Immerse yourself in an electrifying reading experience like no other - international bestselling author Paulo Coelho`s "The Fifth Mountain." A stunning novel in the tradition of the highly acclaimed "The Alchemist, " this is Coelho`s daring retelling of the prophet Elijah. During the chaos of the ninth century , Jezebel, wife to Israel`s ruler, orders the execution of all prophets who refuse to worship the pagan god Baal. The young prophet Elijah, commanded by an angel of God to flee Israel, seeks safety in the land of Zarephath, where he unexpectedly finds true love with a young widow. But this new-found rapture is to be cut short, and Elijah sees all of his hopes and dreams irrevocably erased. What follows is sure to be viewed as...
Ordinary Heros, Extraordinary Deeds The bestselling author of Kane & Abel, The Prodigal Daughter and Honor Among Theives once again astonishes, delights, and electrifies his legions of fans. From London to China, and New York to Nigeria, Jeffrey Archer takes the reader on a tour of ancient heirlooms and modern romance, of cutthroat business and kindly strangers, of lives lived in the realms of power and lives freed from the gloom of oppression. Fortunes are made and squandered, honor betrayed and redeemed, and love lost and rediscovered. Embracing the passions that drive men and women to love and to hate, A Quiver Full of Arrows will captivate the hearts and souls of readers of everywhere.
ISBN: 978-0-312-93769-0
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Two friends fall under the spell of a New York beauty - with quite unexpected results. An offhand remark is taken seriously by a Chinese sculptor, and a British diplomat becomes the owner of a priceless work of art. An insurance claims advisor has a most surprising encounter on the train home to Sevenoaks. The openings to three of this marvellous collection of stories that ends with a hauntingly-written, atmospheric account of two undergraduates at Oxford in the thirties, a tale of bitter rivalry that ends in a memorable love story. Формат: 11 см x 17,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-330-41901-7
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Private Investigator Kinsey Milhone is back on the job, hired by a privileged parolee`s father to keep her out of trouble. It should be an easy assignment-until the parolee`s past starts coming back to haunt her.
ISBN: 978-0-425-20386-6
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The Roald Dahl Treasury is a wonderful collection by and about Roald Dahl, the great storytelling genius. Four themed sections - Animals; Magic; Family, Friends and Foes; and Matters of Importance - introduce some of Dahl`s best-loved characters, from Willy Wonka to the BFG, from the Witches to the Twits, from James to Matilda. In each you will find complete stories, poems, memoirs and letters, as well as some unpublished poetry and letters. The Roald Dahl Treasury is beautifully illustrated in full colour by Quentin Blake, as well as by leading artists such as Raymond Briggs, Babette Cole, Posy Simmonds and Ralph Steadman. `Those who don`t believe in magic will never find it,` Roald Dahl told his readers. you will find a touch of magic...
ISBN: 978-0-14-131733-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
R M Schindler (1887–1953) was a pivotal Modernist architect who remained largely unrecognized by the critical establishment during his lifetime. A pragmatist and theoretician, Schindler designed more than 500 projects, over 150 of which were built, most of these in the Los Angeles area, where he settled in 1920. Trained in Vienna and influenced by two teachers, Adolf Loos and Otto Wagner, Schindler immigrated to Chicago in 1914, hoping to work for Frank Lloyd Wright. By 1918 he had attained that goal, and two years later he moved to Los Angeles as project architect for Wright’s famous Barnsdall House. In his own practice, which began in 1922, Schindler synthesized the ideas of Loos, Wagner and Wright into his own original and...
ISBN: 0714839140
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
The first and second novels in John Updike`s acclaimed quartet of Rabbit books-now in one marvelous volume. RABBIT, RUN Brilliant and By his compassion, clarity of insight, and crystal-bright prose, [Updike] makes Rabbit`s sorrow his and out own.
ISBN: 978-0-345-46456-9
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Middle-aged Harry Angstrom, chief sales representative of a Toyota dealership, copes with inflation, governmental ineffectiveness, the return of his prodigal son, and a chance encounter with an old girlfriend, in Rabbit Is Rich, while in Rabbit at Rest, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, now living in a Florida condominium, faces middle age, heart trouble, and a wife.
