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Английский с улыбкой. Бернард Шоу. Пигмалион = George Bernard Shaw. Pygmalion Бернард Шоу
ISBN: 978-5-7873-1793-0 Год издания: 2021 Издательство: Издательский дом ВКН Язык: Русский Блестящая комедия Бернарда Шоу о лондонском профессоре, который по условиям пари должен превратить вульгарную цветочницу в утонченную леди из высшего света, адаптирована в настоящем издании по методу Ильи Франка: снабжена дословным переводом на русский язык и необходимым лексико-грамматическим комментарием (без упрощения текста оригинала). Уникальность метода заключается в том, что запоминание слов и выражений происходит за счет их повторяемости, без заучивания и необходимости использовать словарь. Кроме того, читатель привыкает к логике английского языка, начинает его «чувствовать». Пособие способствует эффективному освоению языка, может…
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Fun Stuff. Приколы по-американски. Юмористический лингвострановедческий сборник
ISBN: 978-5-94962-174-5 Год издания: 2010 Издательство: Антология Язык: Русский Как можно одновременно повторить грамматику английского языка, расширить словарный запас и узнать что-то интересное о стране изучаемого языка, затратив минимум усилий? Ответом на этот вопрос, по мнению составителей, является данная книга, представляющая собой сборник юмористических заметок, сопровождаемых подробным словарем и комментариями. Книга адресована самому широкому кругу читателей.
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Imperfektsionistid Tom Rachman
ISBN: 9789949919581 Год издания: 2011 Издательство: Eesti Ekspressi raamat Язык: Эстонский -
A Christmas Cracker: The only festive romance to curl up with this Christmas! Trisha Ashley
ISBN: 9780008133719 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский This Christmas is about to go off with a bang!Things can’t possibly get worse for Tabby. Framed for her boss’s dodgy dealings, she’s landed up in prison. Then Tabby’s boyfriend dumps her and gives her cat away to a shelter.But rescue comes in the form of Mercy. A master of saving waifs and strays, Mercy wants Tabby to breathe new flair into her ailing cracker business. Together, they’ll save Marwood’s Magical Christmas Crackers.But someone’s not happy. Mercy’s nephew Randal thinks Tabby’s a fraudster. Stubborn, difficult and very attractive, her future depends upon winning him round. Standing under the mistletoe, Tabby’s Christmas is set to…
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Sauve Qui Peut: Stories Lawrence Durrell
ISBN: 9781453261590 Год издания: 2012 Издательство: Open Road Media Язык: Английский In the words of Antrobus, master diplomat in the King’s service, diplomacy was once “a quiet and restful trade carried on in soothing inanity among a hundred shady legations and embassies all over the globe.” What changed? What caused this most noble profession to fall from grace? Women, of course. A diplomatic incident begins brewing as soon as the lovely new French ambassador—or is it ambassadress?—arrives in Vulgaria. One of the British delegation is instantly besotted, and about to begin his pursuit when a rival appears in the form of roguish Italian diplomat Bonzo di Porco. Because these are servants of the most advanced governments in…
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Mr Bean Ричард Кёртис
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8443-3 Год издания: 2008 Издательство: Pearson Education Limited Язык: Английский A famous painting is going to the Grierson Gallery in LA and they want a top man to come to the United States to talk about the artist. The National Gallery in London send Mr Bean. Once he arrives, chaos naturally ensues!
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У пошуках Червоної книги, або Дивна подія у будинку під сьомим номером Олександр Мокієнко
Язык: Украинский Якщо Тобі, читачу, здається, що життя третього, молодшого помічника чарівника, та відомого на весь Світ Уламків знавця чуд - річ безхмарна, Ти сильно помиляєшся! У нього повно роботи. От лишень - забув нагодувати чорну як ніч, трихвотсу кішку-мисливицю, що сумує за веселими полюваннями на берегах Кришталевих озер, і - клац - вона обов'язково відкусить тобі носа!
А коли справа доходить до подорожі між світами - тут без нашого героя, до речі, його звуть Дам'єн, чи Дімон? або все ж таки Д ....
Якщо вдалось тебе зацікавити, читачу - нумо до пригод. Інші світи та чарівні артефакти вже зачекались на тебе!
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Сюрприз Павло Велешко
Год издания: 2022 Издательство: Студія Калідор Язык: Украинский Нікому не подобаються сюрпризи... Тому, що вони завжди невчасні і незручні. І щоб там хто не казав, а нікому не подобаються сюрпризи... От і Ельдар - їх не любив. Але....
