Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession and the fear of failure - these are things that happen in the Glass Room. High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landauer House shines as a wonder of steel and glass and onyx built specially for newlyweds Viktor and Liesel Landauer, a Jew married to a gentile. But the radiant honesty of 1930 that the house, with its unique Glass Room, seems to engender quickly tarnishes as the storm clouds of WW2 gather, and eventually the family must flee, accompanied by Viktor`s lover and her child. But the house`s story is far from over, and as it passes from hand to hand, from Czech to Russian, both the best and the worst of the history of Eastern...
ISBN: 978-0-349-12132-1
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. For Grace, a ghost in a haunted house, the arrival of a young mother with a baby stirs memories of the man and the child she lost so many years before. But then danger threatens the baby girl and Grace must act decisively.
ISBN: 9780521705868
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — коллекция, которая собрана из бессмертных произведений великих мастеров пера, написанных ими на их родном языке. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углублённо изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. Recognized today as the undisputed master of the American Gothic horror story, Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1949) revealed his genius in tales of death, terror, evil, and...
ISBN: 978-5-519-49837-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2016
Tarmon Gai’don, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready.The final volume of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light, was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordan’s editor--his wife, Harriet McDougal--to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so Tor proudly presents The Gathering Storm as the first of three novels that will cover the outline left by Robert Jordan, chronicling Tarmon Gai`don and Rand al`Thor`s final confrontatino with the Dark One. This short sequence will complete the struggle against the Shadow, bringing...
ISBN: 978-0-7653-4153-2
Издательство:
Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: май 2011
В середине XXI века двух английских ученых отправляют в начало XVII века исследовать легендарный Пороховой заговор, целью которого было убийство короля Якова I. Вторгаться в ход истории исследователи не имеют права, но ведь они всего лишь люди. Удастся ли им установить историческую истину?
ISBN: 978-5-17-056857-4
Издательство:
АСТ/Астрель
Дата выхода: октябрь 2009
Edith Wharton (1862—1937) was an American novelist and short story writer. Her works show the lives of people of the late nineteenth century, the times of decline in American history. She was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921. Wharton also was familiar with many famous people of the time, including President Theodore Roosevelt. This volume includes a collection of wonderful short stories like "The Muse`s Tragedy", "The Pelican", "Souls Belated" and "The Twilight of the Gods". .
ISBN: 978-5-521-07831-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
No child likes going to bed and as every parent knows, their little treasures will try and delay it for as long as possible! Discover all the antics children get up to before going to bed, in this hilarious board book, written and illustrated in Boynton`s own unique humourous style. The perfect way to read kids to sleep!
ISBN: 978-0-689-86114-7
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Danny Coughlin is Boston Police Department royalty and the son of one of the city`s most beloved and powerful police captains. His beat is the predominately Italian neighbourhoods of the North End where political dissent is in the air - fresh and intoxicating. On the hunt for hard-line radicals as a favour to his father, Danny is drawn into the ideological fray and finds his loyalties compromised as the police department itself becomes swept up in potentially violent labour strife. Luther Lawrence is on the run. A suspect in a nightclub shooting in Oklahoma, he flees to Boston, leaving his wife behind. He lands a job in the Coughlin household and meets Danny and the family`s Irish maid, Nora, who once had a powerful bond. As the mystery...
ISBN: 978-0-552-77557-1
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence cobbled from legend, memory, police records, the self-aggrandizements of aging crooks, popular journalism, and solid historical research. Asbury presents the definitive work on this subject, an illumination of the gangs of old New York that ultimately gave rise to the modern Mafia and its depiction in films like The Godfather.
ISBN: 0-09-943674-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Only with the help of Mikael Blomkvist and the journalists at Millennium magazine can Salander avoid the fate that has been decided for her. Together they form a compelling and dynamic alliance. This final volume of the Millennium Trilogy is the culmination of one of the most mesmerising fictional achievements of our time.
ISBN: 978-1-84916-275-3
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: март 2011
William Sydney Porter, known by his pen name 0. Henry, was an American short story writer. His wit and plot twists were adored by his readers, but often panned by the critics. The Gentle Grafter is a collection of short stories, first published in 1908. The main characters of these tales are Jeff Peters and his friend and companion Andy Tucker. Both of them earn a living with the help of petty fraud, exploiting human greed, stupidity, fear and vanity.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07669-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Searingly hot in the summer, bitterly cold in the winter, the ancestral estate of the Golovlyov family is the end of the road. There Anna Petrovna rules with an iron hand over her servants and family-until she loses power to the relentless scheming of her hypocritical son Judas.One of the great books of Russian literature, The Golovlyov Family is a vivid picture of a condemned and isolated outpost of civilization that, for contemporary readers, will recall the otherwordly reality of Macondo in Gabriel Garc
Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, where everyone knows everyone; children who walk to school together grow up and become sweethearts and marry, people gossip and grumble and dream their lives away. For it is a place where change comes slowly. Until one day, beautiful, mysterious Helen McMahon disappears, presumed drowned in the lake, and then the gossip runs wild. The consequences for Helen`s husband, her son, but above all for her daughter, Kit, are unimaginable and will leave not one of their lives unchanged.
ISBN: 978-0-7528-7687-0
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Генри Джеймс - не только один из самых известных классиков мировой литературы, но и ярчайший представитель трансатлантической культуры рубежа XIX и XX веков. "Золотая чаша" — последний законченный роман Джеймса. Это история о двух сломленных парах. Перед читателем разворачивается драма отношений Мэгги и её овдовевшего отца, артколлекционера Адама Вервера. Красивые и обаятельные герои бросают вызов судьбе,...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05743-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. This is a collection of marvelous stories including "The God of His Fathers" itself, "The Great Interrogation", "Which Make Men Remember", and many other wonderful tales.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07495-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Издание полностью на английском языке. Her murder was just the beginning. She was an army captain and the daughter of legendary General "Fighting Joe" Campbell: her body was found - naked and bound - on the firing line of Fort Hadley. The political powder keg of a case goes directly to the elite army investigator Paul Brenner and rape specialist Cynthia Sunhill - and explodes. Behind the military code of honour, Brenner and Sunhill uncover trails of corruption - all leading to the golden girl's shocking secret. "A furiously fast read, a genuinely perplexing, involving mystery and an immensely likeable anti-hero". New York Daily News
ISBN: 978-0-7515-4176-2
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
What does he mean? What`s going on? Are you two thinking of putting Granny into a Home? Thinking is finished`, Natasha told him. `It is decided. The four children, Ivan, Sophie, Tanya and Nicholas, can`t believe it. Their parents are planning to put their grandmother into a Home. She`s a bit of a dotty old lady - sometimes demanding, often annoying - but as much a part of their lives as their shambly house or the whirring of the washing machine. So they decide to take action. They begin `The Granny Project`, with immediate and sensational
ISBN: 978-0-552-55438-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
`The world has teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Trisha McFarland discovered this when she was nine years old. Lost in the woods.` Trisha has only veered a little way off the trail. But in her panic to get back to the path, Trisha takes a turning that leads into the tangled undergrowth. Deeper and deeper in the terrifying woods. At first it`s just the bugs, midges and mosquitoes. Then comes the hunger. For comfort she tunes her Walkman into broadcasts of the Red Sox baseball games and the performances of her hero Tom Gordon. As darkness begins to fall, Trisha realises that she is not alone. There`s something else in the woods - watching.
ISBN: 978-1-4447-0747-2
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011