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Скачать книгу (размер 4 186 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 822) Аннотация: Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is an organism with its own laws of growth and change, so this book is a biography rather than a history. Ackroyd reveals the dozens of ways in which the continuity of the city survives — in ward boundaries unchanged since the Middle Ages,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual--though, as she maintained, a virgin — Elizabeth I is famed as England's most successful ruler. David Starkey's brilliant new biography concentrates on Elizabeth's formative years — from her birth in 1533 to her accession in 1558 — and shows how the experiences of danger and adventure formed her…

Скачать книгу (размер 218 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 44) Аннотация: The Cat in the Hat takes children to the Feeling Great Clinic, where they learn about exercise, germs, healthy eating, and playing safely.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Successful London lawyer Carter Graham has power, sex appeal, and a well-ordered life. Everything has gone according to plan, including her recent marriage to Kim Betz, an investment banker with the right combination of looks and position. On the surface it appears to be a match made in heaven. The only problem is Kim's ex-wife. Sophie begins to follow Carter like a shadow, making outrageous…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 460) Аннотация: Celia Jordan must make difficult choices between ethics and profits and between love and career as she rises to success in the pharmaceutical industry.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Combining explosive suspense with sensual passion, Nora Roberts turns up the heat in this classic tale — the sizzling story of a man and woman on the trail of a demented killer, a search that will plunge them headlong into danger... In the lazy days of summer, a merciless heat wave is the biggest story in Washington, D.C. But the weather is knocked off the front pages when a young woman is found…

Скачать книгу (размер 126 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 26) Аннотация: A perfect introduction to reading Spanish! Simple English words and sentences are introduced by pictures. Then the words and sentences are translated into Spanish with the translation of the featured word in capital letters. It's that easy. And for the child who wants to go further — a two-page, basic key to the pronunciation of the language. Great for introducing Spanish to English-speaking…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Puss helps his master, Jacques, to find happiness and fortune. This re-telling of a classic tale is based on Philip Pullman's script for a production at the Polka Children's Theatre in Wimbledon. Philip Pullman is one of the most highly acclaimed children's authors of the decade. Illustrated with humour and aplomb by Ian Beck. Ages 9-12.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: At the age of twenty-three, Charlie Mason is endowed with good looks, good manners and a happy disposition. Following three years at Cambridge and one in his father's business, he is now looking forward to a jaunt in Paris with Simon Fenimore, his oldest friend. Yet Paris is not what he expects. And in just a few days his young eyes are opened to the horror and ugly drama of its underworld.…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Grendel prowled in, hating all men and all joy and hungry for human life. So swift was his attack that no man heard an outcry; but when the dawn came, thirty of Hothgar's best and noblest thanes were missing. Only Beowulf, foremost among warriors, has the strength and courage to battle with Grendel the Night-stalker. In this thrilling re-telling of the Anglo-Saxon legend, Rosemary Sutcliff…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: With the able assistance of Thing 1 and Thing 2 — and a fleet of Rube Goldbergian vehicles — the Cat in the Hat examines various parts of plants, seeds and flowers; basic photosynthesis and pollination; and seed dispersal.

Скачать книгу (размер 269 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 54) Аннотация: Help children recognize basic shapes and colors, a necessary step in developing pre-math and pre-reading skills.

Скачать книгу (размер 269 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 54) Аннотация: Double-sided cards with pictures and upper and lower case letters.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: This book includes an introduction by Paul Theroux. Somerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of travel, and he recorded the sights and sounds of his wide-ranging journeys with an urbane, wry style all his own. «The Gentleman in the Parlour» is an account of the author's trip through what was then Burma and Siam, ending in Haiphong, Vietnam. Whether by…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. And the third, for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 318 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 848) Аннотация: Written over a period of more than half a century, these stories reflect every aspect of Tolstoy's art and personality. They cover his experiences as a soldier in the Caucasus, his married life, his passionate interest in the peasantry, his cult of truth adn simplicity, and, above all, his growing preoccupation with religion. Ranging in scope from novellas like The Kreutzer Sonata and Hadji Murad…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 563 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 896) Аннотация: The only comprehensive hardcover edition of Tolstoy's shorter fiction — 57 stories and novellas, including two that have never before appeared in English. In these two handsome volumes, every aspect of Tolstoy's art and personality is reflected: his experiences as a soldier in the Caucasus, his married life, his passionate interest in the peasantry, his belief in truth and simplicity, and above…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 540) Аннотация: The Blind Assassin is a tale of two sisters, one of whom dies under ambiguous circumstances in the opening pages. The survivor, Iris Chase Griffen, initially seems a little cold-blooded about this death in the family. But as Margaret Atwood's most ambitious work unfolds--a tricky process, in fact, with several nested narratives and even an entire novel-within-a-novel--we're reminded of just how…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Invited to a high society party by a former client, Archie Goodwin is shocked to witness the death of another guest by cyanide poisoning.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: When Fathers and Sons was first published in Russia, in 1862, it was met with a blaze of controversy about where Turgenev stood in relation to his account of generational misunderstanding. Was he criticizing the worldview of the conservative aesthete, Pavel Kirsanov, and the older generation, or that of the radical, cerebral medical student, Evgenii Bazarov, representing the younger one. The…