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Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Hampstead School is getting political! When school elections roll around, Nicole decides to run for class president, and Grace volunteers to be her campaign manager. The only problem is, Grace starts treating the election like one of her football matches, and instead of focusing on Nicole, Grace starts making the election all about beating opponents. Can the English Roses help draw Grace in…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: There is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. The extraordinary kings — Edward III and Henry V, the great warriors, Richard II and Henry VI, tragic inadequates killed by their failure to use their power, and Richard III, the demon king. The extraordinary events — the Black Death that destroyed a third of the population, the Peasants' Revolt, the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Jay Asher has worked at an independent bookstore, an outlet bookstore, a chain bookstore, and two public libraries. He hopes, someday, to work for a used bookstore. When he is not writing, Jay plays guitar and goes camping. Thirteen Reasons Why is his first published novel.

Скачать книгу (размер 70 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 15) Аннотация: El Skippito is back! His doggy pals want to visit the Under Mundo athe underworldawhere mummitos rest in peas. But they need El Skippitoas brains and courage to answer the riddle of the Finx and enter the mummyas tomb. Our hero is up to the task, and heas in for another whirlwind adventure.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 692 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 333) Аннотация: The worldas first Zen Buddhist paranormal romanceapublished to coincide with Halloween. One of the most progressive writers at work today, Victor Pelevinas comic inventiveness has won him comparisons to Kafka, Calvino, and Gogol, and Time has described him as a apsychedelic Nabokov for the cyberage.a In The Sacred Book of the Werewolf, a smash success in Russia and Pelevinas first novel in six…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 896 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 373) Аннотация: Ancient church rituals meet cutting-edge crime-solving in the latest novel in the №1 «New York Times»-bestselling series. In the year 2060, sophisticated investigative tools can help catch a killer. But there are some questions even the most advanced technologies cannot answer.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: This epic of urban life tells of small-town heroine Carrie Meeber, adrift in an indifferent Chicago. Setting out, she has nothing but a few dollars and an unspoiled beauty. Hers is a story of struggle? From sweatshop to stage success? And of the love she inspires in an older, married man whose obsession with her threatens to destroy him.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: »Notes from Underground» (1864) is a study of a single character, 'the real man of the Russian majority', and a revelation of Dostoyevsky's own deepest beliefs. One of his best critics has said of the first part that it forms his 'most utterly naked pages. Never after wards was he so fully and openly to reveal the inmost recesses, unmeant for display, of his heart'. «The Double» (1846) is the…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: »In general «Glory» is my happiest thing.» «The fun of «Glory» is... to be sought in the echoing and linking of minor events, in back-and-forth switches, which produce an illusion of impetus; in an old daydream directly becoming the blessing of the ball hugged to one's chest, or in the casual vision of Martin's mother grieving beyond the time-frame of the novel in an abstraction of the future…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 962 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 386) Аннотация: Insight Guides, the world's largest visual travel series, capture the unique character of each destination's culture with a perspective only an insider can provide. Picturesque, romantic, historic or exotic, Insight covers the world's most popular destinations.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: He came home from work. She fixed him a martini. He said she looked beautiful. And then four catastrophic words hung in the air between them: I Want A Divorce. That was it. Suddenly Suzanne Finnamore was alone, with no idea of what to do next. What would she say to her young son when he woke up the next morning? How would she tell the world that he'd chosen to move on and leave her behind? She…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: In the sticky summer heat unruly desires stir the blood... For Catullus, the brilliantly witty and outrageous young poet, and Clodia, his older, married lover, a borrowed villa in Rome is a secret, illicit meeting-place. When they are apart, Catullus burns with desire for 'his girl', while Clodia goes her own way among his rivals. Other passions simmer in the heat: the streets threaten to erupt…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Thomas Friedman's phenomenal The World is Flat helped millions of people see globalization in a new way. Now he takes a fresh, provocative look at the biggest challenge facing us today — our hot, flat and crowded world. Climate change and rapid population growth mean that it's no longer possible for businesses, or the rest of us, to keep doing things the same old way. Things are going to have to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: For most people, being a single mother to three boys (two of them teenagers), sorting out your feelings for an ex-boyfriend who's now an international film star, pacifying an elderly father who keeps asking why you're not married, tolerating your bigoted brother, while keeping out of the way of a dismissive film producer who seems to have made a mission out of annoying you, would be quite enough…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: Lover. Mother. Writer. Each of these roles has meant the world to Izzy Mulcahy. But now, as she stands accused of killing her elderly father, Izzy sets out on a journey of self-discovery and finds the three roles colliding in ways that both surprise and sustain her. However, her journey also leads her to conclude that when she stands up in court her testimony will have a devastating effect on the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Captain Robert Falcon Scott didn't start out life as a hero. In fact, as a boy and young man he was considered small, frail and shy. So what was it that turned this ordinary man into a legend? Through his gripping new account of how this modest naval officer became Scott of the Antarctic, Neil Oliver vividly relates the awe-inspiring tales that inspired Britain's greatest hero. And alongside…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: What if your boyfriend died right in front of you? It was a night of laughter and celebration. But when John dies in a dreadful accident, his girlfriend Emma is plunged into despair. She loved John more than life itself — and now death has taken him from her. She feels nothing, she has lost everything, her world spins out of control. Or so she thinks. For Emma has friends — good friends who rally…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: 'She could look demure while behaving like an empress. Blonde, with eyes like pearls too big for her head, she was very striking, but marginally pretty and certainly not beautiful... But it was her edge that made her memorable — her upstart superiority, her reluctance to pretend deference to others'. Bette Davis was the commanding figure of the great era of Hollywood stardom, with a drive and…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: 'Cooper was heroic, of course, in his own mind as much as in his scripts. He was manly, tall, and ruggedly handsome. He was a man for a fight'. On screen he was the ultimate all-American hero: lean, laconic and masculine, a lone sheriff battling his enemies in High Noon, or a tough individualist in The Fountainhead. Off screen he bedded a host of leading ladies and carefully honed his image,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 264) Аннотация: Jim Lovelock is an iconic figure in British science, a prophet whose prophecies are coming true. This is his definitive authorised biography. Lovelock is best known as the 'father' of Gaia theory, which is now established as the most useful way of understanding the dramatic changes happening to the environment of the Earth. But few people know about his early work as a chemist and inventor — work…