Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Meet Georgia, SuSu, Teeny, Diane, and Linda-five women who've been best friends through thirty years since high school. Whenever they get the chance, they don their red hats and purple outfits for a delicious monthly serving of racy jokes, iced tea and chicken salad, baskets of sweet rolls, the latest Buckhead gossip, and-most of all-lively support and caring through the ups and downs of their…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Linwood Breedlove Scott's life has officially hit rock bottom. Her husband of thirty years has run off with a stripper. The IRS has taken everything but her coffee table. And her hot flashes are four-alarmers. The only thing that could make being flat-broke and fifty any worse is having to crawl home to her parents' house in Mimosa Branch, Georgia...which is exactly where she's headed. Lin's…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: «In the year, 354 A.D., Julian, a sheltered scholar and pacifist lives in peace-until a summons from Emperor Constantine the Great changes the young man's life forever. Dispatched to Gaul to help reclaim a beaten Roman territory from German barbarians, Julian displays a surprising and brutal genius for survival against impossible odds. Emerging as an unlikely hero and adored by a legion of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Danny Buchanan is a top Washington lobbyist who once earned a vast fortune serving the interests of giant corporations. Appalled by the desperate poverty he witnessed on his global travels, he decided to use his political genius to help the world's poor. With the loyal aid of his assistant, the attractive and committed Faith Lockhart, Danny works tirelessly and in secret to redress the balance of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Jack Tagger is a frustrated journalist. His outspoken views have relegated him to the obituary page, with his byline never again to disgrace the front page. But Jack has stumbled across a whale of a story that might just resurrect his career... James Stomarti, infamous frontman of rock band Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, has died in a diving accident and Jack harbours suspicions that the glamorous…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: «Set in Greenwich, Connecticut, in the early 1950s, Archer's «New York Times» bestseller is the story of a set of twins separated at birth. The two brothers live separate lives, and how they find each other mirrors the chronicle of a nation in transition.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: «With its focus on gender, power, race, sexuality, and violence, «Othello» is an important site for new critical approaches to the study of Shakespeare's works. Both criticism and culture are represented in this collection of recent essays which provides readers with examples of feminist, new-historicist, cultural materialist, deconstructive, and post-colonial perspectives on «Othello». With…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Crankier than ever, Agatha Raisin wants to forget that her husband left her to enter a monastery-a turn of affairs more humiliating than when she caught him with a mistress. She feels abandoned, fat, frumpy, and absolutely furious. What are her options? She takes an island vacation and joins a Pilates class. But what finally lifts her spirits is finding a corpse. The dead girl is a member of…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: «A simplified version of a novel by Arthur C. Clarke. In the year 2131, a fast-moving object is detected heading for Earth. Not a dead lump of rock but a huge hollow cylinder spinning along a planned trajectory. Who or what built «Rama» and why? This is an intermediate-level story in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of titles — some original and some simplified — from modern and…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: Frank Herbert’s Dune series is one of the great creations of imaginative literature, science fiction’s answer to The Lord of the Rings. Decades after Herbert’s original novels, the Dune saga was continued by Frank Herbert’s son, Brian Herbert, in collaboration with Kevin J. Anderson. Working from Frank Herbert’s own notes, the acclaimed authors reveal the chapter of the Dune saga most eagerly…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: In this long-awaited new novel in The Halfblood Chronicles, fantasy greats Norton and Lackey tell the enthralling story of the reclusive elvenlord Kyrtian, who emerges as a hero in a world torn by politics and war. When his cousin, Aelmarkin, tries to prove that Kyrtian is unfit to run his estate, the plan backfires, and soon Kyrtian, who doesn't share the venal, greedy nature of his cousin,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: «A Sequel to The New York Times Bestselling «Enders's Shadow». Bestselling author Orson Scott Card brings to life a new chapter in the saga of Ender's Earth. Earth and its society has been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics — the unity enforced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again, seeking territory and…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Way in to English is an introductory workbook for children who are beginning to learn English. Way in to English introduces the English alphabet and provides practice in letter recognition; phonics and spelling; handwriting. Way in to English is supported by an audio cassette which includes alphabet letter names, phonic sounds of the letters, pronunciation of vocabulary words, songs and rhymes.
Скачать книгу (размер 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 140) Аннотация: Move Ahead — пятиуровневый курс английского языка для подростков. УМК Way Ahead и Move Ahead представляют собой законченную систему обучения английскому языку со 2 по 9 класс включительно. УМК Move Ahead построен по тематическому принципу. Материал учебника написан в увлекательной форме с использованием новейших педагогических технологий и максимально приближен к реальным жизненным ситуациям.…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 400 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 864) Аннотация: «In the tenth book of the «Wheel of Time» from the New York Times #1 bestselling author Robert Jordan, the world and the characters stand at a crossroads, and the world approaches twilight, when the power of the Shadow grows stronger. Fleeing from Ebou Dar with the kidnapped Daughter of the Nine Moons, whom he is fated to marry, Mat Cauthon learns that he can neither keep her nor let her go, not…
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: A two-level English course for professional adults who need English for work and travel. Each one-page lesson depicts an authentic situation that learners might encounter in real-life: introducing people at work, ordering a meal, checking into a hotel/airport etc. Key features: Unique signposting with topic icons provides teachers with a practical short-cut to communicative competence and enable…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: «Part of the «Survival series» for professional adults who need English for work and travel. In addition to teaching notes and answer keys, this teacher's guide includes photocopiable mid-course and end-course tests with answer keys.»
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Intended for professional adults who need English for work and travel. This student's book covers seven key topic areas: business, socialising, communications, travel, hotels, money, and food and drink.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 412) Аннотация: Matilda Goodnight and Davy Dempsey are both trying to get the upper hand with gold-digging Clea Lewis, but they forge a temporary alliance to take on an inept art collector, an exasperated hitman, and a seductive femme fatale.
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: A Pre-Intermediate English course for professional adults who need English for work and travel. Each one-page lesson depicts an authentic situation that learners might encounter in real-life: introducing people at work, ordering a meal, checking into a hotel/airport etc. Key features: Unique signposting with topic icons provides teachers with a practical short-cut to communicative competence and…