Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Original stories plus contemporary illustrations and thumbnail text create the backdrop of Conan Doyle's master-sleuth in Victorian Britain.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 324 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 457) Аннотация: Edinborough Detective Inspector Tony McLean is drawn into a set of cases separated by six decades, but connected by a macabre and brutal ritual killing.
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Literary classic with unique illustrated content; Complete Unabridged Text. One of Dickens' most popular novels brought to life with contemporary photos and illustrations.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Christian Wolmar expertly tells the story of the Trans-Siberian railway from its conception and construction under Tsar Alexander III, to the northern extension ordered by Brezhnev and its current success as a vital artery. He also explores the crucial role the line played in both the Russian Civil War — Trotsky famously used an armoured carriage as his command post — and the Second World War,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: From “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory comes this instant New York Times bestseller that tells the story of the remarkable Elizabeth of York, daughter of the White Queen, and mother to the House of Tudor. When Henry Tudor picks up the crown of England from the mud of Bosworth field, he knows he must marry the princess of the enemy house—Elizabeth of York—to unify a country…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: Following on from our hugely successful publication of Beyond the Page, we are thrilled to be publishing Words and Pictures in paperback for the first time. This is the fascinating insight into Quentin's work before Beyond the Page, from the start of his career until 2000. The words describe his approach to the challenges and opportunities of illustration; the pictures, chosen from fifty years of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War. Philby's two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6 and James Jesus Angleton, the CIA intelligence chief, thought they knew Philby better than anyone,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Soon to be a major motion picture, The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Bernard has never been to dinner at a friend's house before. His mother gives him quite the list of rules to follow — no elbows on the table, put your napkin on your lap, don't talk with food in your mouth, and so on. But Bernard isn't prepared to discover that the Goldsmiths think the table is the best place for elbows and feet, never put their napkins on their laps, and talk with food in their…
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: Here stands the Castle de Chevalier, a powerful fortress from the year 1280. It's home to Duke Roland, his family, his brave knights, and his many servants. All it needs is some children to come visit and fill in every room with their reusable stickers, from the busy kitchen to the deep, dark dungeon, and even the fields beyond. At the back of the book, children will find extra activities,…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: You're invited to 51 Orchard Mansions, a lavish home in the year 1888. Open this die-cut book to meet the wealthy family that owned this extraordinary house and see how life was lived back in the Victorian era. Go upstairs and downstairs and through its many rooms, from the nursery where the children play to the kitchen where servants prepare the dinner. Lift the flaps to look behind doors, peer…
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Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Meet witches and kelpies, fairies and selkies, brave warriors and courageous girls, in ten spellbinding tales from Scotland, from Orkney and Skye to Perthshire and the Borders. . . The Stories included are... The Selkie?s Toes * Tam Linn * The Ring of Brodgar * The Witch of Lochlann * The King of the Dark Arts * The Monster of Raasay * School for Heroes * the Loch Fada Kelpie * Whuppity Stoorie *…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: The Little Princess doesn't want to go to the hospital, and she does everything she can to avoid it. But when she is finally forced to go, she finds that she really rather likes it. Why? Because they treat her like a princess there!
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Francis Walsingham was the first spymaster in the modern sense. His methods anticipated those of MI5 and MI6 and even those of the KGB. He maintained a network of spies across Europe, including double-agents at the highest level in Rome and Spain — the sworn enemies of Queen Elizabeth and her Protestant regime. His entrapment of Mary Queen of Scots is a classic intelligence operation that…
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: «Mars is a desolate place, in this 1964 novel. Largely forgotten by Earth, isolated communities eke out a living alongside the great canals, dependent on Arnie Knott, the union boss who controls the meager water supply. No one is beyond his reach—certainly not Jack Bohlen, the repairman whom Knott's mistress comes to love. Neither is Manfred, the autistic child who slips helplessly backwards and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 906 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 375) Аннотация: «In this first novel by the author of The Invention of Wings, Lily Owens — daughter of a South Carolina peach farmer and a mother who was killed when Lily was just four — has since adopted a fierce-hearted black woman named Rosaleen as her «stand-in mother». But after Rosaleen insults three of the worst racists in town, the pair must flee to remote Tiburon, South Carolina, where they are taken in…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Fans of Asterix: get ready for lots of exciting, fun-filled activities! This cooler-than-cool collection features 600 fabulous stickers, including every one of your favorite characters from the popular series. Thirty-two pages of word searches, quizzes, spot the difference, secret codes, logic puzzles, and jigsaws provide hours of enjoyment—and a few surprises, too.
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: (Part of the original Foundation Trilogy, winner of the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series) The descent of the Empire into chaos has occurred, just as Hari Seldon predicted it would, in this second novel of Isaac Asimov's monumental Foundation saga-a central masterwork of modern science fiction that merited a special Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series. The Seldon Plan even accounted…