In the late eighteenth century, plantation owner Damien du Bourg struck an unholy bargain with a fallen angel: an eternity of inspiring lust in others for the gift of immortality. But when Marley Turner stumbles upon Damien`s plantation searching for her missing sister, for the first time in two hundred years it`s Damien who can`t resist the lure of a woman. But his past sins aren`t so easily forgotten-or forgiven.
ISBN: 978-0-515-14348-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
Никола Тесла - легендарный изобретатель в области радиотехники и электроники, великий учёный, который "изобрёл XX век". Мои изобретения" - это биография Теслы, написанная им самим, с долей самоиронии, но в то же время с чётким пониманием своей значимости. Книга содержит множество любопытных фактов, технических предвидений и размышлений о том, как изобретения могут повлиять на политику и устройства мира в...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05781-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
Exploring the events of her life and the country in which she lived until Pinochet`s military coup, Isabel Allende takes us on a highly personal tour through Chile, bringing it to life: a place of love charms and ghosts; of grandparents and great-grandparents, aunts, uncles and friends with whom readers of Allendes fiction will feel immediately at home. Rebellious and passionate, feminist long before she knew what feminism was, her love for (and sometimes exasperation with) Chile informs every line. Формат: 11 см x 17,5 cм.
ISBN: 978-0-00-717963-3
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Takes you on a trip around the Island of Sodor with the world`s Number 1 Engine - Thomas the Tank Engine. Suitable for engine-mad fans, this book contains little-known facts, stickers, a collector`s postcard, double-sided map/poster, a passport and your very own ticket to ride.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-5149-5
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Cora Cash, possibly the wealthiest heiress in 1890s America, has been raised to believe that money will open every door to her. But when her mother whisks Cora to England to secure her an aristocratic match, Cora is dismayed by the welcome she at first receives. The great English houses in which she is entertained are frosty and forbidding, dogged by intrigue above stairs, and gossip below. And it is only when she loses her heart - to a man she barely knows - that Cora realises the game she is playing is one she does not full understand, and that her own future happiness could be the prize.
ISBN: 978-0-7553-4808-4
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: август 2011
My Learning Library is a delightful collection of eight chunky first-concept board books for young children. Stored within a sturdy carry case, these mini books are perfect for small hands to hold and explore. The vivid photography and bright design will engage young imaginations, while helping to promote observation skills, language skills, and a love of reading. Scholastic Early Learners: Interactive books for hands-on learning. Perfect for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and first graders, too!
Meet Will Kelly. English teacher. Film fan. King of sandwich construction. Still in love with The One, desperately searching for An-Other One. In his decrepit flat, Will’s lifeline is the telephone. There’s Alice (who remembers his birthday), Simon (who doesn’t), Martina (the one-night stand), Kate (the previous tenant of his rented Archway fleapit) and of course Aggi - the inimitable Aggi. His Legendary Girlfriend. Or is she? Two men, three women and a donkey called Sandy...basically it’s your classic love hexagon.
ISBN: 0-340-71816-1
Издательство:
Hodder
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Sarah Wode-Douglas is an aristocratic Englishwoman making her living in literary London, until she impulsively journeys across the world to Kuala Lumpur. Here, she encounters the strange and forgotten poet Christopher Chubb, whose secrets Sarah is compelled to discover.
President Bill Clinton`s "My Life" is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided in early life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. It is the fullest, most concretely detailed, most nuanced account of a presidency ever written, and a testament to the positive impact on America and on the world of his work and his ideals. Here is the life of a great national and international figure, revealed with all his talents and contradictions. Filled with fascinating moments and insights, it is told openly, directly, in President Clinton`s completely recognizable voice.
ISBN: 978-0-09-944135-9
Издательство:
Harvill Press
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
This delightful mini library features four books of rhymes accompanied by adorable full colour pictures of animals by Holly Webb illustrator Sophy Williams. Throughout the year, kittens and puppies play and explore the world, as the seasons change from spring through to winter.
Julia Child single handedly awakened America to the pleasures of good cooking with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she didn`t know the first thing about cooking when she landed in France. Indeed, when she first arrived in 1948 with her husband, Paul, she spoke no French and knew nothing about the country itself. But as she dove into French culture, buying food at local markets and taking classes at the Cordon Bleu, her life changed forever. Julia`s unforgettable story unfolds with the spirit so key to her success as a cook and teacher and writer, brilliantly capturing one of the most endearing American personalities of the last fifty...
ISBN: 978-0-307-47485-8
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist. My Life and Times is an autobiography novel, an entertaining account of Jerome`s life including an experience of his family falling into poverty owing to bad investments. He published it in 1926 being in his late sixties.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07978-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
A collection of 9 miniature board books in an attractive carry box, featuring the animal characters and uplifting themes of Giles Andreae`s "World Of Happy".
A compulsive tale of betrayal and its impact upon a group of flatmates and lovers, Maggie O`Farrell`s second novel does not disappoint. With the sensuality, passion and emotional acuteness which characterised her debut, she has written a gripping exploration of the ambivalence at the heart of intimate relationships, a keenly observed portrayal of shifting metropolitan lives and a superbly imagined story of a haunting. When Lily moves into Marcus`s flat and plunges headlong into a relationship, she must contend not merely with the disapproval of flatmate Aidan, but with a more intangible, hostile presence. Could it be that Sinead, Marcus`s ex, is trying to communicate with her? When Lily begins to `see` Sinead first about the flat, and...
ISBN: 978-0-7472-6817-8
Издательство:
Hodder
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Solange has always known she is a vampire. And` as the only female vampire ever born, not initiated, she is surrounded by danger on all sides - from other vampire tribes who want to take her blood into their lineage, and from the bounty hunters who are set on destroying her and her family. When she is kidnapped, it`s up to her elder brother, Nicholas, and best friend, Lucy, to save her. But can Lucy save herself from Nichol as, who tempts with every look - what will be her own fate if she surrenders her heart to a vampire?
ISBN: 978-1-4088-0340-0
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Dr. Seuss`s youngest concept book is now available in a sturdy board book designed especially for his youngest fans. All of the original stunning illustrations and imaginative type designs of Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher are here, as are the intriguing die-cut squares in the cover. A brighter, more playful cover design makes this board book edition all the more appropriate as a color concept book to use with babies or a feelings and moods book to discuss with toddlers.
"When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it", notes the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex in his introduction to this collection of love stories from literature. "But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. A love story can never be about full possession. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name." Here then are 27 such cures for lovesickness and antidotes to adultery - by Harold Brodkey, Grace Paley, William Faulkner, James Joyce, Milan Kundera, and Vladimir Nabokov.
