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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Junior Novelisation

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: This is the tale of Flint Lockwood, an eccentric young scientist, whose awkward demeanour and half-baked inventions (ratbirds, spray-on shoes, and talking monkeys) have made him an outsider in his hometown of ChewandSwallow. However, all that is about to change with his latest contraption, a miraculous food-making machine. His creation, at first, brings happiness to the town, but when things go…

Maureen Roffey: Look Lift Learn Counting: From 1 to 100

Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: This bold, dynamic book combines fold out flaps with numbers and counting concepts, engaging preschoolers in a fun and effective way. A world of surprises is in store for youngsters who explore the pages of this colorful picture book. With charming artwork, basic learning concepts, and large foldout flaps, this book is both entertaining and educational. Big, bold graphic representations of…

Maureen Roffey: Look Lift Learn Colors and Shapes

Скачать книгу (размер 75 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 16) Аннотация: This bold, dynamic book combines fold out flaps with color and shape counting concepts, engaging preschoolers in a fun and effective way. A world of surprises is in store for youngsters who explore the pages of this colorful picture book. With charming artwork, basic learning concepts, and large foldout flaps, this book is both entertaining and educational. Big, bold graphic representations of…

Sarah Albee: Snappy Heads Tommy T Rex

Скачать книгу (размер 44 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 10) Аннотация: Hey everybody! Come move your feet! Says Tommy T-Rex. I'll give you the beat! Tommy's claws clap-clap, his feet tap-tap, And his T-Rex jaws go SNAP! SNAP! SNAP! This sturdy board book introduces little ones to an unusual animal in snappy style — literally. This simple short tale tells how Tommy T-Rex sets the beat for an earth shaking dino dance-athon. And all the while, children can SNAP-SNAP…

Sarah Albee: Snappy Heads Andy Alligator

Скачать книгу (размер 44 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 10) Аннотация: Listen to the SNAP! That my long jaws make! Says Andy Alligator to his friend the snake Hisssss! says the snake, and his tail starts to flap, As Andy Alligator goes SNAP! SNAP! SNAP! This sturdy board book introduces little ones to an unusual animal in snappy style — literally. This simple short tale tells how Andy Alligator and his friends make special music with their own unique sounds. And all…

Nicholas Pileggi: Wiseguy

Скачать книгу (размер 1 947 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 383) Аннотация: At the age of twelve my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world. Henry Hill Wiseguy is Nicholas Pileggi's remarkable bestseller, the most intimate account ever printed of life inside the deadly high-stakes world of what some people call the Mafia. Wiseguy is Henry Hill's story,…

Mary Buffett: The Tao of Warren Buffett: Warren Buffett's Words of Wisdom

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Like the sayings of the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu in the Tao Te Ching, Warren Buffett's worldly wisdom is deceptively simple and enormously powerful in application. In The Tao of Warren Buffett, Mary Buffett joins noted Buffetologist and international lecturer David Clark to bring you Warren Buffett's smartest, funniest and most memorable sayings, with an eye towards revealing the life…

Milly Johnson: A Spring Affair

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: When Lou Winter picks up a dog-eared magazine in the dentist's waiting room and spots an article about clearing clutter, she little realises how it will change her life. What begins as an earnest spring clean soon spirals out of control. Before long Lou is hiring skips in which to dump the copious amounts of junk she never knew she had. Lou's loved ones grow disgruntled. Why is clearing out…

Guillermo Arriaga: El Bufalo de la Noche

Скачать книгу (размер 1 156 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 228) Аннотация: Tras el suicidio de su mejor amigo, Manuel se ve acosado por la sombra de la enfermedad mental de aquel, por su mundo de violencia y por la tortuosa relacion sentimental con su novia, que fue inicialmente pareja de Gregorio, el amigo muerto; citas no cumplidas, extranos mensajes y la sombra de un policIa que aparece como vengador de una infidelidad que lo llevo a la locura. Escrita con la…

Laura Esquivel: Malinche

Скачать книгу (размер 957 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 189) Аннотация: Cuando Malinalli conoce a Hernan Cortes, asume que se trata del propio Dios Quetzalcoatl que regresa a liberar a su pueblo. Los dos se enamoran apasionadamente, pero este amor pronto es destruido por la desmedida sed de conquista, poder y riqueza de Cortes. A lo largo de la historia de Mexico Malinalli/Malinche ha sido conocida por su traicion al pueblo indio. Pero recientes investigaciones…

Daniel Yergin: The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power

Скачать книгу (размер 4 726 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 928) Аннотация: The Prize recounts the panoramic history of oil — and the struggle for wealth and power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations. The Prize is as much a history of the twentieth century as of the oil industry itself. The canvas of history is enormous — from the drilling of the first…

Jodi Picoult: Por la Vida de Mi Hermana

Скачать книгу (размер 2 309 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 454) Аннотация: Puede un padre o una madre amar demasiado? O es que acaso tanto amor nunca es suficiente? Anna Fitzgerald no esta enferma, aunque pudiera parecerlo. Con apenas trece anos de edad ha soportado innumerables operaciones, inyecciones y transfusiones para que su hermana mayor Kate pueda de alguna manera sobrevivir a la leucemia que la aqueja desde su ninez. Anna, al ser geneticamente compatible con su…

Weber David: Hell Hath No Fury

Скачать книгу (размер 4 971 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 976) Аннотация: It began with two men. They came from very different worlds—entirely different universes, in fact—one using sorcery and the other using mental powers and steam-age technology. They met in a virgin forest on a duplicate planet Earth. Neither side knows who shot first, but each blames the other, and it doesn't really matter, now, because war has begun. War between the universes is the last thing…

Fern Michaels: The Marriage Game

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: In a dazzling celebration of the power of friendship and love, acclaimed bestselling author Fern Michaels brings her trademark wit and warmth to an action-packed story featuring a group of diverse women who bond Survivor-style under the most unlikely of circumstances...and find romance along the way. When Samantha Rainford, newly wed to Douglas Cosmo Rainford III, returns home from her honeymoon…

Reichs Kathy: Bones to Ashes

Скачать книгу (размер 1 972 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 388) Аннотация: Temperance Brennan, like her creator Kathy Reichs, is a brilliant, sexy forensic anthropologist called on to solve the toughest cases. But for Tempe, the discovery of a young girl's skeleton in Acadia, Canada, is more than just another assignment. Evangeline, Tempe's childhood best friend, was also from Acadia. Named for the character in the Longfellow poem, Evangeline was the most exotic person…

King Stephen: Duma Key

Скачать книгу (размер 3 992 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 784) Аннотация: No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through... A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he…

King Stephen: Duma Key

Скачать книгу (размер 3 915 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 769) Аннотация: No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through... A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he…

Adiga Aravind: The White Tiger

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Introducing a major literary talent, The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen. Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous…

Counter Ben: Battle for the Abyss

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Now that news of Horus' treachery is in the open, a time of testing has come. Some Legions have already declared their allegiance to the Warmaster, while the loyalty of others lies firmly with the Emperor. As Horus deploys his forces, loyalist Astartes learn that a massive Wordbearers fleet is heading to Ultramar, home of the Ultramarines. Unless they can intercept and destroy it, the…

Connolly John: The Unquiet: A Thriller

Скачать книгу (размер 2 620 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 515) Аннотация: Daniel Clay, a once-respected psychiatrist, has gone missing. His daughter insists that he killed himself after allegations surfaced surrounding the harm done to patients in his care. Now a killer obsessed with finding the truth about his own daughter's disappearance is seeking revenge — and Charlie Parker finds himself trapped between those who want the truth about Clay to be revealed, and those…