Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Four months into the siege of Leningrad, the city is starving. Seventeen-year-old Lev fears for his life when he is arrested for looting the body of a dead German paratrooper, while his charismatic cellmate, Kolya, a handsome young soldier arrested for desertion, seems bizarrely unafraid. Dawn brings, instead of an execution squad, an impossible challenge. Lev and Kolya can find a dozen eggs for…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: «Its their party... Meet Melissa and Paul: Five years after they split up he's still looking for love in all the wrong places while she wants the one thing she cant have: Paul. Meet Chris and Vicky: Theyr'e so in tune they even brush their teeth in time with each other. So what is Chris doing risking it all for a meaningless affair? Meet Cooper and Laura: He wants to settle down, she wants to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: At two international auction houses, fine art experts vie to get the worlds most fabulous and expensive paintings into their salerooms. At Ludbrooks of London, Lizzy Duffy does her best get ahead as an auctioneer, while her boss Nat Wilde takes advantage of her in more ways than one. Meanwhile Carrie Klein, number two fine art expert at Ehrenpreis in New York has been charged with opening…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to deal with the events of In the Woods. She is out of the Murder Squad and has started a relationship with fellow detective Sam ONeill but is too badly shaken to commit to Sam or to her career. Then Sam is allocated a new case, that of a young woman stabbed to death just outside Dublin. He calls Cassie to the murder scene and she finds the victim is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Truly Plaice – part behemoth, part witch, part Cinderella – is born larger than life into a small-minded town. Her birth rocks the pillars of tiny Aberdeen, New York, and breaks her family into smithereens. \nShe spends a painful childhood in the shadow of her older sister Serena`s beauty, and is teased mercilessly for her enormous physique. But when Serena unexpectedly vanishes and leaves her…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Summer, 1940. Hitler's army is advancing towards Paris, and millions of French civilians are on the run. Amidst the chaos, two British children are being hunted by German agents. British spy Charles Henderson tries to reach them first, but he can only do it with the help of a twelve-year-old French orphan. The British secret service is about to discover that kids working undercover will help to…
Скачать книгу (размер 65 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 14) Аннотация: You can count on Mr Pusskins to teach you all about numbers! Mr Pusskins is being pesky again! Join the him as he races and chases through the neighbourhood until — uh-oh! — he bumps into mischief! Learn all about numbers with the irresistible Mr Pusskins. Each of the Mr Pusskins board books are packed with Sam Lloyd's trademark wit and humour — perfect for even the very youngest Mr Pusskins fans.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Odysseus and his Greek soldiers must find a way to break into the city of Troy or they will never be able to win the war...
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: The Spanish House is a hotch-potch of designs, Georgian, Gothic and Moorish, as if whoever started it had simply got bored. It has long been known as an architectural folly to locals, and is now nearly derelict to boot. When its reclusive owner dies intestate the Spanish House is left to his city-dwelling niece. For Isabel, recently widowed, the house is a potential lifeline — the only hope she…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: To celebrate Clarice Bean's 10th birthday, Orchard Books are publishing three superly good and flapped new editions of the hilarious, award-winning and bestselling picture books.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: The delta-wing design of the subsonic bomber Avro Vulcan was years ahead of its time in terms of design when the Ministry accepted the proposal in 1947. This book provides a history of the Avro Vulcan, covering the period from 1947 to 1984, when it was withdrawn due to mounting costs.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The English eccentric is under threat. In our increasingly homogenised society, these celebrated parts of our national identity are anomalies that may soon no longer fit. Or so it seems. On his entertaining and thought-provoking quest to discover the most eccentric English person alive today, Henry Hemming unearths a surprisingly large array of delightfully odd characters. He asks what it is to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Spring, 1941. The armies of the Reich are masters of Europe.Britain stands alone, dependent on her battered navy for survival, while Hitler's submarines — his 'grey wolves' — prey on the Atlantic convoys that are the country's only lifeline. Lieutenant Douglas Lindsay is amongst just a handful of men picked up when his ship is torpedoed. Unable to free himself from the memories of that night at…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: A brand new coursebook, complete with audio CD, in a three-level lower secondary ESL programme designed to boost students' abilities and confidence in English. Each unit is divided into sections dealing with different aspects of language and skills development, including grammar, language, vocabulary, study and research skills, etc., The audio CD includes all the texts read aloud by native…
Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: A brand new workbook to accompany the coursebook and audio CD, in a three-level lower secondary ESL programme designed to boost students' abilities and confidence in English. Each unit is divided into sections dealing with different aspects of language and skills development, including grammar, language, vocabulary, study and research skills, etc. Attractively illustrated and presented and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «The extraordinary tale of Oskar Schindler, the Aryan who saved hundreds of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, is now legendary, but as Tom Keneally reveals in this absorbing memoir, luck and the dogged persistence of one of 'Schindler's Jews' were vital in bringing it to the world's attention through his Booker Prize-winning novel, «Schindler's Ark» and the subsequent film, «Schindler's List».…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Just after sunset, as darkness grips the imagination, is the time when you feel the unexpected creep into the every day. As familiar journeys take a different turn, ordinary objects assume extraordinary powers. A blind intruder visits a dying man — and saves his life, with a kiss A woman receives a phone call from her husband. Her late husband. In the emotional aftermath of her baby's sudden…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 967 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 387) Аннотация: We don't want to tell you what happens in this book. It is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know enough to buy it so we will just say this: It is extremely tunny, but the African beach scene is horrific. The story starts there, but the book doesn't. And it's what happens afterwards that is most important. Once you have read it, you'll want to tell…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: «Every expectant parent will tell you that they don't want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they'd been given the choice. Instead, their lives are made up of sleepless nights, mounting bills, the pitying stares of «luckier» parents, and maybe worst of all, the what-ifs. What if their child had been born healthy? But it's…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Charles Henderson is the last British spy left in occupied France in 1940, living on a farm near Calais with four runaway kids cut adrift by the war. He and his young agents are playing a dangerous game: translating for the German high command and sending information back to Britain about the Nazi plans to invade England in September, on Eagle Day. The RAF must destroy the Nazi invasion fleet,…