After 6,000 years of horrifying stillness, Akash, mother of all vampires and Queen of the Damned, has risen from her sleep to let loose the powers of the night. But her monstrous plan for ruling the worlds of the living and the undead must be stopped before she destroys mankind, and it falls to the evil vampire Lestat to fight her all-encompassing evil - for it is he who challenged her power by waking her from sleep.

ISBN: 978-0-7515-4199-1
Издательство: Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: август 2011

"The Queen of Spades" has long been acknowledged as one of the world`s greatest short stories. In this classic literary representation of gambling, Alexander Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. Hints of the occult and gothic alternate with scenes of St Petersburg high-society in the story of the passionate Hermann`s quest to master chance and make his fortune at the card-table. Underlying the taut plot is an ironical treatment of the romantic dreamer and social outcast. This volume contains three other major works of Pushkin`s fiction, moving from the witty parodies of sentimentalism and high melodrama in "The Tales of Belkin" to an early experiment with recreating the past in Peter the Great`s Blackamoor. It concludes with the...

ISBN: 978-0-19-953865-2
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011

ISBN: 978-0-698-11918-5
Дата выхода: июль 2011

When "Summer Fling" Luke uses the L word (Living Together), Lizzie is only too happy to move in with the love of her life in his mother`s Fifth Avenue pied-à-terre. But Lizzie`s not as lucky in her employment search. As her best friend, Shari, finds the perfect job, Lizzie struggles through one humiliating interview after another, until Shari`s boyfriend Chaz lands Lizzie a receptionist`s position at his father`s posh law firm. The non-paying gig at a local wedding-gown shop Lizzie manages to find all on her own. But Lizzie`s notoriously big mouth gets her into trouble almost at once — first at the law firm, where she becomes too chummy with a society bride, and then with Luke when she brings up the M word (Marriage). Soon Lizzie...

ISBN: 978-0-330-45585-5
Издательство: Picador USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011

ISBN: 978-0-14-103263-4
Издательство: Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Еще одна увлекательная детективная история (сиквел книги The Black Cat) о следователе Салахадине Эль Нуре, на этот раз расследующем тайну древнего проклятия.

ISBN: 978-0-230-03520-1
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Epiphany, 1193. Eleanor of Aquitaine sits upon England`s throne. Her beloved son Richard Lionheart is missing, presumed dead - and the court whispers that her younger son, John, is plotting to seize the crown. Meanwhile, on the snowy highroad from Winchester, a destitute young man falls heir to a blood stained letter, pressed into his hand by a dying man. The missive becomes Justin de Quincy`s passport into the queen`s confidence - and into the heart of danger, as he pursues a cunning murderer and jousts with secret traitors in Eleanor`s court of intrigue and

ISBN: 978-0-345-42316-0
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011

What if being Royal was a crime? The UK has come over all republican. The Royal Family exiled to an Exclusion Zone with the other villains and spongers. And to cap it all, the Queen has threatened to abdicate. Yet Prince Charles is more interested in root vegetables than reigning … unless his wife Camilla can be Queen in a newly restored monarchy. But when a scoundrel who claims to be the couple’s secret love child offers to take the crown off their hands, the stage is set for a right Royal show down. And the question for Camilla (and rest of the country) will be: Queen of the vegetable patch or Queen of England?

ISBN: 978-0-14-102445-5
Издательство: Книжный мир
Дата выхода: июль 2011

- The life of the famous Elizabethan sea captain told for children ready to tackle longer and more complex stories. - Daring and ruthless, Francis Drake sailed the oceans in search of land and treasure for Queen Elizabeth I. - Includes internet links to carefully selected websites to find out more. - Part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton.

ISBN: 978-0-7460-8699-5
Издательство: Usborne
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Linwood Breedlove Scott`s life has officially hit rock bottom. Her husband of thirty years has run off with a stripper. The IRS has taken everything but her coffee table. And her hot flashes are four-alarmers. The only thing that could make being flat-broke and fifty any worse is having to crawl home to her parents` house in Mimosa Branch, is exactly where she`s headed. Lin`s barely prepared for the loony bin that greets her, from her controlling, eighty-year-old mother and shockingly blunt father to her long-suffering Aunt Glory and her deranged Uncle Bedford who is convinced a cannibal lives under the furniture. Nor is she ready for the instant love-hate attraction she feels for her handsome new next-door neighbor. Trying to navigate...

ISBN: 978-0-312-98939-2
Издательство: Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Alice Shoemaker habitually goes to great lengths to avoid telling the truth about herself and her past. After agreeing to help out a friend, by shopping and cleaning for the unknown man staying at Cuckoo House, she soon becomes suspicious that her strange and obnoxiously rude client has something to Clayton Miller`s life is a mess. His career as one of the country`s best comedy script writers has stalled and his long-term girlfriend has left him for his ex best friend and ex writing partner. Just when he thinks his life couldn`t get any worse, he commits a spectacularly public fall from grace and with the press hounding him, his agent banishes him to the middle of nowhere until the dust has settled. And there he meets When Alice and...

ISBN: 978-1-4091-0257-1
Издательство: Orion Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Queen Victoria is crowned; she receives the orb, the sceptre, and an arsenal of blood-stained weaponry. Because if Britain is about to become the greatest power of the age, there`s the small matter of the demons to take care of first. But rather than dreaming of demon hunting, it is Prince Albert who occupies her thoughts. Can she dedicate her life to saving her country when her heart belongs elsewhere?

