"The Gruffalo" is a modern classic and one of the most popular picture books of recent years, with over 2 million copies sold worldwide. Featuring all the characters from the beloved story, this great-value book is packed with scenes to color in, as well as imaginative drawing activities. It`s a must for Gruffalo fans!
ISBN: 978-0-230-70859-4
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
With a consuming enthusiasm for the paintings of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), art collector Sterling Clark assembled one of the greatest private collections of Renoir`s work during the first half of the twentieth century. Today the masterpieces he so admired form a vital part of the Impressionist holdings of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. "The Genius of Renoir: Paintings from the Clark" offers a fascinating, fresh look at the thirty-two Renoir paintings in the Clark collection, featuring beautiful digital colour reproductions created especially for this volume. This book brings to light new and often revelatory scholarship concerning the importance of each work both within Renoir`s oeuvre and within the Clark...
Vina Aspara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. This is her story, and that of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses, seeks, and again finds her over and over throughout his own extraordinary life in music.
Read this history-making serial novel - from cliffhanger to cliffhanger - in its entirety. When it first appeared, one volume per month, Stephen King`s The Green Mile was an unprecedented publishing triumph: all six volumes ended up on the New York Times bestseller list - simultaneously - and delighted millions of fans the world over. Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky", Cold Mountain`s electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he`s never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child,...
Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. This book consists of two excellent novels: an exciting boxing story "The Scarlet Plague" and an intriguing post-apocalyptic tale "The Game".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07478-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
In Japanese gardens, visitors find nature consdensed and brought to perfection: trees are trained and sculpted; the finest natural landscapes are reproduced in miniature; and the seasons are celebrated with spring blossom and the fiery leaves of autumn. In this introduction to Japanese gardens Helena Attlee captures the essence of Japanese garden style and gives an outline of its history. She then explores in detail 28 of the great Japanese gardens, explaining their character and nature. Alex Ramsay`s superb photographs, specially taken for the book, illustrate every aspect of the gardens.
ISBN: 978-0-7112-2971-6
Издательство:
Frances Lincoln
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The Great War" is a monumental six volumes description of the events of World War I. Doyle did a great job interviewing numerous soldiers and generals, reading their letters and diaries to get a full picture of the events. These books cover all the main battles of the British Army, including detailed descriptions of bravery and courage.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07190-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
A timeless classic of modern-day piracy from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Aboard the SS Campari, all is not well. For Johnny Carter, the Chief Officer, the voyage has already begun badly; but it’s only when the Campari sails that evening, after a succession of delays that he realises something is seriously wrong. A member of the crew is suddenly missing and the stern-to-stern search only serves to increase tension. Then violence erupts and suddenly the whole ship is in danger. Is the Campari a victim of modern day piracy? And what of the strange cargo hidden below the decks?
Apparently the Greeks (we are talking about the Ancient variety) were a rather groovy bunch. The boys didn`t start school until they were seven, and girls didn`t have to go at all. Greek children invented all manner of cool games just for something to do, and the grown-ups invented the Olympic Games and made the men run naked. But as this Horrible History shows you, things were not always quite so and some of the things the Groovy Greeks did were actually, well, quite horrible! So read on to * Why groovy Greek girls ran about naked pretending to be bears * Who had the world`s first flushing toilet * Why dedicated doctors tasted their patients` ear wax! Ugh! ... plus many more yucky facts about the Groovy Greeks!
ISBN: 978-0-439-94402-1
Издательство:
Scholastic Inc
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
When Mario Puzo`s blockbuster saga, The Godfather, was first published in 1969, critics hailed it as one of the greatest novels of our time, and "big, turbulent, highly entertaining." Since then, The Godfather has gone on to become a part of America`s national culture, as well as a trilogy of landmark motion pictures. Now, in this newly-repackaged 30th Anniversary Edition, readers old and new can experience this timeless tale of crime for themselves. From the lavish opening scene where Don Corleone entertains guests and conducts business at his daughter`s wedding...to his son, Michael, who takes his father`s place to fight for his family...to the bloody climax where all family business is finished, The Godfather is an epic story of...
ISBN: 0-451-16771-6
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: январь 1999
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This volume is a great historical work that contains author`s personal experiences in the second Anglo-Boer War as a military doctor. According to the author himself, he did everything he could to give a clear description of the events.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07187-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "The Golden Lion of Granpere" was written when Trollope was at the height of his popularity. The novel concerns the events in the lives of an innkeeper`s family; the relationship between George Voss, the landlord`s son, and his beloved Marie, the rivalry between Voss and another suitor for Marie`s hand in marriage, and the results of a betrothal based on mutual misunderstandings.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08359-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2020
Level 4. Contemporary / British English (Available April 2008) Don Vito Corleone is the Godfather` of New York`s richest Mafia family. His business is built on fear and murder. Vito`s son Michael wants a quiet life away from the family business. But that`s not easy, and slowly Michael becomes the most dangerous gangster of them all.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8219-4
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
F. S. Fitzgerald was an American writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby, his third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. In planning his novel, F.Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "I want to write something new, something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." He committed all his imaginative resources to the project. This exemplary novel has been acclaimed by generations of readers. It is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s, the story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan.
ISBN: 978-5-517-05752-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2021
Evil Shall. Harriet Vanger, Sixteen Years Old. Missing, Presumed Dead, She Vanished Into Thin Air. The Case Is Closed, But Is A Killer Still At Large? With Evil. Tortured By The Loss Of His Niece, Henrik Vanger Asks Disgraced Journalist Mikael Blomkvist To Investigate. But The Family`s Dark Secrets Are Buried Deep, And In The Shadows Lies Someone Who Will Do Anything To Stop Them Being Exposed. Be Expelled. Watching Everyone Is An Unpredictable And Dangerous Security Specialist. Lisbeth Salander -
ISBN: 978-0-85738-995-4
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Cameraman Richard Grey`s memory has blanked out the few weeks before he was injured in a car bomb explosion. When he is visited by a girl who seems to have been his lover, his attempts to recall the forgotten period produce an odyssey through France and conflicting accounts of what happened. When Susan Kewley speaks to him of that time, he finds himself glimpsing a terrible twilight world - the world of "the glamour".
ISBN: 978-0-575-07579-5
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011