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
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
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.
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
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
A dark and handsome stranger opens a shop in the quiet village of Woodend. Anna begins to wonder about the visitors who come to Dave Slatin`s shop. What exactly do they buy?
ISBN: 978-0-230-03513-3
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Сколько себя помнит, Дрю Андерсон всегда была странной. Странной? А слышать, видеть и чувствовать обитателей темного мира, о которых думают не иначе как о выдумке — это не странно?! А убить отца, превратившегося в зомби и жаждущего вашей смерти, — обычная история?! А в 16 лет остаться сиротой и дружить с вампирами и оборотнями — нормальная жизнь подростка?! Однако Дрю не из робких девочек!
ISBN: 978-1-84916-996-7
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Their distant, nostalgic memories of home, their sence of anonymity in a foreign land, the terrifying pang of vulnerability they feel as they step over the threshold into an alien world... Marquez`s strange pilgrims - the ageing prostitute preparing for death by teaching her dog to weep at her grave, the panicked husband scared for the life of his injured wife, the old man who allows his mind to wander on a long-haul flight from Paris - experience with all his humour, warmth and colour what it is to be a Latin American adrift in Europe or, indeed, any outsider living far from home.
ISBN: 978-0-14-103249-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
Max Frei has discovered that the one place he really fits in is the parallel world of Echo. In our world he`s a loser, an insomniac with dubious social skills and an addiction to cigarettes. But in Echo, the reality is far stranger. There he is Sir Max, a superb magician and one of the powerful few chosen to defend the land against all possible enemies. And he`s finally happy. But when one of his esteemed Knight colleagues tells Max of a strange dream - one that seems disturbingly familiar to Max - Max realises he will have to investigate. The subsequent series of events will remind our hero - and the people he protects - just how tenuous happiness can be. It could be his most dangerous mission yet, but The Stranger`s Magic may win him...
ISBN: 978-0-575-08984-6
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
Роберт Льюис Стивенсон - один из самых известных классиков, шотландский писатель и поэт, автор приключенческих романов, представитель английского неоромантизма, чьи произведения покоряют сердца читателей XXI века. "Странная история доктора Джекила и мистера Хайда" была написана автором после прочтения романа Ф.М. Достоевского "Преступление и наказание". Она представляет собой...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05152-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
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
