A cat`s nine lives are full of adventure and excitement and none more so than Montezuma, the farmyard cat. From a young kitten to a grand old cat he is cunning and proud while establishing his kingdom, but to Matthew he`s always loving and adorable.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-3338-5
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
In the last 100 years mankind has split the atom, walked on the moon and broken the sound barrier we haven`t got any better at making biscuits. The nation`s favourite biscuit, McVitie`s Chocolate Digestive, was first baked in 1892. This is just one of the fascinating facts you will find in The Nation`s Favourite. What is the UK`s favourite karaoke song, or wedding first dance song? What is our favourite cereal, painkiller, pet or garden tool? The Nation`s Favourite brings together 220 lists which provide the answers to these questions and many more. The result is amusing, surprising and reveals a fascinating picture of the tastes and habits of the UK population.
With a preface by Norman Davies, author of Europe: A History. Revised and updated following Russia`s attack on Georgia. No longer the sick man of Europe, Russia is run by an authoritarian ex-KGB regime with the cash to put its ideas into practice. Under Vladimir Putin`s autocratic rule, it silences its critics and bullies its neighbours. The murders of Anna Politkovskaya and Aleksander Litvinenko have sent a grim warning to other critics and the sham presidential `election` in 2007 that put Dmitry Medvedev in the Kremlin as Putin`s hand-picked successor showed how Russia`s rulers, not the voters, dictate the country`s political future. The New Cold War explains the Kremlin`s use of energy blockades and trade sanctions, military...
ISBN: 978-0-7475-9636-3
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
How can the naughtiest girl be good at camp with horrible Arabella in the very same tent? Especially when she`s busy stirring up trouble for Elizabeth`s best friend,
ISBN: 978-0-340-91774-9
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. This collection consists of ten great stories such as "The Madness of John Harned", "When the World Was Young", "The Benefit of the Doubt", and "The Night-Born".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07504-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Read along and sing along to this rough and tough, swinging and swaying, seawashy piratical yarn! One night, young Tom is awoken by noises outside his house. He peeps out of the window and what should he see but pirates. And stranger still - they`re girl pirates stealing the front of his house! Tom joins their pirate adventure across the high seas to an island where some rather lazy and silly grown-up pirates are guarding their treasure - but not very successfully. Tom and the girl-pirates make a surprise attack and are soon off on the seas once more with the treasure!
ISBN: 978-1-4052-3043-8
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Книга посвящена первому в мире яхт-клубу, «Невскому флоту», созданному Петром Великим в 1718 году. Книга богато иллюстрирована. Специально для этой книги известный художник А.А. Тронь выполнил реконструкции судов «Невского флота».
ISBN: 9785604044933
Издательство:
Циолковский
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
The electrifying sequel to Caves of Steel in which Elijah Baley is once more teemed up with R. Daneel. The two must travel to Solaria, where no human has gone in over a thousand years! Reacting in fear against the technological superiority of the Outer Worlds, the people of Earth have hidden themselves in vast underground cities, nursing a hatred for Spacers. The fifty Outer Worlds of the Spacers together are home to fewer people than planet Earth. And home to many, many more robots. Earthmen hate Spacer robots, But Baley doesn`t. He once had a robot partner, R. Daneel - and when the authorities of the planet Solaria request terrestrial assistance in investigating a murder, Baley is once again teamed with Daneel. He is the first Earthman...
Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign or second language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction. The Night Manager, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. It is well supported by...
Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this is not only a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, but also a chronicle of the 14th century religious wars, a history of monastic orders, and a compendium of heretical movements.
ISBN: 0-7493-9705-5
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
This fourth book in the bestselling Can You See What I See? series features photographs of fun collections, including toy cars, teddy bears, dinosaurs, and much more.
In and a fabulous villa in Greece, an innocent American girl becomes a bewildered, horror-stricken pawn in a game of vengeance and betrayal. She is Catherine Douglas, a woman caught in a web of four lives intertwined by passion as her handsome husband pursues an incredibly beautiful film as Constantin Demiris, a legendary Greek tycoon, tightens the strands that control them all. Welcome to "The Other Side of Midnight" - and one of Sidney Sheldon`s most dazzling and surprising novels of suspense.
ISBN: 0-446-35740-5
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
