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Pratchett Terry: The Illustrated Eric

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. The trouble is, he's not very good at it. All he wants is the usual three wishes: to be immortal, rule the world and have the most beautiful woman fall madly in love with him. The usual stuff. But what he gets is Rincewind, the Disc's most incompetent wizard, and Rincewind's Luggage (the world's most dangerous travel accessory) into the bargain.…

French Vivian: A Creepy Crawly Story

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: When naughty Wizz Bee and Buzz Bee come home without any honey, Queen Bee is very cross. Can they cheer her up with a story?

French Vivian: Down in the Jungle

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Down in the Jungle it's time for bed, but Monkey isn't tired, he wants a story, and he sets off to find one.

Adams Georgie: The First Christmas

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: The story of the birth of Jesus and the first Christmas retold with delightful simplicity, and illustrated with charming soft watercolours. Both text and pictures are designed to make this the perfect introduction to the Christmas story for very young children.

Simon Francesca: Horrid Henry Meets the Queen

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Horrid Henry gets up to some horrid tricks when the Queen comes to visit his school. The Queen is coming to visit Horrid Henry's school. The real live Queen! Henry can't believe it. But when Miss Battle-Axe puts him in the back row, Henry is furious. Now how is he meant to find out how many TVs she has? Somehow Henry has to get himself noticed — and show the Queen just how horrid he can be...

Simon Francesca: The Perfect Pet Shop

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: It's all quiet at the pet shop at the end of the day, but the animals want to have some fun — who wants a story?

Wooding Chris: The Iron Jackal

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Vardia is descending into chaos. And that makes it a good time to be a freebooter. Never one to miss an opportunity, Captain Darien Frey has hit on a lucrative plan: stealing Awakener relics, and selling them back to them through the feared pirate, and his former finacee, Trinica Dracken. Things are finally looking good for the Ketty Jay and her crew... until the Shaklemores, bounty hunters to…

Akunin Boris: The Diamond Chariot: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The first of the interlinked plotlines is set in Russia during the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. Fandorin is charged with protecting the Trans-Siberian Railway from Japanese sabotage in a pacy adventure filled with double agents and ticking bombs. Then we travel back to the Japan of the late 1870s. This is the story of Fandorin's arrival and life in Yokohama, his first meeting with Masa and the…

Bradley Alan: I Am Half Sick of Shadows

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: All is not well at Buckshaw, home of Flavia de Luce... With the family finances in a parlous state, Flavia's father has, with deep misgivings, rented Buckshaw to a film company for a location shooting. Naturally enough, director, crew and stars do nothing to endear themselves to the household — especially the servants — until, when a heavy snowfall cuts off Bishop's Lacey from the rest of the…

Cogman Bryan: Inside HBO's Game of Thrones

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: HBO's Game of Thrones reigns as cable's highest-rated series. This official companion book gives fans new ways to enter this fictional world and discover more about the beloved (and reviled) characters and the electrifying plotlines. Hundreds of set photos, production and costume designs, storyboards, and insider stories reveal how the show's creators translated George R. R. Martin's best-selling…

Priest Christopher: The Islanders

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A tale of murder, artistic rivalry and literary trickery; a chinese puzzle of a novel where nothing is quite what it seems a narrator whose agenda is artful and subtle; a narrative that pulls you in and plays an elegant game with you. The Dream Archipelago is a vast network of islands. The names of the islands are different depending on who you talk to, their very locations seem to twist and…

Lennon John: The John Lennon Letters

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: John Lennon was a writer as well as a musician. It was entirely natural for him to put pen to paper whenever he had an idea, a thought, a reaction or a desire to communicate. He lived — and died — in an age before emails and texts. Pen and ink was what he turned to. John wrote letters and postcards all of his life; to his friends, family, strangers, newspapers, organisations, lawyers and the…

Torday Paul: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: This is the story of Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist — for whom diary — notable events include the acquisition of a new electric toothbrush and getting his article on caddis fly larvae published in 'Trout and Salmon' — who finds himself reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing to the Highlands of the Yemen — a project that will change his life, and the course of British…

Gabrielsson Eva: Stieg and Me: Memories of My Life with Stieg Larsson

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: There is only one person who can tell Stieg Larsson's story other than himself — his lifelong companion and muse, Eva Gabrielsson. Here she tells the story of their 30-year romance, of Stieg's upbringing and early years, and how this shaped his morals and personality. She talks of his life-long struggle to expose Sweden's Neo-Nazis, of his struggle to keep the magazine he founded, EXPO, alive,…

Gabaldon Diana: The Scottish Prisoner

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: 1760. Jamie Fraser is a paroled prisoner-of-war in the remote Lake District. Close enough to the son he cannot claim as his own, his quiet existence is interrupted first by dreams of his lost wife, then by the appearance of Tobias Quinn, an erstwhile comrade from the Rising. Lord John Grey — aristocrat, soldier, sometime spy — is in possession of papers which reveal a damning case of corruption…