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
`I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger`, writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up `1922`, the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife Arlette proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness. In `Big Driver`, a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger is along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face to face with another stranger: the one inside...
ISBN: 978-1-4447-1256-8
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
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
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 —1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. With the tradition of collecting the best tales about ghosts, "Ghostly Tales" incorporates four brilliant stories, such as "Ghost Stories of Chapelizod" and "The Ghost and the Bone-setter" and "The Mysterious Lodger".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07113-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most influential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. "The Haunted Baronet" is a part of an extraordinary collection of ghost stories. Full of mystery, thrilling revelations and paranormal, this collection is perfect for a sophisticated reader.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00239-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2019
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
Based on the true story, this is the tale of the 18th Century Irish giant, Charles O’Brien. He was exhibited in London and eventually dissected by the surgeon Charles Hunter, and his bones hang to this day in the Hunterian Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Field. Charles O’Brien, bard and giant. The cynical are moved by his flights of romance; the craven stirred by his tales of epic deeds. But what of his own story as he is led from Ireland to seek his fortune beyond the seas in England? The Surprising Irish Giant may be the sensation of the season but only his compatriots seem to attend to his mythic powers of invention. A motley court surrounds him: slow witted Jankin; the thrusting Claffey brothers; sharp-tongued Bride Claskey, the...
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
