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Clancy Tom: Threat Vector

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: For Jack Ryan, Jr., and his comrades at the covert organization known as The Campus, the fight against America's enemies is never over. But the danger has just hit home in a way they never expected... The Campus has been discovered. And whoever knows they exist knows they can be destroyed. Meanwhile, President Jack Ryan has been swept back into the Oval Office — and his wisdom and courage are…

Kunzru Hari: Transmission

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: There's a message in your inbox. Then, a few moments later, your computer crashes. Leela Zahir, Bollywood actress and temperamental star, is being catapulted from the fringes of fame into a million inboxes. Arjun Mehta, computer geek, looks up from his screen to find that he does, after all, have a role to play in the world. Guy Swift, marketing executive with his own agency, a beautiful…

Armitage Simon: The White Stuff

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Abbie Fenton wants a baby. Her husband Felix, not unaware of the thunderous ticking of Abbie's biological clock, wants to oblige but their home has still to be blessed. Cue the usual round of doctors, tests, probes and scans all to no avail. So Abbie adopted at birth decides that if she can't have a child then she must at least discover whose child she is. Soon, she and Felix are caught up in a…

Foden Giles: Mimi and Toutou Go Forth: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: At the start of World War One, German warships controlled Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa. The British had no naval craft at all upon 'Tanganjikasee', as the Germans called it. This mattered: it was the longest lake in the world and of great strategic advantage. In June 1915, a force of 28 men was despatched from Britain on a vast journey. Their orders were to take control of the lake. To reach…

Neil Douglas-Klotz: Sufi Book of Life: 99 Pathways of the Heart for the Modern Dervish

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Taking the centuries-old form of a dervish handbook, a guide to life and love updated for the twenty-first century Part meditation book, part oracle and part collection of Sufi lore, poetry and stories, THE SUFI BOOK OF LIFE offers a fresh interpretation of the fundamental spiritual practice found in all ancient and modern Sufi schools — the meditations on the 99 Qualities of Unity. Unlike most…

Beall Pamela: Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: The bestselling Wee Sing line is now tailored for the most modern Wee Sing fans! These eight classic Wee Sing titles are now in a great new package book and CD in a reusable blister!

Maeve Binchy: Nights of Rain and Stars

Скачать книгу (размер 1 819 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 358) Аннотация: In a small Greek island village, a group of travelers from around the world and the local residents they encounter are brought together in unexpected ways when sudden tragedy strikes. In her inimitable style, Maeve Binchy shares with readers the lives of these strangers, learning their hopes, dreams, and fears as they move forward, forever changed by their experience. Here is the story of old…

Silva Daniel: A Death in Vienna

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to investigate a bombing and uncovers a portrait of evil stretching across sixty years and thousands of lives-and into his own personal nightmares.

Appelfeld Aharon: Badenheim, 1939

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: This beautiful novel opens on the eve of World War II as a group of middle-class Jews arrive in the resort town of Badenheim, somewhere in Austria, ready to spend another idyllic summer vacation. But Europe in 1939 is no vacationland. Rumours of war rumble into the resort town, but the characters struggle to convince themselves that everything is perfectly normal.

Nipp Susan Hagen: Wee Sing in the Car (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 315 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 63) Аннотация: The bestselling Wee Sing line is now tailored for the most modern Wee Sing fans! These eight classic Wee Sing titles are now in a great new package — a book and CD in a reusable blister!

Francis Dick: Second Wind

Скачать книгу (размер 1 325 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 261) Аннотация: When a hurricane-chasing plane is downed on a Caribbean island, TV meteorologist Perry Stuart barely escapes with his life. But he can't escape what he saw on the island — and if the people who've tracked him back to England have their way, Stuart will have a zero percent chance of survival.

Truman Capote: The Complete Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A complete collection of short fiction by one of the masters of twentieth-century American literature.

Eric Carle: Eric Carle's Opposites

Скачать книгу (размер 75 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 16) Аннотация: What s the opposite of ordinary? Eric Carle s Opposites! Unfold the full-page flaps to explore opposites with the art of Eric Carle. Short and tall, big and little, over and under!

Wells H.G.: The Time Machine

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have every reason to be…

Coe Jonathan: Expo 58

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk at the Central Office of Information and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Brittania, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo 58 — the biggest World's Fair of the century, and the first to be held since the Second World War. As soon as he arrives at…

Sun-Mi Hwang: The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: The 2-million-copy bestselling modern fable from Korea that is winning hearts around the world This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild — and to hatch an egg of her…

Moriarty Sinead: Me and My Sisters

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: There's more than one way of being a modern woman, not that the Devlin sisters would admit it... Harassed mum Julie used to be the easy-going one, but now she is struggling to keep sane. She needs support, but how could her sisters understand? After all, their lives are perfect. One drunken mistake is jeopardising everything lawyer Louise has worked so hard for. For a control freak like her,…

Donaldson Julia: The Gruffalo: Board book

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: «When Mouse takes a stroll through the woods, he meets a fox, an owl, and a snake who all want to eat him! So Mouse invents a gruffalo, a monster with «terrible tusks and terrible claws, terrible teeth, and terrible jaws.» But will Mouse's frightful description be enough to scare off his foes? After all, there's no such thing as a gruffalo . . . is there? Sturdy pages and a cozy trim make this…

Vogue: 100 Covers in a Box

Скачать книгу (размер 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 100) Аннотация: It is a collection of 100 postcards, each featuring a striking Vogue cover. From early aspirational illustrations to modern celebrity photography, this is a stunning selection of Vogue's most dazzling images. Since its launch in 1892, Vogue has brought sophistication to its readers around the world. Early illustrations from artists including George Wolfe Plank, Olive Tilton, Pierre Brissaud, and…

Roberts Nora: Northern Lights

Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: The colorful, compelling novel about two lonely souls who find love-and redemption-in Lunacy, Alaska.