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Скачать книгу (размер 1 064 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 210) Аннотация: In We'll Always Have Paris — a new collection of stories gathered together for the first time — the inimitable Ray Bradbury once again delights us with prose that soars and sings. He imagines great things and poignantly observes human foibles and frailties. He enchants us with the magic he mastered decades ago and still performs flawlessly. Whether he's exploring the myriad ways to be reborn, or…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 391 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 274) Аннотация: The locals in the southern Italian town where he lives call him Signor Farfalla — Mr. Butterfly: for he is a discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies. His life is inconspicuous — mornings spent brushing at a canvas, afternoons idling in the cafes, and evening talks with his friend the town priest over a glass of brandy. Yet there are other sides to this gentleman's life. Clara — the young…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: In the early hours of New Year's 1994, Russian troops invaded the Republic of Chechnya, plunging the country into a prolonged and bloody conflict that continues to this day. A foreign correspondent in Moscow at the time, Asne Seierstad traveled regularly to Chechnya to report on the war, describing its affects on those trying to live their daily lives amidst violence. In the following decade,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: For the first time in his life, Jacob Reckless is afraid. For years he's stolen across to another world. A dark enchanted place he's loved for its treasure, secrets and dangers. Until now. Will, his younger brother, has followed him with terrible consequences: the boy will turn to beast; the girl he loves will break her heart and chaos will rule forever, unless Jacob can spin a fairytale to save…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Deck the iceberg wrap a gifty Fa la la la la la la la la... Tacky, Goodly, Lovely, Angel, Neatly, and Perfect are celebrating the holiday with good cheer, singing, and lots of presents. Tacky's present is a little bit different, and not exactly what his friends had in mind, but when the Christmas merrymaking is interrupted by hunters in search of pretty penguins, it's Tacky's gift that helps to…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was clearly a threat to the entire world. In that year, The Third Reich came of age and the Fuhrer showed his hand — bringing Germany into line with Nazi ideology and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: This new book — inspired by three classic, award-winning books — reveals the how and why behind some of the most fascinating and enduring structures humankind has ever created. Macaulay has revised texts based on new research, created gorgeous new drawings, in some cases wholly re-imagined scenes from the books — bringing Castle and Cathedral to life in full-color for the very first time. The…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 651 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 325) Аннотация: In these five tales of intellectual derring-do, Sherlock Holmes is shown at the height of his powers: he cooperates with a young Winston Churchill in the famed siege of Sydney Street; helps defeat a plan for a German invasion outlined in the Zimmerman Telegram; establishes a link between two missing light-house keepers and the royal treasures of King John; contends with a supernatural curse…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Georgie Sinclair's life is coming unstuck. Her husband's left her. Her son's obsessed with the End of the World. And now her elderly neighbour Mrs Shapiro has decided they are related. Or so the hospital informs her when Mrs Shapiro has an accident and names Georgie next of kin. This, however, is not a case of a quick ward visit: Mrs Shapiro has a large rickety house full of stinky cats that…

Скачать книгу (размер 65 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 14) Аннотация: Do you like scratchy cat kisses? Or do you prefer squeaky pig kisses? How about a velvety cow kiss? Kids will adore puckering up to Barney Saltzberg's irresistible menagerie of animals with fuzzy, sticky, and rubbery mouths just waiting for big smooches.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In the Russian winter of 1878 a shy, aristocratic young woman named Vera Zasulich walked into the office of the governor of St. Petersburg, pulled a revolver from underneath her shawl, and shot General Fedor Trepov point blank. Revenge!, she cried, for the governor's brutal treatment of a political prisoner. Her trial for murder later that year became Russia's trial of the century, closely…

Скачать книгу (размер 75 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 16) Аннотация: An egg cracks — crickety crack — and out comes a little yellow chick! He peeps, he cheeps, he eats, and at the very end, he sleeps under Mommy's wing — zzzzzz. Each eye-popping page in this interactive novelty book invites the reader to jump in and play with the chick, and Ed Vere's art is appealing and brightly colored. Ed Vere's new pop-up book is the perfect Easter gift for all your little…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 572) Аннотация: The American road to empire started when the first English settlers landed in Virginia. Simultaneously, the first Russians crossed the Urals and the two empires that would dominate the twentieth century were born. Empires Apart covers the history of the Americans and Russians from the Vikings to the present day. It shows the two empires developed in parallel as they expanded to the Pacific and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Donald Sturrock's Storyteller is the authorized biography of Roald Dahl, one of the greatest storytellers of all time.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: Music is Andrew Zuckerman's latest masterpiece, an extraordinary sequel to the highly acclaimed Wisdom. For this new, ambitious project, he now turns his unique perspective to music. Sixty eminent individuals — artists, composers, producers and performers from rock, rap, dance, soul, R&B, country, classical, reggae, pop, jazz, world and more — have all been subjected to Zuckerman's democratic…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The general outline of Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812, the battle of Borodino, the burning of Moscow and the interminable, grinding misery of the great retreat are well known. What is much less well known are the background details of the campaign, the orders of battle, the vast efforts which were devoted — in vain — to the logistics, the many actions, great and small, which…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Come feel the cool and shadowed breeze, come smell your way among the trees, come touch rough bark and leathered leaves: Welcome to the night. Welcome to the night, where mice stir and furry moths flutter. Where snails spiral into shells as orb spiders circle in silk. Where the roots of oak trees recover and repair from their time in the light. Where the porcupette eats delicacies — raspberry…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 661 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 327) Аннотация: In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the threats and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (even under Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Israeli assault on Gaza and the recent financial bailouts, he also sees hope for the future and a way to move forward — in the so-called…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 656 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 326) Аннотация: A new biography of Lewis Carroll, just in time for the release of Tim Burton's all-star Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll was brilliant, secretive and self contradictory. He reveled in double meanings and puzzles, in his fiction and his life. Jenny Woolf's The Mystery of Lewis Carroll shines a new light on the creator of Alice In Wonderland and brings to life this fascinating, but sometimes…

Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: Don't you dare laugh. Andy Riley's hilariously morbid cartoons of cute little rabbits creatively offing themselves decorate the yellow coves of this standard-sized, wide-ruled composition notebook.