Three favourtie animal tales in one volume to treasure, from the hugely popular Jill Tomlinson. Growing up can be lots of Swing from the treetops with Pongo the mischievous gorilla. Play in the snow with Otto the furry penguin chick. Meet Pim the aardvark who`s a very curious little thing.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-3731-4
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Claire Danvers`s college town may be run by vampires but a truce between the living and the dead made things relatively safe. For a while. Now people are turning up dead, a psycho is stalking her, and an ancient bloodsucker has proposed private mentoring. To what end, Claire will find out. And it`s giving night school a whole new meaning.
ISBN: 978-0-451-22238-1
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Claire has her share of challenges. Like being a genius in a school that favors beauty over brains; homicidal girls in her dorm, and finding out that her college town is overrun with the living dead. On the up side, she has a new boyfriend with a vampire-hunting dad. But when a local fraternity throws the Dead Girls` Dance, hell is really going to break loose.
ISBN: 978-0-451-22089-9
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
From the author of the popular Weather Warden series. Welcome to Morganville, Texas. Just don`t stay out after dark. College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school`s social scene: somewhere less than zero. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don`t show many signs of life. But they`ll have Claire`s back when the town`s deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood.
ISBN: 978-0-451-21994-7
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In the college town of Morganville, vampires and humans coexist in (relatively) bloodless harmony. Then comes Bishop, the master vampire who threatens to abolish all order, revive the forces of the evil dead, and let chaos rule. But Bishop isn’t the only threat. Violent black cyclone clouds hover, promising a storm of devastating proportions as student Claire Danvers and her friends prepare to defend Morganville against elements both natural and unnatural.
ISBN: 978-0-451-22572-6
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: июль 2012
In the small college town of Morganville, vampires and humans lived in (relative) peace-until all the rules got rewritten when the evil vampire Bishop arrived, looking for the lost book of vampire secrets. He`s kept a death grip on the town ever since. Now an underground resistance is brewing, and in order to contain it, Bishop must go to even greater lengths. He vows to obliterate the town and all its inhabitants-the living and the undead. Claire Danvers and her friends are the only ones who stand in his way. But even if they defeat Bishop, will the vampires ever be content to go back to the old rules, after having such a taste of power?
ISBN: 978-0-451-22719-5
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: август 2011
Vampire musician Michael Glass has attracted the attention of a big-time producer who wants him to cut a demo and play some gigs - which means Michael will have to enter the human world. For this, he`s been assigned escorts that include both a dangerous immortal as well as Michael`s all-too-human friends. And with that mix of personalities, this is going to be a road trip from
ISBN: 978-0-451-22973-1
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Colleen McCullough captivated millions with her beloved worldwide bestseller The Thorn Birds. Now she takes readers to the birth of modern Australia with a breath-taking saga brimming with drama, history, and passion. It was one of the greatest human experiments ever undertaken: to populate an unknown continent with the criminals of English society. For Richard Morgan, twelve months as a prisoner on the high seas would be just the beginning in a soul-trying test to survive in a hostile new land where, against all odds, he would find a new love and a new life. From the dank cells of England`s prisons to the unforgiving frontier of the eighteenth-century outback, Morgan`s Run is the epic tale of one man whose strength and character helped...
ISBN: 978-0-671-02418-5
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
It was one of the greatest human experiments ever undertaken: to populate an unknown land with the criminal, the unloved and the unwanted of English society. Amid conditions of brutality that paralleled those of slavery, `The First Fleet` was sent to a place no European but the legendary Captain Cook had ever seen. Left to live or die on the hostile Australian continent, these convicts - and their equally isolated guards - occupy the centre of Colleen McCullough`s compelling new epic. Richard Morgan - convicted felon and educated, intelligent, resourceful man - finds the will to survive, experience the joys of love, and finally make an indelible mark upon the new frontier. A thoroughly researched historical saga rich in romance,...
ISBN: 978-0-09-928098-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Without the evil vampire Bishop ruling over the town of Morganville, the resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population. With their newfound freedoms, Claire Danvers and her friends are almost starting to feel comfortable again… Now Claire can actually concentrate on her studies, and her friend Eve joins the local theatre company. But when one of Eve’s castmates goes missing after starting work on a short documentary, Eve suspects the worst. Claire and Eve soon realize that this film project, whose subject is the vampires themselves, is a whole lot bigger - and way more dangerous - than anyone suspected.
