A brand-new designer drug arrives in New York City with the force of a hurricane: Triple X, a potentially lethal combination of ecstasy and gamma radiation that is literally turning users from the shadowy, dank alleys to the glittering, raucous party circuit into living, rampaging nightmares. For high school science teacher Peter Parker, Triple X`s onslaught on some of his students and his wife`s professional life is as dangerous as it is unexpected. For Peter`s secret alter-ego, the costumed crime-fighter known to the world as Spider-Man, the situation quickly accelerates from bad to worse, as the drug`s effects run unchecked against law enforcement`s and his own valiant efforts to rein in the city-wide chaos. But there is a growing...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-0968-4
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Clarissa, the young wife of a foreign office diplomat, delights in tweaking the sensibilities of her more serious friends by playing a game she calls "supposing"--imagining a difficult situation and finding out how people would respond. But Clarissa`s lighthearted games becomes deadly serious when she discovers the body of an unknown person in her own drawing room. If that weren`t bad enough, her husband is on the way home with an important foreign politician. Clarissa decides to dispose of the body and persuades her three houseguests to help. But before she can get the corpse off the premises, a policeman knocks at her front door. Now Clarissa must keep the body hidden, convince the skeptical police inspector that there has been no...
ISBN: 978-0-312-97950-8
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
In the immediate aftermath of the Revolution, the Western powers were anxious to prevent the spread of Bolshevism across Europe. Lenin and Trotsky were equally anxious that the Communist vision they were busy introducing in Russia should do just that. But neither side knew anything about the other. The revolution and Russia`s withdrawal from the First World War had ensured a diplomatic exodus from Moscow and the usual routes to vital information had been closed off. Into this void stepped an extraordinary collection of opportunists, journalists and spies sometimes indeed journalists who were spies and vice versa: in Moscow Britain`s Arthur Ransome, the American John Reed and Sidney Reilly `Ace of Spies` all traded information and...
ISBN: 978-0-330-51728-7
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: июль 2012
From an award-winning historian, this is a break-out book in the tradition of "Agent Zig Zag". In the immediate aftermath of the Revolution, the Western powers were anxious to prevent the spread of Bolshevism across Europe. Lenin and
From a stunning new voice in hard science fiction comes the thrilling story of one woman’s quest to wrest truth from chaos, love from violence, and reality from illusion in a post-human universe of emergent AIs, genetic constructs, and illegal Spin State UN Peacekeeper Major Catherine Li has made thirty-seven faster-than-light jumps in her lifetime—and has probably forgotten more than most people remember. But that’s what backup hard drives are for. And Li should know; she’s been hacking her memory for fifteen years in order to pass as human. But no memory upgrade can prepare Li for what she finds on Compson’s World: a mining colony she once called home and to which she is sent after a botched raid puts her on the bad side of...
ISBN: 978-0-553-58624-4
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A fantastic new picture book all about a football-playing spider, written by Julia Donaldson, with glorious full colour illustrations from the talented Sebastian Braun and a sparkling, glittery foiled cover. Spinderella the spider has a passion for football! She tries to play a match with her brothers and sisters but she doesn`t know how many spiders should be on each team. Even worse, she can`t count the goals! Luckily for Spinderella, her Hairy Godmother has a plan. Julia Donaldson does it again in this hugely engaging and funny story all about football, spiders and counting - what`s not to love! The perfect picture book for children of all ages - boys and girls alike.
ISBN: 9781405282727
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
The Collector`s Library volumes of short stories - Best Ghost Stories , Best Fairy Stories , Celtic Fairy Tales and Tales of the Macabre have proved popular throughout the world. This new collection of chilling tales is designed to be read as autumn nights draw in as Hallowe`en approaches. Stories from famous writers such as Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson and Elizabeth Gaskell are matched with equally terrifying tales from Benson, Edith Wharton, Jacobs, Harvey, F. Marion Crawford, Ambrose Bierce and many others.
ISBN: 978-1-907360-69-5
Издательство:
CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Possessed of a powerful, richly inventive imagination, Edgar Allan Рое explored the darkest corners of the human psyche and is recognized as one of the first writers to offer a genuine American voice. Формат: 11 см x 18 см.
ISBN: 978-0-14-062422-9
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Edgar Allan Poe`s tales and poems draw the reader into an unsettling world of mystery and fear. In `The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether`, `A Predicament`, `The Angel of the Odd` and other stories, characters are caught up in macabresituations, often with horrifying results. The poems are full of melancholic beauty whether in the disturbing images of death and events beyond the grave described in `The Raven` and `Lenore`, or in the hypnotic fantasy of works such as `The Bells`, `TheCity in the Sea` and `Annabel Lee`. Possessed of a powerful, richly inventive imagination, Edgar Allan Рое explored the darkest corners of the human psyche and is recognized as one of the first writers to offer a genuine American voice.
ISBN: 0-14-062239-X
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002
INTERACT WITH LITERATURE offers a wide range of original literary texts from intermediate level upwards (unabridged short stories or extracts from novels, as well as complete unabridged plays) from English-speaking countries, designed to introduce students to the world of literature. The aim of these volumes is to familiarise readers with the language of literature and encourage them to formulate their own response to what they read. Each volume concentrates on a particular theme, genre or literary current. The Splintering Frame is a lively collection of ten paired short stories by modern and contemporary authors. Some of them are stylish, some witty, some entertaining, some puzzling and even disturbing, so there is something for...
ISBN: 978887754-336-3
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Book DescriptionFrom #1 bestseller David Baldacci comes a new thriller reminiscent of his phenomenal bestselling debut, Absolute Power.It was only a split second--but that`s all it took for Secret Service agent Sean King`s attention to wander and his "protectee," third-party presidential candidate Clyde Ritter, to die. King retired from the Service in disgrace, and now, eight years later, balances careers as a lawyer and a part-time deputy sheriff in a small Virginia town. Then he hears the news: Once again, a third-party candidate has been taken out of the presidential race--abducted right under the nose of Secret Service agent Michelle Maxwell. King and Maxwell form an uneasy alliance, and their search for answers becomes a bid for...
ISBN: 978-0-446-61445-0
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
