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
MORTAL ENGINES launched Philip Reeve`s brilliantly-imagined creation, the world of the Traction Era, where mobile cities fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic first instalment intrduces young apprentice Tom Natsworthy and the murderous Hester Shaw flung from the fast-moving city of London into heart-stopping adventures in the wastelands of the Great Hunting Ground. Repackaged with a stunning double cover and eye-catching new brand look that features the famous recycled `Old-Tech` of Reeve`s fantastic world.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1091-2
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
Two years ago, Fever Crumb escaped the war-torn city of London in a travelling theatre. Now she arrives in the extraordinary crater city of Mayda, where buildings ascend the cliffs on funicular rails, and a mysterious recluse is building a machine that can fly. Fever is the engineer he needs - but ruthless enemies will kill to possess their secrets. This is the fabulous sixth book in the Morta Engines series, from the brilliant and award-winning Philip Reeve.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1759-1
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
From the incredible wizadry of Merlin to the passion of Sir Lancelot, these tales of Arthur and his knights offer epic adventures with the supernatural as well as timeless battles with out own humanity.
ISBN: 978-0-451-53149-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Florence, June 1300. The body of an artist, his face covered in quicklime, is discovered next to the mosaic he had almost completed. Dante Alighieri, the newly appointed prior of the city of Florence (and the man who will one day write that exhaustive treatise on criminology, the Inferno), is on the case. It is his first official investigation. Obscure clues lead him up and down the streets of Florence, following a trail full of intrigue and mystery. Why have seven scholars, each a master of his art, assembled in the city? What was the secret that might have been revealed had the artist lived to complete his work? Was it an alchemist`s formula to transform lead into gold? Did it have to do with Antilia, wild and beautiful, who dances...
Mosaics offer a medium to experiment with a wide variety of materials and to create imaginative color schemes. The authors, Kaffe Fassett and Candace Bahouth, are accomplished designers known especially for dramatic color combinations, and for their first collaboratioin they have chosen the rich subject of mosaics - presenting a collection of creative projects for interiors and exteriors. This book offers plenty of inspiration for those already interested in this increasingly popular craft, as well as solid information for the beginner. The mosaic projects in this book can bring life to your home and garden. You`ll find both simple and ambitious ideas here, and the many contemporary materials used here include broken crockery, tiles and...
ISBN: 978-1-56158-568-7
Издательство:
Taunton Press Inc.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The threat of Russia as a hostile superpower returns in this chilling spy thriller. When British spy, Finn, is brutally murdered by a Russian assassin, Adrian, chief of MI6, wants vengeance. He also wants answers - answers that can only be revealed by Finn`s widow, Anna, the former KGB colonel who betrayed her country for love and has now disappeared with their child. Adrian isn`t the only one desperate to find Anna. Finn accessed intelligence so confidential that the KGB are willing to kill to protect it, and now everyone wants to know what Russia is concealing beneath its veil of political cordiality.
ISBN: 978-0-7553-5756-7
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: май 2012
В пособие включены наиболее интересные материалы о Москве, ее истории, культурной жизни, архитектурных памятниках и достопримечательностях. Оно предназначено для развития навыков ознакомительного чтения, письма и устной речи по страноведческой тематике на английском языке. Пособие поможет учащимся расширить кругозор и лексический запас в рамках данной тематики, а также будет полезно для подготовки к...
ISBN: 5-8346-0060-3
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: декабрь 2000
The violent death of a journalist leads secret agent Gabriel Allon to Russia. Not to the grim Moscow of Soviet times, but a modern Moscow awash with oil wealth and in thrall to a new generation of rich Stalinists plotting to challenge an old enemy: the United States. One such man is Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB colonel, whose global empire is built on a lucrative and deadly business. Kharkov is an arms dealer – and he`s about to sell Russia`s most dangerous weapon to al-Qaeda. Unless Allon can learn the time and place of the delivery, the world will suffer its deadliest terror attacks since 9/11. The countdown to Armageddon has
ISBN: 978-0-14-104139-1
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
The violent death of a journalist leads agent turned art-restorer, Gabriel Allon to Russia. Here he finds that in terms of spycraft, the stakes are the highest they`ve ever been. He`s playing by "Moscow Rules" now. It is not the grim Moscow of Soviet times, but a new Moscow, awash in oil wealth and bulletproof Bentleys. A Moscow where a new generation of Stalinists is plotting to reclaim an empire lost, and to challenge the global dominance of its old enemy, the United States.
ISBN: 978-0-451-22755-3
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Mosses from an Old Manse is Hawthorne`s interesting story collection, which the was named in honor of The Old Manse, where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage. And The Blithedale Romance, one of Hawthorne`s major novels, explores the limitations of human nature set against an experiment in communal living. From mesmerism to illicit love it represents one of Hawthorne`s best and most sharply etched works, one that Henry James called his "brightest" and "liveliest" novel.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07770-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
The thrilling prequel to "Redwall". The clever and greedy wildcat Tsarmina becomes ruler of all Mossflower Woods and is determined to govern the peaceful woodlanders with an iron paw. The brave mouse Martin and quick-talking mouse thief Gonff meet in the depths of Kotir Castle`s dungeon. The two escape and resolve to end Tsarmina`s tyrannical rule. Joined by Kinny the mole, Martin and Gonff set off on a dangerous quest for Salamandastron, where they are convinced that their only hope, Boar the Fighter, still lives.
ISBN: 0-441-00576-4
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
