From the author of WHEN THE LION FEEDS. Sean Courtney, the impulsive adventurer, returns from the wilderness a rich man, until he is robbed by the Boers. A grim homecoming finds his country in the grip of war, but conflicts within the family will prove far more bitter than any fought on the veld.
ISBN: 978-0-330-02135-7 Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The year is 1899. The British Empire is at the height of its power. But in South Africa, proud Dutch colonists defy the Queen and her army—and a lush, wild world is torn apart by guns, spears, and swords. Sean Courtney had been tragically separated from his family, but the Boer War has brought him back to his homeland—and into the sights of his enemy’s guns. It has also returned him to Ruth Friedman, the only woman Sean can love, even though he shouldn’t. As Sean’s loyalties—to nation, man, and blood—are tested, a saga of duty and betrayal
ISBN: 978-0-312-94067-6 Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Дата выхода: июль 2011
Portly Pig loves nothing more than being mucky! He sets off around the farm in search of a big muddy puddle, but what will he do when it starts to rain? Little fingers will just love pushing the big sound button to hear Portly`s noisy oinking on every page.
ISBN: 9780857636430 Издательство: Nosy Crow Дата выхода: январь 2020
ISBN: 9781408857359 Издательство: Bloomsbury Дата выхода: январь 2020
ISBN: 0-449-14819-X Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Gobbly Goat is ready for lunch! But what can he find that`s yummy to munch? Join Gobbly in the farmyard on his quest to find a tasty morsel to eat. Little fingers will just love pushing the big sound button to hear Gobbly`s noisy bleating on every page.
ISBN: 9780857635679 Издательство: Nosy Crow Дата выхода: январь 2020
Join cheeky Monty Monkey as he causes chaos in the jungle! With a hilarious rhyming text, stunning illustrations, and a big sound button that children will love pressing again and again to hear Monty`s monkey noise on every page, this is a delightful new series of a much-loved format.
ISBN: 9781788002288 Издательство: Nosy Crow Дата выхода: январь 2020
There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we`d better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth wizard source of a Sourcerer. "Sourcery" sees the return of Rincewind and the luggage as the Discworld faces its greatest - and funniest - challenge yet.
ISBN: 978-0-06-102067-4 Издательство: HarperTorch Дата выхода: август 2011
`It`s vital to remember who you really are . . . it isn`t a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.`An eighth son of an eighth son is born, a wizard squared, a source of magic. A sourcerer.Unseen University, the Discworld`s most magical establishment, has finally got its wish: the emergence of a wizard more powerful than ever before. You`d think they would have been a little more careful what they wished for . . .As the sourcerer takes over the University and sets his sights on the rest of the world, only one wizard manages to escape his influence. Unfortunately for everyone, it`s Rincewind.Once again the cowardly wizard must embark on a quest: to deliver a precious artefact - the...
ISBN: 9781804990216 Дата выхода: октябрь 2023
ISBN: 9780099448570 Издательство: Harvill Press Дата выхода: январь 2019
ISBN: 9780552154789 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: январь 2010
ISBN: 9780141183749 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: январь 2000
Danielle Steel sweeps us from a Manhattan courtroom to the Deep South in her powerful new novel—at once a behind-closed-doors look into the heart of a family and a tale of crime and punishment. SOUTHERN LIGHTS Eleven years have passed since Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband’s betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant in Manhattan, Alexa has finally put her demons to rest, raising her daughter alone and making a name for herself as a top prosecutor taking on some of the city’s toughest cases. But as Alexa prepares for her latest case, the high-stakes trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin, threatening letters addressed to Savannah, her beautiful...
ISBN: 978-0-440-24332-8 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "South Sea Tales" is a collection of amazing short stories like "The Whale Tooth", "Mauki", and "Yah! Yah! Yah!". Most of them are set aboard a ship or in island communities.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07487-7 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: июль 2018
События описанные в рассказах происходят на тихоокеанских просторах и островах, но, как и в северных новеллах писателя, человек оказывается здесь лицом к лицу с природой, с бушующим ураганом и пенящимися громадами волн, выйти победителем из схватки с которыми способен только самый сильный.
ISBN: 978-5-93763-013-1 Издательство: Рыбари Дата выхода: май 2010
The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century fiction. In these stories, as in his work generally, Stevenson shows himself to be a virtuoso of narrative styles: his Pacific fiction includes the domestic realism of `The Beach at Falesé, the folktale plots of `The Bottle Imp` and `The Isle of Voices`, and the modernist blending of naturalism and symbolism in "The...
ISBN: 978-0-19-953608-5 Издательство: Oxford University Press Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "South Sea Tales" is a collection of amazing short stories like "The Whale Tooth", "Mauki" and "Yah! Yah! Yah!" Most of them are set aboard a ship or in island communities. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08111-0 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Assistant D A Alexa Hamilton has just been handed the kind of case that makes careers: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Sifting through mountains of forensic evidence, Alexa relentlessly builds her case and prepares for a high-stakes trial, until threatening letters throw her private life into turmoil.
ISBN: 978-0-552-16025-4 Издательство: Transworld publishers Дата выхода: июль 2011
In this explosive follow-up to the bestselling police thriller "Hornet`s Nest, " former police chief Judy Hammer has been brought into clean up the police force in Richmond, Virginia. She and two assistants must find the link between the desecration of Confederate president Jefferson Davis`s statue and the brutal murder of an elderly woman.
ISBN: 0-425-17254-6 Издательство: Penguin USA Дата выхода: апрель 2004
ISBN: 9780670038312 Дата выхода: июль 2011
It is autumn, 1541. Following the uncovering of a plot against his throne in Yorkshire, King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to overawe his rebellious subjects there. Accompanied by a thousand soldiers, and his fifth wife Catherine Howard, the King is to attend an extravagant submission of the local gentry at York.
ISBN: 978-0-330-43608-3 Издательство: Pan Macmillan Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Представляем вашему вниманию книгу на английском языке "Spa Wars".
ISBN: 978-0-340-95190-3 Издательство: Hodder Education Дата выхода: июль 2011
ISBN: 9781526603180 Издательство: Bloomsbury Дата выхода: январь 2021
On the planet Zeron, at some point in the , an intergalactic pirate manages to steal one of the most valuable items in the universe. When he becomes trapped, Omega offers his help but he has his own reasons for doing
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7805-4 Издательство: Langenscheidt Дата выхода: июль 2011
ISBN: 9781526603203 Издательство: Bloomsbury Дата выхода: январь 2021
