Hailed everywhere as a masterpiece of suspense, John le Carre`s return to Africa is the story of Bruno Salvador (aka Salvo), the 25-year-old orphaned love child of an Irish missionary and a Congolese woman. Quickly rising to the top of his profession as an interpreter, Salvo is dispatched by British Intelligence to a top-secret meeting between Western financiers and East Congolese warlords, where he hears things not meant for his ears - and is forced to interpret matters never intended for his reawoken African conscience. By turns thriller, love story, and comic allegory of our times, THE MISSION SONGrecounts Salvo`s heroically naive journey out of the dark of Western hypocrisy and into the heart of lightness. A ragingly readable...

ISBN: 978-0-316-01676-6
Дата выхода: февраль 2012

ISBN: 9781526618047
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: январь 2023

ISBN: 9780753828984
Издательство: Орион
Дата выхода: январь 2013

In the wake of a summer storm, terror New York Times bestselling author Stephen King suspends a small town in a haze of terror-as humanity makes its last stand against unholy

ISBN: 978-0-451-22329-6
Издательство: Penguin USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011

ISBN: 9780099557036
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2011

Evil has been defeated. The war has just begun. They did the impossible, deposing the godlike being whose brutal rule had lasted a thousand years. Now Vin, the street urchin who has grown into the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and Elend Venture, the idealistic young nobleman who loves her, must build a healthy new society in the ashes of an empire. They have barely begun when three separate armies attack. As the siege tightens, an ancient legend seems to offer a glimmer of hope. But even if it really exists, no one knows where to find the Well of Ascension or what manner of power it bestows. It may just be that killing the Lord Ruler was the easy part. Surviving the aftermath of his fall is going to be the real challenge.

ISBN: 978-0-7653-5613-0
Издательство: Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: август 2011

Who is the Hero of Ages? To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the Deepness---the lethal form of the ubiquitous mists---is back, along with increasingly heavy ashfalls and ever more powerful earthquakes. Humanity appears to be doomed. Having escaped death at the climax of The Well of Ascension only by becoming a Mistborn himself, Emperor Elend Venture hopes to find clues left behind by the Lord Ruler that will allow him to save the world. Vin is consumed with guilt at having been tricked into releasing the mystic force known as Ruin from the Well. Ruin wants to end the world, and its near omniscience and ability to warp reality make stopping it seem impossible. She can`t even discuss it...

ISBN: 978-0-7653-5614-7
Издательство: Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: август 2011

Brandon Sanderson, fantasy’s newest master tale spinner, author of the acclaimed debut "Elantris", dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails? What kind of world results when the Dark Lord is in charge? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises and magical martial-arts action that begins in "Mistborn". For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the “Sliver of Infinity”, reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred,...

ISBN: 978-0-7653-5038-1
Издательство: Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: февраль 2012

You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames`. Bougainville, 1991. A small village on a lush tropical island in the South Pacific. Eighty-six days have passed since Matilda`s last day of school as, quietly, war is encroaching from the other end of the island. When the villagers` safe, predictable lives come to a halt, Bougainville`s children are surprised to find the island`s only white man, a recluse, reopening the school. Pop Eye, aka Mr Watts, explains he will introduce the children to Mr Dickens. Matilda and the others think a...

ISBN: 978-0-7195-2183-6
Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

ISBN: 9780719569944
Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: январь 2017

Un a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with almost everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens`s classic Great Expectations. So begins this rare, original story about the abiding strength that imagination, once ignited, can provide. As artillery echoes in the mountains, thirteen-year-old Matilda and her peers are riveted by the adventures of a young orphan named Pip in a city called London, a city whose contours soon become more real than their own blighted landscape. But in a ravaged place where even children are forced...

ISBN: 978-0-440-29685-0
Дата выхода: август 2011

Mister В. Gone marks the long-awaited return of Give Barker, the great master of the macabre, to the classic horror story. This bone-chilling now a medieval devil speaks directly to Mrs reader - his tone murderous one moment the next - is a never-before-published memoir allegedly penned in the year 1438. The demon has embedded himself in the very words of this tale of terror, turning the book itself into a dangerous object, laced with menace only too ready to break free and exert its power. A brilliant and truly unsettling tour de force of the supernatural, Mister B. Gone escorts the reader on an intimate and revelatory journey to uncover the shocking truth of the battle between Good and Evil.

ISBN: 978-0-06-167348-1
Дата выхода: июль 2011

This is a stunning new picture book from Eric Carle about Mister Seahorse and other `male mothers`, with special acetate pages that hide fish behind rocks and reeds. As he floats through the sea, Mister Seahorse meets a Mr Stickleback, Mr Tilapia, Mr Kurtus and many other fish fathers caring for their eggs and babies in the most surprising ways.

