In a hospice in Bury St Edmunds, a man called Daniel is slowly fading away. His friend Maggie sits with him every day; she holds his hand and she listens to the story of his life, to his regrets and to his secrets. And then he tells her about the children he has never met and never will. He talks of them wistfully. His legacy, he calls them. Lydia, Dean and Robyn don`t know each other. Yet. And they are all facing difficult changes. Lydia is still wearing the scars from her traumatic childhood and although she is wealthy and successful, her life is lonely and disjointed. Dean is a young man, burdened with unexpected responsibility, whose life is going nowhere. And Robyn wants to be a doctor, just like her father - a man she`s never met....
ISBN: 978-0-09-955724-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Antony Beevor`s "The Mystery of Olga Chekhova" is the true story of a family torn apart by revolution and war. Olga Chekhova was a stunning Russian beauty and a famous Nazi-era film actress who Hitler counted among his friends; she was also the niece of Anton Chekhov. After fleeing Bolshevik Moscow for Berlin in 1920, she was recruited by her composer brother Lev, to work for Soviet intelligence. In return, her family were allowed to join her. The extraordinary story of how the whole family survived the Russian Revolution, the civil war, the rise of Hitler, the Stalinist Terror, and the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union becomes, in Antony Beevor`s hands, a breathtaking tale of compromise and survival in a merciless age. "A fascinating...
ISBN: 978-0-14-101764-8
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The Discworld is an unpredictable place, what with rivers you can skateboard across (if they weren`t so knobbly), rocks that like a stroll about of an evening and points of raw magic that can turn a body inside out soon as look at it. For safety`s sake, you need a guide! The DISCWORLD COMPANION contains everything you need to know about the Discworld. This edition, the first major revision since HOGFATHER was published (1997), covers the eight DISCWORLD novels from JINGO onwards, including THE LAST HERO and MAURICE AND HIS AMAZING EDUCATED RODENTS, as well as the Diaries, the plays and other Discworld Spinoffery.
ISBN: 0-575-07555-4
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
The much-loved classic Christmas poem is brought beautifully to life in this gorgeous new picture book and CD set, sure to bring visions of sugarplums to everyone`s head. With dreamy, magical artwork by Eric Puybaret and an audio CD recorded by the iconic folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, this is the perfect Christmas present for any child.
ISBN: 978-0-230-75029-6
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Paul Auster`s signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room; haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.
This fourth book in the bestselling Can You See What I See? series features photographs of fun collections, including toy cars, teddy bears, dinosaurs, and much more.
Set amid the austere beauty of the North Carolina coast, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner recently returned form the Second World War. Noah is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once again. Like a puzzle within a puzzle, the story of Noah and Allie is just the beginning. As it unfolds, their tale miraculously becomes something different, with much higher stakes. The result is a deeply moving portrait of love itself,...
ISBN: 978-0-7515-4047-5
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. "The New Machiavelli" is a 1911 novel, the story of Richard Remington who appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage or the politics of his party. The novel describes the disarray into which his life is thrown, when he meets the young and beautiful Isabel Rivers and becomes tormented by desire.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08239-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford`s collaborative work, The Nature of a Crime is a study of human psychology. Delving into the darkest recesses of human mind, they present idiosyncratic characters fighting with their own overwhelming desires and intuitions. The deep love of the protagonist gives way to even more profound desperation. The feelings of the protagonist, as life is crumbles around him, are expressed profoundly by the two authors.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06680-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Precious Ramotswe is a kind, warm-hearted and large African lady. She is also the only female private detective in Botswana. Her agency – the Ladies’ Detective Agency – is the best in the country. With help of her secretary, Mma Makutsi, and her best friend, Mr JLB Matekoni, she solves a number of difficult problems. A missing husband, a missing finger and a missing child – she will solve these mysteries in her own special way.
ISBN: 978-1-4479-2570-5
Издательство:
Pearson Education Limited
Дата выхода: июль 2012
First ever publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s final writings on Middle-earth, covering a wide range of subjects and perfect for those who have read and enjoyed The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings, Unfinished Tales, and The History of Middle-earth, and want to learn more about Tolkien’s magnificent world.It is well known that J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit in 1937 and The Lord of the Rings in 1954–5. What may be less known is that he continued to write about Middle-earth in the decades that followed, right up until the years before his death in 1973.For him, Middle-earth was part of an entire world to be explored, and the writings in The Nature of Middle-earth reveal the journeys that he took as he sought to better understand...
A cat`s nine lives are full of adventure and excitement and none more so than Montezuma, the farmyard cat. From a young kitten to a grand old cat he is cunning and proud while establishing his kingdom, but to Matthew he`s always loving and adorable.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-3338-5
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Penny Baird`s intelligence and heightened sensibility are asintegral as her eye to the genius of her work. With characteristic French insistence on beauty even in the everyday Penny shows you how enhancing the look of your home can influence the overall experience of living in it. - Trish McEvoy. Penny Baird embraces the new French interior with her innate taste, sensitive mastery of detail, and eclectic designpassions. - Gael Greene. Beautifully photographed book of a younger, modern Parisienne Perfect for today. - Kenneth Jay Lane. Penny Baird is the quintessential Parisian New Yorker who composed the perfect mix of tradition and elegance paired with a French sensibility for our time. - Daniel Boulud.
ISBN: 978-1-58093-310-0
Издательство:
Monacelli
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
When some school strawberry plants are vandalised, a lost shoe buckle at the scene of the crime leads straight to the Naughtiest Girl. It is hers, but how did it get there - and why would anyone want to pin the blame on Elizabeth? The next night, as she`s dropping off to sleep, someone shouts `Fire!` - so Elizabeth jumps up and rings the fire bell. But there is no fire and now Elizabeth is being blamed for a catalogue of silly tricks. If she can`t prove her innocence, she`s in line to lose her hard-won part in the school play. So when the same happens the next night, Elizabeth is reluctant to report a fire - except this time, there really is
ISBN: 978-0-340-91775-6
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, carousing artist and Helen, his nakedly alluring wife. Cassidy, plunged into a whirlpool of recklessness and spontaneity, becomes a man bewildered and agonised as he is torn between two poles of a nature more complex than he had ever imagined.
ISBN: 978-0-340-93760-0
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
