A stainless steel rat for a stainless steel Meet Slippy Jim, aka The Stainless Steel Rat, aka James Bolivar DiGritz. A man of many names and many all of which add up to make one of the greatest con men of all time. Charming, quick-witted, physically fit, a master of disguise, a skilled liar, an accomplished bank robber and exceptionally talented at breaking and entering, he`s everything a master thief should be. He`s also about to be caught, turned, and sent back out onto the streets as part of the Special Corps. Join the adventure in this omnibus edition of the first three Stainless Steel rat adventures: The Stainless Steel Rat, The Stainless Steel Rat`s Revenge, and The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World.
ISBN: 978-0-575-08171-0
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Slippery Jim DiGriz is the Stainless Steel Rat: the galaxy`s greatest interstellar thief and con artist. For novel upon novel, the Rat has outfoxed the forces of conventionality, cutting a stylish swathe through dozens of star systems-and stealing the hearts of thousands of readers. Now three of the Rat`s greatest exploits are collected in a single volume. In "A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born", we see the origin and early days of Jim DiGriz`s brilliant criminal career, as our underworld hero is forced to work for the Good Guys. Conscripted again in "The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted", this time into a planetary army, the Rat must avenge the murder of his mentor-in-crime. And in "The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues", Slippery Jim must...
Lorna Byrne sees and talks with angels every day of her life and has done since she was a baby. As a child Lorna was told by the angels that her job on this earth was to share the wisdom and knowledge that God and the angels were giving her. When Lorna`s husband died, her world fell apart. In Stairways to Heaven she tells the story of how she pulled her life back together and how she, an uneducated mother of four, broke her silence and started to spread the angels` message to the world. Lorna tells us of the future that God envisages for us - and some possible other futures, depending on the decisions we make. `Everyone must play their part`, she says. She reveals some of the most extraordinarily detailed information about angels and the...
ISBN: 978-1-4447-0660-4
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
A fresh voice and fresh blood - it adds up to one very sassy vampire Sisters. They`ll swipe your clothes, your boyfriends, your destiny. But it wasn`t exactly Rayne`s twin Sunny`s fault. Magnus, a vamp hottie and coven leader, mistook Sunny for Rayne last month and bit her instead. Now they`re doing the inter-species dating thing. Turns out that for every generation, there`s a Vampire Slayer - and this time around, it just happens to be Rayne MacDonald. Her first mission: infiltrate a seedy vamp bar downtown and expose its vampire owner for purposely spreading a blood disease he created himself - a task almost harder than passing trig. After going it alone once, Rayne realizes she needs help. So Magnus sends his sexy Goth buddy Jareth to...
ISBN: 978-0-425-21210-3
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Based on a riveting historical episode, The Stalin Epigram is a fictional rendering of the life of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century - and one of the few artists in Soviet Russia who daringly refused to pay creative homage to Joseph Stalin. The poet`s defiance of the Kremlin dictator and the Bolshevik regime - particularly his outspoken criticism of Stalin`s collectivization rampage that drove millions of Russian peasants to starvation - reached its climax in 1934 when Mandelstam, putting his life on the line, composed a searing indictment of Stalin in a sixteen-line epigram and secretly recited it to a handful of friends and fellow artists. Would Stalin and his merciless state security apparatus...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-9864-0
Издательство:
Азбука
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Moscow lies deep under snow, and Arkady Renko is on the trail of a suspect police officer, a former Black Beret who served with glory against the insurgency in Chechnya. But proof of the man`s corruption is proving more elusive to gather. Then Renko`s unpopular boss calls him in to handle a delicate matter: passengers riding the last metro of the night have reported seeing the ghost of Stalin waving to them from the platform edge. Every night at the same time, regular as clockwork. Meanwhile, his adopted son, Zhenya has disappeared, and his girlfriend, Eva, has reignited an affair with the very officer Arkady is investigating. Renko is assigned the help of an expert Stalinist, a decorated war hero and chess grandmaster. Not everyone, it...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-4444-9
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote `Stalingrad is no longer a Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure`. The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin`s determination to win the gruesome, vicious war on the eastern front. The citizens of Stalingrad endured unimaginable hardship; the battle, with fierce hand-to-hand fighting in each room of each building, was brutally destructive to both armies. But the eventual victory of the Red Army, and the failure of Hitler`s Operation Barbarossa, was the first defeat of Hitler`s territorial ambitions in Europe, and the start of his decline. An extraordinary story of tactical genius, civilian bravery, obsession, carnage and the nature...
