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Penguin Elementary Speaking Skills

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: This book teaches elementary students how to say what they mean in correct, fluent and confident English for professional or personal reasons.

French Nicci: Beneath The Skin

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Zoe, Jennifer, and Nadia are three women with nothing in common. Except for the man who wants to kill them. He sends them terrifying letters, full of the intimate details of their lives — the clothes they wear, their little habits, how they act when they think they're alone — and promises that he will bring those lives to a violent, horrible end. But not before he has enjoyed himself. Invisible…

Grimm Tales: For Young and Old

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Paperback. Language: English Publisher: Penguin PressClassics In this beautiful book of classic fairy tales. award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in aclear as water retelling. in his unique and brilliant voice. From the quests and romance of classics such as Rapunzel. Snow White and Cinderella to the danger and wit of…

Flynn-Hui Kathleen: Beyond The Blonde

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Kathleen Flynn-Hui — hairdresser to the stars — takes readers behind the frosted glass panels of the top salons and into the glamorous and bitchy world of women (and men) who'd kill for a handful of honeyed highlights. Beyond the Blonde follows the fortunes of Georgia, a small-town girl with big-city ambitions as she makes her ascent to the position of colourist at one of the most exclusive…

Macbeth

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: An official tie-in edition of Shakespeare's great tragedy to accompany the major new film starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard. 'Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble' Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror — killing once, he…

Macbeth

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: An official tie-in edition of Shakespeare's great tragedy to accompany the major new film starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard. 'Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble' Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror — killing once, he…

Paris Mini Guide

Скачать книгу (размер 2 008 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 395) Аннотация: The Mini Rough Guide to Paris is your perfect companion to Europe’s most visited and romantic capital. The full-colour section introduces Paris'' highlights, with incisive accounts of all the top sights from the Eiffel Tower to the Marais quarter. You’ll find updated, incisive accounts of all the key attractions, expert reviews of the best hotels and restaurants, as well as expanded coverage of…

Gladwell: Blink

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: This book shows us how we can hone our instinctive ability to know in an instant helping us to bring out the best in our thinking and become better decision makers in our homes offices and in everyday life Gladwell reveals how the power of blink could fundamentally transform our relationships the way we consume create and communicate how we run our businesses an and even our societies Youll never…

Hornby N.: Funny Girl

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Make them laugh, and they're yours forever . . . It's the swinging 60s and the nation is mesmerized by unlikely comedy star Sophie Straw, the former Blackpool beauty queen who just wants to make people laugh, like her heroine Lucille Ball. Behind the scenes, the cast and crew are having the time of their lives. But when the script begins to get a bit too close to home, and life starts imitating…

A Map That Changed the World: The Tale of William Smith and the Birth of a Science

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: «Following the hugely successful hardback, this extraordinary tale of the father of modern geology looks set to be the non fiction paperback for 2002. Hidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map — the first geological map of anywhere in the world. Its maker was a farmer's son named William Smith. Born in 1769 his…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «Над кукушкиным гнездом» — роман Кена Кизи. Считается одним из главных литературных произведений движений битников и хиппи. Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel that epitomises the spirit of the sixties. This Penguin Classics edition includes a preface, never-before published…

The Rough Guide to New England

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The definitive handbook to one of the most scenic regions in the US. Includes detailed accounts of Boston and the region's seaside resorts, from Newport and Nantucket up to Bar Harbor. Packed with informed coverage on where to hike, ski, bike, camp and take best advantage of the outdoors, whether in New Hampshire's White Mountains or Maine's rural interior. Includes evocative extracts from great…

Wilde Oscar: The Complete Short Fiction

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: ‘He saw a most wonderful sight. Through a little hole in the wall the children had crept in … the trees were so glad to have the children back again that they had covered themselves with blossoms’ Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners – the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde’s name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in a wide…

Ballantyne R.M.: The Coral Island

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The famous tale of adventure, courage and loyalty in the South Seas. Fifteen-year-old Ralph, mischievous young Peterkin and clever, brave Jack are shipwrecked on a coral reef with only a telescope and a broken penknife between them. At first the island seems a paradise, with its plentiful foods and wealth of natural wonders. But then a party of cannibals arrives, and after that a pirate ship . . .

Eliot: Penguin English Library Silas Marner

Скачать книгу (размер 1 121 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 221) Аннотация: «The Penguin English Library Edition of Silas Marner by George Eliot «God gave her to me because you turned your back upon her, and He looks upon her as mine: you've no right to her!» Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money…

Moll Flanders: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: ‘I grew as impudent a Thief, and as dexterous as ever Moll Cut-Purse was’ Born and abandoned in Newgate Prison, Moll Flanders is forced to make her own way in life. She duly embarks on a career that includes husband-hunting, incest, bigamy, prostitution and pick-pocketing, until her crimes eventually catch up with her. One of the earliest and most vivid female narrators in the history of the…

Postcards from Penguin: One Hundred Book Covers in One Box: Cards

Скачать книгу (размер 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 100) Аннотация: A collection of 100 postcards, each featuring a different and iconic Penguin book jacket. From classics to crime, here are over seventy years of quintessentially British design in one box. In 1935 Allen Lane stood on a platform at Exeter railway station, looking for a good book for the journey to London. His disappointment at the poor range of paperbacks on offer led him to found Penguin Books.…

The Rough Guide to Walks in London and Southeast England

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: This guide uncovers a variety of walks both in and accessible from the capital. The city walks explore areas of London's rivers, canals and woodland, from Richmond to Camden. Outside of London there are accounts of both the established walks such as the Ridgeway and original routes taking readers to lesser-known areas of interest. All the routes include colourful background on places of interest…

French Nicci: Waiting for Wednesday

Скачать книгу (размер 2 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 552) Аннотация: Waiting For Wednesday by Nicci French is the thrilling third novel in the highly acclaimed Frieda Klein series.Ruth Lennox, beloved mother of three, is found by her daughter in a pool of her own blood. Who would want to murder an ordinary housewife? And why?Psychotherapist Frieda Klein finds she has an unusually personal connection with DCI Karlsson's latest case. She is no longer working with…

Spot's Noisy Peekaboo

Скачать книгу (размер 55 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 12) Аннотация: Spot is playing hide-and-seek with his friends. Lift the sturdy flaps and press the five noisy sound buttons to join in the peek-a-boo fun!