Don`t call me a demon. I prefer the term Fallen Angel. Everybody deserves a vacation, right? Especially if you have a pointless job like tormenting the damned. So who could blame me for blowing off my duties and taking a small, unauthorized break? Besides, I`ve always wanted to see what physical existence is like. That`s why I "borrowed" the slightly used body of a slacker teen. Believe me, he wasn`t going to be using it anymore anyway. I have never understood why humans do the things they do. Like sin—if it`s so terrible, why do they keep doing it? I`m going to have a lot of fun finding out!
ISBN: 978-0-06-083570-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A novel spanning the history of Russia through the tumultuous 20th century, from the only writer ever to have won both the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Medicis.
ISBN: 978-0-340-79436-4
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The thrilling climax to one of the most eagerly awaited series since The Hunger Games and Twilight. I`ve started dreaming of Portland again. Like a monster from one of the ghost stories we used to tell as kids, the past has been finding its way in. It bubbles up through the cracks when I`m not paying attention, and pulls at me with greedy fingers. This is what they warned me about for all those years: the heavy weight in my chest, the nightmare-fragments that follow me even in waking life. I warned you, Aunt Carol says in my head. We told you, Rachel
ISBN: 978-1-444-72300-7
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: январь 2015
"Je me savais à présent incapable de dire la vérité de notre temps. Je n`étais ni un témoin objectif, ni un historien, ni surtout un sage moraliste. Je pouvais tout simplement reprendre ce récit interrompu alors par la nuit, par les routes qui nous attendaient, par les nouvelles guerres". Un médecin militaire, engagé par les services de renseignements soviétiques, retrace l`hallucinant destin de son grand-père Nikolaï et de son père Pavel, les oppressions des années 20, les purges, les violences nazies et la Seconde Guerre Un chant pour les morts d`hier et aujourd`hui, une tragédie jalonnée de crimes, de viols et d`illusions perdues.
ISBN: 978-2-07-041808-4
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Volunteer fireman Taylor McAden is driven to take terrifying, heroic risks to save lives. But there`s one leap into the unknown he can`t bring himself to make: He can`t fall in love. A man who likes to rescue troubled women, he inevitably leaves them as soon as they want more from him. Then, one day, a record-breaking storm hits his small Southern town, and Taylor comes across a young single mother named Denise Holton in a crashed car. When she revives, Taylor finds himself looking for her missing son-and involved in a rescue different from all the others. This one will require him to open doors to his past slammed shut by pain. And, with Denise`s help, dare him to make the greatest commitment of all: Love someone forever.
ISBN: 0-446-61039-9
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Rachel Gibson has already won two Romance Writers of America`s RITA(R) Awards - the most prestigious honor the romance community bestows-for her edgy, sexy, fast-paced romance (Jayne Ann Krentz), and Rescue Me is yet another high point in her acclaimed career. The New York Times bestselling author of the popular Seattle Chinooks stories, Gibson kicks off a timely and wonderful new contemporary series about the romantic entanglements of military men back from active duty. Rescue Me is the story of the reluctant Texas homecoming of a former small-town beauty pageant participant and the sexy ex-Navy SEAL who`s on hand to complicate her life. It`s salvation from the bland and ordinary and Rachel Gibson at her best - a perfect escape for...
Great Britain. July 1951. Three years ago, Russia went dark. Nothing got in. Nothing got out. The world assumed it was political strife. But it was the Chimera: voracious extraterrestrial invaders. And in December 1949, they burst across the Russian border and poured into Europe. The luckiest humans died. The less fortunate succumbed to an alien virus–and changed. Within a year, most of Europe had fallen. Only Great Britain, after struggling desperately, had kept the conquerors at bay. But as the Chimera were repelled, they were evolving. Building. Planning. America. November 1952. The Chimera have crossed the Atlantic. Their lightning strikes on American borders are devastating. Cities are lost. Small towns overrun. Citizens...
ISBN: 978-0-345-50842-3
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Opens in 1944, as the women of a small Welsh farming community wake one morning to find that their husbands have gone. Soon after that a German patrol arrives in their valley.
ISBN: 978-0-571-23540-7
Издательство:
Faber
Дата выхода: август 2011
When all the questions of space, time, matter and the nature of being have been resolved, only one question remains: Where shall we have dinner? The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is the obvious answer, as it provides the ultimate gastronomic experience, and for once, there is no morning after to worry about ... The Restaurant at the End of the Universe was the first sequel to the cult bestseller The Hitch Hiker`s Guide to the Galaxy, continuing the crazy adventures of Arthur Dent, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Zaphod Beeblebrox and, of course, the Vogons.
ISBN: 978-0-575-07486-6
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Resurrection (1899) tells the story of a nobleman`s attempt to redeem the suffering his youthful philandering inflicted on a peasant girl who ends up a prisoner in Siberia. Tolstoy`s vision of redemption achieved through loving forgiveness, and his condemnation of violence, dominate the novel. An intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger and forgiveness, Resurrection is at the same time a panoramic description of social life in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, reflecting its author`s outrage at the social injustices of the world in which he lived.
Resurrection, the last of Tolstoy`s major novels, tells the story of a nobleman`s attempt to redeem himself for the suffering his youthful philandering caused a peasant girl. Tolstoy`s vision of redemption achieved through loving forgiveness, and his condemnation of violence dominate the novel. An intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger, and forgiveness, Resurrection is at the same time a panoramic description of social life in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, reflecting Tolstoy`s outrage at the social injustices of the world in which he lived.
ISBN: 978-0-19-955576-5
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
There is one serial killer who has shaped and defined police profiler Tony Hill`s life. One serial killer whose evil surpasses all others. One serial killer who has the power to chill him to the bone: Jacko Vance. And now Jacko is back
ISBN: 978-0-7515-4810-5
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2012
"The Return of the Shadow" is the first part of the history of the creation of "The Lord of the Rings", a fascinating study of Tolkien`s great masterpiece, from its inception to the end of the first volume, "The Fellowship of the Ring". In "The Return of the Shadow" we see how Bilbo`s `magic` ring evolved into the supremely dangerous Ruling Ring of the Dark Lord; and the precise, and astonishingly unforeseen, moment when a Black Rider first rode into the Shire. The character of the hobbit called Trotter (afterwards Strider or Aragorn) is developed, though his true identity seems to be an insoluble problem. Frodo`s companions undergo many changes of name and personality; and other major figures appear in unfamiliar guises: a sinister...
ISBN: 978-0-261-10224-8
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Beware, the Dead are coming back! This is a unique and fascinating collection of early mummy stories that helped to establish the chilling concept of the Dead returning to life as a potent sub-genre of horror fiction. The main feature on the mummy bill, "The Jewel of the Seven Stars" by Bram Stoker, is generally regarded as his best work after "Dracula". A weird mixture of adventure, the supernatural and science fiction is found in Jane Webb`s "The Mummy", a tale written in 1827 but set in 2126. "Some Words with a Mummy" is by the great horror writer Edgar Allen Poe. Arthur Conan Doyle`s "The Ring of Thoth" is the classic mummy tale and was the basis for the 1932 movie "The Mummy" starring Boris Karloff and, indeed most mummy films ever...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-452-8
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2010
