Boston private investigators, Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro`s relationship has hit the skids - their long-standing professional commitment and growing romance have disintegrated due to seemingly irreparable personal differences. But despite these problems, Prayers for Rain brings them together again to close down a predator whose modus operandi seems to put him beyond the law. This killer`s insidious murder weapon is within his victims` minds: no smoking gun, no bloody knife, just merciless manipulation until despair drives his targets to kill themselves. As Patrick and Angie attempt to identify and save his next victim, this sinister force turns on them and thus begins a dangerous battle of wits: a tormenting, life-threatening game...
ISBN: 978-0-553-81825-3
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: июль 2012
"If you care about something you have to protect it. If you`re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it." Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend`s mother. Owen doesn`t believe in accidents; he believes he is God`s instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is both extraordinary and terrifying.
ISBN: 978-0-552-77679-0
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. Precaution is the first novel written by Cooper written in imitation of Jane Austen`s novels of English gentry manners. It is mainly interesting today as a document in the history of American cultural colonialism and as an example of an attempt to imitate Jane Austen`s investigation of the ironic discrepancy between illusion and reality.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07969-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen year old illiterate black girl who has never been out of Harlem. She is pregnant by her own father for the second time, and kicked out of school when that pregnancy becomes obvious. Placed in an alternative teaching programme, she is urged to write down her thoughts in a book. This is Precious` diary, in which she honestly records her relationships and her life. Told with tremendous power, vitality and wit; this is an uncompromising and hugely enjoyable novel.
ISBN: 978-0-09-954872-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Kay Scarpetta and her colleagues - Benton Wesley, Pete Marino, and her niece Lucy Farinelli - have a series of forensic cases as haunting as any they have ever tackled. Working with the National Forensic Institute in Florida, Scarpetta and Marino examine the X-rays of a man who has died from a shotgun blast to the chest. But the pellets embedded show a strange `pinball` pattern and the two can`t help but wonder if this points to suicide - or to murder. In an abandoned house in the rural South, a woman is held against her will. Her captor is unknown to her-and indeed unseen - but even in the dark, she knows that he is near. And on Cape Cod, Lucy awakens to a gray winter morning and the sure feeling that she has made a dreadful mistake.
ISBN: 978-0-425-21088-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
The Queen of Paranormal Romance ("USA Today") continues her breathtaking GhostWalkers series. Saber Wynter is running from her past when she meets former Navy SEAL and GhostWalker Jess Calhoun. The riddles of both their pasts are about to collide, shattering the promise of their future with the ultimate betrayal. Original. The new Ghostwalker novel from the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Saber Wynter is running from her past when she meets ex-Navy SEAL and Ghostwalker Jess Calhoun. But the riddles of both their pasts are about to collide, shattering the promise of their future with the ultimate betrayal.
ISBN: 978-0-515-14428-4
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Fleeing from an Anti-Tractionist sect, the Green Storm, Tom and Hester are left drifting in the frozen Ice Wastes, slowly dying of cold after the Jenny Haniver`s engines have failed. They are saved at the last minute, finding Anchorage, a once-beautiful ice city hat has fallen on hard times. Crippled by plague, there are barely fifty souls on Anchorage now, and the teenage margravine has made a desperate choice. They are heading for America, the Dead
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1092-9
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Predictably Irrational demonstrates how irrationality manifests itself in situations (often very peculiar and hilarious) where rational thought is expected. In this astounding book, groundbreaking in scope and totally original, Dan Ariely cuts to the heart of our strange behaviors and presents outstanding material that will keep every reader transfixed. He explains why honor codes are actually effective in reducting dishonesty in the workplace, why a 50-cent aspirin can cure a headache that a one-cent aspirin cannot, and, ultimately, why we make decisions contrary to our better judgement.
The year is 1970, and the youth of Europe are in the ecstatic throes of the sexual revolution. Though dedicated to the cause they have yet to realize this disturbing truth: that between the death of one social order and the birth of another, there exists a state of terrifying purgatory--or, as Alexander Herzen put it, a pregnant widow. Twenty years old and on vacation from college, Keith and an assortment of his peers are spending the long, hot summer in a castle in Italy. The tragicomedy of manners that ensues will have an indelible effect on all its participants, and we witness, too, how it shapes Keith`s subsequent love life for decades. Bitingly funny, full of wit and pathos, The Pregnant Widow is a trenchant portrait of young lives...
ISBN: 978-0-09-955412-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
It is the year 12,020 G. E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here is the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall - those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future.
ISBN: 0-553-27839-8
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
In this magisterial examination of the Presidency over the course of the 20th Century, the author explores the history of the world`s greatest elective office and the role each incumbent has played in changing the scope of its powers. Using individual presidential portraits of each of the presidents of the past century Graubard asks, and answers, a wide variety of crucial questions about each President. What intellectual, social and political assets did they bring to the White House, and how quickly did they deplete or mortgage that capital? How well did they cope with crises, foreign and domestic? How much attention did they pay to their election pledges after they were elected? How did they use the media, old and new? Above all, how...
ISBN: 978-0-14-104245-9
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
This volume examines the integration of economics and moral philosophy, arguing that valuation and analysis in health economics and health programs should be based on recent innovative research.
ISBN: 978-0-7653-5617-8
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: август 2011
Rusty Sabich is chief deputy prosecuting attorney in a large mid-western city. His boss is in the midst of a bitter campaign for re-election. A fellow prosecuting attorney, Carolyn Polhemus, has been brutally murdered. Rusty is handling the investigation - and he needs results. Before election day. Before his illicit affair with Carolyn is uncovered. Election day brings a new prosecuting attorney into office. A political enemy who wants Rusty out. man whose own secret investigation has revealed Rusty`s relationship with Carolyn. A man who takes Rusty off the case - and charges him with murder. Rusty now faces a long battle in court. Each side will twist the evidence to win its case, and try any procedural ploy, any courtroom trick that...
ISBN: 978-0-446-35986-3
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In picturesque Rosewood, Pennsylvania, neighbors gossip over picket fences, and gleaming SUVs sit in every crushed-granite driveway. But recently, friendly smiles have been replaced with suspicious glares and accusatory whispers - and it`s all because Hanna, Aria, Emily, and Spencer just can`t keep their mouths First they claimed they found a dead body in the woods behind Spencer`s house, only to have it vanish without a trace. Then when the same woods went up in flames, they swore they saw someone who`s supposed to be dead rise from the ashes. And even after all that, the pretty little liars are still playing with fire. Hanna`s trading in her Dior trench for a straitjacket. Aria`s trying to contact the dead. Emily`s dumped her boyfriend...
In picture-perfect Rosewood, Pennsylvania, ash-blond highlights gleam in the winter sun and frozen lakes sparkle like Swarovski crystals. But pictures often lie - and so do Rosewood`s four prettiest girls. Hanna, Aria, Spencer, and Emily have been lying ever since they became friends with beautiful Alison DiLaurentis. Ali made them do terrible things - things they had to keep secret for years. And even though Ali was killed at the end of seventh grade, their bad-girl ways didn`t die with her. Hanna`s on a mission to corrupt Rosewood`s youth, starting with a very attractive sophomore. Aria`s snooping into her boyfriend`s past. Spencer`s stealing - from her family. And pure little Emily`s abstaining from abstinence. The girls should be...
ISBN: 978-0-06-156613-4
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011