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Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The TARDIS lands in 22nd century Africa in the shadow of a dormant volcano. Agri-teams are growing new foodstuffs in the baking soil to help feed the world's starving millions — but the Doctor and Rose have detected an alien signal somewhere close by. When a nightmare force starts surging along the dark volcanic tunnels, the Doctor realises an ancient trap has been sprung. But who was it meant…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Starfall is a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work. And that includes the TARDIS. The pioneers who used to be drawn by the hope of making a fortune from the mines can find easier picking elsewhere. But they still come — for the romance of it, or old-fashioned organic mining. Or in the hope of finding the lost treasure of…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are. Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter, both sixteen when the story starts in 1876, come from different countries and contrasting families. They are united by an ambition to understand how the mind works and whether madness is the price we pay for being human. As psychiatrists, they travel on a quest from the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this dazzling new collection. At its centre are three stories connected into one marvellously rich narrative about Juliet — who escapes from teaching at a girls' school and throws herself into a wild and passionate love match. Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances, their lives made vividly palpable by the nuance…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The Cybermen are back to terrorize time and space — but luckily the new Doctor, played by David Tennant, and Rose are back to stop them. Picking up where Monsters and Villains left off, this fully illustrated guide documents the return of these metal menaces, as well as the Sycorax and other foes from the new series, plus first series terrors like the Gelth and the Reapers. More classic baddies…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 569 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 309) Аннотация: In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Clare and David-divided as children by a rigid social code that branded her as shanty Irish and him as gentry...brought together as adults by a desire that knew no class, no barriers, only the urgent hunger of two people destined to love--and ready to defy a world determined to keep them apart. Even at fifteen, David Power knew the echo would answer eleven-year-old Clare O'Brien's dearest wish,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreckage of a plane-the pilot is dead and his duffle bag contains four million dollars in cash. In order to hide, keep, and share the fortune, these ordinary men all agree to a simple plan.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: Who Owns the World is the first ever compilation of landowners and landownership structures in every single one of the world's 197 states and 66 territories. It covers the history of landownership as far as written history will allow and shows the division of landownership in every region of the globe. Packed with revelatory information, the book: identifies the person who owns the largest…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Christmas comes but once a year. Luckily... The Christmas holiday is, traditionally, a time when families gather together. In Ralph's case, this means ten or more relatives coming to stay, including assorted aunts and uncles, nutty Great-Aunt Ida (the Home tells them to be careful not to let her out) and his ghastly cousins: Titania in her silly, sick-making frilly fairy dresses and the twins…

Скачать книгу (размер 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 28) Аннотация: Uh-oh. Mrs. Wishy-Washy is at it again. Rubbing and scrubbing all the animals on the farm. But this time they aren't standing for it. Duck, Cow, and Pig are leaving mean old Mrs. Wishy-Washy for good! They run away to the big city. But they get lost, wander into a restaurant, and even stumble into a hardware store and get covered in paint! Where is Mrs. Wishy-Washy when they need her? Maybe her…

Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: Things are always a little rowdy in a class of twenty-six kindergartners, but there are some days when chaos reigns. Watch what happens in Miss Bindergarten's rambunctious class when water overflows, ants are on the loose, and oozy paint smudges. How will Miss Bindergarten and the kindergartners get everything back in order? This is one kindergarten adventure not to be missed!

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Arranged thematically—from Class and Character, Sex and Snobbery, to the Foreigner’s Eye View—here is the definitive collection of the British nation’s funniest quotations. Among the many great and good who dazzle us with their wit are Martin Amis, Jane Austen, Billy Connolly, Quentin Crisp, Roald Dahl, John Lennon, Queen Victoria, and Oscar Wilde.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 758 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 346) Аннотация: Deborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music icon Carlos Santana — a thirty-year bond that endures to this day. But as a girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white mother and a black father — the legendary blues guitarist Saunders King-her life was charged with its own drama long before she married. In this beautiful, haunting memoir, Deborah Santana shares for…

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: A condensed, board-book version of the P. D. Eastman canine classic Big Dog... Little Dog, staring Fred and Ted-mutts who are opposite in every way, but best friends nevertheless.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: His originality lay in his gifts as a traveller. He had the foreign ear and eye for the strangeness of ordinary life and its ordinary crises' V. S. Pritchett In 1936 Graham Greene set off to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar West African republic founded for released slaves. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast of Grand Bassa with a chain of porters, he came to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: When the people of the underground city of Ember follow Lina and Doon to the surface, little prepares them for what they will encounter. Leaving behind the darkness that has been their home for generations, they discover a world of colour, warmth and light. The people of the small village of Sparks seem willing to help them... at first... but life on the surface has its dark side too. Before long…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: An extraordinary, harrowing, endlessly surprising novel from a literary master. In 1946, two brothers and a Jewish girl fall into alignment in pogrom-poised Moscow. The fraternal conflict then marinates in Norlag, a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the coveted House of Meetings will haunt all three lovers long after the brothers are released. And for the narrator, the…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: From Alice and Abe to Zeb and Zipper, an alphabetical array of guests turns out for the biggest birthday party ever. But Hooper Humperdink isn't on the guest list.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 516) Аннотация: The third volume of the great Knights Templar tetralogy from Wolfgang Hohlbein The year 1179 in the Holy Land. In order to save her own life, Robin is once again compelled to take to the sword and fight for the cause of the Templars. With the army of the Crusaders in the process of disintegrating, she saves the life of Balduin, King of Jerusalem, and is the witness of a sinister murder. Suddenly…