Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Isabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab, doesn't understand people, but apes she gets — especially the bonobos Sam, Bonzi, Lola, Mbongo, Jelani, and Makena, who are capable of reason and communication through American Sign Language. Isabel feels more comfortable in their world than she's ever felt among humans — until she meets John Thigpen, a very married reporter writing a…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Way before Puss ever met Shrek, our suave and furry feline hero goes on a swashbuckling ride, as he teams with mastermind Humpty Dumpty and the street-savvy Kitty to steal the famed Goose that lays the Golden Eggs. Join in Puss on his swashbuckling adventure, in this perfect novel for young readers. Based on the film, it includes 8 pages of colour photos to help you re-live the fun!
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Way before Puss ever met Shrek, our suave and furry feline hero goes on a swashbuckling ride, as he teams with mastermind Humpty Dumpty and the street-savvy Kitty to steal the famed Goose that lays the Golden Eggs. Young readers will love joining Puss on his swashbuckling adventures, with this fully illustrated colour storybook of the film.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge. They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura's story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. Entitled The Blind…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 538 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 499) Аннотация: Nora Roberts, bestselling author of The Reef and Genuine Lies, mixes scorching passion with icy suspense in her classic novel of murder and infatuation in a southern town — now available in hardcover for the first time. In the small town of Innocence, Mississippi, days are long, nights are fragrant, and secrets are hard to keep. But when a brutal killer starts claiming the lives of the town's…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Night Shift — Stephen King's first collection of stories — is an early showcase of the depths that King's wicked imagination could plumb. In these 20 tales, we see mutated rats gone bad ( Graveyard Shift ); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity ( Night Surf, the basis for The Stand ); a smoker who will try anything to stop ( Quitters, Inc. ); a reclusive alcoholic who begins a gruesome…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 906 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 375) Аннотация: Del mismo modo en que tu siempre me has elegido, en cada una de las vidas te voy a elegir. Para siempre. Luce moriria por Daniel. Y lo ha hecho una y otra vez. En cada una de sus diferentes vidas, Daniel y ella se han encontrado y se han enamorado, solo para ser separa-dos tragicamente poco despues. Pero y si no tuviera por que ser siempre asi? Luce esta segura de que algo — o alguien — de su…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: 'Whichever option I choose, men are going to die'. When the entire Soviet Union wheat crop is destroyed by a devastating string of failures, the population faces starvation. The USA is quick to offer assistance. They devise a plan to trade vital food resources with the Russians in exchange for sensitive political information. But the Politburo has other ideas: the invasion of Western Europe to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Growing up in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, in the '70s and '80s, Linda Hammerick knows that she is different. She has strong, almost paralysing associations between words and tastes; she doesn't look like everyone else; and she isn't popular at school. She finds her way through life with the help of her great uncle 'Baby' Harper, who loves her and loves to dance, and her best friend…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: The sheer pervasiveness of game experience — 99 per cent of teenage boys and 94 per cent of teenage girls having played a video game — means that instant naffness falls upon those who express a musty disdain for the medium. This book shows that computer game-playing has a strong claim to be one of the most vital test-beds for intellectual enquiry.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: From the acclaimed translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, a stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, the first since the 1958 original. Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the changes made to the text before publication. Now this new special restored edition presents the original manuscript as the author prepared it to be published. Featuring a personal foreword by Patrick…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The author's incisive and amusingly despairing emails to colleagues at the «The Daily Telegraph» about grammatical mistakes and stylistic slips have attracted a growing band of ardent fans over the years. In this book, he makes an impassioned case for an end to the sloppiness that has become such a hallmark of everyday speech and writing.
Скачать книгу (размер 4 400 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 864) Аннотация: Now available in a specially priced edition — the first volume in an epic series by a master of contemporary fantasy, filled with mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure.
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The illustrator Andrew Loomis (1892-1959) is revered amongst artists — including the great American painter Norman Rockwell and comics superstar Alex Ross — for his mastery of figure drawing and clean, Realist style. His hugely influential series of art instruction books have never been bettered. Drawing the Head and Hands is the second in Titan's programme of facsimile editions, returning these…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and the rest are bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the journey between university in the 1950s and the marriages, families, careers and deaths that follow. On the one hand there's Sex and then the Pill, on the other there is the traditional Catholic Church. In this razor-sharp novel, David Lodge exposes the pressures that…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Rafe Kane has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he's got an ace plan for the best year ever, if he can pull it off. With his best friend Leonardo the Silent awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school's oppressive Code of Conduct. Chewing gum in class — 5,000 points! Running in the hallway — 10,000 points! Pulling…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marraige, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy, cognitive-behaviour therapy or acupuncture can cure his puzzling knee pain or his equally inexplicable mid-life angst. As Tubby's life fragments under the weight of his self-obsession,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: This is a sparkling and sexy tale of glamour modelling, romance and the treacherous promises of fame. When Angel is discovered by a model agent, her life changes for ever. Young, beautiful and sexy, she seems destined for a successful career in modelling and, very quickly, the glitzy world of celebrity, fame and riches becomes her new home. But then she meets Mickey, the lead singer of a boy…