ISBN: 978-0-451-22866-6
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: август 2011
This novel takes place in ancient Egypt. The hero, prince Rames, goes through many challenges and daring encounters to win his way through to the woman he loved with all his heart and the recognition that was rightfully his. Neter-Tua, The Morning Star, daughter of the Pharaoh, daughter of the ages, high priestess of Amen, beautiful and glorious as no woman before her, sent down by the god.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06622-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2018
A power revered by presidents and kings, a fortune unsurpassed by few people on earth: all that ended for Harry Stanford the day he mysteriously-and fatally-plunged from his luxury yacht into the Mediterranean Sea. Then, back home in Boston, as the family gathers to grieve for his memory and to war over his legacy, a stunningly beautiful young woman appears. She claims to be Stanford`s long-lost daughter and entitled to her share of his estate. Now, flaming with intrigue and passion through the glamorouspreserves of the world`s super rich, the ultimate game of wits begins, for stakes too dazzling and deadly to imagine.
ISBN: 0-446-60221-3
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
In the last days of high summer, with lightning striking blue in a black sky, the sorcerer stood on a high cliff overlooking the raging sea… Belting out his grief into the storm, Hoyt Mac Cionaoith rails against the evil that has torn his twin brother from their family’s embrace. Her name is Lilith. Existing for thousands of years, she has lured countless men to an immortal doom with her soul-stealing kiss. But now, this woman known as vampire will stop at nothing until she rules this world—and those beyond it… Hoyt is no match for the dark siren. But his powers come from the goddess Morrigan, and it is through her that he will get his chance at vengeance. At Morrigan’s charge, he must gather five others to form a ring of power...
ISBN: 978-0-515-14165-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
How can the discovery of a short story by a beautiful Oxford graduate lead Chief Inspector Morse to her murderer? What awaits Morse and Lewis in Room 231 of the Randolph Hotel? Why does a theft at Christmas lead the detective to look upon the festive season with uncharacteristic goodwill? And what happens when Morse himself falls victim to a brilliantly executed crime? This dazzling collection of short stories from Inspector Morse’s creator, Colin Dexter, includes six ingenious cases for the world’s most popular fictional detective – plus five other tantalizingly original tales to delight all lovers of classic crime fiction.
ISBN: 978-0-330-45190-1
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Elle est belle, attirante, disponible. Il n`a pas hésité à la suivre pour prendre un dernier verre. A présent il est seul, dans une cave, enfermé dans une cage. Isolé. Sa seule compagnie? Sa séductrice et son bourreau. Et elle a décidé de faire durer son plaisir très longtemps. De le frire souffrir lentement. Pourquoi lui? Dans ce bras de fer rien n`est dû au hasard. Et la frontière entre tortionnaire et victime est bien
ISBN: 978-2-266-18136-5
Издательство:
Pocket
Дата выхода: август 2011
Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job. After being assured that being dead was not compulsory, Mort accepted. However, he soon found that romantic longings did not mix easily with the responsibilities of being Death`s apprentice...
ISBN: 0-552-13106-7
Издательство:
Corgi Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
This is an extraordinary fiction from a brilliant author. It`s six months after the tumultuous events on Brighton, and Wren Natsworthy and her father Tom have taken to the skies in their airship, the Jenny Haniver. Wren is enjoying life as an aviatrix but Tom is troubled by matters of the heart - the last, shocking, encounter with Hester, and the old wound caused by Pennyroyal`s bullet. Until a fluke encounter with a familiar face sets him thinking about the ruins of London and the possibility of going Meanwhile the fragile truce between the Green Storm and the Traction Cities splinters and hostility breaks out again. Events are set on a collision course as things end where they began, with In a Darkling Plain, Philip Reeve brilliantly...
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1094-3
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
This is the second book in the urban fantasy trilogy that began with the bestselling `City of Bones`. With her mother in a coma and her father hell-bent on destroying the world, Clary is dragged deeper into New York`s terrifying underworld of werewolves, demons and the mysterious Shadowhunters.
Fever Crumb is a stunning, stand-alone prequel to Philip Reeve`s brilliant science fantasy quartet. It is set many generations before the events of Mortal Engines, in whose dazzling world huge, predatory cities chase and devour each other. Now, London is a riot-torn, ruinous town, clinging to a devastated landscape and hiding an explosive secret. Is Fever, adopted daughter of Dr Crumb, the strange key that will unlock its dangerous mysteries?
ISBN: 978-1-4071-0243-6
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Ann Rule brings her brilliantly informed understanding of the sociopath to this riveting true crime collection. Only Rule, who unknowingly worked alongside the smart and charming Ted Bundy-America`s most notorious serial killer-could lend her razor-sharp insight into these cases of the spouse, lover, family member or a helpful stranger who is totally trusted-but whose lethally violent nature, though masterfully disguised, can and will kill. Featured here is the case of a family man who appeared the picture of healthy living with his expertise in naturopathic healing. Luring a beautiful flight attendant into a passionate affair, he swept her away to a secluded home on the coast where his jealous rages escalated, ultimately leading to a...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-4220-9
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011