It wasn`t every day a guy saw a headless beaver marching down the side of a road, not even in Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard`s larger-than-life world. He slammed on the brakes of his brand-new Aston Martin Vanquish and pulled over in front of her. The beaver marched right past, her big, flat tail bouncing in the gravel, and her small, sharp nose stuck up in the air. Way up. The beaver looked highly pissed… She was definitely a girl beaver because her beaver head was missing, revealing sweaty, dark hair pulled into a scraggly ponytail. He`d been praying for a little distraction from his own depressing company, so he threw open the door and stepped out onto the shoulder of the Colorado road… Funny, sexy, and touching -...
Our planet is full of natural wonders: the forests, which are home to millions of species; the oceans, which cover three quarters of its surface; and the Polar regions and deserts, which have adapted to extreme climatic conditions. They have existed for thousands of years, but these environments and the plants and animals which live in them are changing. Discover why they are changing and what you can do to help.
ISBN: 978885300-994-4
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
New edition, with new illustrations and new format, of all four Amelia Jane titles. Amelia Jane is big, bad and the terror of the toy cupboard! In this book, she snips the tail off the pink rabbit, squirts Tom the soldier with water and gets up to mischief at the beach. The other toys try to teach her to be good. Ages 5+.
- Brightly coloured editions of the much-loved Farmyard Tales series. - All 20 stories available in miniature format. - Enjoyable and collectible stories for children who are just learning to read.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-6317-0
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Featuring several mass-murdering authors, two fraternal writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring and a poet who crafts his lines in the air with sky writing, "Nazi Literature in the Americas" details the lives of a rich cast of characters from one of the most extraordinarily fecund imaginations in world literature. Written with acerbic wit and virtuosic flair, this encyclopaediccavlacade of fictional pan-American authors is the terrifyingly humorous and remarkably inventive masterpiece which made Bolano famous throughout the Spanish-speaking world. `One of the most exhilarating, intense and dangerous voices to emerge from South "Nazi Literature in the Americas" is a parade of delusional, mediocre, vicious and pitiable poetasters,...
ISBN: 978-0-330-51051-6
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When railwayman Jim Stringer moves to the garish and tawdry London of 1903, he finds his duties are confined to a mysterious graveyard line. Perplexingly, the men he works alongside have formed an instant loathing for him. And his predecessor has disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Can Jim work out what is going on before he too is travelling on a one-way coffin ticket aboard the Necropolis Railway? A gripping detective story, fabulously rich in atmosphere and period detail, The Necropolis Railway steams toward an unexpected conclusion.
ISBN: 978-0-571-22878-2
Издательство:
Faber
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The stakes get higher in #1 NYT bestselling author Anthony Horowitz`s latest masterpiece. As the fourth novel in the spellbinding Gatekeepers series begins, the world is under the greatest threat it`s ever known. The evil corporation Nightrise has amassed an immense amount of and the devastating force of the Old Ones is about to be unleashed around the globe. To stop this from happening, Matt and three of the Gatekeepers head to Hong Kong - not just the modern city of skyscrapers and wealth, but the secretive underworld beneath. In Hong Kong they will meet the final Gatekeeper, a girl named Scarlet, whose fate is inextricably joined to their
ISBN: 978-0-439-68006-6
Издательство:
Scholastic Inc
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
A wonderful new store has opened in the little town of Castle Rock, Maine. Whatever your heart`s secret desire - sexual pleasure, wealth, power, or even more precious things - it`s for sale. And even though every item has a nerve-shattering price, the owner is always ready to make a bargain. In this chilling novel by one of the most potent imaginations of our time, evil is on a shopping spree and out to scare you witless. Формат: 10,5 см x 17,5 cм.
ISBN: 0-451-17281-7
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: май 2008
Frederick Forsyth, master of the international thriller, retums with an electrifying story of a man of immense power and a conspiracy to crush the President of the United States. Only one man - Forsyth`s most unforgettable hero yet - can prevent the plan from succeeding. His name is Quinn. He is the Cormack is bent on a signing a sweeping disarmament treaty, and the master conspirator is determined to stop him. The kidnapping of a young man on a country road in Oxfordshire is but the first brutal step in the explosive plot engineer the president`s destruction. Enter Quinn. Quinn plays the kidnappers like a master until, in a shocking tumabout, he discovers that ransom was not their objection after all - and that he has been lured into a...
ISBN: 0-553-28393-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
The complete comics adaptation of the acclaimed novel by New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman is now available in one volume! Neverwhere follows the adventures of an ordinary Londoner who stops to help an enigmatic girl and is drawn into a battle to save the strange underworld kingdom of London Below from destruction.
Ten years after its original publication, behold the bewitching anniversary edition of the classic children`s novel The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, printed on luxurious paper, and featuring gorgeous flaps, spellbinding illustrations from Chris Riddell and an exclusive new introduction by Margaret Atwood.WINNER of the 2010 CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL and the 2009 JOHN NEWBERY MEDAL`Every page is crowded with invention, both funny and scary` PATRICK NESS`A tale of unforgettable enchantment` NEW YORK TIMESNobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn`t live in a graveyard, raised and educated by ghosts. There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard. But it is in the land of the...
ISBN: 978-1-5266-0893-2
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: январь 2019
Meet LONG JOHN McRON, SHIP`S COOK . . . and the most unusual babysitter you`ve ever seen.Long John has a whole crew of wild pirates in tow, and - for two intrepid children - he`s about to transform a perfectly ordinary evening into a riotous adventure beneath a pirate moon. It`s time to make some Pirate Stew. Marvellously silly and gloriously entertaining, this tale of pirates, flying ships, donut feasts and some rather magical stew is perfect for all pirates, both young and old. With a deliciously rhyming text from master storyteller Neil Gaiman, and spellbinding illustrations by the supremely talented Chris Riddell, three-times-winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal, this is the picture book of the year! Joyful, quirky and action-packed,...
ISBN: 9781526614711
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2021
