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Simon Francesca: Runaway Duckling (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Mother Duck warns her ducklings about the dangers that lie in wait outside of the gates of Potter's Barn Farm. But one little duckling is determined to go exploring for herself...

Gardner Sally: Sleeping Beauty (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Deep in a forest of thorns lies a beautiful princess, cast into an enchanted sleep by the wicked seventh fairy. Can the spell ever be broken?

Simon Francesca: Snow White (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: With skin as white as snow, lips as red as roses, and hair as black as ebony, Snow White soon arouses the jealousy of her wicked stepmother. Hidden away in the forest, can she escape the evil queen with the help of her new friends?

Ben Aaronovitch: Moon Over Soho

Скачать книгу (размер 1 906 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 375) Аннотация: I was my dad's vinyl-wallah: I changed his records while he lounged around drinking tea, and that's how I know my Argo from my Tempo. And it's why, when Dr Walid called me to the morgue to listen to a corpse, I recognised the tune it was playing. Something violently supernatural had happened to the victim, strong enough to leave its imprint like a wax cylinder recording. Cyrus Wilkinson,…

Simon Francesca: Where are My Lambs (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: It's time for bed but Mother Sheep can't find her lambs, Tilly and Tam, anywhere! Where in Potter's Barn could they be hiding?

Harlan Coben: Miracle Cure

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: They were looking for a miracle cure... Sara Lowell and Michael Silverman. The ideal celebrity couple, darlings of the media. She's TV's most popular journalist. He's New York's hottest basketball star. Their lives would soon be shattered by the most deadly illness of modern times. Dr. Harvey Riker. His clinic has found the miracle cure that millions seek. One-by-one his patients are getting…

Buckley Carla: The Things That Keep Us Here

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: It began with a dead bird. Then state-wide school closure. Before long, the whole town is in lockdown and the Brooks family are quarantined in their own home — with a faceless enemy on their doorstep. They must cope as best they can, battling hunger, cold and boredom. But as the threat inches closer, and neighbour turns against neighbour, single mother Ann doesn't know who she can trust —…

Carlton H.C.: Heaven, Hell and Mademoiselle

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Paris, 1968. Four young hopefuls are following their dreams, making their way in the ruthless world of haute couture. Seamstress Monique, standing with her tatty suitcase in hand, watches shop assistants spray Chanel No. 5 in the street outside Coco's world-famous store. Can all her dreams come true in this magical place? Christopher, London born and bred, the handsome up-and-coming designer is…

Dmitry Glukhovsky: Metro 2033

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind. But the last remains of civilisation have already become a distant memory, the…

Boris Akunin: He Lover of Death

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Senka Skorikov, orphan and urchin, has been abandoned to the murky world of Moscow's gangster district. While picking a pocket or two, he glimpses the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and joins the gang of her overlord lover, The Prince, so desperate he is to meet her. Senka climbs the criminal ranks, uncovering a stash of precious metal, and gradually capturing the heart of his beloved…

Mason Richard: The Drowning People

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: At 21, James Farrell has the world at his feet. A gifted violinist, his successful career seems assured. Until a chance encounter with Ella changes everything. Ella, bewitching, irresistible, haunted by the ghosts of her family's past — James cannot help falling in love with her, and she with him. But as the power and dangerous fragility of their relationship overwhelm them, James can only watch…

Tea Obreht: The Tiger's Wife

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: 'Having sifted through everything I have heard about the tiger and his wife, I can tell you that this much is fact: in April of 1941, without declaration or warning, the German bombs started falling over the city and did not stop for three days. The tiger did not know that they were bombs...' A tiger escapes from the local zoo, padding through the ruined streets and onwards, to a ridge above the…

Fraser Antonia: Must You Go?

Скачать книгу (размер 2 156 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 424) Аннотация: The subtitle of this wonderful memoir declares its contents: this is 'my life with Harold Pinter', not Lady Antonia Fraser's complete life, and certainly not his. It is a love story, and as with many love stories, the beginning and the end, the first light and the twilight, are dealt with more fully than the high noon in between. The result is a marvellously insightful testimony to modern…

Mina Denise: Exile

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The last time Maureen O'Donnell saw Ann Harris, she was in the Glasgow Women's Shelter smelling of a long binge on cheap drink. A month later Ann's mutilated body, stitched into a mattress, is washed up on the banks of the Thames. No-one, except for Maureen and her best mate, Leslie, seems to care about what happened to her, and Maureen is the only person who thinks Ann's husband is innocent. But…

Mina Denise: Garnethill

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Maureen O'Donnell wasn't born lucky. A psychiatric patient and survivor of sexual abuse, she's stuck in a dead-end job and a secretive relationship with Douglas, a shady therapist. Her few comforts are making up stories to tell her psychiatrist, the company of friends, and the sweet balm of whisky. She is about to end her affair with Douglas when she wakes up one morning to find him in her living…

Simon Francesca: Horrid Henry's Nits

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: When Horrid Henry gets nits, and his little brother Peter Perfect doesn't, he makes sure that everyone esle gets them too. After that, he can turn his attention to sabotaging the school trip, ruining his parents' dinner party, and terrorizing Peter.

Geraldine Mccaughrean: George and the Dragon and a World of Other Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: These are the stories our ancestors told to explain how the world began; or they are the legends of half-remembered heroes and people whose lives were changed by magic. Brilliantly retold in the sparkling and inspirational words of the multiple award-winning and much-loved children's author, Geraldine McCaughrean, the tales will delight and entertain readers of all ages. Together, GEORGE AND THE…

Connelly Michael: The Fifth Witness

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: In tough times, even the criminals are making cut-backs, it seems. Right now, the most significant part of defence lawyer Mickey Haller's business is not about keeping clients out of jail but about keeping a roof over their heads, as the foreclosure industry booms. Lisa Trammel had been a client of Mickey's for eight months, and although so far he'd managed to stop the bank from taking her house,…

Saberton Ruth: Ellie Andrews Has Second Thoughts

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Clover Grace is finally getting married. Or she will be if she drinks enough champagne to pluck up the courage for her trip down the aisle. The problem is that after months spent bickering over menus and table placements, Clover's never felt more distant from the man she's supposed to be spending the rest of her life with. As last minute nerves take hold, a night of soul-searching sees Clover…