The first title in the new "Usborne Very First Reading" series, designed for younger children to introduce them to reading together with their parents. Parents and children take turns to read from the page (the text clearly marked for who should be reading) and as the books progress in the series the adults read less and less and the child more and more. There are puzzles at the end to check the child`s understanding of the text and guidance notes for the parents. Beautiful illustrations help to motivate beginner readers.
ISBN: 978-1-4095-0703-1
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Powerful and hungry for oil, China wants access to the Middle Eastern pipeline, and it has the nuclear arsenal to get what it wants. Alex Hawke uncovers a brilliant scheme involving one of America`s own allies in Bell`s latest "New York Times" bestselling thriller. Premium-size edition.
ISBN: 978-1-4165-1079-6
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
An exciting addition to the Horrible Histories series, these titles will tackle all the hot historical topics in a new full-colour format with durable cover. Beginning with the perennial favourite Pirates, they`re all the Horrible History a reader needs in one handy little handbook. Terry Deary reveals the terrible truth behind the lousy pirate legends and lies. So forget the brave heroes swinging from masts and the handsome young men sailing the seven seas for this is history as it`s most horrible! Readers can decide who was the baddest of the bunch in the top ten of putrid pirates, discover why the women pirates were just as wicked as the men and learn to talk the patter of a Pirate. Plus there are foul facts on the ships they sailed,...
What drives two young women from such different backgrounds to take to the perilous life of piracy? What has befallen Nancy Kington and Minerva Sharpe that makes this existence better than the one they left behind? In this vivid, exciting and completely gripping novel read the remarkable adventures of two girls, one a merchant`s daughter and the other a runaway slave, as they sail the high seas, fight for their lives and search for their loves.
ISBN: 978-1-4088-0027-0
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: январь 2013
This is a brand new series of horribly hilarious stories from the creators of Horrible Histories. With a cast of comic characters and the usual mix of foul fun, Terry Deary`s Gory Stories are guaranteed to appeal to all Horrible Histories fans.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-0955-8
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
An irresistible tale of swashbuckling pirates in the New World from master storyteller Michael Crichton -- now in paperback Jamaica, in 1665 a lone outpost of British power amid Spanish waters in the sunbaked Caribbean. Its capital, Port Royal, a cuthroat town of taverns, grog shops and bawdy houses -- the last place imaginable from which to launch an unthinkable attack on a nearby Spanish stronghold. Yet that is exactly what renowned privateer Captain Charles Hunter plans to do, with the connivance of Charles II`s ruling governor, Sir James Almont. The target is Matanceros, guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, and considered impregnable with its gun emplacements and sheer cliffs. Hunter`s crew of buccaneers must battle not only the...
ISBN: 978-0-00-734999-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Haunted wooden legs, captains good and evil, parrots a-plenty - they`re all here in this wide-ranging collection of illustrated pirate stories, brought to you by authors such as Cornelia Funke, Colin McNaughton and John Grant. Read them while you`re scrubbing the decks, walking the plank or navigating the open seas. Ooh-arr.
ISBN: 978-0-330-45148-2
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Lord Cutler Beckett thinks that pirates are very bad for business. He wants to take command of the oceans. The Pirate Lords, of course, have other ideas. But can they fight him and win - together? They need the help of Captain Jack Sparrow, but he and his ship are at the bottom of the ocean. Is this the end for the Pirates of the Caribbean?
ISBN: 978-1-4082-0889-2
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
Using the full-color stickers, children will love creating new adventures for the Pirate Captain and his band of misfits. Fans can play out scenes from the film or imagine fresh dangers for all their favorite characters. The possibilities are as varied as their imaginations!
This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chronology.
ISBN: 0714827290
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
This selection of Poe`s critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. "The Fall of the House of Usher" describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past. In "The Tell Tale Heart", a murderer`s insane delusions threaten to betray him, while stories such as "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Cask of Amontillado" explore extreme states of decadence, fear and hate.
ISBN: 978-0-14-119062-4
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
More than any other event, World War I made the 20th century what it has been. Now as the 20th century draws to a close, 80 years after the armistice of 11 November 1918, the time is right for a radical reassessment of the Great War. In this book aimed at appeal to appeal not only to students but also to the general reader, Niall Ferguson explodes many of the myths surrounding the war.
ISBN: 978-0-14-027523-0
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Winter 1963: two children have disappeared off the streets of Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezlng day in December, another child goes missing: thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from her town, an insular community that distrusts the outside world. For the young George Bennett, a newly promoted inspector, it is the beginning of his most difficult and harrowing case: a murder with no body, an investigation with more dead ends and closed faces than he`d have found in the anonymity of the inner city, and an outcome which reverberates through the years. Decades later he finally tells his story to journalist Catherine Heathcote, but just when the book is poised for publication,...
