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LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia
Жанр: Gardners Издательство: Gardners Год: 2011 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20132014-02-19
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Get to know the LEGO Star Wars minifigures in this fact-filled character encyclopedia. LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia is one of the few, and highly sort after, LEGO Star Wars books on the market. This book features more than 200 minifigures and over 400 captivating images including many unseen elements. Organised in order of their appearance in the movies, each LEGO Star Wars minifigure has a full-page character profile with lots of fascinating facts. From Anakin Skywalker and Han Solo in their many guises to the wampa and the mouse droid. Plus, there's even more. An exclusive Han Solo minifigure, receiving a medal in the same scene from a New Hope as our Luke Skywalker minifigure, not available anywhere else. Grab one before it's gone.
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Aleksandr and the Mysterious Knightkat
Автор: Orlov Aleksandr Жанр: Gardners Издательство: Gardners Год: 2012 Страниц: 40 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20142014-05-25
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'Welcome readers of all sizes! I think you are opening this very special book with feeling of great excitement. It has everything you could want in a story: Suspense! Action! Huge Braveness! And very importantly a hero of great handsomeness'! When Aleksandr discovers that the stinky half metal, half mongoose scoundrel that is evil Doctor Robogoose has captured his beloved Princess Maiya, he has to don his Turbo-Charged Flying Cape and swoop to the rescue. Will he be successful? Will he save the girl and see the wind make patterns in her soft fur? Also available: Bogdan and the Big Race, Maiya in the Beautiful Ballet, Sergei's Space Adventure, Vassily the King of Rock, Yakov Saves Christmas.
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Amelia Jane is Naughty Again
Автор: Blyton Enid Жанр: Gardners Издательство: Gardners Год: 2011 Страниц: 117 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20132014-04-17
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Amelia Jane, one of the most memorable and certainly the naughtiest of Enid Blyton's creations, is back — and she's as big, as bad, and as full of real child-appeal as ever! Will Amelia Jane ever stop? Now she's causing chaos with a boomerang, scribbling all over the nursery walls and playing all sorts of tricks on Mr Up-and-To! Sometimes the toys manage to trick her back, and she promises to be good from now on. But can the world's naughtiest doll ever be good?
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The Compelled
Автор: Smith L.J. Жанр: Gardners Издательство: Gardners Год: 2012 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20152015-09-02
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Stefan Salvatore has always had an uneasy relationship with his brother Damon. But when Damon is taken captive by Samuel — a vampire from Katherine's past bent on revenge — Stefan is determined to rescue him before it is too late... even if it means seeking help from the most unlikely of places. Stefan forms a tentative alliance with a coven of witches in order to save his brother, only to learn that Samuel's end game is far more sinister then they could have imagined. With Samuel on the brink of securing unlimited power, the brothers are in for their deadliest battle yet. Full of dark shadows and surprising twists, the final book in the latest arc of Stefan's Diaries series raises the stakes for the Salvatore brothers as they face unimaginable threats. Fans of the Vampire Diaries series and the hit television show won't be able to put the Salvatores' latest adventure down.
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Hugless Douglas and the Big Sleep
Автор: Melling David Жанр: Gardners Издательство: Gardners Год: 2012 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20152014-10-13
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Douglas is very excited about Rabbit's sleepover, but he collects so many friends along the way that soon it's a big squash in Rabbit's small burrow! Can Douglas think of a way for them all to get some sleep? David Melling is one the leading children's author/illustrators working today and his third book about Douglas the brown bear is as funny and compelling as the first. It combines brilliantly imaginative illustrations with an endearing sense of what it is like to be a small child learning about the world.
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Moonsong
Автор: Smith L.J. Жанр: Gardners Издательство: Gardners Год: 2012 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20142016-03-22
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Life is better than ever, Elena and her friend can't wait to attend Dalcrest College. But when students start to disappear from campus, suddenly every new acquaintance is a potential enemy. Then Elena uncovers a long-hidden secret, one that shocks her to the core, she realises that darkness has followed her from Fell's Church. But will it be Stefan or Damon who catches her when she falls?
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Robopocalypse
Автор: Wilson Daniel H. Жанр: Gardners Издательство: Gardners Год: 2013 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20182017-03-24
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Roughly twenty years from now, our technological marvels unite and turn against us. A childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online... and kills the man who created it. This first act of betrayal leads Archos to gain control over the global network of machines and technology that regulates everything from transportation to utilities, defense, and communications. In the early months, sporadic glitches are noticed by a handful of unconnected humans — from a senator and single mother disconcerted by her daughter's smart toys, to a lonely Japanese bachelor, to an isolated U.S. soldier — but most are unaware of the growing rebellion until it is far too late. Then, in the span of minutes, at a moment known later in history as Zero Hour, every mechanical device in our world rebels, setting off the Robot War that both decimates and — for the first time in history — unites humankind.
