Скачать книгу (размер 356 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 71) Аннотация: Mia Thermopolis lives with her mother in New York City One day her life changes forever as she discovers that she is the Princess of Genovia Mia must forget her teenage ways and learn royal etiquette But Mia doesn t want to be a princess or live in Europe She wants to be a normal teenage girl What will happen to Mia when her classmates find out who she really is?
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: My Daddy is a giant. When I want to cuddle him, I have to climb a ladder. He might sneeze like a hurricane and make the ground shake when he runs, but this daddy is a gentle giant. He loves his little boy with all his giant heart (even if he does always win at football!).
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Everyone knows that tyrannosauruses are big and scary, so when a placid duckbill dinosaur's egg ends up in the wrong nest confusion is sure to ensue! When the baby dinosaur hatches out, he's so out of place that his grisly big sisters call him Tyrannosaurus Drip. Poor little Drip: all he wants is a quiet life munching on water weed...
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: After their thrilling exploits in Matthew Reilly’s bestseller Seven Ancient Wonders, super-soldier Jack West and his loyal team of adventurers are back, and now they face an all-but impossible challenge. For a mysterious ceremony in an unknown location has triggered a catastrophic countdown that will climax in the destruction of all life on Earth. But there is one last hope. If Jack’s team can…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Beneath the five interlinked rings of the Olympic flag, young women are being raped, mutilated and entombed in the concrete foundations of the new National Stadium. A prostitute, her beauty now ruined by a jigsaw of razor cuts... and the star of the People’s Republic carved deeply into her abdomen. Shanghai-based Senior Inspector Sun Piao has recently been released from Ankang – a mental hospital…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Molly Moon is on a mission – to bring her long-lost twin brother, Micky, home. But before she can rescue him she has to find him, and he could be anywhere! Luckily Molly’s time-travel talents and world-stopping skills help her in her search... until a baby-faced villain with a precocious plan to have the world’s biggest brain gets in her way. Can Molly, Petula the dog and their best friend,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: In a hidden studio in an area of Rome where the Vatican liked to keep an eye on the city’s prostitutes, an art expert from the Louvre is found dead in front of one of the most beautiful paintings that Nic Costa has ever seen – an unknown Caravaggio masterpiece. But before long tragedy will strike Nic far closer to home. The main suspect’s identity is known, but he remains untouchable – protected…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Almost two decades have passed since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR. Robert Service, one of our finest historians of modern Russia, sets out to examine the history of communism throughout the world. His uncomfortable conclusion — and an important message for the twenty-first century – is that although communism in its original form is now dead or dying, the poverty and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The Works 7 really does contain every poem that you will ever need for the Literacy Hour, but it is also a book packed with fantastic poems that will delight any reader. These are the poems that punctuate our lives — at school, at home, at weddings and celebrations, and in sadder times too. It features treasured gems from generations of poets and hundreds of years of our history. The book is…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Amid the tragic unfolding mayhem of the morning of 9/11, failed Brighton businessman and ne’er-do-well Ronnie Wilson sees the chance of a lifetime, to shed his debts, disappear and reinvent himself in another country. Six years later, the discovery of the skeletal remains of a woman’s body in a storm drain in Brighton, leads Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on an enquiry spanning the globe, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The third book in the wartime series continuing from Tuesday’s War and Charlie’s War. The war’s over. Charlie Bassett is one of England’s brave young survivors. Haunted by one woman’s smile and by his wartime adventures, he finally returns back home to try to pick up the pieces of his broken life. There’s just one small problem – everyone thinks he’s dead. Arrested as a deserter, his only way out…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Katrin Himmler’s cool but meticulous examination of the Himmler story reveals – in all its dark complexity – the gulf between the ‘normality’ of bourgeois family life and the horrors perpetrated by one member. This riveting family memoir provides essential new information on the private life and background of one of the twentieth-century’s most notorious killers – not a lone evil executioner, but…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 676 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 526) Аннотация: When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an apparent change to his previously outgoing personality. Crippled by migraines, and suspicious of his psychiatrist, he begins to display sporadic bouts of aggression, particularly against women, especially his ex-fiancee who seems unable to accept that the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Whether he's getting into adventures with his band of Outlaws, or driving his family crazy, there's never a dull minute with William Brown around! This bind-up includes: «William's Birthday and Other Stories», «William and the Hidden Treasure and Other Stories» and «William's Wonderful Plan and Other Stories».
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: ‘I wondered if I was dying. I wasn’t afraid to die, but such was the pain in my gut, I wished it would happen soon’. The night before the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket sees the great and the good of the horse-racing community gathered for a black-tie gala dinner at the Hay Net — the racing town’s favourite Michelin-starred restaurant — founded by Max Moreton, something of a local celebrity. Spending…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 516) Аннотация: This astonishing novel that parallels the great American classic novel, «Gone With the Wind» by Margaret Mitchell, has been twelve years in the making. Now, the most beloved and most widely-read saga of the American Civil War is retold from the point of view of its unrivalled hero, the dashing and enigmatic scion of the South, Rhett Butler. See what Rhett is really thinking as he sits in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Wilbur Smith returns with the eagerly awaited sequel to his thrilling Egyptian series. Following on from River God, The Seventh Scroll and Warlock, The Quest continues the story of the Warlock, Taita, wise in the lore of the ancient Gods and a master of magic and the supernatural. Egypt is struck by a series of terrible plagues that cripple the Kingdom, and then the ultimate disaster follows. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: Liza, Kellyanne and Billie are ambitious heroines chasing their dreams in the demimondes of media politics, reality television and rock music. Their journey unfolds thrill by thrill, shock by shock in an unputdownable story about the illusions of glamour, the dark side of success, the elusiveness of love and the fragility of relationships. Three incidents will change their lives forever: a career…
Скачать книгу (размер 6 312 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1239) Аннотация: On the day after Halloween, in th eyear 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral cith of Kingsbridge. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives become braided together by desire, determination, avarice and retribution. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. Yet they will always live under the shadow of the unexplained killin on that fateful childhood day.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: This fantastic collection features all of Paul Cookson's most popular poems, including «Superman Dog», «The Toilet Seat Has Teeth» and «The Amazing Captain Concorde»! «Short Visit, Long Stay»: The school trip was a special occasion. But we never reached our destination. Instead of the Zoo, I was locked in the loo of an M62 service station.