Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Some rabbits dream about lettuces and carrots, others dream of flowering meadows and juicy dandelions, but Ralfy dreams only of books. He doesn't just dream about them, he wants to read them ALL THE TIME. Soon his obsession sends him spiralling into a life of crime! A wonderfully funny story from a talented new author/illustrator.
Скачать книгу (размер 75 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 16) Аннотация: What happens when the miller's son meets Puss in Boots? Find out with this exciting activity book, bursting with colourful stickers and scenes from the story. Bloomsbury Activity Books provide hours of colouring, doodling, stickering and activity fun for boys and girls alike. Every book includes enchanting, bright and beautiful illustrations which children and parents will find very hard to…
Скачать книгу (размер 75 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 16) Аннотация: Will the Prince be able to break the spell over Sleeping Beauty? Find out with this magical activity book, bursting with colourful stickers and scenes from the story! Bloomsbury Activity Books is an exciting new Bloomsbury brand designed to provide hours of colouring, doodling, stickering and activity fun for boys and girls alike. Every book includes enchanting, bright and beautiful illustrations…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Araminta Spook is just like any girl. She likes bats, ghosts, werewolves and vampires. One of Araminta’s greatest ambitions is to see a ghost, and living in Spook House with her aunt and uncle there is a fair chance she will. Then her Aunt Tabitha drops a bombshell: they are moving. The boiler is a MENACE, plus there are a few other issues relating to dust and spiders. Tabitha is not going to…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: A young boy stumbles across a Punch and Judy show at the pier one day and thus enters a world of extraordinary magic. A story unfolds in which the boy is forced to confront family secrets, strange puppets and a nightmarish world of violence and betrayal in this dark fable of childhood and growing up.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Documentary-maker Aoyama hasn't dated anyone in the seven years since the death of his beloved wife, Ryoko. Now even his teenage son Shige has suggested he think about remarrying. So when his best friend Yoshikawa comes up with a plan to hold fake film auditions so that Aoyama can choose a new bride, he decides to go along with the idea. Of the thousands who apply, Aoyama only has eyes for…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit... At the heart of the deception was the Double Cross System, a team of double agents whose bravery, treachery, greed and inspiration succeeded in convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway, not Normandy, were the targets of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: A collection of recipes that includes traditional favourites like Eccles cakes, devilled kidneys, and seed cake with a glass of Madeira, as well as many St John classics for more adventurous gastronomes — roast bone marrow and parsley salad, deep-fried tripe and pot-roast half pig's head to name but a few.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 074 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 408) Аннотация: Until now, home cooking has remained stubbornly out of touch with technological development but Heston Blumenthal, the champion of the scientific kitchen, is set to change all that with his radical new book. With meticulous precision, he explains what the most effective techniques are and why they work. The first part of the book maps out the new techniques in 15 sections: 1) Taste and flavour 2)…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 620 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 319) Аннотация: Heston Blumenthal's TV series, In Search of Perfection, shown on BBC2 in autumn 2006, was so popular and successful that he has been commissioned for a second series this autumn. This book will accompany the series in the same way that Heston's first book, In Search of Perfection, complemented the original programme. It will examine a further eight classic dishes to find out how to cook them to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 691 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 529) Аннотация: In this beautiful, smaller format edition of the award-winning Big Fat Duck Cookbook, we hear the full story of the meteoric rise of Heston Blumenthal and The Fat Duck, birthplace of snail porridge and bacon-and-egg ice cream, and encounter the passion, perfection and weird science behind the man and the restaurant. Heston Blumenthal is widely acknowledged to be a genius, and The Fat Duck has…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: It is the 1970s in Northern California. A farmer and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work the land with the help of Coop, the enigmatic young man who lives with them. Theirs' is a makeshift family, until they are riven by an incident of violence — of both hand and heart — that sets fire to the rest of their lives. This is a story of possession and loss, about the often discordant demands…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Putting food on the table for the family quickly and economically doesn't mean you have to compromise on quality. This book shows how Hugh's approach to food can be adapted to suit any growing, working family, or busy young singles and couples for that matter. Breakfast, baking, lunchboxes, quick suppers, healthy snacks, eating on the move and weekend cooking for the week ahead — all these, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then the murders, which happened later. In 1956, Dell Parsons' family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, the way many military families did following the war. His father, Bev, was a talkative, plank-shouldered man, an airman from Alabama with an optimistic and easy-scheming nature. Dell and his twin sister, Berner, could easily see…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Meet Chu. Chu is a small panda with a very big sneeze. When Chu sneezes, you REALLY don't want to get in the way. But a whole day of adventure will test Chu's sneeze-resisting powers to the limit — there's the library (dusty books), the diner (pepper), and then the circus (all those animals). How big can a sneeze really be? Just wait and see...
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the 'Ace of Spies', by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the 'Redhead under the Bed', in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a century. In Deception Edward Lucas uncovers the real story of Chapman and her colleagues in Britain and America, unveiling their clandestine missions and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A Wonder Woman and bride-to-be finds herself worse for wear at the end of a hen night; a funeral director's love of Manchester United proves unhelpful when talking to the bereaved; two overly-vigilant mothers wrestle with their paranoia in the queue for Santa's Grotto; a widow recounts her disastrous return to the world of dating and a father realises that his son is growing away from him as he…
Скачать книгу (размер 65 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 14) Аннотация: What better way to learn colours than on a fun animal safari? From white-and-black zebras to grey elephants and green crocodiles, this book is packed with a whole host of animal friends. Learning has never been so much fun!
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Since the days of Alexander the Great, Afghanistan's strategically significant lands have been fought over by foreign invaders. Today, as yet another generation risks life and limb in this inhospitable territory, an ever-rising death toll puts back under the spotlight almost daily the way the modern war in Afghanistan is being run, and demands answers. Drawing on over a hundred interviews with…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Vienna, 1913. It is a fine day in August when Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with the eminent psychiatrist Dr Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis when a young woman enters. She is clearly in distress, but Lysander is immediately drawn to her strange, hazel eyes and…