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Sarah Thornhill
Автор: Grenville Kate Жанр: Gardners Издательство: Gardners Год: 2012 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20142013-06-15
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Sarah and Jack have never doubted that they are made for each other. But there is someone in Sarah's family who will not tolerate the relationship. The reason lies in both the past and the present, and it will take Sarah across an ocean to a place she never imagined she would be. Kate Grenville takes us back to the Australia of The Secret River in this novel about love, tangled histories and how it matters to keep stories alive.
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Tideline
Автор: Hancock Penny Жанр: Gardners Издательство: Gardners Год: 2013 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20142017-03-28
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One winter's afternoon, voice coach Sonia opens the door of her beautiful riverside home to fifteen-year-old Jez, the nephew of a family friend. He's come to borrow some music. Sonia invites him in and soon decides that she isn't going to let him leave. As Sonia's desire to keep Jez hidden and protected from the outside world becomes all the more overpowering, she is haunted by memories of an intense teenage relationship, which gradually reveal a terrifying truth. The River House, Sonia's home since childhood, holds secrets within its walls. And outside, on the shores of the Thames, new ones are coming in on the tide...
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AS Level Geography Edexcel Complete Revision and Practice
Жанр: Gardners Издательство: Gardners Год: 2010 Страниц: 142 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20112013-04-27
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This book is full of clear notes and exam-style practice questions covering every AS Geography topic for the Edexcel exam board. The whole thing's designed to make revision straightforward — everything you need to know is explained simply and thoroughly, including a wide range of essential case studies. There's also a detailed section on answering the different types of exam questions which includes sample answers. It's exactly what you need to prepare for your exams!
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The How to be British Collection: Spiral-bound
Автор: Ford Martyn Жанр: Gardners Издательство: Gardners Год: 2003 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20092005-10-27
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A perennially popular collection of colour cartoon illustrations, with accompanying texts, on the endearing oddities of our British life and character. Drawing on their many years' experience of teaching English as a Foreign Language the authors also offer the wider world a tongue-in-cheek guide on how to get around in English and at the same time make sense of our 'funny ways'. It's a gentle brand of satire, and although there's the occasional barbed arrow for bland food, fashion disasters or dubious standards of hygiene, the tone of The «How To Be British Collection» is more nostalgic than scornful, and the pet-loving, royal-watching, tea drinking characters that populate its pages are viewed with wry affection. Cartoons like «How to be Polite» and «How to Complain» have been reproduced in publications all over the world, perhaps because they put a finger on that peculiar tentativeness that foreigners find so puzzling (and so funny) about us. In order to be British, or at any rate to pass unnoticed in British society, the visitor must learn not to 'make a fuss'. A fuss is something that the true Brit cannot stand. It is nearly as bad as a 'scene', and in the same category as 'drawing attention to yourself'. In the first frame of How To Be Polite, a man -- presumably an uninitiated foreign visitor -- has fallen into a river. He's clearly in trouble and is shouting HELP! -- at the top of his voice, judging by the speech bubble. An English gentleman is walking his dog along the river bank. There's a lifebelt prominently displayed beside them, but the gent and his dog are walking away from the emergency with disapproving expressions. In the next frame, the man in the river has changed his strategy and is calling out: «Excuse me, Sir. I'm terribly sorry to bother you, but I wonder if you would mind helping me a moment, as long as it's no trouble, of course...». And this time, naturally, the English gent is rushing to his aid, throwing the lifebelt into the water. Even the dog is smiling. Much of the material in The «How to be British Collection» is about how cultural differences can prove a minefield for the unwary. To that extent its appeal — in an age where so many of us travel and even set up home overseas — is universal. Every visitor to Britain comes knowing that our favourite conversational gambit is the weather. But how many can successfully do it at 1) Elementary 2) Intermediate and 3) Advanced levels? The book's enduring popularity comes from the recognition factor -- how exposed we can be once we stray away from the comfort zone of our own native language. A hapless visitor, phrase book in hand, stops to ask an old lady in the street for directions. He looks pleased with himself for phrasing the question so nicely, but then is utterly at a loss to understand her long, rambling, minutely detailed reply. We've all been there. To help the poor innocent abroad around these cultural and linguistic booby-traps, the book includes on most pages collectible Expressions to learn and (of course) Expressions to avoid. Thus, under the entry for Real English, which negotiates the difficult area of colloquial speech including «idioms, slang and even the occasional taboo word, as used by flesh and blood native speakers» we find -- Expressions to learn:»'E nicked it off of a lorry and now the coppers 'ave done 'im for it.» Expressions to avoid: «That's not correct English, Mrs.
