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Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: This title contains four hilarious and provocative stories from Boccaccio's Decameron, featuring cuckolded husbands, cross-dressing wives and very bad priests. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion... Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories ever told, thought to have been composed by a slave in Greek antiquity and giving glimpses of a world that is harsh, pitiless and yet also eerily familiar. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: There sat the dog with eyes as big as mill wheels. Though criticised for their anarchic immorality when first published, Hans Christian Andersen's tales made him an international star, taken to the hearts of children and adults for their beauty, sorrow and strangeness. Included here are The Steadfast Tin Soldier and Big Klaus and Little Klaus. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for…

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: From bestselling authors Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris — a nugget of wisdom in the phenomenal Ladybirds for Grown Ups series. This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the world about them. The large clear script, the careful choice of words, the frequent repetition and the thoughtful matching of text with pictures…

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: From bestselling authors Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris — a nugget of wisdom in the phenomenal Ladybirds for Grown Ups series. This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the world about them. The large clear script, the careful choice of words, the frequent repetition and the thoughtful matching of text with pictures…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Emma and Adam are doctors at the top of their fields and so when they are offered the chance to take their three children to Africa for a year for a research placement it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. It's going to be an experience they'll never forget. But for all the wrong reasons. When Emma arrives home one night to the sickening sight of an empty cot, their family's dream…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: We fed the monster until it blew up... While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the banking system — and made a fortune. From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, this is the outrageous story of the misfits, mavericks and geniuses who, against all odds, made the greatest…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all. It's about the legacy of war and the end of innocence. It's about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won. It's about how 140 characters can make fools of us all. It's about living in a city where bankers need cinemas in their basements and others…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Raises the bar... elegantly written and compelling. A crime writer to watch. (The Scotsman). Help me, please help me. It was a young woman's voice, pleading with him. He opened the door, certain that this was the biggest mistake of his life, and there she was, a feral creature in dirty clothes, with hollowed cheeks and scabs on her cracked lips. She told him her name and why she'd broken into his…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Bestselling author Jojo Moyes brings us a charming and heart-warming short story in association with Quick Reads. Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She has never even been on a weekend away with her boyfriend. Everyone knows she is just not the adventurous type. But, when her boyfriend doesn't turn up for their romantic mini-break, Nell has the chance to prove everyone wrong. Alone…

Скачать книгу (размер 452 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 90) Аннотация: For two couples in Paris, over a century apart, marriage is only the beginning of their love stories... For Sophie, a provincial girl at heart, it is easy to be swept up in the glamour of belle epoque Paris. But she quickly discovers that loving a feted artist like Edouard Lefevre brings undreamt of complications. Over a hundred years later, Liv is looking forward to her Parisian honeymoon with…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: This very special hardback gift edition includes four bestselling Eric Carle titles: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? and Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? These classic picture books feature favourite animals and themes — colours, actions, sounds and babies — all brought to life in Eric Carle's…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: 'Is it me you love, friend? or the race that made me?' A gothic novella about love, torment and doomed aristocracy, set in the remote mountains of Spain. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The Weather Makers tells the dramatic story of the earth's climate, of how it has changed, how we have come to understand it, and of what that means for the future. Tim Flannery's gripping narrative takes the reader on an extraordinary journey into the past and around the globe, bringing us closer to the science than ever before. Along the way he explodes the many illusions that have grown up…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: It's the start of a new term at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches and Mildred Hubble is determined not to be the worst witch this year. Everything starts so well. Mildred's class has a new form teacher — no more Miss Hardbroom for Mildred and her friends! But then the new teacher, Miss Granite, starts acting fishy; Mildred has a very bad hair day when a hair growth spell goes wrong and she has to…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: In this boldly drawn portrait of 18th century England, Roy Porter defines a nation from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered run the gamut — diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The Sanctuary of the Redeemers is a place where children endure brutal cruelty and violence in the name of the One True Faith. Lost in the Sanctuary's huge maze of corridors is a boy. He is strange witty and charming, and violent. But when he opens the wrong door at the wrong time he witnesses an act so horrible he must flee, or die.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: This is the next book in the brilliant and bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid is on its way! Share in the hilarious adventures of everyone's favourite wimpy kid, Greg Heffley, in the highly-anticipated seventh book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. It is also now a box office-busting major motion franchise with the third Wimpy Kid movie releasing in the UK on August 3rd.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: From Oliver Bullough, the acclaimed author of the Orwell Prize-shortlisted, Let Our Fame Be Great, a study — part travelogue, part political analysis — of a nation in crisis. In the 1960s, two things happened in Russia. Not the overthrow of Nikita Khrushchev, though that may have been part of it, nor the invasion of Czechoslovakia, though that may have been part of it too. What happened is that…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: 'The ultimate children's story ever' — David Walliams Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world's No. storyteller! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. The famous story of Charlie Bucket and his Golden Ticket, and Willy Wonka and his amazing chocolate factory. Mr Willy Wonka, the most wondrous inventor in the world, opens his gates of his amazing…