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Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Billy is a street urchin, pickpocket and petty thief. Mr Creecher is a monstrous giant of a man who terrifies all he meets. Their relationship begins as pure convenience. But a bond swiftly develops between these two misfits as their bloody journey takes them ever northwards on the trail of their target... Victor Frankenstein. Friendship, trust and betrayal form a dangerous liaison in this moving…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Snow has arrived on Wimbledon Common! The young Wombles, including Bungo, Orinoco and Tomsk, can't wait to start sledging, making snow Wombles and generally having fun in the snow. Then one particular Womble decides to play a snowy trick on the small Wombles... A funny, warm picture book, perfect to curl up with on a cold Christmas night.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Action-packed fantasy romance with a heroine as deadly as she is beautiful, in a world where either fact could make her fortune or seal her fate. Celaena Sardothien is a daredevil assassin with unrivalled fighting skills. After a year's hard labour in the salt mines of the kingdom of Endovier, Celaena is offered her freedom on one condition — she must fight as handsome Prince Dorian's champion in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Bloomsbury is proud to be the global publisher of In Darkness, a stunning tour-de-force set in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake. Shorty is a Haitian boy trapped in the ruins of a hospital when the earth explodes around him. Surrounded by lifeless bodies and growing desperately weak from lack of food and water, death seems imminent. Yet as Shorty waits in darkness for a rescue that may…

Скачать книгу (размер 65 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 14) Аннотация: Deep in the forest, a very large and very selfish crocodile shouts, 'Stay away from my river! If you come in my river, I'll eat you all'. All the animals are thirsty and frightened — until one day... Put the jigsaw puzzles together to discover how the animals solve their snappy dilemma! This fantastic jigsaw storybook includes six puzzles with press-out pieces that neatly fit back into the book…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. Achilles, 'best of all the Greeks', is everything Patroclus is not — strong, beautiful, the child of a goddess — and by all rights their paths should never cross. Yet one day,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: When oxygen levels plunge in a treeless world, a state lottery decides which lucky few will live inside the Pod. Everyone else will slowly suffocate. Years after the Switch, life inside the Pod has moved on. A poor Auxiliary class cannot afford the oxygen tax which supplies extra air for running, dancing and sports. The rich Premiums, by contrast, are healthy and strong. Anyone who opposes the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: When Coraline moves with her parents to a new house she is fascinated by the fact that their 'house' is only half of the building! Divided into flats years ago, there is a brick wall behind a door where once there was a corridor. Coraline, being an inquisitive and bored girl, opens the door one day to find that the wall has gone and in its place is a corridor. As she wanders down it little does…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Last year J. Randy Taraborrelli wrote a bestselling book entitled The Secret Life of Marilyn. His is the most recent of dozens written since Marilyn's death in August of 1962 and yet the appetite for information about Marilyn is insatiable. No matter whether sensational or flawed, as most of these biographies have been, the fans always come out, in best-selling numbers. This time, with Lois…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The British Empire was the creation of a tremendous outpouring of energy and opportunism, when the British were at their most self-confident, and the wealth they gathered was prodigious. At its heart lay a sense of the rectitude of the British way of life, meted out to vast swathes of the rest of the world without let or hindrance. Yet, as this book shows, the empire was not formed by coherent…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: The ultimate Christmas activity book! Packed full of festive activities and stickers for hours of holiday fun. Bloomsbury Activity Books is an exciting new Bloomsbury brand designed to provide hours of colouring, doodling, stickering and activity fun for boys and girls alike. Every book includes enchanting, bright and beautiful illustrations which children and parents will find very hard to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Through a highly original and detailed analysis of the memoirs, interviews and other life writings of Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli, this book explores changing notions of femininity in the early decades of the 20th century, when the democratization of fashion began. Examining the idea of modernity, eternity and the ephemeral in the writings of these haute couturiers, the book reflects on…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: This brilliant little book of Christmas is packed full of activities and stickers for hours of festive fun. From mazes and puzzles through to colouring and picture sudoku, this is the ultimate Christmas activity book! Bloomsbury Activity Books is an exciting new Bloomsbury brand designed to provide hours of colouring, doodling, stickering and activity fun for boys and girls alike. Every book…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Amy Chua's daughters, Sophia and Louisa (Lulu) were polite, interesting and helpful, they had perfect school marks and exceptional musical abilities. The Chinese-parenting model certainly seemed to produce results. But what happens when you do not tolerate disobedience and are confronted by a screaming child who would sooner freeze outside in the cold than be forced to play the piano? Battle Hymn…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Since fossils first revealed a prehistoric world filled with Terrible Lizards, humans have been fascinated by dinosaurs. This fantastic volume packs in every intriguing dinosaur fact from their evolution to extinction — with pictures — for a riveting and funny experience. What could possibly be larger than a Giganotosaurus? Discover the biggest, deadliest, fastest and stupidest dinosaurs…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Jess is in a fix. She has to write a letter to Edouard, her French exchange, before he comes to visit, and her normal ability to write charismatic, charming and seductive letters has deserted her. But there is an even worse problem. She has to send a photo. The idea fills Jess with a special sort of fear. But she has a solution — a digitally enhanced solution — and who better to ask to help than…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: It's just before New Year, and Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's nightlife. But, Frank's behaviour is so odd that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion: his client may in fact have murderous desires. Although Kenji is far from innocent himself, he unwillingly descends with Frank into an inferno of evil, from which only his…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Great Uncle Bulgaria loves telling the ancient and revered history of the Wombles clans to the younger Wombles. But to his great sadness he notices that the young Wombles are not nearly as interested in the history as he is. So Great Uncle Bulgaria decides to take action and show these young Wombles how wonderful — and international — the history of the Wombles is. Tobermory invents some very…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. The household reverberates with shock, not least because…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Jane Mansfield, a gentleman's daughter in 1813 England, has long wished to escape a life in which career choices are limited to wife or maiden aunt. But awakening one morning in twenty-first-century Los Angeles — in the body of someone called Courtney Stone — is not exactly what she had in mind. Jane must quickly get to grips with a world in which no one knows her true identity: a dizzying world…