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Brown Calef: Dragon, Robot, Gatorbunny

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: A book for doodling, drawing, laughing, and imagining! Featuring the humourous art of Calef Brown and a wonderful menagerie to stretch and inspire your artistic talents (whether large or small), plus silly stickers to play with. Includes ferocious snails, beautiful giraffes, guitar-playing hound dogs, man-eating bunny rabbits, and many other animals you've never drawn before!

Quinn Tom: London's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary But True Tales from Over a Thousand Years of London's History

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Following in the bestselling footsteps of the Strangest series, London is now available in a beautiful gift format — the perfect present for the London obsessive in the family! This fascinating volume is packed with amazing things you didn't know about the capital, such as the fact that it's still forbidden to run, carry an umbrella or whistle in Burlington Arcade. Did you also know, for example,…

Caldicott Chris: World Food Alphabet

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: From Apricot to Zucchini, and everything in between, here is a beautiful photographic alphabet of world food. Acclaimed photographer and owner of the World Food Cafe in London, Chris Caldicott takes us on a mouth-watering tour of the different crops, dishes and ways of eating from every continent. Find out what Moroccans eat for a healthy snack and how ice is sold in Bangladesh, visit a kitchen…

Bestall Alfred: Classic Tales from Rupert

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: This is a beautifully bound gift edition of these classic tales of the famous bear. This beautiful book contains two classic Alfred Bestall stories: Rupert & The Mare's Nest and Rupert & The Lost Cuckoo. Rupert and the Mare's Nest — What's a Mare's nest? Rupert asks his father when he reads the words in a book. They don't exist, says Mr. Bear — but Rupert is determined to find one, and his search…

Cosford Nina: Dublin: A 3D Keepsake Cityscape

Скачать книгу (размер 146 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 30) Аннотация: Explore the sights in Ireland's capital city with this foldout keepsake tucked into a stylish slipcase. Traveling to Dublin? Just returned? Wish you could go? Discover a dozen popular spots, from Dublin Castle (now a convention center) to the lofty St. Patrick's Cathedral, from the handsome brick townhouses of Merrion Square to Gaiety Theatre, the city's longest-running theatrical stage.

Palahniuk Chuck: Invisible Monsters Remix

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Injected with new material and special design elements, Invisible Monsters Remix fulfills Chuck Palahniuk's original vision for his 1999 novel, turning a daring satire on beauty and the fashion industry into an even more wildly unique reading experience. Palahniuk's fashion-model protagonist has it all-boyfriend, career, loyal best friend-until an accident destroys her face, her ability to speak,…

Bagnold Enid: National Velvet

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: This is a beautifully bound gift edition of this classic tale of a girl and her horse. Velvet Brown is a 14 year old girl living in small coastal village in the 1920s. She dreams of owning and training horses one day. When she and her friend Mi see a piebald horse jump a five foot fence, they decide to follow Velvet's dream to ride in the Grand National. But will Velvet be allowed to ride in the…

Carle Eric: Walter the Baker

Скачать книгу (размер 167 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 34) Аннотация: Walter the Baker is famous for his breads, rolls, cookies, tarts, and pies. The Duke and Duchess especially love his warm sweet rolls, delivered fresh to their castle every morning. But one day the cat spills the milk, and Walter is forced to serve the Duke and Duchess rolls made with water. After one bite the Duke throws down his roll in disgust and summons Walter to the castle. He threatens to…

M. Stanton Evans: Stalin's Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt's Government

Скачать книгу (размер 1 493 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 294) Аннотация: «Until now, many sinister events that transpired in the clash of the world's superpowers at the close of World War II and the ensuing Cold War era have been ignored, distorted, and kept hidden from the public. Through a meticulous examination of primary sources and disclosure of formerly secret records, this riveting account of the widespread infiltration of the federal government by Stalin's…

