Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, pink — animals can be startlingly colorful. Why are they found in so many shades, tints, and hues? From the scarlet ibis to the blue-tongued skink, award-winning author/illustrator Steve Jenkins depicts a whole world of colorful animals in his signature style. Living Color explores a range of animals from old favorites like the pink flamingo to rare and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 308) Аннотация: Have a happy Christmas in the English countryside with a volume of three heartwarming holiday tales from Miss Read. As frost sparkles on cottage roofs and smoke rises from chimneys, the English village of Fairacre is a perfect vision of Christmas joy — but even in this cozy community, celebrations of the season do not always go as expected. In this enchanting holiday collection, Miss Read shares…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Sonchai Jitpleecheep — the devout Buddhist Royal Thai Police detective who led us through the best sellers Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattoo — returns in this blistering new novel. Sonchai has seen virtually everything on his beat in Bangkok's District 8, but nothing like the video he's just been sent anonymously: Few crimes make us fear for the evolution of our species. I am watching one right now.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 228 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 242) Аннотация: Someone is killing off the competition in the world of chick lit-and the results are hilarious. (Andy Borowitz, author of The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers) Lola Somerville has a husband and a new apartment in Brooklyn, but what she really wants is for her novel to make a splash. Unfortunately it hasn't even made a ripple. Then at a book party, Lola finds her author friend Mimi McKee…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Will the tiger be menacing; will the ocean be threatening; will the island be something out of Frankenstein or will it be an Eden? Life of Pi, first published in 2002, became an international bestseller and remains one of the most extraordinary and popular works of contemporary fiction. In 2005 an international competition was held to find the perfect artist to illustrate Yann Martel's Man Booker…
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Snowflakes aren't the only things that dance at Christmastime. So do nutcrackers, little girls, mouse-kings, and toys In this beautiful edition of the classic story we love so much, none of the little characters ever age or become faded or threadbare. This keep-forever volume is priced to be within everyone's reach. And, come holiday time, this is the book they'll reach for.
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: The story of Perceval originated in the late twelfth century when Chretien de Troyes, the premier poet of that era, wrote romances for the courts of Marie of Champagne and Philip of Flanders. Chretien's version, although unfinished, inspired a multitude of variants that followed immediately afterward. Young Perceval, awed by five knights from King Arthur's Round Table, decides that he, too, wants…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 676 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 526) Аннотация: A forerunner of psychological fiction, and considered a landmark work for its innovative use of narrative devices, Sterne's topsy-turvy novel was both celebrated and vilified when first published. Originally released in nine separate volumes, it is in effect an exercise about the difficulties of writing. Impossible to categorize, it remains a beguiling milestone in the history of literature.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Populated by some of the most famous names in literary and actual history — D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, Aramis, Cardinal Richelieu, Louis XIII — Dumas's peerless adventure offers a rousing read. It traces an aspiring Musketeer's path to 17th-century Paris, where he encounters intrigue, romance, and, of course, thrilling swordplay.
Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens into night, he begins the tale that has brought him to this fateful encounter. Changez has lived an immigrant's dream, studying at Princeton and snapped up by a powerful firm in New York, with the beautiful Erica on his arm and the promise of entry into Manhattan's elite society.…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Boys don't get all the fun. Whether readers consider themselves tomboys, girly-girls, or a little bit of both, this is the manual for everything that girls of all ages really need to know. Find out about female heroes in history, secret note-passing techniques, science projects, and friendship bracelets. Learn to play Double Dutch and cat's cradle, turn the perfect cartwheel, and induce giggles…
Скачать книгу (размер 24 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 6) Аннотация: This title contains a book & CD. From the creators of A Child's Gift of Lullabyes, here is a Grammy-nominated soundtrack for children. With soothing melodies, meaningful lyrics and beautifully orchestrated arrangements, this collection is sure to give little ones hours of listening pleasure. The one-hour CD includes vocal and instrumental tracks of eight original lullabies, while the lyric book…
Скачать книгу (размер 24 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 6) Аннотация: This title contains a book & CD. From the creators of A Child's Gift of Lullabyes, here is a Grammy-nominated soundtrack for children. With soothing melodies, meaningful lyrics and beautifully orchestrated arrangements, this collection is sure to give little ones hours of listening pleasure. The one-hour CD includes vocal and instrumental tracks of nine original lullabies, while the lyric book…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: This book about the human body, for readers 7 to 9, looks at the muscular system, the digestive system, and the other systems of the body in colorful, captioned illustrations. Then the book unfolds to reveal a pop-up model of the body on an 18 x 43-inch poster, including skeletal features, muscles, and organs.
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: The definitive guide to one of the most baffling epics of nineteenth-century literature — a companion to The Annotated Alice, It's a Snark for whatever else can it be? Published on April Fools' Day in 1876, Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark remains one of the most amusing and bizarre works of modern verse. Carroll, who completed this classic poem eleven years after the publication of Alice…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 579 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 703) Аннотация: The atmosphere of Bleak House, the sensuous thrill of Perfume, and the mystery of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell all combine in a story of murder, deceit, love, and revenge in Victorian England. After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper. So begins the extraordinary story of Edward Glyver--booklover, scholar, and murderer. As a young boy, Glyver always…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: A magic mirror in which good and evil are hideously distorted breaks, and its tiny pieces fly all over the world. One piece lodges in the eye of a little boy named Kay, transforming his vision. Another pierces his heart, turning it cold as ice. Kay’s playmate Gerda is shocked by the change in her friend, and becomes heartbroken when he disappears. A perilous journey to find Kay takes Gerda to a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 590 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 313) Аннотация: Three years ago, David Hunter moved to rural Norfolk to escape his life in London, his gritty work in forensics, and a tragedy that nearly destroyed him. Working as a simple country doctor, seeing his lost wife and daughter only in his dreams, David struggles to remain uninvolved when the corpse of a woman is found in the woods, a macabre sign from her killer decorating her body. In one…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Now, his greatest hits are available at a value price in this special storybook collection. From the beloved animal characters such as Brer Rabbit, Mr. Toad and the Tortoise and the Hare, to courageous children like Mowgli and Hansel and Gretel, this compilation has something for everyone. The added bonus of ten stunning, never-before-published Mother Goose illustrations makes this special…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Hunky guys and barely covered gals party on the beach in these five outrageous images from bikini, otherwise known as Max Hernn. Presented in a sturdy keepsake box, this set of large notecards — about 5 x 7 inches — includes white envelopes.