Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Duffy is engaged. He accepted Mels proposal. But the trips to Ikea, dinner parties for couples and talk of babies are giving him itchy feet and now he s not sure if he can say goodbye to his extended adolescence and face up to that final walk down the aisle. How does he know if she's The One? Can he cope with responsibility? Does he have what it takes to become Mr. Commitment? Because if he…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The dazzling debut novel that launched David Mitchell as one of the most exciting talents to emerge for the new millennium gets a stunning new jacket treatment.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Olga Arbyelina, a White Russian princess living quietly with her adolescent son in a small French town, is a relative newcomer to the Russian community there. Intriguingly little is known about her when, in the summer of 1947, she is suspected of murdering a fellow emigre, only for the case to be dropped. As the story of the preceding year unfolds, a picture forms of her upbringing in Russia…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: It is 1862 and Japan is a land in chaos as the power of the Shugun wanes and the rival factions plan to restore the Emperor. In Yokohama, the gai-jin, the hated foreigners, seek to profit from the chaos. At the head of the Noble House, and heir to the title of Tai-Pan, stands Malcolm Struan who is determined to become his own man and marry the woman he loves. At the head of the Shogunate party is…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler — the Tai-Pan — of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He is also a pirate, an opium smuggler, and a master manipulator of men. This is the tale of his fight to establish himself and his dynasty as the undisputed masters of the Far-East.
Скачать книгу (размер 6 358 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1248) Аннотация: Whirlwind is the story of three weeks in Tehran in February 1979: three weeks of fanaticism, passion, self-sacrifice and heartbreak. Caught between the revolutionaries and the forces of international intrigue is a team of professional pilots. Two of them have Iranian wives they love beyond safety and politics.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Suitable for those who have been dumped, or lived in a dump.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Each title looks at each country through a variety of themes such as location, landscape and climate, population and health, settlements, family life, religion and beliefs, education and learning, employment and economy, industry and trade, farming and food, transport and communications, leisure and tourism and environment and wildlife.Includes maps, statistics panels and simple graphs and…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Deals with respect — meaning admiration, concern and consideration. The book explains that we should respect others' opinions, feelings and privacy, also rules, the places we visit and animals. It also looks at disrespect — at people who don't take care of property, or are rude to others. This is one of a series of books which help children to develop their own value system and make responsible…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Encourages children to take responsibility for themselves and their actions. Situations include doing a few small jobs around the house and looking after a younger brother or sister. The book looks at the good effects that result from being sensible and responsible both at home and at school. This book is one of a series which helps children to develop their own value system and make responsible…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Deals with honesty — why we tell lies and how telling lies leads to trouble. The text also considers not telling the truth, the grey area of telling a white lie, coping with angry feelings when people tell lies about you and having the courage to be honest. This book is one of a series which help children to develop their own value system and make responsible decisions. Notes for parents and…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Millie's cousin Geraldine is a show-off and a pain. So Millie plots revenge. She tells Geraldine about the ghost with red eyes who lives in the garden shed and comes out at night — but manages to scare herself silly in the process! Everyone is furious, but Millie and Geraldine end up the best of friends! This is a brilliant story about making friends with a funny, slightly spooky twist.
Скачать книгу (размер 840 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 166) Аннотация: Following the success of Discovering the Past for Key Stage 3, a series that won the TES Textbook Award in 1993, Schools History Project has created this series for GCSE. This text is a comprehensive depth study of Germany between the years 1919 and 1945. It is a full-colour, enquiry-led text, based around a narrative but containing interesting source material that should give students insight…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Flatmates Fiona, Kerry and Linzi have problems enough squabbling over the itemised phone bill and whose turn it is to do the washing up. But nothing can prepare them for the chaos which ensues when Linzi's latest boyfriend arrives on the scene. Gorgeous but feckless, Gaetano spells trouble with a capital 'T'. And soon events are spiralling out of everyone's control ...
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Neal Donald Walsch was experiencing a low period in his life when he decided to write a letter to God, venting his frustrations. What he did not expect was a response. As he finished his letter, he was moved to continue writing — and out came extraordinary answers to his questions. This work presents the answers that Walsch received, helping him to change himself, his life and the way he viewed…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 216 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1024) Аннотация: Born in Colombo, Judith Dunbar spends her teenage years at boarding school, while her beloved mother and younger sister live abroad with her father. When her new friend Loveday Carey-Lewis invites Judith home for the weekend to Nancherrow, the Carey-Lewises' beautiful estate on the Cornish coast, it is love at first sight. She falls in love too with the generous Carey-Lewises themselves. With…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 253 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 443) Аннотация: Jonathan is the orphan son of a hero soldier and a veteran of secret operations in South Armagh. Disenchanted by the army and his marriage, he works for the Palace Hotel, Zurich. There he meets Richard Roper, an illegal arms trader. He must bring Roper to book. By the author of Smiley's People.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: In the «Day of the Strom», Rebecca Bayliss is shattered to learn of a family she never knew existed. Determined to find them, Rebecca journeys to Boscarva, a beautiful mansion in Cornwall, to meet a family torn by passion and greed. From her grandfather Grenville Bayliss, who is hiding an explosive secret, to a handsome cousin, whose kisses are dangerously seductive ...to sensual craftsman Joss…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Victoria Bradshaw fell in love with London playwright Oliver Dobbs when she was just eighteen. But he left her and disappeared from her life. Now, years later, he is a widower standing on her doorstep with his two-year-old son in his arms. And Victoria is foolish enough to want to take him back. Their early spring journey to a castle in Scotland becomes an odyssey of emotional discovery ...can…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The big bedroom was lovely: all pale, blue and white, satin and muslin, cool and airy, the windows looking out over the garden to the creek. But to fourteen-year-old Emily, beautiful though it was, it was all wrong. Her stepmother's bedroom now: everything changed since her own mother had died. And stretched out on the bed: Stephanie, very white and pained. The new baby on its way, a month early.…