ISBN: 978-0-14-056989-6
Дата выхода: апрель 2012

ISBN: 9780552166348
Издательство: Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: январь 2019

In Cambridge a child has been hideously murdered and other children have disappeared. The Jews, made scapegoats by the all-powerful Christian clergy, have been forced to retreat into the castle to avoid slaughter by angry townspeople. Henry, King of England, is displeased. The Jews provide a large part of his revenue and therefore the real killer must be found, and quickly. A renowned investigator, Simon of Naples, is recruited and he arrives in town from the continent accompanied by an Arab and a young woman, Adelia Aguilar. There are few female doctors in twelth century Europe, but Adelia is one of them, having qualified at the great School of Medicine in Salerno. What’s more, her speciality is the study of corpses; she is, in fact,...

ISBN: 978-0-553-81800-0
Издательство: Bantam
Дата выхода: август 2011

I am Princess Meredith, heir to a throne of faerie. My day job, once upon a time, was as a private detective in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, princess has now become a full-time occupation. My aunt, Queen Andais, will have it no other way. And so I am virtually a prisoner in faerie

ISBN: 978-0-345-44361-8
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011

The store has been here for only one year, but many people think that it has always been here. Above the door are faded brown letters which say: SPICE BAZAAR. I, too, look as if I have always been here. When customers enter, they see an old bent woman with skin the color of sand. The foods in my store remind them of India-the land most of them left behind when they came to America. They don`t know the truth about me, of course. They don`t know that I`m not really old-that this body is not really mine. I am Tilo, the Mistress of Spices. I can see into the hearts and lives of my customers. I know all their secrets and all their problems. Retold by Anne Collins.

ISBN: 978-1-4050-7327-1
Издательство: Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011

In Eric Lustbader`s richly imagined saga of The Pearl, magic and science clash on an epic scale. It is the people who use them who give magic and science their meaning, and Lustbader has created people you will never forget: Riane, the Dar-Sala-at; Eleana the woman she loves twice over; Kurgan the V`ornn usurper who raped Eleana and sired her child; Marethyn Stogggul, Kurgan`s defiant sister, an artist who joins the Kundalan resistance; her lover, chief trader Sornnn SaTrryn, who secretly helps the resistance as well; and the fabulous Krystren, the Sarakkon woman from the mysterious southern continent, who comes north on a secret mission and will change the lives of everyone she meets.

ISBN: 978-0-8125-7235-3
Издательство: Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

The long-awaited sequel to Sidney Sheldon`s #1 New York Times bestselling masterpiece, Master of the Game In his spellbinding bestseller, beloved author Sidney Sheldon introduced the glamorous, scheming Blackwell family and its unforgettable matriarch, Kate Blackwell. Now a generation has passed, and as the world has changed, so too has America`s royal family. The intervening years have not lessened the Blackwells` talent for manipulation, domination, and passion. The children of Kate`s granddaughters are determined to control Kruger-Brent, Ltd., the multibillion-dollar international corporation with holdings in diverse industries around the globe. But only one can reign supreme. In a family rife with secrets—murder, hidden identities,...

ISBN: 978-0-06-172839-6
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

MISTRESS OF MISTRESSES was the first published novel in E.R. Eddison`s celebrated Zimiamvian trilogy. Like Tolkien`s Middle Earth, Zimiamvia is a world which mirrors our own but passions run stronger there, and life, love and treachery are epic in their intensity. And magic, of course, is a reality. Mezentius had ruled the Three Kingdoms with a firm hand, but his legitimate heir is a weakling, frightened of the power of his half brother, Duke Barganax, and of that of the terrifying Horius Parry, Vicar of Rerek. As Parry and Barganax manoeuvre, intrigue and plot, it is clear that the new king isn`t long for the world. The key to the control of the Three Kingdoms lies with Lessingham, Parry`s cousin, the only man both sides can trust. But...

ISBN: 0-575-07284-9
Издательство: Daedalus
Дата выхода: апрель 2004

Glorious rejacket of the story collection set in the worlds of Chrestomanci.

ISBN: 978-0-00-675529-6
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

"Stephen Fry is one of the great This autobiography of his first twenty years is a pleasure to read, mixing outrageous acts with sensible opinions in bewildering That so much outward charm, self-awareness and intellect should exist alongside behaviour that threatened to ruin the lives of innocent victims, noble parents and Fry himself, gives the book a tragic grandeur and lifts it to classic status". Financial Times "He writes superbly about his family, about his homosexuality, about the agonies of some of his bursts of simile take the breath his most satisfying and appealing book so far". Observer "This is one of the most extraordinary and affecting biographies I have Stephen painfully honest when trying to grapple with his ever-present...

ISBN: 978-0-09-945704-6
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Англ.яз. “SUDDENLY THE WATERS AROUND THEM SLOWLY SWELLED IN BROAD CIRCLES; THEN QUICKLY UPHEAVED, SWIFTLY RISING TO THE SURFACE. A LOW RUMBLING SOUND WAS HEARD; A SUBTERRANEOUS HUM; AND THEN ALL HELD THEIR BREATHS; AS BEDRAGGLED WITH TRAILING ROPES, AND HARPOONS, AND LANCES, A VAST FORM SHOT LENGTHWISE FROM THE SEA.”

ISBN: 5-17-028802-6
Издательство: АСТ
Дата выхода: январь 2006