Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Food and literature have a long relationship and food is used to shed light on characters and relationships, from meals as the centre of family life to food as a political symbol. This collection brings together five stories and extracts all with food at their heart.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This is a gripping masterpiece of dark family rivalries, shadowy politics and hidden secrets, from the bestselling thriller author, writing at the height of his powers. Two families entangled in a long and complex history of love and deceit... Twenty five years ago, after a society picnic held by businessman and politician Zeus Kronon, Zeus headstrong daughter Dita was found murdered. Her…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: In the first issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, Oprah wrote: We are all the causes of our own effects... That's why I'll never stop asking the question, What do you know for sure? In the fourteen years since Oprah wrote those words, she has retired The Oprah Winfrey Show (the highest-rated programme of its kind in history), launched her own television network, become America's only black…
Скачать книгу (размер 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 36) Аннотация: A new, limited edition of The Gruffalo's Child, one of the world's favourite picture books. Ten years after it was first published, the classic snowy adventure featuring the everyone's favourite characters from the deep dark wood continues to delight children and adults the world over. Created by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, the most successful picture book partnership ever, this sequel to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A dazzlingly urban satire on modern relationships? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something? Welcome to Bridget's first diary: mercilessly funny, endlessly touching and utterly addictive. 'I cannot recommend a book more joyfully... Hilariously funny, miraculously observed, endlessly touching' Jilly Cooper, Daily…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Designed to prepare students for success in the updated 2015 Cambridge English: First (FCE) examination through exam-style questions and 'Further Practice and Guidance' sections. Packed with two audio CDs containing all the audio for the Listening sections of the exam. This is a 'Without Key' edition.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Designed to prepare students for success in the updated 2015 Cambridge English: First (FCE) examination through exam-style questions and 'Further Practice and Guidance' sections. Packed with two audio CDs containing all the audio for the Listening sections of the exam. This is a 'With Key' edition.
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: «Discover China Workbook 4» is an accompanying workbook to «Discover China Student Book 4», designed for upper-intermediate teenage-adult learners of mandarin Chinese. «Workbook 4» is suitable for both in-class and self-study use. «Workbook 4» features clear language objectives which correspond with the «Student's Book» unit structure and activities. A wide variety of vocabulary and grammar…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Police officers Quill, Costain, Sefton, and Ross know the worst of London—or they think they do. While investigating a mobster's mysterious death, they come into contact with a strange artifact and accidentally develop the Sight. Suddenly they can see the true evil haunting London’s streets. Armed with police instincts and procedures, the four officers take on the otherworldly creatures secretly…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Bestselling author Jeffrey Archer's Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno? When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to replace him. But Don…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Rosanna Menici is just a girl when she meets Roberto Rossini, the man who will change her life forever. In the years to come, their destinies are bound together by their extraordinary talents as opera singers and by their enduring but obsessive love for each other — a love that will ultimately affect the lives of all those closest to them. For, as Rosanna slowly discovers, their union is haunted…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: When you abandon the rules, can you ever go back? Mia Allen has never quite adjusted to living in England. She misses her friends in the States and feels restrained by small-town family life near Oxford. Her husband Kit, on the other hand, loves the sense of community here and his job as a school teacher in a private school. Like Mia, Kit's boss Charlie is also looking for more excitement in her…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: I think the war is everywhere: in the rain, in the river, in the grey air that we breathe. It is a current which runs through all of us. You can't escape the current; either you swim with it, or you go under. London Docklands, 1916. With her husband fighting in France, 24-year-old Hannah Loxwood struggles to be everything the war asks her to be. She cares for her children, supports her elderly…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 543 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 500) Аннотация: The Empire stands victorious over its enemies at last. With her chief rival cast into the abyss, Empress Seda now faces the truth of what she has cost the world in order to win the war. The Seal has been shattered, and the Worm stirs towards the light for the first time in a thousand years. Already it is striking at the surface, voraciously consuming everything its questing tendrils touch. Faced…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Vivienne Westwood is one of the icons of our age. Fashion designer, activist, co-creator of punk, global brand and grandmother; a true living legend. Her career has successfully spanned five decades and her work has influenced millions of people across the world. For the first and only time, Vivienne Westwood has written a personal memoir, collaborating with award-winning biographer Ian Kelly, to…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Meet the boy who can't stop creating art! He loves colours, shapes, textures and EVERYTHING inspires him: his socks, the contents of the fridge, even his cat gets a new coat (of paint!). But there's just one problem: his mum isn't quite so enthusiastic. In fact, she seems a little cross! But this boy has a plan to make his mum smile. He's about to create his finest piece yet and on a very grand…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Little Rabbit and her friends are playing in the snow. Rose Rabbit and Grey Rabbit are skating fast and slow. Honey Rabbit and Rust Rabbit are sledging from top to bottom. And Little Rabbit and Brown Rabbit are busy rolling snowballs, one big and one small, ready to make a snowman. But when the sun goes down it's time to say 'goodbye' cold snow, 'hello' hot carrot soup. Kind Little Rabbit has…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: TED talks have redefined the elements of a successful presentation and become the gold standard for public speaking around the world. TED and associated Tedx conferences are held in more than 130 countries and are being viewed at a rate of 1.5 million times a day. These are presentations that set the world on fire, and the techniques that top TED speakers use are the same ones that will make any…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: ROBERT KIRKMAN'S THE WALKING DEAD. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES. Lilly Caul and a small ragtag band of survivors are determined to overcome their traumatic past. Still recovering from its troublesome history, the town of Woodbury, Georgia, becomes an oasis of safety amidst the plague of the walking dead — a town reborn in the wake of its former tyrannical leader, Philip Blake, aka The…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 049 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 403) Аннотация: New York Times bestseller Jane Green delivers a riveting novel about two women whose lives intersect when a shocking secret is revealed From the author of Another Piece of My Heart comes Family Pictures, the gripping story of two women who live on opposite coasts but whose lives are connected in ways they never could have imagined. Both women are wives and mothers to children who are about to…