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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
A young and successful journalist working in New York, Maureen English appears to have the perfect life and family. But Maureen`s husband, a highly respected fellow reporter, has in private a tendency towards alcohol and violent abuse. When the situation at home becomes intolerable, Maureen takes her baby daughter and flees. In a Maine fishing town she assumes a new identity and spends six weeks battling sub-zero temperatures, the intrusive glare of the townsfolk - and her fears of discovery. Against the force of the wintry sea - the cawing of the gulls, the lobstermen hauling their catch, the press of waves against the rocks - Maureen settles into the rhythms of a new life. Two married men pursue her, and one captures her heart. But...
ISBN: 978-0-349-10586-4
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
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
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
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...