ISBN: 978-0-312-97953-9
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Ever since the day her classmate Jenny-May Butler vanished, Sandy Shortt has been haunted by what happens when something - or someone - disappears. Finding has become her goal. Jack Ruttle is desperate to find his younger brother Donal who vanished into thin air a year ago. So then he spots an ad for Sandy`s missing persons agency, he`s certain that she will answer his prayers and find his missing brother. But then Sandy disappears too, stumbling upon a place that is a world away from the only one she has ever known. Now all she wants, more than anything, is to find her way home.
ISBN: 978-0-00-725887-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In a brutal world, charismatic rebel miner Mack McAsh - a slave by birth - is a man with the courage to stand up for what is right, and the strength to stick by his beliefs. Independent, rebellious Lizzie Hallim, meanwhile, is engaged to Jay Jamisson, the ruthless landlord`s son and heir to an exploitative business empire. Born into separate worlds, Mack and Lizzie are thrown together when Mack becomes an enemy of the state and is forced to flee his homeland. Lizzie aids his escape, and it is not long before passions rage in the old world as well as the new ...Set in an era of turbulent social changes, "A Place Called Freedom" is a magnificent novel from the undisputed master of suspense and drama, Ken Follett. "A compulsive, sweeping...
ISBN: 978-0-330-34483-8
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: август 2011
Burroughs` classic, surreal reworking of the myth of the Old West. William Burroughs` surreal fable set in America`s Old West features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunfights giving his adversaries the last rites; and The Nihilistic Kid himself, Kim Carson, who, with a succession of beautiful sidekicks, sets out to challenge the morality of smalltown America. With a narrative of fantastical proportions and a rich, dry, growling humour, `The Place of Dead Roads` continues Burroughs` exploration of society`s controlling forces - the State, the Church, women, literature, drugs - with a style utterly unique in 20th century literature.
ISBN: 978-0-00-734193-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Sentenced to a life of misery in the Scottish coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: beautiful high-born Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. In 1766, from the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship headed for the American colonies to a sprawling Virginia plantation, two restless young people, separated by politics and position, are bound by their search for a place called
St Paul’s Cathedral is an iconic British building combining Renaissance and Baroque elements. Vaughan Hart examines Wren’s extraordinary exterior, brilliantly constructed dome and radiant interior. The Church of the Sacred Heart by Jo?ze Ple?cnik – a key representative of the Modern Movement – dominates a quiet square in Prague; Ivan Margolius discusses the classical and traditional Slovenian elements which create a building of great architectural force. The Church on the Water and Church of the Light complement each other perfectly: one rural and ‘open’, the other urban and ‘closed’. Philip Drew explains how Ando created in them a synthesis of opposites. Considering these churches together allows an insight into the...
ISBN: 0714838772
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
When Lionel Lawrence opens his rambling rectory to rehabilitate young offenders he has no idea of the consequences, least of all that they will include blackmail and murder. Chief Inspector Barnaby has a good idea of the identity of the violent individual responsible, now all he needs is evidence.
An extraordinary and brilliant work of historical imagination – this is Mantel’s epic novel of the French Revolution. A spellbinding novel which recounts the events between the fall of the Ancient Regime and the peak of the Terror, as seen through the eyes of the French Revolution’s three protagonists – Georges-Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins, men whose mix of ambition, idealism, and ego helped unleash the darker side of the Revolution’s ideals and brought them eventually to their own tragic ends. Critically acclaimed upon first publication, ‘A Place of Greater Safety’ is one of Mantel’s most celebrated works of fiction.
ISBN: 978-0-00-725055-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
For four novels, Clive Cussler has charted the exploits of the Oregon, a clandestine spy ship completely dilapidated on the outside, but on the inside packed with sophisticated weaponry and intelligence-gathering equipment. Captained by the rakish, one-legged Juan Cabrillo and manned by a crew of former military and spy personnel, it is a private enterprise, available for any government agency that can afford it - and now Cussler sends the Oregon on its most extraordinary mission yet. The crew has just completed a top-secret mission against Iran in the Persian Gulf, when they come across a cruise ship adrift in the sea. Hundreds of bodies litter its deck, and as Cabrillo tries to determine what happened, explosions rack the length of the...
ISBN: 978-0-14-104069-1
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
From the bestselling author of My Sister`s Keeper comes the riveting story of a murder that shatters the picturesque calm of Amish country-and tests the heart and soul of the lawyer defending the woman at the center of the storm. The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn`s mother, took the child`s life. When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big-city attorney, comes to Paradise, Pennsylvania, to defend Katie, two cultures collide-and for the first time in her high-profile career, Ellie faces a system of justice...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-4918-5
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
