Original / British English Claire is staying with her aunt Min. There is an old castle with a black tower in the village. It has a dangerous secret accidents happen there, animals and people die. One day, Claire goes to the castle. She wants to know its secret.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-6953-9
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Giambologna (1529–1608) was the greatest sculptor of the age of Mannerism, imposing his seductive and distinctive style on the half-century following the death of Michelangelo in 1564. Charles Avery’s major critical study covers the whole range of Giambologna’s work in a fluent yet scholarly narrative and emphasizes his wide and continuing influence on the development of European sculpture. The text is supported by outstanding photographs by David Finn, and the volume concludes with an invaluable checklist of all Giambologna’s known works.
ISBN: 0714829536
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
Based on the true story, this is the tale of the 18th Century Irish giant, Charles O’Brien. He was exhibited in London and eventually dissected by the surgeon Charles Hunter, and his bones hang to this day in the Hunterian Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Field. Charles O’Brien, bard and giant. The cynical are moved by his flights of romance; the craven stirred by his tales of epic deeds. But what of his own story as he is led from Ireland to seek his fortune beyond the seas in England? The Surprising Irish Giant may be the sensation of the season but only his compatriots seem to attend to his mythic powers of invention. A motley court surrounds him: slow witted Jankin; the thrusting Claffey brothers; sharp-tongued Bride Claskey, the...
Jumbeelia, a girl giant, loves the stories of the iggly plop who climbed up the bimblestonk and was chased back down again by a giant. Growing her own bimblestonk, she climbs down it and finds a whole world of iggly plops - our world, in fact, where Colette, Stephen and Poppy are very surprised to find themselves collected up into a bag and carried off back up the beanstalk. So begins a wild and wonderful tale of how three children escape from an over-enthusiastic giant girl, her very-pregnant giant mum, and her very nasty adolescent giant brother.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-0760-7
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Jack, Jessica and Wishler go to Giantland where they are tiny and everything is, well, GIANT! But the wishing-chair is taken to be 1st prize in a talent contest and they will be stuck without it. They must help Olga the giantess win the talent show. But does she have the talent to succeed?
ISBN: 978-1-4052-4390-2
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Winnie the Witch has many talents! In `Winnie`s Wheels` she magics an old wreck of a car to take herself and Wilbur on holiday and demonstrates some rather unconventional driving skills; in `Blooming Winnie` she summons the help of the ghost of Great Aunt Winifred in order to control a class of unruly children who have come to see her garden; in `Winnie`s Tea Party` Winnie is playing hostess and showing off her culinary repertoire to her oddball relatives; and in `Giddy-Up, Winnie!` Winnie and Wilbur head for the local race meeting on a homemade hobby horse - with hilarious results. Four crazily funny stories featuring everyone`s favourite witch, her big black cat, Wilbur, and a supporting cast of zany new characters. Korky Paul`s...
ISBN: 978-0-19-272841-8
Издательство:
OXED
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Lou Suffern wishes he could be in two places at once. His constant battle with the clock drives his wife and family crazy. Gabe is the homeless man who sits outside Lou`s office. When Lou invites Gabe into the building and into his life, Lou`s world is changed beyond all An enchanting and thoughtful story that speaks to all of us about the value of time anc is truly important in life.
ISBN: 978-0-00-732633-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Once in a generation a book, a vision, a writer, capture the imagination and emotions of millions. "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" was such a book. Richard Bach`s unique vision again shines forth, touching with magic the drama of life in all its limitless horizons. Once again Richard Bach has written a masterpiece to help you touch that part of your home that is the sky.
ISBN: 978-0-440-20432-9
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Extremely successful executive, Lou Suffern is always overstretched, immune to the holiday spirit that delights everyone around him. The classic workaholic who never has a moment to spare, he is always multitasking while shortchanging his devoted wife and their adorable children. And ever since he started competing for a big promotion, he has barely seen his family at all. One frigid morning in an uncharacteristic burst of generosity, he buys a cup of coffee for Gabe, a homeless man huddled outside his office building. Inspired by his own unexpected act of kindness, Lou decides to prolong his charitable streak and contrives to get Gabe a job in his company`s mailroom. But when Gabe begins to meddle in Lou`s life, the helping hand appears...
Classic / American English O. Henry`s stories are very famous. He writes about New York, Texas, Oklahoma ... Money and love are often problems. But how is a story going to finish? You never know. Readers always remember his stories.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7804-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
These students look like the others, but each of them has a special supernatural attribute that marks them out. You could call it a skill, a talent or a disadvantage, but each of these students is unique - they`re gifted. Shy, dreamy Emily`s premonitions aren`t always quite right, and the gifted class usually don`t take her seriously. But as Emily`s visions get clearer, her classmates are forced to listen to her - before it`s too
ISBN: 978-0-330-51006-6
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Thirteen year old Queen-of-mean Amanda Beeson, wakes up one morning in the wrong body. She`s become lonely, unfashionable Tracey Devon - one of Amanda`s targets for bullying. Amanda discovers that Tracey, ignored at home and at school, has the ability to turn invisible. Amanda sets out to rescue her one-time victim from obscurity - as well as rescuing herself from Tracey`s life!
ISBN: 978-0-330-51036-3
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Teenage goth and occasional rebel Jenna Kelly can read anyone`s mind without even trying. When her alcoholic mother has to go into hospital, a stranger turns up who says he`s her long-lost dad, and promises her a better future. While Jenna is happy to discover what it`s like to have a proper parent, the gifted class have their concerns, but will Jenna listen?
ISBN: 978-0-330-51035-6
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: июль 2011
It takes a thief to catch a Once one of the world`s foremost art thieves, Tom Kirk now operates on the other side of the law. But a grisly discovery at the site of the brazen theft of a Da Vinci painting—a crime that bears the unmistakable hallmark of an old nemesis—entangles him in a lethal weave of a mystery that blankets the and reaches back through hundreds of years of European history. In Spain, a friend, a master forger, suffers a brutal, horrific death—while in New York the murder of a prominent attorney drags FBI agent Jennifer Browne into the murky world of high-end art forgery and the rotten heart of the global auction business. And for Kirk, vengeance may require him to cross the line once more—to uncover the...
The Yoruzuya Trio will work for food and offers such services as sea monster extermination, traveling exorcism, convenience-store sitting/motorcycle gang thrashing, and rescuing kidnapping victims (willing and unwilling). Older teens.
ISBN: 9781421516189
Издательство:
VIZ Media LLC
Дата выхода: март 2008
First, the aliens invaded Japan. Next, they took all the jobs. And then they confiscated everyones swords. So what does a hotheaded former samurai like Sakata "Gin" Gintoki do to make ends meet? Take any odd job that comes his way. Older teens.
ISBN: 9781421513591
Издательство:
VIZ Media LLC
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2007
