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Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: This title is a delicious, funny and touching final installment of Emma Hamilton's struggles to become a mother. Just as Emma and her husband James become parents of eight-month-old Russian baby, Yuri, they also find out that Emma is pregnant. Emma discovers that having her dreams come true brings a whole new set of problems as she is faced with well-meaning friends and family — and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 539 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 303) Аннотация: Everyone in Sawrey likes Ben Hornby. So when Beatrix finds the shepherd dead in the meadow and suspects foul play, she wonders who would have done such a thing. A trio of village cats has an idea: When Ben breathed his last, his sheep must have seen his killer before scattering. So they set out to find the far-flung flock. Although she's distracted by duties at the farm and the sad plight of a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 559 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 307) Аннотация: For 31 year old Cornelia Brown, life is a series of movie moments. When her very own Cary Grant walks through the door of the Philadelphia cafe in which she works, it seems that dreams may come true. Then Cornelia meets 11 year old Clare, and their lives are forever changed in unexpected ways.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: This stunning second novel from Desai (Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard) is set in mid-1980s India, on the cusp of the Nepalese movement for an independent state. Jemubhai Popatlal, a retired Cambridge-educated judge, lives in Kalimpong, at the foot of the Himalayas, with his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and his cook. The makeshift family's neighbors include a coterie of Anglophiles who might be…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: How could such an intricate object as the human eye — so complex and so precise — have come about by chance? In this masterful piece of popular science, Richard Dawkins builds a powerful and carefully reasoned argument for evolutionary adaptation as the force behind all life on earth. The metaphor of 'Mount Improbable' represents the combination of perfection and improbability that we find in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A dazzling, passionate polemic against anti-science movements of all kinds. Keats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colours. In this illuminating and provocative book, Richard Dawkins argues that Keats could not have been more mistaken, and shows how an understanding of science enhances our wonder of the world. He argues that mysteries do not…
Скачать книгу (размер 85 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 18) Аннотация: Kids learning to tell time will love moving the clock hands on this novelty book based on the classic story by Eric Carle. Full color.
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: The silliest songs ever sung, Wee Sing style! You won’t be able to stop giggling-Book and CD.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 804 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 355) Аннотация: When Atlantic Monthly Press relaunched her Commissario Guido Brunetti series. Donna Leon was hailed as the best mystery writer you've never heard of... She uses the relatively small and crime-free canvas of Venice for riffs about Italian life, sexual styles and — best of all — the kind of ingrown business and political corruption that seems to lurk just below the surface ( Chicago Tribune). Now…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The treasure that captured a nation's imagination Everyone's favorite farmgirl, Dorothy from Kansas, finds herself on a strange odyssey with three new friends. Readers young and old alike will enjoy this trip down Memory Lane, via the Yellow Brick Road.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 589 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 509) Аннотация: Vigorous, self-reliant, amazingly resourceful, and moral, Natty Bumppo is the prototype of the Western hero. A faultless arbiter of wilderness justice, he hates middle-class hypocrisy. But he finds his love divided between the woman he has pledged to protect on a treacherous journey and the untouched forest that sustains him in his beliefs. A fast-paced narrative full of adventure and majestic…
Скачать книгу (размер 95 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 20) Аннотация: Carle's popular split-page board books are now packaged together in a handsome, boxed library.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: Suitable for adults and children alike, this title includes three classic tales of childhood on an island paradise — «My Family and Other Animals», «Birds, Beasts and Relatives» and «The Garden of the Gods».
Скачать книгу (размер 1 141 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 225) Аннотация: Moose Flannagan moves with his family to Alcatraz so his dad can work as a prison guard and his sister, Natalie, can attend a special school. But Natalie has autism, and when she's denied admittance to the school, the stark setting of Alcatraz begins to unravel the tenuous coping mechanisms Moose's family has used for dealing with her disorder. When Moose meets Piper, the cute daughter of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 982 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 390) Аннотация: The life and times of Everyone's favorite thief Filled with action, villains, and surprises, the legend lives on. Days of old bursting with pageantry, knights, and beautiful maidens return in a superb edition of this favorite classic story.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 023 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 398) Аннотация: The thrilling and timeless legend, masterfully illustrated. The story of the incomparable Arthur, the lovely Guinevere, the wicked Morgana le Fey, and the magical Merlin has enthralled and delighted readers for centuries.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 312) Аннотация: From the best writer in the mystery genre (Larry King) comes the story of a jockey who discovers that his losing streak is caused by something sinister.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: The poverty-stricken Raskolnikov, believing he is exempt from moral law, murders a man only to face the consequences not only from society but from his conscience, in this seminal story of justice, morality, and redemption from one of Russia's greatest novelists.
Скачать книгу (размер 534 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 106) Аннотация: Almost everyone can sing along with the Beatles, but how many young readers know their whole story? Geoff Edgers, a «Boston Globe» reporter and hard-core Beatles fan, brings the Fab Four to life in this «Who Was...?» book. Readers will learn about their Liverpudlian childhoods, their first forays into rock music, what Beatlemania was like, and why they broke up. It's all here in an easy-to-read…