Will Jackson is a desperate man - desperate to be a dad, that is. Tired of his laddish lifestyle, he`s redecorated the spare room, traded in his beloved sports car for a 4x4, and even drawn up a list of his favourite baby names. In fact, there`s only one thing left he`s got to do - find a female who`ll have his child. But where on earth is he going to find a woman who meets his exacting standards? Certainly not in the usual bars and clubs he frequents. But Will has a plan - you can find everything else on the Internet these days - so why not someone to start a family with? From Friends Reunited, through the weird world of online dating, even to auctioning his `services` on Ebay, Will`s journey to paternity is a hilarious romp through the...
ISBN: 978-1-84739-067-7
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
With an Introduction and Notes by Alex Dolby. Jules Verne was internationally famous as the author of novels based on extraordinary voyages. His visionary use of new travel technologies inspired his readers to look to the industrial future rather than the remote past for their dreams of adventure. The popularity of his novels led directly to modern science fiction. In From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, Jules Verne turned the ancient fantasy of space flight into a believable technological possibility an engineering dream for the industrial age. Directly inspired by Verne s story, enthusiasts worked successfully at overcoming the practical difficulties, and within a century, human beings did indeed fly to the Moon. Curiously,...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-670-6
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
I can do it! is the confidence-building message of this fun-filled interactive picture book. A variety of familiar animals, depicted in colorful collages, invites young children to copy their antics as they wiggle, stomp, thump, and bend across the strikingly designed pages.
Come close, children, and see the living crocodile. A vintage `54 Buick Roadmaster. At least, that`s what it looks There is a secret hidden in Shed B in the state police barracks in Statler, Pennsylvania. A secret that has drawn troopers for twenty years - terrified yet irresistibly tempted to look at its chrome fenders, silver grille and exotic exhaust Ned Wilcox has started coming by the barracks: mowing the lawn, washing the windows, shovelling snow; it`s a boy`s way of holding on to his father - recently killed in a strange road accident by another one day Ned peers through the windows of Shed B and discovers the family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers. He deserves answers. And the secret begins to
ISBN: 978-1-4447-0811-0
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Howard Lovecraft was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Despite the fact that he was virtually unknown before he died, today he is known as the most influential author in his genre. "From Beyond and Other Stories" is a collection of wonderful short stories such as "The Statement of Randolph Carter," "The Temple," "From Beyond" and others. These stories, full of mystery and fantastic creatures, have captured the minds of readers all over the world.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00245-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2019
Published to coincide with the launch of Ron Howard`s blockbuster film, and following on from the huge success of the eponymous West End and Broadway play, "Frost/Nixon" tells the extraordinary story of how David Frost pursued and landed the biggest fish of his career. When he first conceived the idea of interviewing Richard Nixon and trying to bring the ex-President to confront his past, he was told on all sides that the project would never get off the ground. Yet in the end he succeeded, and the resulting television series drew larger audiences than any news programme ever had in the United States, before being shown all over the world. Including hilarious tales of the people Frost encountered along the way and fascinating insights...
ISBN: 978-0-330-45769-9
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student\`s ability. A collection of stories that offer eight slices of life in England today. The themes covered include British eating habits, the media, inner-city problems, immigration, football hooliganism, student life, leisure activities and the countryside. Well-observed, lively and amusing, these stories provide a fascinating picture of the country at the start of a new century. Contains a paperback and 3 Audio CDs with complete text recordings from the book.
ISBN: 978-0-521-68647-1
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: январь 2011
Hot on the heels of Richard Castle`s #1 New York Times bestseller Heat Rises comes the fourth novel in the Nikki Heat series, Frozen Heat. Nikki Heat and Jameson Rook are together again, facing an unsolved murder mystery that has haunted Nikki for ten years. NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat arrives at her latest crime scene to find an unidentified woman stabbed to death and stuffed inside a suitcase left on a Manhattan street. Nikki is in for a big shock when this new homicide connects to the unsolved murder of her own mother. Paired once again with her romantic and investigative partner, top journalist Jameson Rook, Heat works to solve the mystery of the body in the suitcase while she is forced to confront unexplored areas of her...
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. A collection of stories that offer eight slices of life in England today. The themes covered include British eating habits, the media, inner-city problems, immigration, football hooliganism, student life, leisure activities and the countryside. Well-observed, lively and amusing, these stories provide a fascinating picture of the country at the start of a new century.
