"Cesar Montero was dreaming about elephants. He`d seen them at the movies on " Only moments later, Cesar is led away by police as they clear the crowds away from the man he has just killed. But Cesar is not the only man to be riled by the rumours being spread in his Colombian hometown - under the cover of darkness, someone creeps through the streets sticking malicious posters to walls and doors. Each night the respectable townsfolk retire to their beds fearful that they will be the subject of the following morning`s lampoons. As paranoia seeps through the town and the delicate veil of tranquility begins to slip, can the perpetrator be uncovered before accusation and violence leave the inhabitants` sanity in tatters?
ISBN: 978-0-14-103251-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This title features Introduction by David Stuart Davies. `A grey cloud formed on the summit of the altar, diminishing, thickening and turning into a Shape, a shape of evil and fear. The silent group by the fire once more broke forth into wild gesticulations and cries, Stella prostrated herself, the Form on the altar grew clearer and with a cry of horror Mr Fowke turned away and rushed madly across the moor`. Amyas Northcote`s In Ghostly Company is a rare and splendid collection of strange and disturbing tales from the golden age of ghost stories. His style is akin to that of the master of the genre James: it is measured and insidiously suggestive, producing unnerving chills rather than shocks and gasps. Northcote`s tales make the reader...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-643-0
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
You fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, now meet Rose Feller in Jennifer Weiner`s follow-up to the greatly loved Good In Bed! Rose Feller is thirty years old, a high-powered attorney, with a secret passion for romance novels, an exercise regime she`s going to start next week, and dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell her that she`s beautiful. Meet Rose`s sister Maggie. Twenty-eight years old, drop-dead gorgeous and only occasionally employed, Maggie is a backing singer in a band called Whiskered Biscuit. She dreams of fame and fortune - and of getting her dowdy big sister to stick to a skin-care regime. These two women with nothing in common but a childhood tragedy, shared DNA, and the same size feet,...
Rose Feller is thirty years old, a high-powered attorney, with a secret passion for romance novels, an exercise regime she`s going to start next week, and dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell her that she`s beautiful. Meet Rose`s sister Maggie. Twenty-eight years old, drop-dead gorgeous and only occasionally employed, Maggie is a backing singer in a band called. She dreams of fame and fortune - and of getting her dowdy big sister to stick to a skin-care regime. These two women with nothing in common but a childhood tragedy, shared DNA, and the same size feet, are about to learn that their family is more different than they ever imagined, and that they`re more alike than they`d ever believe. Funny...
ISBN: 978-1-84983-401-8
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: январь 2013
In the 21st-century Kingdom of Versailles, the roads are terrible and Paris is a dirty little town. Serfdom and slavery are both common, and no one thinks that`s wrong. Why should they? Most people spend their lives doing backbreaking farm work anyway. But teenaged Khadija, daughter of a prosperous family of Moorish business travellers, is unfazed. That’s because Khadija is really Annette Klein from 21st-century California, and her whole family are secret agents of Crosstime Traffic, trading for commodities to send back to our own timeline. Now it`s time for Annette and her family to go home for the start of another school year, so they join a pack train bound for their home base in Marseilles, where the crosstime portal is hidden....
ISBN: 978-0-7653-4627-8
Издательство:
Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: август 2011
In House celebrates some of the world`s most striking and eccentric rooms, beautifully captured by Derry Moore, the 12th Earl of Drogheda and a regular contributor to Architectural Digest and Nest magazines, who for nearly thirty-five years has inimitably photographed unique, style-setting houses. Richly diverse in style and period, what these extraordinary interiors share is an eccentricity and a commitment to decorative aesthetics that has singled them out in the eyes of the world`s most discerning arbiters of taste. From an airy and colorful Moroccan palace to an austere but whimsical Scottish castle; from an Art Deco masterpiece in Jodhpur to Alphonse Mucha`s cluttered apartment in Prague; and from the museumlike home of one of...
