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Milne A.A.: Winnie-the-Pooh's ABC

Скачать книгу (размер 126 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 26) Аннотация: Learning the alphabet is more fun when the setting is the Hundred Acre Wood. Familiar scenes from the Milne and Shepard classics introduce not only the concepts of letters and words, but also Pooh and his friends. This sturdy board book with an elegant, timeless look has been designed to attract the most discerning Pooh fans and to delight their favorite toddlers.

Arnold Tedd: More Parts

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Give me a hand... hold your tongue... scream your lungs out... what's a kid to do if he wants to keep all his body parts in place? Well, one thing is for sure, he'll have to be creative. Like, if you want to keep your heart from breaking, just make sure it's well padded and protected by tying a pillow around your chest. Want to keep your hands attached? Simple-stick them on with gloves and lots…

King Stephen: Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Roland, the world’s last gunslinger, tracks an enigmatic Man in Black toward a forbidding dark tower, fighting forces both mortal and other-worldly on his quest.

Ahlberg Allan: The Improbable Cat

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: The story begins when a seemingly harmless kitten limps into the Burrell family's garden. The kitten gets bigger and bigger and soon the family, apart from the narrator David, are in thrall to the creature. They slowly descend into squalor and sloth as they are sucked into the service of the enormous black cat that has taken over their lives. Eventually David breaks the spell and sends in a pack…

King Stephen: Dark Tower III: Waste Lands

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Roland, The Last Gunslinger, moves ever closer to The Dark Tower of his dreams-and nightmares-as he crosses a desert of damnation in a macabre world that is a twisted image of our own...

Charlaine Harris: Club Dead

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Sookie's boyfriend has been very distant-in another state, distant. Now she's off to Mississippi to mingle with the underworld at Club Dead-a little haunt where the vampire elite go to chill out. But when she finally finds Bill — caught in an act of betrayal — she's not sure whether to save him...or sharpen some stakes.

Evelyn Waugh: Decline and Fall

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Sent down from Oxford in outrageous circumstances, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot…

Chekhov Anton Pavlovich: Selected Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 1 539 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 303) Аннотация: One of the great masters of the short story, Tolstoy called Chekhov an incomparable artist of life, who wrote about the everyday world with humor, insight, and honesty.

Sue Grafton: Q Is for Quarry

Скачать книгу (размер 1 784 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 351) Аннотация: «The #1 «New York Times» bestseller, based on an unsolved homicide that occurred in 1969, is now available in paperback. Revisiting the past can be a dangerous business, and what begins with the pursuit of Jane Doe's real identity ends in a high-risk hunt for her killer.»

Armstrong John: Conditions of Love

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: What does it really mean to love another person? Is there such a thing as the perfect partner? How does infatuation differ from the real thing? The need to love and be loved is central to our idea of happiness, yet it sometimes seems that the more we reflect on it the more elusive it becomes. In this lucid and graceful meditation on the deeper meanings of intimacy, John Armstrong explores the…

Gibson William: Neuromancer

Скачать книгу (размер 1 376 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 271) Аннотация: Case was the sharpest data thief in the Matrix, until an ex-employer crippled his nervous system. Now a new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run against an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a mirror-eyed girl street-samurai riding shotgun, he's ready for the silicon-quick, bleakly prophetic adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction.

Macdonald Hector: The Mind Game

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Northing should be this good. Three weeks on the Keniyan coast with the gorgeous Cara and a part in a cutting-edge experiment on the human mind for Oxford's hottest researcher. But now Ben Ashurst has been humiliated, betrayed and abandoned to the brutal reality of Africa. Why? Is Ben being played for a fool, or is he in real danger& A nerve-stretching thriller of deceit and manipulation, this is…

Carle Eric: My Own Very Hungry Caterpillar: Coloring Book

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Now available for the first time as a coloring book, Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar will delight children as they bring their own imagination to this classic story. Including a new introduction by Eric Carle, as well as blank pages at the end of the book for your own pictures, this is the perfect way to turn story time into coloring time. At the same time interactive and timeless, this…

Hill Eric: Where's Spot? Board book

Скачать книгу (размер 55 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 12) Аннотация: Already available in board book format, this very first Spot book now has a brand-new cover in a fresh, vibrant color that makes it jump off the shelf.

Fletcher Jessica: Majoring in Murder

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Celebrity mystery writer Jessica Fletcher is riding out Schoolman College's first tornado in over sixty years. As a visiting professor, she is there to teach a creative writing class. But after two men choose to brave the tornado rather than take shelter and one of them is found dead-Jessica wonders if her darkest suspicions are strictly academic.

Stevenson Robert Louis: The Black Arrow

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: In this swashbuckling novel, by the author of Treasure Island, young Dick Shelton is left orphaned. So he seeks the help of the mysterious Black Arrow fellowship. Brimming with adventure and suspense, this is a portrait of England during the War of the Roses, when many, like Dick, were torn between their loyalties.

Murdoch Iris: The Black Prince

Скачать книгу (размер 2 074 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 408) Аннотация: «Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by his melancholic sister, who has decided to come live with him; his ex-wife, who has infuriating hopes of redeeming the past; her…

Dickens Charles: Hard Times

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from any young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of humanity' Mr Bounderby, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in gambling and robbery. And, as…

Maeve Binchy: Quentins

Скачать книгу (размер 2 482 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 488) Аннотация: Is it possible to tell the story of a generation and a city through the history of a restaurant? Ella Brady thinks so. She wants to film a documentary about Quentins that will capture the spirit of Dublin from the 1970s to the present day. And Quentins has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love, of betrayal, of revenge; of times when it looked ready for success and times when it seemed as if…

Mark Roseman: The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: On 20 January 1942, the most murderous meeting in history took place. Chaired by Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most feared men in Germany, it summoned top Nazi officials to a grand villa on the shore of Berlin’s Lake Wannsee in order to clarify ‘the Final Solution of the Jewish question’. They ate good food, drank cognac and smoked cigars – and in less than two hours had effectively sentenced six…