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
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
When Tempe is called to the scene of an autoerotic death, she has little idea of the tangled chain of events that will follow. Because the man whose body she is examining apparently died in a helicopter crash in Vietnam 40 years before. So who is buried in the soldier`s grave? Tempe`s investigations take her to Honolulu where she is caught up not only in the mystery of the unidentified body in the soldier`s grave, but also dragged into investigating who, or what, killed the young men whose body parts have floated up onto a popular Hawaiian beach. And as Tempe gradually unravels the tangled threads of the mystery, it becomes clear that there are some who would rather the past stays dead and buried. And when Tempe proves difficult to...
ISBN: 978-0-09-955686-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Anchorage has become a static settlement on the shores of the Dead Continent, and its inhabitants have been living peacefully for sixteen years. But now trouble is approaching - in a limpet sub, and fast. The Lost Boys are back, and they`ll do anything to get what they want. Tom and Hester`s daughter Wren is their eager dupe, bored and desperate for adventure. When the theft of the mysterious Tin Book of Anchorage goes wrong, Wren is snatched away in the limpet, who knows where. Tom and Hester set off to rescue her, but this is the end of their quiet life on Anchorage. The journey will stir up old needs, old secrets - and send them back into perilous
In Edinburgh you`re never far from a peaceful spot, or from a hellish one either. Now, in the heart of summer, in the midst of a nationalist festival, Inspector John Rebus is on the murder case of a young man left hanging in a spot where his screams would never be heard. To find the victim`s identity - and his killer - Rebus searches from Edinburgh`s most violent neighborhood to Belfast, Northern Ireland - amongst petty thugs, gunrunners, and heavyweight criminals. But before Rebus can get to the truth, he`s bloodied by the dream of society`s madmen - and staring into the glint of a killer`s eyes.
ISBN: 978-0-312-96094-0
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2012
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
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 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
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 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
