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Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: »PARP!» Pssst! Do you know the story about Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) and the — er — farting courtier? One day, when bowing low to Her Majesty, the Earl of Oxford couldn't help but break wind. The poor man felt SO embarrassed, that he left the court — and some say the country — for SEVEN years. Upon his return, after such a long absence, the first thing Good Queen Bess said on seeing him was,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 630 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 517) Аннотация: Oliver Stone and the Camel Club are back in their most dangerous adventure yet — a war on two fronts. Casino king Jerry Bagger from The Collectors is hunting Annabelle Conroy, the beautiful woman who conned him out of millions. Stone and his colleagues Reuben, Milton, and Caleb marshal all their resources to protect Annabelle. Yet all their skills may not be enough when a deadly new opponent rips…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 400 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 864) Аннотация: This is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 921 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 378) Аннотация: A California Book Award Finalist One of Oprah's Book Club's Ten Fantastic Books for Fall 2010 «Historical Novel Review» Editors' Choice Exiled in Paris, the frail, elderly Mathilde Kschessinska sits down to write her memoirs. A lifetime ago, she was the vain, ambitious, impossibly charming «prima ballerina assoluta» of the tsar's Russian Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg. Kschessinska's riveting…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The dynamite blockbuster that started it all — now a major motion picture starring Katherine Heigl as Stephanie Plum! ONE FINE MESS Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, home to wiseguys, average Joes, and Stephanie Plum, who sports a big attitude and even bigger money problems (since losing her job as a lingerie buyer for a department store). Stephanie needs cash fast but times are tough, and soon…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 412) Аннотация: With this inaugural volume at Tor, the annual Nebula Award collection is reborn as a fiction-only anthology. This collection of nominees for 2010's Nebula Awards includes all of the prior year's most celebrated stories, and will be published in time for the 2011 Nebula Awards in May, 2011. 2009's award winners, announced in May 2010, include Kage Baker's novella «The Women of Nell Gwynne's»,…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 594 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 706) Аннотация: In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. FREEDOM comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of FREEDOM's intensely realized characters…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: After a ten-year absence, the return of one of the most enduring series characters in modern SF James Bolivar «Slippery Jim» DiGriz, Special Corps agent, master con man, interstellar criminal (retired), is living high on the hog on the planet of Moolaplenty when a long-lost cousin and a shipful of swine arrive to drain his bank account and send him and his lovely wife, Angelina, wandering the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 778 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 546) Аннотация: It was meant to be a harmless stag night prank. A few hours later four of his best friends are dead and Michael Harrison has disappeared. With only three days to the wedding, Detective Superintendent Grace — a man haunted by the shadow of his own missing wife — is contacted by Michael's beautiful, distraught fiancee, Ashley Harper. Grace discovers that the one man who ought to know Michael…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 481 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 880) Аннотация: This is a collection of three volumes of Jeffrey Archer's masterful short stories. This edition of short stories, bringing together the short stories from three collections by Jeffrey Archer, showcases the master storyteller's skill like never before. Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from love at first sight across the train tracks to the cleverest of confidence…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Freddie found a fairy, tangled in a tree. Freddie is desperate for a pet, so when he rescues Bessie-Belle and she offers to grant his wishes he knows just what to ask for. The only problem is that Bessie-Belle can't hear very well, and Freddie tends to mumble. Whatever can they do? Luckily the Fairy Queen is on hand to explain... A delightful tale full of Julia Donaldson's trademark rhyme and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Teenage Sherlock has come up against some challenges in his time, but what confronts him now is baffling. His friend and her father have vanished. Their house looks as if nobody has ever lived in it. Sherlock begins to doubt his sanity, until a clever clue points him to Scotland. Following that clue leads him into a mystery that involves kidnapping, bodysnatchers and a man who claims he can raise…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Who were the pharaohs? When were the pyramids built? Why did Egyptians make mummies? Read and discover the facts in Macmillan Factual Readers, a six-level series which allows young English language learners to explore a variety of fascinating real-world topics. Each reader has been carefully graded to reinforce the main structures and vocabulary covered in most major language courses. All readers…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: What do butterflies eat? How do caterpillars grow? What is the biggest butterfly? Read and discover the facts in Macmillan Factual Readers, a six-level series which allows young English language learners to explore a variety of fascinating real-world topics. Each reader has been carefully graded to reinforce the main structures and vocabulary covered in most major language courses. All readers…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Why does a bee buzz? Who built the first plane with an engine? How do space rockets take off? Read and discover the facts in Macmillan Factual Readers, a six-level series which allows young English language learners to explore a variety of fascinating real-world topics. Each reader has been carefully graded to reinforce the main structures and vocabulary covered in most major language courses.…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: How do ducks stay dry? What is sheep's hair called? Why do peacocks have long feathers? read and discover the facts in Macmillan Factual Readers, a six-level series which allows young English language learners to explore a variety of fascinating real-world topics. Each reader has been carefully graded to reinforce the main structures and vocabulary covered in most major language courses. All…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Gateway is an academically rich, multi-level general English course designed to lead teenage students to success in school-leaving/university entrance examinations, and prepare them for university and the world of work. The course stimulates the interest of students by providing cross-curricular and cultural content that is genuinely interesting, meaningful and thought-provoking. Gateway helps…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Who puts out fires? What do zookeepers do? Where does an astronaut work? Read and discover the facts in Macmillan Factual Readers, a six-level series which allows young English language learners to explore a variety of fascinating real-world topics. Each reader has been carefully graded to reinforce the main structures and vocabulary covered in most major language courses. All readers include a…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Where do dragonflies live? What do leeches eat? How do spiders find their way? Read and discover the facts in Macmillan Factual Readers, a six-level series which allows young English language learners to explore a variety of fascinating real-world topics. Each reader has been carefully graded to reinforce the main structures and vocabulary covered in most major language courses. All readers…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Where have pirates sailed? What were pieces of eight? Which pirate roasted his enemies alive? Read and discover the facts in Macmillan Factual Readers, a six-level series which allows young English language learners to explore a variety of fascinating real-world topics. Each reader has been carefully graded to reinforce the main structures and vocabulary covered in most major language courses.…