It’s World War II and the A-bomb is here to stay. The only question: Who’s going to drop it first? The Battle of Midway takes on a whole new dimension with the sudden appearance of a naval task force from the twenty-first century, the result of a botched military experiment. State-of-the-art warships are scattered across the Pacific, armed to the teeth with the latest instruments of mass destruction. Nuclear warheads, rocket-propelled grenades, AK-47s, computer-guided missiles – all bets are off as the major powers of 1942 scramble to be the first to wield the weapons of tomorrow against their enemies. The whole world now knows of the Allied victory in 1945, and the collapse of communism decades later. But that was the first time...
ISBN: 978-0-345-45715-8
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A compulsive, edge-of-your-seat read from a bestselling author, combining glamour, thrills and dangerous passion Lisa Costello is leading a charmed life - until she wakes up the morning after her glamorous Thailand wedding to find her new husband Josh dead in their bed, the murder weapon in her hand. She remembers learning at the wedding that Josh had been unfaithful, but she certainly doesn`t remember killing him. As Lisa flees the scene for Europe, ex-FBI trainee Sam Murray is on her trail. Catching up with her, he`s quickly convinced she`s been set up, and they start to work out which of movie producer Josh`s many enemies could be behind the hit. It`s a race against time to unearth the truth and keep Lisa out of jail - or gunned down...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-3615-9
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Liz and Jonathan Chambers were in trouble. Mortgage trouble. They`d stretched themselves to busting with their new exciting project - well, Liz thought it exciting - buying and managing the Silchester Tutorial College, and now couldn`t sell their old house. Here they were, stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts and a miserable adolescent daughter who hadn`t wanted to move anyway. Then Marcus Witherstone came into their lives - and at first it seemed he would solve all their problems. Marcus, senior partner in Silchester`s leading estate agency, was large, assured, and wore an expensive overcoat. He knew the perfect tenants from London who would rent their old house - glamorous PR girl Ginny and almost-famous Piers. Everything was going...
ISBN: 978-0-552-77224-2
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
You`ve just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you`re destined for - what do you do? In Murakami`s world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of Desire, whether it takes the form of hunger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the heart.
ISBN: 9781784872632
Издательство:
Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: январь 2021
From the author of the internationally bestselling Sophie Kinsella novels, Madeleine Wickham`s newest novel features a house whose asking price includes a stunning renovation of dreams and Liz and Jonathan Chambers were stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts and a miserable adolescent daughter. Then Marcus Witherstone came into their lives - and it seemed he would solve all their problems. He knew the perfect tenants from London who would rent their old house: a glamorous PR girl, Ginny, and her almost-famous husband, Piers. But soon Liz is lost in blissful dreams of Marcus, Jonathan is left to run their tutorial college, and neither of them has time to notice that their teenage daughter is developing a passion for the tenants, Piers...
Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder.
ISBN: 978-0-679-72343-1
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with Felix, a man he believes to be his double, reveals a frightening "split" in Hermann`s nature. Convinced that he has found his doppelganger, Hermann uses this discovery to weave a money-making plan that leads to disguise, betrayal and eventually murder.
ISBN: 0-14-118454-X
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2002
