Hilarious and tragic, at the heart of "Catch-22" is a savage indictment of twentieth-century madness, and a desire of the ordinary man to survive it.
ISBN: 978-0-09-953601-7 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Fear is contagious! The bestselling internet sensation. Now in an updated edition with exclusive new material. A terrifying enigma - with the power to destroy! Twenty years ago, Kate Maddox was a volunteer at research centre where scientists hunted for a cure for the common cold virus. That summer, Kate fell in love with a handsome young doctor, Stephen, but her stay ended in his tragic death and Kate fled to a new life in the US. Now Kate is back in England and on the run with her young son, this time from her vile husband. But a chance encounter sets her on a terrifying path of discovery. What really happened at the Cold Research Unit two decades ago? Pursued by both her estranged husband and a psychotic killer who is obsessed with his...
ISBN: 978-0-00-746070-0 Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger`s New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world...
ISBN: 9780316769488 Издательство: Little, Brown Дата выхода: январь 2020
Just how badly do you want to find paradise? When Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home, this taxi driver takes his young family to live on the tropical island of Phuket, Thailand. Phuket is all the Finn family dreamed of - a tropical paradise where the children swim with elephants, the gibbons sing love songs in the jungle, the Andaman Sea is like turquoise glass and this young family is free to grow. But both man-made disaster and the unleashed forces of nature shatter this tropical idyll for Tom Finn`s family. CATCHING THE SUN is a gripping, moving story of a family who go in search of Paradise - and end up discovering themselves.
ISBN: 978-0-00-747595-7 Дата выхода: май 2012
ISBN: 0-7679-1435-X Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Growing up on the wrong side of the tracks taught Alicia Maldonado that she`d have to fight to get ahead. Though it hasn`t been easy, the thirty-something beauty is now Monterey County`s star prosecutor. But Alicia`s once promising career has stalled-and her alleged love life is in dire need of resuscitation. Then a local millionaire is found murdered, and the kind of case that every prosecutor dreams of handling falls into her lap. Alicia won`t let anything jeopardize this opportunity-not even the distractingly handsome news reporter whose interest in her investigation is more than just professional. With her future hanging in the balance, Alicia is about to discover what lines she`s willing to cross to find out the truth...and to...
ISBN: 0-451-20945-1 Издательство: Penguin USA Дата выхода: апрель 2004
ISBN: 9781526606266 Издательство: Bloomsbury Дата выхода: январь 2019
Jane Austen began writing in her early teens, filling three notebooks with her fiction. The characters of these stories have a jaunty, never-failing self-devotion. They perpetually lie, cheat, steal - and occasionally murder. In these short or unfinished pieces, Austen exhibits her sense of the preposterous in life and fiction with tough-mindedness and robust humour, and without inhibition. In addition to prose fiction and prayers, this collection contains many of Austen`s poems, written to amuse or console friends, and rarely reprinted. Texts are based on manuscripts, including the three notebooks, affording a distinct edition with a number of new readings. This edition includes: introduction; textual note; bibliography chronology;...
ISBN: 978-0-19-953842-3 Издательство: Oxford University Press Дата выхода: август 2011
Many legends have grown up about the sexual rapacity of Catherine the Great. While it is true that she shocked the Russian court with the number and age of her lovers, there is no truth in the rumour of her death by stallion. Unhappily married to the Grand Duke Peter, a man who preferred to play with his toy soldiers in the bedroom, they failed to produce an heir, and Catherine turned her attentions to a certain Sergey Saltykov who fathered the future Tsar Paul I. Six months into the reign of Peter III, Catherine, supported by the Imperial Guard, staged a successful coup against her husband and became Empress. It was her ambition to transform a vast but semi-barbaric country with the cultural and political reforms of Enlightenment...
