Charlie`s family is poor, so he cannot go to school. He works as a shoeshine boy and dreams of being rich. Then one day, he has a chance to make his dreams come true. Recommended for younger readers.
ISBN: 978-0-230-03583-6
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A brand spanking new, rejacketed B format edition featuring a letter from Jackie Collins to her Daughter of one of the world’s richest and most powerful men, wildly beautiful Lucky Santangelo is set on continuing the family Sex and the rich fruits of crime are her aphrodisiacs. Power is the ultimate thrill – power over the Santangelo empire, power over the men of her choice. Moving in the fast lane from Las Vegas to New York, Beverly Hills to a Greek island paradise, Lucky takes up where Chances left off. Winning is all that matters – and luck has nothing to do with it.
ISBN: 978-0-330-44845-1
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: июль 2012
"Счастливчик Джим" английского писателя Кингсли Эмиса принес автору известность и литературную премию имени Сомерсета Моэма. Эта книга о молодом стажере-историке, который сталкивается с нравами, царящими в провинциальном университете. Джим Диксон пытается получить место штатного преподавателя, но попадает в смешные и нередко нелепые ситуации. Но все для Джима заканчивается благополучно, ведь он...
ISBN: 5-7657-0217-1
Издательство:
Цитадель
Дата выхода: январь 2002
Lucy Sullivan is getting married. Or is she? Lucy doesn`t even have a boyfriend but the tarot cards predict she will be walking up the aisle within a year. Lucy and her flatmates are appalled at the idea, then Lucy meets gorgeous, unreliable Gus.
ISBN: 0-09-942175-5
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
When Lucy Sullivan is dragged by her friends to visit a psychic, she thinks it will be a bit of a laugh. She doesn`t believe for one second that the prediction will come true; there`s just no way that she will be married within the year! In fact Lucy doesn`t even have a boyfriend. But then she meets gorgeous but unreliable Gus. And the handsome Chuck. Oh and there`s Daniel, the world`s biggest flirt. And even cute Jed, the new guy at work. Is it written in the stars? Or will Lucy finally take control of her own destiny and find the perfect man?
ISBN: 978-0-09-948999-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
Like all children about to set off on an adventure, Luka Khalifa is a special kid. For one thing, his father is the famed storyteller Rashid Khalifa, "the Shah of Blah", "the Ocean of Notions". For another, Luka`s
ISBN: 978-0-09-955532-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The consequences of media saturation are the basis for an urban nightmare in Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk`s darkly comic and often dazzling thriller. Assigned to write a series of feature articles investigating SIDS, troubled newspaper reporter Carl Streator begins to notice a pattern among the cases he encounters: each child was read the same poem prior to his or her death. His research and a tip from a necrophilic paramedic lead him to Helen Hoover Boyle, a real estate agent who sells "distressed" (demonized) homes, assured of their instant turnover. Boyle and Streator have both lost children to "crib death," and she confirms Streator`s suspicions: the poem is an ancient lullaby or "culling song" that is lethal if spoken-or even thought-in...
ISBN: 978-0-09-943796-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Baby is twelve years old. Her mother died not long after she was born and she lives in a string of seedy flats in Montreal`s red light district with her father Jules, who takes better care of his heroin addiction than he does of his daughter. Jules is an intermittent presence and a constant source of chaos in Baby`s life - the turmoil he brings with him and the wreckage he leaves in his wake. Baby finds herself constantly re-adjusting to new situations, new foster homes, new places, new people, all the while longing for stability and a `normal` life. But Baby has a gift - the ability to find the good in people, a genius for spinning stories and for cherishing the small crumbs of happiness that fall into her lap. She is bright, smart,...
ISBN: 978-1-84724-393-5
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
This is a rich, romantic historical novel showcasing the glamour, spectacle and theatrical energy of the Weimar Republic. As the clock chimed the turn of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite took her first breath. Born to a cabaret dancer and soon orphaned in a scandalous murder-suicide, Lilly finds refuge at a Catholic orphanage, coming under the wing of the, at times, severe Sister August, the first in a string of lost loves. There she meets Hanne Schmidt, a teen prostitute, and forms a bond that will last them through tumultuous love affairs, disastrous marriages, and destitution during the First World War and the subsequent economic collapse. As the century progresses, Lilly and Hanne move from the tawdry glamour of the...
