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Elsa Knight Bruno: Punctuation Celebration

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Punctuation marks come alive in this clever picture book featuring fourteen playful poems. Periods stop sentences in a baker's shop, commas help a train slow down, quotation marks tell people what to do, and colons stubbornly introduce lists. This appealing primer is a surefire way to make punctuation both accessible and fun for kids.

Rowell Rainbow: Eleanor and Park

Скачать книгу (размер 1 666 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 328) Аннотация: Eleanor is the new girl in town, and she's never felt more alone. All mismatched clothes, mad red hair and chaotic home life, she couldn't stick out more if she tried. Then she takes the seat on the bus next to Park. Quiet, careful and — in Eleanor's eyes — impossibly cool, Park's worked out that flying under the radar is the best way to get by. Slowly, steadily, through late-night conversations…

Mieville China: Embassytown

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe. Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth planet. Here on Arieka, humans are not the only intelligent life, and Avice has a rare bond with the natives, the enigmatic Hosts — who cannot lie. Only a tiny cadre of unique human Ambassadors can speak…

Martin Larranaga Ana: Counting

Скачать книгу (размер 55 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 12) Аннотация: This is a book about counting with adorable pet characters, which helps make learning fun! The bright, bold illustrations are full of humour, and little ones will love pulling the chunky tabs and helping the creatures 'talk'. The speech bubbles will help them to join in and the mirror ending will encourage them to make some noise themselves.

Martin Larranaga Ana: Noises

Скачать книгу (размер 55 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 12) Аннотация: This is a book about noise with adorable farm animal characters, which helps make learning fun! The bright, bold illustrations are full of humour, and little ones will love pulling the chunky tabs and helping the creatures 'talk'. The speech bubbles will help them to join in and the mirror ending will encourage them to make some noise themselves.

Martin Larranaga Ana: Opposites

Скачать книгу (размер 55 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 12) Аннотация: This is a book about opposites with adorable jungle characters, which helps make learning fun! The bright, bold illustrations are full of humour, and little ones will love pulling the chunky tabs and helping the creatures 'talk'. The speech bubbles will help them to join in and the mirror ending will encourage them to make some noise themselves.

Ronson Jon: The Psychopath Test

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: This is an utterly compelling and often unbelievable adventure into the world of madness. Jon Ronson meets everybody from a Broadmoor inmate who swears he faked a mental disorder to get a lighter sentence but is now stuck there to the influential psychologist who developed the industry standard Psychopath Test and who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are in fact psychopaths.…

Rendell Ruth: A New Lease of Death

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: ‘It was the first murder case I ever investigated on my own.’ Wexford said angrily. ‘There’s no mystery. Herbert Arthur Painter killed his ninety-year-old employer by hitting her over the head with an axe. He did it for two hundred pounds.’ Chief Inspector Wexford was sure that the murder of an old lady had been carried out by her employee, Herbert Painter, and the courts agreed with him. But…

Wickham Madeleine: A Desirable Residence

Скачать книгу (размер 1 620 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 319) Аннотация: From the author of the internationally bestselling Sophie Kinsella novels, Madeleine Wickham's newest novel features a house whose asking price includes a stunning renovation of dreams and hearts... Liz and Jonathan Chambers were stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts and a miserable adolescent daughter. Then Marcus Witherstone came into their lives — and it seemed he would solve all their…

Smith Wilbur: Those in Peril

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Hazel Bannock is heir to the Bannock Oil Corporation, one of the major global oil producers. While cruising the Indian Ocean, her yacht is hijacked by Somalian pirates and her nineteen-year-old daughter, Cayla, kidnapped. The pirates demand a crippling twenty-billion-dollar ransom for her release, and complicated political and diplomatic sensitivities render the major powers incapable of…

Collins Jackie: Goddess of Vengeance

Скачать книгу (размер 2 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 440) Аннотация: Jackie Collins's fierce heroine Lucky Santangelo is back — with a vengeance — and the stakes are higher than ever. Love. Beauty. Success. Lucky has everything her name implies. And as the force behind a high-profile casino and hotel complex, The Keys in Vegas, Lucky has exactly what billionaire businessman Armand Jordan is determined to take from her — and he's not afraid to play dirty.

Eugenides Jeffrey: The Marriage Plot

Скачать книгу (размер 2 610 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 513) Аннотация: A brilliant, funny, and heartbreaking novel about the glories and vicissitudes of young love. His many awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Whiting Writers' Award, and the Harold D. Vursell Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Author of Middlesex (bestselling winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, with more than 3 million…

Martin George R.R.: Wild Cards I

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: Back in print after a decade, expanded with new original material, this is the first volume of George R. R. Martin's Wild cards shared-world series. There is a secret history of the world — a history in which an alien virus struck the Earth in the aftermath of World War II, endowing a handful of survivors with extraordinary powers. Some were called Aces — those with superhuman mental and physical…

Lieberman Paul: Gangster Squad: Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles

Скачать книгу (размер 2 793 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 549) Аннотация: The real events behind the highly-anticipated film starring Sean Penn and Ryan Gosling — A secret police force wages an all-out street war to drive gangs from Los Angeles after WWII Award-winning journalist Paul Lieberman's 7-part 2008 Los Angeles Times newspaper series on the Squad was optioned by Warner Bros. for feature film. The $60 million production is scheduled for US release on Oct. 19,…

Fogarty Mignon: Grammar Girl's: 101 Troublesome Words You'll Master in No Time

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Millions of people around the world communicate better thanks to Mignon Fogarty, aka Grammar Girl, whose top-rated weekly grammar podcast has been downloaded more than 40 million times. Now she's turning her attention to improving our vocabulary — one troublesome word at a time. Do you run a gauntlet or gantlet? Do you choose between or among more than two things? How many way are there to spell…

Wickham Madeleine: 40 Love

Скачать книгу (размер 1 488 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 293) Аннотация: Everyone wins this game of literary tennis, a comedy of manners about envy in which Wickham skewers the nouveau riche. At their country estate, Patrick Chance and his wife host a weekend tennis party. As four couples gather on the sunny terrace, it seems obvious who among them is succeeding, and who is falling behind. But by the end of the party, nothing will be quite as certain. While the…

Horowitz Anthony: Death and the Underworld

Скачать книгу (размер 672 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 133) Аннотация: From the pen of master storyteller Anthony Horowitz comes a new series of myths and legends from around the world, retold in a contemporary voice, and illustrated with bold, graphic artwork. Packed with Horowitz's signature action, humor, and suspense these collections feel fresh, modern, and perfect for today's fast-moving audience. When life is over, and the conflicted souls of the dead wend…

Sanderson Brandon: The Alloy of Law

Скачать книгу (размер 1 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 392) Аннотация: Fresh from the success of The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson, best known for completing Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time(R), takes a break to return to the world of the bestselling Mistborn series. Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the…

Horowitz Anthony: Heroes and Villains

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: From the pen of master storyteller Anthony Horowitz comes a new series of myths and legends from around the world, retold in a contemporary voice, and illustrated with bold, graphic artwork. Packed with Horowitz's signature action, humor, and suspense these collections feel fresh, modern, and perfect for today's fast-moving audience. The battle between good and evil has raged throughout time, in…

Gelardi Julia P.: From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: This sweeping saga recreates the extraordinary opulence and violence of Tsarist Russia as the shadow of revolution fell over the land, and destroyed a way of life for these Imperial women. The early 1850s until the late 1920s marked a turbulent and significant era for Russia. During that time the country underwent a massive transformation, taking it from days of grandeur under the tsars to the…