The Cold War is at its most chill. Alec Leamas, a seasoned British Intelligence officer whose entire East German network has been arrested or shot, leaves West Berlin for London, believing his career is over. But his master, Control, knows that Leamas is good for a last mission: one that will allow him to take his revenge on the ruthless East German counterintelligence chief who has killed or imprisoned his agents. And lurking discreetly in the background, George Smiley will be pulling the operational strings.
Vivienne Michel is in trouble. Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods, winding up at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court. A far cry from the privileged world she was born to, the motel is also the destination of two hardened killers - the perverse Sol Horror and the deadly Sluggsy Morant. When a coolly charismatic Englishman turns up, Viv, in terrible danger, is not just hopeful, but fascinated. Because he is James Bond, 007, the man she hopes will save her, the spy she hopes will love
ISBN: 978-0-14-118872-0
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
`"Wise old man, won`t you help me, please? My house is a squash and squeeze". What can you do if your house is too small? The wise old man knows: bring in a flappy, scratchy, noisy crowd of farmyard animals. When you push them all out again, you`ll be amazed at how big your house feels!
ISBN: 978-1-4050-0477-0
Издательство:
Macmillan ELT
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Baby Touch: Squeaky Book features a large squeaker on the cover that appears throughout the book thanks to cut-out shapes on the pages. Your baby and you will love to press the squeaky nose on the happy animal faces and touch the variety of textures on the sturdy pages. The bright and colourful artwork features new and exciting characters to stimulate baby`s senses. Baby Touch is an innovative and award-winning range that provides a sensory feast for babies, stimulating their growing minds and active senses in the developmental steps from birth. This range of books is perfect for a baby and adult to enjoy together. It`s never too early to start reading with your child. Cuddling up with a book can be a special time. Vary the intonation of...
ISBN: 978-1-4093-0051-9
Издательство:
Ladybird Books
Дата выхода: январь 2011
Despite three revolutions and three name changes, Peter the Great`s Venice of the North, the most European of Russia`s cities, lives on gloriously. With exquisite photographs, detailed descriptions, and easy-to-read maps, the "National Geographic Traveler: St. Petersburg" brings you the best of this enchanted, canal-crossed city, plus hidden gems as well. Veteran writer Jeremy Howard, a long-time scholar of Russia and its arts, ably guides you through the city`s long history, illuminating its love affair with baroque architecture, ballet, and painting. He details all the main sights - the formidable SS. Peter and Paul Fortress; the famed Hermitage Museum, which occupies the historic Winter Palace; Palace Square; St. Isaac`s Cathdral;...
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0050-2
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This lavishly illustrated book tells the epic 300-year story of St Petersburg through its architecture, landscapes, literature and art, from the city`s origins and its earliest buildings through to the present day. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the historic centre of St Petersburg is being restored with the help of the World Monuments Fund. The book showcases the surviving monuments of St Petersburg while examining what has been lost and what is being lost. Written by two experts on architecture and historic conservation, it includes before-and-after images to evaluate the effect of postwar restoration work and also includes over 100 commissioned photographs.
ISBN: 978-0-7112-2492-6
Издательство:
Frances Lincoln
Дата выхода: август 2011
David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the early twentieth century, most famous for his criticism of rationalism and industrialization. "St. Mawr" is a short novel about Lou Witt, who abandons her sterile marriage and leaved England. Her sense of alienation is associated with her encounter with a high-spirited stallion, the St. Mawr. She settles in a remote ranch set high in the mountains of New Mexico.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07211-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Whether you are travelling first class or on a limited budget, this Eyewitness Top 10 guide will lead you straight to the very best St Petersburg has to offer. Dozens of Top 10 lists - from the Top 10 features of the beautiful Church on Spilled Blood to the Top 10 Russian restaurants, bars and hotels - provide the insider knowledge every visitor needs. And to save you time and money, there`s even a list of the Top 10 Things to Avoid. Including free pull-out map.
ISBN: 978-1-4053-6928-2
Издательство:
Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
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
