Ill-chance brought young Fawn Bluefield together with Dag Redwing Hickory, the seasoned soldier-sorcerer, but it was love and loyalty that joined their fates. While their unorthodox marriage has been grudgingly accepted by the clever farm girl`s people, Dag`s Lakewalker kin are less tolerant, greeting their union with derision, suspicion, and prejudice.
ISBN: 978-0-06-113906-2
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced with the illegitimate child of a young mother. Regarded as the first real heroine of American fiction, it is Hester Prynne`s strength of character that resonates with the reader when her harsh sentence is cast. It is in her refusal to reveal the identity of the father in the face of her accusers that Hawthorne champions his heroine and berates the weakness of society for attacking the innocent.
ISBN: 978-0-00-735092-6
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: май 2012
Miss Emily Fido Faithfull is a woman of business and a spinster pioneer in the British women`s movement, independent of mind but naively trusting of heart. Distracted from her cause by the sudden return of a once-dear friend, the unhappily
ISBN: 978-1-4472-1259-1
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. The Stark Munro Letters is an epistolary novel that takes the form of twelve long letters written by J. Stark Munro between March 1881 and November 1884 and sent to his friend Herbert Swanborough. Stark Munro is a recent graduate from medical school, and the letters detail his attempts to create a medical practice in partnership with the brilliant but unorthodox James Cullingworth. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08077-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
It`s been 110 years since Frederick Warne published Beatrix Potter`s very first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and in celebration, we are delighted to be publishing special editions of her entire body of work. Unlike the traditional little white books, t
ISBN: 978-0-7232-6794-2
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
The third thrilling adventure thriller featuring archaeologist Nina Wilde, in which Nina must find Excalibur, King Arthur’s beloved sword. Said to make whoever holds it unstoppable in battle, the sword Excalibur has been coveted across the ages, and thought lost for over a thousand years. With a cryptic message to archaeologist Nina Wilde, this may be about to change. Historian Bernd Rust believes he can locate and that the sword is the key to harnessing an incredible source of energy. Nina is sceptical – until she and Rust are attacked by mercenaries determined to steal his research. Nina and her boyfriend, ex-SAS soldier Eddie Chase, are soon propelled into a deadly race to find Excalibur. From the deserts of Syria to the arctic...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-4550-2
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Английский писатель Артур Конан Дойл вошёл в историю как создатель и автор цикла рассказов и повестей о Великом Сыщике - Шерлоке Холмсе. Обладатель уникального острого ума, бесстрашного и благородного сердца и необыкновенной наблюдательности очищает Лондон от преступности, решает запутанные головоломки и вступает в неравную борьбу со Злом. На этот раз, расследуя вместе с легендарным сыщиком и его...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05157-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2017
Arguably the greatest horror novel ever written by the greatest horror novelist, this is a true Modern Classic that was first published in 1978, and then re-published in 1990, complete and unabridged, with 150,000 words cut from the first edition restored, and now accompanied by unusual and imaginative line art. The total copies for both editions, in hardcover and paperback, exceeds 4 million worldwide. The Stand is a truly terrifying reading experience, and became a four-part mini-series that memorably brought to life the cast of characters and layers of story from the novel. It is an apocalyptic vision of the world, when a deadly virus runs amok around the globe. But that lethal virus is almost benign compared to the satanic force...
ISBN: 978-0-307-74368-8
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июнь 2011
Англ.яз. "I AM A CIVILIZED MAN. MURDER IS ALWAYS WITH US. IT IS ALMOST AN INSTITUTION. THE DEMONSTRATION MUST BE AGAINST LEARNING-SCIENCE. BUT NOT EVERY SCIENCE WILL DO. THE ATTACK MUST HAVE ALL THE SHOCKING SENSELESSNESS OF GRATUITOUS BLASPHEMY. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF HAVING A GO AT ASTRONOMY?’” CONRAD`S SUBTLE EXPLORATION OF AN ANARCHIST BOMBING AND THE PRICE TO BE PAID.
ISBN: 5-17-032881-8
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: декабрь 2005
Lara Cameron is America`s Princess, the power behind the tallest building on earth, a self-made billionaire who towers over a traditionally male domain, an icon of glamour and accomplishment to men and women everywhere. Beautiful but insecure, ruthless yet vulnerable, Lara has struggled brutally to achieve it all—yet she still wants more. And in a dazzling global setting from London to New York, from Reno to Rome, she will find everything she has ever desired and won—her fortune, her fame, the man she loves-swiftly and shockingly imperiled.
ISBN: 0-446-36476-2
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Tracy Beaker`s not exactly sure what her mother does, because Tracy has been in foster care for as long as she can remember. She has a picture of her mother, who`s pretty enough to be in movies, so maybe she is. And maybe one day Tracy`s mother will show up and reclaim her long-lost daughter, and together they`ll have fabulous adventures. Then again, maybe she won`t. In the meantime, Tracy`s doing everything she can to take care of herself - even though she has to share her birthday cake. And even though the other girls she lives with are mean and nasty and rude and horrible. Mostly. Then a journalist shows up to write a story about their orphanage, and she and Tracy strike up a special friendship. In a story written with humor and...
