In the sprawling flatlands of Florida, 28-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure. Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, a situation that caused him to flee his father and step-mother in New York 7 years ago. What keeps him in Florida is his relationship with a teenage high-school girl, Pilar, but when her family threatens to expose their relationship, Miles decides to protect Pilar by going back to Brooklyn, where he settles in a squat to prepare himself to face the inevitable confrontation with his father that he has been avoiding for years. Pulsing with the energy of Auster`s previous novel,...
A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. In that small apartment, `Black` and `White`, as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history mining the origins of two diametrically opposing world views, they begin a dialectic redolent of the best of Beckett. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con and ex-addict, is the more hopeful of the men though he is just as desperate to convince White of the power of faith as White is to deny it. Their aim is no less than this: to discover the meaning of life. Deft, spare, and...
ISBN: 978-0-330-51819-2
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
There are places in the world where darkness rules, where it`s unwise to walk. Sunshine knew that. But there hadn`t been any trouble out at the lake for years, and she needed a place to be alone for a while. Unfortunately, she wasn`t alone. She never heard them coming. Of course you don`t, when they`re took her clothes and sneakers. They dressed her in a long red gown. And they shackled her to the wall of an abandoned mansion-within easy reach of a figure stirring in the moonlight. She knows that he is a vampire. She knows that she`s to be his dinner, and that when he is finished with her, she will be dead. Yet, when light breaks, she finds that he has not attempted to harm her. And now it is he who needs her to help him survive the
ISBN: 978-0-553-81583-2
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: август 2011
The observatory on the moon has the proof. Life on earth will be incinerated in April 2037 by a massive solar flare. It is building down and it is unstoppable. With only 18 months until doomsday mankind must unite and embark on the most ambitious engineering project ever: the construction, at the La Grange point between the sun and the earth, of a deflecting mirror the diameter of our home planet. The price of failure? Extinction. One scientist, an expert on the sun, predicted the flare. One person who knew nothing about the sun nevertheless knew the exact date that life on earth would come to an end. She had witnessed the bizarre time dislocations brought by the `eyes`. She knows who is responsible.
ISBN: 978-0-575-07801-7
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A superb series of graded readers using the highly acclaimed phonic approach developed by reading expert Ruth Miskin. There are four levels - Blue (the easiest), Green, Purple and Turquoise (the hardest). Each level is linked to one of the core Superphonics books. Green Storybooks practise the sounds taught in Superphonics Book 3. All the Storybooks are fun to read and beautifully designed and illustrated in colour. Spook and Skull focuses on the following sounds: double consonants, `ss` as in `boss`, blended consonants, `ng` as in `ring` and two or three consonants together, `spr` as in `sprang`, and `mp` as in `jump`.
ISBN: 978-0-340-79575-0
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
Sitting among the rows of tills in Supersafe supermarket in the North of England, the fortunes of a young checkout girl are on the brink of change … Linda works the tills at Safeshop. It`s what everyone does. The grammar school girls get the careers; the comp girls get the two-bit college courses and the low wage jobs. But when model agent Rafe brings his disposable razors to Linda`s till, he recognises the raw talent that could transform both their lives. Almost overnight, Linda becomes Crystalline, a supermodel catapulted onto the international stage. But in the blur of first class flights and flashy restaurants, will she begin to forget where Crysatline ends and Linda begins? The bittersweet story of a young checkout girl`s rise to...
ISBN: 978-0-552-77219-8
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
From one of America`s foremost economic and political thinkers comes a vital analysis of our new hypercompetitive and turbo-charged global economy and the effect it is having on American democracy. With his customary wit and insight, Reich shows how widening inequality of income and wealth, heightened job insecurity, and corporate corruption are merely the logical results of a system in which politicians are more beholden to the influence of business lobbyists than to the voters who elected them. Powerful and thought-provoking, "Supercapitalism" argues that a clear separation of politics and capitalism will foster an enviroment in which both business and government thrive, by putting capitalism in the service of democracy, and not the...
ISBN: 978-0-307-27799-2
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Буйная фантазия автора, воплощенная в острых сюжетах с неожиданной развязкой, несомненно, заставит читателя залпом «проглотить» эту книгу. Сквозь внешний мистический налет, присущий многим рассказам сборника, проступают метко подмеченные и остроумно обыгранные автором реалии современности.
ISBN: 985-436-471-2
Издательство:
МЕТ
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2005
Superphonics - the simplest, fastest way to teach your child to read. A superb series of graded readers using the phomic approach. There are four levels - Blue (the easiest), Green, Purple and Turquoise (the hardest). Each level is linked to one of the core Superphonics books. Purple Storybooks practise the sounds taught in Superphonics Book 4. All the Story books are fun to read and beautifully designed and illustrated in colour. Jack and the Beanstalk focuses on the following sounds: `ee` as in `tree`, `e-e` as in `here`, `ea` as in `bean` and `y` as in `hungry`.
In this lively and probing book, award-winning author Pete Earley traces the extraordinary evolution of Las Vegas - from the gaudy Mecca of the Rat Pack era to one of the country`s top family vacation spots. He revisits the city`s checkered history of moguls, mobsters, and entertainers, reveals the real stories of well-known power brokers like Steve Wynn and legends like Howard Hughes and Bugsy Siegel, and offers a fascinating portrait of the life, death, and fantastic rebirth of the Las Vegas Strip. Earley also documents the gripping tale of the entrepreneurs behind the rise and fall and rise again of one of the largest gaming corporations in the nation, Circus - to which he was given unique access. In his trademark you-are-there style,...
ISBN: 978-0-553-57349-7
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Superphonics - the simplest, fastest way to teach your child to read. A superb series of graded readers using the phonic approach. There are four levels - Blue (the easiest), Green, Purple and Turquoise (the hardest). Each level is linked to one of the core Superphonics books. Turquoise Storybooks practise the sounds taught in Superphonics Book 5. All the Storybooks are fun to read and beautifully designed and illustrated in colour. Dragonclaw focuses on the following sounds: `or` as in `thorn`, `aw` as in `straw` and `oor` as in `door`.
In a very near future a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don`t tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, proud author of what may well be the world`s last diary. Despite his job at an outfit called `Post-Human Services`, which attempts to provide immortality for its super-rich clientele, death is clearly stalking this cholesterol-rich morsel of a man. And why shouldn`t it? Lenny`s from a different century. He TOTALLY loves books (or `printed, bound media artifacts` as they`re now known), even though most of his peers find them smelly and annoying. But even more than books, Lenny loves Eunice Park, an impossibly cute and impossibly cruel 24-year-old Korean-American woman who just graduated from Elderbird College with a...
With speedboats and ocean liners, there`s plenty to see and do at the harbour today! The bright, bold illustrations and simple text are accompanied by shaped board pages, making this a perfect book to share with little ones. And with a `Chug, chug!` sound-chip to press on every spread, little readers will love joining in with all the fun at the harbour again and again!
ISBN: 978-0-230-74095-2
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Never fear, Superworm`s here! He can fish Spider out of a well, and rescue Toad from a busy road. But who will come to Superworm`s rescue, when he`s captured by a wicked Wizard Lizard? Luckily, all of Superworm`s insect friends have a cunning plan...
Cambridge English Readers in an exciting new series of original fiction, specially written for learners of English. Graded into six levels - from elementary to advanced - the stories in this series provide easy and enjoyable reading on a wide range of contemporary topics and themes.
ISBN: 0-521-65608-7
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
