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Doyle Arthur Conan: The Norwood Builder and Other Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Why does an old builder leave all his money to a young lawyer? Who gives a government document to enemy spies? How is a young man tricked into taking a new job? What can a foreign king do when a beautiful woman from his past appears? Who can answer all these questions? Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr Watson, of course, in these four short stories about the famous detective.

McCarthy Cormac: The Counsellor

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The Counsellor is now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott and starring Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy's original screenplay is the story of a lawyer who is so seduced by the desire to get rich, to impress his fiancee, that he becomes involved in a risky drug-smuggling venture. His contacts in…

Doyle Arthur Conan: The Norwood Builder and Other Stories (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Why does an old builder leave all his money to a young lawyer? Who gives a government document to enemy spies? How is a young man tricked into taking a new job? What can a foreign king do when a beautiful woman from his past appears? Who can answer all these questions? Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr Watson, of course, in these four short stories about the famous detective.

Raynham A.: Endangered Animals

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Fun, cultural and informative, this series of readers offers an extensive range of fiction and non-fiction titles that reinforce the basic structures and vocabulary found in most primary courses. Children will love the exciting adventures in stories such as Hide and Seek, A Hungry Visitor and A Thief in the Museum. The Macmillan Children's Readers series can be used as supplementary reading…

Powell K.: Lights, Camera, Action

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Fun, cultural and informative, this series of readers offers an extensive range of fiction and non-fiction titles that reinforce the basic structures and vocabulary found in most primary courses. Children will love the exciting adventures in stories such as Lights, Camera, Action, A Hungry Visitor and A Thief in the Museum. The Macmillan Children's Readers series can be used as supplementary…

Shipton Paul: Carnival Time

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Fun, cultural and informative, this series of readers offers an extensive range of fiction and non-fiction titles that reinforce the basic structures and vocabulary found in most primary courses. Children will love the exciting adventures in stories such as Carnival Time, A Hungry Visitor and A Thief in the Museum. The Macmillan Children's Readers series can be used as supplementary reading…

Campbell Robert: Global Business Class: Eworkbook. Pre-intermediate

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Global is a ground-breaking 6-level adult course for today's learners of English. It enables for today's learners of English. It enables you to learn English as it is used in our globalised world, to learn through English using information-rich topics and to learn about English as an international language. Global offers a comprehensive range of interactive digital components for use in class,…

Donaldson Julia: The Singing Mermaid

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: The singing mermaid is tempted away from her home at Silversands to join the circus. The audiences love her but the poor mermaid, kept in a tank by the wicked circus owner Sam Sly, soon longs to return to the freedom of the sea. Will she ever escape? With glitter throughout, this is a beautiful, lyrical new picture book from the creators of the bestselling WHAT THE LADYBIRD HEARD.

Walters Minette: A Dreadful Murder: The Mysterious Death of Caroline Luard

Скачать книгу (размер 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 60) Аннотация: A body is found in the woods... Based on the true story of the shocking murder of Mrs Caroline Luard, which took place in Kent in August 1908. Caroline Luard is shot dead in broad daylight in the grounds of a large country estate. With few clues available, her husband soon becomes the suspect... But is he guilty? Bringing to life the people involved in this terrible crime, in A Dreadful Murder…

Kubuitsile L.: Elephants

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Fun, cultural and informative, this series of readers offers an extensive range of fiction and non-fiction titles that reinforce the basic structures and vocabulary found in most primary courses. Children will love the exciting adventures in stories such as Elephants, A Hungry Visitor and A Theif in the Museum. The Macmillan Children's Readers series can be used as supplementary reading material…

Mieville China: Railsea

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: On board the moletrain Medes, a boy called Sham watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt. The giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle resulting in one's death and the other's glory are extraordinary. But no matter how spectacular it is, travelling the endless rails of the railsea, Sham senses that there's more to life. Even if his…

Ackroyd Peter: Tudors: A History of England

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Rich in detail and atmosphere and told in vivid prose, Tudors recounts the transformation of England from a settled Catholic country to a Protestant superpower. It is the story of Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome, and his relentless pursuit of both the perfect wife and the perfect heir; of how the brief reign of the teenage king, Edward VI, gave way to the violent reimposition of…

Herriot James: All Creatures Great and Small

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: The inspiration for the BBC series of the same name Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, to the young James Herriot 1930s Yorkshire seems to offers an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world. But from his erratic new colleagues, brothers Siegfried and Tristan Farnon, to incomprehensible farmers, herds of semi-feral cattle, a pig called Nugent and an overweight Pekingese…

Jansson Tove: Moomin Falls in Love

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: With Moominvalley underwater, will Moomin's romantic tendencies get him in trouble? Another classic Moomin story reworked in full color, with a kid-proof but kid-friendly size, price, and format. Moominvalley is flooded, so Snorkmaiden and Moomin head out to rescue anyone stranded in the deluge. They bring home Miss La Goona, the leading lady of the visiting circus, who turns out to be quite a…

Huband Mark: Trading Secrets: Spies and Intelligence in an Age of Terror

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Whose agenda do spies serve? In this gripping book, former FT security correspondent Mark Huband takes us inside the shadowy world of intelligence-gathering. Drawing on archive material, unpublished letters and exclusive interviews, he explores how the role and purpose of 'intelligence' has evolved from its origins in World War II to today's War on Terror. Drawing on his unique sources, he…

Johansen Iris: Hunting Eve

Скачать книгу (размер 1 906 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 375) Аннотация: «EVE DUNCAN IS BACK. THE HUNT IS ON.The latest in Iris Johansen's pulse-pounding series that «Kirkus Reviews» calls filled with intriguing twists and characters and an overarching mystery that will keep fans coming back. She was taken for a reason. Chosen for her skills as a forensic sculptor. Abducted by the deranged father of a serial killer and forced to reconstruct his dead son's skull from…

Green Jane: Another Piece of My Heart

Скачать книгу (размер 2 141 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 421) Аннотация: From The New York Times bestselling author of Jemima J and The Beach House comes Jane Green's most emotional and powerful novel yet: a story that explores the complications of a woman marrying into a ready-made family. Andi is a woman who has spent much of her adult life looking for the perfect man, and at thirty-seven, she's finally found him. Ethan — divorced with two daughters, Emily and…

Raverat Anna: Signs of Life

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Ten years ago, Rachel had an affair. It left her life in pieces. Now, writing at her window, she tries to put those pieces together again. She has her memories, recollections of dreams, and her old yellow notebook. More than anything, she wants to be honest. Rachel knows that her memory is patchy and her notebook incomplete. But there is something else. Something terrible happened to her lover.…

Cartledge Paul: Alexander the Great: The Truth Behind the Myth

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: At eighteen Alexander had conquered mainland Greece, was crowned King of Macedonia at twenty and by twenty-six he had made himself master of the once mighty Persian Empire. By the time of his death, aged only thirty-three, in 323BCE he was ruler of the known world and was being worshipped as a god by the Greeks, both at Babylon, where he died, and further west, among the Greek cities of the…

Maas Sarah J.: Throne of Glass

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: In a land without magic, where the king rules with an iron hand, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She comes not to kill the king, but to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three killers, thieves, and warriors in a competition, she is released from prison to serve as the king's champion. Her name is Celaena Sardothien. The Crown Prince will provoke her. The Captain of the Guard will…