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
Welcome to the world of Jamie Swift and Max Holt! My good friend Charlotte Hughes and I have teamed up to create a series of books featuring these two characters and they`ve taken on a life of their own! These books are not set in the same world as my Stephanie Plum novels, but what they have in common is lovable, dysfunctional characters, villains you love to hate, and a cross-eyed way of looking at life. Jamie and Max have intense chemistry-even though they drive each other crazy. Max thinks Jamie is a magnet for trouble and Jamie thinks Max is the most annoyingly sexy, mysterious man she`s ever met. She knows she should stay away from him. But boy, oh boy, do the sparks fly when they get together. Jamie is a newspaper owner from a...
ISBN: 978-0-312-98329-1
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When the moon is full at Blandings, strange things happen: among them the painting of a portrait of The Empress, twice in succession winner in the Fat Pigs Class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show. What better choice of artist, in Lord Emsworth`s opinion, than Landseer. The renowned painter of The Stag at Bay may have been dead for decades, but that doesn`t prevent Galahad Threepwood from introducing him to the castle - or rather introducing Bill Lister, Gally`s godson, so desperately in love with Prudence that he`s determined to enter Blandings in yet another imposture. Add a gaggle of fearsome aunts, uncles and millionaires, mix in Freddie Threepwood, Beach the Butler and the gardener McAllister, and the moon is full indeed....
ISBN: 978-0-09-951385-8
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The temperature is on "sizzle" again in Beaumont, South Carolina, and the peach trees are bursting into full bloom in this fifth book in the mega-bestselling Full series from the bestselling team of Evanovich and Hughes.
For a Nebraska farmer, the turning point come when his wife threatens to sell off the family homestead. A cozy mystery writer plots a savage revenge after a brutal encounter with a stranger. Harry Streeter gets the chance to cure himself from illness - if he agrees to impose misery on an old rival. First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mix of eroticism and violence, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a true classic and established James M. Cain as a major novelist. And Darcy Anderson discovers a box containing her husband's dark and terrifying secrets - he's not the man who keeps his nails short and collects coins. And now he's heading
ISBN: 978-1-4447-1257-5
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
This is a six-level series of readers for children learning English. Each title contains a factual section that introduces children to a variety of exciting topics. The concepts and structures learnt in the factual section are then reinforced by an enjoyable story based on the topic. The series provides reinforcement of basic structures and vocabulary and can be used alongside any primary course. Level 2
ISBN: 9780230469204
Издательство:
Macmillan
Дата выхода: январь 2019
Featuring a range of fabulous full colour scenes, with over 80 fun things to find and stick, this delightful book will give children hours of entertainment, as well as helping them to develop their word-picture association skills - an early step in learning to read.
ISBN: 978-1-86209-248-8
Издательство:
Letterland International
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Welcome to the busy world of Richard Scarry! New in picture book format, every page is packed with pictures and zany stories, with lots of details to spot.There are fifteen fabulous Scarry stories in this hilarious book. Read how Rabbit gets stuck to the road, and how little Tanglefoot trips over everything in sight! With stories such as ‘The Talking Bread’ and ‘Uncle Willie and the Pirates’, there is enough action here to satisfy the most demanding reader.
Snigger at the shocking spelling test! Titter at Auntie`s bald boyfriend (quietly)! Chortle at the bewildered wildebeest! Guffaw at the falling-apart granny and laugh your head off (or your socks) at the silly shopping trip...!
