A group of friends that hasnt seen one another in years is reunited through tragedy. Working through their grief together, they find that each of their lives is impacted in ways they could have never foreseen, in this story of friendship, family, and life coming full circle.
The stories within "Second Variety" were written between 1952 and 1955, while America was in the grip of McCarthyism. The concerns of the time are reflected in stories such as "Second Variety", which tells of an endless war fought by ever more cunning and sophisticated robots, or `Imposter` where a man accused of being an alien spy finds his whole identity called into question. Using his marvellously varied, quirky and idiosyncratic style, Dick speaks up for ordinary people against militarism, paranoia and xenophobia.
ISBN: 978-1-85798-880-2
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
In a fresh, funny look at what happens when a woman who has everything finally meets her match, Danielle Steel proves that, in life and love, it`s never too late for a second chance.
ISBN: 978-0-440-24079-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
When a plot of land is being developed in Vermont against the will of a local Native American tribe, strange things begin to happen - and Ross Wakeman, a paranormal investigator, is asked to get involved. He`s a desperate drifter who`s taken up ghost hunting in an effort to cross paths again with his fiancee, who died in a car crash eight years ago, but he has yet to experience anything even remotely paranormal. Then Ross meets Lia ...As a seventy-year-old murder case is reopened, a shocking secret about a crime of passion long past is revealed.
ISBN: 9780340897263
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: январь 2020
Financially straitened and on the path to spinsterhood, Venetia Milton thought her stay at the remote, ramshackle Arcane House would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to engineer her own ravishment. She was there to photograph the artifacts collected by a highly secretive organization, founded two centuries earlier by an alchemist. And the alchemist`s descendant-her employer, Gabriel Jones-has the eyes of a sorcerer. But despite Venetia`s intent to seduce Mr. Jones and move on, she is shattered upon her return home to read in the press of his violent demise. Using the sizable fee Mr. Jones paid her, Venetia establishes a new life, opening a gallery in London. Of course, posing as a respectable widow makes it easier to do business,...
ISBN: 978-0-515-14280-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
A developer has slated an ancient Abenaki Indian burial ground for a strip mall, and now strange happenings have the inhabitants of tiny Comtosook, Vermont, talking of supernatural forces at work. Ross Wakeman is a ghost hunter who`s never seen a ghost - all he`s searching for is something to end the pain of losing his fiancee, Aimee, in a car accident. He`s tried suicide - any number of times. Now, Ross lives only for a way to connect with Aimee from beyond. Searching the site for signs of the paranormal, Ross meets the mysterious Lia, who sparks him to life for the first time in years. But the discoveries that await Ross are beyond anything he could dream of in this world - or the next.
ISBN: 978-1-4165-4919-2
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for "The Guardian beginning", ‘It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment’. And he has kept returning to September 11, in essays and reviews, and in two remarkable short stories, `In the Palce of the End` and `The Last Days of Muhammad Atta`. All are collected here, together with an expanded account of his travels with Tony Blair in 2007 - to Belfast, to Washington, and to Baghdad and Basra. `We are arriving at an axiom in long-term thinking about international terrorism`, he writes: `the real danger lies, not in what it inflicts, but in what it provokes. Thus by far the gravest consequence of...
ISBN: 978-0-09-948869-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
The suspense master behind Robert Ludlum`s (TM) Jason Bourne thrillers, Eric Van Lustbader brings a riveting epic adventure to an explosive conclusion, as Nicholas Linnear - the Ninja - takes on his most formidable enemy. After the apocalyptic destruction of Floating City, Linnear`s sworn nemesis has fled the ruined Vietnamese blood empire to remount the assault that will solidify his ultimate power and destroy the Ninja. Mick Leonforte, an international corporate power broker and criminal czar, is preparing for a final confrontation on the battleground where business and warfare become one. With the help of seasoned NYPD detective Lew Croaker and the dazzlingly cunning Vesper Arkham, Linnear pursues his prey--placing Koei, the woman he...
This work features a secret store of stolen silver, a surprising view through a telescope, a shrill scream on a night out, a disappearing cash box and a dangerous accident and a trap for the Secret Seven! This collection includes the following short stories: The Secret of Old Mill; The Humbug Adventure; Adventure On The Way Home; An Afternoon with The Secret Seven; Where are The Secret Seven? and Hurry, Secret Seven, Hurry!
ISBN: 978-0-340-94421-9
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
A tale of high adventure and derring-do set in the same Victorian-style world as the acclaimed The Court of the Air and The Rise of the Iron Moon. A secret grave enough to kill for! The isolated island of Jago is the only home Hannah Conquest has ever known. But her carefree existence comes to an abrupt halt when her guardian, Archbishop Alice Grey, is brutally murdered. Someone desperately wants to suppress a secret kept by the archbishop, and if the attempts on Hannah`s own life are any indication, the killer believes that Alice passed the knowledge of it onto her ward before her head was separated from her neck. Meanwhile, a deadly power struggle is brewing on Jago. And as Hannah digs deeper into the mystery Alice left behind,...
ISBN: 978-0-00-728966-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: февраль 2011
Once known only by an elite who were unwilling to share their knowledge of the power, `the secret` of obtaining anything you desire is now revealed by prominent physicists, authors and philosophers as being based in the universal Law of Attraction. And the good news is that anyone can access its power to bring themselves health, wealth and happiness. Fragments of The Secret have been found in oral traditions, literature, religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. A number of the exceptional people who discovered its power went on to become regarded as the greatest human beings who ever lived. Among them: Plato, Leonardo, Galileo and Einstein. Now `the secret` is being shared with the world. Beautiful in its simplicity, and...
