With fantastic characters and enchanting, rhythmic and sometimes nonsense language, Lewis Carroll created magical wonderlands. In his world, many things appear upside down and inside out, the rules of logic just don`t apply, and everything pompous gets cut down to size. No surprise then that children love to visit this world sliding down the rabbit hole with Alice, battling the dreaded Jabberwock, or hunting for the mythical Snark. Carroll`s classic works have never lost their fascination and this selection of 26, with Eric Copeland`s savagely funny paintings that bring his fantastic realms to life, will become favourites with young readers: Father William; Humpty Dumpty`s Song; Tweedledum and Tweedledee; Mock Turtle`s song (early and...
A quirky and original comic fantasy from talented Gollancz author Alex Bell Law student Lex Trent`s world is inhabited by fearsome magicians, ageing crones and a menagerie of Gods and Goddesses. And while Lex is seemingly dedicated to his legal studies he`s always enjoyed a challenge - which is why he leads a double life as the notorious cat burglar `The Shadowman` who has been (luckily) evading capture for years. But Lex`s luck is about to run out because the Goddess of Fortune has selected him to be her player in the highly dangerous Games. Losing is not an option for Lex (particularly as it so often involves dying) but can he really win each of the perilous rounds? Given that the reward for doing so is money, fame and glory - all...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-5518-1
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: август 2011
Ce qu`on appelle un trou noir. Le black-out. Trois ans d`existence purement et simplement passés à la trappe. Entre-temps, Lexi la loseuse, dents de travers et poches percées, flanquée d`un boyfriend passablement minable, a fait place à Lexi-les-dents-longues, Wonder woman bien mariée, mal entourée, sapée luxe et manucuré Où, quand, comment? Mystère et boule de gomme. Une chose est sûre: sa nouvelle vie ne lui ressemble plus. Remue-méninges en
ISBN: 978-2-266-19870-7
Издательство:
Pocket
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
Lorsque l`Armée rouge menace de s`emparer de la Crimée, Martin et sa mère fuient en Europe de l`Ouest. C`est à Cambridge que le jeune héros va faire ses études. Il y côtoie des Anglais, tel son ami Darwin, mais aussi des Russes, plus ou moins anglophiles. Il y retrouve surtout Sonia, sa jeune et intelligente cousine. Est-ce pour l`impressionner qu`il décide de transcender sa nature et imagine un projet inutile et fou?
ISBN: 978-2-07-034825-1
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis`s pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world`s most powerful and profitable merchant bank. Формат: 13 см х 19,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-340-83996-6
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
With his second collection of short stories, Richard Yates continues to extend his range as a writer of stunning power and eloquence. "Liars in Love" is concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth: Hope, dread, disorder, and a nervous entangling of separate lives in Greenwich Village during the Depression, as seen by a child, in `Oh, Joseph, I’m So Tired`. The volatile, perilous course of events set in motion when two divorced mothers agree to “pool their resources” and live together, with their children in `Trying Out for the Race`. A young American soldier’s too-abrupt postwar reunion, on foreign soil, with the lovely, dismayingly grown-up sister he hasn’t seen since he was eleven and she was ten, in `A...
ISBN: 978-0-09-951859-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Unafraid to walk both sides of the law to attain his goals, CIA operative Tommy Carmellini is sent to post guard duty at a farmhouse in West Virginia. When he arrives, he finds the guards shot dead and a ruthless team of American commandos killing everyone in sight. Carmellini escapes in a hail of bullets with what seems to be the sole survivor-a stunningly attractive translator, who then steals his car and abandons him after a deadly mountain car chase. But someone else survived the massacre-someone who holds the answers to a deadly conspiracy. Catapulted into a life and death struggle, Tommy must employ all his savvy and skill just to stay alive. But to find out who is hunting him and why, he`ll need the help of retired Admiral Jake...
ISBN: 978-0-312-93621-1
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
On a quiet park bench in Manhattan---just miles from the ruins of the World Trade Center---spymaster Jake Janos Illin delivers a chilling secret message to Jake Grafton: A rogue Russian general has sold four nuclear warheads to a radical Islamic terrorist group, the Sword of Islam. The group intends to detonate them in America in the ultimate terror strike, the apocalypse that will trigger a holy war between Western civilization and the Muslim world. After passing Illin’s message to his superiors, Grafton is charged by the president with the task of assembling a secret team to find the warheads before America’s population centers are consumed by a nuclear holocaust. As he hunts for the terrorists, Grafton soon finds himself up to his...
ISBN: 978-0-312-98970-5
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: август 2011
Liber T is a modern rendition of Crowleys vision for tarot. Negrini, the greatest Italian expert on Crowley, carefully directed Serios breathtaking art. Because of Negrinis careful and serious study of Crowley, this deck is filled with esoteric and magical symbology. The dramatic, fully-illustrated Minor Arcana will deepen understanding of Crowleys work and add power to anyones tarot readings.
