This wonderful book takes an affectionate, entertaining and perceptive look at the English people. Here are their traditions, foibles, quirks, customs, humour and achievements, triumphs and failures, peccadilloes and passions. Travel through England from coast to coast and learn how every county contributes in unique and different ways to the distinct English personality. Marvel at crooked black and white halls in Cheshire and soft golden stone cottages in Midland villages. Go cheese rolling in Gloucestershire, discover the origins of cricket in Hampshire, savour a hot pot in Lancashire and a pudding in Yorkshire. Gasp at the glories of stately homes and the families that create them, upstairs and down, enjoy a pint. Listen to the...
ISBN: 978-0-09-192673-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Bestselling author and quiz master Christopher Winn is here to test your knowledge of Britain with 501 questions to perplex and puzzle about our glorious islands. Covering a myriad of subjects including history, cathedrals, sports, records, modern Britain, royalty, people, places, deeds, discoveries and disasters, there is something to test everyone from Britain`s brainiest boffins to the quiz beginner. Featuring a range of questions from multiple choice teasers and odd ones out to picture quizzes illustrated with charming line drawings to test your knowledge of the famous faces and facades of Britain. Alongside these sit cryptic and puzzle quizzes plus special features spotlighting different regions so you can see just how well you know...
ISBN: 978-0-09-193304-3
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when he formulated the classic laws govering their behavior. In I, Robot Asimov chronicles the development of the robot from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-sodistant future - a future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete.
ISBN: 0-553-29438-5
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
I Shall Wear Midnight is a Nebula Award-winning comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett set on the Discworld. It is the fourth novel within the Discworld series to be based around the character of Tiffany Aching. It centres on Tiffany Aching, who is now fifteen years old and getting on with the hard work of being a witch. The title is taken from a quotation in A Hat Full of Sky: "When I`m old I shall wear midnight, she`d decided. But for now she`d had enough of darkness".
ISBN: 978-0-552-55559-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
A man with no eyes. No eyes at all. Two tunnels in his It`s not easy being a witch, and it`s certainly not all whizzing about on broomsticks, but Tiffany Aching - teen witch - is doing her best. Until something evil wakes up, something that stirs up all the old stories about nasty old witches, so that just wearing a pointy hat suddenly seems a very bad idea. Worse still, this evil ghost from the past is hunting down one witch in particular. He`s hunting for Tiffany. And he`s found A fabulous Discworld title filled with witches and magic and told in the inimitable Terry Pratchett style, I Shall Wear Midnight is the fourth Discworld title to feature Tiffany and her tiny, fightin`, boozin` pictsie friends, the Nac Mac Feegle (aka The Wee...
ISBN: 978-0-552-16605-8
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Young children will enjoy bright, bold pictures of cookies, candies, toys, and snow as they play a search-and-find game created especially for them! Photographs from the best-selling I SPY CHRISTMAS are teamed up with new, simple riddles for this fifth board book in the series.
Meet Maggie Fortenberry. Her life seems pretty much perfect - she`s beautiful, charming and successful, just as you`d expect of a former Miss Alabama. But, in fact, Maggie is perfectly miserable. By now she should have been living in an elegant house with an adoring husband and children. Instead, she makes a living selling that dream to others - though her estate agency business has lately been going from bad to worse. But then Maggie comes up with the perfect plan. And that`s when strange things start happening. As Maggie finds herself catapulted into one surprising discovery after another, she learns valuable lessons about the nature of friendship, the challenges of modern life and the dangers of impossible dreams. She also learns that...
ISBN: 978-0-09-955548-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Remember when the man of your dreams was waiting for you between the pages of Jackie? Remember when pop concerts kicked off at so you could be home in time for Blind Date? Remember when your signature scent was a heady mix of joss sticks and `White Musk`? This summer, let Allison Pearson`s hilarious and heart-warming novel take you back to the days of lip-gloss, unrequited love, teenage crushes and Anne French cleansing milk. We enter the world of two unforgettable friends: Petra and Sharon, in 1970s South Wales, who live for David Cassidy. His fan magazine is the girls` Bible and they memorise every word that he sings and writes, in the hope of becoming the future Mrs Cassidy. But unbeknownst to Petra, and to millions of other hopefuls,...
ISBN: 978-0-09-946859-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Does that boy like me? Am I pretty? Will my father be arrested? These were the everyday concerns of thirteen-year-old Moscow schoolgirl Nina Lugovskaya, who began to write a diary in 1932. Her indignant outbursts against Stalin`s brutal Terror appear alongside more typical adolescent worries about friends, boys and homework. For five years Nina scribbled down her most intimate thoughts. Then in 1937 Stalin`s secret police ransacked Nina`s home and discovered her diary. Nina`s criticism of the regime provided sufficient evidence for the charge of treason, and she, her mother and two sisters were sentenced to five years` hard labour in the Gulag, followed by seven years` exile. Recently Nina`s diary was discovered in the KGB archives. Like...
ISBN: 978-0-552-77290-7
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
It`s a beautiful winter`s day at the castle and the Little Princess has found her old sledge to play on. She`s having a great time until the Chef whizzes past on his brand new shiny sledge. She wants one of those! When the King finally gives in and let`s her have one, the Princess thinks her dreams have come true. But new doesn`t always mean
ISBN: 978-1-84270-832-3
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
When a small boy turns up on Bob and Joan`s doorstep unable to say much except `I was a rat`, the kindly couple adopt him. It seems strange but Bob reads about odder things every day in his newspaper. To them, the sunny little chap is Roger, and he`s trying hard to adapt to human life. But when he gets lost and ends up on the run, other people, egged on by their newspapers, are quick to see him as the Monster, a rodent fiend who could terrorise the town. Only a friend in a very high place could save Roger from the authorities who are determined to exterminate him. Cleverly weaving elements of the Cinderella story into a subtle parody of modern times, master storyteller Philip Pullman has created a gallery of fascinating characters from...
ISBN: 978-0-440-86639-8
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
As startling and provocative as his famous Stranger in a Strange Land, here is Heinlein`s awesome masterpiece about a man supremely talented, immensely old and obscenely wealthy who discovers that money can buy everything. Even a new life in the body of a beautiful young woman. Once again, master storyteller Robert delivers a wild and intriguing classic of science Формат: 10,5 см x 17,5 см.
What would life be like if you had feet like a duck, or horns like a deer, a whale spout on your head, or a long, long nose? In this crazy tale a small boy imagines all these things, only to decide in the end that perhaps it`s better to be ME after all.
ISBN: 978-0-00-717313-6
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: август 2011
"I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere" explores how a life can be changed irrevocably in just one fateful moment. A pregnant mother`s plans for the future unravel at the hospital; a travelling salesman learns the consequences of an almost-missed exit on the motorway in the newspaper the next morning; while a perfect date is spoilt by a single act of thoughtlessness. In those crucial moments Cavalda demonstrates her almost magical skill in conveying love, lust, longing and loneliness.
ISBN: 978-0-09-950601-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A young boy weighs the pros and cons of possessing various animal appendages - such as a duck`s feet, a deer`s antlers, a whale`s spout, an elephant`s trunk, and a long, long tail - only to decide that he`s better off just being himself. A zany, insightful story that beginning readers will wish to hear again and again - with a new Dr. Seuss author credit.
THE #1 BESTSELLING BLOCKBUSTER Can Alex Cross survive his most chilling - and personal - case ever? Pulled out of a family celebration, Detective Alex Cross gets awful news: A beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Vowing to catch
