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Gale Wiersum: Little Golden Book Christmas Favorites

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Three beloved Christmas Little Golden Books are gathered together in this charming mini-treasury: The Night Before Christmas, The Christmas Story, and The Animals' Christmas Eve. Perfect for gift-giving, and at the value Golden Books is known for!

Mary Pope Osborne: Christmas in Camelot

Скачать книгу (размер 580 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 115) Аннотация: The Magic Tree House series has become a staple for inspiring kids to read. Christmas in Camelot is a very special Magic Tree House book. Here, author Mary Pope Osborne uses the literary skills for which she's known to create a longer, more in-depth story featuring the characters kids have come to love. The result is magical: a fast-paced but detailed, easy-to-read story. Jack and Annie go on a…

Hamish Bowles: The World in Vogue: People, Parties, Places

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: This one-of-a-kind book features more than 300 color and black and white photographs of some of the most celebrated actors, artists, models, first ladies, and social figures that have appeared in the pages of «Vogue» over the past four decades.

Tricia Foley: At Home with Wedgwood: The Art of the Table

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: There's only one Wedgwood, but there are limitless expressions of Wedgwood style. At Home with Wedgwood showcases 250 years of the company's innovations-in all its manifestations-and the imaginative ways today's collectors draw inspiration from the past and integrate Wedgwood pieces into their lives. Whether gracing a table for Saturday breakfast, bringing whimsy to a garden party, or arranged…

James Patterson: Alex Cross's Trial

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: While you wait for the next exciting installment in the «Alex Cross series», «I, Alex Cross» (published November 2009 by Century), get your hands on a new book written by Alex Cross himself! Ben Corbett is a brilliant young lawyer in early-twentieth-century Washington DC. Yet he is a disappointment to his wife and father, who believe he wastes his talents by doing poorly-paid and thankless work…

Stieg Larsson: Vergebung

Скачать книгу (размер 4 400 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 864) Аннотация: Die Ermittlerin Lisbeth Salander steht unter Mordverdacht. Ihr Partner Mikael Blomkvist schwört, ihre Unschuld zu beweisen. Er weiß, dass es um Salanders Leben geht. Als seine Ermittlungen die schwedische Regierung in ihren Grundfesten zu erschüttern drohen, setzt er alles auf eine Karte. Nach «Verblendung» und «Verdammnis» der grandiose Höhepunkt der Trilogie um das…

Glenn Cooper: Library of the Dead

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: A murderer is on the loose on the streets of New York City: nicknamed the Doomsday Killer, he's claimed six victims in just two weeks, and the city is terrified. Even worse, the police are mystified: the victims have nothing in common, defying all profiling, and all that connects them is that each received a sick postcard in the mail before they died — a postcard that announced their date of…

Carol Willis: New York Deco

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: New York Deco profiles the architecture of the city during its most stylish and dazzling decades: the 1920s and early 1930s. New York City landmarks were born in this age — the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, and the Waldorf-Astoria — as well as dozens of lesser-known office buildings and apartment houses. Together, they make the skyline of New York what it is…

Stephen Frey: The Successor: A Novel

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Make-or-break decisions involving millions of dollars are all in a day's work for Christian Gillette, chairman of Everest Capital, New York's most renowned private equity firm. He's taken on the toughest, most powerful, and often most dangerous adversaries and prevailed-all the while honing his skill for being cool under fire, literally. But now Gillette will be put to the ultimate test. He's…

Ian McEwan: On Chesil Beach

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: In a hotel overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come. This book presents the story that tells how the course of life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.

Chris Ryan: One Good Turn

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: 1917, Western Front, Ypres. A soldier wakes up in a damp, dark basement. He can't get out. He is covered in mud.His skin is badly burned. And he can't remember anything. But his nightmare doesn't end there. He is tried and found guilty of cowardice, impersonating a fellow soldier and theft. He can barely speak, let alone defend himself. As the verdict is passed and he learns that the death…

Dan Heath: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Take Hold and Others Come Unstuck

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: What is that makes urban myths so persistent but many everyday truths so eminently forgettable? How do newspapers set about ensuring that their headlines make you want to read on? And why do we remember complicated stories but not complicated facts? In the course of over ten years of study, Chip and Dan Heath have established what it is that determines whether particular ideas or stories stick in…

Jeanne DuPrau: The City of Ember

Скачать книгу (размер 1 370 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 270) Аннотация: NOW A MAJOR motion picture starring Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Martin Landau, Saoirse Ronan, and Harry Treadaway This tie-in edition of The City of Ember features a movie-art cover and an 8-page photo insert. Jeanne DuPrau's instant classic tells the story of the great, underground city of Ember, designed as a last refuge for the human race. But when the storerooms run out of food and the lights…

Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin: Complete Prose Tales

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Beyond his perfect expression of Russian mood, Pushkin's universality of vision has made him a permanent place in the history of world literature. Gillon Aitken's distinguished translation is the only volume that contains all his prose fiction, including some tales which remained unfinished when Pushkin was tragically killed in a duel at the age of thirty-seven.

Kurt Vonnegut: Welcome to the Monkey House

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: »Welcome To The Monkey House» is a collection of Kurt Vonnueguts shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as «The Magazine of Fantasy and Science fiction» and «The Atlantic Monthly» what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.

R. A. Salvatore: Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: »There is a great disturbance in the Force... «From the sleek ships of the glimmering Coruscant skyscape to the lush gardens of pastoral Naboo, dissent is roiling. The Republic is failing, even under the leadership of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, elected ten years earlier to save the crumbling government. Separatists threaten war, and the Senate is hopelessly divided, unable to determine whether…

Steel Danielle: Bittersweet

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: In Bittersweet, Danielle Steel has written a novel for our times, a story of choices and new beginnings. India Taylor lived in a world of manicured lawns and neatly maintained calendars: a merry-go-round of Little League, piano lessons, and Cape Cod summer vacations. With four wonderful children, India believed in commitment and sacrifice, just as she believed in Doug, the man she married 17…

Sittenfeld Curtis: Prep: A Novel

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding school’s glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls in kilts hold lacrosse sticks on…

Gerritsen Tess: The Bone Garden

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: A gruesome secret is about to be unearthed...When a human skull is dug up in a garden near Boston, Dr Maura Isles is called in to investigate. She quickly discovers that the skeleton — that of a young woman — has been buried for over a hundred years. But who was the woman? And how did she die? It is the 1930's, and an impoverished medical student, Norris Marshall, is forced to procure corpses in…

Muravnik Constantine: Complete Russian: The Basics

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Learn Russian in 4 Simple Steps. With Living Language Complete Russian: The Basics, you’ll start by learning words, and then you’ll progress to phrases, sentences, and conversations. This simple four-step building block approach will have you speaking with confidence right from the beginning, and you’ll be able to learn gradually and effectively. If you’re confident in your pronunciation, then…