A million years from now, the galaxy is divided between the vast, cooperative meta-civilisation known as the Amalgam, and the silent occupiers of the galactic core known as the Aloof. The Aloof have long rejected all attempts by the Amalgam to enter their territory, but have permitted travellers to take a perilous ride as unencrypted data in their communications network, providing a short-cut across the galaxy`s central bulge. When Rakesh encounters a traveller, Lahl, who claims she was woken by the Aloof on such a journey and shown a meteor full of traces of DNA, he accepts her challenge to try to find the uncharted world deep in the Aloof`s territory from which the meteor originated. Roi and Zak live inside the Splinter, a world of...
ISBN: 978-0-575-08164-2
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
You aren`t stupid. You know there`s no such thing as a perfect mother. Plenty of other books will tell you there is, but this one won`t lie to you. I was weak and I cheated and I was punished, but my god I loved my child through all of it. Love means you never break, and it means you`re stronger than the things they do to you. I know this is true because I have been through fire, and I am the proof that love survives. I am not a perfect mother but I will tell you the perfect truth, because this is you and me talking. This is my story.
ISBN: 978-0-340-99848-9
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
Inch by inch, day by day, Scott Carey is getting smaller. Once an unremarkable husband and father, Scott finds himself shrinking with no end in sight. His wife and family turn into unreachable giants, the family cat becomes a predatory menace, and Scott must struggle to survive in a world that seems to be growing ever larger and more perilous--until he faces the ultimate limits of fear and existence.
ISBN: 978-0-7653-6116-5
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Fun, cultural and informative, this series of readers offers an extensive range of fiction and non-fiction titles that reinforce the basic structures and vocabulary found in most primary courses. The Macmillan Children`s Readers series can be used as supplementary reading material with any primary course. A picture dictionary (or wordlist) and activity pages are at the back of each book and an accompanying Audio gives children a chance to listen to the stories while they read them.
ISBN: 9780230404977
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
It`s history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: Why llamas wore earrings and drank beer? How a bucket of stewed pee can make you beautiful? Why servants ate the emperor`s hair? Discover all the foul facts about the Incredible Incas - all the gore and more!
ISBN: 978-1-407104-27-0
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2010
In the latest novel in Hamilton`s "New York Times" bestselling series, a vampire serial killer who preys on strippers is on the loose. Called in to consult on the case, Anita Blake fears her judgment may be clouded by a conflict of interest and does something unprecedented--she calls for help.
ISBN: 978-0-515-13975-4
Издательство:
Rem Distributors
Дата выхода: июль 2011
"Explosively funny, fiendishly inventive". Sunday Times "What clinches the novel`s success is Mr Sharpe`s brilliant comic style. His phrasing, his timing, and his extraordinarily deft handling of the minutiae of comic incidents make for real hilarity". Times Literary Supplement "Splendidly funny". New Statesman
ISBN: 0-09-946652-X
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
The international bestselling author of "Kisscut" and "Blindsighted" shows off her superb talent with this brilliantly conceived, skillfully executed tale of a suspenseful hostage situation.
The bestselling author of "The Thorn Birds" breathes new life into the characters of Jane Austen`s "Pride and Prejudice." Jane and Elizabeth`s younger, bookish sister Mary is still too willful to be confined within traditional marriage, so she embarks on an adventure of her own.
By the author of the hugely successful ‘The Thorn Birds’ It is a truth universally acknowledged that anyone who loved PRIDE AND PREJUDICE will want to know what happened to the Bennet sisters… Twenty years on, Jane has a happy marriage and large family; Lizzy and Mr Darcy now have a formidable social reputation; Lydia has a reputation of quite another kind; Kitty is much in demand in London’s parlours and ballrooms; but what of Mary? Mary is quietly celebrating her independence, having nursed her ailing mother for many years. She decides to write a book to bring the plight of the poor to everyone’s attention. But with more resolve than experience, as she sets out to travel around the country, it’s not only her family who are...
ISBN: 978-0-00-727184-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Drei Jahre lang hat Jaroslav Poncar in Indien gelebt und während dieser Zeit mehrfach alle Regionen des Subkontinents bereist. Dabei entstanden diese einmaligen Panoramaaufnahmen, die neben den weltbekannten Sehenswürdigkeiten wie dem Taj Mahal und dem Goldenen Tempel auch das alltägliche Leben der Bewohner in den Städten und auf dem Land zeigen.
ISBN: 978-3-89823-237-1
Издательство:
Editionpanorama
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Watch your child get stuck in to stickers featuring their favourite characters from the Indiana Jones movies. Over 60 colour stickers and amazing scenes from Indiana`s movies mean kids can re-create some of his most incredible adventures, or make up their own swashbuckling stories in this action-packed sticker book packed with heroes and villains. Watch as they pitch Willie Scott against Dr. Marcus Brody, then peel them off to use again and again. And if they still want more, there are tons of cool facts about Indiana Jones to amaze their friends with. This book provides hours of sticky fun with kid`s favourite whip wielding archaeologist!
ISBN: 978-1-4053-2857-9
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: август 2011
The Indian subcontinent offers an amazing visual feast. Considering Indian art within a chronological framework, Vidya Dehejia analyses the great cities of the Indus civilization, the serene Buddha image, the intriguing art of cave sites, sophisticated temple-building traditions, the luxurious art of the Mughal court, the palaces and pavilions of Rajasthan, the churches of Portuguese Goa, art in the British Raj and the issues taking Indian art into the twenty-?rst century.
ISBN: 0714834963
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2000
A dazzling new novel from a modern master of the form. It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio`s Winesburg College. INDIGNATION is the story of a young man`s education in life`s terrifying chances and bizarre obstructions. It is a story of inexperience, foolishness, intellectual resistance, sexual discovery, courage and error, told with all the inventive energy and with Roth has at his command.
ISBN: 978-0-09-953946-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas must discover who`s preying on those who cater to the rich and famous in the new novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Robb.
Wiccan heroine Paige Winterbourne returns in this sequel to "Dime Store Magic." After her mother`s murder, Paige breaks away from her coven and tries to start a new one. But someone soon begins murdering the teenage offspring of some of the underworld`s most powerful families.
ISBN: 978-0-553-58707-4
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Florence: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object found hidden in his belongings.A threat to his life will propel him and a young doctor, Sienna Brooks, into a breakneck chase across the city. Only Langdon`s knowledge of the hidden passageways and ancient secret that lie behind its historic facade can save them from the clutches of their unknown pursuers.With only a few lines from Dante`s Inferno to guide them, they must decipher a sequence of codes buried deep within some of the Renaissance`s most celebrated artworks to find the answers to a puzzle which may, or may not, help them save the world from a...
ISBN: 9780552172134
Издательство:
Corgi Books
Дата выхода: январь 2016
"Vintage Sin" is a limited edition gift pack which consists of beautifully designed separate volumes of "Inferno" by Dante and Philip Roth`s shocking novel, "Sabbath`s Theater." "Vintage Sin" is just one of ten "Vintage Classic Twins" to collect. Each twin consists of two books: a specially designed limited edition of one modern classic title and one established classic work. The books in each pair have been carefully selected to provide a thought-provoking combination. "Inferno": On Good Friday evening in the year 1300, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood. The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan. On his journey deep into the underworld, Dante crosses...
ISBN: 978-0-09-951137-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
