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...
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world`s greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman`s life was a series of combustoble combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity and eternal scepticism. Over a period of years, Feynman`s conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped and then set down as they appear here, little changed from their spoken form, giving a wise, funny, passionate and totally honest self-portrait of one of the greatest men of our age.
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y`breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right she will need the help of the Culture. Benevolent, enlightened and almost infinitely resourceful though it may be, the Culture can only do so much for any individual. With the assistance of one of its most powerful - and arguably deranged - warships, Lededje finds herself heading into a combat zone not even sure...
ISBN: 978-1-84149-894-2
Издательство:
Orbit
Дата выхода: август 2011
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. Lededje Y`breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right she will need the help of the Culture. It begins in the realm of the Real. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself.
ISBN: 978-1-84149-895-9
Издательство:
Orbit
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In her most masterful novel of medical suspense, New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen creates a villain of unforgettable evil - and the one woman who can catch him before he kills again. He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, unaware of the horrors they soon will endure. The precision of the killer`s methods suggests he is a deranged man of medicine, propelling the Boston newspapers and the frightened public to name him The Surgeon. The cops` only clue rests with another surgeon, the victim of a nearly identical crime. Two years ago, Dr. Catherine Cordell fought back and killed her attacker before he could complete his assault. Now she hides her fears of intimacy behind a...
ISBN: 978-0-345-44784-5
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In this book Lewis tells of his search for joy, a spiritual journey that led him from the Christianity of his early youth into atheism and then back to Christianity.
ISBN: 978-0-15-687011-5
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
La crise actuelle se terminera un jour, laissant derrière elle d`innombrables victimes et quelques rares vainqueurs. Pourtant, il serait possible à chacun de nous d`en sortir dès maintenant en bien meilleur état que nous n`y sommes entrés. À condition d`en comprendre la logique et le cours, de se servir de connaissances nouvelles accumulées en maints domaines, de ne compter que sur soi, de se prendre au sérieux, de devenir un acteur de son propre destin et d`adopter d`audacieuses stratégies de survie personnelle. Mon propos n`est donc pas ici d`exposer un programme politique pour résoudre cette crise et toutes celles qui viendront, ni de vagues généralités moralisantes,...
Tender Branson, the last surviving member of the Creedish death cult, has commandeered a Boeing 747, emptied of passengers, in order to tell his story to the plane`s black box before it crashes. Brought up by the repressive cult and hired out as a domestic servant, Tender finds himself suddenly famous when his fellow cult members commit suicide.
ISBN: 0-09-928264-X
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
One of Keyes` bestsellers, featuring the single career young women living in Dublin. Vietnamese translation by Do Tuan Anh. In Vietnamese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
ISBN: 978-0-241-95935-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2012
?Dammit,? she realized. ?I think I?m having a nervous Hot-shot magazine editor Lisa Edwards? career is destined for high-rise New York when suddenly she?s diverted to low-rise Dublin. But what can she do about it? Ashling Kennedy, Lisa?s super-organized assistant, worries about everything from her lack of waist to the lack of men in her life. She?s even anxious about of a little bit of raw fish ? Clodagh Kelly is Ashling?s best friend and has her prince, her beautiful kids and a lovely house ? everything in fact that Ashling ever wanted. She should be ? yet, she?s not ? happy.
ISBN: 0-14-027181-3
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
THE SUSPECT Joseph O`Loughlin appears to have the perfect life - a beautiful wife, a loving daughter and a successful career as a clinical psychologist. But nothing can be taken for granted. Even the most flawless existence is only a loose thread away from unravelling. All it takes is a murdered girl, a troubled young patient and the biggest lie of his life. THE DROWNING MAN A lost child. A shattered past. A life going Vincent Ruiz is lucky to be alive. A bullet in the leg, another through the hand, he is discovered clinging to a buoy in the River Thames, losing blood and consciousness fast. It takes six days for him to come out of his coma, and when he does, his nightmare is only just beginning. Because Vincent has no recollection of...
ISBN: 978-0-7515-4426-8
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Joseph O’Loughlin appears to have the perfect life - a beautiful wife, a loving daughter and a successful career as a clinical psychologist. But nothing can be taken for granted. Even the most flawless existence is only a loose thread away from unravelling. All it takes is a murdered girl, a troubled young patient and the biggest lie of his life. Caught in a complex web of deceit and haunted by images of the slain girl, he embarks upon a search that will take him from London to Liverpool and into the darkest recesses of the human mind. Ultimately, he will risk everything to unmask the killer and save his family.
ISBN: 978-0-7515-3479-5
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Mr. and Mrs. Darcy have every intention of enjoying their still newlywed status at Pemberley - until they are confronted with another mysterious situation. Elizabeth Darcy and her beloved husband Fitzwilliam have taken on the responsibility of finding a suitable suitor for Elizabeth`s younger sister, assuring her a proper place in society. A perfect match is found and wedding plans are soon underway, but a change in personality occurs in the soon-to-be model husband, a change so striking as to jeopardize not just the Darcys` social standing but their lives as well. Once again, the Darcys take centre stage as the Regency era`s answer to The Thin Man`s Nick and Nora, searching for truth between tea times amidst the social whirl of Jane...
ISBN: 978-0-7653-5092-3
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
It is a summer`s night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. The household reverberates with shock, not least because the guilty party is surely still among them. Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, the most celebrated detective of his day, reaches Road Hill House a fortnight later. He faces an unenviable task: to solve a case in which the grieving family are the suspects. The murder provokes national hysteria. The thought of what might be festering behind the...
ISBN: 978-1-4088-2452-8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. He stays at the edge of an outcast community inhabited by eccentrics, criminals and the poverty-stricken. Rising above the physical and human squalor around him, his detachment and wry humour enable him to survive dereliction and destitution with dignity. ``Suttree" contains a humour that is Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair reminiscent of Flannery O`Connor` - "Times Literary Supplement". ``Suttree" marks McCarthy`s closest approach to autobiography and is probably the funniest and most unbearably sad of his books` - Stanley...
ISBN: 978-0-330-51123-0
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Katie Wilkinson has found the perfect man at last - but one day, he disappears, leaving behind only a diary, written by his ex-wife, for he to read. She reads on, filled with terror and hope as she struggles to understand what happened - and whether her new love can survive.
ISBN: 978-0-446-61108-4
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
