Magical and exciting stories to enjoy around the clock! Poor Prickle the Hedgehog thinks the moon has fallen out of the sky! Sheila is astonished when her toys walk themselves home! And find out just how mischievous Twinkle the elf is when he paints the walls of a dragons cave… Over twenty five stories to enjoy time and time again.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-3973-8
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: август 2011
Saving yourself for Mr Right is all well and good, but sometimes it`s hard to stick to your principles and say no to Mr Wrong... Emily believes that Mr Right is out there somewhere. And she doesn`t see the point in sleeping with Mr Wrong while she`s looking for him, which means that, at 24, she still hasn`t slept with anybody. Her friends think it`s all gone on too long and it`s time to help her out - not least because they think they`ve found the perfect man, her Mr Right. They just need the ideal situation in which to get them together. But is he Emily`s Mr Right, or someone else`s? And what if they`ve got him wrong? Should Emily`s virginity be lost, or should it be protected in a world obsessed with greedy gratification?
ISBN: 0-330-48614-4
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
In the thrilling sequel to the bestselling "Seven Deadly Wonders", super-soldier Jack West, Jr. and his elite team must race to secure the world from a looming Armageddon.
ISBN: 978-1-4165-0507-5
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Original / British English (Available April 2008) Norma is always right. But has she got the right train tickets? What happens when Mrs Roberts has coffee with Mrs Price? And is David ready for his wedding? The answers are in these six sketches.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7669-8
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Original / British English (Available May 2008) Norma is always right. But has she got the right train tickets? What happens when Mrs Roberts has coffee with Mrs Price? And is David ready for his wedding? The answers are in these six sketches.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7820-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
There`s a caste system even in murder. Seven years ago, Vivek `Vicky` Rai, the playboy son of Cabinet Minister, murdered Ruby Gill at a trendy restaurant in New Delhi simply because she refused to serve him a drink. Now Vicky Rai is dead, killed at his farmhouse at a party he had thrown to celebrate his acquittal. Six guests are discovered with guns in their possession - and each one is equally likely to have pulled the trigger. Who are these six suspects? And what were they doing in the farmhouse that night? In this elaborate mystery, we join Arun Advani, India`s best-known investigative journalist, as the lives of these six suspects unravel before our eyes. Ingeniously plotted, "Six Suspects" is the work of a master storyteller.
ISBN: 978-0-552-77555-7
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
After alleged serial killer Edgar Roy is apprehended and locked away in a mental facility private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy`s lawyer - an old friend of Sean King - to look into the case. But their investigation is derailed before it begins: while en route to their first meeting with the lawyer, King and Maxwell discover his dead body. It is up to King and Maxwell to uncover the truth: is Roy a killer or not? Edgar Roy - an alleged serial killer held in a secure, fortress-like Federal Supermax facility - is awaiting trial. He faces almost certain conviction. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy`s attorney, Sean`s old friend and mentor Ted Bergin, to help work the case. But their...
What should you do if the world has turned against you? When Father Anselm is asked this question by an old man at Larkwood Priory, his response, to claim sanctuary, is to have greater resonance than he could ever have imagined. For that evening the old man returns, demanding the protection of the church. His name is Eduard Schwermann and he is wanted by the police as a suspected war criminal. With her life running out, Agnes Aubret feels it is time to unburden to her granddaughter Lucy the secrets she has been carrying for so long. Fifty years earlier, Agnes had been living in Occupied Paris, a member of a small group risking their lives to smuggle Jewish children to safety - until they were exposed by a young SS Officer: Eduard...
ISBN: 978-0-349-12113-0
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: август 2011
It`s the first day of the winter semester at New York College, and assistant dorm director Heather Wells has a lot more to worry about than roommate conflicts. One of the New York College cheerleaders has lost her head - literally - in the Fischer Hall cafeteria, and no one can find the rest of her. With the entire population of the dorm under suspicion for murder, it doesn’t look like anyone on campus, least of all Heather, who is starting night classes, is going to have a good semester. She’s got a decapitated cheerleader and a demoralized student body to deal with, as well as enough guy problems to make a normal girl seek shelter in a convent. With her ex insisting she has to be at his wedding - The Celebrity Wedding of the...
