The #1 "New York Times" bestseller, based on an unsolved homicide that occurred in 1969, is now available in paperback. Revisiting the past can be a dangerous business, and what begins with the pursuit of Jane Doe`s real identity ends in a high-risk hunt for her killer.
ISBN: 978-0-425-19272-6
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
With the whole nation watching Jamal Malik is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India`s `Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?` But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on susicion of cheating: how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up. Each chapter of Jamal`s increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answer to each of the game show`s questions. But the final question remains a mystery. One Chief Inspector and Sixty Million viewers are about to find out what the answer is.
ISBN: 978-1-4391-3816-8
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
`"The QI Book of the Dead" is a book about life. What an awful thing life is. It`s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless` - Gustave Flaubert. Around 90 billion people have existed since the human race began. From this huge number, the bestselling QI team selected 600 of the finest examples of our species and researched them in depth, distilling this immense banquet of life into an exquisite tasting menu of six-dozen crisp, racy mini-biographies, where the internationally and immortally famous rub shoulders with the undeservedly and (until now) permanently obscure. The object is to learn something about what it means to be alive and how we can make the most of the time we have. "The QI Book...
ISBN: 978-0-571-24491-1
Издательство:
Daedalus
Дата выхода: август 2011
Beautiful girls. Crime lords. Assassins. Deadly secrets … It’s all in a day’s work for Bond. Whether he’s making an unexpected discovery in the Bahamas, hunting down a Cuban hit-man in wild country, smashing an international drugs ring in Rome, on the trail of a murderous secret in the Caribbean, enjoying New York’s special pleasures or foiling a surprisingly alluring assassin in Berlin’s sniper’s alley, dangerous missions and seductive women come with the job for James Bond. And this agent is always a consummate professional. Quantum of Solace brings together all of the James Bond short stories in one volume for the first time, this is the ultimate celebration of suave and deadly secret agent 007. Containing: From a View...
ISBN: 978-0-14-119041-9
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Many of Ian Fleming’s short stories have been the inspiration for the extremely successful James Bond film franchise, and included in this collection are such stories as "Octopussy", "The Living Daylights", and For "Your Eyes Only". The title story, "Quantum of Solace", lends its name to the upcoming James Bond film, slated to release in Fall 2008. This collection will be published to coincide with the film’s release, as well as to continue Penguin’s centenary celebrations of Fleming’s birth.
ISBN: 978-0-14-311458-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Dans la Vendée de 1793, trois personnages s`affrontent: l`aristocrate Lantenac, fidèle à son passé, son petit-neveu Gauvain, tourné vers l`avenir généreux de la République, et le conventionnel Cimourdain, plus durement soucieux des exigences présentes de la Révolution et de la Terreur. Dans cette épopée où le romancier mêle la fiction de l`intrigue et la réalité de l`Histoire - Danton, Robespierre et Marat sont au centre du livre, chacun des trois héros se trouve ainsi guidé par une certaine idée du devoir et de l`honneur. Et chacun sera conduit à une forme d`héroïsme qui n`écarte pas la mort. L`écrivain se refuse donc...
ISBN: 978-2-253-16078-6
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. The discovery of a ring, given to the Queen of Sheba by King Solomon himself, launches this tale of romance and adventure from master storyteller Henry Rider Haggard.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06623-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2018
"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
From running a market stall in Notting Hill, Freddie Mercury put together a band that became a legend - Queen. Nearly twenty years after the death of flamboyant front man Mercury, Queen remain what they were - the archetypal, larger-than-life rock band, enthroned as music royalty for ever. This book offers a visual tribute to them.
Elizabeth II has lived through the Abdication, the Blitz and World War Two, the sex and spy scandals of the swinging sixties, the Cold War and the nuclear threat and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. She has known 11 US Presidents including JFK and Ronald Reagan, and other world leaders like President Mandela and Pope John XXII. Her Prime Ministers have ranged from Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher to David Cameron, the last only ten years older than her grandson. Her own family experiences, a mixture of happiness and crisis, weddings and divorces, and, in the case of Diana, violent death, have been lived in the glare of tabloid headlines. More than 2 billion people watched the wedding of her grandson Prince William to Catherine...
Еще одна увлекательная детективная история (сиквел книги The Black Cat) о следователе Салахадине Эль Нуре, на этот раз расследующем тайну древнего проклятия.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7707-1
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Written with complete access to the Queen Mother`s personal letters and diaries, William Shawcross` riveting biography is the truly definitive account of this remarkable woman, whose life spanned the twentieth century. Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes Lyon, the youngest daughter of the Earl of Strathmore, was born on 4 August 1900. Drawing on her private correspondence and other unpublished material from the Royal Archives, William Shawcross vividly reveals the witty girl who endeared herself to soldiers convalescing at Glamis in the First World War; the assured young Duchess of York; the Queen, at last feeling able to look the East End in the face at the height of the Blitz; the Queen Mother, representing the nation at home and abroad...
ISBN: 978-0-330-43430-0
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
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
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
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
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
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