ISBN: 978-0-345-46457-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
It`s 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war is in full swing, and racial tension is on the rise. Things just aren`t as simple as they used to be - at least, not for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife has left him with his teenage son, his job is under threat and his mother is dying. Suddenly, into his confused life - and home - comes Jill, an eighteen-year-old runaway who becomes his lover. But when she invites her friend to stay, a young black radical named Skeeter, the pair`s fragile harmony soon begins to
ISBN: 978-0-14-118854-6
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
It`s 1959 and Harry Rabbit` Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six, he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing ashtrays and discarded glasses, a young son and a futile job. With no way to fix things, he resolves to flee from his family and his home in Pennsylvania, beginning a thousand-mile journey that he hopes will free him from his mediocre life. Because, as he knows only too well, after you`ve been first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate`.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118783-9
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
It`s 1989, and Harry `Rabbit` Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his hands and a heart that is starting to fail. His family, too, are giving him cause for concern. His son Nelson is a wreck of a man, a cocaine addict with shattered self-respect. Janice, his wife, has decided that she wants to be a working girl. And as for Pru, his daughter-in-law, she seems to be sending out signals to Rabbit that he knows he should ignore, but somehow can`t. He has to make the most of life, after all. He doesn`t have much time left.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118844-7
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2012
It`s 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He`s walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That`s OK, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. It`s all in place: he`s Chief Sales Representative and co-owner of Springer motors; his wife, at home or in the club, is keeping trim; he wears good suits, and the cash is pouring in. So why is it that he finds it so hard to accept the way things have turned out? And why, when he looks at his family, is he haunted by regrets about all those lives he`ll never live?
ISBN: 978-0-14-118855-3
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Rachel Walsh is 27 and the miserable owner of size 8 feet. Overly fond of recreational drugs, she gets frogmarched into the Cloisters, Dublin`s answer to the Betty Ford Clinic. Once there, she seeks redemption in the shape of Chris, a "man with a past". A novel by turns poignant, powerful and seriously funny.
ISBN: 978-0-14-102447-9
Издательство:
Книжный мир
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Rachel Fister gets a blister on her little left-hand toe, and a barrage of helpers - brothers and sisters, rabbis and priests, police officers and firefighters, doctors and nurses, and even the postman - is called in to help poor Rachel. Some sage advice from Queen Alice ultimately saves the day, and Rachel`s blister gets some down-home healing This Read-Along Book and CD Favorite includes a paperback edition of the book and a compact disc in a newly designed reusable package. The CD includes one reading with page-turn signals as well as an uninterrupted reading.
Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously, sets the scene with infinite care - but it doesn`t come off quite as Charles expects.
ISBN: 978-0-09-945542-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
"How did it end up like this? Twenty-seven, unemployed, mistaken for a drug addict, in a treatment centre in the back arse of nowhere with an empty Valium bottle in my " Meet Rachel Walsh. She has a pair of size 8 feet and such a fondness for recreational drugs that her family has forked out the cash for a spell in Cloisters - Dublin`s answer to the Betty Ford Clinic. She`s only agreed to her incarceration because she`s heard that rehab is wall-to-wall Jacuzzis, gymnasiums and rock stars going tepid turkey - and it`s about time she had a holiday. But what Rachel doesn`t count on are the toe-curling embarrassments heaped on her by family and group therapy, the dearth of sex, drugs and rock`n`roll - and missing Luke, her ex. What land of a...
ISBN: 978-0-241-95931-2
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2012
Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fogletree just became number five. His body was found in the small basement of a lakeside cabin he had built himself and frequently used on weekends. When he did not show up for a trial on Monday morning, his law clerks panicked, called the FBI, and in due course the agents found the crime scene. There was no forced entry, no struggle, just two dead bodies - Judge Fogletree and his young secretary. I did not know Judge Fogletree, but I know who killed him, and why. I am a lawyer, and I am...
ISBN: 978-1-4447-2974-0
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012