Mercy Thompson`s life is not exactly normal. Her next-door neighbor is a werewolf. Her former boss is a gremlin. And she`s fixing a VW bus for a vampire. But then, Mercy isn`t exactly normal herself.
ISBN: 978-0-441-01381-4
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany`s power, Steinbeck`s fable "The Moon Is Down" explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside and betrayal from within the close-knit community. As he delves into the motivations and emotions of the enemy, Steinbeck uncovers profound and often unsettling truths both about war and human nature.
ISBN: 0-14-118553-8
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2002
Luna is an open penal colony and the regime is a harsh one. Not surprisingly, revolution against the hated authority is planned. But the key figures in the revolt are an unlikely crew: Manuel Garcia OKelly, an engaging jack of all trades, the beautiful Wyoming Knott - and Mike, a lonely computer who likes to make up
ISBN: 978-0-575-08241-0
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Enthralling sequel to The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.It is the Eve of Gomrath – the night of the year when the Old Magic is aroused. Had Colin and Susan known this, they would never have lighted a fire on the Beacon, thereby releasing the uncontrollable ferocity of the Wild Hunt. Soon they are inextricably caught up in the struggle between their friend, the Wizard Cadellin, and the evil Morrigan.The strength of their courage will determine whether or not they survive the awaiting ordeal…
ISBN: 9780007127870
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "Moon-Face and Other Stories" is a collection that contains such wonderful stories as "Local Colour", "Amateur Night" and "The Leopard Man`s Story" — a short mystery story about the ingenious murder of "King Wallace", a fearless lion-tamer. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08105-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
"Moonfleet" (1898) begins as a mystery and an adventure story, a tale of smuggling set among the cliffs, caves, and downs of Dorset. What will be the outcome of the conflict between smugglers and revenue men? How can the hero, John Trenchard, discover the secret of Colonel John Mohune`s treasure? As the book progresses these two interwoven themes resolve themselves into a third and richer one, with the friendship and suffering of both John Trenchard and the craggy, taciturn Elzevir Block. Falkner`s feeling for history and for the landscape of his Dorset setting combine with his gift for storytelling to turn Moonfleet into a historical romance of moving intensity.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-4288-4
Издательство:
Longman Group UK Limited
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Classic / British English Fifteen-year old John Trenchard lives in a quiet village. But after dark, Moonfleet is a village with secrets. A dead man walks the streets, and smugglers do their work. When John accidentally learns about this dangerous world, his life suddenly changes. But will he live or will he die?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7858-6
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
"Moonfleet" (1898) begins as a mystery and an adventure story, a tale of smuggling set among the cliffs, caves, and downs of Dorset. What will be the outcome of the conflict between smugglers and revenue men? And how can the hero, John Trenchard, discover the secret of Colonel John Mohune`s treasure? As the book progresses these two interwoven themes resolve themselves into a third and richer one, with the friendship and suffering of both John Trenchard and the craggy, taciturn Elzevir Block. Falkner`s feeling for history and for the landscape of his Dorset setting combine with his gift for storytelling to turn "Moonfleet" into a historical romance of moving intensity.
ISBN: 978-0-14-119794-4
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Издание полностью на английском языке. When 15-year-old orphan John Trenchard is banished by his Aunt Jane, he goes to live at the local inn with the mysterious Elzevir Block, whose son has been killed by Customs Officers. Unofficially adopted by Block, John comes to learn the reasons for the noises in the graveyard at night, of 'Blackbeard' Mohune's lost treasure and Block's secret.
ISBN: 978-1-84022-169-5
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
At a Manhattan party, fashion photographer Maggie Holloway is reunited unexpectedly with her former stepmother. Both women are thrilled to meet again, and quickly resume their friendship. But when Maggie arrives for dinner one evening at Nuala`s home, she finds her dead. And stranger still, she learns that only days before her death, Nuala had changed her will, leaving everything to The one condition is that Maggie occasionally visit an old friend, Greta Shipley, and it is when she accompanies Greta to visit Nuala`s grave that she discovers something is badly wrong. When Greta also dies suddenly, of supposedly natural causes, Maggie`s suspicions are only confirmed. What Maggie doesn`t realize is that she, too, has become a target for the...
