There is a club in New York where men tell each other stories. Some of these are mysterious, some are horrible. One night a doctor tells the story of a young woman who gives birth to her baby. A normal enough event? Not this one.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8207-1
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Nuclear war has destroyed all life in thenorthern countries of the world. Now the deadly radiation is travelling south. In Australia, where people are still alive, Peter and Mary Holmes are trying to live their lives as normally as possible as the radiation comes closer and closer. What can they do? Is this the end of life on earth?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8228-6
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
London is one of the great cities of the world. It is the biggest city in Britain and in Europe. In 1900, it was the biggest city in the world. In this book you will find a lot of interesting information about London. You will read about its history from Roman times. You will learn about its famous people and the shops, museums and palaces of this exciting city.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7853-1
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: март 2011
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Three stories, three ghosts. A young woman marries an older man. His first wife is dead. Or is she ? Why does a dead man walk through his house each night? An old woman has a house with a tower. Why does she visit a young man in his dreams?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-6962-1
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Original / British English Marcel is a French mouse, and a detective. One evening, at the Louvre museum, he sees a man steal a famous painting the Mona Lisa. Marcel follows the thief to Venice and risks his life to get the painting back again.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-6955-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Original / British English Marcel visits his friend, Henry, in London. Henry knows a professor and he has some very interesting letters by William Shakespeare! Marcel and Henry want to see the letters, but they are not in the professor`s flat. Marcel is a detective. Can he find them?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7673-5
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Original / British English Sarah and Jessica arrive in New Zealand for a holiday. They find a mobile phone in the taxi from the airport. It is Michael`s mobile, but they can`t find him? He has messages from home are they important? Go with the girls on a New Zealand adventure.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8277-4
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Original / British English Marcel visits his friend, Henry, in London. Henry knows a professor and he has some very interesting letters by William Shakespeare! Marcel and Henry want to see the letters, but they are not in the professor`s flat. Marcel is a detective. Can he find them?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7811-1
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Set against the starkly beautiful landscape of Cornwall, PENMARRIC is the totally enthralling saga of a family divided against itself. At the center of the novel is the great mansion called Penmarric. It is to Penmarric that Mark Castallack, a proud, strange, and sensitive man, brings his bride Janna--the first act in a tempestuous drama that was to span three
Hanna Heath, an Australian rare book expert, has been offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient binding - an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair-she begins to unlock the book`s mysteries, ushering in its exquisite and atmospheric past, from its salvation back to its creation through centuries of exile and war. Inspired by a true story, "People of the Book" is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity - an acclaimed...
ISBN: 978-0-14-311454-3
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
The concluding volume of The History of Middle-earth series, which examines the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings.The Peoples of Middle-earth traces the evolution of the Appendices to The Lord of The Rings, which provide a comprehensive historical structure of the Second and Third Ages, including Calendars, Hobbit genealogies and the Westron language. The book concludes with two unique abandoned stories: The New Shadow, set in Gondor during the Fourth Age, and the tale of Tal-elmar, in which the coming of the dreaded Numenorean ships is seen through the eyes of men of Middle-earth in the Dark Years.With the publication of this book, the long history of J.R.R. Tolkien`s creation is completed and the enigmatic state of his work can be...
ISBN: 9780261103481
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
Artem Samsurov, a protege of Lenin, makes an extraordinary escape from Tsarist Russia to reach sanctuary in Australia, but soon discovers that repression and injustice exist there too. Though distracted by an infatuation with a beautiful female lawyer, he throws himself back into the socialist cause, only to be imprisoned, then accused of murdering an informer. But he never loses his belief that the revolution will come - and in 1917, he returns to Russia alongside an Australian journalist to fight for it. Based on a true story, Keneally`s enthralling novel takes us to the heart of the Russian Revolution through the dramatic exploits of one inspiring man. Once again, he illuminates a seismic period of history from an intimate, unusual...
ISBN: 978-0-340-95186-6
Издательство:
Hodder Education
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The People of Sparks picks up where The City of Ember leaves off. Lina and Doon have emerged from the underground city to the exciting new world above, and it isn`t long before they are followed by the other inhabitants of Ember. The Emberites soon come across a town where they are welcomed, fed, and given places to sleep. But the town`s resources are limited and it isn`t long before resentment begins to grow between the two groups. When anonymous acts of vandalism push them toward violence, it`s up to Lina and Doon to discover who`s behind the vandalism and why, before it`s too late. From the Hardcover edition.
ISBN: 978-0-375-82825-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
The fifth and final collection of poems from one of America`s best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose - and many would claim its most influential and imitated poet. the gas line is leaking, the bird is gone from the cage, the skyline is dotted with vultures; Benny finally got off the stuff and Betty now has a job as a waitress; and the chimney sweep was quite delicate as he giggled up through the soot. I walked miles through the city and recognized nothing as a giant claw ate at my stomach while the inside of my head felt airy as if I was about to go mad. it’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing, there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more...
Not suitable for children under 3 years of age Nee-naw! Peppa and George get to ride in a big red fire engine. But will there be any fires to put out? A Peppa Pig storybook fans will want to read again and again!
ISBN: 978-1-4093-0487-6
Издательство:
Ladybird Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
