Главной темой любовно-приключенческого романа "Бухта пирата" являются взаимоотношения двух людей, при необычных обстоятельствах встретивших друг друга и впервые испытавших настоящую любовь, которая изменила их самих, их отношение к жизни, заставила на многое взглянуть другими глазами! Книга предназначена для широкого круга читателей.
ISBN: 5-8346-0265-7
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: февраль 2005
The Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St Columb to be ripe for any folly, any outrage that will alter the tedium of her days. But there is another, secret Dona who longs for a life of honest love - and sweetness, even if it is spiced with danger. It is this Dona who flees the stews of London for remote Navron, looking for peace of mind in its solitary woods and hidden creeks. She finds there the passion her spirit craves - in the love of a daring pirate hunted by all Cornwall, a Frenchman who, like Dona, would gamble his life for a moment`s joy.
ISBN: 978-1-84408-041-0
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea. Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a digraced woman, and their romance will defy all the stifling conventions of the Victorian age. Meryl Streep received her third Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Sarah in the 1981 film, which was adapted for the screen by Harold Pinter.
ISBN: 978-0-09-954158-5
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Of all John Fowles`s novels "The French Lieutenant`s Woman" received the most universal acclaim, and today holds a very special place in the canon of post-war English literature. From the god-like stance of the nineteenth-century novelist that he both assumes and gently mocks, to the last detail of dress, idiom and manners, his book is an immaculate recreation of Victorian England. Not only is it the epic love story of two people of insight and imagination seeking escape from the cant and tyranny of their age, "The French Lieutenant`s Woman" is also a brilliantly sustained allegory of the decline of the twentieth-century passion for freedom.
ISBN: 978-0-09-947833-1
Издательство:
Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
Friday nights. Eleanor had started them, scooping up Paula and Lindsay, both single mothers who looked as though they needed some adult company, and welcoming them to her untidy, comfortable Fulham house where she had lived alone for fifty years. Soon they were joined by others - Blaise, smart, single and successful, her business partner Karen, the breadwinner for a chaotic young family in which her artist husband promised much but did little, and Jules, Lindsay`s confused younger sister. A group of women, different in age and circumstances but with the same needs. It was a warm, inclusive sisterhood - until Paula got herself a new man, Jackson, and somehow the Friday nights weren`t the same any
ISBN: 978-0-552-77412-3
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
This book traces the extraordinary life of an artist whose unforgettable imagery combined cruelty and wit, honesty and insolence, pain and empowerment. Admired by the Surrealists and photographed by the greatest, Frida was most renowned for her self-portraits and unusual still lifes. She learned about suffering at an early age. She contracted polio when she was six and was seriously maimed in a bus accident at the age of eighteen, which led to injuries that affected her for the rest of her life. She had a legendarily turbulent marriage to the great mural painter Diego Rivera, with whom she formed a strong attachment to indigenous Mexican folk art and a deep commitment to Communism.
Released for the first time in mass market paperback, this classic and folksy novel takes readers back to the thirties, where a friendship blooms between two girls who run a homey, little cafe in Alabama. A story of food, love, laughter, and even murder unfolds as an elderly woman relates her life story to a middle-aged friend.
Sam Borkson and Arturo Sandoval may be based in Miami but the strange worlds they create are way out there in another dimension. Their modest mission is to spread an intelligent look at the world with a vision of magical whimsical childlike magic, and to spread truths and myths to the world while bringing true art back into the lives of everybody who experiences their work in all its forms. When not otherwise occupied in creating their ‘Malfis’ – a bizarre take on the cuddly toy concept – they are to be found making videos, interactive installations, paintings and animation films for the likes of Nikelab, Sony, Volkswagen and MTV. This book presents the full scope of their projects and a wide range of scribbles, designs,...
ISBN: 978-3-89955-163-1
Издательство:
Die Gestalten Verlag
Дата выхода: август 2011
Brothers Tony, Sean and Ned had the perfect upbringing. They adore their parents and actually look forward to coming home for Sunday lunch. But now they’ve grown up and real life’s starting to get in the way. Tony’s dealing with divorce and weight problem. Novelist Sean is up against a serious case of writer’s block and a shock announcement from his ‘perfect’ new girlfriend. And their parents have a new lodger, Gervase. But why is Bernie, their mum, so keen to give this unsavoury waif a home? And what is the real reason for kid brother Ned’s surprise return from his travels in Australia?
ISBN: 978-0-14-029597-9
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Youthful beauty, intellectual brilliance, physical passion, tragedy and disgrace are all in this wonderful novel as told through the eyes of a 14-year-old girl. Sophie is a self-contained, exceptionally bright child who has no known parents and has spent all her life in a children`s home. Her life is transformed when she wins a scholarship to Tatham`s, a kind of Oxbridge university for teenagers, but this is only the start of an education as much emotional as intellectual. She falls hopelessly in love with Lucas, adored gay son of a wealthy Jewish family and, through him, is drawn into a tangle of betrayed friendship and forbidden passions that ends in tragedy and disgrace. But school is only half the story. Spanning the years 1975 to...
