This is a classic story from one of our best-loved authors. Gemma doesn`t believe a chicken could have written a book - chickens can`t even read! But here in front of them is The True Story of Harrowing Farm, and its scratchy pages definitely look, well, chickeny. It is an epic tale of cruelty and bravery, the story of a chicken who flies frillions of miles, reaching the heights of intergalactic superstardom, to try to save us humans.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-3321-7
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese sleuths, Koko and Yum Yum, investigate the disappearance of a wealthy railroad buff - and alleged multimillion-dollar embezzler - a case that becomes complicated by red herrings, a tragic train wreck, and murder at a railroad tavern.
In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull upt ot the curb...Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America.Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally is a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer for all of four years. Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And Reggie will do anything to protect her client - even take a last, desperate gamble that could...
ISBN: 9780440213529
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: январь 2020
Книга входит в серию иллюстрированных учебных пособий "Читаем вместе". Эта книга о том, как хитрый рыжий кот украл хвостику маленькой мышки. Чтобы вернуть свой хвостик, мышке предстоит проделать долгий путь. Прочитав эту историю, ребёнок выучит 60 новых слов, научится описывать действия людей и животных, использовать повелительные предложения. Книга также содержит занимательные упражнения и...
ISBN: 978-5-8112-5659-4
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: март 2015
Джеффри Чосер — известный писатель и поэт XV века, "отец английской поэзии", основоположник национальной литературы и художественного английского языка. "Кентерберийские рассказы" - это сборник, представляющий собой настоящий памятник литературы позднего Средневековья. Автор не останавливается на одном стиле повествования, - читателя ждут самые разнообразные рассказы: смешные и хулиганские,...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05730-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
The procession that crosses Chaucer`s pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters — including Chaucer himself ~ are real people, with human emotions and weaknesses. When it is remembered that Chaucer wrote in English at a time when Latin was the standard literary language across western Europe, the magnitude of his achievement is even more remarkable. But Chaucer`s genius needs no historical introduction; it bursts forth from every page of The Canterbury Tales.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06150-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2017
Saki (H.H.Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekov and O.Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried. Among the short stories are the well-known classics, "Sredni Vastar" and "The Unrest Cure".
ISBN: 1-85326-071-1
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Could a robot ever show true creativity? Is it wise to trust self-driving cars? Will robotic body parts transform human beings into machines? Will organic technology allow robots to become human? The Complete Robot combines the stories in I, Robot and The Rest of the Robots with many more found only in this collection – including one of Asimov`s masterpieces, the Hugo and Nebula award-winning novella ‘The Bicentennial Man`. Featuring Dr. Susan Calvin, Donovan and Powell, and the detective Elijah Baley, hero of the Robot novels, this is the ultimate collection of short stories from a genius of the genre.
A New York Times bestseller, "The Conquerors" reveals how Franklin Roosevelt`s and Harry Truman`s private struggles with their aides and Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin affected the unfolding of the Holocaust and the fate of vanquished Nazi Germany. With monumental fairness and balance, "The Conquerors" shows how Roosevelt privately refused desperate pleas to speak out directly against the Holocaust, to save Jewish refugees and to explore the possible bombing of Auschwitz to stop the killing. The book also shows FDR`s fierce will to ensure that Germany would never threaten the world again. Near the end of World War II, he abruptly endorsed the secret plan of his friend, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, to reduce the Germans to a...
Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are ruled by pure logic and the harmony of numbers But just because the Disc is different doesn`t mean that some things don`t stay the same. Its very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the arrival of the first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. But if the person charged with maintaining...
ISBN: 978-0-552-15292-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Джек Лондон - классик американской литературы, автор ярких, живых приключенческих романов и рассказов. "Зов предков" - один из самых известных и ярких романов Джека Лондона, в основе которого лежит история о сильных духом людях, о севере, о золоте и о том, что даже в самой домашней, изнеженной и добродушной собаке по кличке Бэк живёт волк... Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!
ISBN: 978-5-521-05361-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