ISBN: 9780738705651
Издательство:
Publisher Llewellyn Publications
Дата выхода: август 2004
A murderer is on the loose on the streets of New York City: nicknamed the Doomsday Killer, he`s claimed six victims in just two weeks, and the city is terrified. Even worse, the police are mystified: the victims have nothing in common, defying all profiling, and all that connects them is that each received a sick postcard in the mail before they died - a postcard that announced their date of death. In desperation, the FBI assigns the case to maverick agent Will Piper, once the most accomplished serial killing expert in the bureau`s history, now on a dissolute spiral to his own demons, Will is soon drawn back into a world he both loves and hates, determined to catch the killer whatever it takes. But his search takes him in a direction he...
ISBN: 978-0-09-953445-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald`s odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability, who imagines himself an agent of history. When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the president will galvanize the nation against communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118822-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
A TOUCHING, ELEGIAC COLLECTION OF STORIES about infidelity, about the weight of family, about the dwindling of years, about the heart and other so slowly and carefully that you rarely see the emotional punches coming.
ISBN: 978-0-345-44201-7
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Il y a lieu de croire que Rogojine eprouva cette brusque sensation d`epouvante; venant s`ajouter а tant d`autres emotions, elle l`immobilisa sur place et sauva le prince du coup de couteau qui allait inevitablement s`abattre sur lui. Rogojine n`avait pas eu le temps de se rendre compte de l`attaque qui terrassait son adversaire. Mais, ayant vu celui-ci chanceler et tomber soudainement а la renverse dans l`escalier, la nuque portant contre une marche de pierre, il etait descendu quatre а quatre en evitant le corps etendu et s`etait enfui de l`hotel presque comme un fou.
ISBN: 978-2-07-038963-6
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: январь 2014
Jane, a brave and sensual Englishwoman, is caught in a deadly romantic triangle between rival spies Ellis and Jean-Pierre. Love, hatred and deception sweep them from terrorist conspiracies in Paris to full-tilt guerilla warfare in Afghanistan. Jean-Pierre and Jane marry and go to work as doctors in the Valley of the Five Lions to help the rebels fighting for their freedom against the Russians. Trapped between extremes of violence, lust and danger, Jane desperately tries to get out of the line of fire. Help comes unexpectedly, from her husband`s greatest enemy. They soon become the centre of the action, as treachery seeks its prey. Follet builds the menacing tension to breaking point, leading to a confrontation that echoes all our...
ISBN: 978-0-330-35426-4
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: июль 2011
В настоящем сборнике представлены ранние рассказы Германа Гессе, поэта, прозаика, философа, одной из величайших фигур XX века. В рассказах о любви отражена романтическая природа его творчества: переживания, поиск. Даже в первые годы творчества видно несомненное достоинство его произведений, в которых начинающий писатель только предугадывает темы своих будущих открытий. Издание сопровождается словарем...
ISBN: 978-5-8112-5118-6
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2014
In this stunning debut, author Scott Lynch delivers the wonderfully thrilling tale of an audacious criminal and his band of confidence tricksters. Set in a fantastic city pulsing with the lives of decadent nobles and daring thieves, here is a story of adventure, loyalty, and survival that is one part Robin Hood, one part Ocean`s Eleven, and entirely An orphan`s life is harsh-and often short-in the island city of Camorr, built on the ruins of a mysterious alien race. But born with a quick wit and a gift for thieving, Locke Lamora has dodged both death and slavery, only to fall into the hands of an eyeless priest known as Chains-a man who is neither blind nor a priest. A con artist of extraordinary talent, Chains passes his skills on to...
ISBN: 978-0-553-58894-1
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: август 2011
Shortly before his death, Philip K. Dick expanded his novella The Unteleported Man into Lies, Inc., a hallucinatory novel that explores Dicks hallmark themes of conspiracy, totalitarianism, and the thin line between illusion and reality. When catastrophic overpopulation threatens Earth, a company begins offering teleportation to Whales Mouth, an allegedly pristine new home for migrs. The only catch is that the trip is one way. But when one man discovers that the images of happy settlers have been faked, he sets out on an eighteen-year trip to see if anyone wants to come back.
Mark Twain (1835—1910) was an American writer, journalist, and publisher. Among his most famous novels are "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and its sequel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". Most of his finest work includes many genres such as humor, satire, and philosophical fiction. "Life on the Mississippi" is another stellar travel book and a memoir of the times before the Civil War when Mark worked as a steamboat navigator on the Mississippi River. The book also includes his trip from St. Louis to New Orleans years after the War.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07807-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
