Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: «Horton the kindly elephant has his work cut out saving the tiny Who's who live on a speck of dust — no one else believes they are there! But Horton eventually convinces everyone that, «A person's a person, no matter how small».»
Скачать книгу (размер 294 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 59) Аннотация: As our hero struggles to reach the city of Solla Sollew, where they never have troubles, at least very few, we realise that it's better to face up to life's problems than to try to run away from them! With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Suess has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: In this rip-roaring story a young boy delights in explaining how his alphabet starts where our alphabet ends. Carrying on beyond Z for zebra, we find letter Yuzz for Yuzz-a-ma-Tuzz, and Glikk as in Glikker, who lives in wild weeds and spends his time juggling with cinnamon seeds!
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: A glorious new fantasy from an award-winning author. The story is narrated by two very different teenagers, who each inhabit two extraordinarily different worlds. Arianrhod Hyde's world (or Roddy, as she prefers to be called) is very much the world of magic, pageantry and ritual. Not unlike Britain in King Arthur's Day, Roddy is daughter of two Court Wizards and therefore part of the King's…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: With the four short novels in this collection, Doris Lessing once again proves that she is unequalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition. The title story, ‘The Grandmothers’, is an astonishing tour de force, a shockingly intimate portrait of an unconventional extended family and the lengths to which they will go to find happiness and love. Written with a keen cinematic…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Fire alone can save our Clan... For generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by the powerful ancestors. But the warrior code is threatened, and the ThunderClan cats are in grave danger. The sinister ShadowClan grows stronger every day. Noble warriors are dying — and some deaths are more mysterious than others. In the midst of this turmoil appears…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Just how wacky can a Wednesday get? With shoes on the wall, tortoises in trees, pigs without legs and teachers on roller skates, children will have lots of fun counting all the wacky things they can find on each spread of this entertaining book. With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Suess has been delighting young children and helping them learn…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Sara Linton, medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is called out to an apparent suicide on the local college campus. The mutilated body provides little in the way of clues — and the college authorities are eager to avoid a scandal — but for Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, things don't add up. Two more suspicious suicides follow, and a young woman is brutally attacked.…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: From dreamy thoughts about colour to fantastic notions on left and right, this surreal book encourages young children to let their imaginations run riot and think up all kinds of weird and wonderful things.
Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: In this book, featuring three timeless fables, Dr Seuss explores the pitfalls of growing too big for your boots. The text is a Yellow Back Book, which means that it is suitable for fluent readers aged five and over to enjoy on their own, or for reading aloud to younger children.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Following on from ‘A Change in Climate’, this brilliant novel follows two girls as they leave behind their pasts and set off to the new preoccupations of 1970s London. It is London, 1970. Carmel McBain, in her first term at university, has cut free of her childhood roots in the north. Among the gossiping, flirtatious girls of Tonbridge Hall, she begins her experiments in life and love. But the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The new novel from the author of A SCENT OF LAVENDER and ONE SUMMER AT DEER'S LEAP follows the secrets and passions of the Sutton family as Britain tries to find its way following the end of World War 2. The war is over, but the battle for happiness has just begun... After six long years the Second World War is finally over. Rationing may remain, but hopes and dreams are in good supply. At…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Heroism or cowardice? A stunning story of the First World War from a master storyteller. Told in the voice of a young soldier, the story follows 24 hours in his life at the front during WW1, and captures his memories as he looks back over his life. Full of stunningly researched detail and engrossing atmosphere, the book leads to a dramatic and moving conclusion. Both a love story and a deeply…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: «All the creatures of the night gather in «the Hollows» of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party ... and to feed. Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond imagining — and it’s Rachel Morgan's job to keep that world civilized. A bounty hunter and witch with serious sex appeal and an attitude, she'll bring 'em back alive, dead ... or undead.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 075 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 212) Аннотация: Why do we destroy the things we love most? This is the question Paulo Coelho faces as he confronts his past. On a forty-day quest into the starkly beautiful and sometimes dangerous Mojave Desert, Paulo and his wife, Cristina, encounter the Valkyries, strange warrior women who travel the desert on motorcycles. In a story that blends breathtaking insight, exotic locales, and dramatic adventure,…
Скачать книгу (размер 60 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 13) Аннотация: Frog and Toad are always there for each other — just as best friends should be. From sledding in winter to eating ice cream on hot summer days, these two friends have fun together the whole year round.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 166 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 426) Аннотация: After catching her husband having an affair and being fired from her job, Maggie Walsh suddenly finds her perfectly organized existence has become a perfect mess. She decides, for the first time in her life, to do something daring — and flees to her best friend, Emily, in the faraway wonderland of Los Angeles. In this mecca of tanned, beautiful bodies, unsvelte, uncool Maggie is decidedly a fish…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Our homes are not just bricks and mortar, but vital spaces with which we interact. Different colours can change, soften, intensify and alter mood and atmosphere. This book shows how to achieve the results you seek through the use of paint, fabrics, furnishings, ornamentation, plants and flowers.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The story of one family piecing itself back together after a tragic highschool shooting, Hey Nostradamus! is Douglas Coupland's most soulful, piercing and searching novel yet. Pregnant and secretly married, Cheryl Anway scribbles her last will and testament — and erie premonition — on a school binder shortly before a rampaging trio of misfit classmates gun her down in a high school cafeteria.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 355 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 267) Аннотация: In the not-too-distant future, in a place called Satellite City, thirteen-year-old Cosmo Hill is unfortunate enough to come into the world unwanted by his parents. And so, as are all orphaned boys his age, Cosmo is dipped in a vaccine vat and sent to the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys-freight class. At Clarissa Frayne, the orphans, called no-sponsors, are put to work by…