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Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Getting old? Get over it! For too long those in short skirts have been telling us oldies we don't matter: 'you're out of touch! Get out of the way, grandma! The next generation is coming through'. Well, enough is enough. Because getting old is great. For a start you no longer need to care what anyone thinks. You can let — if you've got any left — your hair down. No one will tell you off for…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: A collection of speeches from Churchill, one of the great modern orators. It includes Churchill's famous words on the declaration of war with Germany, as well as his rousing call to the British in June 1940 after Dunkirk, and his immortal tribute to the young men fighting in the Battle of Britain.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: I'd been kicked out of two boarding schools and the last thing I wanted was to be here, on the East Anglian coast, in a third. But without St. Oswald's, I would not have discovered the fisherman's hut with its roaring fire, its striped blankets, its sea monster stew. Without St. Oswald's, I would not have met the boy with the beautiful eyes, the flickering half-smile, and no past. Without St.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A wicked comedy of manners filleting life in a Notting Hill communal garden, where lucky residents fall into one of only two socio-economic groups — the haves and the have-yachts. Rachel Johnson`s first novel promises to be a smash success — `The Mummy Diaries`, her collection of previously published columns, has been a bestseller. Now in paperback.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 554 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 306) Аннотация: Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: It begins with a letter... The letter contains a request — think of a number, any number — and a sealed envelope. Inside the envelope is that number. When Dave Gurney, retired NYPD homicide detective, is contacted by an old college acquaintance about some startling letters he's been receiving, it is at first little more than a diverting but sinister puzzle. Until the acquaintance is brutally…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: How far will Rose go to keep a promise? The recent Strigoi attack at St. Vladimir's Academy was the deadliest ever in the school's history, claiming the lives of many. Even worse, the Strigoi took some of their victims with them — including Dimitri. He'd rather die than be one of them, and now Rose must abandon her best friend, Lissa — the one she has sworn to protect no matter what — and keep…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Bursting with fantabulous fun, including story extracts, games, puzzles, ideas to make, colour and draw and crammed with squiffingly-good stickers, this title is perfect to keep little hands busy.

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: From palace intrigue and a city in turmoil to wolf-haunted mountains, underground tunnels and a suspicious hidden factory, Miss Temple, Doctor Svenson, and Cardinal Chang must overcome war and heartache to battle old enemies and a host of new villains, all hoping to seize for themselves the power of the blue glass books.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Rebecca, Daniel, Alex and Isabel have been best friends since university. Rebecca married Daniel, Alex married Isabel and, for 20 years, they have been inseperable. But all that is about to change... When Alex walks out on Isabel Rebecca thinks things can't get any worse. But then she finds out the reason why and she's left harbouring a secret she'd rather forget... And not only that. Alex's new…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: In the Micronesian Islands, a top-secret US undersea lab vanishes... At the same time, off Bermuda, a bathysphere operated by NUMA and overseen by Kurt Austin is attacked and becomes stranded half a mile below the surface. Only quick thinking and bold action will save the crew — which includes the head of a certain, now — missing undersea lab — from a watery grave. Austin is convinced both events…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Ever since working at the River Cafe for Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray, Jamie Oliver has had a serious passion for Italian food. Now, ten years later, Italy and its wonderful flavours continue to have a major influence on his food and cooking. In Jamie's Italy, Jamie travels this famously gastronomic country paying homage to the classic dishes of each region and searching for new ideas to bring home.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: While clearing out her grandmother's cottage for sale, Connie Goodwin finds a hidden parchment inscribed with the name Deliverance Dane. And so begins the hunt to uncover the woman behind the name, a hunt that takes her back to Salem in 1692... and the infamous witchcraft trials.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Its Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel. Then the Quangels receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France. Shocked out of their…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 244) Аннотация: According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that, her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. But when David suddenly becomes good — properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good — Katie's sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some very hard…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 212 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 239) Аннотация: This title presents a famous account of growing up to be a fanatical football supporter. Told through a series of match reports, «Fever Pitch» has enjoyed enormous critical and commercial success since it was first published in 1992. It has helped to create a new kind of sports writing, and established Hornby as one of the finest writers of his generation.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 292) Аннотация: 'There was this time when everything seemed to have come together. And so obviously it was time to go and screw it all up'. Sam is sixteen and a skater. Just so there are no terrible misunderstandings: skating = skateboarding. There's no ice. Life is ticking along nicely for Sam: his mum's got rid of her rubbish boyfriend, he's thinking about college and he's met someone. Alicia. Then a little…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 733 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 341) Аннотация: »Eating Animals» is a riveting expose which presents the gut-wrenching truth about the price paid by the environment, the government, the Third World and the animals themselves in order to put meat on our tables more quickly and conveniently than ever before. Interweaving a variety of monologues and balancing humour and suspense with informed rationalism, «Eating Animals» is as much a novelistic…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 360) Аннотация: This cookbook will celebrate the vibrant food of six very different countries. Cheap, short-haul flights and long weekend getaways have become increasingly popular and within a few short hours of the UK there are new and exciting worlds of food waiting to be discovered as Jamie finds out. Each chapter will focus on a different city or region: Marrakech, Athens, Venice, Andalucia, Stockholm and…