Few writers, it seems, are immune to what I call the "Four Friends Formula": take four very different people (women, men, a mix), give them a shared background (often college or university, sometimes an apartment or office), throw in life`s rich pageant, and stir. Voila, a cosmopolitan cocktail (sic) a la Sex and the City. (It doesn`t matter at what stage in her career the author is; Rona Jaffe`s most recent book, THE ROOMMATING SEASON, followed this scenario.) And why not? It offers four different characters, four different storylines, four different perspectives … and more than four ways that things can go wrong.
ISBN: 0-7679-1559-3
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
- Allows students to keep a personal record of their work during their English course - Encourages students to think about the way they learn and assess their own progress - Includes a Language Passport, Learning Diary, `can do` checklists, self-assessment forms and questionnaires
ISBN: 978-1-4050-9580-8
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
High-concept thriller with a supernatural edge from world-famous director, whose films include Pan`s Labyrinth and Hellboy. A plane lands at JFK and mysteriously `goes dark`, stopping in the middle of the runway for no apparent reason, all lights off, all doors sealed. The pilots cannot be raised. When the hatch above the wing finally clicks open, it soon becomes clear that everyone on board is dead - although there is no sign of any trauma or struggle. Ephraim Goodweather and his team from the Center for Disease Control must work quickly to establish the cause of this strange occurrence before panic spreads. The first thing they discover is that four of the victims are actually still alive. But that`s the only good news. And when all...
In this harrowing tale of good and evil, the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll develops a potion that unleashes his secret, inner persona — the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde. This book is about losing control. It`s about addiction, about giving in to your darker desires and the struggle that all people go through: wanting to do something and knowing you shouldn`t.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06132-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
A dark and handsome stranger opens a shop in the quiet village of Woodend. Anna begins to wonder about the visitors who come to Dave Slatin`s shop. What exactly do they buy?
ISBN: 978-0-230-03513-3
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Сколько себя помнит, Дрю Андерсон всегда была странной. Странной? А слышать, видеть и чувствовать обитателей темного мира, о которых думают не иначе как о выдумке — это не странно?! А убить отца, превратившегося в зомби и жаждущего вашей смерти, — обычная история?! А в 16 лет остаться сиротой и дружить с вампирами и оборотнями — нормальная жизнь подростка?! Однако Дрю не из робких девочек!
ISBN: 978-1-84916-996-7
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Their distant, nostalgic memories of home, their sence of anonymity in a foreign land, the terrifying pang of vulnerability they feel as they step over the threshold into an alien world... Marquez`s strange pilgrims - the ageing prostitute preparing for death by teaching her dog to weep at her grave, the panicked husband scared for the life of his injured wife, the old man who allows his mind to wander on a long-haul flight from Paris - experience with all his humour, warmth and colour what it is to be a Latin American adrift in Europe or, indeed, any outsider living far from home.
ISBN: 978-0-14-103249-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
Woodend was a small, quiet village with no shops, no visitors. Then a stranger came and opened the Corner Shop. That summer, visitors came to Woodend. And customers came secretly to the shop. They wanted help and the stranger helped them. Extra grammar and vocabulary exercises; Audio CD available for this title.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7662-3
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Роберт Льюис Стивенсон - один из самых известных классиков, шотландский писатель и поэт, автор приключенческих романов, представитель английского неоромантизма, чьи произведения покоряют сердца читателей XXI века. "Странная история доктора Джекила и мистера Хайда" была написана автором после прочтения романа Ф.М. Достоевского "Преступление и наказание". Она представляет собой...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05152-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Max Frei has discovered that the one place he really fits in is the parallel world of Echo. In our world he`s a loser, an insomniac with dubious social skills and an addiction to cigarettes. But in Echo, the reality is far stranger. There he is Sir Max, a superb magician and one of the powerful few chosen to defend the land against all possible enemies. And he`s finally happy. But when one of his esteemed Knight colleagues tells Max of a strange dream - one that seems disturbingly familiar to Max - Max realises he will have to investigate. The subsequent series of events will remind our hero - and the people he protects - just how tenuous happiness can be. It could be his most dangerous mission yet, but The Stranger`s Magic may win him...
