Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: There sat the dog with eyes as big as mill wheels. Though criticised for their anarchic immorality when first published, Hans Christian Andersen's tales made him an international star, taken to the hearts of children and adults for their beauty, sorrow and strangeness. Included here are The Steadfast Tin Soldier and Big Klaus and Little Klaus. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: In The Establishment Owen Jones, author of the international bestseller Chavs, offers a biting critique of the British Establishment and a passionate plea for democracy. Behind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of people who wield massive power and reap huge profits in the process. In exposing this shadowy and complex system that dominates our lives, Owen Jones sets out on…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: This book is cleverer and better looking than you. This book will blow your mind. This book loves you. This Book Loves You is a collection of beautifully illustrated inspirational sayings by which you should live your life. If you follow each and every one, your life will become easier, more fabulous, more rewarding. Imagine what a chilled-out and wonderful human being people would think you were…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: This is a new novel for 2015 from the number one bestselling author of The One Plus One and Me Before You. Praise for Jojo Moyes: Moyes is the queen of the classy weepy. A masterclass in story-telling. (Elle). Moyes does a majestic job of conjuring a cast of characters who are charismatic, credible and utterly compelling. (Independent on Sunday). Jojo Moyes's poignantly romantic tales have…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England in three different decades. Achieving eleven Top 10 albums (plus nine with the Smiths), his songs have been recorded by David Bowie, Nancy Sinatra, Marianne…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 676 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 330) Аннотация: Baffin Island: Sam and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved — and filled with pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico. How can that be? As they investigate, tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary Toltec feathered-serpent god Quetzalcoatl — and a fabled object…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: The challenge facing President Jack Ryan is an old one with a terrifying new twist. The international stalemate with North Korea continues into its seventh decade. A young dictator is determined to prove his strength by breaking the deadlock. Like his father before him, he hangs his plans on the country's nuclear ambitions. Until now, that program was impeded by a lack of resources. However,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: It's official. That thing that classic art has been missing is a chubby reclining kitty. The Huffington Post Internet meme meets classical art in Svetlana Petrova's brilliant Fat Cat Art. Featuring her twenty-two-pound, ginger-colored cat Zarathustra superimposed onto some of the greatest artworks of all time, Petrova's paintings are an Internet sensation. Now fans will have the ultimate…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: From the author of The Zombie Combat Field Guide and The Vampire Combat Manual, an interactive coloring and activity book that will teach even the most inept potential Vampire warrior how to fend off the undead.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Mowgli, the man-cub who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India, is one of the greatest literary myths ever created. As he embarks on a series of thrilling escapades, Mowgli encounters such unforgettable creatures as Bagheera, the graceful black panther, and Shere Khan, the tiger with the blazing eyes.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Emma and Adam are doctors at the top of their fields and so when they are offered the chance to take their three children to Africa for a year for a research placement it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. It's going to be an experience they'll never forget. But for all the wrong reasons. When Emma arrives home one night to the sickening sight of an empty cot, their family's dream…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: This book is published as Big Little lies in Australia and the United States. Liane Moriarty, million copy selling author of The Husband's Secret brings us another addictive story of secrets and scandal. Jane hasn't lived anywhere longer than six months since her son was born five years ago. She keeps moving in an attempt to escape her past. Now the idyllic seaside town of Pirriwee has pulled her…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: From internationally bestselling author Harlan Coben comes this third action-packed installment of his bestselling Mickey Bolitar series. As mysterious clues continue to surface, Mickey is determined to uncover the truth about his father's death. Was it accidental? Murder? Or is he in fact still alive? With the help of his Uncle Myron and loyal friends, Spoon and Ema, Mickey unravels the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 967 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 387) Аннотация: Why don't flight attendants get tipped? If you were a terrorist, how would you attack? And why does KFC always run out of fried chicken? Over the past decade, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have published more than 8,000 blog posts on Freakonomics.com. Now the very best of this writing has been carefully curated into one volume, the perfect solution for the millions of readers who love…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: This is the extraordinary story of the Kremlin — from prize-winning author and historian Catherine Merridale. Both beautiful and profoundly menacing, the Kremlin has dominated Moscow for many centuries. Behind its great red walls and towers many of the most startling events in Russia's history have been acted out. It is both a real place and an imaginative idea; a shorthand for a certain kind of…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: Command and Control interweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a missile silo in rural Arkansas, where a single crew struggled to prevent the explosion of the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States, with a historical narrative that spans more than fifty years. It depicts the urgent effort to ensure that nuclear weapons can't be stolen, sabotaged, used without…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: In this boldly drawn portrait of 18th century England, Roy Porter defines a nation from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered run the gamut — diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The Complete Polysyllabic Spree is Nick Hornby's wickedly funny journey through reading. This is not a book of reviews. This not a book that sneers at other books. This is a book about reading — about enjoying books wherever and however you find them. Nick Hornby, author of the bestsellers About a Boy and Fever Pitch — takes us on a hilarious and perceptive tour through the books he bought, the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Lesley Pearse, No.1 bestselling author of The Promise and Belle is back with Survivor, the story of Mariette, a born fighter. It is 1938 and headstrong eighteen-year-old Mari Carrera leaves a gossipy small town in rural New Zealand aboard the SS Rimutaka. Rather too careless with her reputation, Mari is bound for the bustling anonymity of London — but she is all too willing to be seduced by the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Mark Twain's great American masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American…