Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In May 1980, fifteen-year-old Oscar Drei suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in the old quarter of Barcelona. For seven days and nights no one knows his whereabouts. It all began the previous autumn when, while exploring the dilapidated grounds of what seemed to be an abandoned house filled with portraits, he inadvertently stole a gold pocket watch. Thus begins Oscar's friendship with…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey. Miranda wins a balloon ride — but the rope snaps and away she goes, over seas, mountains and deserts. She touches down at the Taj Mahal and the Pyramids, flies over the Great Wall of China, visits…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to young fiction. Even little monsters get worried about their first day at school. It's a big step to take. Fred and Ted are two little monsters who aren't at all sure they want to go... but once they do, they soon find out it's fun. After a day filled with mud splashing and slime painting, some howling and growling practice and a good stomp…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to young fiction. Anything Moody Margaret can do, Horrid Henry can do better. So when Margaret starts giving her friends makeovers, Henry decides to steal — no, borrow! — her idea. He is sure he can do it much, much better. It can't be that hard to make people look really fantastic... can it?
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to young fiction. Anything Moody Margaret can do, Horrid Henry can do better. So when Margaret starts giving her friends makeovers, Henry decides to steal — no, borrow! — her idea. He is sure he can do it much, much better. It can't be that hard to make people look really fantastic... can it?
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting, and Andrew is even more delighted when he's assigned to the ship's Xenobiology laboratory. Life couldn't be better... although there are a few strange things going on... every Away Mission involves a lethal confrontation with alien…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, Beevor assembles the whole picture in a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: It is almost Easter in Bishop's Lacey, and the villagers are holding their collective breath as the tomb of St Tancred in the church that bears his name is about to be opened after five hundred years. And as luck would have it, it's inveterate eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce who is first at the scene. But the body she finds lying there is clearly not that of a desiccated saint. For a start…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Marc Simonetti, the cover artist of the French «Discworld» mass market paperbacks provides 12 inspired illustrations for the brand-new «Discworld» calendar.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, and prided themselves on their blood-thirsty skills as warriors. But their prowess in battle is only a small part of their story, which stretches from their Scandinavian origins to America in the west and as far as Baghdad in the east. As the Vikings did not write their history, we have to discover it for ourselves, and that…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: When the concierge of a historic Atlanta apartment building, invites his fellow residents to join him for weekly screenings of Downton Abbey, four very different people find themselves connecting with the addictive drama, and-even more unexpectedly-with each other...Samantha married young and for the wrong reason: the security of old Atlanta money-for herself and for her orphaned brother and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Professor David Ullman is among the world's leading authorities on Christian religion and myth. Not that he's a believer. He sees what he teaches as nothing more than entrenched fiction — the things that go bump in the mind. It's why when he's offered a trip to Venice to be a consultant on a case study based on his expertise as a demonologist he accepts, seeing it as a free vacation for his…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: In her terrifying new novel, No. 1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Tami Hoag brings back her inimitable investigators, Kovac & Liska. THE 9TH GIRL focuses on the ninth unidentified body to turn up in Minneapolis in 2012, nicknamed Jane Doe 9. When Kovac and Liska take on the case, they discover a shocking fact: This victim has been found without any identifiable characteristics, except for…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Six years have passed since Jake Fisher watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd. But six years haven't come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd's…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In a hotel room in Chile, an assassin washes blood from his clothes as he receives word of a new job. Miles away in the twisting streets of London, American writer Ed is tormented by the ghosts of his brutal past. And unseen, a plot churns into motion that will blur the boundaries between what's real and what's not. Ensnared in an affair with the beautiful wife of a dangerous crime lord, Ed…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Norman Stokoe has just been appointed Children's Czar by the new government. He sells his flat and moves up north to take up the position. However before his first salary cheque has even hit his bank account, new priorities are set for the government department for which he works. The Children's Czar network is put on hold but it is too late to reverse the decision to employ Norman. So he is…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: There is more than one history of the world. Before science defined the modern age, other powers, wondrous and magical, once governed the universe, their lore perfected within a lost capital of hieroglyphs, wizard-kings, and fabulous monuments. In the 1970s, a historian named Pierce Moffett moves to the New England countryside to write a book about Agypt, driven by an idea he dare not believe:…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Laureth Peak's father is a writer. For years he's been trying, and failing, to write a novel about coincidence. His wife thinks he's obsessed, Laureth thinks he's on the verge of a breakdown. He's supposed to be doing research in Austria, so when his notebook shows up in New York, Laureth knows something is wrong. On impulse she steals her mother's credit card and heads for the States, taking her…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: OTHER CHILDREN GET GIVEN XYLOPHONES. SUSAN JUST HAD TO ASK HER GRANDFATHER TO TAKE HIS VEST OFF. Yes. There's a Death in the family. It's hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe — especially when you have to take over the family business, and everyone mistakes you for the Tooth Fairy. And especially when you have to face the new and addictive music that…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: IT'S THE NIGHT BEFORE HOGSWATCH AND IT'S TOO QUIET. Where is the big jolly fat man? Why is Death creeping down chimneys and trying to say Ho Ho Ho? The darkest night of the year is getting a lot darker... Susan the gothic governess has got to sort it out by morning, otherwise there won't be a morning. Ever again... The 20th Discworld novel is a festive feast of darkness and Death (but with jolly…