Poplar Street in Wentworth, Ohio is a nice place to live. The idling red van around the corner is about to change all

ISBN: 0451191013
Издательство: Penguin USA
Дата выхода: февраль 2002

In these pages you can enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie, and see how warmly Franco greets his sister`s boyfriend and the news of their engagement. You will discover, in `The Rosewell Incident`, how aliens addicted to Embassy Regal have Midlothian under surveillance, and plan to install the local casuals as the new governors of Planet Earth. You will not be surprised to read that a televised Hibs v. Hearts game might matter more to one character than the life of his wife, or that two guys fighting over a beautiful girl might agree - on reflection, and after a few pills and many pints of lager - that their friendship is actually more important. And you will be delighted to welcome back `Juice` Terry Lawson, and to watch what happens when...

ISBN: 978-0-224-08055-2
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

In REHEATED CABBAGE you can enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie and discover how aliens addicted to Embassy Regal have Midlothian under surveillance. You will meet a husband who values a televised Hibs v Hearts game more than his wife`s life and see two guys fighting over a beautiful girl agree - after a few pills and pints of lager - that their friendship is actually more important. And you will be delighted to welcome back "Juice" Terry Lawson, and to watch what happens when he meets his old nemesis under the strobe-lights of a Miami Beach nightclub.

ISBN: 978-0-09-950699-7
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011

INTERACT WITH LITERATURE offers a wide range of original literary texts from intermediate level upwards (unabridged short stories or extracts from novels, as well as complete unabridged plays) from English-speaking countries, designed to introduce students to the world of literature. The aim of these volumes is to familiarise readers with the language of literature and encourage them to formulate their own response to what they read. Each volume concentrates on a particular theme, genre or literary current. This selection of extracts from important works by these major 20th-century authors, James Joyce, George Orwell and Virginia Woolf is specially designed for high-school students to supplement their literary studies – in class or as...

ISBN: 978887754-223-6
Издательство: CIDEB
Дата выхода: июль 2011

A must-read thriller from Dean Koontz - the worldwide bestseller of over 400 million copies. RELENTLESS is a pulse-pounding, page-turning race to the finish. It looked like just a bad review. But perhaps it was a death threat… Being a writer is a dangerous business. When Cubby Greenwich receives a scathing review for his latest bestseller by the feared and therefore revered critic Shearman Waxx, he is determined to take no notice of it. But Fate carries him right into Waxx's path. What began as an innocent and unexpected encounter is about to trigger an inferno of violence. For Shearman Waxx is not merely a ferocious literary enemy, but a ruthless sociopath, and now he is intent on destroying Cubby and everything he holds dear:...

ISBN: 978-0-00-734262-4
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

COUNTRY BUSINESSMAN SEEKS RELIABLE WIFE. COMPELLED BY PRACTICAL REASONS. REPLY BY LETTER. Rural Wisconsin, 1907. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful industrialist, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement. But when Catherine steps of the train she`s not the woman that Ralph is expecting. She is both complex and devious. And, haunted by a terrible past, she is motivated by greed. Catherine`s plan is simple. She will win Ralph`s devotion. Later, she will leave him as a wealthy woman. What Catherine has not counted on however is that Ralph might have plans of his own for his new

ISBN: 978-0-349-12236-6
Издательство: Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2011

The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain de Botton`s inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are of course entirely false - and yet that religions still have important things to teach the secular world. Rather than mocking religions, agnostics and atheists should instead steal from them - because they`re packed with good ideas on how we live and arrange our societies. Blending deep respect with total impiety, de Botton (a non-believer) proposes that we should look to religions for insights into how to build a sense of community, make our relationships last, get more out of art, overcome feelings of envy and inadequacy, and much more. For too...

ISBN: 978-0-241-96405-7
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

Seven titles in the popular First Reading series are re-issued with hardback covers with audio CDs inserted into a wallet inside the back cover, making the book and CD easy to store together. The Young Reading series is developed with reading expert Alison Kelly from Roehampton University to help young readers grow in confidence and ability.

ISBN: 978-1-4095-3360-3
Издательство: Usborne
Дата выхода: апрель 2012

This is a classic retelling of St George and the Dragon from a well-loved author and a illustrator pairing `Now, dragon`, said the Boy imploringly. `You`ve got to fight him some time or other you know, `cos he`s St George and you`re the dragon. Better get it over, and then we can go on with the sonnets.`Everyone knows St. George has to do battle with the dragon, but what happens when the dragon simply won`t fight St George? It is a funny story of bravery, friendship and derring-do - gently told and beautifully illustrated.

ISBN: 978-1-4052-3729-1
Издательство: Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: июль 2012

This is a new title in the fantastic "First Reading" series, aimed at children who are beginning to read. When a young boy meets a dragon who doesn`t believe in violence he has to defend his new friend from the slash-happy St. George the dragonslayer. This book is developed in consultation with Alison Kelly, who is a senior lecturer in education and an early reading specialist from Roehampton University. It offers a great value quality hardback with ribbon marker guaranteed to foster pride in book ownership.

ISBN: 978-0-7460-9694-9
Издательство: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

McCarthy`s debut novel, set in London, takes a clever conceit and pumps it up with vibrant prose to such great effect that the narrative`s pointlessness is nearly a nonissue. The unnamed narrator, who suffers memory loss as the result of

ISBN: 978-1-84688-145-9
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

A contemporary classic, "The Remains of the Day" is Kazuo Ishiguro`s beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House.

ISBN: 978-0-571-20073-3
Издательство: Faber
Дата выхода: август 2011

It is the summer of 1956, and the ageing butler of Darlington Hall takes a rare holiday. But it is a journey that will also take him deep into his past. The Remains of the Day is a remarkable story: a man’s exploration of his own life, and his heart-breaking attempt to make sense of it.

ISBN: 9781405880442
Издательство: Pearson
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mum and Deliverance Consultant to the Diocese of Hereford, heads for the Malvern Hills to investigate an alleged paranormal dimension to a spate of road accidents in the sleepy village of Wychehill. Merrily is called in when two people are killed in a head-on crash that is also linked to the revamped local pub which, it seems, has injected the valley with a shattering, strobing surge of inner-city and drugs. When a dealer is found savagely murdered below the great earthen hillfort of Herefordshire Beacon, police ask: is it a ritual killing, a gangland disposal or a cry of outrage? As Merrily and the police follow separate paths towards the truth, Merrily`s teenage daughter, Jane, faces the...

ISBN: 978-1-84724-091-0
Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2011

ISBN: 978-0-452-29611-4
Дата выхода: август 2011

Tracy Chevalier’s stunning novel of how one woman’s gift transcends class and gender to lead to some of the most important discoveries of the nineteenth century.A revealing portrait of the intricate and resilient nature of female friendship.In the early nineteenth century, a windswept beach along the English coast brims with fossils for those with the eye…From the moment she’s struck by lightning as a baby, it is clear Mary Anning is marked for greatness. When she uncovers unknown dinosaur fossils in the cliffs near her home, she sets the scientific world alight, challenging ideas about the world’s creation and stimulating debate over our origins. In an arena dominated by men, however, Mary is soon reduced to a serving role,...

ISBN: 9780007178384
Издательство: HarperCollins
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022

ISBN: 9781526649645
Дата выхода: январь 2022