Скачать книгу (размер 1 467 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 289) Аннотация: This is a major new novel from the universally acclaimed master and PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter. This is a sweeping, seductive love story set in the years after World War II. All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. The life is that of Philip Bowman and we see his formative experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, his postwar career as a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 799 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 354) Аннотация: In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnusdottir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of her lover. Agnes is sent to wait out her final months on the farm of district officer Jon Jonsson, his wife and their two daughters. Horrified to have a convicted murderer in their midst, the family avoid contact with Agnes. Only Toti, the young assistant priest appointed Agnes's spiritual…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014 Home is a foreign country: they do things differently there... In a tiny flat in West London, sixteen-year-old Marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother, Laura, and three ancient Hungarian relatives. Imprisoned by her family's crushing expectations and their fierce unEnglish pride, by their strange…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Open Mind is a groundbreaking course that provides learners with the professional, academic and personal skills they need. Not only are language skills developed in the course, but also 21st-century skills that students need in order to have a better awareness of self and society, to handle the demands of their study and learning and to deal with challenges in their work and career. The course…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Food and literature have a long relationship and food is used to shed light on characters and relationships, from meals as the centre of family life to food as a political symbol. This collection brings together five stories and extracts all with food at their heart.
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Frank Derrick is eighty-one. And he's just been run over by a milk float. It was tough enough to fill the hours of the day when he was active. But now he's broken his arm and fractured his foot, it looks set to be a very long few weeks ahead. Frank lives with his cat Bill (which made more sense before Ben died) in the typically British town of Fullwind-on-Sea. The Villages in Bloom competition is…
Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: Specially designed for young adult and adult learners, this four-level beginner Mandarin Chinese course employs a communicative and integrated approach to Chinese language learning. Emphasis is placed on pair work, group work and on a variety of speaking and listening activities to help students become confident Chinese language speakers.
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: What do butterflies eat? How do caterpillars grow? What is the biggest butterfly? Read and discover the facts in Macmillan Factual Readers, a six-level series which allows young English language learners to explore a variety of fascinating real-world topics. Each reader has been carefully graded to reinforce the main structures and vocabulary covered in most major language courses. All readers…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Police officers Quill, Costain, Sefton, and Ross know the worst of London—or they think they do. While investigating a mobster's mysterious death, they come into contact with a strange artifact and accidentally develop the Sight. Suddenly they can see the true evil haunting London’s streets. Armed with police instincts and procedures, the four officers take on the otherworldly creatures secretly…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Bestselling author Jeffrey Archer's Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno? When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to replace him. But Don…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 574 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 506) Аннотация: Welcome to Wormwood: a place where curiosity is discouraged and no one has ever left. Until one girl, Vega Jane, discovers a map that suggests a mysterious world beyond the walls. A world with possibilities and creatures beyond her imagining. But she will be forced to fight for her freedom. And unravelling the truth may cost Vega her life.
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 207 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 434) Аннотация: Cavendon Hall is home to two families, the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them, just as their ancestors did over the centuries. Charles Ingham, the sixth Earl of Mowbray, lives there with his wife Felicity and their six children: Guy, the heir, who is studying at Cambridge; their younger son Miles, attending Eton; and their four daughters Diedre, Daphne, DeLacy and Dulcie,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: With the end of the Second World War, a new world was born. The peace agreements that brought the conflict to an end implemented decisions that not only shaped the second half of the twentieth century, but continue to affect our world today and impact on its future. In 1946 the Cold War began, the state of Israel was conceived, the independence of India was all but confirmed and Chinese…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 1930s America for the promise of glory at the heart of Hitler's Berlin. Stroke by stroke, a…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Improve your Skills: Reading for Advanced Student's Book prepares pupils for the Advanced Reading tests. The book is full of exercises and examples to help develop key reading skills. Tips support students on how to approach the Reading tasks in CAE and MPO accompanies this book for further practice online. This is a ‘Without Key’ version.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 146 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 422) Аннотация: #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen is back with the shocking conclusion to the latest Eve Duncan trilogy. This is the finale that fans have been waiting for. In Taking Even, the game began. In Hunting Eve, the chase was on. Now, in Silencing Eve, the prey is cornered. Will Eve Duncan survive? Will those she loves take the fall with her? And will the secrets of Eve's past…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: A fact and fiction primary Reader about the Wild West, with back-of-book activities and Bilingual Dictionary.
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