ISBN: 978-0-575-08984-6
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
Dru has made it to Schola, the leading school where the vampire-fighting Order is based. There she is up against the capricious Anna, the only other female who shares her powers. Dru must unlock the mystery of who betrayed her mother, battle her intensifying feelings for both Graves and Christophe, and try to stay hidden from Sergej`s deadly nosferat - bloodthirsty hunters who`ll stop at nothing to destroy her.
ISBN: 978-1-84916-129-9
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
A bilingual fiction title for children who are independent readers. The parallel text, speech bubbles and pictures by different, talented illustrators provide a child-friendly bridge to reading - and speaking - in another language. There is a quiz at the end of each story to help comprehension and revise vocabulary.
ISBN: 978-1-905710-97-3
Издательство:
CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Here at last is the complete, uncut version of Heinlein`s all-time masterpiece, the brilliant novel that grew from a cult favorite to a bestseller to a classic in a few short years. It is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, the man from Mars who taught humankind grokking and water-sharing. And love.
A man alone in the sky has a chance to touch the stars. But as Richard Bach, flying a lone jet across Europe, reaches for the eternal, he must also confront the fear and danger that shadow the unknown.
ISBN: 0-440-20658-8
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
This is Alan Hollinghurst`s first novel since "The Line of Beauty", winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize. In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at `Two Acres`, the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George`s sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact, when Cecil writes her a poem which will become a touchstone for a generation, an evocation of an England about to change for ever. Linking the Sawle and Valance families irrevocably, the shared intimacies of this weekend become legendary events in a larger story, told and interpreted in different ways over the coming...
ISBN: 978-0-330-51396-8
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Dru Anderson: Night Hunter. Knife Wielder. Heart Breaker. Dru can sense evil, which helps when she and her Dad are tracking down ghosts, suckers, wulfen, and the occasional reanimated corpse. It`s a dangerous life, but it`s the only one she knows. Then Dru`s dad turns up dead and she suddenly finds herself in the middle of a deadly game where every move she makes could be her last. Dru is more special than she realizes - and whatever killed her dad could be coming for her next. Can Dru stay alive long enough to fall for one - or both - of the guys hungry for her affections? Find out in the heart-stopping first book in a thrilling series.
ISBN: 978-1-84916-125-1
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Dr Jekyll is a London doctor who is liked and respected for his work. Mr Hyde is an evil man, completely unknown in London society. There is a murder and Hyde seems to be responsible. So why does the good doctor give Mr Hyde the key to his house – and decide to leave everything to Mr Hyde in his will?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8014-5
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Rudyard Kipling, celebrated author of "The Jungle Book", the "Just So Stories" and other entertaining fictions, was also a master of the short story in which he was able to combine the strange and unnerving in order to draw the reader into the world of his own dark imaginings. This collection presents the best of these strange tales in which ghosts, monsters and inexplicable happenings abound. From the exotic and magical locale of India, to the leafy suburbs of England and then to the blood-soaked trenches of the First World War, Kipling provides us with a chilling array of experiences and images which will linger long in the memory. There is a timeless element to these tales which make them as relevant and as stimulating today as when...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-532-7
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2010
A consuming tale of fame and passion from the internationally bestselling author of The Other Side of Midnight and If Tomorrow Comes. From humble beginnings, Toby Temple becomes a superstar. He knows what he wants – and he always makes sure he gets what he wants. He is the world`s funniest comedian, loved by presidents, lusted after by women. But, deep down, he yearns for love and stability. Jill Castle has always been an outsider, desperate to be accepted. Despite her great beauty, she finds breaking into Hollywood as an actress impossible without auditioning on the Directors` infamous casting couches. But, with one glance, Toby falls for Jill`s beauty and sweeps her out of obscurity to stardom by his side. Now, she can get the...
ISBN: 978-0-00-722826-3
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: май 2012
