Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Portable enough to pack (just 6 x 8 3/4 inches closed) yet spacious enough to wax philosophical about the best and worst of days, this two-sided journal will let you keep your feelings safe even when you're on the go. Whatever your mood, this ruled, wire-bound journal has the place to write about it — open the «Nice» side for entries about kittens and puppies and tea parties; turn it over and…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Portable enough to pack yet spacious enough to wax philosophical about the best and worst of days, this two-sided journal will let you keep your feelings safe even when you're on the go. Whatever your mood, this ruled, wire-bound journal has the place to write about it — open the «Nice» side for entries about kittens and puppies and tea parties; turn it over and open the «Naughty» side to talk…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: In 200 page-filling black and white photos from the archives of London's Daily Mail, this album chronicles the singular musical career of John Lennon, from his days with the Quarry Men in 1958, along with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, to the days before and after his murder on December 8, 1980. Among the classic, rarely seen, and never before published photos here are early performances…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 504) Аннотация: » This is a smaller, gift version of National Geographic's landmark publication, «»Through the Lens»». «Through the Lens» is a cornucopia of National Geographic's best photographs created since 1890 when the Society first started commissioning photographers to go out into the world and bring images back to its readership. Many of the 250 photographs have been previously published in the magazine…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Winners of 22 Grammy Awards — more than any other band — U2 have sold over 150m records. Whilst maintaining their reputation as one of the top rock bands of the modern era, U2 have pursued personal and ideological goals including relief of world poverty and social justice whilst also on a musical journey that has embraced many different styles.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 504) Аннотация: In 250 glorious photographs Wide Angle: National Geographic Greatest Places documents the beauty and depth of every part of the world. Delving deeply into a picture archive that houses over ten million images, with many photographs being published for the first time, this new book-the third and final in the greatest photographs series-presents the world's amazingly diverse places with epic…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Jonathan Franzen's third novel, The Corrections, is a great work of art and a grandly entertaining overture to our new century: a bold, comic, tragic, deeply moving family drama that stretches from the Midwest at mid-century to Wall Street and Eastern Europe in the age of greed and globalism. Franzen brings an old-time America of freight trains and civic duty, of Cub Scouts and Christmas cookies…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 926 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 575) Аннотация: From the great storyteller of modern Russian historians, the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age. The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale — these are the enduring icons of the Crimean War. Less well-known is that this savage war (1853-1856) killed almost a million soldiers and countless civilians; that it enmeshed three great empires — the British,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Acclaimed biographer Peter Ackroyd vibrantly resurrects the legendary epic of Camelot in this modern adaptation. The names of Arthur, Merlin, Lancelot, Guinevere, Galahad, the sword of Excalibur, and the court of Camelot are as recognizable as any from the world of myth. Although many versions exist of the stories of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Kids will love to learn the alphabet and first words with this wonderful pop-up book. Each page is packed with bright illustrations surrounding a fun pop-up block in the middle.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 998 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 393) Аннотация: One hundred years after J. M. Barrie published the novel Peter and Wendy, Maria Tatar revisits a story that, like Alice in Wonderland, bridges the generations, animating both adults and children with its kinetic energy. The adventures of the Darling children with Peter Pan and Tinkerbell in Neverland are the seminal tale of escape and fantasy. Inspired by Barrie's real-life adventures with the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: After years of living in exile, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia in 1994 and published a series of eight powerfully paired stories. These groundbreaking stories — interconnected and juxtaposed using an experimental method Solzhenitsyn referred to as binary — join Solzhenitsyn's already available work as some of the most powerful literature of the twentieth century. With Soviet and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 332) Аннотация: The Best American Comics showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors. Editor Alison Bechdel — creater of the cult comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For and author of Fun Home — has culled the best stories from graphic novels, pamplet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics and webcomics to create this cutting-edge collection. With entries from Joe Sacco, Jeff Smith, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 764 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 151) Аннотация: Rife with humor and personality, this very young middle grade novel has a classic old-fashioned feel and a package equipped with the makings of a modern classic. In Bless This Mouse, a very resilient and quirky colony of church mice fear yet another Great X (more than they fear cats!), but under Mouse Matriarch Hildegarde's leadership, they band together and save themselves from impending doom —…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 436 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 479) Аннотация: Tessa Gray descends into Victorian London's dark underworld to search for her missing brother, with the mysterious Shadowhunters as her only allies.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: 'Brilliant, deeply shocking' — New York Review of Books. Bucky Wunderlick is a rock and roll star. Dissatisfied with a life that has brought fame and fortune, he suddenly decides he no longer wants to be a commodity. He leaves his band mid-tour and holes up in a dingy, unfurnished apartment in Great Jones Street. Unfortunately, his disappearing act only succeeds in inflaming interest... DeLillo's…
Скачать книгу (размер 34 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 8) Аннотация: Do you like robots and building blocks? Discover a world of things to like in touch-and-feel board books. Can you spot the triangle in the sailboat, or the rectangle in the robot? Feel the texture and explore the pictures to learn all about shapes in I Like Toys. Then look at and touch different vegetables, from the big and small pumpkins to the tall and short corn, as you find out about…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: BANG! CRACKLE! BOO! Just like there are lots of quiets, there are also lots of louds: Good louds (HOORAY!) and bad louds (CRASH!) And louds that make you feel like you are the center of attention (BURP!). The Loud Book compiles all these kid-friendly noises from morning to night, in a way that is sure to make readers CHEER!
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: A riveting novel about the remarkable life-and many loves-of author H. G. Wells. H. G. Wells, author of The Time Machine and War of the Worlds, was one of the twentieth century's most prophetic and creative writers, a man who immersed himself in socialist politics and free love, whose meteoric rise to fame brought him into contact with the most important literary, intellectual, and political…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 110 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 219) Аннотация: A riveting thriller about crime and punishment in Soviet-era Moscow. Like the Arkady Renko novels of Martin Cruz Smith, Robert Littell's masterful Mother Russia transports readers back in time and behind the Iron Curtain to experience the extremes of Soviet society. Robespierre Pravdin is a black marketeer who prowls Moscow's streets and alleys hustling wristwatches. Wishing only to survive in a…