There were people on the banks of the river. Among the tangled waterways and giant anacondas of the Brazilian Rio Negro, an enigmatic scientist is developing a drug that could alter the lives of women for ever. Dr Annick Swenson`s work is shrouded in mystery; she refuses to report on her progress, especially to her investors, whose patience is fast running out. Anders Eckman, a mild-mannered lab researcher, is sent to investigate. A curt letter reporting his untimely death is all that returns. Now Marina Singh, Anders`s colleague and once a student of the mighty Dr Swenson, is their last hope. Compelled by the pleas of Anders`s wife, who refuses to accept that her husband is not coming home, Marina leaves the snowy plains of Minnesota...
Dr. Marina Singh, a research scientist with a Minnesota pharmaceutical company, is sent to Brazil to track down her former mentor, Dr. Annick Swenson, who seems to have all but disappeared in the Amazon while working on what is destined to be an extremely valuable new drug, the development of which has already cost the company a fortune. Nothing about Marina`s assignment is easy: not only does no one know where Dr. Swenson is, but the last person who was sent to find her, Marina`s research partner Anders Eckman, died before he could complete his mission. Plagued by trepidation, Marina embarks on an odyssey into the insect-infested jungle in hopes of finding her former mentor as well as answers to several troubling questions about her...
ISBN: 978-0-06-207471-3
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. Ikuko goes to England to study English, promising her boyfriend Hiroshi she will return to Japan to marry him. However, in Birmingham Ikuko discovers a whole new world and falls in love
ISBN: 978-0-521-68655-6
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: июль 2011
`He gave orders that they were not to get any hot glum pudding in flames, for fear the spirits in their innards might catch fire.` The Steel Flea is an uproarious and alcohol-soaked shaggy-dog story from one of Russia`s great comic masters. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin`s 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the...
ISBN: 9780141397399
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: январь 2019
Dark family secrets and a passionate love affair, full of his trademark warmth, humanity and ingenuity, this is Iain Banks` best novel since "The Crow Road".
ISBN: 978-0-349-11928-1
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Dark family secrets, a long-lost love affair, and a multimillion-pound gaming business lie at the heart of this intriguing new novel by the author of "The Player of Games" and "Consider Phlebas."
