New Year`s Eve - and the storm of the century hits California. What happens in the storm`s wake will deep affect three people: Quinn Thompson, who has built a barrier around himself since his wife`s death; his neighbour Maggie Dartman. still grieving a terrible los: and Jack Adams, a carpenter who will repair Quinn`s ar Maggie`s homes and who hides a painful secret. Quinn, a man who has scaled heights of success in business at the expense of his family, is now adrift, waiting as the finishing touches are made to his newest passion, a 180-foot yacht he plans to sail aroum the world. Consumed by guilt, focused only on escapin to the sea, Quinn faces a choice - between a safe havei and an adventure of the heart. The choice he makes will...

ISBN: 978-0-552-14992-1
Издательство: Corgi Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

It is New Year`s Eve when the storm of the century hits northern California. In a quiet neighborhood in San Francisco, amid the chaos of fallen trees and damaged homes, the lives of three strangers are about to collide in Steel`s latest №1 bestseller.

ISBN: 0-440-24077-8
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: февраль 2007

They were looking for a miracle Sara Lowell and Michael Silverman. The ideal celebrity couple, darlings of the media. She`s TV`s most popular journalist. He`s New York`s hottest basketball star. Their lives would soon

ISBN: 978-1-4091-2076-6
Дата выхода: июнь 2011

ISBN: 9781849746625
Издательство: Express Publishing
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018

Mission 2 a motivating two-level coursebook with a challenging approach for students preparing for the Cambridge First Certificate in English examination - the perfect combination of language development and extensive exam training. Mission 2 consists of 7 units which contain authentic or semi-authentic reading texts combining stimulating content and cross-cultural topics.

ISBN: 978-1-84216-872-1
Издательство: Express Publishing
Дата выхода: апрель 2012

Mission 1 a motivating two-level coursebook with a challenging approach for students preparing for the Cambridge First Certificate in English examination or any similar examination - the perfect combination of language development and extensive exam training. Mission 1 consists of 7 units which contain authentic or semi - authentic reading texts combining stimulating content and cross-cultural topics. Features: - 28 authentic or semi-authentic reading texts. - contextualised lexical exercises practising and activating vocabulary. - Grammar Checks that cover the most important language areas. - Grammar Reference Section. - detailed composition analysis and models of all types of compositions. - Exam Focus sections on: Use of English,...

ISBN: 978-1-84216-803-5
Издательство: Express Publishing
Дата выхода: март 2010

ISBN: 9781849748223
Издательство: Express Publishing
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018

ISBN: 9781849746656
Издательство: Express Publishing
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018

Who is the Hero of Ages? To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the Deepness---the lethal form of the ubiquitous mists---is back, along with increasingly heavy ashfalls and ever more powerful earthquakes. Humanity appears to be doomed. Having escaped death at the climax of The Well of Ascension only by becoming a Mistborn himself, Emperor Elend Venture hopes to find clues left behind by the Lord Ruler that will allow him to save the world. Vin is consumed with guilt at having been tricked into releasing the mystic force known as Ruin from the Well. Ruin wants to end the world, and its near omniscience and ability to warp reality make stopping it seem impossible. She can`t even discuss it...

ISBN: 978-0-7653-5614-7
Издательство: Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: август 2011

You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames`. Bougainville, 1991. A small village on a lush tropical island in the South Pacific. Eighty-six days have passed since Matilda`s last day of school as, quietly, war is encroaching from the other end of the island. When the villagers` safe, predictable lives come to a halt, Bougainville`s children are surprised to find the island`s only white man, a recluse, reopening the school. Pop Eye, aka Mr Watts, explains he will introduce the children to Mr Dickens. Matilda and the others think a...

ISBN: 978-0-7195-2183-6
Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

Mo` Urban Dictionary has even more witty, funny, and irreverent definitions to crack the code of contemporary slang. The book contains about 2,000 definitions from the site`s expansive collection, such as: table banking - while splitting a check when out with a group, paying the whole tab with your credit card and taking everyone else`s cash instead of going to the ATM stall call - using a public bathroom while on the phone courage dot com - when someone tries to be badass over the Internet, only because they aren`t actually face-to-face with anyone.

ISBN: 978-0-7407-6875-0
Дата выхода: август 2011