ISBN: 978-0-8478-3349-8
Издательство:
Знак
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Bruce Stevens is a young buyer for a big discount house when he meets the recently divorced Susan Faine. She suggests that he might like to manage her ailing typewriter store and he leaps at the suggestion. Then he realizes that Susan was his teacher when he was in fifth grade. In spite of that, they are married within days. And then the odd compulsions and instabilities start to interfere with their plans. Milton Lumky, the paper salesman in whose area they live, is uneasy about their
ISBN: 978-0-575-07465-1
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
It`s just before New Year, and Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo`s nightlife. But Frank`s behaviour is so odd that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion: his client may in fact have murderous desires. Although Kenji is far from innocent himself, he unwillingly descends with Frank into an inferno of evil, from which only his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Jun, can possibly save him.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-7888-8
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
Эдит Уортон - известная американская писательница XX века, первая женщина-лауреат Пулитцеровской премии. Её произведения до сих пор остаются актуальными и читаемыми во всём мире, вдохновляют режиссёров на новые экранизации. Путевые записки "В Марокко" отличаются живостью слога, необычным и уникальным взглядом на мир, яркими впечатлениями и эмоциями, которые не оставят вас равнодушными. Читайте...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05463-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist and short story writer. Her works show the lives of people of the late nineteenth century, the times of decline in American history. She was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921. Wharton also was familiar with many famous people of the time, including President Theodore Roosevelt "In Morocco" is a travelogue about Ediths journey to Morocco in the final days of the World War I. It colorfully describes her month-long path through the cities and deserts of the country, and all the places she visited — ruins, mosques, palaces, markets, and harems.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07847-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2019
When ideas fail, words come in handy. But sometimes you can`t find the right word, and what you want to say can`t be found in the dictionary. English has its limitations, but the expression you`re searching for may exist in another language. In Other Words is a unique collection of well-known and absolutely obscure untranslatables - linguistic gems that convey a feeling or notion with satisfying precision yet resist simple translation. This quirky lexicon of hard-to-translate words gives the reader a new way to look at the world and how words relate to us. The words are arranged by region or country of origin, and a brief introduction to each section--each done by a respected translator - gives insight into the culture of the people as...
From her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time at Harvard, where she studied the Victorian ancestors of the form, and later as a writer and reviewer, Margaret Atwood has always been fascinated with science fiction. Here she brings together three Ellmann lectures: `Flying Rabbits` begins with her early rabbit superhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos and Things with Wings; `Burning Bushes` travels into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and `Dire Cartographies` investigates Utopias and Dystopias, including Atwood`s own ventures into those constructions. In further essays Atwood explores and critiques the form, and elucidates the differences - as she sees them - between `science...
ISBN: 978-1-84408-755-6
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Mario Vargas Llosa, the internationally acclaimed author of The Storyteller, adds his own finely-tuned poetic polish to this erotic exploration of carnality in one family. He turns the proverbial romantic triangle on its ear to create this New York Times bestselling erotic novel. French flaps and six full-color pages of classic artworks.
Calder Moor is a wild and deadly place: many have been trapped in the myriad limestone caves, lost in collapsed copper mines, injured on perilous gritstone ridges. But this time, when two bodies are discovered in the shadow of the ancient circle of stones known as Nine Sisters Henge, it is clearly not a case for Mountain Rescue. The corpses are those of a young man and woman. Each met death in a different fashion. Each died violently. To Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, brought in to investigate by special request, this grisly crime promises to be one of the toughest assignments of his career. For the unfortunate Nicola Maiden was the daughter of a former officer in an elite undercover unit, a man Lynley once regarded as a mentor. Now,...
ISBN: 978-0-553-57510-1
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
India is poised to become one of the world’s three largest economies in the next generation and to overtake China as the world’s most populous country by 2032. Well before then India`s incipient nuclear deterrent will have acquired intercontinental range and air, sea and land capabilities. India`s volatile relationship with its nuclear-armed neighbour, Pakistan, may prove to be the source of the world`s next major conflict. And if you call anyone - from your bank to rail enquiries - your query may well be dealt with by a graduate in Gujarat. Any way one looks at it, India`s fate matters. Edward Luce, one of the most incisive and talented journalists of his generation, assesses the forces that are forging the new nation. Cutting...
ISBN: 978-0-349-11874-1
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. Original stories at seven levels from starter to advanced, written specially for learners of English. With gripping plots and a range of genres to satisfy every taste, Cambridge English Readers offer high-quality original fiction that students will love! In the Big Eye House, Annie is the only female contestant left in a reality TV show. Viewers follow the contestants` every move and regularly vote to eject one of them. There is a big prize for the winner, and another for any couple to have a romance in the house. What will Annie learn about the remaining four male contestants, and about herself? And which prize will she win, if any?
ISBN: 9780521732253
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Charles Todd — a renowned painter of horses — is shocked when he turns up at his cousin Donald’s house for a weekend visit to find his cousin’s young wife dead on the floor — and Donald the police’s prime suspect. Determined to prove Donald’s innocence, Todd trails a set of clues from England to Australia to New Zealand, only to realize that someone is trailing him. Someone with every intention of taking him out of the picture for good…
ISBN: 0-425-20958-X
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: май 2008
In the bestselling tradition of Laurell K. Hamilton and Patricia Briggs, this thrilling follow-up to the critically acclaimed fantasy debut "A Rush of Wings" is a satisfying and pulse-pounding read, sure to please fans of dark fantasy.
Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. Роман Герберта Уэллса «В дни кометы» на английском языке, неадаптированное издание.
ISBN: 978-5-519-49883-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2016