Mr. Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London`s Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be `a simple tale` proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London`s fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations. Based on the text which Conrad`s first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a full and up-to-date bibliography, a comprehensive chronology and a critical introduction which describes Conrad`s great London novel as the realization of a `monstrous town,` a place of idiocy,...
ISBN: 978-0-14-119789-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
These three classic SF stories follow the adventures of Ragnar the Space Wolf, from his recruitment by the Space Marines on the savage world of Fenris to his aventures amongst the stars. Whether Ragnar and his friends are fighting orks, mutants, or the foul forces of Chaos, adventure is never far behind!
ISBN: 978-1-84416-457-8
Издательство:
Ред Фиш
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate winter in its history. For two pairs of lovers - young Anna and Andrei, Anna's novelist father and actress Marina - the siege becomes a battle for survival. They will soon discover what it is like to be so hungry you boil shoe leather to make soup, so cold you burn furniture and books. But this is not just a struggle to exist, it is also a fight to keep the spark of hope alive. The Siege is a brilliantly imagined novel of war and the wounds it inflicts on ordinary people's lives, and also a profoundly moving celebration of love, life and survival.
ISBN: 978-0-241-95219-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
While Lady Angeline Dudley`s pedigree dictates that she must land a titled gentleman, the irrepressible beauty longs for a simple, ordinary suitor. So when Edward Ailsbury, the new Earl of Heyward, defends her honor with unmatched civility, Angeline thinks that she has found true love. Persuading the earl is another matter entirely. From her unconventional fashion sense to her hoydenish antics, Angeline is the last woman on earth for Edward. And yet a stolen kiss awakens something primal within him. Naturally, being a gentleman, he does the right thing after compromising a lady: He offers marriage. The proposal is born of duty, but will Angeline cause Edward to forget about decorum behind closed doors, where sensuality and seduction play...
ISBN: 978-0-440-24529-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
"Таинственный сад" - любимая классика для читателей всех возрастов, жемчужина творчества Фрэнсис Ходжсон Бернетт, самый заветный детский роман о заново открытой радости жизни и магии силы. Мэри Леннокс, жестокое и испорченное дитя высшего света, потеряв родителей в Индии, возвращается в Англию, на воспитание к дяде-затворнику в его поместье. Однако дядя находится в постоянных отъездах, и Мэри начинает...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05506-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2017
"The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes" is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was ensconced in his rooms at 221 В Baker Street and London was permanently wreathed in a sinister fog. These gripping tales of mystery, suspense and clever puzzles are wonderfully entertaining and in them you will meet The Crime Doctor, Professor Augustus S.F.X.Van Dusen - The Thinking Machine. Max Carrados - the incredible blind detective, the repulsive but brilliant Skin o`My Teeth, and the natty, ingenious French sleuth Eugene Valmont. On the other side of the law, there are gentlemen crooks Raffles and Simon Cam - the Prince of Swindlers.
ISBN: 1-85326-744-9
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
"How I long to sail!" said the tiny snail. One little snail longs to see the world and hitches a lift on the tail of an enormous whale. Together they go on an amazing journey, past icebergs and volcanoes, sharks and penguins, and the little snail feels so small in the vastness of the world. But when disaster strikes and the whale is beached in a bay, it`s the tiny snail`s big plan that saves the day. The Snail and the Whale is a delightful tale of adventure and friendship by the unparalleled picture-book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, creators of The Gruffalo. This handy board book format is perfect for younger readers. It features the classic story with a stunning redesigned cover and beautiful finish, making it a...
ISBN: 978-1-5098-3044-2
Дата выхода: сентябрь 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 volume includes wonderful stories like "In a Far Country", "The Men of Forty Mile", "An Odyssey of the North", "The Priestly Prerogative" and "The Son of the Wolf itself".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07494-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Carries EU Toy Safety Directive `CE` logo. This small library, perfect for little baby hands, features not only the selfish crocodile but a whole host of his friends, as familiar themes for pre-school readers are explored. Children will relish learning about numbers, colours, animals, sounds, food and first words in these bright and brilliant board books.
ISBN: 978-1-4088-1448-2
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: июнь 2011
Howard Lovecraft (1890—1937) was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Despite the fact that he was virtually unknown before he died, today he is known as the most influential author in his genre. "The Shadow Out of Time" is one of the latest Love-craft`s novellas. It tells a story of the Great Race of Yith, an extraterrestrial species with the ability to travel through space and time. The Yithians accomplish this by switching bodies with hosts from the intended spatial or temporal destination. The story is told through the eyes of Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, who is "possessed" by a Yithian. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08218-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
In this book, you`ll learn how to use The Secret in every aspect of your life, money, health, relationships, happiness, and in every interaction you have in the world. You`ll begin to understand the hidden, untapped power that`s within you, and this revelation can bring joy to every aspect of your life.
Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, until the stone pillars shriek and the ground beneath it swims. Its shadow falls ever darker on the world below, and on Dean Jocelin in particular.
ISBN: 978-0-571-22546-0
Издательство:
Faber
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The plot of The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost Sealers revolves around two sealers stranded in amongst Antarctic ice.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06662-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018