King Stephen: The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King returns to the rich landscape of Mid-World, the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower fantasy saga that stands as his most beguiling achievement. Roland Deschain and his ka-tet — Jake, Susannah, Eddie, and Oy, the billy-bumbler — encounter a ferocious storm just after crossing the River Whye on their way to the Outer Baronies. As they shelter from…

Castaldo Gino: Music Box

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Music and photography have always shared a special relationship—when an iconic musician is portrayed by a first-rate photographer, the result is often transformative and transcendent, and a classic pop culture image is born. Music Box gathers more than 340 such legendary photographs of musicians—covering the stars of jazz, blues, rock and roll, soul, and all of their contemporary offshoots. Music…

Dreamworks Rise of the Guardians Deluxe Pop-up

Скачать книгу (размер 65 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 14) Аннотация: Inspired by the upcoming 3-D fantasy-adventure film, Rise of the Guardians Deluxe Pop-Up book captures the excitement of this screen saga with dramatic pop-ups and fold-out flaps. More than a collection of the well-known childhood legends, The Guardians are a group of heroes-each with extraordinary abilities. When an evil spirit named Pitch tries to disable the immortal guardians, a battle ensues…

Armitage Geoff: The World at Their Fingertips

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Between 1680 and 1807 British publishers produced a sequence of double-hemisphere world maps each printed on two sheets and conjoined. These maps are a peculiarly British phenomenon of this period and they provide a key indicator of the way the British map trade specifically targeted a newly prosperous and upwardly aspiring class of purchasers. The buyers were hungry for geographical information,…

Teckentrup Britta: Big Noisy Book of Busy Places

Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: Thrum-thrum. Bong-bong. Choppetta-choppetta-choppetta. The world is a big and noisy place, filled with wonderful things to do, see, and hear. This book shows them all, from an airport, a train station, and a shopping mall, to school and a swimming pool! Kids will happily explore the many sites and sounds captured in Britta Teckentrup's bright and colorful pictures.

Freeman Tor: Olive and the Big Secret

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Olive learns the hard way that keeping secrets is tough, and telling them can make for a whole lot of trouble! When Molly shares a secret with Olive, the urge to tell is just too great! Olive tells Joe who tells Matt who tells Lola. But Lola is best friends with Molly. Uh-oh, the secret is out, and Olive is in for it!

A Tolkien Treasury: Stories, Poems, and Illustrations Celebrating the Author and His World

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: J.R.R. Tolkien's admirers form an international community of writers, scholars, and artists. This richly illustrated anthology gathers together three decades of work dedicated to the master of fantasy. With poems, stories, songs, and dozens of illustrations, A Tolkien Treasur, y is a unique celebration of the author and his creations — the mythical world of Middle-Earth and the magical creatures…

Botton Alain: Essays in Love

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: With an introduction by Sheila Heti A unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind. Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved. A man…

Fletcher Corina: Playbook Farm

Скачать книгу (размер 55 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 12) Аннотация: First read this beautifully detailed pop-up book, then unfold it to transform it into a 3D farmyard landscape playmat, with stand-up cardboard animals and a tractor that you can move all around the farm! A unique and ingenious novelty book that folds away again in its own box.

Fleming Ian: Casino Royale

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.Cinema's longest-running franchise, James Bond made his debut in this 1953 novel by Ian Fleming. The unstoppable British agent is dispatched to the French casino Royale-les-Eaux, where he must bankrupt the dissolute and sadistic spy Le Chiffre, in the hope that this Russian pawn will beretiredby his paymasters. It…

Fantastic Journey: Pirates: Pop-up book

Скачать книгу (размер 75 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 16) Аннотация: Take an imaginary journey as a young cabin boy on a pirate ship. Meet Blackbeard, Calico Jack, Mary Read, Anne Bonny, and Black Bart; climb into the crow's nest to fix the rigging, and learn about other tough jobs on board; help the pirates capture a treasure ship; and bury your booty on a desert island. This engaging history book is filled with pop-up features, flaps to open, and mini-booklets…