When two girls, aged nine and ten are abducted and killed in Wind Gap, Missouri, Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to investigate and report on the crimes. Camille, self-described `white trash from old money`, is the daughter of one of the richest families in town. Long-haunted by a childhood tragedy and estranged from her mother for years, Camille suddenly finds herself installed once again in her family`s Victorian mansion, reacquainting herself with her distant mother and the half-sister she barely knows, a precocious 13-year-old who holds a disquieting grip on the town and surrounds herself with a group of vampish teenage girls. As Camille struggles to remain detached from the evidence, her relationship with her neurotic,...
ISBN: 978-0-7538-2221-0
Издательство:
Орион
Дата выхода: август 2011
Sharp Writing is a compact guide with all the information you need to increase your grasp of language and boost your writing skills using Kaplan`s easy-to-follow Building Block Method.
ISBN: 978-1-4195-5037-9
Издательство:
Kaplan Publishing
Дата выхода: август 2011
The seventeenth Sharpe novel sees Sharpe returning from India to London to join the newly formed Green jackets. Sharpe, though a little more comfortable with his new officer rank, is sure that this new unit is of lower status, and that he has failed. His ship home is shipwrecked: he is captured by pirates but fighting free with a few companions, finds himself on a British Navy ship heading to join Nelson`s fleet. And there, in October 1805, he finds himself involved in the great sea battle, and discovers new skills in fighting on sea.
ISBN: 978-0-00-723516-2
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
No suspects. No clues. No rest for the wicked. `You will raise money for the safe return of Alison and Jenny McGregor. If you raise enough money within fourteen days they will be released. If not, Jenny will be killed.` Alison and Jenny McGregor - Aberdeen`s own mother-daughter singing sensation - are through to the semi-finals of TV smash-hit Britain`s Next Big Star. They`re in all the gossip magazines, they`ve got millions of YouTube hits, everyone loves them. But their reality-TV dream has turned into a real-life nightmare. The ransom demand appears in all the papers, on the TV, and the internet, telling the nation to dig deep if they want to keep Alison and Jenny alive. The media want action; the public displays of grief and anger...
ISBN: 978-0-00-734944-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Роман "Она: история приключения" был написан Хаггардом на волне успеха "Копий царя Соломона". В основу романа легли воспоминания автора о своих путешествиях по Африке и знания древних местных легенд. Трое мужчин из Кембриджа терпят кораблекрушение, страдают от лихорадки и находятся под постоянной угрозой быть съеденными людоедами, и всё это - лишь ради того, чтобы найти Ее. "Она" - загадочная Белая Королева,...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05532-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Wanting to learn if he can communicate with deceased the children, adventurer Allan Quatermain seeks a meeting with the feared Zulu witch-doctor Zikali. He tells Allan he must seek out the great white sorceress who rules the Allan to take a message to her. En route, Quatermain encounters emigrant Scotsmen, cannibals, witch doctors, the beautiful Inez, and of course the mysterious She, or Ayesha. She and Allan is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1921. It brought together his two most popular characters, Ayesha from She (to which it serves as a prequel), and Allan Quatermain from King Solomon`s Mines.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06441-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
There`s been rising concern in Moscow over a wave of suicides among the city`s young bohemians. An intrepid newspaper reporter, Zhemailo, begins to uncover the truth behind the phenomenon - that the victims are linked by a secret society, the Lovers of Death. But Zhemailo is not the only investigator hot on the heels of these disciples of the occult. Little do they realise that the latest `convert` to their secret society, assuming the alias of a Japanese prince, is none other than Erast Fandorin. But when a young and naive provincial woman, Masha Mironova, becomes embroiled in the society, and Zhemalio dies a mysterious death, Fandorin must do more than merely infiltrate and observe. Especially when the spin of the Russian roulette...
ISBN: 978-0-7538-2721-5
Издательство:
Орион
Дата выхода: август 2011
