Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Roald Dahl's much-loved Matilda, now in a stunning large paperback format with Quentin Blake's original illustrations in full colour. This new edition sits alongside George's Marvellous Medicine, James and the Giant Peach, The Twits, Fantastic Mr Fox and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, also in full colour, paperback editions. Matilda Wormwood is an extraordinary genius with really stupid…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: It is 1845, and Hannah Gardner Price dreams of a world infinitely larger than the small Quaker community where she has lived all 25 years of her life — for, as an amateur astronomer, she secretly hopes to discover a comet and win the King of Denmark's prize for doing so.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The 6 million copy global bestselling Crossfire series from Sylvia Day continues in Entwined with You as Eva and Gideon face the demons of their pasts and accept the consequences of their obsessive desires... From the moment I first met Gideon Cross, I recognized something in him that I needed. Something I couldn't resist. I also saw the dangerous and damaged soul inside — so much like my own. I…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 543 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 500) Аннотация: A bold kidnapping aboard an ocean liner sends detective Isaac Bell across America in a deadly game of cat and mouse... Leaving England aboard the liner Mauretania, Isaac Bell, chief investigator at the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency, stumbles on and thwarts a kidnapping. The two victims, who have fled Europe carrying a secret invention, fear that a foreign power wishes to steal it before…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: What Money Can't Buy is the Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller from 'the superstar philosopher', Michael Sandel. Should we financially reward children for good marks? Is it ethical to pay people to donate organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons or selling citizenship? In recent decades, market values have impinged on almost every aspect of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 763 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 347) Аннотация: Impressed into service aboard the seal-hunting Ghost, Humphrey Van Weyden becomes an unwilling participant in a tense shipboard drama. With a wary eye, he watches the vessel’s abusive captain, Wolf Larsen, an enigma who can abandon two sailors on the open water, then return to reading the moral philosophers. One of the best sea novels ever written, The Sea-Wolf tells of mutiny, shipwreck, and a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Nikolai Gogol, an early 19th century Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist, created some of the most important works of world literature and is considered the father of modern Russian realism. Gogol satirized the corrupt bureaucracy of the Russian Empire through the scrupulous and scathing realism of his writing, which would ultimately lead to his exile. Among some of his…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 804 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 355) Аннотация: Gideon Cross. Tan guapo e impecable en el exterior, como traumatizado y atormentado en el interior. Fue una brillante y ardiente llama que me abrumó más que el más oscuro de los placeres. No podía mantenerme alejada. No quería hacerlo. Él era me adicción... mi único deseo... era mío. Mi pasado era tan violento como el suyo y yo estaba igual de…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, and broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. The apocalyptic 'Howl', originally written as a performance piece, became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first published in 1956. It is considered to be one of the defining works of the Beat Generation,…
Скачать книгу (размер 6 521 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1280) Аннотация: ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS tells a compelling story, using original papers from Einstein, Copernicus, Galilei, Kepler and Newton. Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking explains how these works changed the course of science, ushering astronomy and physics out of the Middle Ages and into the modern world.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: For fans of The Bunny Suicides, Simon's Cat and 101 Uses of a Dead Cat comes the hilariously offensive Hate Mail by Mr Bingo. 'Gorgeous and funny! Like a labrador doing stand-up' — Noel Fielding 'A horrible, hilarious little book' — The Times 'Wonderfully offensive... Wonderfully vicious' — The Huffington Post Mr Bingo loves post. In April 2011 he launched a service on his website, where, for a…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Lev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a host of Russian émigrés. Alone in his room, he dreams of his first love, Mary. Awash with memories of youth and idyllic scenes of pre-Revolution Russia, Ganin becomes convinced that Mary is in fact the wife of a fellow-boarder, due to arrive at this very house soon. He longs for her arrival, when he can whisk her…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: 'If artists betray the social conscience and the basic principles of being human, where does art stand then?' Ai Weiwei — artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist — extended the notion of art and is one of the world's most significant creative and cultural figures. In this series of interviews, conducted over several years with the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, he discusses the many…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 950 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1168) Аннотация: A towering philosophical novel that is the summation of her Objectivist philosophy, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is the saga of the enigmatic John Galt, and his ambitious plan to 'stop the motor of the world', published in Penguin Modern Classics. Opening with the enigmatic question 'Who is John Galt?', Atlas Shrugged envisions a world where the 'men of talent' — the great innovators, producers and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 212 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 435) Аннотация: In her eleventh novel, Dessen returns to Colby, the beach town that is the setting for some of her best-loved books, in a story of summer love, self-discovery, striking out to new horizons, and saying goodbye.
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: When a tornado hits her farmhouse in Kansas, Dorothy is caught up in a whirlwind of adventure, complete with flying monkeys, talking lions, and silver slippers. Advanced readers will join Dorothy, Toto, and her friends from Oz on an unforgettable journey down the Yellow Brick Road in this Level 4 reader. The Wizard of Oz will now join classics like The Secret Garden and Alice in Wonderland in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: For Mary, her son has been lost to the world, and now, living in exile and in fear, she tries to piece together the memories of the events that led to her son's brutal death. To her he was a vulnerable figure, surrounded by men who could not be trusted, living in a time of turmoil and change.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Miss Amelia Benbridge and the Earl of Ware are the most anticipated match of the Season. But Amelia's love will always belong to her childhood sweetheart, the gypsy Colin — who tragically died. She knows she'll never feel such passion again. But when a brooding stranger at a masquerade offers a single, sensual kiss passions rise...
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Sophie May has a secret. One that she's successfully kept for years. It's meant that she's had to give up her dreams of going to university and travelling the world to stay in her little village, living with her mum and working in the local teashop. But then she meets the gorgeous Billy — an actor with ambitions to make it to the top.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: London GP Katie Carr always thought she was a good person. With her husband David making a living as 'The Angriest Man in Holloway', she figured she could put up with anything. Until, that is, David meets DJ Goodnews and becomes a good person too.