Katie Wilkinson has found the perfect man at last - but one day he disappears from her life, leaving behind only a diary for her to read. The diary was written by a new mother, as a keepsake for her baby son. In it she touchingly recounts the initial romance between herself and the child`s father, and the unparalleled joy that motherhood has brought her. As Katie reads this moving account, it becomes clear that the lover who has left her is the same man as the husband and father in the diary. She reads on, filled with terror and hope as she struggles to understand what has happened - and whether her new love has a prayer of surviving. An unforgettable love story - at once heartbreaking and full of hope.
ISBN: 978-0-7472-6729-4
Издательство:
Hodder
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A Dutch girl raised in South Africa among the Kaffirs. Lonely, she gazes from shore over the waves of a storm-tossed sea, and dreams of a brother entering her and soon finds herself face-to-face with a shipwrecked waif cast ashore by the storm.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06609-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Merry Gentry is not your average private investigator. Half human, half faerie, she`s caught in a struggle that threatens not only her life, but the lives of those she desires and holds dear. Her very existence and her rightful place on the throne of Faerie have long depended on her ability to produce an heir - and now, after many failed attempts, the services of her royal guards have found her It is a triumphant moment, but revelation follows revelation: for Merry carries two babies, and she knows they have more than one And of course, there are those of her own flesh and blood who want Merry dead, but she is a fighter and wields a wild magic. And this is her world, where the magical and the mortal intertwine, where folklore, fantasy...
ISBN: 978-0-553-81919-9
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: май 2012
Created out of the swamp through a freak accident, Swamp Thing is an elemental creature who uses the forces of nature and the wisdom of the plant kingdom to fight the polluted world s self-destruction. Swamp Thing . . . the only one who can save mankind.
- A beautiful retelling of the poignant tale by Hans Christian Andersen. - Appealing original illustrations by Jenny Press. - A hardback giftbook with a colourful satin ribbon bookmark. - Part of Young Reading Series 2 for readers growing in confidence.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-6777-2
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Why are we more likely to fall in love when we feel in danger? Why would an experienced pilot disregard his training and the rules of the aviation industry, leading to the deadliest airline crash in history? Why do we find it near-impossible to re-evaluate our first impressions of a person or situation, even when the evidence shows we were wrong? Discover the answers in "Sway". We all believe we are rational beings, yet the truth is that we’re much more prone to irrational behaviour than we realise or like to admit. In this compelling book, Ori and Rom Brafman reveal why. Looking at irrational behaviour in fields as diverse as medicine, archaeology and the legal system, they chart the psychological undercurrents that influence even our...
ISBN: 978-0-7535-1682-9
Издательство:
Virgin Publishing
Дата выхода: июль 2011
"Sweeney Todd" Book/CD-Rom for Pack: Level 3 18th Century London, Sweeney Todd runs a successful barber`s shop, but his neighbours worry about his strange behaviour. Is he hiding something? Tobias, his young employee, thinks he is. Then other people, searching for missing friends, become interested in his shop.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-3203-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: август 2011
This title comes with a new introduction by Dick Collins. The exploits of Sweeney Todd, `The Demon Barber of Fleet Street`, have been recounted many times in plays, films and musicals, but the origins of the character largely were forgotten for many years. "The String of Pearls" - the original tale of Sweeney Todd, a classic of British horror - was first published as a weekly serial in 1846-7 by Edward Lloyd, the King of the Penny Dreadfuls. One of the earliest detective stories, it became an important source for Bram Stoker`s "Dracula", but it was after over 150 years of obscurity that it appeared first in book form in the Wordsworth edition published in 2005. The one great mystery that has surrounded the book is who the author was - or...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-632-4
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
An uplifting story about confronting big emotions from the author of The Night Box, stunningly illustrated by Julia Sarda.Ed`s bad mood begins as something really small, hardly a thing at all.But before long it grows, gathers pace, and spreads through the whole town.Can Ed sweep his troubles away?A wonderful bedtime story for children aged 3 years and up, perfect for helping children learn to recognise and deal with big emotions.Louise Greig is an award-winning poet and a children`s picture book author with a unique, lyrical voice. Her childhood was filled with animals, the poems of Robert Louis Stevenson and picture books by iconic children`s writers such as Margaret Wise Brown, Charlotte Zolotow, Ruth Krauss, Maurice Sendak, Astrid...
ISBN: 9781405283779
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
Goldy Schulz is thrilled to be catering a holiday breakfast feast for the staff of the Aspen Meadow Library. But little does she know that on the menu is a large helping of murder. While setting up at the library, Goldy spots a woman lurking in the stacks who bears a striking resemblance to Sandee Brisbane—the Sandee Brisbane who killed Goldy`s ex-husband, the Jerk. But Sandee is supposed to be or so everyone believes. Goldy`s suspicions mount when the body of Drew Wellington, a former district attorney, is found in a corner of the library, with a map worth thousands of dollars stashed in his clothing. Goldy is convinced that Sandee, a confessed felon, is involved. But the holiday madness is only just beginning for Goldy. Soon she`s...