ISBN: 978-1-84854-031-6
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Bret Ellis is a writer whose first novel, Less than Zero, catapulted him to international stardom. In the wake of his third novel, American Pyscho, he was vilified mercilessly. In the midst there is the loss of his father and his dissolution in a world of drugs and booze. Now, ten years later, the time has come for Bret to reconnect with his son and his mother and try to have a more sedate life. Unfortunately his newly found family and stability is immediately threatened by a freak sequence of events and a bizarre series of murders that seem all to be connected to Bret. As he struggles to defend his family, his very sanity is called into question. In this chilling tale fantasy and reality combine to create an alternate version of the...
ISBN: 978-0-307-27691-9
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The zombie-raising business gets slow in December, so Anita Blake is starting to see some oddball cases. She`s got a neatly typed list of eight missing lycanthropes given to her by Marcus, the leader of the local werewolf pack, who wants her to find them. The trouble is, Anita`s occasionally furry boyfriend Richard is locked in a power struggle with Marcus. Jean-Claude, master vampire of the city and Anita`s other love interest, is getting jealous as well. To top it off, Anita has to solve some horrific murders and keep her bounty-hunting friend Edward from killing Richard and Jean-Claude. Hamilton alternates between funny and fearsome in this larky series about a monster hunter with a few dark secrets.
ISBN: 978-0-515-13452-0
Издательство:
Rem Distributors
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The town psychiatrist has decided to switch everybody in Pine Cove, California, from their normal antidepressants to placebos, so naturally - well, to be accurate, artificially - business is booming at the local blues bar. Trouble is, those lonely slide-guitar notes have also attracted a colossal sea beast named Steve with, shall we say, a thing for explosive oil tanker trucks. Suddenly, morose Pine Cove turns libidinous and is hit by a mysterious crime wave. A beleaguered constable has to fight off his own gonzo appetites to find out what`s wrong and what, if anything, to do about it.
ISBN: 978-1-84149-451-7
Издательство:
Orbit
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The second book in the stunning Roman Empire trilogy by Robert Harris, author of the acclaimed bestsellers Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, Imperium and The Ghost. It is 63 BC, the year when Cicero is consul. Most of his time in office is devoted to uncovering and thwarting a violent conspiracy to overthrow the state, ostensibly led by Crassus and a group of disaffected senators. Underlying it all is the great rivalry between Cicero and Caesar who represent two different types of ambition: one orthodox, the other revolutionary. As Caesar`s power grows, Cicero must face the inevitable compromises that come with power; is it justifiable to use illegal methods in order to save the Republic? Robert Harris yet again proves himself a...
ISBN: 978-0-09-952269-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn. Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions. White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups. This is Manhattan, 1899. Beautiful sisters Elizabeth and Diana Holland rule Manhattan`s social scene. Or so it appears. When the girls discover their status among New York City`s elite is far from secure, suddenly everyone - from the backstabbing socialite Penelope Hayes, to the debonair bachelor Henry Schoonmaker, to the spiteful maid Lina Broud--threatens Elizabeth`s and Diana`s golden future. With the fate of the Hollands resting on her shoulders, Elizabeth must choose between family duty and true love. But when her carriage overturns near the East River, the girl...
ISBN: 978-0-06-134568-5
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Society`s elite: the glamour, the grandeur, the glittering parties, the most handsome beaux, the most beautiful debutantes ... the rich girl, the humble boy, the forbidden love, the stolen glances, the whispers, the scandal, the mystery, the revenge. Формат: 13 см x 19,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-14-132336-7
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Nabokov`s third novel, The Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen - an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster - but at a cost: in Luzhin` s obsessive mind, the game of chess gradually supplants the world of reality. His own world falls apart during a crucial championship match, when the intricate defense he has devised withers under his opponent`s unexpected and unpredictabke lines of assault.
ISBN: 978-0-679-72722-4
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
