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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Architecture and design has always been defined in terms of space, but now, more than ever, it is also being defined by time. Ways of living are rapidly evolving. Being driven by the onward march of technology and globalisation, architects and designers are constantly finding themselves faced with increasingly challenging and demanding horizons. Spaces 9 brings together a collection of the most innovative and creative projects that showcase how the best architects of the day are coming to terms with these new challenges, and creating spaces that combine functionality, form, and aesthetic.
In this story, set sometime in the future, Varon, 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 so.
ISBN: 978-0-230-03523-2
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Blast off into space with this spectacular collection of poems about galaxies, the moon, planets, stars, rockets, astronauts, UFOs, aliens, black holes, the milkyway, and space pets and that`s just for starters!
ISBN: 978-0-330-44057-8
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Space is very big. It`s full of planets, comets, stars, and asteroids. People have gone into space and they have visited the moon! Ladybird Readers is a series of traditional tales, modern stories, and nonfiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign language. Each activity book includes language activities to support the CEF framework, as well as help young learners prepare for the Cambridge Young Learners English (YLE) exams and fulfills SSRW criteria. This Level 4 activity book is ideal for children who are ready to read longer stories with a wider vocabulary. It covers CEF level A2 and supports YLE flyers exams.
ISBN: 9780241253779
Издательство:
Ladybird
Дата выхода: январь 2016
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
John and Nicky have never eaten spaghetti and would give anything for the occasional bowl of chips or piece of chocolate cake. But they live with their rather strange and grumpy aunt who insists upon the most uncompromising of health food diets. When they decide to use some birthday money to go out for lunch, they experience the delights of spaghetti and decide that they simply have to have more. A competition offers them just such an opportunity, not to mention something of an adventure, which results in their mealtimes changing for good.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-8055-3
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Catch a glimpse of the glamorous lives of princesses in this glittering activity book, from carriage rides and ice-skating to a masked ball. With over 350 reusable stickers of princesses, animals and flowers to decorate the scenes, including lots of extra-special sparkly stickers, and a fold-out back cover to store the stickers when not in use.
