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Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The Plan Genius physics professor Dr, Jane Darlington desperately wants a baby. But finding a father won't be easy. Jane's super-intelligence made her feel like a freak when she was growing up, and she's determined to spare her own child that suffering. Which means she must find someone very special to father her child. Someone...well... stupid. The Target Cal Bonner, the Chicago Stars' legendary…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A fierce, compelling account of the nature and origins of love from Doris Lessing, one of the most acclaimed authors of the twentieth-century and Winner of the Nobel Pize for Literature 2007. Sarah Durham, sixty-year-old producer and founder of a leading fringe theatre company, commissions a play based on the journals of Julie Vairon, a beautiful, wayward nineteenth-century mulatto woman. It…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The literary phenomenon of the year. More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, more nerve-tinglingly imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian novel by a woman. Arundhati Roy has written an astonishingly rich, fertile novel, teeming with life, colour, heart-stopping language, wry comedy and a hint of magical realism. Set against a background of…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Twelve humorous, easy-to-read poems that celebrate the spirit of Christmas. The poems cover subjects of interest to children — making a Christmas list, performing in the school assembly, cutting a Christmas tree. Children enjoy Prelutsky's poetry, and this book should prove no exception.

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Thirteen poems to spice up the holiday that ghouls and ghosts love most. Prelutsky's Nightmares tamed for beginning readers. They're catchy at the most rudimentary level.

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Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: In grand Dickensian fashion, the acclaimed best-selling author of The Riftwar Saga brings to vivid life the myriad colors, realities, dangers, and details of an exotic, richly imagined world and the remarkable folk who populate it. A fast-moving and dramatic adventure, «Rise of a Merchant Prince» is Raymond E. Feist in top form.

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Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Hooray Wayside School is Open Again All the kids from Wayside School had to spend 243 days in horrible schools while Wayside closed to get rid of the cows (Don't ask). Now the kids are back and the fun begins again on every floor. Miss Much has prepared a Day on the 30th floor — with dogs and cats and frogs and skunks and pigs, and an orange named Fido causing a terrible commotion. In Mrs.…

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The first book in the «Children of Violence» series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa through to old age in a post-nuclear Britain. The other novels are «A Proper Marriage», «A Ripple from the Storm», «Landlocked» and «The Four-Gated City».

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Neville Aysgarth, archdeacon, and right-hand man of the Bishop of Starbridge, has spent his life chasing worldly success. In 1942 he has a perfect wife, a perfect family and a perfect future in the Church of England — all ultimate prizes. Then Aysgarth meets an attractive young socialite and is soon dangerously and chaotically involved in adultery, hypocrisy and obsession. Tormented and on the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The brilliant novel from the author of Pulitzer Prize-winning 'The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'. Grady Tripp is an over-sexed, pot-bellied, pot-smoking, ageing wunderkind of a novelist now teaching creative writing at a Pittsburgh college while working on his 2,000 page masterpiece, 'Wonder Boys'. When his rumbustious editor and friend, Terry Crabtree, arrives in town, a chaotic weekend…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Sebastian, the fifty-six-year-old patriarch of the Locke clan, is handsome, charismatic, a man of immense charm and intelligence. He heads up the philanthropic Locke Foundation, funded by the vast family fortune built by his forefathers. Committed to relieving the suffering of those in genuine need, Locke travels the globe, personally giving away millions a year to the poor, the sick, and the…

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Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Guess who's at bat? The lovable, hilarious amelia Bedelia is back, filling in for a sick player on the Grizzlies baseball team. Watch out Because nobody plays ball like Amelia Bedelia.

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Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Step into the exquisite miniature world of the mice of Brambly Hedge in this beautiful new edition of the classic picture book. Bad weather is on the way and the autumn stores are still not gathered in! Quickly, all the mice of Brambly Hedge set to work to finish the harvesting before the rain begins. Primrose, Lord Woodmouse's daughter, meant to help, but somehow she daydreamed her way over the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Written in the age of the atom, when America and Europe optimistically viewed the discovery of life on Mars as inevitable, Bradbury's closely interwoven tales of a brutal, stark and unforgiving Martian landscape are both astonishing and insightful. The Martian Chronicles tells the story of humanity's repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease…