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Thomas Cathcart: Plato and A Platypus Walk into A Bar

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Here's a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers. It's Philosophy 101 for those who know not to take all this heavy stuff too seriously.

Laurell K Hamilton: The Harlequin

Скачать книгу (размер 2 207 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 434) Аннотация: The 15th Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novela now in paperback. Into Anita Blakeas worldaa world already overflowing with powera come creatures so feared that centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names.

Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it... Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its…

Roald Dahl: Songs and Verse

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Exuberant rhymes are an intrinsic part of the appeal of Roald Dahl's books — and here are some classic and magical moments from the books, together with some previously unpublished treats. There are seven themed sections bursting with monsters, ghastly children, magical creatures, unpleasant adults and a few surprises. Songs and Verse is illustrated by Quentin Blake, as well as leading artists…

Wendy Cooling: The Puffin Book of Stories for Six-year-olds

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: With a martian in a supermarket, a monkey in trouble and a magic pearl tree, there's something for everyone to discover in this special collection. This book is perfect for six-year-olds to share or read alone.

Kim Edwards: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Families have secrets they hide even from themselves... It should have been an ordinary birth, the start of an ordinary happy family. But the night Dr David Henry delivers his wife's twins is a night that will haunt five lives for ever. For though David's son is a healthy boy, his daughter has Down's syndrome. And, in a shocking act of betrayal whose consequences only time will reveal, he tells…

Pamela Conn Beall: Wee Sing and Learn Opposites (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 75 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 16) Аннотация: Go on a magical, musical journey into a forest full of opposites! From up and down to long and short, kids will learn opposites with a little help from some charmingly illustrated forest animals and songs full of playful rhythms and rhymes.

David Crystal: The Penguin Concise Encyclopedia

Скачать книгу (размер 5 297 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1040) Аннотация: World-renowned linguist and reference editor, David Crystal, brings us the third edition of «Penguin's Concise Encyclopedia». This abridgement condenses the core material in the third edition of the «Penguin Encyclopedia» which has already reached a world sales total of over 23,000 copies in hardback. David Crystal has a gift for clarity and concision which enables him to illuminate even the most…

Judith Byron Schachner: Skippyjon Jones (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Puffin is updating the Puffin Storytapesa audio program and converting the cassette tapes to compact discs our list begins with three perennial classicsa Corduroy, Madeline, and Froggy Gets Dressed aas well as one modern classic new to Puffin audioa Skippyjon Jones. each Puffin picture book will be accompanied by compact disc that features a professional reading of each unabridged story and, in…

Ludwig Bemelmans: Madeline's Christmas (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Puffin continues to update the Puffin Storytapesa audio program and convert the cassette tapes to compact discs. This season, weare adding two more titles to our list of Puffin Storytimea packages. Madelineas Christmas, Ludwig Bemelmansa classic tale of a little French girl named Madeline as she celebrates Christmas, is perfect for this holiday season.These Puffin picture books will be…

Anderson Catherine: Sweet Nothings

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Stealing her abusive ex-husband's expensive stallion, Molly Wells shows up at known horse whisperer Jake Coulter's Oregon horse ranch. Fearful of her ex-husband, Molly escapes with no clothes or money, but she's willing to risk everything to save Sonora Sunset, little realizing she needs to save herself as well. Hoping Jack's talents work their magic on the horse, Molly doesn't expect them to…

Dylan Thomas: Selected Poems: Dylan Thomas

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Strenously crafted and powerfully lyrical, Dylan Thomas' poetry has bewitched generations of readers. Admired and loved for their ingenuity and potency, his poems celebrate both inner and outer landscapes in the face of mortality and decay, human weakness and shortcomings. Thomas is regarded by many to be the greatest — if controversial — Welsh poet of the twentieth century.

Rand Ayn: Atlas Shrugged

Скачать книгу (размер 6 032 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1184) Аннотация: Atlas Shrugged is the astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world — and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged stretches the boundaries further than any book you have ever read. It is a mystery, not about the murder of a man's body, but about the murder — and rebirth — of man's spirit.

Mooney Chris: The Missing

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: The woman was missing for five years. The Crime Scene Investigator finds her. And the serial killer wants them both dead... When Boston CSI Darby McCormick finds a raving and emaciated woman hiding at the scene of a violent kidnap, she runs a DNA search to identify the Jane Doe. The result confirms she was abducted five years earlier and has somehow managed to escape from the dungeon in which…

Draper Sharon M.: Fire from the Rock

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Sylvia Patterson is shocked and confused when she is asked to be one of the first black students to attend Central High School, which is scheduled to be integrated in September 1957, whether the citizens or governor of Arkansas like it or not. Before Sylvia makes her final decision, smoldering racial tension in the town ignites into flame. When the smoke clears, she sees clearly that nothing is…

French Nicci: Losing You

Скачать книгу (размер 1 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 292) Аннотация: A desperate mom tracks a missing child in another of French's spellbinders (Catch Me When I Fall, 2006, etc.). It's getaway time for Nina Landry and her brood — two children plus Christian, her lover. What they're getting away from is bleak Sandling Island, 60 miles from London, and the pinched, icy days of English winter. They're bound for a Christmas holiday in Florida, but now there's a hitch.…

Gerrard Nicci: The Moment You Were Gone

Скачать книгу (размер 2 380 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 468) Аннотация: Gaby and Connor have a loving, trusting marriage. They know every detail about each other. And now with their son Ethan about to set off for university, Gaby and Connor will be alone again to spend quality time together. But there is one person missing from Gaby's life. One person who she cannot forgot — Nancy, her best friend since childhood A haunting novel about friendship and secrets that…

Sagan Francoise: Bonjour Tristesse

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Cecile leads a hedonistic, frivolous life with her father and his young mistresses. On holiday in the South of France, she is seduced by the sun, the sand and her first lover. But when her father decides to remarry, their carefree existence becomes clouded by tragedy. United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds.…

Robb J.D.: Innocent in Death

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The first #1 New York Times bestseller for J.D. Robb The phenomenal series set in a future New York City continues, as Lieutenant Eve Dallas hunts for the killer of a seemingly ordinary history teacher-and uncovers some extraordinary surprises.

Paxman Jeremy: On Royalty

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: What does it mean to be royal? At a time when the monarch no longer rules by divine right and governing powers fall to our elected leaders, the concept of royalty grows ever more elusive. The intellectual argument for the abolition of the monarchy is strong, and yet public interest in the royals continues to grow. Jeremy Paxman seeks to find out how the role of our head of state has changed over…