What does he mean? What`s going on? Are you two thinking of putting Granny into a Home? Thinking is finished`, Natasha told him. `It is decided. The four children, Ivan, Sophie, Tanya and Nicholas, can`t believe it. Their parents are planning to put their grandmother into a Home. She`s a bit of a dotty old lady - sometimes demanding, often annoying - but as much a part of their lives as their shambly house or the whirring of the washing machine. So they decide to take action. They begin `The Granny Project`, with immediate and sensational
ISBN: 978-0-552-55438-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Only with the help of Mikael Blomkvist and the journalists at Millennium magazine can Salander avoid the fate that has been decided for her. Together they form a compelling and dynamic alliance. This final volume of the Millennium Trilogy is the culmination of one of the most mesmerising fictional achievements of our time.
ISBN: 978-1-84916-275-3
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: март 2011
Searingly hot in the summer, bitterly cold in the winter, the ancestral estate of the Golovlyov family is the end of the road. There Anna Petrovna rules with an iron hand over her servants and family-until she loses power to the relentless scheming of her hypocritical son Judas.One of the great books of Russian literature, The Golovlyov Family is a vivid picture of a condemned and isolated outpost of civilization that, for contemporary readers, will recall the otherwordly reality of Macondo in Gabriel Garc
Danny Coughlin is Boston Police Department royalty and the son of one of the city`s most beloved and powerful police captains. His beat is the predominately Italian neighbourhoods of the North End where political dissent is in the air - fresh and intoxicating. On the hunt for hard-line radicals as a favour to his father, Danny is drawn into the ideological fray and finds his loyalties compromised as the police department itself becomes swept up in potentially violent labour strife. Luther Lawrence is on the run. A suspect in a nightclub shooting in Oklahoma, he flees to Boston, leaving his wife behind. He lands a job in the Coughlin household and meets Danny and the family`s Irish maid, Nora, who once had a powerful bond. As the mystery...
ISBN: 978-0-552-77557-1
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence cobbled from legend, memory, police records, the self-aggrandizements of aging crooks, popular journalism, and solid historical research. Asbury presents the definitive work on this subject, an illumination of the gangs of old New York that ultimately gave rise to the modern Mafia and its depiction in films like The Godfather.
ISBN: 0-09-943674-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Сборник лучших рассказов классика американской литературы и основоположника детективного жанра Эдгара По. Произведения изданы в авторской версии в полном объеме. Признанный стилист и психолог Эдгар По на протяжении десятилетий считался эталоном для писателей, работающих в жанре детектива. Издание рассчитано на лиц, владеющих основами английского языка.
ISBN: 9785797404866
Издательство:
Икар
Дата выхода: январь 2008
Данное учебное пособие дает удивительную возможность совершить увлекательное путешествие вглубь истории Соединенных Штанов Америки. В текстах пособия, взятых из оригинальных источников, подробно описывается жизнь первых поселенцев, прибывших на американский континент из разных европейских стран. В книге помещены биографии выдающихся американских политиков, изобретателей и ученых, оказавших...
ISBN: 978-5-406-00887-4
Издательство:
КноРус
Дата выхода: январь 2015
When Kate and Mike Sullivan invite their friend Carlos to sail to the Farallon Islands on their father’s new boat, "The Pelican", they expect to see the fascinating birds and animals which live there. But this exciting boat trip on the Pacific Ocean turns into a night of horror when ghastly ghosts from the past appear… and the three friends make an altogether different discovery
ISBN: 978-8-853-00772-8
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: январь 2011
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. "The Glimpses of the Moon" tells the story of two young and poor New Yorkers, Nick Lansing, and Susy Branch, who are in love and want to marry but can`t decide to do this without the wealth. They both agree to separate when even one of them finds a wealthy partner. However, as they honeymoon with wealthy friends goes on, jealousy and conscience make the idyll crumble.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07840-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, where everyone knows everyone; children who walk to school together grow up and become sweethearts and marry, people gossip and grumble and dream their lives away. For it is a place where change comes slowly. Until one day, beautiful, mysterious Helen McMahon disappears, presumed drowned in the lake, and then the gossip runs wild. The consequences for Helen`s husband, her son, but above all for her daughter, Kit, are unimaginable and will leave not one of their lives unchanged.
ISBN: 978-0-7528-7687-0
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Not being a dentist turns out to be a stroke of good luck for Jerry. If he were, he would not have been summoned to sit on the jury with the delightful Jane, with whom he falls instantly in love. Only then does it suddeny dawn on him that he is already engaged to Vera Upshaw.
ISBN: 0-14-008507-6
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, condemned killers such as "Billy the Kid" Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in "Old Sparky". But good or evil, innocent or guilty, prisoner or guard, none has ever seen the brutal likes of the new prisoner, John Coffey, sentenced to death for raping and murdering two young girls. Is Coffey a devil in human form? Or is he a far, far different kind of being? There are more wonders in heaven and hell than anyone at Cold Mountain can imagine and one of those wonders might just have stepped in amongst them.
