Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: The electrifying sequel to Caves of Steel in which Elijah Baley is once more teemed up with R. Daneel. The two must travel to Solaria, where no human has gone in over a thousand years! Reacting in fear against the technological superiority of the Outer Worlds, the people of Earth have hidden themselves in vast underground cities, nursing a hatred for Spacers. The fifty Outer Worlds of the Spacers…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past.
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: To celebrate Little Bear's thirty-fifth anniversary, three paperback editions in the series — Little Bear, Father Bear Comes Home, and Little Bear's Visit — have been slipcased in a boxed gift set for a whole new generation of children.
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: This book looks at a range of issues relating to the Anglo-Saxon and Viking invasions. It focuses on who the invaders actually were and the results of these people living and settling together, in terms of language, towns and Christianity. This book provides a variety of activities in each chapter which link to the statements of attainment. It is in full colour, with source material.
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: The aspects of Ancient Greece that are examined are interesting and varied, ranging from Greek cities, land and trade, to Greek Gods and mythology, thought and invention, daily life and the Greek legacy.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The forerunner to «The Lord of the Rings», «The Silmarillion» fills in the background which lies behind the more popular work, and gives the earlier history of Middle-earth, introducing some of the key characters. «The Silmarillion» is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkiens World. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in «The Lord of the Rings» look back, and in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 957 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 385) Аннотация: The second of a two-book set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkiens epic tale of war, «The Silmarillion». This second part of «The Book of Lost Tales» includes the tale of Beren and Luthien, Turin and the Dragon, and the only full narratives of the Necklace of the Dwarves and the Fall of Gondolin, itself the finest and most exciting depiction of a battle…
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: In a companion volume to Nightmares, poet and artist again collaborate to elicit feelings of exquisite terror. Horn Book. Prelutsky's rhymes are as lethal, lithe, and literate as ever, and Lobel wrings every atmospheric ounce out of them. School Library Journal.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: This cartoon guide to US history begins in the English colonies and continues to the present day. The book presents such milestones in US history as the House of Burgesses, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Civil War, the Great Depression, the labour and civil rights movements, American expansion and the Gulf War. Larry Gonick is the author of The Cartoon History of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Each month is gay, each season nice, when eating chicken soup with rice.
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Pierre's 'I don't care!' intrigues a hungry lion. 'A story with a moral air about Pierre, who learned to care.'
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Bel Kaufman's Up the Down Staircase is one of the best-loved novels of our time. It has been translated into sixteen languages, made into a prize-winning motion picture, and staged as a play at high schools all over the United States; its very title has become part of the American idiom. Never before has a novel so compellingly laid bare the inner workings of a metropolitan high school. Up the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The first of a two-book set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, «The Silmarillion». «The Book of Lost Tales» stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor for the Tales were the first form of the myths and legends that came to be called «The Silmarillion». Embedded in English legend and English…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: From his Books of Blood to The Damnation Game, Weaveworld, and The Great and Secret Show, to scores of short stories, bestselling novels, and now major motion pictures, no one comes close to the vivid imagination and unique terrors provided by Clive Barker. The Hellbound Heart is one of his best, a nerve-shattering novella about the human heart and all the great terrors and ecstasies within its…
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: With Papa off to sea and Mama despondent, Ida must go outside over there to rescue her baby sister from goblins who steal her to be a goblin's bride.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Set in Rhodesia, this is the story of Dick, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, dependent and disappointed. Both are trapped by poverty, and in the heat of the brick and tin house, hemmed in by the bush, Mary finds herself seeking solace in the arms of the houseboy.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 248) Аннотация: Hank and his wife, Sarah, agree to write a screenplay, and encounter the strange world of the movie industry.
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Small Pig likes to eat, to sleep and to run. But most of all he likes nice, soft mud. Everything is fine on the farm until the farmer's wife cleans up everything — even Small Pig's mud puddle. Then he runs away to the city — sure that since it is so dirty he will find a puddle there. Illustrated.
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Max is sent to bed without supper and imagines sailing away to the land of Wild Things, where he is made king.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 549 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 501) Аннотация: One of the founding mothers of mystery, Dorothy Sayers first introduced the popular character Lord Peter Wimsey in 1923 with the publication of «Whose Body?» Over the next twenty years, more novels and short stories about the aristocratic amateur sleuth appeared, each one as cunningly written as the next.Now in single volume, here are all the Lord Peter Wimsey stories, a treasure for any mystery…