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 Food, Food, Food, A Hungry Visitor and A Thief in the Museum. The Macmillan Children's Readers series can be used as supplementary reading…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: First published in 2005, The Sea was critically acclaimed as an extraordinary achievement. It went on to win that year's Man Booker Prize, one of the most hotly contested in the history of the award. When Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. Mr and Mrs Grace and their twin…
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 We Love Toys, A Hungry Visitor and A Thief in the Museum. The Macmillan Children's Readers series can be used as supplementary reading…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Macmillan Readers adaptation of Ian Fleming's The Man with the Golden Gun. Scaramanga is a cold-blooded killer with connections to the KGB and the Cuban Secret Police. There is only one man skilled and brave enough to go after him — 007, James Bond. To carry out the mission, Bond ends up in Jamaica, where he meets two old friends.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: When an elderly woman is shot in a tragic accident, Shetland detective Jimmy Perez is called to investigate. The sparse landscape and the emptiness of the sea have bred a fierce and secretive people. As Jimmy looks to the islanders for answers, he finds instead two feuding families whose envy, greed and bitterness have lasted generations. Then there's another death and, as the spring weather…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Every student needs top class reading, writing, listening and speaking skills to succeed at an academic level. Skillful focuses on each of these skills to give presentation, instant practice and complete immersion in that area of language. It offers students the opportunity to develop language skills by presenting them with ideas from today's world, while building critical thinking skills that…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Every student needs top class reading, writing, listening and speaking skills to succeed at an academic level. Skillful focuses on each of these skills to give presentation, instant practice and complete immersion in that area of language. It offers students the opportunity to develop language skills by presenting them with ideas from today's world, while building critical thinking skills that…
Скачать книгу (размер 432 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 86) Аннотация: First you take a drink, F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debutantes and dandies, rowdy jazz musicians, lost children and ragtime riff-raff into a newly compiled collection taken from The Crack-Up, and other works. On Booze portrays The Jazz Age as Fitzgerald…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In 1998 Peter F. Hamilton, the master of space opera and top ten bestselling author, published his first collection of short stories in A Second Chance at Eden. Thirteen years later he returns to short fiction with a new collection. This includes 'Manhattan in Reverse, ' an original story featuring Hamilton's popular detective Paula Myo, from his bestselling Commonwealth series. From 'Watching…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Over the last decade, through digital media, we have crossed a number of significant thresholds: the interconnection of over half of the world's adult population through mobile telephony and the internet and the devotion of more than half the waking hours of a western generation to mediated experience. Yet little mainstream thought has been given to what these transitions signify for the business…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Our relationship with money is one that lasts a lifetime. It can be as important as family life, as competitive as work, and as exciting and secretive as love. Yet books about money tend to take one of two routes: a) how to get more, or b) how to deal with less. This book turns these questions upside down, and looks not at money itself, but at the way we view it. How does money drive us? How does…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: From the New York Times bestselling author of Sarah's Key and A Secret Kept comes an absorbing new novel about one woman's resistance during an epoque that shook Paris to its very core. Paris, France: 1860's. Hundreds of houses are being razed, whole neighborhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussman has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: A wry exchange between an IT-savvy donkey, a book-loving ape and a mouse forms this playful and light-hearted look at the role of books in our digital age. With a subversive and signature Lane Smith twist, this satisfying and perfectly executed picture book has something to say to children and adults alike about the importance and joy of reading.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: 'Compulsive enough to read in a single sitting, brilliantly intelligent, elegantly constructed and ultimately intriguing' The Times First published in 2002, The Lovely Bones became an instant worldwide bestseller. There are now over ten million copies in print. A film adaptation of the novel, directed by Peter Jackson, was released in 2010. Susie Salmon was fourteen years old when she was…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Three very different women work together at Cadbury's Bournville factory, and their lives become entwined by war and work — and a child called David. Edie, the main character, marries young to escape her unhappy family home. Widowed at 19 and, after losing her child from the marriage, she faces the war grieving and lonely. Then one night during the Blitz, an infant mysteriously abandoned during…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Marilyn Monroe's status as one of the most recognisable icons of the twentieth century lives on, most recently in the Oscar-nominated film My Week with Marilyn. but the real Marilyn in many ways has remained a mystery. Her life has been pondered by everyone from film scholars and historians to novelists and pop culture experts ever since her death in August of 1962. With astute research and crisp…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: For LA producer Larry Brooker, this is the movie that could bring the fortune that has so long eluded him... For rock superstar, Gaia, desperate to be taken seriously as an actor, this is the role that could get her an Oscar nomination For the City of Brighton and Hove, the publicity value of a major Hollywood movie being filmed on location, about the city's greatest love story between King…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The Macmillan Children's Readers bring together a variety of enjoyable fiction and non-fiction titles. Six colour coded levels, designed for children aged 6-12, stimulate the pupils' interest in reading and learning English. The Readers include activity pages and a picture dictionary or wordlist. The upper levels also have fact-files and non-fiction tales to grab the interest of both boys and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 860 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 562) Аннотация: The Sunday Times Novel of the Year ‘With The Stranger’s Child, an already remarkable talent unfurls into something spectacular’ Sunday Times In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. Filled with intimacies and confusions, the weekend will link the families for ever, having the most lasting impact on…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: This is the second volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful history of England: the Tudors. 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…