Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Автор: Paul Galdone
Издательство: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011
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PDF, 40 страниц, 1.20 МБ
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WHO'S THAT TRIPPING OVER MY BRIDGE? The three Billy Goats Gruff are hungry and want to go over the bridge and up the hillside to a fine meadow full of grass and daisies where they can eat and eat and eat, and get fat. But under the bridge lives a troll who's as mean as he is ugly... With humorous, onomatopoeic language, call-and-answer structure, and colorful illustrations, Paul Galdone's telling of this familiar tale is great for reading aloud with groups.
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14 июля 2012
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Life of Pi
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Автор: Yann Martel
Издательство: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007
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DOC, 416 страниц, 1.00 МБ
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«Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them «the truth». After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional-but is it more true? Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God.»
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delovar
04 июля 2008
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When They Come for Us, We'll be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Автор: Gal Beckerman
Издательство: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011
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DOC, 640 страниц, 1.00 МБ
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«At the end of World War II, nearly three million Jews were trapped inside the Soviet Union. They lived a paradox — unwanted by a repressive Stalinist state, yet forbidden to leave. «When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone» is the astonishing and inspiring story of their rescue. Drawing on newly released Soviet government documents, as well as hundreds of oral interviews, Gal Beckerman shows not only how the movement led to a mass exodus in 1989, but also how it gave the American Jewish community a renewed sense of spiritual purpose and taught it to flex its political muscle. In cinematic detail, this multi-generational saga, filled with suspense and packed with revelations, provides an essential missing piece of Cold War and Jewish history.»
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18 марта 2014
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Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Автор: Mem Fox
Издательство: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010
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DjVu, 38 страниц, 1.52 МБ
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«There was one little baby who was born far away. And another who was born on the very next day. And both of these babies, as everyone knows, had ten little fingers and ten little toes». No matter which part of the world a baby comes from born on the ice or in a tent that baby has «ten little fingers and ten little toes», the pleasing refrain of this wonderful, rhyming tribute to the chubby, sweet universality of babies of all colors. Helen Oxenbury's soft, rounded babies are captured perfectly in soft, rounded watercolors.»
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chepiov
12 апреля 2014
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From Russia with Lunch
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Автор: Hale Bruce
Издательство: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010
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PDF, 112 страниц, 3.36 МБ
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Inventions, spells, and bullies — oh my! It all begins when Chet's favorite teacher is fired, only to be replaced by the mechanical invention of Dr. Tanya Lightov — a mysterious Russian scientist. Suddenly, the school seems possessed by forces that are upsetting the natural order of things: Kindergartners are beating up sixth graders; teachers' pets are talking back; and worst of all, Chet's faithful partner and best friend, Natalie Attired, has abandoned him in his hour of need. Will Chet be able to restore his friendship with Natalie and bring Emerson Hicky back to normal? One thing's for certain: The crazy, mixed-up mastermind behind this case will be the last creature anyone expects.
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406
dimon0
05 июня 2012
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Gifts
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Автор: Le Guin Ursula K.
Издательство: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006
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PDF, 286 страниц, 8.58 МБ
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Scattered among poor, desolate farms, the clans of the Uplands possess gifts. Wondrous gifts: the ability — with a glance, a gesture, a word — to summon animals, bring forth fire, move the land. Fearsome gifts: They can twist a limb, chain a mind, inflict a wasting illness. The Uplanders live in constant fear that one family might unleash its gift against another. Two young people, friends since childhood, decide not to use their gifts. One, a girl, refuses to bring animals to their death in the hunt. The other, a boy, wears a blindfold lest his eyes and his anger kill. In this beautifully crafted story, Ursula K. Le Guin writes of the proud cruelty of power, of how hard it is to grow up, and of how much harder still it is to find, in the world's darkness, gifts of light. Includes a reader's guide and a sample chapter from the companion title Voices.
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letachik
11 августа 2008
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The Joke's Over: Bruised Memories: Gonzo, Hunter S: Thompson, and Me
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Автор: Steadman Ralph
Издательство: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007
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PDF, 396 страниц, 11.88 МБ
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In the spring of 1970, artist Ralph Steadman went to America in search of work and found more than he bargained for when he met Hunter S. Thompson at the Kentucky Derby. Their remarkable collaboration resulted in the now-legendary Gonzo Journalism, which would document the civil rights movement, the Nixon administration, Watergate, and the many bizarre and great events that shaped the second half of the twentieth century. When Thompson committed suicide in 2005, it was the end of a unique friendship filled with both betrayal and understanding. A rollicking, no-holds-barred memoir, The Joke's Over is the definitive inside story of the Gonzo years.
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dmitry020677
10 сентября 2012
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Lost Voices
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Автор: Porter Sarah
Издательство: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011
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PDF, 291 страниц, 8.73 МБ
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Fourteen-year-old Luce has had a tough life, but she reaches the depths of despair when she is assaulted and left on the cliffs outside of a grim, gray Alaskan fishing village. She expects to die when she tumbles into the icy waves below, but instead undergoes an astonishing transformation and becomes a mermaid. A tribe of mermaids finds Luce and welcomes her in — all of them, like her, lost girls who surrendered their humanity in the darkest moments of their lives. Luce is thrilled with her new life until she discovers the catch: the mermaids feel an uncontrollable desire to drown seafarers, using their enchanted voices to lure ships into the rocks. Luce possesses an extraordinary singing talent, which makes her important to the tribe — she may even have a shot at becoming their queen. However her struggle to retain her humanity puts her at odds with her new friends. Will Luce be pressured into committing mass murder? The first book in a trilogy, Lost Voices is a captivating and wildly original tale about finding a voice, the healing power of friendship, and the strength it takes to forgive.
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berserk
18 июля 2012
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Number the Stars
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Автор: Lowry Lois
Издательство: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011
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PDF, 137 страниц, 4.11 МБ
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«A new paperback edition of Lois Lowry's Newbery Award-winning classic. As the German troops begin their campaign to «relocate» all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen's family takes in Annemarie's best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family. Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire Jewish population of Denmark, nearly seven thousand people, across the sea to Sweden. The heroism of an entire nation reminds us that there was pride and human decency in the world even during a time of terror and war.With a new introduction by the author.»
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kapi14
16 мая 2014
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Powers
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Автор: Le Guin Ursula K.
Издательство: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009
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PDF, 502 страницы, 15.06 МБ
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Young Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and, inexplicably, he sometimes remembers things that are going to happen in the future. As a loyal slave, he must keep these powers secret, but when a terrible tragedy occurs, Gav, blinded by grief, flees the only world he has ever known. And in what becomes a treacherous journey for freedom, Gav's greatest test of all is facing his powers so that he can come to understand himself and finally find a true home. Includes maps.
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stas_k
17 апреля 2013
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