Скачать книгу (размер 4 481 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 880) Аннотация: Full-color guide • Make your trip to England unforgettable with illustrated features, maps, and color photos. Customize your trip with simple planning tools • Convenient overview of each region and its highlights • Top experiences & attractions • Practical advice for getting around • Easy-to-read color regional maps Explore London, the Cotswolds, Cornwall, and beyond • Discerning Fodor’s Choice…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: July 2012: The Games have arrived in London. Preparations have gone flawlessly and the stage is set for one of the greatest ever showcases of sporting excellence. But one man has a devastating plan. Having waited years for this chance, he is now ready for vengeance. When Sir Denton Marshall, a key member of the London Olympic organising committee, is found decapitated in his garden, Peter Knight,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: No artist offered a more incisive and accurate portrait of the troubled landscape of the 1970s than David Bowie. Through his multi-faceted and inventive work, he encapsulated many of the social, political and cultural themes that ran through this most fascinating of decades, from the elusive promise of scientific progress to the persistent fear of apocalypse that stalked the globe. In The Man Who…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: A man with no eyes. No eyes at all. Two tunnels in his head... It's not easy being a witch, and it's certainly not all whizzing about on broomsticks, but Tiffany Aching — teen witch — is doing her best. Until something evil wakes up, something that stirs up all the old stories about nasty old witches, so that just wearing a pointy hat suddenly seems a very bad idea. Worse still, this evil ghost…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet ...That's the old story everyone knows and loves. But now the Carpet is home to many different tribes and peoples and there's a new story in the making. The story of Fray, sweeping a trail of destruction across the Carpet. The story of power-hungry mouls — and of two Munrung brothers, who set out on an amazing…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: In Atlanta, Charlie Cortez MD diagnoses his mistress with an unknown neurodegenerative disease that is inducing violent and bloody psychosis. The apparent cause? Consumption of infected human flesh... In Vienna, Dr. Reeta Kapoor, eminent anthropologist, is forced to travel to a remote Indian archipelago in order to rescue her brother — he has become embroiled in a plot to thwart the colonization…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Four teenagers find the mutilated corpse of a young girl stuffed into a dumpster in an Edinburgh alleyway. Who is she? Where did she come from? Who killed her and why? Above all, where is the baby to which she has obviously recently given birth? Inspector Rob Brennan, recently back from psychiatric leave, is still shocked by the senseless shooting of his only brother. His superiors think that the…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Nina, the littlest elf in Santa's workshop, doesn't finish the teddy bear she's making in time for it to get loaded onto Santa's sleigh — but, encouraged by Santa Claus himself to not give up, she works far into the night to finish it. While Santa is out delivering presents, a baby is born. Santa comes back for Nina's now — finished bear — and guess who he takes along to deliver it?
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: The final part of the Langani Trilogy is a breathtaking story of friendship and love set against the backdrop of 20th-century Kenya Fourteen years after independence, the enduring childhood friendship of three women has carried them through times of violence and loss in Kenya, their chosen homeland. Hannah Olsen and her husband Lars own Langani Farm and Safari Lodge where they struggle to protect…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: It all starts here! Dark Horse is proud to re-present the beginning of Eric Powell's acclaimed Goon saga, with a lavish new cover and redesigned to match the swanky Goon Year collections. The Goon's unique mash-up of horror, mob intrigue, and the sickest sense of humor in comics is an instant classic, one of the true breakout hits of the '00s. With new volumes of The Goon hitting stores…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Dr. Seuss's Fox in Socks has been troubling tongues — and garnering giggles — since 1965. Written specifically to be read aloud, it features a tricky fox in socks and the progressively more difficult tongue-twisting games he plays on his exasperated friend Mr. Knox. Now available for the first time in an abridged, sturdy, board book edition, this beloved classic will have babies of all ages…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: «In a remote, piney wood in Finland stands a convalescent hospital called Suvanto, a curving concrete example of austere Scandinavian design. It is the 1920s, and the patients, all women, seek relief from ailments real and imagined. On the lower floors are the stoic Finnish women; on the upper floors are foreign women of privilege — the «up-patients». They are tended to by head nurse Sunny…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Back in 1957, Theodor Geisel responded to an article in Life magazine that lamented the use of boring reading primers in schools. Using the pseudonym of Dr. Seuss (Seuss was Geisel's middle name) and only two hundred twenty-three words, Geisel created a replacement for those dull primers: The Cat in the Hat. The instant success of the book prompted Geisel and his wife to found Beginner Books, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Adelia Aguilar is a rare thing in medieval Europe — a woman who has trained as a doctor. Her speciality is the study of corpses, a skill that must be concealed if she is to avoid accusations of witchcraft. But in Cambridge a child has been murdered, others are disappearing, and King Henry has called upon a renowned Italian investigator to find the killer — fast. What the king gets is Adelia, his…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Night Shift — Stephen King's first collection of stories — is an early showcase of the depths that King's wicked imagination could plumb. In these 20 tales, we see mutated rats gone bad ( Graveyard Shift ); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity ( Night Surf, the basis for The Stand ); a smoker who will try anything to stop ( Quitters, Inc. ); a reclusive alcoholic who begins a gruesome…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Four presidents of the United States have been assassinated—in 1865, 1881, 1901, and 1963 — each murder seemingly unrelated. But what if those presidents were all killed for the shocking same reason: a clause contained in the United States Constitution? This question is what faces former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone. When President Danny Daniels is nearly killed in the heart of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Want to give a gift that will make a lasting impression? This boxed set of five beloved Beginner Books by Dr. Seuss — The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, Dr. Seuss's ABC, Oh Say Can You Say?, Oh the Thinks You Can Think!, and I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! — is perfect for new parents, birthday celebrations, and happy occaisions of all kinds. Ideal for reading aloud or reading alone, it will be…
Скачать книгу (размер 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 140) Аннотация: Everything is over for Simon Axler. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent and his assurance. When he goes on stage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can't persuade him to make a comeback. In this long days journey into night, told with Roths inimitable…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of his extraordinary life; from the long nightmare of the Nazi era to his anarchic adventures is post-war Germany.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: While you wait for the next exciting installment in the Alex Cross series, I, Alex Cross (published November 2009 by Century), get your hands on a new book written by Alex Cross himself! Ben Corbett is a brilliant young lawyer in early-twentieth-century Washington DC. Yet he is a disappointment to his wife and father, who believe he wastes his talents by doing poorly-paid and thankless work…