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''V?egade noobel kooljas…'' Enn Vetemaa
"V?egade noobel kooljas…" nentis vanem laibakandur. Nii algab romaan kriminaalsete ja viroloogiliste all??ridega, mida autor ise tekstis pilamisi "lihtsakoeliseks ajaviiteromaaniks" nimetab. Vaimukas raamat armastusest, k?ttemaksuihast ja surmast, milles puukidel on t?ita oma saatuslik roll. […] “Huvitav, miks sa ei k?si, mis mu k?ega lahti on…” lausub ta. “Sa oled vist v?ga peenetundeline poiss,” arvab Nils. Mida peaksin ma vastama? “Minu k?ige suuremaks veaks on uudishimu,” selgitab ta. “Ma olen, jah, kole uudishimuliku loomuga.” Ta vaatab r??kides sulle otse silma sisse. “Kui ma veel koolis ei k?inudki, leidsin ma kord ?he sidruni moodi…
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Džentelmenid Paavo Kivine
Inglasliku huumori tulev?rk eesti autorilt! Inglise klubis k?ivad vestlemas kaks h?rrasmeest, Alex ja Max. Millest nad ka juttu ei alustaks, ikka r??givad nad muudkui naistest – ning ?htaegu m?rkamatult iseendast. ?htaegu enesekindlalt, naiste suhtes pisut ?leolevalt. Samas peitub igas mahlases dialoogis peidus see, kuidas ilma naisteta poleks mehed need, kes nad on. Kui Kanal 2 vaimukad jutuajamised „H?rrad abikaasad” Marko Matvere ja Andrus Vaarikuga ekraanile t?i, peitus autor Paavo Kivine alles Bartholomew Bergi varjunime taha. Esmakorselt on n??d lugejatele nautimiseks “D˛entelmenid” oma originaalpealkirja ja tegeliku autori nimega.
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One Summer in Italy: The most uplifting summer romance you need to read in 2018 Sue Moorcroft
ISBN: 9780008260057 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский ‘I love all of Sue Moorcroft’s books!’Katie FfordeWhen Sofia Bianchi’s father Aldo dies, it makes her stop and look at things afresh. Having been his carer for so many years, she knows it’s time for her to live her own life – and to fulfil some promises she made to Aldo in his final days.So there’s nothing for it but to escape to Italy’s Umbrian mountains where, tucked away in a sleepy Italian village, lie plenty of family secrets waiting to be discovered. There, Sofia also finds Amy who is desperately trying to find her way in life after discovering her dad isn’t her biological father.Sofia sets about helping Amy through this difficult…
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A Brand New Me: The hilarious romantic comedy about one year of first dates Shari Low
ISBN: 9780007335022 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский For anyone who’s ever thought January 1st would be the first day of their new life…Three-Two-One…. Happy New Year!In Leni Lomond’s living room three twenty-something friends sat shrouded in dejection, each clutching a sparkler in one hand and a drink in the other.Eventually Leni spoke up. «I'm making a resolution. This is it – this is the year I find the perfect job, the perfect man and the perfect life.»Three Weeks Later…Leni is now PA to Zara Delta, spiritual guru, author, television celebrity and founder of the web's most popular astrology site. So what if she doesn't know her rising moon from Uranus, she'll wing it somehow. But she…
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Before Your Very Eyes Alex George
ISBN: 9780007387618 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский New Man: Remember him? Didn’t think so.Simon Teller is the last of a dying breed. He’s such a New Man he’s sparkling. Struggling magician, gourmet cook, and jazz freak, he’s been doing Conversation and Quiche for as long as he can remember, but he’s so sensitive that all he’s managed to conjure up is a number of awkward crushes and infatuations. And now the women are staying away in droves.Enter stage left Joe, the Houdini of the casual sex scene and the man who, in the cause of true friendship, is determined to show Simon how to pull women as easily as he pulls rabbits out of hats. Under Joe’s expert tutelage, and armed with an array of…
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Commencing Our Descent Сюзанна Данн
ISBN: 9780007393510 Год издания: 2014 Издательство: Fourth Estate Язык: Английский Sadie is in a tailspin: will anyone break her fall?Having had more than her share of misfortune, Sadie Summerfield seems to have finally ended up lucky. She has the perfect homelife. For the first time in a very long time, she has a future.So when another man, a cautious, subdued man, so very different from her own warm-hearted husband, drifts into Sadie’s life, she must ask herself the question: Is she ready to risk everything for the sake of love? And besides, shouldn’t affairs begin with a shiver of danger, with the thrill of the chase, rather than this?In Commencing Our Descent Suzannah Dunn proves she has unrivalled access to the most…
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Dancing in Limbo Edward Toman
ISBN: 9780008228422 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский Oliver Cromwell McCoy, God’s man in Ulster, has stumbled into the radio age. With a crumbling transmitter left over from the Titanic he has taken to blasting the countryside with his inimitable brand of mendacious evangelism.His old adversary across the Shambles, Cardinal Schnozzle O’Shea, is determined to go one better. He needs a good-looking priest to anchor the great TV chat show he believes will get Ireland back on its knees. When his eye lights on young Frank Feely, authoritarianism and bigotry duly lock horns.But more elemental forces are at work too. Emboldened by a dimly recalled vision they once shared, the vision of an enigmatic…
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How To Lose Weight And Alienate People Ollie Quain
