This wonderfully engaging book asks young children to locate and count an assortment of objects placed in scenes with silly animals. It presents reproductions of eleven spectacular double-spread oil paintings framed with Joan Gallup`s unique sculpted clay borders, along with plenty of her charming characters and creations. This beautiful gift edition is designed to become a childhood favorite!
Sir Cecil is a pompous pedigree cat who can`t believe it when scruffy Mr Cubs turns up uninvited at Futtock Mansion and refuses to leave. But then Mr Cubs agrees to help Sir Cecil fulfill a lifelong dream - with hilariously disastrous results.
ISBN: 978-0-14-132885-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
For the first time in paperback, a fully illustrated edition of "The Silmarillion", with colour plates by the celebrated artist Ted Nasmith - designed to match the rest of the Tolkien series.
ISBN: 978-0-00-728424-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When Marcus Didius Falco, a Roman "informer" who has a nose for trouble that`s sharper than most, encounters Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses immediately all is not right with the pretty girl. She confesses to him that she is fleeing for her life, and Falco makes the rash decision to rescue her - a decision he will come to regret. For Sosia bears a heavy burden: as heavy as a pile of stolen Imperial ingots, in fact. Matters just get more complicated when Falco meets Helena Justina, a Senator`s daughter who is connected to the very same traitors he has sworn to expose. Soon Falco finds himself swept from the perilous back alleys of Ancient Rome to the silver mines of distant Britain - and up against a cabal of traitors with blood...
The sparks are Being held hostage by a demon lord is getting considerably chilly, especially when May Northcott`s heart still burns for Gabriel Tauhou, the flaming-hot leader of the silver dragons. Destined to be together and yet pulled will there ever be a way to overcome what separates them without disaster? Thankfully Gabriel has a plan to rescue his beloved mate. But it`s risky - and would also force May to become a pawn in a very dangerous game involving hell, fire and all of humanity, just in order to secure her freedom. She insists she`d do anything to be with Gabriel. But if the deal falls through and things get too hot, will she be able to withstand the blaze? Or will her life go up in smoke?
ISBN: 978-0-340-99301-9
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011
May Northcott is at the end of her tether. Her demon boss has moved in and is making life hell. Her scorching hot dragon lover seems to think everything can be solved with a fiery kiss. And worse still, she`s being shadowed by her ditsy twin sister - a naiad who simply can`t seem to stay out of trouble. The arrival of a nearly-dead man on May`s doorstep could be the final spark that sets light to their tinder-box world. And with dragon war imminent, it`s looking increasingly like it will be up to May (and her watery shadow) to stop it before the fire consumes them all, and their lives end up in smoke!
ISBN: 978-0-340-99300-2
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011
May, who is the doppelganger of a naiad (yes, ) falls in love with a brooding, gorgeous man. Sparks fly - literally - when she discovers he`s actually a can fire and water mix?
ISBN: 978-0-340-99302-6
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson help the police with the strange cases of: The Blue Carbuncle Two unusual clues for Holmes and Watson to follow -a hat and a goose! Silver Blaze A racehorse disappears before an important race. Holmes has to find the horse and solve a murder. The Six Napoleons Why is someone smashing statues of Napoleon? What are they looking for? Notes about the story; Points for Understanding comprehension questions. Retold by Anne Collins.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7279-3
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: август 2011
"Silverland" charts Dervla Murphy`s extraordinary expedition through the snowscapes of far Eastern Russia. No stranger to adventure, the intrepid septuagenarian`s mid-winter journey takes her beyond Siberia to the furthest corners of Russia - areas proximate to Japan, Mongolia and the Arctic Circle. Here, she discovers a strange world of lynx and elks, indigenous tribes and shamanism, reindeer broth and taiga-berry pie. She takes the coal-fuelled slow-train around regions hardly exposed to tourism and there she meets a host of colourful and generous characters. They invite this unconventional Irish Babushka into their homes where she enjoys fascinating fireside debate bolstered by steaming samovars of sweet tea. Just like its author,...
ISBN: 978-0-7195-6829-9
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Pat Peoples has a theory that his life is actually a movie produced by God, and that his God-given mission in life is to become emotionally literate, whereupon God will ensure a happy ending - which, for Pat, means the return of his estranged wife Nikki. When Pat goes to live with his parents, however, everything seems changed.
ISBN: 978-0-330-45684-5
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In the quiet Sussex country town of Kingsmarkham, the daughter of Nigerian physician Raymond Akande is missing. "It`s probably nothing", says Dr. Akande to his friend and client Chief Inspector Wexford, whose help he enlists. But the days that follow prove the doctor dreadfully wrong. A young woman is found murdered not Melanie, but the last person to have seen and spoken to her. A second woman`s body is discovered, again not Melanie`s, but like her, young and black. A third woman turns up beaten and unconscious; like the others, she is of Nigerian origin. As Inspector Wexford`s investigation stretches from days into weeks, it becomes his unhappy obligation to counter the hopes of the doctor and his wife. In Wexford`s professional...
ISBN: 978-0-440-22202-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are both haunted by their last case. Realizing that Michelle is teetering on the brink of self-destruction from long-buried demons, Sean arranges therapy for his reluctant partner. But instead of focusing on her recovery, Michelle unearths disturbing secrets in the Sean accepts a much-needed job. A physicist, Monk Turing, has died in mysterious circumstances near Babbage Town – a secretive establishment populated by an eccentric group of scientists and cryptographers, funded by an anonymous but powerful group. Meanwhile the dead man’s young daughter, piano-playing prodigy Viggie, has secrets of her own. But what is the significance of the phrase ‘codes and blood’? Directly across the York River from...
ISBN: 978-0-330-45097-3
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Classic / British English There are three exciting short stories in this book. They are all about ... fear! Three people are in dangerous places. What can they do? Will anybody help them? This Pack contains a Book and MP3
ISBN: 978-1-4082-8518-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: август 2012
Against the seductive backdrop of Regency England, New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh sweeps us into the sensual, enthralling world of four teachers at an elite academy for young ladies. As headmistress of Miss Martin’s School for Girls in Bath, Claudia Martin long ago resigned herself to a life without love. Until Joseph, Marquess of Attingsborough, arrives unannounced and tempts her to toss away a lifetime of propriety for an affair that can only lead to ruin, embarking on a plan of seduction that leaves them both yearning for more. But Claudia knows she has no place in Joseph’s aristocratic world. And now that world is about to be rocked by scanda.…An arranged marriage, a secret that will shock the ton, and a man from...
ISBN: 978-0-440-24199-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Georgeanne Howard leaves her fiancé at the altar when she realizes she can`t marry a man old enough to be her grandfather, no matter how rich he is. Hockey superstar John Kowalsky unknowingly helps her escape, and only when it`s too late does he realize that he`s absconded with his boss`s bride. This bad boy isn`t looking to be anybody`s savior but his own. Still, a long night stretches ahead of them—a night too sultry to resist temptation. Seven years later, Georgeanne and John meet again. She is on her way to becoming Seattle`s domestic darling and he is past his hellraising days. Shocked to learn that he has a daughter, John`s determined to be part of her life. Georgeanne has loved John since the moment she jumped into his car,...
ISBN: 978-0-380-79007-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
