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Winder Simon: Germania

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: 'It made me laugh so hard that I woke up my wife and had to give up reading the book in bed. If Bill Bryson had collaborated with W. G. Sebald to write a book about Germany, they might have wound up with something like this' Sunday Times. Germania is a very personal guide to the Germany that Simon Winder loves. Equally passionate about the region's history, folklore, cuisine, architecture and…

Ganeri Anita: I Wonder Why the Wind Blows

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: This highly popular and long-running series has been revamped for a new generation of readers, with a clean, crisp redesign and colourful covers. The series explores questions that young readers ask about the world around them in an unrivalled child-friendly style. The conversational format is perfect for delivering solid information in a natural, amusing and imaginative way. Taking as its…

Swan Karen: Christmas at Tiffany's

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Cassie settled down too young, marrying her first serious boyfriend. Now, ten years later, she is betrayed and broken. With her marriage in tatters and no career or home of her own, she needs to work out where she belongs in the world and who she really is. So begins a year-long trial as Cassie leaves her sheltered life in rural Scotland to stay with each of her best friends in the most glamorous…

Kent Kathleen: The Traitor's Wife

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: I'll not ask you to be mine I will never seek to blunt the fury in you, never, and will honour your will as my own. What say you? Can you be a soldier's wife? New England, 1673. Martha Allen, a young woman reviled by her family because of her refusal to marry, is packed off to be a servant in her cousin's home. She takes charge of the neglected household and annoys everyone around her including a…

James Peter: Dead Man's Footsteps

Скачать книгу (размер 2 778 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 546) Аннотация: From the ashes of mass destruction... Amid the tragic unfolding mayhem of the morning of 9/11, failed Brighton businessman and ne'er-do-well Ronnie Wilson sees the chance of a lifeline: to shed his debts, disappear and reinvent himself in another country. Six years later the discovery of the skeletal remains of a woman's body in a storm drain in Brighton leads Detective Superintendent Roy Grace…

James Peter: Dead Man's Grip

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: I want them to suffer, and I want them dead... Carly Chase is still traumatised after being in a fatal traffic accident which kills a teenage student from Brighton University. Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare. The drivers of the other two vehicles involved have been found tortured and murdered. Now Detective Superintendent Roy Grace of the Sussex Police…

Mieville China: Perdido Street Station

Скачать книгу (размер 4 481 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 880) Аннотация: The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its own bewildering world. Humans and mutants and arcane races throng the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the rivers are sluggish with unnatural effluent, and factories and foundries pound into the night. For more than a thousand years, the parliament and its brutal militia have ruled over a vast array of workers and artists, spies,…

Byers Michael: The Unfixed Stars

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Clyde Tombaugh, the boy who will discover Pluto, is out in the farmyard grinding the lens for his own telescope under the immense Kansas sky. A thousand miles away in Flagstaff, Arizona, the staff of Lowell Observatory is preparing to resume its long-interrupted search for Planet X — if everyone can straighten out their romantic and financial tangles long enough to concentrate on their work.…

Pollen Bella: The Summer of the Bear

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: In the summer of 1979, a tamed grizzly bear is tempted by the lure of freedom and the wild open sea... Meanwhile, the sudden death of British diplomat Nicky Fleming has left his wife closed down with shock. Relocated from Cold-War-riven Germany to a remote Hebridean island, Letty Fleming is haunted by the unthinkable — was it an accident, murder or suicide? And how can she ever begin to explain…

Lelic Simon: The Facility

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Henry Graves has dedicated his life to the prison service, but he is unprepared for the challenge his new and secret assignment brings. Tasked with managing a government facility hidden deep in the countryside, Henry finds himself tested as never before: by the confused and frightened prisoners, by the sinister Dr Silk and, above all, by his conscience. Tom Clarke, a precocious but naive…

Beck Greig: Beneath the Dark Ice

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Terror From The Deep... When a plane crashes into the Antarctic ice in a violent storm, exposing a massive cave beneath, a rescue and research team is dispatched. Twenty-four hours later, all contact is lost. Captain Alex Hunter and his crack team of highly trained commandos are fast-tracked there to find out what went wrong, accompanied by an assortment of researchers, including petrobiologist…

Macmillan Starter Teacher's Guide

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Учебно-методический комплект Macmillan Starter Book, написанный с учетом традиций преподавания английского языка в российской школе, соответствует образовательному стандарту начального общего образования по английскому языку и предназначен для учащихся, начинающих изучать английский язык в общеобразовательной школе или прогимназии.

Archer Jeffrey: Only Time Will Tell

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: This is the number one bestselling first book in The Clifton Chronicles, a multi-generational family saga. The Clifton Chronicles is Jeffrey Archer's most ambitious work in four decades as an international bestselling author. The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1919, in the backstreets of Bristol. His father was a war hero, but it will be twenty-one tumultuous years before Harry…

Black Benjamin: Elegy for April

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This is the new Quirke novel from John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black. It's 1950's Ireland. As a deep, bewildering fog cloaks Dublin, a young woman is found to have vanished. When Phoebe Griffin, still haunted by the horrors of her past, is unable to discover news of her friend; Quirke, fresh from drying out in an institution, responds to his daughter's request for help. But as Phoebe,…

Franklin Tom: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Amos, Mississippi, is a quiet town. Silas Jones is its sole law enforcement officer. The last excitement here was nearly twenty years ago, when a teenage girl disappeared on a date with Larry Ott, Silas' one-time boyhood friend. The law couldn't prove Larry guilty, but the whole town has shunned him ever since. Then the town's peace is shattered when someone tries to kill the reclusive Ott,…

Bryson Ellen: The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A rich tapestry of romance, illusory science, criminal trickery and human intrigue. Let the show begin. (Kirkus). In the late 1860s, as America was recovering from Lincoln's assassination, a man named P. T. Barnum opened a museum in New York City. Filled with oddities from around the world, it also hosted a number of sideshow freaks — including The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno's…

Smith Rhona: Core Statutes on Public Law and Civil Liberties: 2011-12

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Well-selected and authoritative, Palgrave Macmillan Core Statutes provide the key materials needed by students in a format that is clear, compact and very easy to use. They are ideal for use in exams.

Glover David: Macmillan Science 1: Teacher's Book

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Designed for 6-12 year olds, this title follows best practice in science education and is written by leading authors of primary science resources in the UK. Through stimulating content and carefully graded activities and exercises, it guides pupils to develop a sound framework of scientific knowledge and understanding.

Bolano Roberto: The Skating Rink

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Readers who have snacked on a writer such as Haruki Murakami will feast on Roberto Bolano. (Sunday Times). When Nuria Marti, the beautiful Spanish figure skater, is suddenly dropped from the Olympic team, a besotted admirer builds a secret ice rink for her in the ruins of an old mansion on the outskirts of their seaside town. What he doesn't tell her is that he paid for it using embezzled public…

Glover David: Macmillan Science 2: Teacher's Book

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Designed for 6-12 year olds, this title follows best practice in science education and is written by leading authors of primary science resources in the UK. Through stimulating content and carefully graded activities and exercises, it guides pupils to develop a sound framework of scientific knowledge and understanding.