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Schneck Susan J.: I Know Letters

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Bring your child's classroom with the wonderfully imaginative Step-Ahead series. Proven educational methods reinforce what is taught in preschool through the elementary grades. Simple instructions, delightful graphics, and fun-to-do activities, such as this book with peel-and-stick stickers, motivate your child to master skills and turn the page for more.

Bowen Elizabeth: A Time In Rome

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Elizabeth Bowen's account of a time spent in Rome between February and Easter is no ordinary guidebook but an evocation of a city — its hisotry, its architecture and, above all, its atmosphere. She describes the famous classical sites, conjuring from the ruins visions of former inhabitants and their often bloody activities. She speculates about the immense noise of ancient Rome, the problems…

Lee Laurie: A Rose for Winter: Travels in Andalusia

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Andalusia is a passion, and 15 years after his previous visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the civil war, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry, the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashed slums, the cult of the bullfight, the exultation in death, the humour of hopelessness — the paradoxes deep in…

Dr. Seuss: Great Day for up!

Скачать книгу (размер 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 36) Аннотация: The meanings of «up» are conveyed with merry verse and illustrations in a happy book that celebrates the joy of life.

Prelutsky Jack: Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young

Скачать книгу (размер 493 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 98) Аннотация: First published in 1986 and just as fresh and relevant today, this widely acclaimed, child-friendly poetry anthology is now being reissued with a striking new jacket. In his introduction to this book Jim Trelease, bestselling author of The Read-Aloud Handbook, writes, No one better recognizes the essence of the child-poetry connection than poet and anthologist Jack Prelutsky... Here are more than…

Worth Bonnie: If I Ran the Rain Forest: All about Tropical Rain Forests

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: The Cat in the Hat takes Sally and Dick for an umbrella-vator ride through the understory, canopy, and emergent layers of a tropical rain forest, encountering a host of plants, animals, and native peoples along the way.

Bottoni Lois: Letters and Sounds: Kindergarten

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Bring home your child's classroom with the wonderfully imaginative 'Step Ahead' series of products. Proven educational methods reinforce what is taught in preschool through the elementary grades. In this workbook, children can learn about letters, listen for beginning sounds, and match pictures with letters.

Grisham John: The Client (на английском языке)

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull upt ot the curb...Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a…

Grisham John: The Firm

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he had his choice of the best in America. He made a deadly mistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage and hired him a decorator. Mitch McDeere should have remembered what his brother…

Noah Gordon: Der Diamant des Salomon

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Harry Hopeman lebt als Diamantenhändler und Gelehrter in New York. Als ihm das Angebot gemacht wird, sich einen verschollen geglaubten Diamanten anzusehen, fährt er nach Jerusalem. Auf seiner Reise wird er mit der aufregenden Geschichte seiner Familie konfrontiert. So wird die Suche nach dem Diamanten auch zur Suche nach sich selbst.

Wolfgang Hohlbein: Der Ring des Sarazenen

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Die junge Friesin Robin ist in der Rüstung eines Tempelritters unterwegs ins Gelobte Land. Sie gerät in die Fänge eines Sklavenhändlers und soll als Haremsdame verkauft werden! Als einziger Schutz bleibt ihr der geheimnisvolle Ring, den sie einst von ihrem treuen Freund und Begleiter Salim bekam. Der neue große historische Abenteuerroman von Erfolgsautor Wolfgang Hohlbein.

Evelyn Waugh: Black Mischief, Scoop, The Loved One, The Ordeal Of Gilbert Pinfold

Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: Black Mischief is Waugh at his most mischievous — inventing a politically loopy African state as a means of pulverizing politics at home. In Scoop, it is journalism’s turn to be drawn and quartered. The Loved One (which became a famously hilarious film) sends up the California mortuary business. And The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold is a burst of fictionalized autobiography in which Pinfold goes mad,…

Dean Koontz: By the Light of the Moon

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Dylan O'Connor is a gifted young artist just trying to do the right thing in life. He's on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe when he stops to get a room for himself and his twenty-year-old autistic brother, Shep. But in a nightmarish instant, Dylan is attacked by a mysterious «doctor», injected with a strange substance, and told that he is now a carrier of something that will either kill…

Anton Chekov: The Four Essential Plays

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Includes such plays as «The Seagull» and «Three Sisters», with universal themes of humor and the general lifelong struggles experienced by the middle class.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Cronica de Una Muerte Anunciada

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: This mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably mistreats his beloved on the night of the wedding, he is in turn murdered by her brothers, and readers are left with a strange sense of inevitability and passions gone terribly awry.

Leo Tolstoy: Hadji Murad

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: In 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Chechens. During this war a great Avar chieftain, Hadji Murad, broke with the Chechen leader Shamil and fled to the Russians for safety. Months later, while attempting to rescue his family from Shamil's prison, Hadji Murad was pursued by those he had betrayed and, after fighting the most heroic battle…

Peter Washington: Haiku

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This anthology brings together hundreds of haiku by the Japanese masters — Basho, Issa, Buson, Shiki — with superb examples from nineteenth — and twentieth-century writers. The pioneering translator R. H. Blyth believed that the spirit of haiku is present in all great poetry; inspired by him, the editor of this volume has included lines from such poets as Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, Thoreau, and…

John Grisham: The Pelican Brief

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death... The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief... To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the…

China Mieville: Perdido Street Station

Скачать книгу (размер 3 171 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 623) Аннотация: Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the…

Edgar Burroughs: A Princess of Mars

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Virginia gentleman John Carter, unexpectedly transported to the perilous red planet, Mars, finds himself captured by the loveless Green Men of Thark. As Carter struggles to win his freedom — and the affections of fellow captive Dejah Thoris, princess of the rival clan of Helium — the fate of the entire planet hangs in the balance: warring Martian tribes collide and the beleaguered Atmosphere…