ISBN: 978-0-14-103240-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Drawing on a wealth of unexplored material - available for the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union - Robert Service`s biography of Stalin is the most authoritative yet published. It concentrates not simply on Stalin as dedicated bureaucrat or serial political killer, but on a fuller assessment of his formative interactions in Georgia, his youthful revolutionary activism, his relationship with Lenin, with his family, and with his party members. `This is effectively the first full biography since perestroika to encompass the economic, political, diplomatic, military, administrative and, above all, ideological dimensions, as well as the personal aspects of Stalin`s colossal Gritty and unshowy, but enlightened by...
ISBN: 978-0-330-51837-6
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
On a midsummer day in 1937, Boris Bibikov kissed his two daughters goodbye and disappeared. One of those girls, Lyudmila, was to fall in love with a tall young foreigner in Moscow at the height of the Cold War and embark on a dangerous and passionate affair. Decades later, a reporter in nineties Moscow, her son Owen Matthews pieces together his grandfather's passage through the harrowing world of Stalin's purges, and tells the story of his parents' Cold War love affair through their heartbreaking letters and memories. Stalin's Children is a raw, vivid memoir about a young man's struggle to understand his parents' lives and the history of the strange country in which they lived.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-9660-8
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: август 2011
Who was the boy from Georgia who rose to rule the Empire of the Tsars? Who were his Himmler, Goring, Goebbels? How did the "top ten" families live? In this history of Stalin`s imperial court, the fear and betrayal, privilege and debauchery, family life and murderous brutality are brought blazingly to life. Формат: 13 см x 19,5 см.
When her husband vanishes, Dominique Delahaye could crumble - or she could start to enjoy a whole new An unputdownable read from the No. 1 bestselling author Dominique (`Domino`) lives a charmed existence as wife to one of Ireland`s most successful businesssmen, Brendan Delahaye - until the day Brendan disappears, leaving his company in disarray and Domino and their daughter alone to face the music. STAND BY ME is the story of Domino`s recovery and her journey from obliging and dependent wife to a stronger and happier woman, with a new man ready to step into the gap left by her deserting husband. And that`s when Brendan comes home, handsome and charismatic as ever, expecting life to carry on just as it was
ISBN: 978-0-7553-4396-6
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
The Standby Book is an anthology of more than 120 language learning activities contributed by 33 teachers. It includes complete lesson suggestions; activities which can be used to build complete lessons; suggestions for variations and extensions of the activities; example texts and photocopiable handouts. There are activities for conversation practice; vocabulary learning; reading; writing; fluency practice; warming up and changing pace; team building; confidence building; revision and for fun. The Standby Book has been compiled as a support for teachers who teach young adults and adults on General English courses, groups of business and professional people, students of English for Academic Purposes, Literature or those following exam...
ISBN: 978-0-521-55860-0
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
"There is a great disturbance in the "From the sleek ships of the glimmering Coruscant skyscape to the lush gardens of pastoral Naboo, dissent is roiling. The Republic is failing, even under the leadership of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, elected ten years earlier to save the crumbling government. Separatists threaten war, and the Senate is hopelessly divided, unable to determine whether to raise an army for battle or keep the fragile peace. It is a stalemate that once broken, could lead to galactic chaos. Mischievous and resolved, courageous to the point of recklessness, Anakin Skywalker has come of age in a time of great upheaval. The nineteen-year-old apprentice to Obi-Wan Kenobi is an enigma to the Jedi Council, and a challenge to...
ISBN: 978-0-345-42882-0
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
First explore Legacy of the Jedi, in which the promising Padawan apprentice Lorian Nod and fellow student Dooku meet at the Jedi temple. Dooku`s discovery of the Dark Side will impact both their lives and generations to come. Then, in Secrets of the Jedi, Master Qui-Gon Jinn returns for an urgent mission to save planetary leaders. Includes exclusive bonus material by Jude Watson.
For the first time ever, the world of the original, classic Star Wars movies - Episode IV, V, and VI - comes to a Scholastic series for young readers. Expect new missions, new revelations, and a whole new side of the saga.
ISBN: 978-0-545-11218-5
Издательство:
Scholastic Inc
Дата выхода: август 2011
Deadly assassin X-7 has never failed to complete a mission - until now. Unmasked and unarmed, he narrowly escapes from the Rebels with his life and little else. His cover may be blown, but he`s not returning to Commander Rezi Soresh until his target has been eliminated. This time, he has a new plan. He`ll gather six of the best pilots in the galaxy - all of them roguish mercenaries who care nothing about money - and turn them loose on Red counts on his pilot`s mercenary instincts to keep them in line. But one of them has a secret that could cost X-7 his victory.
