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Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on twentieth-century history cannot be underestimated. Robert Service has written a calmly authoritative biography on this seemingly unknowable figure. Making use of recently opened archives, he has been able to piece together the private as well as the public life, giving the first complete picture of Lenin. This biography simultaneously provides an…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. And then, just as he thinks things cannot possibly get any worse, they suddenly do. Discover the origins of life on Earth — and don't be shocked if it's not what they taught you at school.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: In «The Making of Modern Britain», Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Meet Susannah Simon: she's a typical teenage girl, who just happens to be a ghost-hunter... oh, and she's also dead-over-heels for Jesse — the sexiest spook ever! But can this girl get her ghost? In «Love You to Death», Suze arrives in California and has barely unpacked when her mediator skills are put to the test. A vicious spirit in her new school is hell-bent on making her life a complete…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Meet Susannah Simon: she's a typical teenage girl who just happens to be a ghost-hunter... oh, and she's also dead-over-heels for Jesse — the sexiest spook ever! But can this girl get her ghost? In «Mean Spirits», Suze is all set to spend a relaxing summer on the beach, until she runs into the vengeful ghosts of four high-school students. She must use her mediating skills to guide these ghouls…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Meet Susannah Simon: she's a typical teenage girl who just happens to be a ghost-hunter... oh, and she's also dead-over-heels for Jesse — the sexiest spook ever! But can this girl get her ghost? In «Grave Doubts», Suze has to contend with fellow ghost-hunter, Paul Slater, who gives her a deadly ultimatum. Unless she dates him, he'll send Jesse into the afterlife — for good. Paul may be totally…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: Written with complete access to the Queen Mother's personal letters and diaries, William Shawcross' riveting biography is the truly definitive account of this remarkable woman, whose life spanned the twentieth century. Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes Lyon, the youngest daughter of the Earl of Strathmore, was born on 4 August 1900. Drawing on her private correspondence and other unpublished…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Almost one million people follow Mr Justin Halpern's philosophical musings every day on Twitter. This book features his sayings.

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: 'Oink!' said the cats... With all the MOOing and HISSing and BAAAing and CLUCKing, the farmyard is full of noise. But when Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len hatch a plot to steal the fine prize cow, it's the quietest animal of all who saves the day! Spot the glittery ladybird on every page of this wonderful rhyming tale from the creators of the bestselling «The Princess And The Wizard» and «Sharing A…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: William Shatner has experienced all the ups (the awards and acclaim) and the down (having to live for a time in the truck bed of his camper when he couldn't get work) that are a part of the actor's world. This title tells us about his life, from training as a Shakespearan actor to his time on Broadway, his movie career and, his tv series.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 192 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 235) Аннотация: With the mythbusting powers for which she is acclaimed, Ehrenreich exposes the downside of America's penchant for positive thinking. On a personal level, it leads to self-blame; on a national level, it's ushered in an era of irrational optimism resulting in disaster.

Скачать книгу (размер 866 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 171) Аннотация: When stricken with a severe cold, Moominpappa decides to set down an account of his eventful youth, which he shares chapter by chapter with Moomintroll, Sniff, and Snufkin.

Скачать книгу (размер 713 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 141) Аннотация: Everyone knows the Moomins sleep through the winter. But this year, Moomintroll has woken up early. So while the rest of the family slumber, he decides to visit his favorite summer haunts. But all he finds is this strange white stuff. Even the sun is gone! Moomintroll is angry: whoever Winter is, she has some nerve. Determined to discover the truth about this most mysterious of all seasons,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: In an upmarket apartment block in Knightsbridge called Barrington House, the door to apartment 16 is always locked. For the last twenty years it has been empty. No one goes in. No one comes out. One evening a night security guard hears noises from inside. What he sees through the letterbox of apartment 16 changes his life forever... Shortly after a young American woman, Apryl, arrives at…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Sunday Simmons and Charlie Brick came to Hollywood to make a movie. They live off their looks and rely on their agents. Today they're stars, so why worry about tomorrow? They've got money, success and adoring fans. Fans like Herbert Lincoln Jefferson, a Hollywood chauffeur with perverse sexual fantasies — whose biggest dream is meeting Sunday Simmons... Sinners peels away the glittering facade of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: What's your poison? Fethering residents, Jude and Carole, get more than they bargained for when a lunchtime meal in their local pub leaves everyone with food poisoning. The landlord is horrified and when a series of disasters start to befall his business, it looks like it could be the end of the road for the Crown and Anchor. Left with a bad taste in their mouths — and not just from the food —…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Deep in the research wing of the Natural History Museum is a prize specimen, something that comes along much less often than once in a lifetime: a perfect, and perfectly preserved, giant squid. But what does it mean when the creature suddenly and impossibly disappears? For curator Billy Harrow it's the start of a headlong pitch into a London of warring cults, surreal magic, apostates and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 610 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 317) Аннотация: 'Find what you were looking for, Inspector'? Every day the same question. A different uniform but the same question. They thought Lucia enjoyed being here. They thought that was why she kept coming back. But they were asking the wrong thing. She had found what she was looking for — she had found what she had been sent to discover — but she had found out more besides. The question was what to do…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 293 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 647) Аннотация: Don't imagine for one moment that I'm not watching you... The Metropole Hotel, Brighton. After a heady New Year's Eve ball, a woman is brutally raped as she returns to her room. A week later, another woman is attacked. Both victims' shoes are taken by the offender... Detective Superintendent Roy Grace soon realises that these new cases bear remarkable similarities to an unsolved series of crimes…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Ever and Damen have travelled through countless past lives — and fought off the world's darkest enemies — in search of each other. But just when their destiny seems finally within reach, a powerful curse falls upon them. A single touch of their hands, a soft brush of their lips will mean death for Damen — cast into the darkness of the Shadowland. But as she seeks to break the curse, Ever meets…