Creating George Stark was easy. Getting rid of him won`t The sparrows are flying again. The idea - unbidden, inexplicable - haunts the edge of Thad Beaumont`s should be happy. For years now it is his secret persona `George Stark`, author of super-violent pulp thrillers, who has paid the family bills. But now, Thad is writing seriously again under his own name, and his menacing pseudonym has been buried the sparrows are flying again, and something is terribly wrong in Thad Beaumont`s world.
ISBN: 978-1-4447-0815-8 Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
ISBN: 9780141195643 Издательство: Penguin Group Дата выхода: январь 2003
ISBN: 9780241639191 Дата выхода: январь 2023
ISBN: 9780751505955 Издательство: Orion Publishers Дата выхода: январь 2007
Once, in a gods-forsaken hellhole called Koom Valley, trolls and dwarfs met in bloody combat. Centuries later, each species still views the other with simmering animosity. Lately, the influential dwarf, Grag Hamcrusher, has been fomenting unrest among Ankh-Morpork`s more diminutive citizens-a volatile situation made far worse when the pint-size provocateur is discovered bashed to with a troll club lying conveniently nearby. Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch is aware of the impor tanceofsolvingthe Hamcrusher homicide without delay. (Vimes`s second most-pressing responsibility, in fact, next to always being home at six sharp to read Where`s My Cow?to Sam, Jr.) But more than one corpse is waiting for Vimes in the eerie, summoning...
ISBN: 978-0-06-081531-8 Дата выхода: май 2008
When Andrea first sets foot in the plush Manhattan offices of Runway she knows nothing. She`s never heard of the world`s most fashionable magazine, or its feared and fawned-over editor, Miranda Priestly. Soon she knows way too much. She knows it`s a sacking offence to wear less than a three-inch heel to work - but there`s always a fresh pair of Manolos in the accessories cupboard. She knows that eight stone is fat. That you can charge anything - cars, manicures, clothes - to the Runway account, but you must never leave your desk, or let Miranda`s coffee get cold. That at 3 am, when your boyfriend`s dumping you because you`re always working and your best friend`s just been arrested, if Miranda phones with her latest unreasonable demand,...
ISBN: 978-0-00-724191-0 Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Дата выхода: январь 2006
ISBN: 9780099570554 Дата выхода: январь 2012
ISBN: 9781408865163 Издательство: Bloomsbury Дата выхода: январь 2016
In the fourth powerful novel in Stephen King`s bestselling fantasy quest, The Dark Tower beckons Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and the four companions he has gathered along the , having narrowly escaped one world, they set out on a terrifying journey across the scarred urban wasteland to brave a new world where hidden dangers lie at every junction: a malevolent computer-run monorail hurtling towards self-destruction, Roland`s relentlessly cunning old enemy, and the temptation of the wizard`s diabolical glass ball, a powerful force in Roland`s first love affair. A tale of long-ago love and adventure involving a beautiful and quixotic woman named Susan the Tower is
ISBN: 978-1-4447-2347-2 Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
ISBN: 9781409186182 Дата выхода: январь 2022
Step into the wild world of the Warrior Cats - wild cat excitement, epic battles and tribal rivalry! Myths and legends surround the four cat clans, in this thrilling feline fantasy adventure.The thrilling saga of battling cat clans concludes in the sixth book of this fantastic feline fantasy.ThunderClan`s darkest hour is upon them, as Tigerstar`s quest for power plunges all the Clans into the most terrible danger any cat has ever faced. Fireheart prepares to pit his wits against his arch-enemy, but the real danger he must face is even more terrible.The time has come for phrophecies to unfold and for heroes to rise...
ISBN: 9780007140077 Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
From the wild imagination of Kenyon comes the humorous and suspenseful manga debut of the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling Dark-Hunter series.
ISBN: 9780312376871 Дата выхода: июль 2009
As The Dream of the Celt opens, it is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London`s Pentonville Prison. Dublin lies in ruins after the disastrous Easter Rising led by his comrades of the Irish Volunteers. He has been caught after landing from a German submarine. For the past year he has attempted to raise an Irish brigade from prisoners of war to fight alongside the Germans against the British Empire that awarded him a knighthood only a few years before. And now his petition for clemency is threatened by the leaking of his private diary and his secret life as a gay Vargas-Llosa, with his incomparable gift for powerful historical narrative, takes the reader on a journey back through a remarkable life dedicated to...
