Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Harriet is invited to help her detective aunts, Thessalonika and Japonica, investigate serious cheating in the world of horse racing. Initially excited by this prospect, Harriet quickly begins to regret getting involved. Will Harriet overcome her fears and find out who is causing Mr Fetlock's horses to lose all their races? Hold on tight for this bumpy ride!
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Richard and Lelia's child is conceived in a moment of giggling chaos as they dress for a Christmas party. They arrive rudely late and still glowing, and barely register a slight, drab woman in the hall. Sylvie. As their baby grows, so does the presence of Sylvie — she seems to be nowhere, yet everywhere, harmless yet sinister. Richard is seduced by her subtle, inexplicable charm, while Lelia,…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: One day, out of the blue, Harriet Bean's dad says to her, 'Your aunts would like to hear about that!' Harriet is shocked — this is the first time she's heard anything about any aunts, and suddenly, she has five of them! Naturally, she's very curious to meet them, especially as her dad has told her that they each have a rather special ability (apart from Aunt Majolica who's just extremely bossy).…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Marvin is not a happy sheep. All the other sheep are bigger than him, and can run faster and jump higher than he can. So Marvin decides to do something about it. He eats. And eats, and eats, until he is so big that there is nothing left for him to eat in the world — at which point Marvin eats the world itself! But that is a step too far, and what went in is going to have to come out. This is a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: This new collection of short stories from T. C. Boyle finds him at his mercurial best. Inventive, wickedly funny, sometimes disturbing, these are stories about drop-outs, deadbeats and kooks. Take the man who shares his apartment with a wildcat won in a drunken bet; the drive-time shock jock hallucinating from sleep deprivation for a publicity stunt; the suburban woman who joins a pack of dogs,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Ram has no memory of who he is, his background or where he has come from. He awakes in a darkened corridor of a block of flats with no idea of how he has got there. And then, the lift doors nearby open and inside is a dying man. Ram is now the murder suspect and on the run. But, there is something that draws him back — the dying man's last words. And, as he discovers more about the murdered man,…
Скачать книгу (размер 8 806 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1728) Аннотация: «A one-stop reference, with over 220,000 definitions, the new fully-updated Bloomsbury Concise English Dictionary is designed to meet the everyday requirements of all global English users and is aimed at everyone who wants to use English with precision and accuracy. With the needs of families and students in mind, particular coverage has been given to the latest terms from science, technology,…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: This fully revised edition of the bestselling Dictionary of Medical Terms now includes over 12,500 terms from British and international medical practice, explained in clear, simple English. It covers fields such as surgery, general practice, hospitals, clinics, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry and other specialisms, and includes example sentences for each entry, together with grammar notes and parts…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: It is the final days of the Chinese Empire. Trade in opium with Europe is slowly corroding the power of the Ch’ing Dynasty. Orchid, a beautiful seventeen-year-old from an aristocratic but impoverished family, is pushed into the maelstrom when she finds herself unexpectedly chosen to become a lower-ranking concubine of the Emperor. The world inside the Forbidden City is erotically charged and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Read on to catch up with more gossip-licious pleasure from the anonymous narrator who made her catty debut with Gossip Girl and has enthralled readers in the juicy sequels, You Know You Love Me and All I Want is Everything. In Because I'm Worth It, Gossip Girl dishes up more doses of hefty dirt on all her friends — New York's wealthiest private school teens. In fact, wintertime has never been…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 089 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 607) Аннотация: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince takes up the story of Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry at this point as Voldemort's power and followers are increasing day by day, in the midst of this battle of good and evil.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: This in-depth exploration of the English language covers every nuance and curiosity of this constantly evolving linguistic pastiche. It is estimated that every year 800 neologisms are added to the English language, and include acronyms (NIMBY, Not In My Backyard), blended words (motel), and those taken from foreign languages (savoir-faire). Laid out in an a-to-z format with detailed…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: So much to do, so little time, so best to start early. Full of things to make, achieve, learn (and some things you shouldn't learn) this is the perfect handbook for any child who wants to revel in being young and not-boring. Can you Make an origami crane? Lie convincingly? Operate as a spy? Parents may need these skills (not origami) to wrest their child's copy from them and indulge in all the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Mr and Mrs Brown are always having great difficulty with their numerous and incredibly naughty children. They try all the agencies but the nurses, governesses and nannies never stay long with the Brown children. 'The person you want is Nurse Matilda', they are told. And when Nurse Matilda does arrive very strange things begin to happen. Brought together in one volume are the three remarkable…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: It's almost graduation and the lives of New York's private high school elite are really heating up. Everyone's got into college and it's clearly time to party — not that they haven't been doing plenty of that already. This is the eighth book in this series.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Lucy, Hermione and Sam offer to accompany the captain and his dog, Biscuit on the next trip to keep a lookout for danger. But danger is exactly what they run into! The pirates aren't just after more popcorn they want new recruits too! Will three children — and a dog — defeat the greediest gang of grub-guzzling pirates ever to sail the high seas?
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Twelve-year-old Harriet is doing her best to grow up, which is not easy as her mother is permanently on medication, her father has silently moved to another city, and her serene sister rarely notices anything. All of them are still suffering from the shocking and mysterious death of her brother Robin twelve years earlier, and it seems to Harriet that the family may never recover. So, inspired by…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Billy, Nicola and Mr Gopal are off to India in a flying boat to solve a baffling mystery! The gum that comes from the wonderful bubblegum trees that grow in the Indian jungle has not been delivered for two months. Without this secret ingredient, there'll be no more Gopal's Best Pink Bubblegum, and even more importantly, no more Bubblegummies — the people who live in the trees and harvest the gum.…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Jim and his friends are upset to hear that their school janitor's car has been stolen, and just before he's due to retire too. So Jim comes up with a bright idea for a way to help raise money to buy a new car: selling doughnuts. They start by making their own very delicious doughnuts to sell, but run into problems when demand exceeds supply. That's when Jim has another brainwave and decides the…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: The summer holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can't wait for the start of the school year. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and there are spells to be learnt and (unluckily) Potions and Divination lessons to be attended. But Harry can't know that the atmosphere is darkening around him, and his worst enemy is preparing a fate that it seems will be…