Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision as seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of today`s follies. But even the end of life-as-we-know-it is transformed by Kurt Vonnegut`s pen into hilarious farce - a final slapstick that may be the Almighty`s joke on us all.
ISBN: 978-0-385-33423-5
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
It seems but that doesn`t mean it didn`t happen. Saul " Slash" Hudson was born in Hampstead to a Jewish father, an album cover artist, and a black American mother of Nigerian descent, who created David Bowie`s look in The Man Who Fell to Earth. He was raised in Stoke until he was 11, when he and his mother moved to LA. Frequent visitors to the house were David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Ron Wood and Iggy Pop. At this time Slash got into BMX bikes, and would eventually turn professional, winning won major awards and money, but at 15 his grandmother gave him his first guitar. Even though it had just one string he began teaching himself to play, and soon school was forgotten as he devoted up to 12 hours a day to honing his skills. Sessions with...
ISBN: 978-0-00-725777-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Издание на английском языке. Billy Pilgrim survives capture by the Gemans in World War II, the Dresden bombings, and the struggle for financial success only to be kidnapped in a flying saucer and taken to the planet Tralfamadore.
ISBN: 0-440-18029-5
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Книга представляет собой неадаптированный текст для чтения. Для учащихся 7 - 9 классов, курсов иностранных языков. Книга снабжена заданиями и словарем.
ISBN: 5-89815-384-5
Издательство:
Каро
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Billy Pilgrim is a time-traveler. He has seen his birth and death many times and the biggest massacre in European history, the fire-bombing of Dresden. He has been kidnapped by a flying saucer ... it is a story told with black humour and deep compassion. Издание на английском языке. Формат: 11,5 см х 19 см.
ISBN: 87-23-90095-4
Издательство:
Easy Readers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2008
What makes a father violent? It takes a brave man to find As a volunteer at St Margaret’s Hospice, eager and helpful Meryl is looking for a role in life. The arrival of Jamie, the son of a patient, may be just what she is after. He is good-looking, young and, above all, troubled. Jamie’s father has only a few days to live, but between father and son is a lifetime of misunderstanding and unhappiness. Could the most powerful legacy Jamie faces be an inability to love? With well-meaning Meryl hovering in the background, Jamie embarks on his long dark night of the soul, facing the secrets, lies and heartbreaks behind his father’s life. Meanwhile his dying father, seemingly unconscious to it all, relives his extraordinary history, from...
ISBN: 978-0-552-77465-9
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Young Mico is a slave in a big house in Pompeii. His only friend is the house dog, Fortunatus. One quiet summer day, Fortunatus suddenly runs away. He takes Mico with him. What does the dog know? What is he afraid of? Is it, perhaps, the mountain behind the town?
ISBN: 978-1-4082-6124-8
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: апрель 2011
hen you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the heart. A world that lovingly captures the ties that bind us to one another-the joys and sorrows, heartbreaks and misunderstandings, and glad, perfect moments when we are in true harmony. A world filled with evocative, engrossing, and above all, enjoyable portraits of people`s lives and loves, tenderly laid open for Whenever Selina asked about her late father, the grandmother who raised her changed the subject. The chance discovery of a photograph gave Selina hope that he was still alive and sent her searching for him on a small Spanish island. In this lush paradise, Selina found George Dyer, a writer who would help her solve the mystery of...
The owner of a seaside villa is plagued by strange feelings about its past… Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs… In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them, they were to solve a 'perfect' crime committed many years before.
ISBN: 978-0-00-712106-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A strange houseA ghost from the pastAs soon as she moves into Hillside, Gwenda knows there`s something strange about this house.A sealed room. A hidden door. The apparition of a young woman being strangled.But strangest of all - this all seems quite familiar.As her friend Jane Marple investigates, the answer seems to lie in a crime committed nearly twenty years ago.The killer may have gotten away with murder. But Miss Marple is never far behind.Never underestimate Miss Marple.
Seventeen-year-old Ashley Spencer learned what true horror was the night a serial killer invaded her home and brutally murdered her father and her best friend. But the terror did not end A year after the unspeakable events, Ashley is still trying to piece together what is left of her life. But the nightmare is reawakened at the elite private school that had appeared to be a safe haven for Ashley and her mother, Terri, when a new book called Sleeping Beauty hits the national bestseller lists - a shattering true account of the crimes that ripped Ashley`s world apart. And now Ashley must run for her life again.
An exciting story adapted from the traditional fairy tale. The bad fairy hurts the princess. The princess sleeps and sleeps. The prince comes and she is happy again. Penguin Young Readers are simplified texts to support children learning English. Each book has activities and there are Factsheets with Teacher`s and Parent`s Notes. The Factsheets are also available on Level 1 titles are written from a 300-word wordlist and are suitable for students who have already studied up to 100 hours of English.
