ISBN: 9781408800669 Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Дата выхода: январь 2009
This light-hearted masterpiece tells of the influence Eugenia and her brother Felix exert on their Bostonian cousins when they visit the New World. In the hope of making a wealthy marriage, Eugenia, the Baroness Munster, and her younger brother, the artist Felix, descend on the Wentworths, in Boston. Installed in a nearby house, they become close friends with the younger Wentworths - Gertrude, Charlotte and Clifford. Издание полностью на английском языке.
ISBN: 0140620451 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: апрель 2002
Brooke and Julian Alter are a happy couple - she`s a nutritionist working two jobs to support them, he`s a talented musician with a low-level recording contract - but when Julian hits it big in The Devil Wears Prada author Weisberger`s not-ready-for-prime-time latest, their marriage wobbles under the strain of fame. Suddenly Julian is traveling nonstop, a pawn of his manager and publicist, and Brooke tries to balance her career with her desire to back him up. Paparazzi stalk their every move (believable in his case, less so in hers); her job is threatened by her repeated absences to attend events like Julian`s Grammy appearance; and their shared giddiness dissipates as they are divided - physically and emotionally - as a couple. It takes...
ISBN: 978-0-00-735483-2 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Дата выхода: июль 2011
ISBN: 0-679-76662-6 Издательство: Random House (USA) Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Seconds. That`s all it took for Web London to lose everything: his friends, his team, his reputation. Point man of the FBI`s super-elite Hostage Rescue Team, Web roared into a blind alley towards a drug leader`s lair, only to meet a high-tech, custom-designed ambush that killed everyone around him. Coping with the blame-filled words of anguished widows and the suspicions of colleagues. Web tries to put his life back together. To do so. he must discover why he was the one man who lived through the ambush - and find the only other person who came out of the alley a ten-year-old boy who has since disappeared. Acting on his instincts. Web believes he knows where the killer will strike next. Only this time, he may not survive. An explosive...
ISBN: 978-0-330-41970-3 Издательство: Pan Macmillan Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
When Linda Fallon and Thomas Janes meet at a writers` festival in Toronto, it is the first time they have seen each other for twenty-six years. Theirs is a story bound by the irresistible pull of true passion - a love which begins in Massachusetts in the early 1960s, is rekindled in Kenya in the mid 1970s and which is about to play out its astonishing final Written with reverse chronology, Anita Shreve`s new novel is a haunting story of mesmerising beauty, with a strong narrative pull that inescapably draws the reader in, and leaves its most stunning revelation until the very last pages. Brilliantly ambitious and powerfully written, "The Last Time They Met" is a tale not so much of life, but of a life not lived.
ISBN: 978-0-349-11360-9 Издательство: Orion Publishers Дата выхода: июль 2011
News of the untimely death of Charles Dickens reaches James R Osgood at his American publisher. Expecting the arrival of the latest instalment of The Mystery of Edwin Drood and suspicious of unscrupulous New York publishers keen to get their hands on the novel, Osgood sends his clerk, Daniel Sands, to await its arrival.
ISBN: 978-0-09-951275-2 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: июль 2011
Japan, 1865, the women’s palace in the great city of Edo. Bristling with intrigue and erotic rivalries, the palace is home to three thousand women and only one man - the young shogun. Sachi, a beautiful fifteen-year-old girl, is chosen to be his concubine. But Japan is changing, and as civil war erupts, Sachi flees for her life. Rescued by a rebel warrior, she finds unknown feelings stirring within her; but this is a world in which private passions have no place and there is not even a word for ‘love’. Before she dare dream of a life with him, Sachi must uncover the secret of her own origins – a secret that encompasses a wrong so terrible that it threatens to destroy her ....
ISBN: 978-0-552-15520-5 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
He`s been a legend in his own lifetime. He can remember the great days of high adventure. He can remember when a hero didn`t have to worry about fences and lawyers and civilisation. He can remember when people didn`t tell you off for killing dragons. But he can`t always remember, these days, where he put his He`s really not happy about that bit. So now, with his ancient sword and his new walking stick and his old friends - and they`re very old friends - Cohen the Barbarian is going on one final quest. He`s going to climb the highest mountain in the Discworld and meet his gods. He doesn`t like the way they let men grow old and die. The last hero in the world is going to return what the first hero stole. With a vengeance. That`ll mean the...
ISBN: 978-0-575-08196-3 Издательство: Orion Publishers Дата выхода: август 2011
When Web London`s FBI Hostage Negotiation Team is ambushed in a dark alley, Web is the only survivor. As the FBI investigates, suspicion surrounding Web deepens. Now, he needs help from an unlikely ally in his desperate search for the killer of his friends, and finds himself up against a force intent on finishing the job that began in the alley.
