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Lynsay Sands: The Rogue Hunter

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Samantha Willan would rather work than take a vacation, but her sisters won't take no for an answer. Whisked away to the family cottage, things go from bad to worse when the power goes out. Then three very sexy men show up next door, claiming to be in a rock band, and Samantha starts to think this may not have been such a bad idea afterall. The last thing Garrett Mortimer needs is to worry about…

Faye Kellerman: The Burnt House

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: L.A.P.D. Detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina, are profoundly shaken by this terrible accident that has occurred frighteningly close to their daughter's school. And an irate call from the unaccounted-for flight attendant's stepfather further tangles an already twisted mystery. The man insists twenty-eight-year-old Roseanne Dresden was never on the doomed flight, but was probably murdered by…

Neil Gaiman: Stardust

Скачать книгу (размер 1 268 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 250) Аннотация: In the sleepy English countryside of decades past, a lovelorn young man stepsthrough a gap in a high stone wall, and into the most unforgettable adventureof his life.

Neil Gaiman: The Graveyard Book

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard? Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead.

Tony Parsons: My Favourite Wife

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The world-wide, mega selling author of Man and Boy is back with a sizzling, Shanghai tale of sex, romance and second wives Hot shot young lawyer Bill Holden and his wife Becca move with their four year old daughter to the booming, gold-rush city of Shanghai, a place of enormous wealth and crushing poverty, where fortunes are made and foreign marriages come apart in spectacular fashion. Bill's law…

Andrew Gross: The Blue Zone

Скачать книгу (размер 1 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 392) Аннотация: From the number one New York Times bestselling coauthor of Judge & Jury and Lifeguard comes this electrifying solo debut, The Blue Zone, Kate Raab's life seems almost perfect: her boyfriend, her job, her family... until her father runs into trouble with the law. His only recourse is to testify against his former accomplices in exchange for his family's placement in the Witness Protection Program.…

Ike Ude: Style File

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Style File is a celebration of the stylish as opposed to the stylized. Style File appeals to those with an interest in fashion, graphic design, art, and celebrity. It appeals to a cultured audience with an interest in pioneering stylemakers and receiving that point of view in both interview format and smart, but not academic, essays by top thinkers in the field. This approach broadens the book's…

Timothy White: Hollywood Pinups

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: In the 1980s, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the original Varga Girl's first appearance in Esquire, the magazine commissioned Timothy White to create a contemporary version of the perennially popular pinup. Simultaneously paying homage to Vargas yet completely reinventing the form, White created a series of pin-up portraits of the hottest actresses and models at the time. White's…

Francesco Poli: Post-modern Art 1945-2008

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Richly illustrated and clearly focused, Post-Modern Art surveys American and European art, 1945-2008. It discusses the major art movements and features all the great painters who changed the landscape of art history, including Pollock, Rauschenberg, Warhol, De Koons, Haring and others. The volume contains an overview of other artistic disciplines — sculpture, architecture, design, cinema, and…

Graphis Design: Graphis Annual Reports 2007-2008

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The best annual reports express a company's accomplishments and goals with compelling design solutions. Annual Reports 2007-2008 showcases the finest in corporate communication with spreads and covers from award-winning reports selected by a distinguished international jury. This year's judging panel includes B. Martin Pedersen, Deanna Kuhlmann, Joyce Nesnadny and other highly respected design…

Haggai Carmon: The Red Syndrome

Скачать книгу (размер 1 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 372) Аннотация: While working on a routine case of money laundering by the Russian mob, Dan Gordon discovers a plot by Islamic terrorists to unleash a devastating bio-weapon on the world.

Geraldine Brooks: March: A Love Story in a Time of War

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Richard and Judy pick. From the author of the acclaimed 'Year of Wonders' and 'People of the Book', a historical novel and love story set during a time of catastrophe on the front lines of the American Civil War. Set during the American Civil War, 'March' tells the story of John March, known to us as the father away from his family of girls in 'Little…

Geraldine Brooks: Year of Wonders

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'March' and 'People of the Book'. A young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly struck a small Derbyshire village. In 1666, plague swept through London, driving the King and his court to Oxford, and Samuel Pepys to Greenwich, in an attempt to escape contagion. The north of England…

Tish Rabe: There's No Place Like Space!

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: »I'm the Cat in the Hat, and we're off to have fun. We'll visit the planets, the stars and the sun!» And so Dr. Seuss' famous Cat in the Hat whisks young readers off on a fun-filled tour of the solar system. This title and others form part of a series of books that takes an off-beat look at nature and natural sciences through a fun combination of Seussian rhymes and zany illustrations. Aimed at…

Laura Joffe Numeroff: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Cookie in miniature with your very own Mouse Cookie CD! The Mouse Cookie CD includes: «The Mouse Cookie» This high-energy pop song will make you get up and dance! A reading! Actress Carol Kane reads If You Give a Mouse a Cookie to you. «Wrong Words» This silly song is sure to inspire lots of goofy guesses and giggles. Who Made This Book? Learn some fun facts about Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond.…

Sheila Sweeny Higginson: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Whose Birthday Is It?

Скачать книгу (размер 75 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 16) Аннотация: Happy Birthday! Today is somebody’s birthday, but Mickey can’t figure out whose it is. Could it be Daisy’s? Perhaps he should get her a new hair bow. Maybe it’s Pluto’s, and Mickey can get him a bone. Young readers will have great fun following Mickey on a birthday-themed treasure hunt, peeking below the book’s lift-the-flaps to uncover clues. Happy Birthday! introduces math concepts such as…

Bradbury Ray: Farewell Summer

Скачать книгу (размер 1 146 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 226) Аннотация: In the deceiving warmth of earliest October, civil war has come to Green Town, Illinois, an age-old conflict pitting the young against the elderly for control of the clock that ticks their lives ever forward. The graying forces of school board despot Mr. Calvin С. Quartermain have declared total war on thirteen-year-old Douglas Spaulding and his downy-cheeked cohorts. The boys, in turn, plan and…

Visual Reference Publications: Public Transportation 2

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: »Public Transportation No. 2» features the design of common areas and facilities in the transportation genre. Through richly-detailed, superbly printed color photographs, drawings and descriptive text, this 210-page book profiles leading architects, urban planners, transportation designers and engineers. It illustrates the myriad of ways in which they have solved some of today's most complex…

Ridgway Keith: Animals

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: A novel of confusion and paranoia, love and doubt, fear and hysteria: unsettling, unhinged, provocative and bestially funny, 'Animals' is for human beings everywhere. Keith Ridgway's third novel is a psychological menagerie of confusion, paranoia, searching and love. Narrated by an illustrator who can no longer draw, it tells of the sudden and inexplicable collapse of a private life, and the…