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Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: 1896: Four Englishmen flee for their lives across the merciless Kalahari Desert carrying a stolen fortune in raw diamonds and hunted by a fierce African tribe. The thieves manage to reach the waiting HMS Rove – only to die with their pursuers in a vicious storm that buries them all under tons of sand… The present day: Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon have barely escaped…

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Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: A collection of ribald rhymes featuring characters from fairy tales, fables and nursery rhymes – as you've never seen them before! From the tortoise and the hare and Hansel and Gretel to Ali Baba and Aladdin, these traditional stories will never seem the same again once you have had a taste of Roald Dahl's hilarious verse and Quentin Blake's suitably lively illustrations.

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Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: The Russian Debutante's Handbook takes us from New York City's Lower East Side to the hip frontier wilderness of Prava—the Eastern European Paris of the '90s—whose grand and glorious beauty is marred only by the shadow of the looming statue of Stalin's foot. There, with the encouragement of the Groundhog, a murderous (but fun-loving) Russian mafioso, Vladimir infiltrates the American ex-pat…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A riveting exposé of international corruption—and what we can do about it, from the author of «Confessions of an Economic Hit Man», which spent over a year on the New York Times bestseller list. In his stunning memoir, «Confessions of an Economic Hit Man», John Perkins detailed his former role as an “economic hit man” in the international corporate skullduggery of a de facto American Empire.…

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