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Скачать книгу (размер 1 156 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 228) Аннотация: First published in the late 1980s and then made into a multiple Academy Award-winning film starring Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump is a heartwarming classic about the amazing adventures of a modern (and unexpected) hero, now in a 25th-anniversary edition.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The countdown to her winter wedding has begun... Anna Carter wants the perfect Christmas Eve wedding. It's been on her 'to-do' list since she was a little girl stuck living in a children's home and dreaming of a far happier family life than she'd ever experienced. Now she's found the perfect Georgian country manor as a venue, to which she will be taken in a reindeer-drawn sleigh. She's got a…

Скачать книгу (размер 55 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 12) Аннотация: This sturdy, shaped board book is an ideal first counting book — perfect for small hands! Count from 1 to 10 with Elmer, everyone’s favourite patchwork elephant!

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Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: After moving from the Barleywood garden where he hosted BBC Gardeners' World for seven years, Alan Titchmarsh set up home in an old farmhouse a few miles down the road, and went about planting his own private eden away from the public eye. In this horticultural memoir Alan finally reveals all about this secret garden, explaining with his trademark warmth the personal stories behind its design and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: For Rebecca Bloomwood, life is peachy. She has a job on morning TV, her bank manager is actually being nice to her, and when it comes to spending money, her new motto is Buy Only What You Need — and she's really (sort of) sticking to it. The icing on the brioche is that she's been offered a chance to work in New York. New York! The Museum of Modern Art! The Guggenheim! The Metropolitan Opera…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Set in Joyce's native Ireland, the story follows life of a young man Stephen and his transformation from child to artist. In five chapters, we are taken through Stephen's early childhood in Ireland and confinement at boarding school, his dalliances with theatre and hiring prostitutes, his retreat from sensory excess into religious devotion, his retreat from religious devotion into aesthetic,…

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: From H. P. Mallory — the exciting author of Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble -comes her new paranormal romance featuring the sassy, self-deprecating witch Jolie Wilkins. Jolie thinks she's seen it all, but life continues to spring surprises. The latest shocker? She's just been crowned Queen of the Underworld. Jolie may possess a rare gift for reanimating the dead, but she doesn't know the first…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: This is a new chapter in the saga of the O'Sullivan crime family from the acclaimed movie Road to Perdition. The time is America in the early 1970's and our third generation hero, Michael Satariano, Jr. is a Vietnam vet recently returned to the States. He doesn't know that his father's real name was Michael O'Sullivan, and is unaware of the conflict between his dad, his grandfather, and John…

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 574 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 310) Аннотация: 'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird'. A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel — a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class…

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 957 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 385) Аннотация: The only daughter of a European banking dynasty, Raphaella had always been sheltered from the world. Married to a much older American, she was kept in the privacy of great luxury, tended to by servants, watched over by bodyguards. She was the beautiful dark-eyed woman the young lawyer from San Francisco, Alexander Hale, saw sitting alone one misty evening. Before he could approach her, she rushed…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Young architect Michael Hillyard and artist Nancy McAllister are determined to get married despite his wealthy mother's disapproval. Then, minutes before their wedding, a terrifying accident and a cruel deception separate Michael and Nancy — perhaps forever. Each pursues a new life — Nancy in California, Michael in New York. But eventually nothing — and no one — can keep them apart as they keep…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 472) Аннотация: Deepest night, Montana. An eerie light proclaims the arrival of a mysterious watcher in the woods. And one solitary man begins a desperate battle against something unknown — and unknowable. Broad daylight, Los Angeles. An ordinary morning erupts in cataclysmic violence. A young family is shattered in a heartbeat. Fate will lead this family to an isolated Montana ranch, but their sanctuary will…

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