Mickey Mouse has decorated his whole house for a Halloween party. But when Minnie, Donald, and the others show up, they can`t find Mickey, and they see one scary thing after the next! This gently spooky storybook is perfect for Halloween, and the read-along CD is complete with thrilling narration, original character voices, and scary sound effects.
ISBN: 978-1-4231-3416-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Super Cheers! This delightful Christmas story with two punch-out ornaments and foil stickers to decorate them will make the holidays Super Cheerful! Mickey and his friends are all ready for a Christmas Eve sleepover at the Clubhouse. They`ve written their lists and can`t wait for Santa Claus to arrive. But there`s a big problem at the North Pole and Santa won`t be coming unless he gets some help. Join your favorite Clubhouse friends as they set out to save the day and rescue Christmas.
ISBN: 978-1-4231-1846-6
Издательство:
Disney Editions
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
The ideas in his book will help you see the world in a new way. Mark Penn has a keen mind and a fascinating sense of what makes America tick, and you see it on every page of Microtrends. In 1982, readers discovered Megatrends. In 2000, The Tipping Point entered the lexicon. Now, in Microtrends, one of the most respected and sought-after analysts in the world articulates a new way of understanding how we live. Mark Penn, the man who identified Soccer Moms as a crucial constituency in President Clinton`s 1996 reelection campaign, is known for his ability to detect relatively small patterns of behavior in our culture-microtrends that are wielding great influence on business, politics, and our personal lives. Only one percent of the public,...
An instant classic in the vein of Jurassic Park, this boundary-pushing novel has all the hallmarks of Michael Crichton`s greatest adventures with its combination of pulse-pounding thrills, cutting-edge technology, and extraordinary research Three men are found dead in a locked second-floor office in Honolulu. There is no sign of struggle, though their bodies are covered in ultra-fine, razor-sharp cuts. With no evidence, the police dismiss it as a bizarre suicide pact. But the murder weapon is still in the room, almost invisible to the human eye. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, seven graduate students at the forefront of their fields are recruited by a pioneering microbiology start-up company. Nanigen MicroTechnologies sends them to a...
ISBN: 978-0-00-735002-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
From the acclaimed author of Hey Nostradamus! comes a wonderful comic novel with "more one-liners than a decade of Woody Allen films" (Guardian), about the scramble for love and success in a brave new world! Bill is wise. Bill is kind. Bill is benevolent. Bill, Be My Friend! Please! At computer giant Microsoft, Dan, Susan, Abe, Todd and Bug are struggling to get a life. The job may be super cool, the pay may be astronomical, but they`re heading nowhere, and however hard they work, however many shares they earn, they`re never going to be as rich as Bill. And besides, with all the hours they`re putting in, their best relationships are on e-mail. Something`s got to give!
ISBN: 978-0-00-717981-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
`I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver`s records my first name simply as Cal.` So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Point, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls,...
Rafe Kane has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he`s got an ace plan for the best year ever, if he can pull it off. With his best friend Leonardo the Silent awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school`s oppressive Code of Conduct. Chewing gum in class - 5,000 points! Running in the hallway - 10,000 points! Pulling the fire alarm - 50,000 points! But when Rafe`s game starts to catch up with him, he`ll have to decide if winning is all that matters, or if he`s finally ready to face the rules, bullies, and truths he`s been avoiding.
ISBN: 978-0-09-954399-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
This is the brand new title in the "History of Britain" series, produced in conjunction with English Heritage. It features a fascinating introduction to every aspect of life in medieval Britain, from the glorious reigns of kings and queens and the ordinary lives of peasants, to the extraordinary lives of knights, heroes and rebels. It is illustrated with a combination of cartoons, reproduced artwork and photographs. It includes internet-links to recommended websites.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-7010-9
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Lefty and Desdemona must flee the Turks who are invading their crumbling city in the Ottoman Empire, and decide to head for America. What this unusual brother and sister do not realise is that a rare genetic mutation is following them. It secretly travels with them first to Detroit, and then to suburbia, through prohibition and the race riots of 1967. And in the spring of 1974, their granddaughter Calliope finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. Through eight decades - and one unusually awkward adolescence - Jeffrey Eugenides` long-awaited second novel is a breathtaking vision of...
