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Sharpe Tom: The Midden

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Timothy Brights doesn't exactly live up to his name. Brought up to regard copious flows of money as his birthright, he can't understand why the funds have been cut off, nor why friends he recruited as Lloyds' Names no longer want to talk to him. When gambling fails, Timothy turns to embezzlement, but it's the lesser offence of helping himself to some strangely aromatic tobacco that propels him up…

Davis Kenneth: Don't Know Much about Geography

Скачать книгу (размер 2 008 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 395) Аннотация: Who Killed The Dead Sea? Where was the Garden of Eden? What's So Bad About the Badlands? Get on board as Kenneth C. Davis, author of the acclaimed national bestseller Don't Know Much About(R) History, takes us on a fascinating, breathtaking, and hilarious grand tour of the planet Earth — opening our eyes and imaginations to a wide, wild, and wonderful world we never knew.

Edward Gorey: Gorey Cats: Address Book

Скачать книгу (размер 554 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 110) Аннотация: Decorated with Edward Gorey's unicycling puss in a rugby jersey, this little blue address book is pretty on the outside, handy on the inside, with 112 pages and space for over 400 names, home addresses, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers. The page edges are alphabetically indexed (additional cats appear within), while the smart red wire binding lets the book lie flat (or even fold back), and the…

Ran Levy-Yamamori: Garden Plants of Japan

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: A colour encyclopedia providing an authoritative overview of the Japanese garden flora.

Philip Roth: The Plot Against America

Скачать книгу (размер 1 988 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 391) Аннотация: In this alternate history, Pulitzer Prize winner Roth considers what it would be like for his Newark family — and for a million such families all over the country — during the menacing years of a Charles Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews would have every reason to expect the worst.

Merriam-Webster: School Dictionary

Скачать книгу (размер 6 521 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1280) Аннотация: A dictionary written to help the high-school student succeed. 100,000 entries. More than 1,000 revised illustrations. Abundant word history, synonym paragraphs, and examples sentences.

Boyd Heidi: Simply Beautiful Beading

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: 40 affordable projects featuring the newest bead styles and fashions. Crafters will learn basic beading and jewelry making with the help of over 250 color photographs for a wealth of ideas.

Quinion Michael: Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins

Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: The cat's pajamas, the bee's knees, and the whole nine yards rolled into one, this true feast for wordlovers delightfully skewers commonly accepted word origin myths and etymological folk tales. The real story of a world or phrase's origin and evolution is often much stranger — and much more humorous — than the commonly accepted one; the many entries will certainly leave you happy as a clam.…

Courthion Pierre: Manet

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Written by scholars for a general audience, each title in the 'Masters of Art' series has illustrations accompanied by commentaries discussing each individual work.

Matthews Andrew: The Kingfisher Treasury of Funny Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 804 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 159) Аннотация: These funny stories all contain favourite characters such as Posy Bates, Dilly the Dinosaur, flying dogs and dancing cows.

John Le Carre: The Constant Gardener

Скачать книгу (размер 2 452 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 482) Аннотация: «The Constant Gardener» is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time. The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of Tessa Quayle — young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin. When Justin sets out on a personal odyssey to uncover the mystery of her death, what he finds could make him not only a…

Valeria Manferto De Fabianis: The Sea

Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: The Atlantic, the Red Sea, the Caribbean, the South Pacific-here are all the oceans in all colors and aspects: clear, tropical waters; turbulent open seas; immense plains of water seen from space; magical icy polar oceans; and delicate and frothy photographs from inside powerful waves. The Sea's camera eye emerges from underwater-from the multicolored coral reefs and underwater wrecks and washes…

Henning Mankell: The Return of the Dancing Master

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: This is the new thriller from the internationally bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries.

Curry Patrick: Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien, Myth and Modernity

Скачать книгу (размер 1 003 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 198) Аннотация: «In a particularly insightful examination of the spirituality and ethics of Middle-earth in «The Lord of the Rings», Curry argues that Tolkien found a way to provide something close to Spirit in a secular age, and focuses on three main aspects of this monumental work of literature.»

Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer Detective

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Twain's two most famous creations, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, are reunited for a high-spirited and engaging tale of mystery and murder in deepest Arkansas. When Tom and Huck are invited to stay on Tom's uncle's farm in Arkansas, they jump at the opportunity to escape the tedium of a long winter at home. A chance encounter on a steamboat downriver, though, leads to a complex plot of diamond…

Pritchard R.E.: Shakespeare's England

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: A collection of some of the best, wittiest and most unusual excerpts from 16th- and 17th-century writing. Shakespeare's England brings to life the variety, the energy and the harsh reality of England at this time. Providing a portrait of the age, it includes extracts from a wide variety of writers, taken from books, plays, poems, letters, diaries and pamphlets by and about Shakespeare's…

Thiede Cindy: Inside Log Homes

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: From the biggest notions of carefully styled rooms to the smallest comforts and delights of accessorizing a home with your favorite things, Inside Log Homes offers suggestions, understanding, and inspiration regarding the intensely personal and expressive world of log-cabin living. Author Cindy Thiede peeks through doors into hundreds of uniquely styled and personally appointed spaces. Sometimes…

Carroll Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: «Welcome back to a Wonderland that is as astonishingly new as it is joyously familiar. Helen Oxenbury, one of the world’s most acclaimed illustrators, brings her special brand of magic to the Lewis Carroll classic in a handsome volume boasting more illustrations than any other edition — called a «masterpiece» by Parents’ Choice. Her Wonderland is exuberant, contemporary, and lovingly created,…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Living to Tell the Tale

Скачать книгу (размер 2 457 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 483) Аннотация: «In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life. Like all his work, «Living to Tell the Tale» is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel Garcia Marquez's life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who…

Alice M. Brock: How to Massage Your Cat

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: As kitty gift books go, this is the best, funniest, most inspiring of them all, according to the Village Voice and tens of thousands of dedicated readers. Now out on the prowl with a new cover that's the cat's meow, it's ready to inspire a second wave of cats and their owners to relax into a catnap. Author and illustrator Alice M. Brock (of Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant fame) counsels cat…