ISBN: 978-0-00-715104-2
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
It`s early 2008 and the credit crunch is starting to bite. Sam and Laura Diamond - and their friends - are circling forty and all feeling a lot less certain about life than when they first met in their twenties. Laura wants to work part-time and have a third child - an appalling prospect for her husband Sam, whose secret ambition is to give up his job as a struggling scriptwriter and have a vasectomy. Life`s no more straightforward for wild child turned corporate lawyer Janey Dart. Having finally given up on Patrick, the love of her life, she finds herself unexpectedly pregnant and hastily married to a wealthy hedge fund manager who loathes her friends. And Sam`s oldest friend, trendy restaurant owner Jonathan Sleet, is about to hit the...
ISBN: 978-0-09-953939-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Five children meet on their first day of school, one bright September morning. Gabby, Billy, Izzie, Andy and Sean - each bursting with their own personality, all with strikingly different looks and diverse talents - soon become an inseparable group, known to everyone else as the Big Five. As they grow up, their seemingly perfect lives are altered by families falling apart, and losses and victories great and small. As they emerge from school, their futures seem neither safe nor clear, and the challenges and risks they face become greater, the losses sharper. It becomes much harder to know the right path to choose.
ISBN: 978-0-552-15987-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2013
Isabel Dalhousie thinks often of friends, sometimes of lovers, and on occasion of chocolate. As an Edinburgh philosopher she is certain of where she stands. She can review a book called In Praise of Sin with panache and conviction, but real life well, perhaps a bit more challenging - particularly when it comes to her feelings for Jamie, a younger man who should have married her niece, Cat. Jamie`s handsomeness leaves Isabel feeling distinctly uneasy, and ethically disturbed. `I am a philosopher`, she thinks, `but I am also a woman`. And more disturbance is in store. When Cat takes a break in Italy, Isabel agrees to run her delicatessen. One of the customers, she discovers, has recently had a heart transplant and is now being plagued by...
ISBN: 978-0-349-11917-5
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
From master storyteller Michael Morpurgo comes "Friend or Foe". Evacuated from London, David and Tucky feel like the war is a long way away from their new life in the countryside. Then one night the skyline of the moor is lit up with gun flashes, and the distant crump of bombing miles away brings the war back to them and shatters their new-found peace. When a German bomber crashes, the boys feel they should hate the airmen inside. But one of them saves David`s
ISBN: 978-1-4052-3337-8
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
It`s winter and what better than a ghostly holler-day by the sea? But how are Tabitha Tumbly, Charlie Vapour, Humphrey Bump and the other ghosties to decide between Frighten-on-Sea and Scare-borough? A postcard from their friend Headless Leslie decides for them: Headless is in Frighten and cannot remember how to get home. He wrote the address on the postcard, then he forgot what the address was. `I`d lose my head if it wasn`t screwed on - which it isn`t.` So the friends descend on Frighten and set off on an exciting ghostie caper, involving a haunted Frighten pier, a mysterious phantom magician, a fun fair and an extremely infuriating Headless Leslie.
ISBN: 978-0-85738-045-6
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This work presents history with twice the nasty bits! Want to know: How sniffing your own pee could save your life in the First World War? Why wearing white knickers could get you killed in the Second World War? How a pair of old socks gave away top secrets? "The Frightful First World War" tells you all the horrors and hardships of the war that was meant to last four months...but ground on for four grim years. "The Woeful Second World War" gives you the dire details about the worst war ever - from snow-bound cities under siege to fly-infested jungle trenches. Read on for curious quizzes, rotten recipes, gruesome games and terrible tests ...for your teacher! History has never been so horrible!
ISBN: 978-1-4071-0907-7
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
Introducing an intriguing new hero in the world of crime American novelist Denton is an uncomfortable outsider in class-ridden turn-of-the-century England. But he is about to be plunged into the dark heart of a society where privilege and propriety hide unspeakable horrors. When a stranger turns up at his door declaring he has just seen Jack the Ripper, Denton dismisses his lurid ravings as the delusions of a madman. But then a prostitute`s horribly mutilated body is discovered that night - and Denton suspects the two events are connected. While the police investigation grinds towards a seemingly pre-ordained conclusion, Denton becomes obsessed with finding out who the victim really was and who killed her - a search that leads him by...
ISBN: 978-0-7528-8395-3
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Tabitha Tumbly, Charlie Vapour, Rusty Chains and friends can`t understand why the still-alives in their house are so mean. When Pamela Fraidy gets locked in the attic by a still-alive, the ghosties are determined to make the still-alives like them. But the more friendly they are - hiding under beds and rushing out to read them a bed-time story, rushing down the chimney to say hello, the meaner the still-alives become; they even go so far as to run out of rooms shrieking! When the family start putting nasty garlic around the house and then call in a priest, the ghostie gloves are off: Tabitha and Charlie decide to call in The Ghoul to sort out the still-alives once and for all: But could the terrifying ghoul prove much more than even the...
ISBN: 978-1-84724-993-7
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Read along with your favorite I Can Read Book characters I Can Read Books are the premier line of beginning readers encouraging children to learn-and love-to read. Featuring award-winning authors and illustrators, I Can Read Books offer a full spectrum of entertaining stories for every stage of a child`s reading development. Now the beloved characters and adventures from this popular line of books come to life with I Can Read Book and CDs. Each package includes a best-selling beginning-reader storybook and a lively audio recording featuring: Word-for-word narration Music and sound effects. One version with turn-the-page signals. One version of uninterrupted reading.
