ISBN: 0-09-946838-7 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for "A superb achievement: his prose has instant, lucid beauty and his narrative voice has a perfect poise and certainty. His account of deprivation and survival is marvellously sure, and the imaginative alignment of his story is exactly right". Tom Paulin "Marvellously creates the atmosphere of youngsters given that instant adulthood they all crave, where the ordinary takes on a mysterious glow and the extraordinary seems rather commonplace. It is difficult to fault the writing or the construction of this eerie fable". Sunday Times "An extremely assured, technically adept and...
ISBN: 978-0-09-975511-1 Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
But the gorgeous Jay proves an exception to the rule when he bowls Stella off her Prada wedges at a press junket on the Cote d`Azur. He might seem to have everything going for him, but Stella is about to realize there`s only one thing worse than having a boyfriend with no money... and that`s having one with too much. Jetset lifestyles can be fabulous, but Stella`s career as a journalist isn`t something she wants to jeopardize for any man, no matter how filthy rich or gorgeous. And then there`s her father - a six-times-married prime slice of Alpha Male with a grudge against inherited wealth... and Jay. There`s no denying money makes the world go round and diamonds are a girl`s best friend, but they don`t make the path to love any easier...
ISBN: 0-141-01961-1 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: март 2011
A gripping new Roman army novel from the Sunday Times bestselling authorIn the first century AD the Roman Empire faces a new threat from its long-standing enemy Parthia. Parthia is vying with Rome for control of Palmyra, an officially neutral kingdom. Palmyra`s royal household is on the brink of open revolt, and so a task force under the command of experienced soldiers Macro and Cato is dispatched to defend its king and guard its borders. When Parthia hears of the Roman army`s presence, it starts amassing its troops for war. Macro`s cohort must march against the enemy, deep into treacherous territory. If Palmyra is not to fall into the clutches of Parthia, they will have to defeat superior numbers in a desperate siege. The quest for a...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-4836-7 Издательство: Headline Publ. Дата выхода: август 2011
ISBN: 9781107621787 Издательство: Cambridge Дата выхода: январь 2013
British agent Ian Munro goes to the Caribbean. He is looking for two dangerous terrorists. Munro`s boss tells him: `Go. Watch. Listen. Why are they there? What are they doing?` Munro first finds the men and a third terrorist. Then he tries to stop them before it is too late.Cambridge English Readers is an exciting series of original fiction, specially written for learners of English. Graded into seven levels -from starter to advanced - the stories in this series provide easy and enjoyable reading on a wide range of contemporary topics and themes.Visit the Cambridge English Readers website for free resources, including a worksheet for this title.
ISBN: 9781107674257 Дата выхода: январь 2019
ISBN: 9781472950628 Дата выхода: январь 2018
ISBN: 9780241441640 Дата выхода: январь 2016
David lives in a house with lots of books and his cat, Socrates. But is he happy? Then he makes friends with Ella. `You`re a nice boy,` says Ella. `But you don`t know anything about me. You don`t know me. I`m not a good person.`
ISBN: 9780521156776 Издательство: Cambridge Дата выхода: январь 2019
The #1 New York Times Bestselling series featuring Lucas Davenport. Of all the criminals that Lucas Davenport has hunted, none has been as frighteningly intelligent as the woman who`s hunting him now.
ISBN: 978-0-425-17427-2 Издательство: Rem Distributors Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84739-022-6 Издательство: Simon & Schuster UK Дата выхода: июль 2011
Once a sworn enemy of all monsters, Anita is now the human consort of both Master Vampire Jean Claude and leopard shapeshifter Micah. When a centuries old vampire hits St. Louis, Anita finds herself needing all the dark forces her passion can muster to save the ones she loves.
ISBN: 978-0-515-13681-4 Издательство: Rem Distributors Дата выхода: июль 2011
Cetywayo and His White Neighbours is a 1882 non-fiction book by Henry Rider Haggard. It was based on his time working in South Africa. Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06635-3 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: январь 2018
ISBN: 0500092680 Издательство: Thames & Hudson Дата выхода: май 2002
With "Wizard`s First Rule" and seven subsequent masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of his storytelling. Now Goodkind returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring their epic story to its culmination. After being gravely injured in battle, Richard awakes to discover Kahlan missing. To his disbelief, no one remembers the woman he is frantically trying to find. Worse, no one believes that she really exists, or that he was ever married. Alone as never before, he must find the woman he loves more than life she is even still alive. If she was ever even real.