ISBN: 978-1-4447-0034-3
Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011

A young woman caught in the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half sister, Elizabeth, must find her true destiny amid treason, poisonous rivalries, loss of faith, and unrequited love. It is winter, 1553. Pursued by the Inquisition, Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, is forced to flee Spain with her father. But Hannah is no ordinary refugee. Her gift of "Sight", the ability to foresee the future, is priceless in the troubled times of the Tudor court. Hannah is adopted by the glamorous Robert Dudley, the charismatic son of King Edward`s protector, who brings her to court as a "holy fool" for Queen Mary and, ultimately, Queen Elizabeth. Hired as a fool but working as a spy; promised in wedlock but in love with her master;...

ISBN: 978-0-7432-4607-1
Дата выхода: май 2012

Lizzie Nichols has a problem, and it isn’t that she’s blowing her college graduation money on a trip to visit her long-distance boyfriend Andy in London. She just can’t keep anything to herself, including her indignation at finding out her beloved boyfriend wasn’t completely faithful to her during their separation. She’s now out on the streets with no money and a non-changeable airline ticket home for exactly a month away. Fortunately, Lizzie’s best friend, Shari, comes to the rescue. She’s spending the summer in the South of France catering weddings in a romantic sixteenth century chateau, and she’s able to sort Lizzie out with a job. One glimpse of the gorgeous Chateau Mirac, not to mention the equally gorgeous son of...

ISBN: 978-0-330-41889-8
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Yet Prince Charles is more interested in root vegetables than reigning... unless his wife Camilla can be queen in a newly restored monarchy. But when a scoundrel who claims to be the couple`s secret love child offers to take the crown off their hands, the stage is set for a right Royal showdown.

ISBN: 978-0-241-95839-1
Издательство: Penguin Group
Дата выхода: май 2012

England`s medieval queens were elemental in shaping the history of the nation. In an age where all politics were family politics, dynastic marriages placed English queens at the very centre of power - the king`s bed. From Matilda of Flanders, the Conqueror`s queen, to Elizabeth of York, the first Tudor consort, England`s queens fashioned the nature of monarchy and influenced the direction of the state. Occupying a unique position in the mercurial, often violent world of medieval state-craft, English queens had to negotiate a role that combined tremendous influence with terrifying vulnerability. Lisa Hilton`s meticulously researched new book explores the lives of the twenty women who were crowned queen between 1066 and 1503, reconsidering...

ISBN: 978-0-7538-2611-9
Издательство: Орион
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

ISBN: 978-1-84749-181-7
Издательство: Alma Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, and playwright. Although he was an advocate and legal administrator by profession, Scott is most famous for his great literary works and activities in the Royal Highland Society. Set in medieval times, the plot of the historical novel "Quentin Durward" revolves around the rivalry between King of France Louis XI and his vassal Duke of Burgundy Charles the Bold. To weaken his subject, Louis secretly incites the cities of Ghent, Liege, and Malin to revolt against Charles, their lord. Thanks to these machinations, the lives of many people, including the protagonist Quentin Durward, Scottish nobleman and the archer of the army of the King, are dependent on a political game...

ISBN: 978-5-521-07545-4
Издательство: Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018

ISBN: 9780752876849
Издательство: Orion Books
Дата выхода: январь 2010

Is it possible to tell the story of a generation and a city through the history of a restaurant? Ella Brady thinks so. She wants to film a documentary about Quentins that will capture the spirit of Dublin from the 1970s to the present day. And Quentins has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love, of betrayal, of revenge; of times when it looked ready for success and times when it seemed as if it must close in failure. But as Ella uncovers more of what has gone on at Quentins, she begins to wonder whether some secrets should be kept that With Quentins, Maeve Binchy follows her bestselling Scarlet Feather with a new book that delivers the hallmark storytelling that has kept millions of her readers happy for more than twenty years.

ISBN: 978-0-451-20990-0
Издательство: Rem Distributors
Дата выхода: июль 2011

This book is for all those who love Kim, that masterpiece of Indian life in which Kipling immortalized the Great Game. Fascinated since childhood by this strange tale of an orphan boy`s recruitment into the Indian secret service, Peter Hopkirk here retraces Kim`s footsteps across Kipling`s India to see how much of it remains. To attempt this with a fictional hero would normally be pointless. But Kim is different. For much of this Great Game classic was inspired by actual people and places, thus blurring the line between the real and the imaginary. Less a travel book than a literary detective story, this is the intriguing story of Peter Hopkirk`s quest for Kim and a host of other shadowy figures.

ISBN: 978-0-7195-6452-9
Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012

ISBN: 9781474920520
Дата выхода: январь 2020

This is a super-funny, super-crazy crime caper with five rare-breed sheep! A silver object falls mysteriously from the sky and lands on Sal, a matronly Southdown ewe who lives happily with her sheep friends on Eppingham Farm. The sheep are convinced that an ancient ovine prophecy is being fulfilled. They must go North (so to Scotland, perhaps?), on a mission to aid Lord Aries, Sheep of all Sheepdom, Ram of Rams, in his battle against the powers of darkness in the shape of Lambad the Bad. Thus the Eppingham Posse of Rare Breed Warriors is born. In fact, the silver object is a mobile phone, dropped from a hot air balloon by Luke and Neil, who have been stealing bank money over the internet. They need that phone back to hide the evidence....

ISBN: 978-1-4052-4376-6
Издательство: Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: июль 2011

What are rainbows made of? How hot is the sun? When do hurricanes happen? Discover the answers to these questions and many more in this fascinating information book, with over 60 flaps to lift. There’s also a quiz, a make your own water cycle experiment, and Usborne Quicklinks to specially selected websites for more amazing facts.

ISBN: 9781474953030
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2023

ISBN: 9781474917933
Дата выхода: январь 2020