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Gray Kes: Daisy and the Trouble with Life

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: In Daisy's guide to life, nothing is quite black and white. The trouble with life is it's so not fair. The trouble with Mums is that you can't swap them for other mums when you need to. And the trouble with being grounded is it's so boring. You absolutely can't go anywhere at all. No hopping jumping, flying or parachuting... Daisy's got ever so much time to think about what she's done. Really, it…

Dante Alighieri: Vintage Sin: Inferno and Sabbath's Theater

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: «Vintage Sin» is a limited edition gift pack which consists of beautifully designed separate volumes of «Inferno» by Dante and Philip Roth's shocking novel, «Sabbath's Theater.» «Vintage Sin» is just one of ten «Vintage Classic Twins» to collect. Each twin consists of two books: a specially designed limited edition of one modern classic title and one established classic work. The books in each…

Laurell K. Hamilton: Mistral's Kiss

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The time has come for Meredith Gentry to put aside her detective work and fulfill her ultimate obligation to the world of Faerie where her efforts to conceive an heir to the throne of the Unseelie Court are crucial to restoring magic, and life itself, to the fey kingdom in this fifth volume of Hamiltons bestselling series.

Nathan Englander: The Ministry of Special Cases

Скачать книгу (размер 2 105 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 414) Аннотация: The long-awaited novel from Nathan Englander, author of „For the Relief of Unbearable Urges“, which won the 2000 Pen/Malamud Award.

Edward Rutherfurd: Ireland: Awakening

Скачать книгу (размер 4 808 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 944) Аннотация: «Following the critically acclaimed success of «Dublin», this riveting sequel takes the story of Ireland from the seventeenth century onwards, picking up at the Reformation, and with it, the devastating arrival of Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell heralds the inauguration of two hundred years of Protestant dominance, throughout which many of the Irish people were impoverished and dispossessed. Dublin is…

Wladimir Kaminer: Ich bin kein Berliner: Ein Reiseführer für faule Touristen

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Der bekannteste und beliebtest Berliner führt durch seine Stadt – ein Reiseführer der anderen Art. Es gibt derzeit wohl kaum einen bekannteren Berliner als Wladimir Kaminer. Und keinen, der geeigneter wäre, die Stadt einem Touristen in all ihren Facetten vorzustellen. Von einer kurzen Einführung in die Berliner Historie über Geschichten zu Sehenswürdigkeiten am…

Philip K. Dick: Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Скачать книгу (размер 1 345 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 265) Аннотация: «It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignmet — find them and then...»retire» them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!»

Ian McEwan: Atonement

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia…

Naomi Moriyama: The Japan Diet

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: «Raised in Tokyo, author Naomi Moriyama first travelled to the West as a college student, and promptly gained 25 pounds eating a typical Western diet. Returning home for the holidays, she found that the weight melted off as she reverted to the healthy diet of her homeland. The experience inspired her first book «Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat». Healthy and effective, «The Japan Diet» is…

Naomi Moriyama: Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In Japan, people live longer than anywhere else on Earth; obesity is virtually unknown, and 40-year-old women look like they’re 20. The secret: Japanese homestyle cooking, and an approach to eating that is not about self-deprivation, but about celebrating and savouring food. Raised in Tokyo and on her grandparents' mountainside farm, author Naomi Moriyama first travelled to the West as a college…

Weir Alison: The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: «One of the most powerful monarchs in British history, Henry VIII ruled England in unprecedented splendour. In this remarkable composite biography, Alison Weir brings Henry's six wives vividly to life, revealing each as a distinct and compelling personality in her own right. Drawing upon the rich fund of documentary material from the Tudor period, «The Six Wives of Henry VIII» shows us a court…

Winn Christopher: I Never Knew That About Wales

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Take a spellbinding journey around Wales to discover the tales buried deep in the country's history. Packed full of legends, firsts, birthplaces, inventions and adventures, I Never Knew That About Wales visits the thirteen traditional Welsh counties and unearths the hidden gems that they each hold. Discover where history and legends happened; where people, ideas and inventions began; where dreams…

Wilson Jacqueline: Vicky Angel

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: You look as if you've seen a ghost!' Jade is so used to living in the shadow of Vicky, her loud, confident best friend, that when a tragic accident occurs, she can hardly believe that Vicky's no longer around. But Vicky's a sparky girl who's not going to let a small thing like being dead stop her from living life to the full! Whether Jade is in lessons, out running or tentatively trying to make…

Irene Nemirovsky: Le Bal

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: «Le Bal» depicts the life of the Kampfs who, having recently gone up in the world thanks to luck with the stock decide to throw a ball in order to launch themselves into society. Their daughter Antoinette, who has just turned fourteen, dreams of attending. But Madame Kampf is resolved not to present her daughter, already so grown up, to her admirers. Instead, Antoinette is forced to sleep in the…

Jacqueline Wilson: The Diamond Girls

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Dixie is the youngest of the Diamond family. She and her sisters, dreamy Martine, glamorous Rochelle and tough Jude, could hardly be more different from each other but their Mum's tried to teach them the value of sticking together. Now Mum's expecting yet another baby and she's convinced this one's a boy. Time to move to a bigger place, she insists, and the girls scarcely have time to protest…

John Grisham: The Brethren

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Trumble is a minimum security federal prison, home to an assortment of criminals, including three former judges. When one of their scams goes awry, it ensnares the wrong victim, an innocent on the outside, a man with dangerous friends.

Anne Tyler: Digging to America

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: «Friday August 15th, 1997 — The night the girls arrived, two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. First there are the Donaldsons, decent Brad and homespun, tenacious Bitsy (with her 'more organic than thou' airs, who believes fervently that life can always be improved), two full sets of grandparents and a host of big-boned, confident…

Mark Twain: The Prince and the Pauper

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: «Rich with surprise and hilarious adventure, “The Prince And The Pauper” is a delight satire of England's romantic past and a joyful boyhood romp filled with the same tongue-in-cheek irony that sparked the best of Mark Twain's tall tales. Two boys, one an urchin from London's filthy lanes, the other a prince born in a lavish palace, unwittingly trade identities. Thus a bedraggled «Prince of…

John Birmingham: Final Impact Axis of Time, Book 3

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: «The third and final novel in Birminghams World War II alternate history trilogy. Its like a Clive Cussler novel fell into a transporter beam with a Stephen Ambrose history, and they came out all fused together. — «TIME» magazine.»

Randall Victoria: A Pony in the Picture: Vintage Portraits of Children and Ponies

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Children everywhere have always loved ponies. Those lucky enough to grow up with horses invariably recall them as the keepers of their happiest childhood memories. But for most, a brief ride on a rented pony was the closest they would ever get to a horse of their own. A PONY IN THE PICTURE is an endearing collection of antique and vintage photographs of children posing proudly with ponies and…