Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The most stylish doodle book around! Packed with fabulous drawings and fashion inspiration. Dream up dresses, play with colours and try out looks. It's this season's must-have accessory for every budding style queen!
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A brilliantly brain-warping thriller and a love story that leaps back and forth in time — All Our Yesterdays is an amazing first novel, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games. Em is locked in a bare, cold cell with no comforts. Finn is in the cell next door. The Doctor is keeping them there until they tell him what he wants to know. Trouble is, what he wants to know hasn't happened yet. Em and Finn…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: On 8 September 1941, eleven short weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege would not be lifted for two and a half years and during the 872 days of blockade and bombardment as many as two million Soviet lives would be lost. Had the city fallen, the history of the Second World War — and of the twentieth…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Every night, Kawashima Masayuki creeps from his bed and watches over his baby girl's crib while his wife sleeps. But this is no ordinary domestic scene. He has an ice pick in his hand, and a barely controllable desire to use it. Deciding to confront his demons, Kawashima sets into motion a chain of events seeming to lead inexorably to murder.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: 'I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974... My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license... records my first name simply as Cal.' So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives. Twenty years on, their enigmatic personalities are embalmed in the memories of the boys who worshipped them and who now recall their shared adolescence: the brassiere draped over a crucifix belonging to the promiscuous Lux; the sisters' breathtaking…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Nineteen-year-old Joy Louie has run away from her home in 1950s America to start a new life in China. Idealistic and unafraid, she believes that Chairman Mao is on the side of the people, despite what her family keeps telling her. How can she trust them, when she has just learned that her parents have lied to her for her whole life, that her mother Pearl is really her aunt and that her real…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Inventor. Visionary. Genius. Dropout. Adopted. Steve Jobs was the founder of Apple and he was all of these things. Steve Jobs has been described as a showman, artist, tyrant, genius, jerk. Through his life he was loved, hated, admired and dismissed, yet he was a living legend; the genius who founded Apple in his parent's garage when he was just 20 years old, revolutionising the music world. He…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Berlin, 1946. During one of the coldest winters on record, Pavel Richter, a decommissioned GI, finds himself at odds with a rogue British Army colonel and a Soviet General when a friend deposits the frozen body of a dead Russian spy in his apartment. So begins the race to take possession of the spy's secret, a race which threatens Pavel's friendship with a street orphan named Anders and his…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: When Nelly reads a description of herself in a book, she is convinced that she is a mouse after all she is grey, has big ears and a thin tail. When she meets some mice, the confusion only grows in this delightfully funny tale of mixed messages and taking everything you read in books just a little too literally.
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Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: encompassing Charles Darwin, Queen Victoria and a villainous secret society. A photographic retelling of the original uproarious story by acclaimed author Gideon Defoe. 'I HATE pirates!' declares Queen Victoria. Nevertheless, deterined to win the coveted Pirate of the Year Award, the Pirate Captain takes his life in his hands and enters the city of London. With the help of Darwin, a manpanzee and…
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: London, 1840: Wagner's latest opera plays to packed houses while disgruntled workers gather in crowded pubs to eat ice cream and plan the downfall of the bourgeoisie. And the Pirate Captain — his disguise proving something of a letdown — finds himself incarcerated in Scotland Yard, in a case of mistaken identity. Discovering that his doppelganger is none other than Karl Marx, the Captain and his…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: 'How can you talk about being civil when innocent animals are being tortured to death? Civil? I'll be civil when the killing's done'. The island of Anacapa, off the coast of California, is overrun with black rats which are threatening the ancient population of ground-nesting birds. Alma Boyd Takesue of the National Park Service is the spokesperson for a campaign to exterminate these…
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Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Where does the Queen keep her armies? Up her sleevies! Laugh your way through this hilarious book packed with hundreds of splendidly silly jokes on every topic under the sun, such as animals, school and family, plus plenty of good old knock, knock jokes and lots of royalty themed jokes. Handy practical tips will advise you on crucial regal accomplishments, such as how to perfect the royal wave…
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