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Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: From the Vanderbilts' Biltmore and the Rockefellers' Kykuit to the Duponts' museum-like Winterthur and William Randolph Hearst's legendary San Simeon, American country houses evoke the grandeur of a vanished world of privilege, yet more often than not reflected their builders' insecurities about how they were expected to proclaim their wealth and position. Clive Aslet, known for his acclaimed…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: A Christmas cavalcade! Here's a festive feast of folktales and contemporary stories by popular and classic authors such as Joan Aiken, Adele Geras, Beverly Cleary, Hans Christian Andersen and Alf Proysen. From traditional tales, such as the story of Brer Rabbit's Christmas dinner and the legend of Baboushka's Christmas gifts to contemporary writing about drama-packed nativity plays and starlit…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: There's always time for a story... Children love storytime — especially when their parents have time to share it with them. This anthology contains 22 delightful stories, all carefully selected to be both brief and entertaining. It is perfect for parents struggling to make time for reading with their children. Ideal for reading aloud at bedtime or any time, and accessible enough for newly…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: At the dawn of the twentieth century, the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) became a worldwide political focal point. The war, marked the rise of Japan as a world power, paved the way for the Russian Revolution, and made Theodore Roosevelt the first American ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. It engaged the fervent attention of Asia, Europe and the United States — so much so that the Milton Bradley…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Interspersed with charts, graphs, and various crossword puzzles, A Book of Evil Marauders, Purple Blobs, and Some Other Things... features some of today's best authors spinning new tales ranging from the spooky to the strange. George Saunders tells the story of a father who takes caution to dangerous extremes in Lars Farf, Excessively Fearful Father and Husband. In ACES by Phone, a small boy…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 252) Аннотация: One of the most delightful and witty Russian operas, The Love of Three Oranges was composed by Prokofiev in 1919 and first performed at the Chicago Opera House with Prokofiev conducting in 1921. This complete vocal score includes both Russian and French text and a piano reduction of the orchestral part. Indispensable for recital and rehearsal purposes.

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: The excitement and wonder of a mid-winter sled ride — seen through the vivid imagination of a young child — allows readers to follow along as the child transforms into a queen, observes colorful soldiers in formation, visits a gypsy camp, and goes wherever her lucid imagination takes her.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A splendid, new, magical adventure from Diana Wynne Jones, set in the worlds of Chrestomanci! Conrad is young, good at heart, and yet is apparently suffering from the effects of such bad karma that there is nothing in his future but terrible things. Unless he can alter his circumstances — well, to be brutally honest, he is DOOMED. Conrad is sent in disguise to Stallery Mansion, to infiltrate the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In 1918 Ernset Hemingway went to the war to end all wars, in the ambulance service in Italy. He was wounded and twice decorated. Here he recreates the fear, comradeship, and the courage of his young American volunteer and the men an women he meets in Italy.

Скачать книгу (размер 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 28) Аннотация: In this delightful introduction to the art of Henri Rousseau, children explore a tropical jungle while they learn about the colours and themes that make the artist's paintings masterpieces of deceptive simplicity. As a customs official, Henri Rousseau escaped the boredom of his job by creating colourful paintings of a fantastic dream-world — a place where apes and lions cavort, snakes slither,…

Скачать книгу (размер 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 28) Аннотация: Like artist's everywhere, Paul Cezanne painted what was familiar to him: his family, his surroundings, the objects in and around his home. He delighted in the most basic elements of colour, size, and shape. This captivating look at the artist's life uses Cezanne's numerous paintings of his studio to explore his methods and technique, and his portraits of his family and friends to reveal Cezanne's…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Join Arthur Dent, earthling, jerk, kneebiter and time-traveler; sexy space cadet Trillian; mad alien Ford Prefect; unflappable Slartibartfast; two-headed, three-armed ex-head Honcho of the Universe Zaphod Beeblebrox... and learn to fly. Is it the end? With Douglas Adams it's always up in the air!

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Cristian Crisbasan lives and works as an independent Photographer in Bucharest, Rumania. He was working as stylist and editorial journalist at the Playboy Magazine in Rumania, until he dedicated himself to photography and became already a well known name inside the fashion world.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: «The Washington Post Book World Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability — and desperately in search of a place to eat. Among Arthur's motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a longtime friend…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The Maltese Falcon set the standard by which the private eye genre is judged. Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: In February 1917, the centuries-old empire of the Czars collapses. Eight months later, revolutionaries under Lenin's leadership, take power. Few would have gambled on this government of inexperienced militants against a force of armed counter-revolutionaries sustained by the West. But mobilization of the people, the power of the Red Army and political police, the experience gained during the war…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Denis Stone, a naive young poet, is invited to stay at Crome, a country house renowned for its gatherings of 'bright young things'. Crome's hosts, the world-weary Henry Wimbush and his exotic wife Pricilla are joined by a party of colourful guests whose intrigues and opinions ensure Denis' stay is a memorable one. In the course of the weekend Henry tells his guests fantastical stories from the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 666 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 328) Аннотация: Now in paperback: Alice Sebold's luminous first novel — one of the most celebrated literary debuts of recent seasons — that builds out of a family's grief the most hopeful and joyful of stories.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 172 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 231) Аннотация: Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator of 'traditional build', is well-known to millions across the world through the best-selling No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Those who have been following her exploits in five previously published novels will soon be able to savour the next instalment, in which, as usual, circumstances are never as straightforward as they seem…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Paul Kemp has moved from New York to the steamy heat of Puerto Rico to work at the Daily News. He starts hanging out at Al's Backyard, a local den selling booze and hamburgers to vagrant journalists who are mostly crazy drunks on the verge of quitting. Then he meets Yeamon, whose delectable girlfriend has Kemp stewing in his own lust. But the idle tension that builds up in places where men sweat…