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Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end. No more puzzles. No more variables. And no more running. Thomas was sure that escape meant he and the Gladers would get their lives back. But no one really knew what sort of life they were going back to. In the Maze, life was easy. They had food, and shelter, and safety... until Teresa triggered the end. In the world outside the Maze, however, the end…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Two centuries of literary homages to the fascinating feline: stories by writers of every stripe — from P.G. Wodehouse to Doris Lessing, from Damon Runyon to Steven Millhauser. The essential unknowableness of cats has inspired many flights of fancy: Italo Calvino's secret city of cats in The Garden of Stubborn Cats, the disappearing feline in Ursula K. Le Guin's mind-twisting Schrodinger's Cat,…

Скачать книгу (размер 223 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 45) Аннотация: In this latest installation of the Cat in the Hat's Learning Library, the Cat takes Sally and Dick to explore different kinds of deserts around the world, from the hot, dry Sonoran and Mojavi to the bitter cold Gobi and Antarctica. Young readers learn why deserts are dry, and how plants and animals — including cactus, kangaroos, camels, penguins, roadrunners, and many others — have adapted to…

Скачать книгу (размер 223 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 45) Аннотация: In this latest installment of the Cat in the Hat's Learning Library, the Cat takes Sally and Nick to Africa — where they meet some really big cats — and all sorts of other animals, too, including elephants, zebra, giraffe, hippos, warthogs, buffalo, baboons, side-striped jackals, spotted hyena, galagos, pythons, vipers, and six kinds of antelope! Young readers will learn how animals are either…

Скачать книгу (размер 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 36) Аннотация: The elephants are not very happy: the hippos have come to live in their river, because their own has dried up. Strange, thinks Elmer, so he goes to investigate. He discovers the problem of the dry river could be solved: but only if the hippos and the elephants drop their prejudices and work in unison.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This is a real-time five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick, the down-on-his-luck airport lounge bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool Hitchcock blonde incapable of true human contact; and, finally a mysterious voice known as Player One. Slowly,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Want to give a gift that will make a lasting impression? This boxed set of five beloved Beginner Books by Dr. Seuss — The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, Dr. Seuss's ABC, Oh Say Can You Say?, Oh the Thinks You Can Think!, and I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! — is perfect for new parents, birthday celebrations, and happy occaisions of all kinds. Ideal for reading aloud or reading alone, it will be…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: All Lydia's ever wanted is a perfect Christmas...So when her oldest friends invite her to spend the holidays with them, it seems like a dream come true. She's been promised log fires, roasted chestnuts, her own weight in mince pies — all in a setting that looks like something out of a Christmas card. But her winter wonderland is ruined when she finds herself snowed in with her current boyfriend,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: This is the second installment of a two-book Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker adventure, set against the backdrop of the Clone Wars! Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are trapped on the Separatist controlled planet Lanteeb, on the run from General Lok Durd and his droid army. After being forced to abandon their jerry-rigged groundcar they continue on foot, hunted, as they try to find a safe…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: This is the first installment of a two-book Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker adventure, set against the backdrop of the Clone Wars! Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are on a secret mission to one of the many worlds caught in the middle of the struggle between the Republic and the Separatists. A pastoral planet, Lanteeb wants only to be left alone to survive — but it is the source of what…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Stranded on Tatooine with a broken-down hyperdrive, Dash Rendar and crew — his Nautolan copilot, Eaden Vrill, and a droid named Leebo — have to find a way to raise credits. It comes in the lovely form of Javul Charn, a multi-talented human holostar being stalked by an over-zealous fan. She needs bodyguards to protect her during her tour along the Corellian Run; Dash needs credits. It's a perfect…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: For every dinner service, there is a staff meal. Family-style celebrations prepared by chefs for their crew, the meals are never on the menu, but are designed to show appreciation, provide energy for the evening, and more importantly, please even the pickiest palate. Marissa Guggiana, author of Primal Cuts, the definitive guide to America's best butchers, turns her attention to the best-kept…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: In the distant future, enforcement agent Quillion is living incognito in the last human city of Spearpoint, working in the district morgue. But when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissecting table, his world is wrenched apart. For the angel is a winged posthuman from Spearpoint's Celestial Levels. And to save the angel's life, Quillion must leave his home and travel into the cold and hostile…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: »Unassisted Living» documents the shift away from the senior housing that promoted disengagement toward architecture and design that promote active aging. The book is organized in six sections, corresponding to the concerns and special interests of Boomers — those who intend to remain in an urban setting, those concerned with sustainability, those with complex families and non-traditional…

Скачать книгу (размер 6 113 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1200) Аннотация: In this new epic of imagination, time travel, and adventure, Diana Gabaldon continues the riveting story begun in Outlander. Jamie Fraser is an eighteenth-century Highlander, an ex-Jacobite traitor, and a reluctant rebel in the American Revolution. His wife, Claire Randall Fraser, is a surgeon — from the twentieth century. What she knows of the future compels him to fight. What she doesn't know…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: These thrilling tales are set during the six-month period in which Michael O'Sullivan and his son were on the run. In OASIS, Michael Jr. contracts a life-threatening illness, forcing him to hide out in an oasis of tranquility. The story continues in SANCTUARY, as the O'Sullivans seek a hiding place from the vicious bounty hunters on their trail. And in DETOUR, Michael O'Sullivan is headed for a…

Скачать книгу (размер 5 175 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1016) Аннотация: Dubbed the American Tolkien by Time magazine, George R. R. Martin has earned international acclaim for his monumental cycle of epic fantasy. Now the #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers the fifth book in his spellbinding landmark series — as both familiar faces and surprising new forces vie for a foothold in a fragmented empire. In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 412) Аннотация: Predestinados a encontrarse, condenados a perderse Hay algo dolorosamente familiar en Daniel Grigori. Misterioso y reservado, capta la atencion de Luce Price desde el mismo momento que lo ve en su primer dia en el internado Sword & Cross en Savannah. Eil es lo unico que la alegra en un sitio donde los moviles estan prohibidos y las camaras de seguridad te siguen a cada paso. Solo hay un problema:…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Just in time for Halloween — a spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems about the deadly art of murder. In poems as various as the colorful melodramas of old Scottish ballads and the hard-boiled poems of twentieth-century noir, Killer Verse rounds up the most colorful villains and victims — from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard to Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and Mafia hit men — ever…

Скачать книгу (размер 580 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 115) Аннотация: Age has not diminished Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude. His most recent novel, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is slight in physical stature only because of the remarkable compression of style Marquez has achieved. It is his first novel in 10 years not because he has retired but because he has been apparently working on a screenplay of his epic One…