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Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Young Twig lives in the Deepwoods, among the woodtrolls, but he isn't one of them. In a brave attempt to find out where he truly belongs, Twig wanders into the mysterious, fascinating and sometimes hazardous world beyond the Deepwoods. In his travels he encounters myriad peculiar creatures, like his wise guardian, the caterbird; the slaughterers, a peaceful race who butcher animals for their…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Floss's parents split up when she was younger and she now divides up her week, spending five days with her mum, her mum's new boyfriend and her new baby half-brother. The other two days Floss spends with her dad, helping him to run his greasy spoon cafe. But then their simple arrangement is thrown into disarray when Floss's mum decides to move to Australia for six months. Floss has to choose…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: No-one can ever be like a mother to us. No-one, no-one at all, especially not stupid Frizzy Dizzy Rose. Ruby and Garnet are ten-year-old twins. Identical, they do everything together, especially since their mother died three years earlier. But can being a double act work for ever? When so much around them is changing...

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Rook Barkwater lives in the network of sewer-chambers beneath Undertown, the bustling main city of the Edgeworld. He dreams of becoming a librarian knight — one of those sent out to explore the mysteries of their world. Somewhere out there lie the secrets of the past — including the lost floating city of Sanctaphrax — and, maybe, hope for a future free from the fear of tyranny. When his chance…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: What does he mean? What's going on? Are you two thinking of putting Granny into a Home? Thinking is finished', Natasha told him. 'It is decided. The four children, Ivan, Sophie, Tanya and Nicholas, can't believe it. Their parents are planning to put their grandmother into a Home. She's a bit of a dotty old lady — sometimes demanding, often annoying — but as much a part of their lives as their…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Where do baby apes sleep? In apricots! I'm Elsa, and that's one of my jokes (I tell lots of jokes and I'm going to be a big star one day). I do my best to cheer my family up — but no one seems to laugh much any more. Not since we lost our lovely house and had to move into a bed and breakfast hotel...

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: A society hostess entertains her husband's mistress to dinner; a country girl savours the delights of city life; a student faces the dilemma of unmarried pregnancy; and a drink-ridden photographer tries to relaunch a shattered career... This vintage collection of stories from the bestselling author of Light a Penny Candle and Circle of Friends is Maeve Binchy at her best — her trademark warmth,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Bidding for love can be a costly business... Flora Stanza has sub-let her London life in a bid to join the family antiques business. Her knowledge extends only to the information she has crammed from daytime TV, but what she lacks in experience she makes up for in blind enthusiasm. So she is more than a little put out when she doesn't receive the warm country welcome she expected. Her curt cousin…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Millions of people travel on London's tube every day, yet we usually give our fellow passengers only a cursory glance. But each one of these nameless passengers has their own story to tell. At Notting Hill, the mysterious secretary, harbouring her secrets, travels to work; at Highburyand Islington, Adam has a sudden change of heart; and at Holborn, a disastrous reunion is about to take place...…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The TARDIS lands in 22nd century Africa in the shadow of a dormant volcano. Agri-teams are growing new foodstuffs in the baking soil to help feed the world's starving millions — but the Doctor and Rose have detected an alien signal somewhere close by. When a nightmare force starts surging along the dark volcanic tunnels, the Doctor realises an ancient trap has been sprung. But who was it meant…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: On a lonely stretch of Welsh coastline a fisherman is killed by a hideous creature from beneath the waves. When the Doctor and Rose arrive, they discover a village where the children are plagued by nightmares, and the nights are ruled by monsters. The villagers suspect that ancient industrialist Nathanial Morton is to blame, but the Doctor has suspicions of his own. Who are the ancient figures…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Starfall is a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work. And that includes the TARDIS. The pioneers who used to be drawn by the hope of making a fortune from the mines can find easier picking elsewhere. But they still come — for the romance of it, or old-fashioned organic mining. Or in the hope of finding the lost treasure of…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are. Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter, both sixteen when the story starts in 1876, come from different countries and contrasting families. They are united by an ambition to understand how the mind works and whether madness is the price we pay for being human. As psychiatrists, they travel on a quest from the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this dazzling new collection. At its centre are three stories connected into one marvellously rich narrative about Juliet — who escapes from teaching at a girls' school and throws herself into a wild and passionate love match. Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances, their lives made vividly palpable by the nuance…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The Cybermen are back to terrorize time and space — but luckily the new Doctor, played by David Tennant, and Rose are back to stop them. Picking up where Monsters and Villains left off, this fully illustrated guide documents the return of these metal menaces, as well as the Sycorax and other foes from the new series, plus first series terrors like the Gelth and the Reapers. More classic baddies…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 569 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 309) Аннотация: In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 356) Аннотация: When Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the greatest science fiction writer ever, teams up with award-winning author Stephen Baxter, who shares Clarke's bold vision of a future where technology and humanism advance hand in hand, the result is bound to be a book of stellar ambition and accomplishment. Such was the case with Time's Eye. Now, in the highly anticipated sequel, Clarke and Baxter draw their epic to…

Скачать книгу (размер 75 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 16) Аннотация: Elmer woke up one sunny morning, and decided to go for a walk. Down by the pond, he meets Hippo, Crocodile and Frog. As he carries on walking through the jungle, he meets all his many animal friends. While the story is being read to them, small children can be encouraged to find the relevant animal sticker and put in position, to create their very own story book that can be re-read.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Clare and David-divided as children by a rigid social code that branded her as shanty Irish and him as gentry...brought together as adults by a desire that knew no class, no barriers, only the urgent hunger of two people destined to love--and ready to defy a world determined to keep them apart. Even at fifteen, David Power knew the echo would answer eleven-year-old Clare O'Brien's dearest wish,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreckage of a plane-the pilot is dead and his duffle bag contains four million dollars in cash. In order to hide, keep, and share the fortune, these ordinary men all agree to a simple plan.