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Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Another warm, wise and witty offering from Sunday Times bestseller Trisha Ashley. James is everything Tish has ever wanted in a husband — she's married a man who even her mother approves of. He's handsome, dependable, and will make an excellent father — unlike Tish's first love, the disreputable Fergal. Her teenage sweetheart abandoned her for a music career and now lives a typical celebrity…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: 'The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven' Bassiano, a noble Venetian, hopes to woo the beautiful heiress Portia. However, he requires financial assistance from his friend Antonio. Antonio agrees, but he, in turn, must borrow from the Jewish moneylender Shylock. As recourse for past ills, Shylock stipulates that the forfeit on the loan must be a pound of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Commander Robert Bellamy of US Naval Intelligence is dispatched on a top secret mission. A weather balloon carrying sensitive military information has crashed in Switzerland. Bellamy must locate the ten witnesses to the incident so that they can be sworn to secrecy. But as he conducts his search Bellamy begins to suspect that he, too, is being hunted, and by an unknown lethal force... that what…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: larissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is shell-shocked and on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Past, present and future are brought together one momentous June day…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: From the creators of Ice Age and Rio, Epic tells the story of a hidden civilization. The battle between good and evil rages until a teenage girl is magically transported into this forest kingdom to help save their world, and ours. When M.K. is magically shrunk down to two inches tall, she discovers a hidden kingdom, filled with tiny forest folk. Her father has been researching the Jinn his entire…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: John Bunyan's masterful religious allegory, narrates the journey of an everyman hero, Christian, as he attempts to navigate the trials and tribulations of this world, the City of Destruction, on the path towards paradise, the Celestial City. Though weighed down by the burden of original sin, Christian overcomes the distractions of the world, moving past the Slough of Despond, the Hill of…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Develop key speaking skills and become more confident when speaking in English. To improve your speaking skills you need to learn how to get your message across in the right way and make sure people understand what you say. With Collins Speaking (A2) you will learn what to say and how to say it, by practising the right words, phrases and pronunciation. Includes practice on: * meeting new people *…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: From the creators of Ice Age and Rio, Epic tells the story of a hidden civilization. The battle between good and evil rages until a teenage girl is magically transported into this forest kingdom to help save their world, and ours. The Leafmen are brave warriors, who happen to be two inches tall, on a mission to protect their home. Their sworn enemies, the Boggans, want to destroy the Leafmen's…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Bianca is beautiful and demure, with a plethora of wood-be suitors, but marriage is forbidden until her older sister Katherina finds a suitable match. The hitch? Fiery Katherina has sworn to deny the hand or demands of any would-be suitor. That is, until she meets her match in the wily Petrucio. As Katherina's own sharp tongue is met by Petrucio's feigned cruelty, the 'shrew' apparently…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf's own joyful holidays of her youth. But as time passes, and in its wake the First World War, the transience of life becomes ever more apparent through the vignette of the thoughts and observations of the novel's disparate cast. A…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Considered one of Shakespeare's most haunting tragic-comedies, The Winter's Tale is an in-depth analysis of the psychology of family and friendship, jealousy and love, art and nature, all illustrated in rich poetry. Based on Robert Greene's story Pandosto, the play tells the story of Leontes, king of Sicilia, and his childhood friend, Polixenes, king of Bohemia. In a jealous rage, Leontes…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Develop key writing skills and become more confident when writing in English. If you want to get better at writing in English you need to practise writing different kinds of texts. Collins Writing (A2) presents 20 styles of writing for everyday situations, to help you choose the right style of writing and the right words and phrases. Improve your writing for: * text messages * postcards * making…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: 'Have you noticed how each of us conjures up our own city'? Every city is made of stories: stories that meet and diverge, stories of the commonplace and the strange, of love and crime, of ghosts and monsters. Reminiscent of David Mitchell's Ghostwritten and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, this is the story of a place that never looks the same way twice: a place imagined anew by each citizen who…
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: Another hilarious and moving novel from bestselling, critically acclaimed author David Walliams, the natural successor to Roald Dahl. A story of prejudice and acceptance, funny lists and silly words, this new book has all the hallmarks of David's previous bestsellers. Our hero Ben is bored beyond belief after he is made to stay at his grandma's house. She's the boringest grandma ever: all she…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: A stunning anthology of the work of visionary stylist Lori Goldstein, whose interpretations of fashion and beauty have produced some of the most groundbreaking and iconic images in fashion and popular culture. Lori Goldstein: Style Is Instinct publishes for the first time in book form the work of one of the world's most highly regarded stylists. With a foreword by Steven Meisel, it features more…
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Interweaving real and fictional elements, The American Boy is a major new literary historical crime novel in the tradition of An Instance of the Fingerpost and Possession. England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant's beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 396 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 471) Аннотация: The uplifting and thoughtful new novel from the uniquely talented author. Everyone has a story to tell... Journalist Kitty Logan's career is being destroyed by scandal. Simultaneously, she faces the death of her mentor and friend of ten years, Constance, who has guided and taught her everything she knew. All Kitty is left with is a file in Constance's office: a list of one hundred names. There is…