The first book in a darkly comic new series from a debut author John works in his family`s mortuary and has an obsession with serial killers. He wants to be a good person, but fears he is a sociopath, and for years he has suppressed his dark side through a strict system of rules designed to mimic `normal` behavior. Then a demon begins stalking his small town and killing people one by one, and John is forced to give in to his darker nature in order to save them. As he struggles to understand the demon and find a way to kill it, his own mind begins to unravel until he fears he may never regain control. Faced with the reality that he is, perhaps, more monstrous than the monster he is fighting, John must make a final stand against the...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-4881-7
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: август 2011
"I am a bunny. My name is Nicholas. I live in a hollow tree." In the spring, Nicholas likes to sniff the flowers, and in the summer, watch the frogs in the pond. In the fall, he watches the animals getting ready for winter, and in winter, watches the snow falling from the sky. This beautifully illustrated, gentle story is one of Golden`s most beloved titles.
ISBN: 978-0-375-82778-5
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
John Smith is not your average teenager. He regularly moves from small town to small town. He changes his name and identity. He does not put down roots. He cannot tell anyone who or what he really is. If he stops moving those who hunt him will find and kill him. But you can`t run forever. So when he stops in Paradise, Ohio, John decides to try and settle down. To fit in. And for the first time he makes some real friends. People he cares about - and who care about him. Never in John`s short life has there been space for friendship, or even love. But it`s just a matter of time before John`s secret is revealed. He was once one of nine. Three of them have been killed. John is Number Four. He knows that he is
ISBN: 978-0-241-95357-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
The events in this book are real. Names and places have been changed to protect the Lorien Six, who remain in hiding. Take this as your first warning. Other civilizations do exist. Some of them seek to destroy you. John Smith seems like an ordinary teenager, living an ordinary life with his guardian Henri in Paradise, Ohio. But for John, keeping a low profile is essential, for as soon as he gets any attention, John and Henri are on the road again, looking for a new town to settle in. Because John is NOT an ordinary teenager. He`s an alien from the planet Lorien, and he`s on the run. A group of evil aliens from the planet Mogadore who destroyed Lorien are on the hunt for anyone who escaped their wrath the first time around. There were...
Another unputdownable novel from the author of The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Man in Full, both huge bestsellers America`s `peerless observer [and] fearless satirist` takes on the university - from jocks to mutants, dormcest to tailgating - plus race, class, sex, and basketball. Dupont University - the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America`s youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a freshman from Sparta, North Carolina (pop. 900), who has come here on full scholarship in full flight from her tobacco-chewing, beer-swilling high school classmates. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that Dupont is closer in spirit to...
ISBN: 978-0-09-947902-4
Издательство:
Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Most of our everyday decision-making tends to be confrontational. Whether in large meetings, one-to-one or even in our own heads, opposite view points are pitted against each other. Ultimately, there must be a winner and a loser. In I Am Right, You Are Wrong , lateral-thinking guru Edward de Bono challenges this `rock logic` of rigid categories and point-scoring arguments which is both destructive and exhausting. By favouring `water logic` over `rock logic` Dr De Bono overturns conventional wisdom, and will help you to become a better thinker and decision maker.
ISBN: 978-0-14-104087-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Robert Neville may well be the last living man on but he is not alone. An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him. By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for Richard Matheson’s classic novel has now been transformed by Warner Bros. into a major motion picture starring Academy Award nominee Will Smith.
ISBN: 978-0-7653-5715-1
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
All is not well at Buckshaw, home of Flavia de With the family finances in a parlous state, Flavia`s father has, with deep misgivings, rented Buckshaw to a film company for a location shooting. Naturally enough, director, crew and stars do nothing to endear themselves to the household - especially the servants - until, when a heavy snowfall cuts off Bishop`s Lacey from the rest of the world, the actors are talked into staging a benefit performance in the parish hall. But old jealousies surface, and the leading lady is murdered. Flavia, who has been enlisted to help out behind the scenes, finds herself up to her knees in snow - and murder!
ISBN: 978-1-4091-3810-5
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
This work contains an enchanting book and story CD edition of the acclaimed wartime tale from the 2003-2005 Children`s Laureate. Tomas hates school, hates books and hates stories. Forced to visit the library, he stops to listen to magical tales that the Unicorn Lady spins. These tales draw him in and are about to change the course of his life for Set against the backdrop of war-Iorn Europe, I Believe in Unicorns explores the power of stories to transform lives. The paperback now comes with a CD containing an unabridged story reading by Michael Morpurgo, specially composed music and sound effects.
ISBN: 978-1-4063-1230-0
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
From this magically right beginning came the concept of Beginner Books, exacting blends of words and pictures that encourage children to read — all by themselves. Hailed by elementary educators and remedial reading specialists, these enormously popular books are now used in schools and libraries throughout the English-speaking world.
In Karen Rose`s brilliant new thriller a killer is targeting the participants of an online role playing game called Shadowland. Each of the victims is be-friended by the killer online. He then stalks them in real life, murdering them in the way that they worst fear. Eve Wilson, who we previously met in NOTHING TO FEAR, is researching the game as part of her thesis on how self-esteem is affected by violence. Now she must work with Detective Noah Webster to find the murderer before the killings escalate out of all control and Eve herself becomes a target.
ISBN: 978-0-7553-4655-4
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Meet Kate Reddy, fund manager and mother of two. A victim of time famine, Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. Factor in a manipulative nanny, an Australian boss who looks at Kate`s breasts as if they`re on special offer, a long-suffering husband, her quietly aghast in-laws, two needy children and an e-mail lover, and you have a woman juggling so many balls that some day soon something`s going to hit the ground. In an uproariously funny and achingly sad novel, Allison Pearson brilliantly dramatises the dilemma of working motherhood at the start of the twenty-first century.
ISBN: 978-0-09-942838-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
"The hero of this hilarious tale discovers that in attempting to avoid trouble one often encounters even greater difficulties. Seuss fans will be enthralled."
Isn`t it always the way? You wait ages for one purple flour-filled condom and then three come along at once. Of course the correct procedure for a chemical attack in the House of Commons would have been for MPs to remain in the chamber and remove all items of clothing. I`m not sure which is the more horrific vision; anthrax all over London or Nicholas Soames slipping out of his Y-fronts while chatting to a naked Ann Widdecombe. Here at last is the third collection of John O`Farrell`s immensely popular "Guardian" columns - the final part of the trilogy in which he discovers that Margaret Thatcher is actually his mother. Contained within these covers are a hundred funny, satirical essays on subjects as diverse as Man`s ascent from the apes...
ISBN: 978-0-552-77359-1
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Get ready to meet Angela Clark as she flees the world`s worst wedding for a new `s official. Angela Clarke is in love - with the most fabulous city in the world. Fleeing her cheating boyfriend and clutching little more than a crumpled bridesmaid dress, a pair of Louboutins and her passport, Angela jumps on a plane, destination - NYC. Holed up in a cute hotel room, Angela gets a New York makeover from her NBFJenny and a whirlwind tour of the city that never sleeps. Before she knows it, Angela is dating two sexy guys. And, best of all, she gets to write about it in her new blog (Carrie Bradshaw eat your heart out). But it`s one thing telling readers about your romantic dilemmas, it`s another figuring them out for yourself ...Angela has...
ISBN: 978-0-00-728838-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
