Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: The story of Exodus and the rescue of the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt is one of the greatest stories in the Old Testament. In this brilliantly illustrated picture book, the distinguished artist, Brian Wildsmith, captures all the incidents of this powerful and dramatic tale: Moses in the bulrushes, the burning bush, the plagues that afflict Egypt, the Passover, the crossing of the Red Sea, the…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The African Queen is an old, dirty, ugly, unreliable steamboat. No one would expect a missionary's sister and a rough, uneducated mechanic to take a boat like that down a dangerous river through the forests of Central Africa. But Rose Sayer and Charlie Allnutt do just that. Why do they do it? The First World War has just begun, and Rose has a wild and crazy plan. She and Charlie set off down the…
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Everybody wants to win the lottery. A million pounds, perhaps five million, even ten million. How wonderful! Emma Carter buys a ticket for the lottery every week, and puts the ticket carefully in her bag. She is seventy-three years old and does not have much money. She would like to visit her son in Australia, but aeroplane tickets are very expensive. Jason Williams buys lottery tickets every…
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: It is Molly Clarkson's fiftieth birthday. She is having a party. She is rich, but she is having a small party — only four people. Four people, however, who all need the same thing: they need her money. She will not give them the money, so they are waiting for her to die. And there are other people who are also waiting for her to die. But one person can't wait. And so, on her fiftieth birthday,…
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: England and Scotland in the 1500s. Two famous queens — Mary, the Catholic Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I, the Protestant Queen of England. It was an exciting and a dangerous time to be alive, and to be a queen. Mary was Queen of Scotland when she was one week old. At sixteen, she was also Queen of France. She was tall and beautiful, with red-gold hair. Many men loved her and died for her. But…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Rachel Riley is the offspring of a depressingly unbroken home. Her mum and dad refuse to let her have a mobile phone, and have banned Ribena (too purple) and Eastenders (too common); her seven-year-old brother buys giant Des Lynam cut-outs and Will Young dolls from ebay and talks in Elvish; and the adopted dog eats her Pride and Prejudice boxed collection. It is time to change things. Rachel…
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Outside, the night is cold and wet. Inside, the White family sits and waits. Where is their visitor? There is a knock at the door. A man is standing outside in the dark. Their visitor has arrived. The visitor waits. He has been in India for many years. What has he got? He has brought the hand of a small, dead animal — a monkey's paw. Outside, in the dark, the visitor smiles and waits for the door…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: 90% new, with refreshed content and new features. — 12 units (previously 14) fit better with school syllabuses and course length. — New angles on topics, new reading texts and listenings, and new design and illustrations are combined with the tried and tested methodology. — More integrated pronunciation practice including Music of English boxes focusing on word and sentence stress, and extra…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: This new 2007 edition of the Oxford Junior Thesaurus contains entries in alphabetical order, and a broad range of imaginative and adventurous synonyms with supporting example sentences. It also features useful panels focussing on overused words and writing tips. The pages are clear, accessible. A unique feature that will inspire budding writers is the example sentences by well-known children's…
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: It is night in the south seas near Tahiti, and the ship HMS Bounty has begun the long voyage home to England. But the sailors on the ship are angry men, and they have swords and guns. They pull the captain out of bed and take him up on deck. He tries to run, but a sailor holds a knife to his neck. Do that again, Captain Bligh, and you're a dead man! he says. The mutiny on the Bounty happened in…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: 90% new, with refreshed content and new features. — 12 units (previously 14) fit better with school syllabuses and course length. — New angles on topics, new reading texts and listenings, and new design and illustrations are combined with the tried and tested methodology. — More integrated pronunciation practice including Music of English boxes focusing on word and sentence stress, and extra…
Скачать книгу (размер 6 736 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1322) Аннотация: This, the fourth edition of the Oxford Russian Dictionary, is an invaluable text for any serious student of Russian, or any Russian native speaker learning English. This edition also contains many enhancements, including new supplementary material with a correspondence section, grammar help, and extra sections on the pronunciation of Russian and English. The text has also been updated with…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 318 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 848) Аннотация: The Oxford Pocket School Dictionary contains 45,000 entries, up-to-date vocabulary — that is all the text of the Oxford School Dictionary in pocket format yet still with an extremely accessible page design. Additional Study Notes in the centre of the dictionary give added value. They focus on key grammar points, useful spelling tips and rules, and guides on using language effectively and well.…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: In EDI (the European Department of Intelligence in Brussels) there are some very secret files — the Omega Files. There are strange, surprising, and sometimes horrible stories in these files, but not many people know about them. You never read about them in the newspapers. Hawker and Jude know all about the Omega Files, because they work for EDI. They think fast, they move fast, and they learn…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Whoosh Around the Mulberry Bush starts with children dancing round the mulberry bush and then sets off around the world to show all sorts of animal capers, including hens pecking around the chicken coop, monkeys swinging around the jungle vines, polar bears and arctic hares sliding around the icicles, and zebras kicking their heels around the waterhole. The text can be sung to the rhythm of 'Here…
Скачать книгу (размер 254 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 51) Аннотация: Tom Walsh had a lot to learn about life. He liked travelling, and he was in no hurry. He liked meeting people, anyone and everyone. He liked the two American girls on the train. They were nice and very friendly. They knew a lot of places. Tom thought they were fun. Tom certainly had a lot to learn about life. This is a collection of short stories about adventures on trains. Strange, wonderful,…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: 'High above them, Lora and Clyde heard a sound their world had not heard for centuries — the thin scream of a starship coming in from outer space, leaving a long white tail like smoke across the clear blue sky. They looked at each other in wonder. After three hundred years of silence, Earth had reached out once more to touch Thalassa ...' And with the starship comes knowledge, and love, and pain.…
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phantom — the singers, the dancers, the directors, the stage…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: This is a fresh new look for the 2007 edition of the Oxford Pocket School Thesaurus. It contains 150,000 synonyms and up-to-date example sentences — that is all the text of the Oxford School Thesaurus in pocket format yet still with an extremely accessible page design. This authoritative thesaurus is an ideal companion to the comprehensive Oxford Pocket School Dictionary. Each entry is in…
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: A beautiful young Indian girl, and a brave Englishman. Black eyes, and blue eyes. A friendly smile, a laugh, a look of love... But this is North America in 1607, and love is not easy. The girl is the daughter of King Powhatan, and the Englishman is a white man. And the Indians of Virginia do not want the white men in their beautiful country. This is the famous story of Pocahontas, and her love…