Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Half Boy. Half God. All Hero. You can't tell by looking at me that my dad is Poseidon, God of the Sea. It's not easy being a half-blood these days. Now Camp Half-Blood is under attack, and unless I can get my hands on the Golden Fleece, the whole camp will be invaded by monsters.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Bobby Dollar has a secret. Actually he's got a ton of them. The most important one is that his real name's Doloriel and he's an angel. But now he's stepped into the middle of something that's got Heaven and Hell very nervousNan unprecedented number of missing souls.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: It's not every day you find yourself in combat with a half-lion, half-human. But when you're the son of a Greek God, it happens. And now my friend Annabeth is missing, a Goddess is in chains and only five half-blood heroes can join the quest to defeat the doomsday monster.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 733 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 341) Аннотация: Half Boy. Half God. All Hero. Honestly, blowing up another school was the last thing I wanted to do. As the son of a Greek God, I've had my share of near-death disaster — and now my arch enemy Luke wants to invade our camp via an ancient labyrinth. If he succeeds, thousands of bloodthirsty monsters will attack.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Junot Dнaz burst into the literary world with Drown, a collection of indelible stories that revealed a major new writer with the «eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet» (Newsweek). His eagerly awaited first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, arrived like a thunderclap, topping best-of-the-year lists and winning a host of major awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. Now Dнaz turns…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Save With Jamie Shop Smart Cook Clever Waste Less — Jamie gets the nation cooking clever, shopping smart and wasting less with his new cookbook, Save with Jamie. This year, I've got the message loud and clear that as everyone comes under bigger and bigger financial pressure, they want help to cook tasty, nutritious food on a budget — so this book was born completely out of public demand. Save…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Suitable for anyone who's ever wished to, but had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook, this book features a collection of suggestions, asking them to muster up their mistake — and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the book (and destroy them).
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Mother of three and wife of John-Paul, Cecilia discovers an old envelope in the attic. Written in her husband's hand, it says: to be opened only in the event of my death. Curious, she opens it — and time stops. John-Paul's letter confesses to a terrible mistake which, if revealed, would wreck their family as well as the lives of others.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork — with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion — filtered in to the world's consciousness. This title features ninety black-and-white images of his classic artwork and Polaroid images.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else. Khaled Hosseini, the #1 «New York Times — bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: Bestselling author Alain de Botton has written about love, travel, status and how philosophy can console us. Now he turns his attention to one of our most intense but often hidden love affairs: with our houses and their furnishings. He asks: What makes a house truly beautiful? Why are many new houses so ugly? Why do we argue so bitterly about sofas and pictures — and can differences of taste ever…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Over the last twenty years, Adbusters magazine has challenged consumerism, championed the environment and provided a platform for some of our greatest thinkers. In 2011, they instigated Occupy Wall Street, sparking a huge international movement. Now Kalle Lasn, editor and founder of Adbusters, brings us this thought provoking book, which provides the building blocks, in texts and visuals, for a…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world's No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. In this popular Dahl story, George creates a very special medicine to cure his grandma of her nasty habits. Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. After school in England he went to work for…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world's No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. Mr and Mrs Twit are extremely nasty, so the Muggle-Wump monkeys and the Roly-Poly bird hatch an ingenious plan to give them just the ghastly surprise they deserve! Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Change by Richard Gerver will give you all you need to understand change, to adapt to change, and to inspire others to do the same. 'To be successful, you have to be able to adapt to change' — Sir Alex Ferguson. The pace of change is greater than ever. We all face new challenges every day in our jobs and in our personal lives. Those who can handle change are the most fulfilled. Those who fear…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Why isn't wood weaker that it is? Why isn't steel stronger? Why does glass sometimes shatter and sometimes bend like spring? Why do ships break in half? What is a liquid and is treacle one? All these are questions about the nature of materials. All of them are vital to engineers but also fascinating as scientific problems. During the 250 years up to the 1920s and 1930s they had been answered…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, teenager Will Grayson crosses paths with... Will Grayson! Two teens with the same name who run in two very different circles suddenly find their lives going in new and unexpected directions. Culminating in epic turns-of-heart on both of their parts, they team up to produce the most fabulous musical ever to grace the high-school stage. Told in…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 832) Аннотация: 'What is a self, and how can a self come out of inaminate matter?' This is the riddle that drove Hofstadter to write this extraordinary book. Linking together the music of J.S. Bach, the graphic art of Escher and the mathematical theorems of Godel, as well as ideas drawn from logic, biology, psychology, physics and linguistics, Douglas Hofstadter illuminates one of the greatest mysteries of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Nabokov's masterly Collected Poems span the decades of his career, from 'Music', written in 1914, to the short, playful 'To Vera', composed in 1974. 'The University Poem', one of Nabokov's major poetic works, is here in English for the first time: an extraordinary autobiographical poem looking back at his time at Cambridge, with its dinners, girls and memories, it is suffused with rich…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: 'Eating is pleasurable, eating is delicious, eating is sensual' says Susie. But for so many of us eating is associated with anguish and abstinence. From the first page this little book shows us how to think and feel differently about what we eat. So that we eat when we are hungry, eat what we want to eat to satisfy us and stop when we are full. Each page contains an easily absorbed bite-sized…