A secret organization plans to assassinate the French president. They hire a professional killer, the Jackal. Can police detective Claude Lebel save the President`s life?
ISBN: 978-1-4082-8952-5
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: август 2011
Contemporary / British English (Available April 2008) A secret organisation plans to assassinate the French President, General de Gaulle. Their leader, Colonel Marc Rodin, decides to hire a professional, someone unknown to French police. He and his men choose the Jackal. Can police detective Claude Lebel stop the killing and save the President`s life?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8210-1
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the heart. A world that lovingly captures the ties that bind us to one another-the joys and sorrows, heartbreaks and misunderstandings, and glad, perfect moments when we are in true harmony. A world filled with evocative, engrossing, and above all, enjoyable portraits of people`s lives and loves, tenderly laid open for On the last day of her mother`s life, Rebecca learns she has a family in Cornwall, and sets out to find the grandfather and cousin she has never known. But only the enigmatic Joss Gardner, the outsider who seems to be the apple of her grandfather`s eye, can help her understand the dark currents that lie behind her family`s loving...
ISBN: 978-0-312-96130-5
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
"The Day Of The Jackal makes such comparable books that The Manchurian Candidate and The Spy Who Came In From The Cold seems like Hardy Boy mysteries." -- The New York Times
ISBN: 0-553-26630-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are The Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each owes allegiance either to The Dark or The Light. In "The Day Watch", second book of the "Night Watch" trilogy, Alice, a young but powerful Dark Other, attends a planning meeting with her comrades in the Day Watch. The team is on a mission to apprehend an uninitiated Other, a practicing Dark witch who has so far eluded the bureaux responsible for finding and initiating unlicensed practitioners of magic. It seems a routine operation. But when they arrive, the Night Watch team has already made the arrest. A fierce...
ISBN: 978-0-09-948993-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
Peter Fortune is a daydreamer. He`s a quiet ten year old who can`t help himself from dropping out of reality and into the amazing world of his vivid imagination. His daydreams are fantastic and fascinating - only in the bizarre and disturbing world of dreams can he swop bodies with the family cat and his baby cousin, Kenneth, or wipe out his entire family with vanishing cream.
ISBN: 978-0-09-947071-7
Издательство:
Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Reproducible pages on the back of each chart! Plastic-coated for color-fastness and durability! Write-on, wipe-off surface! For use with Grades PreK-5.
A colorful, easy way to teach children to identify the days and months! Forty-two colorful Signs noting the days and months of the year! Abbreviations of each day and month is also included. Great to use with your class calendar! Wipe-off cards included to write the day`s date and year! Each card is plastic-coated for durability and fade resistance.
ISBN: 978-0-439-50471-3
Издательство:
Scholastic Inc
Дата выхода: август 2011
Three children are massacred in their beds. The crushed corpse of their mother is discovered in a dockside warehouse. Then the husband, Bruno Gottewald, is dead and buried - killed while out on field manoeuvres. In less than a week, the entire Gottewald family has been wiped off the face of the earth. A tragic coincidence? Or are the invading French army using the massacre to expand their power? Hanno Stiffeniis, a Prussian magistrate, goes to investigate the deaths, seeking to discover how the crime was committed and the motive behind the massacre. But only Hanno`s wife, Helena, knows what truly happened in that cottage in the
ISBN: 978-0-571-22931-4
Издательство:
Faber
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Oscar Wilde is considered one of the most brilliant and controversial social and literary gures of all time. Wilde`s prison writings include his most celebrated essay "De Profundis", written to Lord Alfred Douglas, and his legendary epic poem "The Ballad Of Reading Gaol".
ISBN: 978-5-521-06148-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2017
Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She`s quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn`t get out much - not because she`s not pretty - she`s a very cute bubbly blonde - or not interested in a social life. She really is ...but Sookie`s got a bit of a disability. She can read minds. And that doesn`t make her too dateable. And then along comes Bill: he`s tall, he`s dark and he`s handsome - and Sookie can`t `hear` a word he`s thinking. He`s exactly the type of guy she`s been waiting all her life for. But Bill has a disability of his own: he`s fussy about his food, he doesn`t like suntans and he`s never around during the day ...Yep, Bill`s a vampire. Worse than that, he hangs with a seriously creepy crowd, with...
