Semple Maria: Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Bernadette Fox is notorious. To Elgie Branch, a Microsoft wunderkind, she's his hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled wife. To fellow mothers at the school gate, she's a menace. To design experts, she's a revolutionary architect. And to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, quite simply, mum. Then Bernadette disappears. And Bee must take a trip to the end of the earth to find her. Where'd…

George R.R. Martin: Wild Cards: Busted Flush

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: In the six decades since the alien plague known as the Wild Card virus spread a wave of mutations around the globe, humanity has begun to come to terms with its consequences. Grotesque half-human creatures known as 'jokers' inhabit an underworld of their own, while the legendary prodigies known as 'aces' have become real-world superheroes, complete with colourful names and costumes. Now a new…

Coben Harlan: Stay Close

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Megan is a suburban soccer mom who once upon a time walked on the wild side. Now she's got two kids, a perfect husband, a picket fence, and a growing sense of dissatisfaction. Ray used to be a talented documentary photographer, but at age forty he finds himself in a dead end job posing as a paparazzo pandering to celebrity-obsessed rich kids. Jack is a detective who can't let go of a cold case-a…

Lennon John: The John Lennon Letters

Скачать книгу (размер 2 074 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 408) Аннотация: John Lennon's reaction to most of his emotions was to write something down. We know about his music, as one of the world's greatest-ever song writers, creator of 'Help!', 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds', 'Imagine' and dozens more. Now, his letters have been collected and published, illuminating as never before the intimate side of a private genius. Hunter Davies, author of the only authorised…

Mahy Margaret: The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A brand new Early Reader edition of this hilarious story about an ordinary man who wears an ordinary suit and ordinary shoes but whose mother is a pirate.

Mayhew James: Miranda the Explorer

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey. Miranda wins a balloon ride — but the rope snaps and away she goes, over seas, mountains and deserts. She touches down at the Taj Mahal and the Pyramids, flies over the Great Wall of China, visits…

Symes Ruth Louise: Mondays at Monster School

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to young fiction. Even little monsters get worried about their first day at school. It's a big step to take. Fred and Ted are two little monsters who aren't at all sure they want to go... but once they do, they soon find out it's fun. After a day filled with mud splashing and slime painting, some howling and growling practice and a good stomp…

Pratchett Terry: Reaper Man

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: DEATH IS MISSING — PRESUMED... ER... GONE. Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn. Meanwhile, on a little farm far, far away, a tall, dark stranger is turning out to be really good with a scythe. There's a harvest to be gathered in...

Simon Francesca: Moody Margaret's Makeover

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to young fiction. Anything Moody Margaret can do, Horrid Henry can do better. So when Margaret starts giving her friends makeovers, Henry decides to steal — no, borrow! — her idea. He is sure he can do it much, much better. It can't be that hard to make people look really fantastic... can it?

Simon Francesca: Moody Margaret's Makeover (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to young fiction. Anything Moody Margaret can do, Horrid Henry can do better. So when Margaret starts giving her friends makeovers, Henry decides to steal — no, borrow! — her idea. He is sure he can do it much, much better. It can't be that hard to make people look really fantastic... can it?

Abercrombie Joe: Best Served Cold

Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: Springtime in Styria. And that means war. There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the squabbling League of Eight, and between them they have bled the land white. While armies march, heads roll and cities burn, behind the scenes bankers, priests and older, darker powers play a deadly game to choose who will be king. War may be hell…

Scalzi John: Redshirts

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting, and Andrew is even more delighted when he's assigned to the ship's Xenobiology laboratory. Life couldn't be better... although there are a few strange things going on... every Away Mission involves a lethal confrontation with alien…

Williams Kate: Young Elizabeth: The Making of Our Queen

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: We can hardly imagine a Britain without Elizabeth II on the throne. It seems to be the job she was born for. And yet for much of her early life the young princess did not know the role that her future would hold. She was our accidental Queen. As a young girl, Elizabeth was among the guests in Westminster Abbey watching her father being crowned, making her the only monarch to have attended a…

Briggs Stephen: Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion: So Far

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The Discworld is a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the back of a giant turtle. And like any world, the Discworld is not always predictable — in fact, it's distinctly UNpredictable, what with rivers you could skateboard across (if they weren't so knobbly) and points of raw magic that'd turn a body inside out soon as look at it... For safety's sake, you…

Mosse Kate: Mistletoe Bride and Other Winter Tales

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: A wonderfully atmospheric collection of short stories, rooted deep in the landscape — some Carcassonne, some elsewhere — and powerful portraits of lonely (often heartbreakingly lonely) women seeking, or coming to terms with, their destiny. The collection will include The Mistletoe Bride, La Fille de Melisande, Red Letter Day, The Lending Library, The House on the Hill...

Worth Jennifer: Shadows of the Workhouse: The Drama of Life in Postwar London

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the people she encountered. There's Jane, who cleaned and generally helped out at Nonnatus House — she was taken to the workhouse as a baby and was allegedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat. Peggy and Frank's parents both died within six…

Adams Douglas: Life, the Universe and Everything

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of the total annihilation of the universe. They are Arthur Dent, homeless Englishman currently marooned in the deep past; his friend Ford Prefect, temporarily insane to see if he likes it, also marooned; Slartibartfast, once of the planet builders of Magrathea; Zaphod Beeblebrox, ex-confidence trickster and part-time…

Binchy Maeve: Star Sullivan

Скачать книгу (размер 534 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 106) Аннотация: Molly Sullivan said that the new baby was a little star. She was no trouble at all and she was always smiling... so she became known as Star and no one remembered that her name was Oona. Star Sullivan just wanted everyone to be happy — her father to stop gambling, her mother not to work so hard, her brother to stay out of trouble, her sister to stop worrying about every little thing she ate. Then…

Simon Francesca: A Horrid Factbook: Kings and Queens

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Packed with freaky facts and random trivia, this is the perfect guide to everything you ever wanted to know (and lots of things you might never have wanted to know) about KINGS AND QUEENS — Horrid Henry style!

Ludlum Robert: The Bourne Imperative

Скачать книгу (размер 2 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 484) Аннотация: When Jason Bourne pulls a drowning man from a lake, he discovers that the man is not only freezing — but bleeding profusely from a gun-shot wound. He wakes as an amnesiac, with no memory of who he is or why he was shot — and Bourne is eerily reminded of his own past. Meanwhile, Mossad agent Rebekah is so determined to find this man that she's gone off the grid, cut her ties to her agency, and…