What does a gal have to do to get a good date in this town? Adele Harris can`t even begin to answer that question. She`s had so many lousy dates that she`s sure she`s cursed. Why else would every man she goes out with suddenly act like he`s lost his mind - and his manners? Adele thought life couldn`t get any more until she learns the marriage of her seemingly Miss Perfect sister is on the rocks. So she goes back to their hometown to give her a shoulder to cry on, only to run smack into Zach the one who got away. Texans love God, family, and football, though not always in that order Zach, a former pro star, knows all about football. As for the other two, well, he`s doing his best. But when Adele comes charging back into his life - still...
A plot-twisting classic from one of the world's biggest authors, reissued with a new cover look One million dollars - that's what Harvey Metcalfe, lifelong king of shady deals, has pulled off with empty promises of an oil bonanza and instant riches. Overnight, four men - the heir to an earldom, a Harley Street doctor, a Bond Street art dealer and an Oxford don - find themselves penniless. But this time Harvey has swindled the wrong men. They band together and shadow him from the casinos of Monte Carlo to the high-stakes windows at Ascot and the hallowed lawns of plan is simple: to sting the crook for exactly what they lost. To the penny. 'Marvellously plotted, with just the right amounts of romance, wit and...
ISBN: 978-0-330-41904-8
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: август 2011
On the night Brian Bishop murdered his wife, he was sixty miles away, asleep in bed at the time. At least, that’s the way it looks to Detective Superintendent Roy Grace who is called in to investigate the kinky slaying of beautiful young Brighton socialite, Katie Bishop. Soon, Grace starts coming to the conclusion that Bishop has performed the apparently impossible feat of being in two places at once. Has someone stolen his identity, or is he simply a very clever liar? As Grace digs deeper behind the facade of the Bishops’ outwardly respectable lives, it starts to become clear that all is not at all as it first seemed. And then he digs just a little too far, and suddenly the fragile stability of his own troubled, private world is facing
ISBN: 978-0-330-44612-9
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Here together for the first time in one volume are the twenty five spooky stories created by Sir Andrew Caldecott in two collections the 1940s: Not Exactly Ghosts and Fires Burn Blue. Caldecott, who only turned to fiction after retiring from the civil service, allowed his lifelong fascination with the supernatural full reign in these simple yet remarkably disturbing stories. Taking his inspiration from the master of the ghost story, M. R. James, who chilled by implication rather than by gory description, Caldecott created believable but unsettling scenarios which effectively produce a sense of unease in the reader. The mundane becomes horrific; the everyday is unnerving; and the commonplace is frightening. At last these rare forgotten...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-549-5
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
What is the real world? Does it exist, or is it merely a means of keeping another reality at bay? This collection offers a vision of another world which lurks just beneath the surface of our consciousness, a world where the myths we have banished from our lives are present and where imagination has the power to transform reality.
ISBN: 978-0-552-77105-4
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When the going gets tough, you find out who your friends really Laura Fanning has talent to burn, a brand-new jewellery design company and a wonderful husband. Nicola Peters has independence, a job she loves and her own home. Helen Jackson has a killer wardrobe, a thriving career and a lively and engaging daughter. But all is not as it seems. Laura`s struggling to live up to her parents` impossible expectations, Nicola is coping with a life-changing event, Helen`s worried that her maternal instinct has gone AWOL - and trying to cope with their problems alone is driving the three friends apart just when they need each other most. Then into the mix comes Chloe Fallon. She`s marrying gorgeous Dan Hunt and planning the wedding of the year,...
ISBN: 978-0-09-948692-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes more than a story-it becomes an experience to remember forever. The Notebook is such a book. It is a celebration of how passion can be ageless and timeless, a tale that moves us to laughter and tears and makes us believe in true love all over again... At thirty-one, Noah Calhoun, back in coastal North Carolina after World War II, is haunted by images of the girl he lost more than a decade earlier. At twenty-nine, socialite Allie Nelson is about to marry a wealthy lawyer, but she cannot stop thinking about the boy who long ago stole her heart. Thus begins the story of a love so enduring and deep it can turn tragedy into triumph, and may even have the power to create a...
A man picks up a faded, well-worn notebook and begins reading to a frail elderly woman, his voice recalling the heartbreaking story of two star-crossed lovers and their poignant, bittersweet journey to happiness. So begins this touching novel that is a dual tale of love lost and found, and of a man`s gentle battle to reach an aging woman who cannot remember the most cherished moments of her life. New Line Cinema is developing a screenplay from the novel.
ISBN: 0-446-60523-9
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
This is the startling beginning to Notes from the Underground, one of the most profound works of nineteenth-century literature. A probing, speculative book, often regarded as a forerunner of the Existentialist movement, it examines the important political and philosophical questions current in Russia and Europe at the time. The Gambler explores the compulsive nature of gambling, one of the author`s own vices and a subject he describes with extraordinary acumen and drama. Both Dostoevsky`s first wife and his brother died in the year that Notes was published, and he wrote The Gambler when he was deeply in debt and pursued by creditors. As with most of Dostoevsky`s important works, these two were written as he underwent acute personal...
ISBN: 978-0-19-953638-2
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The political cataclysms and cultural revolutions of our century… confirm the status of Notes from Underground as one of the most sheerly astonishing and subversive creations of European fiction.
ISBN: 0-553-21144-7
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such bestsellers as "The Mother Tongue" and "Made in America", decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson`s homeland - and partly because he had read that million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another. It was thus clear to him that his people needed him. But before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of modern-day Britain, and to analyze what he loved so...
ISBN: 978-0-552-99600-6
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
When the new teacher first arrives, Barbara immediately senses that this woman will be different from the rest of her staff-room colleagues. But Barbara is not the only one to feel that Sheba is special, and before too long Sheba is involved in an illicit affair with a pupil. Barbara finds the relationship abhorrent, of course, but she is the only adult in whom Sheba can properly confide. So when the liaison is found out and Sheba`s life falls apart, Barbara is
ISBN: 978-0-14-103518-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
When the new teacher first arrives, Barbara immediately senses that this woman will be different from the rest of her staff-room colleagues. But Barbara is not the only one to feel that Sheba Hart is special, and before too long Sheba is involved in an illicit affair with a pupil. Barbara finds the relationship abhorrent, of course, but she is the only adult in whom Sheba can properly confide. So when the liaison is found out and Sheba`s life falls apart, Barbara is
ISBN: 978-0-14-102906-1
Издательство:
Книжный мир
Дата выхода: январь 2013
This collection showcases Dostoyevsky`s evolving outlook on man`s fate. The compelling works presented here were written at distinct periods in the author`s life, at decisive moments in his groping for a political philosophy and a religious answer. Includes: Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man, and selections from The House of the Dead.
ISBN: 978-0-451-52955-8
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
