Suze`s new life in California is pretty cool. There are the pool parties, the new friends, and the fact that the hottest ghost in history happens to live in her bedroom. But when a screaming spirit appears at the end of her bed, Suze is thrown on to the trail of a murderer. All the clues lead to the freaky father of Tad Beaumont, the cutest boy in the only guy who`s ever asked Suze out. Not only is her potential beau`s dad probably a killer, but he also seems be some kind of vampire. No one said that life as a mediator was going to be simple. But this is getting
ISBN: 978-0-330-43738-7
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Skillfully reproduced from a rare 19th-century masterpiece, this collection features 60 hand-coloured engravings of medieval knights and their weapons. Images include warriors on horseback as well as an assortment of lances, spears, mobile siege towers, muskets, and armour.
ISBN: 978-0-486-99013-2
Издательство:
Dover
Дата выхода: август 2011
A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential - for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business-and for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw explores these changes, moving back and forth from the author`s bad old days to the present. Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-travelling professional eater and drinker, Bourdain compares and contrasts what he`s seen and what he`s seeing, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food. And always he returns to the question: `Why cook?` Or the harder one to answer: `Why cook well?` Beginning with a secret and highly illegal after-hours gathering of...
ISBN: 978-1-4088-0974-7
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июнь 2011
At the same time, off Bermuda, a bathysphere operated by NUMA® and overseen by Kurt Austin is attacked and becomes stranded half a mile below the surface. Only quick thinking and bold action will save the crew - which includes the head of a certain, now-missing undersea lab - from a watery grave. Austin is convinced both events are connected, and he puts Numa on the case. Soon he`s uncovering some hideous medical experiments and evidence of a terrifying virus that could be used to create a worldwide pandemic. Behind it all lies an ambitious Chinese criminal organization prepared to commit mass murder to achieve its ends. Now Austin must put his life on the line in order that millions will be saved from
ISBN: 978-0-14-103890-2
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
From the multi award-winning creator of the modern classic Meerkat Mail, this gorgeous festive treat is full of Christmas card flaps to lift, as Sunny the meerkat travels the world in the search of the perfect Christmas.A Sunday Times Book of the Year.Sunny wants a white Christmas, with a decorated tree, carols and sprouts for dinner . . . none of which he can see at home in the Kalahari desert. So off he heads to find the perfect Christmas elsewhere, before realizing that maybe Christmas isn`t all about the trimmings.Emily Gravett`s witty and heartwarming celebration of festive fun and family love shows that Christmas can be whatever you want it to be.
Meet the Martians Book and CD-Rom Pack: Easystarts Danuta, Pablo and Ling are not happy. They live on Mars and there are no visitors to their planet. Why not? Mars isn`t boring! What can they do? Ling has an
ISBN: 978-1-4082-3120-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: август 2011
Tom looked up at the dark and silent building. "Angela," he said quietly to himself, "where are you?" A short distance away a man in a grey raincoat stood in a dark doorway. He was watching Tom, watching every move he made…
ISBN: 978-0-230-03044-2
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Push, pull and slide the tabs in this magical Moomin book and make all your favourite characters come to life! Wobble on a fluffy cloud with Moomintroll and Snorkmaiden, sail from the top of the Moominhouse with Little My, and meet Snufkin coming home from his travels.Moving mechanisms on every page will introduce young readers to the Moomins and their fun-filled world. Based on the acclaimed Moominvalley CGI animation and using beautiful full-colour images from the series, this preschool board book uses the bestselling Push, Pull & Slide format to show the Moomin characters as you`ve never seen them before.With simple rhyming text, chunky pages for little hands and sturdy interactive mechanisms, Meet the Moomins! is the perfect...
Created by an Irish clergyman, Melmoth is one of the most fiendish characters in literature. In a satanic bargain, Melmoth exchanges his soul for immortality. The story of his tortured wanderings through the centuries is pieced together through those who have been implored by Melmoth to take over his pact with the devil. Influenced by the Gothic romances of the late 18th century, Maturin`s diabolic tale raised the genre to anew and macabre pitch.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06082-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2017
In Anne Rice`s new novel, the Vampire Lestat - outsider, canny monster, hero-wanderer - is at last offered the chance to be redeemed. He is brought into direct confrontation with both God and the Devil, and into the land of Death. We are in New York. The city is blanketed in snow. Through the whiteness Lestat is searching for Dora, the beautiful and charismatic daughter of a drug lord, the woman who arouses Lestat`s tenderness as no mortal ever has. While torn between his vampire passions and his overwhelming love for Dora, Lestat is confronted by the most dangerous adversaries he has yet known. He is snatched from the world itself by the mysterious Memnoch, who claims to be the Devil. He is invited to be a witness at the Creation. He is...
"Like "Interview with the Vampire", "Memnoch" has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity… Narrated by Rice`s most cherished character, the vampire Lestat, Memnoch tells a tale as old as Scripture`s legends and as modern as today`s religious strife". Rolling Stone "Sensual… Bold, Fast-Paced". USA Today "Rice has penned an ambitious close to this long-running series… Fans will no doubt devour this". The Washington Post Book World "Memnoch The Devil" Offers Passages of Poetic Brilliance". Playboy Формат: 10,5 см x 17,5 см.
ISBN: 0-345-40967-1
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: январь 2011
