Скачать книгу (размер 1 085 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 214) Аннотация: Smart-opedia: The Amazing Book About Everything is designed to make learning an absorbing adventure that's a treat for even the most reluctant learner. Expertly organized so readers can find what they want when they want it, the book's four main sections (The World Around Us, Life, History, and Genius) are separated into nine detailed chapters (Astronomy, Planet Earth, Plants, Animals, The Human…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 590 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 313) Аннотация: There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings, and the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: lands where Treebeard once walked, but that were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World. In that remote time Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband, the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: In «Death in the Afternoon», Hemingway shares the sights, the sounds, the excitement, and above all, the knowledge which fuelled his passion for Spain and the bullfight. This remarkable book contains some of his finest writing, inspired by the intense life, as well as the inevitable death, of those hot, violent afternoons.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 819 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 358) Аннотация: »As is evident from his previous novels Election and Little Children, Tom Perrotta seems to enjoy putting characters with divergent belief systems together in a bag, as it were, and shaking it up. That is the technique he uses in The Abstinence Teacher, to satiric effect. Ruth Ramsey, divorced, is the human sexuality teacher at the local high school; she believes in being honest with her…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 166 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 230) Аннотация: Congratulations — just by looking at this webpage, you became 25% more patriotic. From Stephen Colbert, the host of televisions highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23? hours of your day. I Am America (And So Can You) contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesnt have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast. Dictated directly into a microcassette…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 029 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 203) Аннотация: A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Ewetopia the sheep thinks she has finally hit upon the costume that will get her noticed at the Woolyones Costume Ball: she'll come dressed as a wolf. Unfortunately, this doesn't earn her any points with the rest of the sheep, who find such a thing in rather poor taste. And yet, in this topsy-turvy fairytale for readers 6 to 8, Ewetopia does find a dance partner in a tall, attractive sheep at the…
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: Are you a cat lover? A dog person? Either way, this book is for you Read about how your favorite companion came to be a pet and how its body works. Then, flip the book over and find out about the other kind. Once again Steve Jenkins takes children's nonfiction to a new level. Here is an amazing book filled with great information, visual facts, and lots of animal history. The illustrations are so…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The tortoise and the hare seem old friends on the cover of this journal, as the turtle kicks his heels and the rabbit looks on. This slim, medium-format book has vividly colored and patterned spines and endpapers, and features pastel tinted pages — lined on the right-hand side and blank on the left.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 478 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 291) Аннотация: When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily. A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky. For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This is a complete new history of the world's greatest stone circle. Britain's leading expert on stone circles turns his attention to the greatest example of them all — Stonehenge. Every aspect of Stonehenge is re-considered in Aubrey Burl's new analysis. He explains for the first time how the outlying Heel Stone long predates Stonehenge itself, serving as a trackway marker in the prehistoric…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 452 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 482) Аннотация: In the action-packed finale to the bestselling «Starcatchers» series by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, Peter and Molly find themselves in the dangerous land of Rundoon, ruled by an evil king who enjoys watching his pet snake consume those who displease him. But thats just the beginning of their problems, in this wild desert adventure that zooms toward an unforgettable climax.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 105 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 414) Аннотация: In this 30th anniversary edition, Goldman frames the famous fairy tale with an «autobiographical» story: his father abridged the book as he read it to his son. Now, Goldman is publishing an abridged version, interspersed with comments on the parts he cut out.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: With over eight million copies of her beloved books in print, Sophie Kinsella is a true phenomenon. Now Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) is back, in a hilarious new Shopaholic novel! Becky's life is blooming! She's working at London's newest big store, The Look, house-hunting with husband Luke (her secret wish is a Shoe Room)... and she's pregnant! She couldn't be more overjoyed — especially since…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 386 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 273) Аннотация: The Russian creator of the czarist master detective Erast Fandorin here introduces another irresistible sleuth in the form of an orthodox nun in a remote province of late 19th-century Russia. Bishop Mitrofanii has a family crisis on his hands: one of his great aunt's rare white bulldogs has been poisoned on her estate, probably as an attack on the old woman. With a fistful of erratic family…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: An enormous elephant takes a gleeful ride on a positively tiny swing on the cover of this journal. This slim, medium-format book has vividly colored and patterned spines and endpapers, and features pastel tinted pages — lined on the right-hand side and blank on the left.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 294 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 255) Аннотация: Among the towering red cliffs and the ancient ruins of Petra sits the corpse of Mrs. Boynton, the cruel and tyrannizing matriarch of the Boynton family. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist is the only sign of the fatal injection that killed her. With only twenty-four hours to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalls a remark he overheard back in Jerusalem: «You do see, don't you, that she's got to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 498 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 295) Аннотация: At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing once again, she has answered an ad to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage. But when the Edwards' two grown sons, Ben and Jeff, arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a destructive web of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 508 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 297) Аннотация: Another term has begun at Meadowbank, a prestigious, well-respected British girls' school. The indomitable headmistress is preparing to retire and name her successor. There is a disconcertingly mature Middle Eastern princess among the students and several new staff members in residence. And a brand-new sports pavilion is the pride of the campus. But the school year suddenly takes a deadly turn…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 784 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 351) Аннотация: Linnet Doyle is young, beautiful, and rich. She's the girl who has everything — including the man her best friend loves. Linnet and her new husband take a cruise on the Nile, where they meet the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. It should be an idyllic trip, yet Poirot has a vague, uneasy feeling that something is dangerously amiss...