Based on the hit ABC series Castle. When New York`s most vicious gossip columnist is found dead, NYPD detective Nikki Heat uncovers a gallery of high-profile suspects. Her investigation is complicated by her surprise reunion with superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook. Available in a tall Premium Edition.
ISBN: 978-0-7868-9136-8
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: май 2012
A riotous collection of memoirs which explores the absurd hilarity of modern life and creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behaviour in `A Plague of Tics` to the title story, where he is finally forced to face his naked self in the company of lunatics. At this soulful and moving moment, he brushes cigarette ashes from his pubic hair and wonders what it all means. This remarkable journey into his own life follows a path of self-effacement and a lifelong search for identity leaving himself both under suspicion and over dressed.
ISBN: 978-0-349-11977-9
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Beginning with "Wizard`s First Rule" and continuing with six subsequent fantasy masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled and awed millions of readers worldwide. Now Goodkind returns with a broad-canvas adventure of epic intrigue, violent conflict, and terrifying peril for the beautiful Kahlan Amnell and her husband, the heroic Richard Rahl, the Sword of Truth. Richard Rahl has been poisoned. Saving an empire from annihilation is the price of the antidote. With the shadow of death looming near, the empire crumbling before the invading hordes, and time running out, Richard is offered not only his own life but the salvation of a people, in exchange for delivering his wife, Kahlan, into bondage to the enemy.
ISBN: 978-0-7653-4430-4
Издательство:
Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: август 2011
A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations. The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection. Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots...
ISBN: 978-0-553-29339-5
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The riveting first - person narrative of a young man who grows to be the most notorious magician his world has ever seen. From his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that transports readers into the body and mind of a wizard. It is a high-action novel written with a poet`s hand, a powerful coming-of-age story of a magically gifted young man, told through his eyes: to read this book is to be the hero.
As much as he`d love to sing the praises of his book (he is very vain), he wouldn`t want you to hear about his brave 11-year old heroes, Cass and Max-Ernest. Or about how a mysterious box of vials, the Symphony of Smells, sends them on the trail of a magician who has vanished under strange (and stinky) circumstances. And he certainly wouldn`t want you to know about the hair-raising adventures that follow and the nefarious villains they face. You see, not only is the name of this book secret, the story inside is, too. For it concerns a secret. A Big Secret.
Quirky, original and hugely entertaining, this is a debut novel of fantastical proportions from a talented new voice in children`s intrepid investigators Cass and Max-Ernest set out to discover the history of the mysterious Symphony of Smells, they become embroiled in a dastardly experiment involving kidnapped children and the secret of eternal youth. Together they must come up with a plan to rescue their classmate from a hideous fate and escape the eerie pyramid of the Midnight Sun. Colourful characters abound in this utterly inspired journey of discovery, guaranteed to delight and enthrall readers.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-9092-3
Издательство:
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Дата выхода: август 2011
Mr and Mrs Brown are always having great difficulty with their numerous and incredibly naughty children. They try all the agencies but the nurses, governesses and nannies never stay long with the Brown children. `The person you want is Nurse Matilda`, they are told. And when Nurse Matilda does arrive very strange things begin to happen. Brought together in one volume are the three remarkable tales of Nurse Matilda - Nurse Matilda, Nurse Matilda Goes to Town and Nurse Matilda Goes to Hospital. Having delighted generations of readers since their first publication in the sixties, the books have now formed the inspiration for the newly-released and fabulous Nanny McPhee, written and adapted for the big screen by Emma Thompson who stars as...
ISBN: 978-0-7475-7899-4
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: август 2011
WANTED: One young woman to take care of four-year-old boy. Must be cheerful, enthusiastic, and selfless--bordering on masochistic. Must relish sixteen-hour shifts with a deliberately nap-deprived preschooler. Must love geting thrown up on, literally and figuratively, by everyone in his family. Must enjoy the delicious anticipation of ridiculously erratic pay. Mostly, must love being treated like fungus found growing out of employer`s Hermes bag. Those who take it personally need not apply. Who wouldn`t want this job? Struggling to graduate from NYU and afford her microscopic studio apartment, Nanny takes a position caring for the only son of the wealthy X family. She rapidly learns the insane amount of juggling involved to ensure that a...
ISBN: 978-0-312-94804-7
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Sent to a military school at nine, Napoleon rapidly rose through the ranks of the French Army. But a brilliant military career wasn`t enough. Soon, he had seized control of France - and then he embarked upon a plan to rule all of Europe. - Stirring narrative and lively dialogue combine with full-colour illustrations to bring Napoleon`s epic story to life. - Young readers will be intrigued and excited as they follow Napoleon`s remarkable life from a humble Corsican childhood to Emperor of France. - Part of Young Reading Series 3 for fully confident readers. .