ISBN: 978-0-582-42845-4
Издательство:
Pearson Education Limited
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Richard and Lelia`s child is conceived in a moment of giggling chaos as they dress for a Christmas party. They arrive rudely late and still glowing, and barely register a slight, drab woman in the hall. Sylvie. As their baby grows, so does the presence of Sylvie - she seems to be nowhere, yet everywhere, harmless yet sinister. Richard is seduced by her subtle, inexplicable charm, while Lelia, struggling with Richard`s sudden ambivalence towards their baby, finds that she is haunted by painful memories. And Sylvie remains as invisible as she wants to be - that is the source of her power. Beware of mice.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-8077-5
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
- A classic fairytale, retold as a storybook, sticker book and puzzle all in one. - With over 50 colourful picture stickers. - Story contains gaps for key words, which children can fill with sticker pictures to help build their vocabulary and reading skills. - Gorgeously illustrated by Stephen Cartwright.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-7328-5
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Coco Chanel, high priestess of couture, created the look of the chic modern woman: her simple and elegant designs freed women from their corsets and inspired them to crop their hair. By the 1920s, Chanel employed more than two thousand people in her workrooms, and had amassed a personal fortune. But at the start of the Second World War, Chanel closed down her couture house and went to live quietly at the Ritz, moving to Switzerland after the war. For more than half a century, Chanel's life from 1941 to 1954 has been shrouded in rumour. Neither Chanel nor her biographers have told the full story, until now. In this explosive narrative, Hal Vaughan pieces together Chanel's hidden years, from the Nazi occupation of Paris to the aftermath of...
Read It Yourself is a learning to read series of classic, traditional stories with four levels of difficulty to suit the stage your child is at with reading. Written in a simple way for young readers, they will build their confidence in learning to read as they progress through each level. Familiar fairytales and exciting stories will amuse children and encourage them to progress further with this series and become confident readers. Each book in The Read It Yourself With Ladybird Series is carefully structured to include many everyday words that are vital for first reading/beginner readers. They also contain clear, beautiful pictures for extra support and interest. Extra puzzle questions at the end of each book further help with...
ISBN: 978-1-4093-0361-9
Издательство:
Ladybird Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Chloe needs a holiday. She's sick of making wedding dresses and her partner is having trouble at work. Her wealthy friend Gerard has offered the loan of his luxury villa in Spain - perfect. Hugh is not a happy man. His immaculate wife seems more interested in the granite for the new kitchen than in him, and he works so hard to pay for it all, he barely has time to see their children. But his old schoolfriend Gerard has lent them a luxury villa in Spain - perfect. Both families arrive at the villa and get a shock: Gerard has double-booked. An uneasy week of sharing begins, and tensions soon mount in the soaring heat. But there's also a secret history between the families - and as tempers fray, an old passion begins to
ISBN: 978-0-552-77675-2
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
When Bun Bendle is struck blind he feels like he is drowning in blackness. But the discovery of an ancient tomb and a strangely familiar sword changes him forever. For Bun, a centuries-old power may lead to a bright future.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-3962-2
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Gwenda Reed`s new home, a charming Victorian villa, is giving the lovely new bride the strangest feeling of deja vu - and an unnatural dread that`s taking its toll. Perhaps her husband`s aunt. Miss Marple, can calm the young woman`s frayed nerves. But how can anyone solve a mystery such as this when the only clues are those in Gwenda`s vivid imagination? As Aunt Jane digs a little deeper she`s soon to discover just how truthful - and terrifying - the imagination can Формат: 10,5 см x 17 см.
ISBN: 978-0-451-20019-8
Издательство:
Rem Distributors
Дата выхода: август 2011
"Read It Yourself" is a learning to read series of classic, traditional stories with four levels of difficulty to suit the stage your child is at with reading. Written in a simple way for young readers, they will build their confidence in learning to read as they progress through each level. Familiar fairytales and exciting stories will amuse children and encourage them to progress further with this series and become confident readers. Each book in "The Read It Yourself With Ladybird Series" is carefully structured to include many everyday words that are vital for first reading/beginner readers. They also contain clear, beautiful pictures for extra support and interest. Extra puzzle questions at the end of each book further help with...
ISBN: 978-1-4093-0396-1
Издательство:
Ladybird Books
Дата выхода: март 2012
The King and Queen are proud of their baby daughter, Princess Aurora, and they invite everyone to a party, including the Flower Fairies. But one of the Fairies puts a curse on Aurora, and despite the King’s precautions, on her sixteenth birthday she meets an old lady in a tower in the castle…
ISBN: 978885300-919-7
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Amy, Bella, Chloe, Daisy and Emily are friends at school and have their own Alphabet Club (just look at their initials!). Daisy is the newest member and is desperate to fit in, even though Chloe is distinctly unfriendly to her at times. Throughout Daisy’s first year at the school, the girls plan ever-more elaborate sleepover parties for their birthdays. Daisy is dreading the time when her birthday comes round as she doesn’t know what her friends will make of sleeping over at her home, with her rather special older A superb handling of the intricacies of young, female friendship and the joys and problems of having an older sister with learning disabilities, from our most accomplished and bestselling author.
ISBN: 978-0-552-55783-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011