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Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The special limited edition paper bag cover of the international bestseller... For anyone who's ever had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes this expanded edition of Wreck This Journal, an illustrated book that features a subversive collection of prompts, asking readers to muster up their best mistake and mess-making abilities and to fill the pages of the book…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: This is the «Penguin English Library Edition» of «Tess of the D'Urbervilles» by Thomas Hardy. «I would be content, ay, glad, to live with you as your servant, if I may not as your wife; so that I could only be near you, and get glimpses of you, and think of you as mine...I long for only one thing in heaven or earth or under the earth, to meet you, my own dear! Come to me — come to me, and save me…

Скачать книгу (размер 7 419 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1456) Аннотация: This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Little Women is an outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century American literature, and the first children's novel written in the United States to have become an enduring classic. The March girls are shown throughout as real people and not mere moral examples as we follow them from childhood through Little Women and Little Women Part Two (known in Europe as Good Wives). The portrayal of the…

Скачать книгу (размер 529 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 105) Аннотация: Steve Jobs, adopted in infancy by a family in San Francisco, packed a lot of life into fifty-six short years. In this Who Was...? biography, children will learn how his obsession with computers and technology at an early age led him to co-found and run Apple, in addition to turning Pixar into a ground-breaking animation studio. A college dropout, Jobs took unconventional steps in his path to…

Скачать книгу (размер 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 28) Аннотация: By popular demand, a board book edition of the third title in this bestselling series. The Buehners' New York Times bestselling snowmen are here to stay! Children wonder what would happen if their favorite frosty friends didn't melt with springtime. What would it be like to take a snowman to the beach? What costume would a snowman wear if you took him trick-or-treating? In this dazzling, silly…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: In 1971, President Nixon imposed national price controls and took the United States off the gold standard, an extreme measure intended to end an ongoing currency war that had destroyed faith in the U.S. dollar. Today we are engaged in a new currency war, and this time the consequences will be far worse than those that confronted Nixon. Currency wars are one of the most destructive and feared…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Bei Abrissarbeiten in Minneapolis werden die Leichen von zwei in Plastik verpackten Mädchen gefunden. Es sieht aus, als hätten sie dort eine lange Zeit gelegen. Lucas Davenport weiß genau, wie lange. Im Jahr 1985 hatte der junge Polizist Davenport den Ruf, leichtsinnig zu sein und das Verschwinden der Mädchen war eine große Sache. Seine Vorgesetzten erklärten den…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: La historia apasionada, erótica y adictiva de una joven fotógrafa que se enamora del actor más famoso de Perú. Una joven fotógrafa recibe el encargo de fotografiar al famoso actor Daniel Hall y se encuentra ante un hombre atractivo y encantador, y también casado. La pareja se embarca en una apasionada relación clandestina, pero la prensa rosa no tarda en…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: What Are You Looking At? by Will Gompertz — a wonderfully lively and accessible history of Modern Art by the BBC Arts Editor. «An essential primer not only for art lovers but for art loathers too». (Express). What is modern art? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it worth so much damn money? Join Will Gompertz on a dazzling tour that will change the way you look at modern art…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: A terrorist bombing in Pakistan wipes out Max Moores entire CIA team. As the only survivor, the former Navy SEAL plunges deeper into the treacherous tribal lands to find the terrorist cell, but what he discovers there leads him to a much darker conspiracy in an unexpected part of the globethe US/Mexico border. Here a drug war rages between the Juarez and Sinaloa cartels. The landscape is strewn…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Downloads, CDs and DVD mean it is possible to listen to hundreds of thousands of classical recordings today — but how do you pick your way through the vast array of music now on offer? The Penguin Guide to the 1000 Finest Classical Recordings brings together the experience and enthusiasm of four of classical music's greatest experts, Ivan March, Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton and Paul…

Скачать книгу (размер 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 100) Аннотация: One hundred postcards of all Doctor Who's iconic characters, terrifying monsters and incredible places the Doctor has visited in a stylish keepsake box. Send them to your friends, stick them on your wall, or keep them as a classic collectable!

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: 'She was a brazen hussy. She wasn't. And she was pretty, wasn't she? I didn't look... And tell your girls, my son, that when they're running after you, they're not to come and ask your mother for you — tell them that — brazen baggages you meet at dancing classes'. The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: 'She looked so like herself that I knew not how to bear it'. Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of local gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder whether his trust in her has been…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: 'Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, — stern and wild ones, — and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss'. Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves. Publicly…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance... reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one soul sav'd but my self...' Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers,…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: This is the «Penguin English Library Edition» of «The Moonstone» by Wilkie Collins. 'Here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamond — bringing after it a conspiracy of living rogues, set loose on us by the vengeance of a dead man'. When Rachel Verinder's birthday present — the Moonstone, a large Indian diamond — is stolen at her party, suspicion and the diamond's…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: 'People screamed. People sprang off the pavement... The Invisible Man is coming! The Invisible Man!' With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin — the new guest at The Coach and Horses — is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far more chilling: he has developed a process that…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 356) Аннотация: When a dinner-party guest named Miles locks himself in an upstairs room and refuses to come out, he sets off a media frenzy. He also sets in motion a mesmerizing puzzle of a novel, one that harnesses acrobatic verbal playfulness to a truly affecting story. Miles communicates only by cryptic notes slipped under the door. We see him through the eyes of four people who barely know him, ranging from…