ISBN: 978-0-7653-4431-1 Издательство: Holtzbrink Дата выхода: август 2011
No one knows the dark side of “The Street” better than master storyteller Stephen Frey, author of such riveting novels as Shadow Account and The Day Trader. Now, in his most ambitious work to date, Frey proves that no writer can put a high-powered hero at greater risk, nor offer readers more thrilling rewards. A towering legend among New York private equity partnerships, Everest Capital is aptly named. When its founder meets an untimely death, thirty-six-year-old superstar Christian Gillette gets the top job. But with the power and prestige come risks. The day he narrowly escapes a fiery explosion that consumes his limo and takes two innocent lives, Gillette instantly understands how intense those risks are. It comes as no surprise...
ISBN: 978-0-345-45761-5 Издательство: Random House (USA) Дата выхода: август 2011
In the Corridors of Chicago`s Top Law Firm: A young lawyer stands on the brink of a brilliant career. Now twenty-six-year-old Adam Hall is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case. Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. Cayhall has run out of chances - except for one: a young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens to be his grandson. While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather and the TV cameras wait, Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his client. For between the two men is a chasm of shame, family lies, and secrets - including the one secret that could save...
ISBN: 0440220602 Издательство: Random House (USA) Дата выхода: февраль 2002
The first joint project of photographer Bettina Rheims and writer/art critic Serge Bramly. The cultivated literary confessions of Monsieur X, a perfectly discreet voyeur with an obsessive curiosity about the female body, are set against photographs speaking a far clearer language that tells of female eroticism and exhibitionism as no one else does.
ISBN: 978-3-8296-0316-4 Издательство: Schirmer/Mosel Дата выхода: август 2011
Adam Hill is 26 years old and in his first year at a top Chicago law firm. He volunteers for the toughest assignment any lawyer could ask for. His prospective client doesn`t want Adam or his law firm. He is an unrepentant and outspoken racist with a violent past. He is on Death Row for the murder of two Jewish children in a horrific bombing in 1967. Why would he take on Adam, a complete novice, to defend him? And why would Adam want his case so desperately? The answer lies in the past, in a twenty-year-old secret buried in the madness of another
ISBN: 978-0-09-917951-1 Дата выхода: июль 2011
Seventy-year old Sam Cayhall has been on death row for more than twenty years. Then a young lawyer named Adam Hall appears on the scene and declares his mission to save him. Can Adam save Sam from execution? And what does he discover about Sam`s past?
ISBN: 978-1-4082-7437-8 Издательство: Pearson Дата выхода: июль 2011
Contemporary / American English The horror of death row is that you die a little each day. The waiting kills you. Seventy-year-old Sam Cayhall is on Mississippi`s death row. Sam hates lawyers but his date with the gas chamber is close, and time is running out. Then Adam Hall, a young lawyer arrives. Can he and his secret persuade Sam to accept his help?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8261-3 Издательство: Pearson Дата выхода: июль 2011
ISBN: 9780099537076 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: январь 2010
When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an apparent change to his previously outgoing personality. Crippled by migraines, and suspicious of his psychiatrist, he begins to display sporadic bouts of aggression, particularly against women, especially his ex-fiancee who seems unable to accept that the relationship is over. After his injuries prevent his return to the army, he cuts all ties with his former life and moves to London. Alone and unmonitored, he sinks into a private world of guilt and paranoid until a customer annoys him in a Bermondsey pub and he attracts the attention of local police investigating three murders which appear to have been...
ISBN: 978-0-330-44955-7 Издательство: Picador Дата выхода: июль 2011
ISBN: 9781474983150 Дата выхода: январь 2021
When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an apparent change to his previously outgoing personality. Crippled by migraines, and suspicious of his psychiatrist, he begins to display sporadic bouts of aggression, particularly against women, especially his ex-fiancee who seems unable to accept that the relationship is over. After his injuries prevent his return to the army, he cuts all ties with his former life and moves to London. Alone and unmonitored, he sinks into a private world of guilt and paranoid a customer annoys him in a Bermondsey of control and only prevented from killing the man by the intervention of a 250-pound female weightlifter...
ISBN: 978-0-230-01566-1 Издательство: Macmillan ELT Дата выхода: июль 2011