ISBN: 978-0-7460-6424-5
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Six months have passed since Anita has seen either Jean-Claude or Richard. Six months of celibacy. Six months of indecision. Six months of danger. For her body carries the marks of both vampire and werewolf, and until the truimvariate is consummated, all three remain vulnerable. But when a kidnapper targets innocents that Anita has sworn to protect, she needs all the help she can get. In an earth-shattering union, Anita, Jean-Claude and Richard merge the marks - and melt into one another. Suddenly, Anita can harness both their powers. She can feel their their their Nothing can save Anita from a twist of fate that draws her ever closer to the brink of humanity-to finally surrender to the bloodlust, the beast and the desire transforming...
ISBN: 978-0-515-13387-5
Издательство:
Rem Distributors
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Former LAPD Detective Harry Bosch returns in this "New York Times" bestseller. Harry investigates the death of an old friend who had ties to the hunt for the infamous serial killer, The Poet. What Harry finds leads him into the most terrifying situation he has ever encountered.
ISBN: 978-0-446-61164-0
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The EARLYREAD series contains both original stories and traditional favourites, as well as some cultural readers, graded over five levels. Features of all readers are: • beautiful illustrations, which not only encourage reading but actively help children to understand the story • picture dictionaries, for active vocabulary work • fun activities and games, often for more than one participant, which practise vocabulary and structures in the story. • a recording of the whole text, either on an accompanying CD or downloadable at no charge from the Black Cat website. All the readers can be easily dramatised. The most recent titles are accompanied by playscripts which can also be downloaded free from the Black Cat website. Earlyread...
ISBN: 9788853006998
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Even if one takes nothing else away from this elegant, tightly focused survey of Russian culture, it`s impossible to forget the telling little anecdotes that University of London history professor Figes (A People`s Tragedy) relates about Russia`s artists, writers, musicians, intellectuals and courtiers as he traces the cultural movements of the last three centuries. He shares Ilya Repin`s recollection of how peasants reacted to his friend Leo Tolstoy`s fumbling attempts to join them in manual labor ("Never in my life have I seen a clearer expression of irony on a simple peasant`s face"), as well as the three sentences Shostakovich shyly exchanged with his idol, Stravinsky, when the latter returned to the Soviet Union after 50 years of...
ISBN: 978-0-14-029796-6
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
A dazzling debut, and a publishing phenomenon: the tender, savagely funny collection from a young immigrant who has taken the critics by storm. Few readers had heard of David Bezmozgis before May 2003, when Harper’s, Zoetrope, and The New Yorker all printed stories from his forthcoming collection. In the space of a few weeks, America thus met the Bermans - Bella and Roman and their son, Mark - Russian Jews who have fled the Riga of Brezhnev for Toronto, the city of their dreams. Told through Mark’s eyes, the stories in Natasha possess a serious wit and uniquely Jewish perspective that recall the first published stories of Bernard Malamud and Philip Roth, not to mention the recent work of Jhumpa Lahiri, Nathan Englander, and Adam...
ISBN: 978-0-312-42393-3
Издательство:
Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
1925, a damp wintry night in Berlin. Englishman Philip Gibson, in Germany to seek the answers to a tantalising mystery surrounding the Grand Duchess Anastasia, witnesses an attack on Natasha, a young woman who has fled from Russia. When Philip takes the fragile, lonely Natasha in to help her recuperate, she quickly falls for his kind and caring nature. But when further threats are made on her life, Philip finds himself at the heart of another mystery. What is it that links Natasha to this mysterious, damaged woman? And will her love for Philip survive the secrets that will be unearthed?
ISBN: 978-0-552-15092-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Following the National Theatre`s success with plays based on novels by well-loved children`s writers like Philip Pulman ("His Dark Materials"), Jamila Gavin ("Coram Boy") and Michael Morpurgo ("War Horse"), the National now stages Mark Ravenhill`s exhilarating adaptation of Terry Pratchett`s witty and challenging adventure story in a major Christmas production for 2009. Its a parallel world, 1860. Two teenagers thrown together by a tsunami that has destroyed Mau`s village and left Daphne shipwrecked on his South Pacific island, thousands of miles from home. One wears next to nothing, the other a long white dress; neither speaks the other`s language; somehow they must learn to survive. As starving refugees gather, Daphne delivers a baby,...
ISBN: 978-0-552-16215-9
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
