Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Rajkumar is only another boy, helping on a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace, when the British force the Burmese King, Queen and all the Court into exile! He is rescued by the far-seeing Chinese merchant, and with him builds up a logging business in upper Burma. But haunted by his vision of the Royal Family, he journeys to the obscure town in India where they have been…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Harper Lee's classic novel of a lawyer in the Deep South defending a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and been made into…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: When Death takes her fairy godmother, Princess Emberella is left in the care of her other not-so-good-and-wise godmother. It's up to the three witches — Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg — to hop on their broomsticks and make for far-distant Genua to ensure the servant girl «doesn't» marry the Prince. The 12th novel in the Discworld series.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Biscuit wants to play with two little kittens. At first they don't want to play with him, but soon the kittens find out what a good friend he can be. Ages 3+.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Molly Somerville loves her career as the creator of the Daphne the Bunny children's book series, but the rest of her life could use some improvement. She has a reputation for trouble that started even before she gave away her fifteen-million-dollar inheritance. Then there's her long-term crush on the quarterback for the Chicago Stars football team her sister owns — that awful, gorgeous Kevin…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: What happens when a psychic tells Lucy that she'll be getting married within the year? Her roommates panic! What is going to happen to their blissful existence of eating take-out, drinking too much wine, bringing men home, and never vacuuming? Lucy reassures her friends that she's far too busy arguing with her mother and taking care of her irresponsible father to get married. And then there's the…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Containing over 1000 everyday words arranged in alphabetical order, The Cat in the Hat Dictionary takes a typically Seussian approach, with a host of crazy animals and potty people doing some of the strangest things — from crocodiles nursing babies and goats playing horns to dogs eating noodles and bears playing marbles. None the less, the book has a serious purpose in that it teaches young…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 365 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 269) Аннотация: Witty One-Liners By World's Crankiest Comic; A brand new collection of cutting-edge observational humour from George Carlin, the thinking person's comic and author of the New York Times best-seller Brain Droppings, which sold more than 700,000 copies in hardcover and paperback. With nearly twenty albums, two Grammys, two Cable Ace Awards and more HBO specials than anyone else to his credit,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: February the fifteenth is a very special day for me. It is the day I gave birth to my first child. It is also the day my husband left me... I can only assume the two events weren't entirely unrelated. Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to their first baby, James informs her that he's leaving her. Claire is…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: A bear on Paddington Station? said Mrs Brown in amazement. Don't be silly — there can't be. The Browns first met Paddington on a railway station — Paddington station, in fact. He had travelled all the way from Darkest Peru with only a jar of marmalade, a suitcase and his hat. The Browns soon found that Paddington was a very unusual bear. Ordinary things — like having a bath, travelling…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Berlin is where Anna lived before Hitler, when she was still a German child; before she spoke a word of English, before her family had all become refugees. Long before her happy new existence in London. But Mama is there, dangerously ill. Anna is forced to go back, to deal with questions of life and death, to face old fears, and to discover the past which she has so long shut away.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: It is hard enough being a teenager in London during the Blitz, finding yourself in love and wondering every night whether you will survive the bombs. But it is even harder for Anna, who is still officially classified as an enemy alien. Those bombs are coming from Germany — the country that was once her own. If Hitler invades, can she and her beloved refugee family possibly survive? This was…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Unpleasant things are going on in an exclusive school for girls — things like murder... Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of the unpopular games mistress — shot through the heart from point blank range. The school is thrown into chaos when…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 090 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 411) Аннотация: An elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home! Everyone blamed Emily's accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously he didn't receive the letter until June…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. Here, many years earlier, there had been a fatal accident. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two bodies — a husband and wife — shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into the past and discovers that «old sins leave long shadows».
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been babbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive seizure, poisoned by a deadly cocktail. It seems likely that the cocktail was intended for the beautiful actress. But whilst the police fumble to find clues, Miss Marple begins to ask her own questions, because as she knows — even the most peaceful village can…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: New novel about men, love and relationships by the author of the Book of the Year, Man and Boy. Alfie Budd found the perfect woman with whom to spend the rest of his life, and then lost her. He doesn't believe you get a second chance at love. Returning to the England he left behind during the brief, idyllic time of his marriage, Alfie finds the rest of his world collapsing around him. He takes…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman...Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his 'counting house' when he suffered an agonising and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals. Yet, it was the incident in the parlour which confirmed Jane Marple's suspicion that here she was looking at…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: One Tuesday evening a group gathers at Miss Marple's house and the conversation turns to unsolved crimes — the case of the disappearing bloodstains, the thief who committed his crime twice, and the poisioned man's death-bed message which read «heap of fish», among others.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: As part of the Collins wordlovers range, the Collins Thesaurus A-Z, Complete and Unabridged in COLOUR is ideal for everyone searching for that elusive word. As well as having the most up-to-date words and a vast number of synoyms and antonyms, this thesaurus also provides illustrative examples from real English. Related words, fixed phrases, and cross-references are also included to help expand…