Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: George Orwell's chilling fable of Soviet Russia's brutal dictatorship, Animal Farm brings to life in lucid, uncomplicated language the disastrous project of Russian Communism. This Penguin Modern classics edition includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury. 'All animals are equal — but some are more equal than others'. When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: In Small Message, Big Impact, Terri Sjodin teaches you how to make a lasting impression on absolutely anyone — fast. You're at the airport, burning time by checking your email. Then you spot the CEO of a company you've wanted to connect with for ages. He's waiting for his flight. Your flight! Should you walk over? What will you say? We've all been there. An opportunity presents itself and you…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: First published in 1967, Death Kit is a classic of modern fiction. Blending realism and dream, Susan Sontag's second novel offers a passionate exploration of the recesses of the American conscience. The novel is a narrative of the suffering of Dalton 'Diddy' Harron, told through his own observations. He works in advertising for a microscope manufacturer, is thirty-three and divorced and a month…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 666 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 328) Аннотация: Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the small Minnesota town of Deephaven, an entire family has been killed — husband, wife, two daughters, dogs. There's something about the scene that pokes at Lucas's cop instincts — it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched-earth retribution he's seen in drug killings sometimes. But this is a seriously…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 467 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 485) Аннотация: Garrett is a human detective in the fantastical city of TunFaire. And now he’s getting tangled up in the worst sort of laws... In-laws. Garrett is set to stow his wandering heart with his fiancée, Strafa Algarda. But for Garrett, even true love comes with its share of headaches — namely, the Algarda family. Strafa’s family needs Garrett’s unique skills in the worst way. Rumors are spreading…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Bored on a hot afternoon, Alice follows a White Rabbit down a rabbit-hole without giving a thought about how she might get out. And so she tumbles into Wonderland: where animals answer back, a baby turns into a pig, time stands still at a disorderly tea party, croquet is played with hedgehogs and flamingos, and the Mock Turtle and Gryphon dance the Lobster Quadrille. In a land in which nothing is…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: 'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil' Published as a Shilling Shocker, Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with 'damnable young man' Edward Hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Lesley Pearse, No. 1 UK bestselling author of The Promise and Belle, is back with Forgive Me, a compelling story of a daughter uncovering her mother's secret past. Eva Patterson's life is forever altered by the devastating discovery of her mother, Flora, dead in the bath leaving only a note: 'Forgive Me'. Until Flora's suicide, Eva's world had been secure — but overnight everything changes. For…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: How I Live Now is an original and poignant book by Meg Rosoff, now a film tie-in edition! How I Live Now is the powerful and engaging story of Daisy, the precocious New Yorker and her English cousin Edmond, torn apart as war breaks out in London, from the multi award-winning Meg Rosoff. How I Live Now has been adapted for the big screen by Kevin Macdonald, starring Saoirse Ronan as Daisy and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Over forty years of service to the United Nations — the last ten as Secretary-General — Kofi Annan has been at the centre of the major geopolitical events of our time. As much a memoir as a guide to world order, Interventions provides a unique, behind-the-scenes view of global diplomacy during one of the most tumultuous periods in UN history. With eloquence and immediacy, Annan writes about the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: NW is Zadie Smith's masterful novel about London life. Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners — Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan — after they've left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful and complicated. Yet after a chance encounter they each find…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is the first bestselling book in Rick Riordan's phenomenally successful Percy Jackson series — now with a new cover look. Half boy. Half God. ALL Hero. Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek God. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The court of Henry VIII is rife with intrigue, rivalries and romance — and none are better placed to understand this than the women at its heart. The story of Katherine Parr, Henry VIII's final wife.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 135 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 420) Аннотация: Packed with heart-pounding action and boundless invention, The Tombs is an exceptional thriller. Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are intrigued when an archaeologist friend requests their help excavating a top secret historical site. What they find will set them on a hunt for a prize greater than they could ever imagine.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The Top Gear Years brings together Jeremy Clarkson's collected magazine columns for the first time. Clarkson at his pithy, provocative, hilarious best. We now know all about the world according to Clarkson. In a series of bestselling books Jeremy has revealed it to be a puzzling, frustrating place where all too often the lunatics seem to be running the asylum. But in The Top Gear Years, we get…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: The acclaimed and enthralling story of the dark side of Elizabethan rule, from Stephen Alford Elizabeth I's reign is known as a golden age, yet to much of Europe she was a 'Jezebel' and heretic who had to be destroyed. The Watchers is a thrilling portrayal of the secret state that sought to protect the Queen; a shadow world of spies, codebreakers, agent provocateurs and confidence-men who would…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: In The Launch Pad, Randall Stross, author of eBoys and Planet Google, takes a behind-the-scenes look at how tomorrow's hottest startups are being primed for greatness. Twice a year, in the heart of Silicon Valley, a small investment firm called Y Combinator selects an elite group of young entrepreneurs, from around the world, for three months of intense work and instruction. Their brand new, two-…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Forget the 1 per cent — it's time to get to grips with the 0.1 per cent... There has always been some gap between rich and poor, but it has never been wider — and now the rich are getting wealthier at such breakneck speed that the middle classes are being squeezed out. While the wealthiest 10 per cent of Americans, for example, receive half the nation's income, the real money flows even higher…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Angry Birds meets Star Wars'! There are over 1,000 reusable stickers in this bumper collection full of your favourite characters. In a land far, far away all of your favourite parts of the Star Wars' films and the very best of the popular Angry Birds game, came together in one amazing sticker collection. Star Wars' Angry Birds Ultimate Sticker Collection contains over 1,000 colourful and reusable…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 130 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 419) Аннотация: The boy who would be King has gained the throne... Prince Honorious Jorg Ancrath vowed when he was nine to avenge his slaughtered mother and brother--and punish his father for not doing so. When he was fifteen, he began to fulfill that vow. Now he is eighteen — and he must hold on by strength of arms to what he took by torture and treachery. King Jorg is a man haunted: by the ghost of a young…