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Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Famed throughout Europe for its wild nights and lazy days, Madrid provides a whole lot more, whether your interests lie in spectacular opera productions or chirpy folkloric zarzuela; in cutting-edge cuisine or ancient, tiled tabernas; in designer-shoe shopping or mooching around flea markets. Put together by journalists resident in the city, Time Out Madrid also covers the artistic jewels housed…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: For millennia southern Spain has been perceived as a promised land. From Phoenician traders to Moorish invaders to today's northern European occupiers of the Costa del Sol, this extraordinarily varied region has offered the lure of beaches and mountains, classic cities and cutesy villages, magnificent deserts, vast forests and fertile plains — and a balmy climate that is the envy of the rest of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 314 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 259) Аннотация: A gritty and captivating story of courage and strength against terrible odds, this is the story of Midge, abandoned with her eccentric uncle during the holidays, and her adventures with the Various, a band of earthily realistic fairies. The existence of the Various, who are strange, wild and sometimes even deadly, has been kept secret since the beginning of time, but when their world begins to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Fifteen-year-old Christopher has a photographic memory. He understands maths and science, but not other human beings. When he finds the neighbour's dog dead on the lawn, he decides to find the killer and write a murder mystery about it.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Little does the town of Charles Valley, Georgia, know that beneath the irreproachable facades of its three most famous doyennes lies an explosive decades-old secret that is about to be revealed.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Diary takes the form of a 'coma diary' kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in hospital after a suicide attempt. Once she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at art school and being brought back to once quaint, now tourist-overrun Waytansea Island, she's been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid. Peter, it turns out,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through the clever mix of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, everyone is a happy consumer. Bernard Marx seems alone in his discontent.

Скачать книгу (размер 835 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 165) Аннотация: Objective, unbiased and hyperrational, the Vulcan 3 should have been the perfect ruler. The omnipotent computer dictates policy that is in the best interests of all citizens — or at least, that is the idea. But when the machine, whose rule evolved out of chaos and war, begins to lose control of the «Healer» movement of religious fanatics and the mysterious force behing their rebellion, all Hell…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy who devours every man in sight; the repulsive Spandrell deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment and all the while everyone is engaged in dazzling and…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: In these early Hemingway stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity. They range from haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro, to brutal America with its deceptive calm, and war-ravaged Europe.

Скачать книгу (размер 34 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 8) Аннотация: All aboard! This Seussian, train-shaped board book with big, bold flaps lets babies and toddlers engage in a rollicking game of Lift the Flap. Sturdy board pages and an accordion binding lets the fun unfold and makes the perfect nursery room decoration.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 376) Аннотация: Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey — with the…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Imagine you could go anywhere, with anyone and do anything. Where would you live? Where would you sleep? Who would be your friends? What games would you play? Go on... You choose! With the help of Nick Sharratt's wonderfully detailed illustrations, Pippa Goodhart looks at a whole range of scenarios where choosing is made fun!

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Somewhere in a place so far up there is no down, a ship is waiting to take the nomes home. And one nome, Masklin, knows that they've got to try and contact this ship. It means going to Florida (wherever that is), then getting to the launch of a communications satellite (whatever that is). A ridiculous plan. Impossible. But Masklin doesn't know this, so he tries to do it anyway. And the first step…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the first month of World War I is now in mass market paperback. Fascinating... One of the finest works of history written.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Among the Russians is a marvellous account of a solitary journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to Georgia and Armenia. A gifted writer and intrepid traveller, Thubron grapples with the complexities of Russian identity and relays his extraordinary journey in characteristically lyrical style. This is an enthralling and revealing account of the habits and idiosyncrasies of a…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest — and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: It's 19th-century England during the reign of King James II, but it's not the England we know from the history books. This country is overrun with wolves that roam the forests, providing the perfect setting for a witty and dramatic story spanning the whole country, from the frozen North to the city of London, and peopled with all manner of evil governesses and ancient aunts. Filled with…

Скачать книгу (размер 65 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 14) Аннотация: With the beloved dogs from P. D. Eastman's classic, Go, Dog. Go!, toddlers can explore the world of color in this interactive adaptation of the original book. Flaps, wheels, and slide tabs let children make a white dog get black spots, the traffic light change from red to green, and dogs of all colors zoom around in cars. Simple and sturdy interactive elements will make this new format a hit with…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Eating and drinking and the rituals that go with them are at least as important as loving in most people's lives, yet for every hundred anthologies of poems about love, hardly one is devoted to the pleasures of the table. Eat, Drink, and Be Merry abundantly fills the gap. All kinds of foods and beverages are laid out in these pages, along with picnics and banquets, intimate suppers and quiet…