Lester Ballard, a violent, solitary and introverted young backwoodsman dispossessed on his ancestral land, is released from jail and allowed to haunt the hill country of East Tennessee, preying on the population with his strange lusts.
ISBN: 978-0-330-51095-0
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Child of Storm is a sequel to Haggard\'s novel Marie, where Allan Ouatermain helps his Zulu friend Saduko in a crazy battle to win one hundred heads of cattle for the dowry of his love Mameena. However, the beautiful and mysterious Mameena, known as the "Child of Storm," seduces Allan and tries to engage him in marriage.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07721-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
When Father Christmas sets off to deliver the presents, poor Bear is left behind in the workshop! How will he make it to Tom`s house in time for Christmas morning? Lift the flaps to find out, as he chases Santa`s sleigh through icy seas and snowy forests, all the way from the North Pole to Tom`s cosy bedroom.With a laugh-out-loud text full of witty rhymes and silly scenarios from Ian Whybrow, and illustrations by Axel Scheffler, illustrator of The Gruffalo, that are bursting with funny details, The Christmas Bear is a Christmas book with a difference - and there`s a flap to lift on every page, so children can join in the fun!Also from Axel Scheffler and Ian Whybrow: The Tickle Book and The Bedtime Bear.
ISBN: 9781509806966
Издательство:
Macmillan
Дата выхода: январь 2020
These classic stories have been combined with beautiful new illustrations to bring the magic of Ladybird Tales to a new generation. Children have always loved these stories, and reading them together is an experience to treasure. Retold by Vera Southgate.
ISBN: 978-1-4093-1413-4
Издательство:
Ladybird Books
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Contemporary / British English Mark Sway is eleven and he knows a terrible secret. He knows where a body is hidden. Some secrets are so dangerous that it`s better not to tell. But it`s just as dangerous if you don`t. So Mark needs help because there isn`t much time.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8209-5
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
`To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language` Ben Schott`There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, "Do trousers matter?"``The mood will pass, sir.`Aunt Dahlia has tasked Bertie with purloining an antique cow creamer from Totleigh Towers. In order to do so, Jeeves hatches a scheme whereby Bertie must charm the droopy and altogether unappealing Madeline and face the wrath of would-be dictator Roderick Spode. Though the prospect fills him with dread, when duty calls, Bertie will answer, for Aunt Dahlia will not be denied.In a plot that swiftly becomes rife with mishaps, it is Jeeves who must extract his master from trouble. Again.`To have one of his books in your...
