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Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: This is the story of Bathsheba Everdene, who inherits her uncle's farm, then surprises the villagers of Weatherbury by deciding to run it herself rather than hire a manager. Three men vie for the affections of this independent young woman.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: From Lizzie Mary Cullen, the illustrator behind hit colouring book The Magical City, comes a brand new treat for the winter. Settle down by the fire and immerse yourself in this mesmerising new colouring book for adults and children alike. Join celebrations across the world and throughout the years, from skating at the Rockefeller Center to surfing in Sydney and frost fairs on the Thames to…
Скачать книгу (размер -1 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1) Аннотация: With striking new jackets and a new slipcase, all adorned with Quentin Blake's timeless illustrations, this 15-book collection brings together all of Roald Dahl's classic children's novels. Stories that have shocked, excited, entertained and delighted generations of children, this great value collection includes the likes of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG and Fantastic Mr…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: 'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.' Written with barely controlled fury after she was confined to her room for 'nerves' and forbidden to write, Gilman's pioneering feminist horror story scandalized nineteenth-century readers with its portrayal of a woman who loses her mind because she has literally nothing to do. Introducing…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Lou Clark has lots of questions. Like how it is she's ended up working in an airport bar, spending every shift watching other people jet off to new places. Or why the flat she's owned for a year still doesn't feel like home. Whether her close-knit family can forgive her for what she did eighteen months ago. And will she ever get over the love of her life. What Lou does know for certain is that…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: When two young girls go missing in rural Herefordshire, police constable and wizard-in-training Peter Grant is sent out of London to check that nothing supernatural is involved. It’s purely routine—Nightingale, Peter’s superior, thinks he’ll be done in less than a day. But Peter’s never been one to walk away from someone in trouble, so when nothing overtly magical turns up he volunteers his…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 390 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 470) Аннотация: Surfing an online dating site, NYPD detective Kat Donovan feels her whole world explode. Staring back at her is her ex-fiancé, the man who shattered her heart—and whom she hasn’t seen in eighteen years. But when Kat reaches out to the man in the profile, an unspeakable conspiracy comes to light. As Kat begins to investigate, her feelings are challenged about everyone she’s ever loved—even…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Love, Tanya is the first book from YouTube sensation Tanya Burr. Hi everyone and welcome to Love, Tanya! This book is really close to my heart, because it's inspired by my journey to becoming confident and feeling happy about who I am. I wanted to write a book to share the things I've learnt with you — to reveal my top tips on fashion, beauty, love, friendship, YouTube... and loads more! Plus,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts weaves together passion and obsession, humor and heart, in a novel of two people opening themselves up to the truth — and to each other. For more than three hundred years, Bluff House has sat above Whiskey Beach, guarding its shore — and its secrets. But to Eli Landon, it's home. A Boston lawyer, Eli has weathered an intense year of public…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: What Could Possibly Go Wrong... is the sixth book in Jeremy Clarkson's bestselling The World According to Clarkson series. No one writes about cars like Jeremy Clarkson. While most correspondents are too buys diving straight into BHP, MPG and MPH, Jeremy appreciates that there are more important things to life. Don't worry, we'll get to the cars. Eventually. But first we should consider: The case…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: 'Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was a groan of mortal terror... the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul.' Stories about murder, mystery and madness, portraying the author's feverish imagination at its creative height. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Boyfriend by Christmas is a hilarious and romantic novel about bad dates, perpetual optimism and what it's really like to be alone at the most wonderful time of the year. It's bad enough to be perpetually single, without also being the dating journalist for a major lifestyle website. And Genie Havisham has just been set her toughest deadline yet: find a boyfriend by Christmas or find a new job.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Forty-one-year-old geneticist Don Tillman had never had a second date before he met Rosie. Now, living in New York City, they have survived ten months and ten days of marriage, even if Don has had to sacrifice standardized meals and embrace unscheduled sex. But then Rosie drops the mother of all bombshells. And Don must prepare for the biggest challenge of his previously ordered life — while…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: In this brilliant and original book, James Wallman explains and analyses why Stuffocation is the most pressing problem of our time — and then goes in search of its solution. On the way, he goes down the halls of the Elysee Palace with Nicolas Sarkozy, up in a helicopter above Barbra Streisand's house on the California coast, and into the world of the original Mad Men. Through fascinating…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Limonov is not a fictional character, but he could have been. He's lived a hundred lives. He was a hoodlum in Ukraine, an idol of the Soviet underground, punk-poet and valet to a billionaire in Manhattan, fashion writer in Paris, lost soldier in the Balkans, and now, in the chaos after the fall of communism a charismatic party leader of a gang of political desperados.
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: In this collection of essays from 1969-2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky exposes the real nature of state power. With unrelenting logic, he holds the arguments of empire up to critical examination and shatters the myths of those who protect the power and privilege of the few against the interests and needs to the many. Covering subjects like Human Intelligence and the…
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