ISBN: 9781472074652 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский Is there such a thing as the perfect body?Vivian Ward thinks she is in total control of her life. Actually…she’s thirty five, an out-of-work actress who puts more effort into partying than getting good parts, is estranged from her family and emotionally unavailable to her boyfriend.Truth is, the only thing she’s in control of is what’s on her plate…But then she meets movie star Maximilian Fry, who's just as screwed up, and journeys into a world of celebrity even more damaging than the one she was already living in. Will image triumph, or will she realise that some of her answers lie within?A hilarious and thought-provoking novel about…
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Match Me If You Can Michele Gorman
ISBN: 9780007585670 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a warm, funny story of brilliant women, recycled exes and the power of best friends.Catherine's ex-husband and business partner drops a bombshell over their Chardonnay: he’s about to marry his twenty-three year old girlfriend. Catherine has bras that are older than his new fianc?e, yet he’s about to install her in Catherine’s beloved matchmaking business.Meanwhile, architect Rachel is battling romantic mistake, James, to win their firm’s biggest project. So when she joins Catherine’s website, RecycLove.com, where everyone recycles an ex for the chance of an upgrade, she knows just who she’s…
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Losing It Emma Rathbone
ISBN: 9780008206574 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский It’s not that she’s unhappy, per se. It’s just that she’s not exactly happy either.She hasn’t done anything spontaneous since about 2003. Shouldn’t she be running a start up? Going backpacking? Exploring uncharted erogenous zones with inappropriate men?Trapped between news of her mother’s latent sexual awakening and her spinster aunt’s odd behaviour, Julia has finally snapped. It’s time to take some risks, and get a life. After all – what has she got to lose?
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Marrying Mom Olivia Goldsmith
ISBN: 9780008154059 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский A wickedly funny comedy of New York life and love, from the bestselling author of The First Wives Club and Bestseller.She’s the despair of her family, she tries to run their lives, and she just won’t act her age. In fact there’s only one way to get Mom out of her children’s hair…When Phyllis Geronomous decides that retirement in Florida is not for her and moves back to the Big Apple, her three grown-up children are horrified. Sigourney is a successful stockbroker and a control freak, Sharon has two young children and a troubled marriage, while Bruce, the baby of the family, is finally feeling comfortable about having a significant other…
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Hanging Up Delia Ephron
ISBN: 9780007401949 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский We’ve had MOMMY DEAREST about Joan Crawford; now Delia Ephron brings us Daddy Dearest in her witty, bittersweet first novel about love, death and the telephone, based on the Ephron sisters’ experiences dealing with the death of their alcoholic father.Hanging Up is about the three Mozell sisters, Georgia, Eve and Maddy. Georgia, the eldest, is a super-successful tough career woman, the editor of a magazine named after her. Eve, the middle sister, is just an ordinary mum. Maddy the youngest is a ditsy irresponsible soap opera star. Their father is dying. He is an alcoholic and has Alzheimers known as The Dwindles. The mother ran off with their…
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Left of the Bang Claire Lowdon
ISBN: 9780008102180 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский ‘An unflinchingly honest portrayal of Londoner life with great empathy, style and humour … A Vanity Fair of our times … Tamsin Jarvis will resonate long after the final page is turned.’ StylistDaringly, radically honest and very, very funny, this is the best novel yet about the ‘lost generation’ of young Londoners today.Left of the bang: a military term for the build-up to an explosion.For failing concert pianist Tamsin Jarvis, the pressure is mounting. She thought she was happy with her adoring schoolteacher boyfriend Callum, but when Chris comes into their lives, that starts to change. In a few months Chris will be gone, leaving for his…
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Mr Golightly’s Holiday Salley Vickers
ISBN: 9780007379651 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский A novel from the best-selling author of ‘Miss Garnet's Angel’ and ‘Instances of the Number 3’.Holiday: a period in which a break is taken from work or studies for rest, travel, or recreation. [literally: holy day]Many years ago Mr Golightly wrote a work of dramatic fiction that grew to be an international bestseller. But his reputation is on the decline and he finds himself out of touch with the modern world.He decides to take a holiday and comes to the ancient village of Great Calne, hoping to use the opportunity to bring his great work up to date. But he soon finds that events take over his plans and that the themes he has written on are…
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The Little Village Christmas: The #1 Christmas bestseller returns with the most heartwarming romance of 2018 Sue Moorcroft
ISBN: 9780008260026 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский ‘I love all of Sue Moorcroft’s books!’Katie FfordeThe #1 bestseller returns with an irresistibly festive tale that you won’t be able to put down!Alexia Kennedy – interior decorator extraordinaire – has been tasked with giving the little village of Middledip the community caf? it’s always dreamed of.After months of fundraising, the villagers can’t wait to see work get started – but disaster strikes when every last penny is stolen. With Middledip up in arms at how this could have happened, Alexia feels ready to admit defeat.But help comes in an unlikely form when woodsman, Ben Hardaker and his rescue owl Barney, arrive on the scene. Another…