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Mathew Price: Little Red Car Has an Accident

Скачать книгу (размер 44 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 10) Аннотация: Simple language, bold illustrations with sturdy pull-tabs and pop-ups in the whimsical tradition of Disney's 'Cars', encourage car-loving toddlers to read. As Little Red Car reaches the crossroads, the old willow tree comes crashing down on him! It's off to the garage for repairs. When he's all fixed there is still something that doesn't feel quite right. A gentle surprise awaits Little Red Car!

Mathew Price: Little Red Car in the Snow

Скачать книгу (размер 44 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 10) Аннотация: Simple language, bold illustrations with sturdy pull-tabs and pop-ups in the whimsical tradition of Disney's 'Cars', encourage car-loving toddlers to read. A heavy snowfall causes problems for Little Red Car, but snow can be fun when your friends come to help!

Mathew Price: Little Red Car Plays Taxi

Скачать книгу (размер 44 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 10) Аннотация: Simple language, bold illustrations with sturdy pull-tabs and pop-ups in the whimsical tradition of Disney's 'Cars', encourage car-loving toddlers to read. When Alfred the old taxi is out for repairs, Little Red Car is eager to take his place. He finds that being a taxi is very hard work!

Sarah Waters: The Little Stranger

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: A chilling and vividly rendered ghost story set in postwar Britain, by the bestselling and award-winning author of The Night Watch and Fingersmith. Sarah Watersas trilogy of Victorian novels Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, and Fingersmith earned her legions of fans around the world, a number of awards, and a reputation as one of todayas most gifted historical novelists. With her most recent book,…

Jr. Kurt Vonnegut: Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction

Скачать книгу (размер 1 274 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 251) Аннотация: Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny portrait of life in post — World War II America-a world where squabbling couples, high school…

Roald Dahl: More about Boy: Roald Dahl's Tales from Childhood

Скачать книгу (размер 1 131 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 223) Аннотация: More About Boy is the story of Roald Dahlas very own boyhood, as told in Boy, featuring never-before-seen material from behind the scenes, and some of the secrets he left out. Enjoy tales of sweet shops and chocolate, mean old ladies and a Great Mouse Plotathe inspiration for some of his most marvelous stories in the years to come. This stunning new edition includes some wonderful and strange…

Maya Slater: The Private Diary of Mr: Darcy

Скачать книгу (размер 1 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 316) Аннотация: Literature's most famous romantic hero opens his diary: it's intimate, dramatic, deeply passionate, and sometimes downright shocking. Have you ever wondered what Mr. Darcy was really thinking? Find out his secrets in this captivating novel of love, pride, passion, and, of course, prejudice. Mr. Darcy's intimate diary reveals his entanglements with women, his dangerous friendship with Lord Byron,…

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell: Return to Cranford: And Other Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Treasured household names, including Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Imelda Staunton and Julia McKenzie, brought Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford to life in one of the best-loved classic dramas of all time. This celebratory omnibus edition includes the classic novel of the same name, a comic portrait of the lives of Cranford's genteel female inhabitants, as well as a novella and a short story. Both of…

Jasper Fforde: Shades of Grey

Скачать книгу (размер 1 982 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 390) Аннотация: From the bestselling author of Thursday Nextaa brilliant new novel about a world where social order and destiny are dictated by the colors you can see Part social satire, part romance, part revolutionary thriller, Shades of Grey tells of a battle against overwhelming odds. In a society where the ability to see the higher end of the color spectrum denotes a better social standing, Eddie Russet…

Maggie Silver: Who Lives Here?

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Perfect for the youngest naturalist, Who Lives Here? is an engaging visual journey to the habitats of a variety of creatures. I'm very tiny and I have a long beak, just right for drinking the nectar from flowers. What am I? Inviting riddles introduce facts about each creature and invite children to guess which animal the clue is for. Lift-the-flaps reveal the answers. Includes a glossary with…

Maggie Silver: Who's at Home?

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: We are not birds but we can fly. We like to sleep beneath a leaf high in the trees. What are we? Engaging riddles introduce key facts about each animal with more information in a glossary in the back. The perfect book for the inquisitive young naturalist! A member of the Society of Wildlife Artists and an illustrator for the London Zoo, Maggie Silver has illustrated several books for children,…

Stephen King: The Green Mile

Скачать книгу (размер 2 212 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 435) Аннотация: The Green Mile: those who walk it do not return, because at the end of that walk is the room in which sits Cold Mountain Penitentiary's electric chair. In 1932 the newest resident on death row is John Coffey, a giant black man convicted of the brutal murder of two little girls. But nothing is as it seems with John Coffey, and around him unfolds a bizarre and horrifying story. Evil murderer or…

Fernando Morais: Paulo Coelho: A Warrior's Life

Скачать книгу (размер 2 324 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 457) Аннотация: Morais pens this comprehensive biography of one of the world's most popular and widely-read novelists Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist.

Phyllis Limbacher Tildes: The Magic Babushka

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Nadia dreams of creating colorfully patterned eggs, called pysanky, for Easter, but her eyes are too weak to see such detail. When she rescues a magical old woman, she is rewarded with a handkerchief that makes her imagined designs real. Now Nadia can create pysanky, but how can she prove to an angry tsarina that the designs are her own?

Clemens Schmidlin: Gothic

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: These small books are quite something! They are packed with information, the most important facts and background stories, all at a glance. In-depth texts on the most exciting themes in the History of Art by experts and specialists provide the necessary overview for both the expert and the layman. The most important stages in the lives of famous personalities such as Giotto, Monet or Klimt, as…

Martina Padberg: Impressionism

Скачать книгу (размер 1 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 308) Аннотация: These small books are quite something! They are packed with information, the most important facts and background stories, all at a glance. In-depth texts on the most exciting themes in the History of Art by experts and specialists provide the necessary overview for both the expert and the layman. The most important stages in the lives of famous personalities such as Giotto, Monet or Klimt, as…

Sean Boru: Historie of London and Londoners

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: An entertaining romp through the history of England's capital city traces its origins as a simple marketplace in AD 50 to the sprawling metropolis of today. An invaluable souce of trivia, this book is unique in that it not only charts by year and period the events that shaped London, but looks at the history of crime and hanging, the police, prisons, the executioners, health, English as a…

Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan

Скачать книгу (размер 2 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 440) Аннотация: It is the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their weaponry. Their Leviathan is a whale airship, and the most masterful beast in the British fleet. Aleksandar Ferdinand, prince of the Austro-Hungarian…

Impressionism and Postimpressionism: A Book of 30 Postcards

Скачать книгу (размер 146 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 30) Аннотация: Here are 30 examples of the striking work coming from Europe in the last decades of the 19th century and the turn of the 20th, including Degas' Woman Combing Her Hair, Monet's Waterloo Bridge, Effect of Fog, and Van Gogh's Memory of the Garden at Etten. This postcard book is one of a series that collects beautifully reproduced images with cultural or historical significance, introduced with a…

Kazuo Ishiguro: Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

Скачать книгу (размер 1 121 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 221) Аннотация: One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character. A once-popular singer, desperate to make a comeback, turning from the one certainty in his life... A man whose unerring taste in music is the only thing his closest friends value in him... A struggling…