ISBN: 978-0-571-27574-8 Дата выхода: январь 2013
It is bitter mid-winter on the Swedish island of Oland, and Katrine and Joakim Westin have moved with their children to the boarded-up manor house at Eel Point. But their remote idyll is soon shattered when Katrine is found drowned off the rocks nearby. And the old house begins to exert a strange hold over him.
ISBN: 978-0-552-77461-1 Издательство: Transworld publishers Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
To give birth to her "chap", demon-mother Mia has usurped the body of Susannah Dean and used the power of Black Thirteen to transport to New York City in the summer of 1999. The city is strange to terrifying to the "daughter of none" who shares her body and mind. Saving the Tower depends not only on rescuing Susannah but also on securing the vacant lot Calvin Tower owns before he loses it to the Sombra Corporation. Enlisting the aid of Manni senders, the remaining ka-tet climbs to the Doorway discovers that magic has its own mind. It falls to the boy, the billy bumbler, and the fallen priest to find Susannah-Mia, who in a struggle to cope - with each other and with an alien environment - "go todash" to Castle Discordia on the border of...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-0392-7 Издательство: Simon & Schuster UK Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
ISBN: 9780141196626 Издательство: Penguin Group Дата выхода: январь 2012
Chase through the streets of Elizabethan London in this historical adventure from the creator of Alex Rider. London is dirty, distant and but that`s where orphan Tom Falconer is heading. And he`s got a whole assortment of vicious criminals hot on his heels. Tom is helpless and alone until he meets Moll Cutpurse, a thirteen-year-old pickpocket. Together they find themselves chased across the city by the murderous Ratsey. But it`s only on the first night of a new play - The Devil and his Boy - that Tom realizes that the fate of the Queen and indeed the entire country rests in his hands. This title is from the creator of Alex Rider series which has sold ten million books worldwide.
ISBN: 978-1-4063-0569-2 Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
ISBN: 9781784876401 Издательство: Vintage Classics Дата выхода: январь 2020
A 13th-century French version of the Camelot legend, writen by an unknown author. It depicts a Round Table diminished in strength after the Quest for the Holy Grail. Whispers of Queen Guinevere`s infidelity distress King Arthur, leaving him no match for the machinations of Sir Mordred.
ISBN: 978-0-14-044255-7 Издательство: Penguin Books Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Treasure Island". Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. This volume includes fourteen amazing linked short stories like "Challoner`s adventure: The Squire of Dames", "Story of the Destroying Angel", "The Squire of Dames" and "Somerset`s adventure: The Superfluous Mansion". .
ISBN: 978-5-521-07791-5 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Чарльз Хэйес - известный американских писателей начала XX века. Его произведения продолжают вдохновлять сердца читателей по всему миру. «Тёмный фрегат» - бестселлер Хэйеса, по праву удостоен медали Ньюбери. Роман посвящен приключениям молодого английского моряка XVII века. Читателя ждут незабываемые и опасные приключения, яркие персонажи и лихой сюжет, который никого не оставит равнодушным! Читайте...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05720-7 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: август 2017
ISBN: 9781838854119 Дата выхода: январь 2021
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Deerslayer was the last of Cooper`s Leatherstocking Tales to be written, however, it is considered to be the prequel to the rest of the series. This novel introduces Natty Bumppo as "Deerslayer": a young frontiersman in early 18th-century New York, who objects to the practice of taking scalps, on grounds that every living thing should follow "the gifts" of its nature.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07971-1 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: июль 2018
Howard Lovecraft (1890—1937) was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Despite the fact that he was virtually unknown before he died, today he is known as the most influential author in his genre. "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" is a novella, which combines elements of horror and fantasy into an epic tale that illustrates the scope and wonder of humankind`s ability to dream. Randolph Carter dreams of a majestic sunset city, but each time he is abruptly snatched away before he can see it up close. Undaunted, Carter resolves to go to Kadath, where the gods of dreams live.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08213-1 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body and the floor around him covered in baffling symbols. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci- clues visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Even more startling, the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion - an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others - and he guarded a breathtaking historical secret. Unless Langdon and...
ISBN: 978-0-552-16992-9 Издательство: Transworld publishers Дата выхода: март 2013
