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Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Longstocking

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Tommy and his sister Annika have a new neighbor, and her name is Pippi Longstocking. She has crazy red pigtails, no parents to tell her what to do, a horse that lives on her porch, and a flair for the outrageous that seems to lead to one adventure after another!

Green Jane: Girl Friday

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: When Kit and Adam separated after almost fifteen years of marriage, Kit felt like she had lost her lover, her best friend and her identity all in one fell swoop. But now, a year on from the divorce, Kit has found herself again and she loves her life in the idyllic Connecticut town of Highfield. She has the perfect job — working for Robert McClore, the famous novelist — two wonderful children, a…

H.G. Wells: The First Men in the Moon

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: When penniless businessman Mr. Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr. Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity. Cavor soon succeeds in his experiments, only to tell a stunned Bedford the invention makes possible one of the oldest dreams of humanity: a journey to the moon. With Bedford motivated by…

Sue Grafton: R Is for Ricochet

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Private Investigator Kinsey Milhone is back on the job, hired by a privileged parolee's father to keep her out of trouble. It should be an easy assignment-until the parolee's past starts coming back to haunt her.

Dick Francis: Wild Horses

Скачать книгу (размер 1 717 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 338) Аннотация: The New York Times Bestseller. A New York Times Notable Book. From the acclaimed master of mystery and suspense comes a thrilling novel about the illusion of film — and the reality of murder.

Dick Francis: Slay Ride

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: When a champion jockey disappears — right before a big race and the birth of his child — Investigator David Cleveland bets on foul play.

Mary Roach: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: What happens to your body after you have died? Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise? Life after death is not as simple as it looks. Mary Roach's Stiff lifts the lid off what happens to our bodies once we have died. Bold, original and with a delightful eye for detail, Roach tells us everything we wanted to know about this new frontier in medical science. Interweaving…

Dessen Sarah: Someone Like You

Скачать книгу (размер 1 432 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 282) Аннотация: Halley and Scarlett have been best friends ever since they met. Halley has always been the quiet one, Scarlett braver and more outgoing. Halley has always turned to Scarlett when things get rough, and Scarlett has always known just what to do. It's the perfect setup. But everything changes at the beginning of their junior year. Scarlett's boyfriend is killed in a motorcycle accident; then…

Ellen Raskin: The Westing Game

Скачать книгу (размер 922 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 182) Аннотация: When an eccentric millionaire dies mysteriously, sixteen very unlikely people are gathered together for the reading of the will... and what a will it is!

Taback Simms: This Is the House That Jack Built

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: What happened in the house that Jack built? It all started with the cheese that lay in the house that Jack built. And then came the rat that ate the cheese and the cat who killed the rat. Caldecott Medal? Winning author and illustrator Simms Taback brings his distinctive humor and creativity to the beloved story of Jack and the house that he built.

Roald Dahl: The Umbrella Man and Other Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Is it really possible to invent a machine that does the job of a writer? What is it about the landlady's house that makes it so hard for her guests to leave? Does Sir Basil Turton value most his wife or one of his priceless sculptures? These compelling tales are a perfect introduction to the adult writing of a storytelling genius.

Walpole Horace: The Castle of Otranto

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. His calculating father Manfred fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son's bride himself despite the fact he is already married. But a series of terrifying supernatural omens soon threaten this unlawful union, as the curse placed on Manfred's ancestor, who…

Kinder Hermann: Atlas of World History

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: This is the first volume of The Penguin Atlas of World History, which covers events from the beginning of world history to the eve of the French Revolution. A wide-ranging, chronological summary of the main cultural, scientific, religious and political events of the period is accompanied by detailed maps that clarify complex historical situations, and make this a useful reference book for…

Parks Adele: Still Thinking of You

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Tash and Rich are newly engaged. They can`t wait to celebrate their wedding with their closest friends, all of whom have known each other since university where they enjoyed a hedonistic lifestyle. But is fun as easy-come-easy-go in your thirties? What if the love of your life reappeared now?

Cussler Clive: Trojan Odyssey

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Long hailed as the grand master of adventure fiction, Clive Cussler has continued to astound with the intricate plotting and astonishing set pieces of his novels. Now, with a surprising twist, he gives us his most audacious work yet. In the final pages of Valhalla Rising, Dirk Pitt discovered, to his shock, that he had two grown children he had never known-twenty-three-year-old fraternal twins…

Leon Donna: Uniform Justice

Скачать книгу (размер 1 493 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 294) Аннотация: For more than a decade Donna Leon has been a bestseller in Europe with a series of mysteries featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti. Always ready to bend the rules to solve a crime, Brunetti manages to maintain his integrity while maneuvering through a city rife with politics, corruption, and intrigue. In «Uniform Justice», a young cadet has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice's elite…

Milne A.A.: Winnie-the-Pooh's ABC

Скачать книгу (размер 126 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 26) Аннотация: Learning the alphabet is more fun when the setting is the Hundred Acre Wood. Familiar scenes from the Milne and Shepard classics introduce not only the concepts of letters and words, but also Pooh and his friends. This sturdy board book with an elegant, timeless look has been designed to attract the most discerning Pooh fans and to delight their favorite toddlers.

Stephen King: Four Past Midnight

Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: NOW A BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE FROM COLUMBIA PICTURES STARRING JOHNNY DEPP Based on Secret Window, Secret Garden, a novella in Stepen King's Four Past Midnight. Mort Rainey is a best selling author whose imagination thrills his readers to the core. But one of his stories holds a secret that comes to life. A secret that even he can't imagine...

Durrell Gerald: Birds, Beasts, and Relatives

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Originally published in 1969 but long out of print, Durrell's dazzling sequel to «My Family and Other Animals» is based on his boyhood on the Greek Island of Corfu from 1935 to 1939 and filled with charming observations, amusing anecdotes, boyhood memories, and childlike wonder.