`Twas the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas and little Joshua Barker is in desperate need of a Christmas miracle. Josh is sure he saw Santa take a shovel to the head and now the seven year old has only one prayer: Please Santa, come back from the dead! But coming to Earth, seeking a small child whose wish needs granting, is none other than Archangel Raziel. Unfortunately, he`s not sporting the brightest halo in the bunch and before you can say `Kris Kringle`, he`s botched his sacred mission and sent the residents of Pine Cove headlong into Christmas chaos, culminating in the most hilarious and horrifying holiday party the town has ever seen.
ISBN: 978-1-84149-618-4
Издательство:
Orbit
Дата выхода: август 2011
Meet Oliver Tate, 15. Convinced that his father is depressed (`Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner`) and his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher, `a hippy-looking twonk`, he embarks on a hilariously misguided campaign to bring the family back together. Meanwhile, he is also trying to lose his virginity - before he turns sixteeen - to his pyromaniac girlfriend Jordana. Will Oliver succeed in either aim? Submerge yourself in Submarine and find out ...
ISBN: 978-0-241-95515-4
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: март 2013
Jackie Brighton`s life as a succubus is going great: she`s gone from mousy to bombshell, and although she has to have sex every forty-eight hours or die, she has two hot guys - the vampire Zane and the angel Noah - to scratch her Itch. But then her Itch accelerates to every twenty-four hours, and she`s suddenly waking people`s unconscious just by touching them. Something`s out of control so she and Remy, her mentor, go on an adventure-filled road trip to New Orleans to consult with the oldest succubus in the United States. Jackie learns she`s been cursed by a vampire queen - and reversing the curse demands a price she`s not willing to pay.
Make-or-break decisions involving millions of dollars are all in a day`s work for Christian Gillette, chairman of Everest Capital, New York`s most renowned private equity firm. He`s taken on the toughest, most powerful, and often most dangerous adversaries and prevailed-all the while honing his skill for being cool under fire, literally. But now Gillette will be put to the ultimate test. He`s offered the chance to seal a deal unlike any other, one that goes beyond boardrooms, balance sheets, and even Everest itself-one that will leave its mark on history. Gillette is no stranger to Jesse Wood, the first African American president of the United States, having been Wood`s chosen running mate in his historic bid for the White House. Though...
ISBN: 978-0-345-48063-7
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Lucas Davenport knows why people kill. Some do it for thrills. Some do it for profit. Some do it because they must. But when his team guns down two bank robbers in the middle of a heist, Davenport falls prey to the purest, simplest criminal motivation: revenge. For the husband of one of the two dead robbers wants Davenport to suffer as he has. So he`s not going after Davenport himself; he`s going after his
ISBN: 978-0-7434-8421-3
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Kate Bloom`s ordered world is turned upside down when notorious bad boy and superstar athlete Jesse Chapman comes home. Seeing him again reminds Kate of all the reasons she harbored a Texas-sized crush on him back when they were kids. But she isn`t a little girl anymore… and she`s ready to show this hell-raising playboy just how sexy she can be. After a reporter starts digging into his past, Jesse Chapman returns home looking for space. The last thing he needs is a distraction, but that`s just what he gets when he sees his little Katie. Suddenly the girl next door is hot and sexy-and more than even this legend can handle. Формат: 10,5 см x 17,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-345-46271-8
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student`s ability. Pilot Don Radcliffe returns to
ISBN: 978-0-521-68651-8
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Saucy, shimmering, loud and larger than life - come get your sugar fix! It`s survival of the fittest at Ravendene Comprehensive - the terrifying teenage jungle for which Kim Lewis must trade her safe, posh private school. But help is at hand - in the unlikely form of the rude, raucous, toxic and tantalising Maria (aka Sugar) Sweet, queen of the `Ravers`. As Kim falls quickly under her spell, and gambles her good-girl past for an exciting life of late-night parties and daring emotion, she must ask herself a disturbing question: has she fallen in love with her best friend?