Returning to the scene of Cannery Row - the weedy lots, junk heaps and flop houses of Monterey - Steinbeck brings to life in Sweet Thursday the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tears. He again explores the common bounds of humanity and love which make goodness and happiness possible.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118552-1
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
These dazzling short works are crafted with all the weight and resonance of the novels for which E. L. Doctorow is famous. You will find yourself set down in a mysterious redbrick house in rural Illinois (`A House on the Plains`), working things out with a baby-kidnapping couple in California (`Baby Wilson`), living on a religious-cult commune in Kansas (`Walter John Harmon`), sharing the heartrending cross-country journey of a young woman navigating her way through three bad marriages (`Jolene: A Life`), and witnessing an FBI special agent at a personal crossroads while he investigates a grave breach of White House Security (`Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden`). Comprised in a variety of moods and voices, these remarkable portrayals of...
ISBN: 978-0-349-12019-5
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: август 2011
Cambridge student Serena Frome`s beauty and intelligence make her the ideal recruit for MI5. The year is 1972. The Cold War is far from over. England`s legendary intelligence agency is determined to manipulate the cultural conversation by funding writers whose politics align with those of the government. The operation is code named "Sweet Tooth." Serena, a compulsive reader of novels, is the perfect candidate to infiltrate the literary circle of a promising young writer named Tom Haley. At first, she loves his stories. Then she begins to love the man. How long can she conceal her undercover life? To answer that question, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage: trust no one. Once again, Ian McEwan`s mastery dazzles us in this...
In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950 - and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia’s family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. “I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary....
It should have been a simple job. But for Garrett, a human detective in a world of gnomes, tracking down the woman to whom his dead pal Danny left a fortune in silver is no slight task. Even with the aid of Morley, the toughest half-elf around, Garrett isn`t sure he`ll make it out alive from a land where magic can be murder, the dead still talk, and vampires are always hungry for human blood.
ISBN: 978-0-451-45070-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Genevieve Taylor is a Sidhe, one of the noble fae, and she`s unusual, even in present-day London where celebrity vampires, eccentric goblins and scheming lesser fae mix freely with the human population. Genny is a rising star at , where she finds the M` in magic - and that invariably leads to mischief, malice and - too often - murder. is affiliated to the Witch Council, whose ancient tenets prohibit any contact with vampires. Genny also works as a volunteer at a clinic which treats victims of vampire attacks. Then there`s her extra-curricular activity, extracting vulnerable fae lured by the local fang gangs. Genny certainly doesn`t wants any closer involvement with the vampire community. But when Mr October, one of the hot calendar...
ISBN: 978-0-575-08614-2
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A moving and intensely felt examination of the lengths to which we will go to seek protection and security in others. Returning to haunted Cornish landscapes familiar from other Gale novels, it is the story of individuals in search of a family. Dido, the nine-year-old heroine and emotional centre of Patrick Gale`s latest painful comedy, knows that the adults who surround her, the adults who should know better, depend on her for happiness. So who is she to turn to when her short life turns upside down and tragic family history threatens to repeat itself. Eliza, the clever, depressive aunt who has brought Dido up, and whose brilliant academic career has foundered due to the demands of unlooked-for motherhood, tries and fails to give Dido...
ISBN: 978-0-00-730765-4
Издательство:
Collins
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
On a shimmeringly hot Sunday in May, Louise is at a neighbour's pool with her daughters - and glaring at her resentfully is her estranged husband Barnaby. While the children splash and shriek in the cool, blue waters, she lies blissfully back in the sun and dreams of Cassian, the charismatic new lawyer in her day seems perfect. But suddenly the bliss is shattered. The consequences of a terrible accident develop into a drama of recriminations, jealousy and legal power-play. Friendships crumble, the village is split, and the needs of a child become secondary to the dangerous contest in which the grown-ups are engaged.
ISBN: 978-0-552-77671-4
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
A breathtakingly beautiful supermodel disappears from a swimsuit photo shoot at the most glamorous hotel in Hawaii. Only hours after she goes missing, Kim McDaniels` parents receive a terrifying phone call. Fearing the worst, they board the first flight to Maui and begin the hunt for their daughter. Ex-cop Ben Hawkins, now a reporter for the LA Times, gets the McDaniels assignment. The ineptitude of the local police force defies belief - Ben has to start his own investigation for Kim McDaniels to have a prayer. And for Ben to have the story of his life. All the while, the killer sets the stage for his next production. His audience expects the best - and they won`t be disappointed. Swimsuit is a heart-pounding story of fear and desire,...
ISBN: 978-0-09-953897-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
