The Psychologists would call it folie a `Bruno slammed his palms together.` Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch? From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities.
ISBN: 978-0-099-28307-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2014
The second novel in the Strange Angels series picks up with Dru neatly tucked away in a Schola that`s more like a prison than a secret training facility. Except for one tiny she`s the only girl in the place and is totally surrounded by tons of cute boys. But a traitor in the Order wants Dru dead and she can`t trust anyone except for Graves. Too bad he`s being kept busy with a new crew of wulfen teens and doesn`t have time for her. As she learns the truth about who she can and can`t trust, Dru`s only hope may be to save herself - although the one gift that makes her special is draining away, and she doesn`t know how to get it back. Will Dru survive long enough to find out who is really after her? Or is she destined for the same fate as...
ISBN: 978-1-84916-128-2
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Max Frei, and the LABYRINTHS OF ECHO series, is a multi-million copy selling Russian literary sensation appearing in English for the first time. Intriguing, original, remarkable and THE LABYRINTHS OF ECHO is a piece of absolute enchantment. "Splash a bit of enchantment into my glass"... there is no better phrase to describe the state that a reader may find themselves in when exposed to this strong, absolutely legal, literary narcotic which goes by the name of Max Frei.` - Stolichniye Novosti If it weren`t for bad luck, Max Frei wouldn`t have any luck at all. A self-described twenty-something classic loser`, an insomniac, hardened smoker, a glutton and a loafer, there`s nothing much going for Max at least not until he arrives in the...
ISBN: 978-0-575-08979-2
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Eric Hansen was the first westerner to ever walk across the island of Borneo.In this book, Hansen provides an intimate look at a vanishing way of life forone of the last surviving groups of rain forest dwellers. Photos and map.
Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction. At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on an outdoor stage. In a mansion once occupied by The Rolling Stones, Marilyn Manson reads his own Tarot cards and talks sweetly to his beautiful actress girlfriend. Across the country, men build their own full-size castles and rocketships that will send them into space. Palahniuk himself experiments with steroids, works on an assembly line by day and as a hospice volunteer by night, and experiences the brutal murder of his...
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
Stratford-upon-Avon may be a cute tourist town today, but Terry Deary reveals that the birthplace of Shakespeare was far from pleasant, with civil war struggles and beheadings making its history horrible.
THE COMPANY BUILDS PLANETS. Kin Arad is a high-ranking official of the Company. After twenty-one decades of living, and with the help of memory surgery, she is at the top of her profession. Discovering two of her employees have placed a fossilized plesiosaur in the wrong stratum, not to mention the fact it is holding a placard which reads, `End Nuclear Testing Now`, doesn`t dismay the woman who built a mountain range in the shape of her initials during her own high-spirited youth. But then came discovery of something which did intrigue Kin Arad. A flat earth was something
ISBN: 0-552-13325-6
Издательство:
Corgi Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
From the author of the bestseller "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian" comes a tender and hilarious novel about a crew of migrant workers from three continents who are forced to flee their English strawberry field for a journey across England in pursuit of a better future.