ISBN: 978-0-330-41583-5
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: август 2011
From the #1 New York Times bestseller, the third of a new generation of Wild Cards tales In 1946, an alien virus that rewrites human DNA was accidentally unleashed in the skies over New York City. It killed ninety percent of those it infected. Nine percent survived to mutate into tragically deformed creatures. And one percent gained superpowers. The Wild Cards shared-universe series, created and edited since 1987 by New York Times #1 bestseller George R. R. Martin (The American Tolkien - Time magazine) along with Melinda Snodgrass, is the tale of the history of the world since then - and of the heroes among the one percent. Ranging from New York and New England to ravaged Africa and New Orleans, encompassing war, devastation, and...
ISBN: 978-0-7653-5714-4
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Several years after emigrating from the USSR, the author discovers the battered suitcase he had brought with him gathering dust at the back of a wardrobe. As he opens the suitcase, the seemingly undistinguished items he finds inside take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he acquired them. A poplin shirt evokes the bittersweet story of courtship and marriage, a pair of boots calls up the hilarious conclusion to an official banquet, two pea-green crepe socks bring back memories of his partly successful attempt to become a black-market racketeer, while a double-breasted suit reminds him of when he was approached by the KGB to spy on a Swedish writer.
ISBN: 978-1-84749-178-7
Издательство:
Alma Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
A sequel to her beloved bestselling book, "Paula", Isabel Allende`s new memoir is the inspirational story of a remarkable woman-mother, step-mother, grandmother, wife and lover, fiercely loyal friend, and dedicated writer-and of the unusual extended family Allende creates after the tragic loss of her daughter Paula.
When dynamic, power-dressing Christie blows in like a warm wind to take over their department, five very different women find themselves thrown together at work. But none of them could have predicted the fierce bond of friendship that her leadership would Anna, 39, is reeling from the loss of her fiance, who ran off with a much younger woman. Her pride in tatters, these days Anna finds it difficult to leave the house. So when a handsome, mysterious stranger takes an interest in her, she`s not sure whether she can learn to trust again? Then there`s Grace, in her fifties, trapped in a loveless marriage with a man she married because, unable to have children of her own, she fell in love with his motherless brood. Grace worries that Dawn is...
ISBN: 978-1-84739-283-1
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Grady beautiful, rich, flame-haired, defiant is the sort of girl people stare at across a room. The daughter of an important man, who people want to be introduced to. A girl to whom people sense something is going to happen. But her privileged society life of parties, debutantes and dresses leaves her wanting more. And excitement comes in the form of the highly unsuitable Clyde, a Brooklyn-born, Jewish parking attendant. When Grady`s parents leave her alone for the first time in their New York penthouse one summer, their secret affair intensifies. As a heat wave envelops the city, Grady gets in deeper and deeper and cares less about the consequences. Soon, though, she will be forced to make decisions choices that will forever affect her...
ISBN: 978-0-14-118858-4
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Knitting and life are both about beginnings and endings. That`s why it makes sense for Lydia Goetz, owner of A Good Yarn on Seattle`s Blossom Street, to offer a class called Knit to Quit. It`s for people who want to quit something - or someone - and start over.
Edith Wharton (1862—1937) was an American novelist and short story writer. Her works show the lives of people of the late nineteenth century, the times of decline in American history. She was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921. Wharton also was familiar with many famous people of the time, including President Theodore Roosevelt. Set in the small town of North Dormer, New England, the novel "Summer" follows eighteen-year-old librarian Charity Royall during her sexual awakening against the background of the cruel treatment by the father of her child, Lucius Harney, who doesn`t want to marry her. Written in Wharton`s firm style, the prose of this novella turns reading into sheer pleasure.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07839-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Poor Sir Buckstone Abbott, Bart! Not only does he own in Walsingford Hall one of the least attractive stately homes in the country, but he has to take in paying guests to keep it upright. So when it seems a rich (if not very nice) continental princess might buy it, he`s overjoyed - particularly as he`s being rooked by the publisher of his sporting memoirs. His daughter Jane comes up trumps in the company of the playwright Joe - but not before engagements are broken and fortunes lost and made. Формат издания: 13 см х 19,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-09-951416-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