ISBN: 978-0-09-946234-7 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
ISBN: 9780241393734 Дата выхода: январь 2019
ISBN: 9780241393758 Дата выхода: январь 2019
St. Patrick`s Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating, but everyone is in for the shock of his life. Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act - the seizure of Saint Patrick`s Cathedral. Among his hostages: the woman Brian Flynn once loved, a former terrorist turned peace activist. Among his enemies: an Irish-American police lieutenant fighting against a traitor inside his own ranks and a shadowy British intelligence officer pursuing his own cynical, bloody plan. The cops face a booby-trapped, perfectly laid out killing zone inside the church. The hostages face death. Flynn faces his own demons, in an electrifying duel of nerves, honor, and
ISBN: 978-0-446-35857-6 Издательство: Warner Books Дата выхода: март 2012
Empress, empire-builder, intellectual, art-collector, and lover - this magnificent new biography does full justice to a truly remarkable ruler. When Catherine II died in St Petersburg in 1796, the world sensed the loss of the most celebrated monarch of Europe - something no one would have predicted at the birth 67 years before of an obscure German princess, Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, later married off to the pathetic heir to the Russian throne. There were few greater transformations of fortunes in history. Sophie/Catherine had come to rule in her own right over the largest state in existence since the fall of the Roman Empire. She was branded both a usurper and an assassin when she seized power from her wretched husband in 1762. Yet she...
ISBN: 978-1-86197-777-9 Издательство: Profile Books Дата выхода: август 2011
ISBN: 9780099530336 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: январь 2009
It was history`s most successful political partnership - as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catherine the Great was a woman of n...
ISBN: 9781780228341 Дата выхода: январь 2019
ISBN: 978-0-7538-1834-3 Дата выхода: июль 2012
A masterful epic of love, war, treason, plague, famine, witchcraft, anti-Semitism and the Inquisition 14th-century Spain, the medieval city of Barcelona is enjoying a golden age of prosperity. Its humblest inhabitants are building, stone by stone, a magnificent church to overlook their harbour. This is the Cathedral of the Sea: a church to be built for the people by the people. In its shadow, Arnau, a young serf on the run from his feudal lord, struggles to earn his freedom. After famine, plague and thwarted love, Arnau`s fortunes begin to turn when King Pedro makes him a baron as a reward for his courage in battle. But he is also forced to marry Eleonor, a ward of the King whom he does not love. His newfound status excites jealousy from...
ISBN: 978-0-552-77556-4 Издательство: Transworld publishers Дата выхода: июль 2011
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Treasure Island." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. "Catriona" starts right where the previous novel "Kidnapped" ends, continuing the story of David . Now he tries to clear the names of his friends of involvement in the murder of Colin Campbell of Glenure. The political climate after the "Appin murder" makes David`s situation almost hopeless. He tries to find a path that will save Alan, James of the Glens and out of the hangman`s noose.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07780-9 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: август 2018
Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut`s cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon, and, worse still, surviving it ... Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding `fathers` of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of `ice-nine`, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker`s three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker`s "Death Wish" comes true when his last, fatal gift to mankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh ...
ISBN: 978-0-14-028560-4 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: август 2011
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England - a `castle that was to cross the sea`. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly `Cat`s Table` with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys become involved in the worlds and stories of the adults around them, tumbling from one adventure and delicious discovery to another, `bursting all over the place like freed mercury`. And at night, the boys spy on a shackled prisoner - his crime and fate a galvanizing mystery that will haunt them forever. As the narrative moves from the decks and holds of the ship and the boy`s adult...
ISBN: 978-0-224-09361-3 Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of the twentieth century’s most important works—and Vonnegut at his very best.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118934-5 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: июль 2011
ISBN: 9780241467985 Дата выхода: январь 2020
ISBN: 9780099554424 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: январь 2019
Experiment Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut`s cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it, Solution Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker`s three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker`s death-wish comes true when his last, fatal, gift to mankind brings about an end that, for all of us, is nigh.
ISBN: 978-0-575-08195-6 Издательство: Orion Publishers Дата выхода: январь 2013
Seventeen-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst. Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission: to bring down sexual predators via elaborate - and nationally televised-sting operations. Wendy and her team have shamed dozens of men by the time she encounters her latest target. Dan Mercer is a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens, but his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined.
ISBN: 978-1-4091-0377-6 Издательство: Orion Books Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