ISBN: 978-0-7434-8430-5
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from her blue-collar Boston neighborhood. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro risked everything to find her-only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and broken home. Twelve years later, Amanda, now sixteen, is gone again. The disappearance of little Amanda was the case that troubled Kenzie and Gennaro more than any other. Still haunted by their consciences, they must now revisit the nightmare that once tore them apart-following the trail of a lost teenager into a world of identity thieves, methamphetamine dealers, and Russian gangsters, right up to the doorstep of a dangerously unstable crime boss and his demented wife. Once again Patrick and Angie will be putting everything...
I loved my native city, but how I longed to escape, to go to America - a land full of eligible Daria is an intelligent, bilingual secretary who should have her pick of the men in Odessa - except that the only men who are making advances are a dashing mafia gangster and her boss. Fearful that she'll be fired for refusing to sleep her way to the top, she decides to moonlight at Soviet Unions(t), an international marriage broker. But as she bridges the language gap between Odessan beauties and lonely American men she wonders if she will ever escape the trappings of Ukrainian life and find true love. When she intercepts a message from a mild-mannered teacher, e-mails fly back and forth across the Atlantic. Daria soon finds herself much...
ISBN: 978-1-4088-0287-8
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
Sir Hugo Drax is a multi-millionaire tycoon and war hero, revered by the British public for his Moonraker missile defence programme. So why does he risk destroying his reputation and the future of the Moonraker programme by gambling millions of pounds at the card table, and is there something suspicious about his winning streak? As `the best card-player in the service`, Bond is called in to uncover the answers. But as 007 probes deeper into the activities at the Moonraker base, he discovers that there is more to the mysterious Drax his project than simply cheating at
ISBN: 978-0-09-957602-0
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Bond`s latest mission is to face Sir Hugo Drax at the card table in order to teach him a lesson and prevent a scandal. So it was that he stirred benzedrine into his Drax is the head of the Moonraker project and a powerful millionaireas well as a cheat at cards. 007 suspects that there is more to him than meets the eye. As he begins to delve deeper into the goings on at the Moonraker base in an attempt to scotch a potential scandal, he discovers that both the project and its leader are something other than they pretend to be.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118756-3
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Великолепное подарочное издание. Книга в суперобложке с трехсторонним золотым обрезом и ляссе. "The Moonstone" is a magnificent yellow diamond, "large as a plover`s egg", with a bloody history, which has been stolen from the home of Lady Verinder. An innocent man is accused of the crime. From this simple beginning Wilkie Collins creates a stunning, complex narrative of dark mystery, suspense and atmosphere. It is one of the cornerstones in the development of crime fiction. The poet and critic declared that it was "the first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novels". But "The Moonstone", which has fascinated readers since its first...
ISBN: 978-1-905716-05-0
Издательство:
CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Classic / British English The Moonstone is an ancient Indian diamond which brings disaster to everyone who owns it. Rachel Verinder`s uncle gives her the diamond as a birthday present, but that same night it is stolen The Moonstone is now seen as the first, and one of the best, English detective novels.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8268-2
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The Moonstone, a large, beautiful yet fated diamond, was stolen from an Indian shrine. It is given to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday and, that same night, stolen again. Sergeant Cuff is employed by Rachel`s mother to find the precious stone and has no shortage of suspects. By turns, those on the periphery and at the heart of the mystery tell their version of events until all is unravelled at the unexpected conclusion. A pioneer in the art of the English detective novel and a master of innovation, Wilkie Collins was one of the most successful and gifted writers of his generation. In the words of Michael Innes The Moonstone "stands alone in its (there is) a sense of attending upon the birth of the detective story".
ISBN: 978-0-14-119783-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011