ISBN: 978-0-312-99173-9
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Мэри Энн Эванс, творившая под псевдонимом, Джордж Элиот, вошла в историю как создательница и яркий представитель позднего викторианского. В романе "Мидлмарч" царит целое многообразие герое, сюжетных линий, жизненных перипетий. Неудачные браки и счастливые союзы, сомнительное обогащение и ревностная борьба за наследство, политические амбиции и честолюбивые интриги. Каждый персонаж найдёт свой отклик у...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05465-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbours.` An epic study of provincial life at a time when England was facing rapid industrialization and increasingly fluid social mobility, Eliot`s depiction of the small community of Middlemarch weaves an intricate web of different characters disparate lives as they strive to adapt to the changing world around them. Eliot was one of the first of her female contemporaries to write a novel that dealt with real-life issues and complex yet ordinary human life.
ISBN: 978-0-00-790218-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
на англ.яз. “If we had a vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.” George Eliot’s masterpiece, the searching story of noble Dorothea Brooke in Midlands town in Reform era England.
ISBN: 5-17-037069-5
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: декабрь 2006
When the young and beautiful Dorothea Brooke marries the aging scholar, Edward Casaubon, the people of Middlemarch believe that no good will come of it. Dorothea quickly grows unhappy and bored. Then she begins a sensitive friendship with Casaubon’s young cousin, Will Ladislaw. Meanwhile, the beautiful but spoilt Rosamond Vincey pursues the idealistic but poor Doctor Lydgate. Lydgate is determined not to get married, but Rosamond has other ideas… Recommended for older readers.
ISBN: 978-0-230-02686-5
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town is set during the time of social unrest prior to the first Reform Bill of 1832. It is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century. Henry James described Middkmarch as a `treasure-house of detail` while Virginia Woolf famously endorsed George Eliot`s masterpiece as `one of the few English novels written for grown-up people. Формат: 12,5 см x 19,5 см.
ISBN: 1-85326-237-4
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Bixby, Oklahoma, is full of secrets. Some come out at midnight. Some should stay hidden. As the Midnighters search for the truth about the secret hour, they uncover terrifying mysteries woven into the very fabric of Bixby`s history, and a conspiracy that touches the world of daylight. This time Jessica Day is not the only Midnighter in mortal danger, and if the group can`t find a way to come together, they could lose one of their
ISBN: 978-0-06-051956-8
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Jack Nightingale is on the hunt for the sister he never knew he had. Just three days ago he did a deal with a devil to save his soul from burning in Hell. Now he`s determined to rescue the only family he has from the same fate. As a private detective Jack`s used to finding missing people. But tracking her down is no easy task. Every lead he follows seems to end in gruesome death, as someone, or something, tries to stop him succeeding. And even if Jack does find his sister, is her soul worth saving?
ISBN: 978-1-4447-0068-8
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
No. 1 bestselling author Josephine Cox returns with a powerful story of love and shocking secrets. All Jack`s life, the nightmares had haunted him, dragging him back to a place where it was always midnight! Molly and Jack are deeply in love but their relationship is being torn apart by Jack`s nightmares. Trapped in a place where he is taunted by eyes in the gloom, it is becoming harder for Molly to pull him free, and when daylight comes the haunting visions remain. He can make no sense of them, though, when he is deep in the dreams, he knows exactly what`s demanded of him. Realising that Jack is being driven close to the edge, Molly urges him to seek help, and with their relationship faltering, Jack decides to hunt for answers. His...
ISBN: 978-0-00-743285-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
A few nights after Jessica Day arrives in Bixby, Oklahoma, she wakes up at midnight to find the entire world frozen, except for her and a few others who call themselves `midnighters`. Dark things haunt this midnight hour - dark things with a mysterious interest in Jessica. The question The Secret Hour is a compelling tale of dark secrets, midnight romance, eerie creatures, courage, destiny, and unexpected peril.
ISBN: 978-0-06-051953-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011