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Glen Cook: Sweet Silver Blues

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: It should have been a simple job. But for Garrett, a human detective in a world of gnomes, tracking down the woman to whom his dead pal Danny left a fortune in silver is no slight task. Even with the aid of Morley, the toughest half-elf around, Garrett isn't sure he'll make it out alive from a land where magic can be murder, the dead still talk, and vampires are always hungry for human blood.

Carle Eric: The Very Busy Spider

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: With over 300,000 copies sold since its publication in 1985, The Very Busy Spider is well on its way to becoming a modern classic. The raised lines for the spider, its web, and an unsuspecting fly allow both sighted and visually impaired children to follow the action. Full color.

Campbell Rod: Dear Zoo

Скачать книгу (размер 95 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 20) Аннотация: What kind of pet would you like from the zoo? An elephant, a lion, a snake — or something a bit smaller, and cuddlier and playful? Lift the flaps and see what has been sent — it's bound to be a surprise! And just when you think they'll never get it right, they send the very best, most perfect pet of all... With a bestselling lift-the-flap book for more than twenty-five years, Dear Zoo is a…

Rand Ayn: The Virtue of Selfishness

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Ayn Rand here sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds man's life — the life proper to a rational being — as the standards of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man's nature, with the creative requirements of his survival, and with a free society.

Boyd William: The New Confessions

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: The New Confessions is the outrageous, extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreaking autobiography of John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth century. An often magnificent feat of story-telling and panoramic reconstruction... John James Todd's reminiscences carry us through the ups and downs of a long and lively career that…

Smith Dodie: The 101 Dalmatians

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: When the Dearly's dalmatians have their first litter of puppies — fifteen in all — everyone is delighted. But their joy is shattered when the pups are kidnapped! The humans don't have a clue as to who the culprit is, but the smartest dogs in London are on the case — and on the trail of the fur-loving Cruella de Vil, who will stop at nothing to have a Dalmatian fur coat!

Turgenev Ivan: First Love

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: When the down-at-heel Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich's parents, he instantly and overwhelmingly falls in love with his new neighbour's daughter, Zinaida. But the capricious young woman already has many admirers and as she plays her suitors against each other, Vladimir's unrequited youthful passion soon turns to torment and despair — although he…

Heinlein Robert A.: Starship Troopers

Скачать книгу (размер 1 335 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 263) Аннотация: «Starship Troopers» is a classic novel by one of science fiction's greatest writers of all time and is now a Tri-Star movie. In one of Heinlein's most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the universe -- and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind's most frightening enemy.»

Heinlein Robert A.: Stranger in Strange Land

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Here at last is the complete, uncut version of Heinlein's all-time masterpiece, the brilliant novel that grew from a cult favorite to a bestseller to a classic in a few short years. It is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, the man from Mars who taught humankind grokking and water-sharing. And love.

Schwarzenegger Arnold: Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding

Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: Here for the first time in one volume are all the basic and revolutionary concepts on exercise, training principles, contest preparation, diet and nutrition that have evolved into modern bodybuilding from the man who stands at the forefront of the sport. The Encyclopaedia of modern bodybuilding will answer every question any dedicated bodybuilder of bodybuilding enthusiast could ever think to…

T. H. White: Once and Future King

Скачать книгу (размер 3 252 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 639) Аннотация: «A novel about the court of King Arthur, which was the basis for the movie «Camelot».»

King Stephen: Skeleton Crew

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: In this brilliant collection of twenty-two stories, Stephen King takes readers down paths that only he could imagine...

Eric Carle: The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Mini Book)

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: One sunny Sunday, the caterpillar was hatched out of a tiny egg. He was very hungry. On Monday, he ate through one apple; on Tuesday, he ate through three plums--and still he was hungry. Strikingly bold, colorful pictures and a simple text in large, clear type tell the story of a hungry little caterpillar's progress through an amazing variety and quantity of foods. Full at last, he made a cocoon…

Astrid Lindgren: Ronia, the Robber's Daughter

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Ronia, who lives with her father and his band of robbers in a castle in the woods, causes trouble when she be friends the son of a rival robber chieftain.

Roth Philip: Goodbye, Columbus

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Philip Roth won the National Book Award for Goodbye, Columbus, the story which gives this collection of stories its title. The story traces the love relationship of Neil, a young college boy, and Brenda, the spoilt but love-starved daughter of a wealthy manufacturer.

Follett Ken: The Key to Rebecca

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «His code name: «The Sphinx». His mission: to send Rommel's advancing army the secrets that would unlock the doors to Cairo... and the ultimate Nazi triumph in the war. And in all of Cairo, only two people could stop this brilliant and ruthless Nazi master agent. One was a down-on-his-luck English officer no one would listen to. The other was a young Jewish girl...»

Shakespeare William: Richard II

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The times have forced changes in the way we look at Richard II more than any other of Shakespeare's plays. What to his contemporaries was a balanced dramatisation of the central political and constitutional issue of the time, how to cope with an unjust ruler, has in the last century or so been translated into the poetic fall of a tragic hero.

Astrid Ericsson Lindgren: Pippi Goes on Board

Скачать книгу (размер 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 140) Аннотация: Outrageous Pippi Longstocking of Villa Villekulla has no parents around and no rules to follow, so she lives according to her own daredevilish ways. She has been treating her friends Tommy and Annika to wild adventures, too — like buying, and eating, seventy-two pounds of candy on a shopping trip, or sailing off to an island in the middle of a lake to show them what it's like to be shipwrecked.…

Stoutenberg Adrien: American Tall Tales

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Here are the most robust characters in American legend. Told by a poet with a poet's ear for the impact of words, these American mavericks walk and talk accross the pages in a free, wide way, as they walked and talked accross the free, wide America of pioneer days.

Robert B. Parker: The Godwulf Manuscript

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: For Spenser, that most unorthodox of private detectives, no case is ever straightforward and the theft of a 14th-century illuminated manuscript proves no exception. His investigation soon leads him into organized crime, dope-pushing, theft, radical politics, adultery and murder.