ISBN: 978-0-330-44909-0
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Heather should be happy. She`s finally got a boyfriend and although he was only supposed to be her "rebound guy", things have gotten serious fast ...She`s also actually passing her first college course, and better yet her dad`s moving out. On the down side, her boss, Dr. Veatch, may well be the most boring man on the face of the planet ...But that hardly seems reason enough to put a bullet through his head. Can Heather find her boss` murderer, answer Tad`s question, and get her landlord Cooper to realize that by letting her go, he`s making the biggest mistake of his life, all while maintaining a fifteen hundred calorie per day diet?
ISBN: 978-0-330-45586-2
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
"New York Times" - bestselling author Garwood weaves magnificent stories of passion, adventure, and intrigue. Now she raises the heat and combines scorching romance with thrilling suspense as she introduces a new family: the Prescotts.
ISBN: 978-0-345-50078-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Mark Renton has it all: he`s good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there`s no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher`s government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone. When his family starts to fracture, Mark`s life swings out of control and he succumbs to the defeatism which has taken hold in Edinburgh`s grimmer areas. The way out is heroin. It`s no better for his friends. Spud Murphy is paid off from his job, Tommy Lawrence feels himself being sucked into a life of petty crime and violence - the worlds of the thieving Matty Connell and psychotic Franco Begbie. Only Sick Boy, the...
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon have barely escaped a mission on the Congo River when they intercept a mayday from a defenseless boat under fire off the African coast. Cabrillo takes action, saving the beautiful Sloane Macintyre - who`s looking for a long-submerged ship that may hold a fortune in diamonds. But what surprises Cabrillo is her story about a crazy fisherman who claims to have been attacked on the open sea by giant metal snakes in the same area. What begins as a snake hunt leads Cabrillo onto the trail of a far more lethal quarry - a deranged militant and his followers who plan to unleash the devastating power of nature itself against all who oppose them
ISBN: 978-0-425-22225-6
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
1896: Four Englishmen flee for their lives across the merciless Kalahari Desert carrying a stolen fortune in raw diamonds and hunted by a fierce African tribe. The thieves manage to reach the waiting HMS Rove – only to die with their pursuers in a vicious storm that buries them all under tons of sand… The present day: Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon have barely escaped a mission on the Congo River when they intercept a mayday from a defenceless boat under fire off the African coast. Cabrillo takes action, saving the beautiful Sloane Macintyre – who’s looking for a long-submerged ship that may hold a fortune in diamonds. But what surprises Cabrillo is her story about a crazy fisherman who claims to have...
ISBN: 978-0-14-102162-1
Издательство:
Книжный мир
Дата выхода: август 2011
Twenty-two stories from the "wildly imaginative" #1 Bestselling Author In this brilliant collection of stories, Stephen King takes readers down paths that only he could A supermarket becomes the place where humanity takes its last stand against unholy a trip to the attic turns into a journey to a woman driver finds a scary shortcut to an idyllic lake harbors a bottomless and a desert island is the scene of the most terrifying struggle for survival ever waged.
ISBN: 0-451-16861-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: февраль 2002
Hold tight. We are going into a number of dark places, but I think I know the way. Just don`t let go of my Unrivalled master of suspense Stephen King takes the unsuspecting reader on a fantastic journey through the dark shadows of our innermost fears. Do the dead sing? In this bumper collection of chilling tales, which includes the brilliant story adapted into the acclaimed movie The Mist, we meet: a woman who has never crossed The Reach, the water dividing her from the mainland; a gramma who only wants to hug little George, even after she is dead; an innocent looking toy with sinister powers; and a primeval sea creture with an insatiable appetite.
ISBN: 978-1-4447-2320-5
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Working as a secret agent for Britain`s most exclusive agency, 15-year-old Alex Rider is now about to face something more dangerous that he can imagine: a man who has lost everything he cared for and who has a nuclear weapon.
ISBN: 978-0-14-240614-4
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
