks and the progressively more difficult tongue-twisting games he plays on his exasperated friend Mr. Knox. Now available for the first time in an abridged, sturdy, board book edition, this beloved classic will have babies of all ages…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end. No more puzzles. No more variables. And no more running. Thomas was sure that escape meant he and the Gladers would get their lives back. But no one really knew what sort of life they were going back to. In the Maze, life was easy. They had food, and shelter, and safety... until Teresa triggered the end. In the world outside the Maze, however, the end…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Two centuries of literary homages to the fascinating feline: stories by writers of every stripe — from P.G. Wodehouse to Doris Lessing, from Damon Runyon to Steven Millhauser. The essential unknowableness of cats has inspired many flights of fancy: Italo Calvino's secret city of cats in The Garden of Stubborn Cats, the disappearing feline in Ursula K. Le Guin's mind-twisting Schrodinger's Cat,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 166 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 230) Аннотация: Colorful illustrations and exciting words make these spelling flashcards fun for any kid! We’ve selected 230 words to help your child develop skills in phonics and spelling, and included 10 more blank cards so your child can add personal words like family names or favorite foods. Plus, you can keep track of which words your child has learned with the color-coded meter on the side of this box.…
Скачать книгу (размер 223 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 45) Аннотация: In this latest installation of the Cat in the Hat's Learning Library, the Cat takes Sally and Dick to explore different kinds of deserts around the world, from the hot, dry Sonoran and Mojavi to the bitter cold Gobi and Antarctica. Young readers learn why deserts are dry, and how plants and animals — including cactus, kangaroos, camels, penguins, roadrunners, and many others — have adapted to…
Скачать книгу (размер 223 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 45) Аннотация: In this latest installment of the Cat in the Hat's Learning Library, the Cat takes Sally and Nick to Africa — where they meet some really big cats — and all sorts of other animals, too, including elephants, zebra, giraffe, hippos, warthogs, buffalo, baboons, side-striped jackals, spotted hyena, galagos, pythons, vipers, and six kinds of antelope! Young readers will learn how animals are either…
Скачать книгу (размер 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 36) Аннотация: The elephants are not very happy: the hippos have come to live in their river, because their own has dried up. Strange, thinks Elmer, so he goes to investigate. He discovers the problem of the dry river could be solved: but only if the hippos and the elephants drop their prejudices and work in unison.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This is a real-time five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick, the down-on-his-luck airport lounge bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool Hitchcock blonde incapable of true human contact; and, finally a mysterious voice known as Player One. Slowly,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Want to give a gift that will make a lasting impression? This boxed set of five beloved Beginner Books by Dr. Seuss — The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, Dr. Seuss's ABC, Oh Say Can You Say?, Oh the Thinks You Can Think!, and I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! — is perfect for new parents, birthday celebrations, and happy occaisions of all kinds. Ideal for reading aloud or reading alone, it will be…