Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Huckle Cat, Lowly Worm, and their Busytown friends star in Richard Scarry's Best Little Word Book Ever! Illustrated in Scarry's signature style, it offers over two hundred names for objects both familiar and new, grouped by subject, theme, and setting. This book is perfect for reinforcing a child's knowledge of the world and further expanding his or her universe.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: After coming home at the end of World War II, Walter Mosca finds himself too restless for his civilian role in America. So he returns to Germany to find the woman he had once loved — and to start some kind of life in a vanquished country. But ahead of Walter stretches a dark landscape of defeat and intrigue, as he succumbs to the corrupting influences of a malevolent time. Now he enters a…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson return to the vivid universe of Frank Herbert’s Dune, bringing a vast array of rich and complex characters into conflict to shape the destiny of worlds.... As Shaddam sits at last on the Golden Lion Throne, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen plots against the new Emperor and House Atreides — and against the mysterious Sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit. For Leto Atreides,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: «To Don Raymonde Aprile's children he was a loyal family member, their father's adopted «nephew». To the FBI he was a man who would rather ride his horses than do Mob business. No one knew why Aprile, the last great American Don, had adopted Astorre Viola many years before in Sicily; no one suspected how he had carefully trained him... and how, while the Don's children claimed respectable careers…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual--though, as she maintained, a virgin — Elizabeth I is famed as England's most successful ruler. David Starkey's brilliant new biography concentrates on Elizabeth's formative years — from her birth in 1533 to her accession in 1558 — and shows how the experiences of danger and adventure formed her…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Crippled and disconsolate, sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. Yet that is when she miraculously meets and talks with the Blessed Virgin as though she were her own mother. But in the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, the Church is apt to take a serious view of such an ostentatious claim. The last of Maugham's novels,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: «April 1193. England's King Richard Lionheart languishes in a German prison, and treason scents the air. Richard's younger brother, John, seizes Windsor Castle, and Dowager Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine summons her trusted personal «queen's man», Justin de Quincy, to do the impossible — mediate a truce with her rebel son. Amid such fateful events, the murder of a Welsh peddler's daughter seems…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: After Mario Puzo wrote his internationally acclaimed The Godfather, he has often been imitated but never equaled. Puzo's classic novel, The Sicilian, stands as a cornerstone of his work — a lushly romantic, unforgettable tale of bloodshed, justice, and treachery...The year is 1950. Michael Corleone is nearing the end of his exile in Sicily. The Godfather has commanded Michael to bring a young…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The 15th novel in the bestselling series finds Kinsey Milhone investigating why her ex-husband Mickey, the man she left years ago after his implication in a fatal beating, lies dying in an L.A. hospital. Kinsey uncovers evidence that Mickey was innocent of the beating charge, but as she searches those in Mickey's life, she must also search the blind spots of her own life, including one that hides…
Скачать книгу (размер 218 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 44) Аннотация: The Cat in the Hat takes children to the Feeling Great Clinic, where they learn about exercise, germs, healthy eating, and playing safely.
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: With the able assistance of Thing 1 and Thing 2 — and a fleet of Rube Goldbergian vehicles — the Cat in the Hat examines various parts of plants, seeds and flowers; basic photosynthesis and pollination; and seed dispersal.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. And the third, for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Grendel prowled in, hating all men and all joy and hungry for human life. So swift was his attack that no man heard an outcry; but when the dawn came, thirty of Hothgar's best and noblest thanes were missing. Only Beowulf, foremost among warriors, has the strength and courage to battle with Grendel the Night-stalker. In this thrilling re-telling of the Anglo-Saxon legend, Rosemary Sutcliff…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Humphrey Van Weyden, rescued by the crew of the Ghost, becomes an unwilling sailor under the command of Wolf Larsen.
Скачать книгу (размер 126 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 26) Аннотация: A perfect introduction to reading Spanish! Simple English words and sentences are introduced by pictures. Then the words and sentences are translated into Spanish with the translation of the featured word in capital letters. It's that easy. And for the child who wants to go further — a two-page, basic key to the pronunciation of the language. Great for introducing Spanish to English-speaking…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: «With her bestselling mystery series featuring Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell, Laurie R. King has created «lively adventure in the very best of intellectual company», according to The New York Times Book Review. Now the author of «The Beekeeper's Apprentice» and «The Moor» — the first writer since Patricia Cornwell to win both the American Edgar and British Creasey Awards for a debut novel (A…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A celebrated writer by the time the war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the Secret Service to Lucerne — under the guise of completing a play. An assignment whose danger and drama appealed both to his sense of romance and of the ridiculous. The stories collected in ASHENDEN are rooted in Maugham's own experiences as an agent, reflecting the ruthlessness and brutality of…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Bring your child's classroom with the wonderfully imaginative Step-Ahead series. Proven educational methods reinforce what is taught in preschool through the elementary grades. Simple instructions, delightful graphics, and fun-to-do activities, such as this book with peel-and-stick stickers, motivate your child to master skills and turn the page for more.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The photographs by Annie Leibovitz in Women, taken especially for the book, encompass a broad spectrum of subjects: a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie stars, showgirls, rodeo riders, socialites, reporters, dancers, a maid, a general, a surgeon, the First Lady of the United States, the secretary of state, a senator, rock stars, prostitutes,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: This collection of Somerset Maugham's short stories includes stories based in England, France and Spain, as well as the South Pacific. It includes Rain, the tradgedy of a missionary and a prostitute and The Three Fat Women of Antibes, a sardonic tale of abstention and greed.