As usual‚ Paddington manages to turn a perfectly normal outing into an adventure. Mr. Gruber and Paddington are just about to be followed home by a crowd of eager tourists‚ when Paddington manages to lose them all in the maze. But‚ mysteriously‚ Paddington and Mr. Gruber manage to escape from the maze unscathed.
New cover reissue of this funny picture book about Paddington, the beloved, classic bear from darkest Peru. When Mr Gruber takes Paddington to Buckingham Palace to watch the Changing of the Guard, there are so many people in the way he can`t see a thing. But a mysterious someone "on high" comes to his rescue and Paddington has a very good idea who it might be! Here comes Paddington again and this time he is enjoying a day out in London. Young children will love this story featuring their favourite bear. With a simple text and delightful illustrations, this book is perfect for reading to the very young, or for children just learning to read for themselves.
See the smash hit family movie - now own the book that features in the film!This spectacular limited edition collector`s item contains six stunning illustrated pop-up scenes that have been taken directly from the smash hit family movie and lovingly recreated for Paddington fans.Now you too can be transported, just like Paddington and Aunt Lucy, into a glorious paper-engineered world and visit iconic London sights including St. Pauls, Big Ben, Tower Bridge and the Houses of Parliament.A touching celebration of London, family and, ultimately, of belonging.
New edition of this funny, festive picture book about Paddington, the beloved, classic bear from darkest Peru. Paddington Bear knows just what he wants for Christmas and is anxious to make sure Santa Claus knows too. A trip to Santa’s grotto at the department store is his perfect chance to make his wishes known – but not everything goes quite according to plan!
ISBN: 978-0-00-725773-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
The irresistible, classic bear from Darkest Peru, who was found on Paddington station, causes havoc while out sight-seeing!When Paddington visits the Tower of London he makes sure he has enough marmalade sandwiches to sustain him - a whole suitcase in fact!Unfortunately, it is not only bears who like sandwiches as Paddington is soon to discover…
The classic story of everyone`s favourite bear, Paddington.Now available in board book format - perfect for tiny paws! Paddington Bear first met the Brown family at a railway station - Paddington Station, in fact.He had travelled all the way from Darkest Peru with only a jar of marmalade, a suitcase and a label reading `Please look after this bear`.Without further ado, Mr and Mrs Brown welcomed the adventurous bear into their family, and in honour of their meeting place they named him Paddington. The Browns soon discover that Paddington is a most unusual bear, for ordinary things - like having a bath - become quite extraordinary when a bear called Paddington is around!
Roddy Doyle`s Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin. From fun and adventure on the streets, boredom in the classroom to increasing isolation at home, "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha" is the story of a boy who sees everything but understands less and less.
ISBN: 978-0-7493-9735-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "Blood Brothers" and "The Hollow" — the conclusion to the electrifying trilogy of three men and three women who join forces — and hearts — to battle the ultimate evil.
ISBN: 978-0-515-14466-6
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2012
The Earl of St. Merryn needs a woman. His intentions are purely practical - he simply wants someone sensible and suitably lovely to pose as his betrothed for a few weeks among polite society. He has his own agenda to pursue, and a false fiancée will keep the husband-hunters at bay while he goes about his simplest solution is to hire a paid companion. Finding the right candidate proves more of a challenge than he expected. But when he encounters Miss Elenora Lodge, the fire in her golden eyes sways him to make a generous offer. Her sorry financial circumstances - and dreams of a life of independence - convince her to accept. But St. Merryn appears to be hiding a secret or two, and things seem oddly amiss in his gloomy London home....
ISBN: 978-0-515-13864-1
Издательство:
Rem Distributors
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers - and two very dangerous men - came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke`s world. A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. A beautiful young woman ignites forbidden passions. A fatherless baby is born ... and someone has begun furtively painting the bare clapboards of the Chandler farmhouse, slowly, painstakingly, bathing the run-down structure in gleaming white. And as young Luke watches the world around him, he unravels secrets that could shatter lives - and change his family and...
ISBN: 0-440-23722-Х
Издательство:
Dell Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2001
Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small but effective society she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love.
ISBN: 978-0-09-928687-5
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
September 1952. The cotton is almost ready in the fields of Arkansas. The harvest will soon begin. Luke Chandler is a seven-year-old who lives with his family in a small, unpainted house on rented land. In the next six weeks, the Chandlers and a hired band of hill people and Mexicans must bring in the cotton that is their livelihood and the guarantee of their survival on the land. Soon heat, rain, fatigue, a killing and the unravelling of a family secret threaten to destroy the Chandlers` hopes and will transport Luke abruptly from childhood innocence to adult experience.
ISBN: 0099416158
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: март 2003
A priest's death leads to sinister goings-on in an old country understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning? Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman's head? Or was it when the priest's assailant searched him so roughly he tore the clergyman's cassock? Or could it have been the priest's visit, just minutes before, to a woman on her death bed? Or was there a deeper significance to the violent squabble which Mark Easterbrook had himself witnessed earlier? Wherever the beginning lies, Mark and his sidekick, Ginger Corrigan, may soon have cause to wish they'd never found it!
ISBN: 978-0-00-715165-3
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
In "Pale Fire" Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade`s self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue. One of the twentieth century`s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved...
ISBN: 978-0-679-72342-4
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
In 1951 Mississippi, Thebes State Penal Farm is a place of violence, racial terror, and horrific rumors. When an old friend disappears inside Thebes, Arkansas State Police Sgt. Earl Swagger infiltrates the prison and discovers a savage world where death is the only salvation. He barely escapes with his life, but he`s not about to stay away for long.
In the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Valente. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where the grotesque and the beautiful reside and the passport to our most secret fantasies begins with a stranger`s Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse - a voyage permitted only to those who`ve always believed there`s another world than the one that meets the eye. Those fated to make the passage are marked forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh after a single orgasmic night. To this...
Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "Phineas Finn" is the second of six novels in another famous series, "The Pallis-er Novels", also known as the Parliamentary Novels. The novel introduces its title character, Phineas Finn, a talented but naive doctor`s son from Ireland.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08322-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2019
Anthony Trollope (1815—1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "The Eustace Diamonds" is the third of six novels in another famous series, "The Palliser Novels," also known as the Parliamentary Novels. The plot of the novel centres on the fabulous necklace owned by the Eustace family, which the beautiful but ruthless opportunist Lizzie, claims as her own after she marries Sir Florian Eustace for his money and becomes his widow after only a few months.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08366-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2019
Anthony Trollope (1815—1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "Phineas Redux" is the fourth of six novels in another famous series, "The Palliser Novels", also known as the Parliamentary Novels. After the death of his Irish wife, Phineas Finn returns to London and to the House of Commons.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08323-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2019
Anthony Trollope (1815—1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "The Prime Minister" is the fifth of six novels in another famous series, "The Palliser Novels", also known as the Parliamentary Novels. It is a wonderfully subtle portrait of a marriage, political expediency, and misplaced love.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08325-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2019
Anthony Trollope (1815—1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "The Duke`s Children" is the sixth and final novel in another famous series, "The Palliser Novels" also known as the Parliamentary Novels. Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is, widowed and wracked by grief. Struggling to adapt to life without his beloved Lady Glencora, he works hard to guide and support his three adult children. Palliser soon discovers, however, that his own plans for them are very different from their desires.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08367-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2019
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "Can You Forgive Her?" is the first of six novels in another famous series, "The Palliser Novels," also known as the Parliamentary Novels. The novel follows three parallel stories of courtship and marriage and the decisions of three strong women: Alice Vavasor, her cousin Glencora Palliser, and her aunt Arabella Greenow.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08320-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2019