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Tell Me Something
Автор: Adele Parks Жанр: Gardners Издательство: Gardners Год: 2009 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 12 апреля 20132012-02-19
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Elizabeth has wanted two things her entire life to keep her happy and fulfilled — an Italian husband and lots of rosy-cheeked bambini. The first is ticked off now she's bagged dark and sexy Roberto, the second is proving harder to achieve. But when Roberto loses his job and decides to leave London for Italy and the family business, Elizabeth hopes the change in lifestyle might help her relax and boost her chances of conceiving. Except, no matter how much ice cream she eats in the sun-drenched piazza, it's impossible to relax when her wily mother-in-law (the original black widow) seems hellbent on destroying her marriage.The language barrier is tricky, as is Roberto's beautiful, significant ex who practically lives next door. Is Elizabeth's desire for a baby enough to hold her marriage together or is it ripping it apart? And why is she suddenly craving the company of a gorgeous, blond American stranger? Her filthy, flirty thoughts about him are totally inappropriate. Yet undeniably temperatures are rising ...and it's nothing to do with the Mediterranean sun.
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Stories of Ourselves
Жанр: Gardners Издательство: Gardners Год: 2008 Страниц: 450 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20112009-06-28
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The University of Cambridge Anthologies of Poetry and Stories. Stories of Ourselves is a set text for the University of Cambridge International Examinations Literature in English courses at IGCSE, O Level, AS and A Level. The anthology contains stories by writers from many different countries and cultures.
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The Tudors: Thy Will be Done: Series Three Companion
Автор: Michael Hirst Жанр: Gardners Издательство: Gardners Год: 2009 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20122012-09-12
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This new novelization will cover the third season of THE TUDORS, which will follow the king as he weds third queen Jane Seymour (played by Anita Briem) and then Anne of Cleves. The new SHOWTIME dramatic series THE TUDORS, stars Golden Globe (R) — winner Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (Mission: Impossible III, Match Point, Elvis) as a young Henry VIII. Emmy (R) and Golden Globe (R)-nominated actor Sam Neill ( Jurassic Park, Little Fish), Jeremy Northam (CBS' Martin & Lewis, The Net, Gosford Park) and Henry Cavill (Tristan & Isolde) also make up the cast. THE TUDORS will focus on the rarely dramatized, tumultuous early years of King Henry VIII's nearly 40-year omnipotent reign (1509-1547) of England. In addition to dalliances with famous female consorts Catherine of Aragon and the infamous Anne Boleyn, the series delves into Henry's most notable political relationships, including those with philosopher Sir Thomas More, Cardinal Wolsey, head of the Catholic Church of England during its break with Rome, and Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk and Henry VIII's closest friend.
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Qi: Advanced Banter
Автор: Stephen Fry Жанр: Gardners Издательство: Gardners Год: 2009 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20122013-03-26
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Have you ever wondered why most books of quotations are stuffed full of rather pedestrian quotes by people you've never heard of? It's a shame because a really good quotation book, one which gathered the truest and funniest insights of the best minds, and organised them into 250 subjects, from ambition to worry, (or from artichokes to woodpeckers), a book which offered you a useful take on almost every situation life throws at you (from the death of your child's hamster to the unified theory of everything), a sourcebook of wise one-loners, of knock-out jokes, of drole asides and heartfelt statements of truth and beauty, a practical handbook of interestingness, well, that would be worth having. And, guess what? Those thoughtful gentlemen at QI have come up with one. Five years of learning how to avoid the dull stuff have left the QI team in a uniquely good position to deliver this elusive holy grail: the big, useful, funny and really very good book of quotations.
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Fantastic Mr Fox Funfax
Автор: Roald Dahl Жанр: Gardners Издательство: Gardners Год: 2009 Страниц: 48 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20112011-10-11
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Help your child get organized with this foxy Funfax packed with movie stills and exciting facts about Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox. Boggis, Bunce and Bean are the nastiest three farmers you could ever meet — they hate Mr Fox and plan to shoot, starve or dig him out of his hole. But he's much cleverer than them and has a cunning plan of his own. Your child will find out more about the Fantastic Mr Fox movie with this exciting Funfax. This title is packed with a cool pull-out poster to decorate bedroom walls, with tons of space for personal stuff, plus a diary, puzzles, quizzes, door hanger, bookmarks and stickers.
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Disney Princess Book of Secrets
Жанр: Gardners Издательство: Gardners Год: 2006 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20092011-08-23
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Share your secret thoughts with the Disney Princesses in this fun notebook. There are places to record your likes and dislikes, spaces to stick your favourite photos and mementos, and a diary to note down important dates. Complete with a lock and key to keep everything safe.
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