Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "Burning Daylight" is a story Elam Harnish, to whom all life is a game. Playing cleverly and cynically, he makes millions. A successful businessman lives by the laws of the jungle until he meets a stenographer, Did Mason. From this moment on his life changes drastically by the power of love.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07477-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
`If only our country hadn`t been invaded. If only we could have carried on the way we used to, watching other people`s wars on television`. Book 5 of The Tomorrow Series. Ellie and her friends are more determined than ever to make an impact on the enemy. But the constant fighting is beginning to take its toll on the group. Kevin is suffering an emotional breakdown, and the friendship that has kept the gang together for so long is under strain. And while there is no time for love in a time of war, Ellie can`t forget her feelings for A tale of relentless action and gripping intensity from one of the world`s best storytellers.
Jessica Clarke had been set alight twenty years ago. Her attacker, quickly tracked down and eager to confess, was still in jail, his career as a hitman for North London gangs now well behind him. So who is harassing Carol Chamberlain, the arresting officer in that case, and claiming that he is the one who burned the girl? Now retired, Carol turns to DI Tom Thorne for help. He`s up to his neck in an investigation into a series of killings, which appears to be the result of a turf war between rival gangs, and he`s fed up to the gills with reporting to DCI Tughan, so helping Carol out looks like a good deed in a naughty world. Only the world is about to turn much nastier, so nasty in fact that he finds himself longing for a straightforward...
ISBN: 978-0-7515-3489-4
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
In the waning days of eighteenth-century London, poet, artist, and printer Will lam Blake works in obscurity. Next door, country boy Jem Kellaway moves in and strikes up a tentative friendship with street-savvy Maggie Butterfield. While England is rocked by the waves of the French Revolution, the two children navigate the confusing and exhilarating path to adolescence. Their lives intertwine with Blake`s and inspire him in this brilliantly rendered historical tale.
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune, burning Daylight takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, Elam Harnish, nicknamed "Burning Daylight" was the most successful entrepreneur of the Alaskan Gold Rush. Bringing his fortunes to the States he is cheated out of it by a crowd of money kings, and recovers it only at the muzzle of his gun.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08151-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Randall Haight has a secret: when he was a teenager, he and his friend killed a 14-year-old girl. Randall did his time and built a new life in the small Maine town of Pastor`s Bay, but somebody has discovered the truth about Randall. He is being tormented by anonymous messages, haunting reminders of his past crime, and he wants private detective Charlie Parker to make it stop. But another 14-year-old girl has gone missing, this time from Pastor`s Bay, and the missing girl`s family has its own secrets to protect. Now Parker must unravel a web of deceit involving the police, the FBI, a doomed mobster named Tommy Morris, and Randall Haight himself. Because Randall Haight is telling
ISBN: 978-0-340-99354-5
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
The latest in the bestselling Alfred series from number one historical novelist, Bernard Cornwell. In the last years of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex is in failing health, and his heir is an untested youth. The Danes, who have failed so many times to conquer Wessex, smell opportunity! First comes Harald Bloodhair, a savage warrior leading a Viking horde, who is encouraged to cruelty by his woman, Skade. But Alfred still has the services of Uhtred, his unwilling warlord, who leads Harald into a trap and, at Farnham in Surrey, inflicts one of the greatest defeats the Vikings were ever to suffer. This novel, the fifth in the magnificent series of England`s history tells of the final assaults on Alfred`s Wessex, that Wessex...
ISBN: 978-0-00-732202-2
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art of pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a `burnt-out case`, a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. However, as Querry loses himself in work for the lepers his disease of mind slowly approaches a cure. Then the white community finds out who Querry
ISBN: 978-0-09-947843-0
Издательство:
Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina, are profoundly shaken by this terrible accident that has occurred frighteningly close to their daughter`s school. And an irate call from the unaccounted-for flight attendant`s stepfather further tangles an already twisted mystery. The man insists twenty-eight-year-old Roseanne Dresden was never on the doomed flight, but was probably murdered by her abusive, unfaithful husband - a revelation that propels Decker down a path of tragic history and deadly lies toward an unimaginable evil that will challenge his and Rina`s cherished beliefs about guilt and innocence and justice.
