It`s Fran`s thirtieth birthday and things are good. She`s bluffed her way into a Very Posh Job and her outlandishly handsome and talented boyfriend Michael is escorting her to the Ritz with a bulge the shape of a ring box in his pocket. But something has gone wrong. Very wrong. By the end of the evening Fran is howling in bed with a bottle of cheap brandy and one of Michael`s old socks. In her quest to figure out why her life has suddenly gone down the pan, Fran comes up with a failsafe plan: live like a badger, stalk a stranger called Nellie and cancel her beloved Gin Thursdays in favour of drinking gin every night. But then Fran`s friends force a very different plan on her and it`s nowhere near as fun. How could eight dates possibly...

ISBN: 978-0-241-95298-6
Издательство: Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

ISBN: 9781472274649
Дата выхода: январь 2022

ISBN: 9780446613439
Издательство: Warner Books
Дата выхода: январь 2019

Not being a dentist turns out to be a stroke of good luck for Jerry. If he were, he would not have been summoned to sit on the jury with the delightful Jane, with whom he falls instantly in love. Only then does it suddeny dawn on him that he is already engaged to Vera Upshaw.

ISBN: 0-14-008507-6
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004

`Something remarkable was about to happen to the markets, an upheaval that would change the course of financial history and transform John Paulson from a mere spectator to the biggest player in the game` - Autumn 2008. As the world`s financial markets collapse, one man is left standing tall. That man is John Paulson, the softly spoken hedge-fund legend who predicted the crash. By betting against the housing market and the banks he earned $15 billion for his fund and $4 billion for himself in a single year. That`s the largest trading windfall in history, by far. And this is how he did it.

ISBN: 978-0-14-104315-9
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Fairy stories and traditional tales have a special place in the life of every child. Trust "Ladybird" to bring you all the best-loved titles in our famous small, hard-wearing format. "The Gingerbread Man" is perfect for reading aloud, or for older, more confident readers to read by themselves. There are 24 "Ladybird Tales" to collect, so the only problem is which one to choose first!

ISBN: 978-1-84646-980-0
Издательство: Ladybird Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

ISBN: 9780241457696
Дата выхода: январь 2020

In a hidden studio in an area of Rome where the Vatican liked to keep an eye on the city’s prostitutes, an art expert from the Louvre is found dead in front of one of the most beautiful paintings that Nic Costa has ever seen – an unknown Caravaggio masterpiece. But before long tragedy will strike Nic far closer to home. The main suspect’s identity is known, but he remains untouchable – protected in his grand palazzo by a fleet of lawyers and a sinister cult known as the Ekstasists. If Costa and his team can crack the reasons for the cult’s existence, he may well stand a chance of nailing the double-killer. But the mystery will take him right back to Caravaggio himself and the reasons he had to flee Rome all those centuries

ISBN: 978-0-330-43596-3
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

A tenant has disappeared in a New York slum, leaving behind strange, original artwork. Gallery owner Ethan Muller can see its brilliance and money-making potential. When Ethan displays the art, the show attracts the attention of the police. Because the subjects of the pictures look exactly like the victims in a long-cold murder case. Ethan has received a letter saying stop, stop, stop, And the still-missing genius may be the link to a madman or the madman himself.

ISBN: 978-0-515-14605-9
Издательство: Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012

ISBN: 9780099552222
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2010

ISBN: 9780099283621
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2000

Danny Coughlin is Boston Police Department royalty and the son of one of the city`s most beloved and powerful police captains. His beat is the predominately Italian neighbourhoods of the North End where political dissent is in the air - fresh and intoxicating. On the hunt for hard-line radicals as a favour to his father, Danny is drawn into the ideological fray and finds his loyalties compromised as the police department itself becomes swept up in potentially violent labour strife. Luther Lawrence is on the run. A suspect in a nightclub shooting in Oklahoma, he flees to Boston, leaving his wife behind. He lands a job in the Coughlin household and meets Danny and the family`s Irish maid, Nora, who once had a powerful bond. As the mystery...

ISBN: 978-0-552-77558-8
Издательство: Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

ISBN: 9780141192154
Издательство: Penguin Group
Дата выхода: январь 2012

ISBN: 9780099527565
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2010

In his first full-length novel for middle-graders since the international bestseller "Coraline," Neil Gaiman introduces Bod, a boy who is the only living resident of a graveyard. Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead?

ISBN: 9780060530921
Дата выхода: октябрь 2008

In Japanese gardens, visitors find nature consdensed and brought to perfection: trees are trained and sculpted; the finest natural landscapes are reproduced in miniature; and the seasons are celebrated with spring blossom and the fiery leaves of autumn. In this introduction to Japanese gardens Helena Attlee captures the essence of Japanese garden style and gives an outline of its history. She then explores in detail 28 of the great Japanese gardens, explaining their character and nature. Alex Ramsay`s superb photographs, specially taken for the book, illustrate every aspect of the gardens.

ISBN: 978-0-7112-2971-6
Издательство: Frances Lincoln
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Tarmon Gai’don, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready.The final volume of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light, was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordan’s editor--his wife, Harriet McDougal--to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so Tor proudly presents The Gathering Storm as the first of three novels that will cover the outline left by Robert Jordan, chronicling Tarmon Gai`don and Rand al`Thor`s final confrontatino with the Dark One. This short sequence will complete the struggle against the Shadow, bringing...

ISBN: 978-0-7653-4153-2
Издательство: Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: май 2011

ISBN: 9781847497291
Издательство: Alma Books
Дата выхода: январь 2018

Книга представляет собой сокращенный вариант романа "Крестный отец" американского писателя Марио Пьюзо. В центре романа судьба Дона Корлеоне - крестного отца мафии и его сыновей. Захватывающий сюжет, в котором есть кровавые убийства, интриги, любовь и предательства, держит читателя в напряжении до последней страницы. Для облегчения понимания текста, изобилующего разговорной лексикой, дается...

ISBN: 978-5-8112-6161-1
Издательство: Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: октябрь 2015

A new, small-format edition of one of Gorey`s "dark masterpieces of surreal morality" (Vanity Fair) - a witty, disquieting journey through the alphabet.

ISBN: 9780151003082
Дата выхода: октябрь 1997

Главный герой, именем которого назван роман, неслыханно богат, однако не ищет счастья в деньгах и роскоши. Перед читателем разворачивается трагическая история любви Гэтсби на фоне картины жизни развращённого и циничного общества нуворишей послевоенной Америки. Текст сокращён и адаптирован. Уровень Intermediate. Адаптация, сокращение и словарь И.Б. Загородняя.

ISBN: 978-5-9908367-9-2
Издательство: Антология
Дата выхода: январь 2015

ISBN: 9781474922036
Дата выхода: январь 2016

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald`s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. In planning his novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "I want to write something new something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." Working with anxiety and saw he feeling that it was the supreme test, he committed all his imaginative resources to the project. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession", it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in...

ISBN: 978-5-521-06164-8
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018

ISBN: 9780753829141
Издательство: Орион
Дата выхода: январь 2011

The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence cobbled from legend, memory, police records, the self-aggrandizements of aging crooks, popular journalism, and solid historical research. Asbury presents the definitive work on this subject, an illumination of the gangs of old New York that ultimately gave rise to the modern Mafia and its depiction in films like The Godfather.

ISBN: 0-09-943674-4
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004