There`s never a dull moment for the residents of Beaumont, South Carolina. Lately, a heat wave`s spiked the mercury-and everyone`s sex drive! These days, when Jamie runs into Max, it`s all she can do not to tear his clothes off-and the feeling is mutual. But trouble seems to follow Max like moths to a flame, and Jamie suspects he`s all wrong for her. Meanwhile, the lingerie shop is having a sale on edible underwear, while the bakery`s selling aphrodisiac-laced brownies and x-rated birthday cakes. Even Jamie`s dog, Fleas, is dodging passes from the amorous French poodle next door! But when someone starts bumping off some of the town`s more annoying citizens, all clues lead straight to the new personals section in Jamie`s newspaper. Pretty...
ISBN: 978-0-312-98330-7
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: август 2011
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....
ISBN: 9785604498361
Издательство:
Антология
Дата выхода: октябрь 2020
Welcome to the busy world of Richard Scarry! New in picture book format, every page is packed with pictures and zany stories, with lots of details to spot.There are fifteen fabulous Scarry stories in this hilarious book. Read how Rabbit gets stuck to the road, and how little Tanglefoot trips over everything in sight! With stories such as ‘The Talking Bread’ and ‘Uncle Willie and the Pirates’, there is enough action here to satisfy the most demanding reader.
Originally written in Russian. In the last days of the Third Reich, Hitlers astrologer gives rise to a secret operation to transport... the souls of Hitler and Eva Braun. They will remain in a secret shelter until young bodies are found for "relocation". And... a new round of conquering world domination will begin. Hitler, deprived of his soul, gives an ominous order — to flood the Berlin subway. This terrible sacrifice is necessary to maintain the existence of Hitler's soulless body. Meanwhile, the bodies of Hitler and Eve intend to «hook up» psychics from the CIA. And on the way of the cargo "069" there are psychics of the Russian GRU who will not allow rewriting the bloody history.
ISBN: 978-5-00153-037-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2020
Читателю предлагаются избранные рассказы лучших писателей-юмористов Великобритании: Диккенса, Джерома, Манро, Вудхауза и других, наилучшим образом отразивших в своих произведениях национальный характер англичан, их менталитет и образ жизни. Издание рассчитано на массовго читателя.
ISBN: 9785797405603
Издательство:
Икар
Дата выхода: январь 2016
A game. A husband and wife game. Gerald`s Game. But this time Jesse didn`t want to play. Lying there, spreadeagled and handcuffed to the bedstead while he`d loomed and drooled over her, she felt angry and humiliated. So she`
ISBN: 978-1-4447-0745-8
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. "Dickon the Devil" is an early work by the author. It was originally published in 1872. It is a part of "Ghostly Tales" - the most extensive collection of the author`s works, containing eleven atmospheric and supernatural stories.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00238-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2019
Jumbeelia, a girl giant, loves the stories of the iggly plop who climbed up the bimblestonk and was chased back down again by a giant. Growing her own bimblestonk, she climbs down it and finds a whole world of iggly plops - our world, in fact, where Colette, Stephen and Poppy are very surprised to find themselves collected up into a bag and carried off back up the beanstalk. So begins a wild and wonderful tale of how three children escape from an over-enthusiastic giant girl, her very-pregnant giant mum, and her very nasty adolescent giant brother.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-0760-7
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: июль 2012
The 13th book starring Cook s popular mortal P.I. in a fantasy city. Garrett s attempt at domestic bliss with the fiery Tinnie Tate is sidetracked when he waylays a pair of home intruders and learns they ve been paid by an unknown source to kidnap Tinnie. Original.
ISBN: 9780451463715
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2010
When Griet becomes a maid in the household of the painter Johannes Vermeer, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry and the care of his six children. But as she becomes part of his world and his work, their growing intimacy spreads tension and deception in the ordered household and, as the scandal seeps out, into the town beyond. Girl with a Pearl Earring is a modern classic - an extraordinary novel on the corruption of innocence and the price of genius. "It has a slow, magical current of its own that picks you up and carries you stealthily A beautiful story, lovingly told by a very talented writer"
ISBN: 978-0-00-723216-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2010