ISBN: 9780521750783
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: январь 2023
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. A collection of stories that offer eight slices of life in England today. The themes covered include British eating habits, the media, inner-city problems, immigration, football hooliganism, student life, leisure activities and the countryside. Well-observed, lively and amusing, these stories provide a fascinating picture of the country at the start of a new century.
ISBN: 0-521-75078-4
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: январь 2004
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. Five entertaining stories about the power of discovery set in countries across the globe. A perfume made from some very unusual ingredients becomes more effective than expected. A remarkable change in a woman`s life leaves her family to make a decision. The secret and danger of high intelligence are revealed to a university student. A teacher discovers a way of making time stand still. And a book tells a young manager more than he wants to know.
ISBN: 978-0-521-68611-2
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Spanning 1979-1987, "The Fry Chronicles" charts Stephen`s arrival at Cambridge up to his thirtieth birthday. "Heartbreaking, a delight, a lovely, comfy book". ("The Times")". "Perfect prose and excruciating honesty. A grand reminiscence of college and theatre and comedyland in the 1980s, with tone-perfect anecdotes and genuine readerly excitement. What Fry does, essentially, is tell us who he really is. Above all else, a thoughtful book.
ISBN: 978-0-14-103980-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lope de Vega fue uno de los poetas у dramaturgos mas importantes del Siglo de Oro espanol у, рог la extension de su obra, uno de los autores mas prolificos de la literatura universal. Fuenteovejuna es una obra de contenido social у reivindicativo. Presenta la rebelion del pueblo, unido ante la tirania у la injusticia expuestas crudamente a finales del siglo XV principios del XVI; la obra esta escrita en 1610 у se puede considerar de una gran valentia у de caracter pedagogico.
ISBN: 978-5-521-05991-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Want to know where Chuck Palahniuk`s tonsils currently reside? Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets? Curious about Chuck`s debut in an MTV music video? What goes on at the Scum Center? How do you get to the Apocalypse Caf-? In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and more as he takes you through the streets, sewers, and local haunts of Portland, Oregon. According to Katherine Dunn, author of the cult classic Geek Love, Portland is the home of America`s `fugitives and refugees.` Get to know these folks, the `most cracked of the crackpots`, as Palahniuk calls them, and come along with him on an adventure through the parts of Portland...
ISBN: 978-0-09-946467-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Jakob Beer is seven years old when he is rescued from the muddy ruins of a buried village in Nazi-occupied Poland. Of his family, he is the only one who has survived. Under the guidance of the Greek geologist Athos, Jakob must steel himself to excavate the horrors of his own history. A novel of astounding beauty and wisdom, Fugitive Pieces is a profound meditation on the resilience of the human spirit and love`s ability to resurrect even the most damaged of hearts.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-9925-8
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
I believe there is another man inside every man, a ` 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 herself....
ISBN: 978-1-4447-1255-1
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
Dear Reader: Mercury`s in retrograde, and folks in Beaumont, South Carolina are dealing with gossip, scandal, misunderstandings, and more secrets than ever. Local pediatrician Maggie Farnsworth has even bigger worries. Her wild-girl past has caught up with her in the form of her ex-boyfriend, a jailbird who just flew the coop--and is bent on tracking down Maggie and her daughter. Fortunately, FBI agent Zack Madden is on hand for protection. Unfortunately, his presence is turning up the heat on an attraction Maggie simply has no time does she? But Maggie and Zack aren`t the only ones getting busy: Fleas, the hound dog, is up to his old tricks - this time with Butterbean, a very Jamie Swift and millionaire Max Holt have babies on the...
ISBN: 978-0-312-93431-6
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
`A husband, security, a home, children - what’s wrong with all that?` At eighteen years old, beautiful Tana Roberts found it hard to say. All she knew was that, for her, career came before marriage - even if that meant defying convention and the wishes of her fussing, over-protective mother. Throughout the turbulent Sixties, Tana followed her heart wherever it lead her, searching for fulfilment in her work as a highly successful lawyer, in friendships, and in fleeting affairs. Until one day, quite unexpectedly, she discovers a gaping void in her life that only true love could fill…
ISBN: 978-0-7515-0544-3
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 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
Contemporary / British English Gaz and five others decide to form a strippers` group. none of the men have stripped before. Gaz must make sure the local women come to the show, so he tells them that the group will take their clothes off. Will these unlikely strippers dare to go for the `full monty`? The Full Monty is a very popular and funny British film!
ISBN: 978-1-4082-0957-8
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