ISBN: 978-0-575-08936-5
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Kit Kincade, American, with diamond-studded ears and friends in low places, believes women are little more than a life support system to an ovary. Shelly Green, pinstripe-underpanted, cultured, classical guitarist, thinks optimism is an eye disease and hates all men. The perfect pair? Yes, according to a `Desperate and Dateless` reality TV competition. A computer has matched them - physically and emotionally - with huge financial rewards if they can survive their five-star honeymoon on a paradise island. Kit and Shelly meet the day they are to be and it`s hate at first sight Love may be blind, but marriage is a real eye opener.
ISBN: 978-0-7434-6875-6
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
For years, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his colleagues at the Campus have waged an unofficial and highly effective campaign against the terrorists who threaten western civilization. The most dangerous of these is the Emir. This sadistic killer has masterminded the most vicious attacks on the west and has eluded capture by the world`s law enforcement agencies. Now the Campus is on his trail. Joined by their latest recruits, John Clark and Ding Chavez, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his cousins, Dominick and Brian Caruso, are determined to catch the Emir and they will bring him in . . . dead or alive.
ISBN: 978-0-241-95649-6
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
"Dark fantasy has a new heroine." -SFX When the dead call, she answers. Bounty hunting is a helluva job, but it pays the bills. And it lets Necromance Dante Valentine forget her issues-like struggling with her half-demon side and the memory of her lover`s death. Now psychics all over the city are being savagely murdered-and a piece of the past Dante thought she`d buried is stalking the night with a vengeance. Too bad she`s got no way to tell which fiend--or friend--to trust. Or that her most horrifying nightmares are gathering to take one kick-ass bounty hunter down for the count. But that`s only the beginning. The Devil just called. He`s looking for Dante`s lover--the one he
We last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Utah desert to die - only to be discovered by John Ford, who`s there shooting his latest Western. "The Dead Republic" opens in 1951. Henry is returning to Ireland for the first time since his escape in 1922. With him are the stars of Ford`s latest film, John Wayne and Maureen O`Hara, and the famous director himself, who has tried to suck the soul out of Henry and turn it into Hollywood gold-dust. Ten years later Henry is in Dublin, working in Ratheen as a school caretaker. When he is caught in a bomb blast, he loses his leg for the second time. He is claimed as a hero, and before long Henry will discover he has other uses too, when the peace...
ISBN: 978-0-09-954689-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress at Merlotte`s, in her home town of Bon Temps, Louisiana. Other than being telepathic, she`s always considered herself pretty normal - though she had a hard time at first, until she learned to filter out other people`s thoughts. She thought life was pretty dull, but then the vamps and the weres and the shifters came out of the closet, and she met a vampire called Bill and she couldn`t hear him at And Bill was her first love, even if he hadn`t been alive since the 1860s. But then Sookie found herself all caught up in vampire politics, and betrayal, and since then her life has been anything but normal. And life in Bon Temps has never been the same.
ISBN: 978-0-575-09654-7
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: май 2012
Carly Chase is traumatized ten days after being in a serious traffic accident. Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare. The drivers of the other two vehicles involved have been hunted down by a sadistic killer. Now Detective Superintendent Roy Grace of the Sussex police force issues a stark and urgent warning to Carly: she could be next. The police advise her that her only option is to go into tiding and change her identity. The terrified woman disagrees - she knows these people have ways of tracking you down anywhere. If the police are unable to stop them, he has to find a way to do it herself. But already the killer s one step ahead of her, watching, waiting, and
ISBN: 978-0-330-53548-9
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
All the creatures of the night gather in "the Hollows" of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party ... and to feed. Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond imagining - and it’s Rachel Morgan`s job to keep that world civilized. A bounty hunter and witch with serious sex appeal and an attitude, she`ll bring `em back alive, dead ... or undead.