ISBN: 0-446-61177-8 Издательство: Warner Books Дата выхода: апрель 2004
The studio lot looks like `thirty acres of fairyland` the night that a mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monroe Stahr, the last of the great Hollywood princes. Enchanted by one another, they begin a passionate but hopeless love affair, starting with a fast-moving seduction as slick as a scene from one of Stahr`s pictures. The romance unfolds, frame by frame, watched by Cecilia, a thoroughly modern girl who has taken her lessons in sentiment and cynicism from all the movies she has seen. Her buoyant humour and satirical eye perfectly complement Fitzgerald`s panorama of Hollywood at its most lavish and bewitching. Формат: 12,5 см x 19,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118563-7 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: июль 2011
Morse was beset by a nagging feeling. Most of his fanciful notions about the Taylor girl had evaporated and he had begun to suspect that further investigation into Valerie’s disappearance would involve little more than sober and tedious The statements before Inspector Morse appeared to confirm the bald, simple truth. After leaving home to return to school, teenager Valerie Taylor had completely vanished, and the trail had gone cold. Until two years, three months and two days after Valerie’s disappearance, somebody decides to supply some surprising new evidence for the
ISBN: 978-0-330-45119-2 Издательство: Picador USA Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
632 AD. Deep within the Uranah Valley of Mount Arafat, the prophet Mohammed shares with his closest companions a final and startling revelation. Within days, he is assassinated. September, 1789. US minister to France, Thomas Jefferson, charged with forging a truce with the violent Muslim pirates of the Barbary Coast, makes a shocking discovery: one that could forever impact the world`s relationship with Islam. Present day. When a car bomb explodes outside a Parisian cafe, Scot Harvath is thrust back into the life he has tried so desperately to leave behind. Saving the intended victim of the attack, Harvath becomes party to an amazing and perilous race to uncover a secret so powerful that militant Islam could be defeated once and for all...
ISBN: 978-1-84739-195-7 Издательство: Simon & Schuster UK Дата выхода: август 2011
To the Romans, the greatest enemy the Republic ever faced was not the Goths or Huns, nor even Hannibal, but rather a ferocious and brilliant king on the distant Black Sea: Mithridates Eupator VI, the last king of Pontus, known to history as Mithridates the Great. At age eleven, he inherited a small mountain kingdom of wild tribesmen whom his wicked mother governed in his place. Sweeping to power at twenty-one-years-old, he proved to be a military genius and a man intent on ousting the Romans from the Black Sea coast territories. For over forty years, Rome sent its greatest generals to contain Mithridates, but time and again he embarrassed the Romans with devastating defeats. Each time Rome declared victory, Mithridates considered it...
ISBN: 978-0-312-93615-0 Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Дата выхода: июль 2011
ISBN: 9781471187292 Дата выхода: январь 2019
Тага, Katherine and Fintan have been best friends since they were teenagers. Now in their early thirties, they`ve been living it up in London for ten years. But what have they got to show for it? Sure, Tara`s got her boyfriend - but she loves retail therapy so much more. Katherine, on the other hand, is a serial singleton whose neatness fetish won`t let a man mess up her lifa And Fintan? Well, Fintan has everything. Until he gets ill and he has to ask himself: what have you got if you haven`t got your health? All three are drinking in the last chance saloon and they`re about to discover that if you don`t change your Kfe, life has a way of changing you...
ISBN: 978-0-241-95933-6 Издательство: Penguin Group Дата выхода: август 2012
ISBN: 978-0-06-076344-2 Дата выхода: июль 2012
Uncas is the last of the Mohican Indians. He is with his father and Hawkeye when they meet Heyward. Heyward is taking the two young daughters of a British colonel to their father. But a Huron Indian who hates the British is near. Will the girls see their father again?
ISBN: 978-1-4082-7808-6 Издательство: Pearson Дата выхода: июль 2011
Russian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines sources never before available to create a fascinating portrait of the monarch, and a minute-by-minute account of his terrifying last days.
ISBN: 978-0-385-46962-3 Дата выхода: август 2011
ISBN: 9780141983561 Дата выхода: январь 2020
ISBN: 9780141195650 Издательство: Penguin Group Дата выхода: январь 2011
Join Britain`s best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as he follows in his great friend Douglas Adams` footsteps with zoologist Mark Carwardine, in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on Earth. In the 1980s celebrated writer Douglas Adams teamed up with zoologist Mark Carwardine and together they embarked on a lively and groundbreaking expedition, travelling the globe in search of the world`s endangered animals. Twenty years later Adams` great friend, comic genius and compere extraordinaire Stephen Fry, is returning with Mark to see if the species still exist. Six separate journeys will take them to Madagascar, New Zealand, China, Mauritius, Indonesia and The Congo to look for a flightless parrot, the Yangtze...
ISBN: 978-0-00-729072-7 Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Eustace Conway is like no other man. At the age of seventeen, he ditched the comforts of suburbia to escape to the mountains where he lived alone in a teepee. Twenty years on, he is still there. Everything he needs he builds, grows or kills. Over the years, he has stopped at nothing in pursuit of bigger, bolder challenges: he travelled the Mississippi in a handmade wooden canoe; he walked the two-thousand-mile Appalachian Trail; he hiked across the German Alps in trainers. Dazzled by his tales of daring and adventure, Elizabeth Gilbert set off on her own adventure to discover the last American man.
ISBN: 978-1-4088-0116-1 Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Северная Америка, 1898-1910 годы. Пять рассказов с совершенно неожиданными концовками о преступниках и преступлениях, сыщиках и их расследованиях, о любви и надеждах влюбленных. The Last Leaf, The Good Burglar, A Lesson in Love, The Jeweller`s Wife и The Car is Waiting.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7237-3 Издательство: Langenscheidt Дата выхода: июль 2011
Thirteen-year-old Johnny Merrimon has to face things no boy his age should face. In the year since his twin sister`s abduction his world has fallen apart: his father has disappeared and his fragile mother is spiralling into ever deeper despair. Johnny keeps strong. Armed with a map, a bike and a flashlight, he stalks the bad men of Raven County. The police might have given up on Alyssa; he never will. Someone, somewhere, knows something they`re not telling. Only one person looks out for Johnny. Detective Clyde Hunt shares his obsession with the case. But when Johnny witnesses a hit-and-run and insists the victim was killed because he`d found Alyssa, even Hunt thinks he`s lost it. And then another young girl goes
ISBN: 978-0-7195-2221-5 Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton Дата выхода: август 2011
