Civil war rages between the native tribes of the Malay straits. Captain Tim Wingard sides with the Rajah Hassim. An English yacht blunders into this confusion and runs aground. When Wingard goes aboard to offer assistance, the crew gives him insolence, not gratitude. He prepares to sees a woman. She captivates him, literally holds him spellbound. It is a spell that soon wrecks all his hopes and leads to the failure of the important cause to which he is bound.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06671-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
The first girl had a bite mark on her neck. When the tabloids got hold of the story, they immediately called the killer `The Rottweiler`, and the name stuck. The latest body was discovered very near Inez Ferry`s antique shop in Marylebone. Someone spotted a shadowy figure running away past the station, but couldn`t say for sure if it was a man or a woman. There were only two other clues. The murderer seemed to have a preference for strangling his victims and then removing something personal - like a cigarette lighter or a Since her actor husband died, too early into their marriage, Inez supplemented her modest income by taking in tenants above the shop. The unpredictably obsessive activities of `The Rottweiler` would exert a profound...
ISBN: 978-0-09-946024-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
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 Red Rover presents some of the first serious depictions of characters of African lineage in American literature. The novel follows the activities of the sailor Dick Fid, a free black sailor Scipio Africanus and Royal Navy officer James Wilder as they encounter the famous pirate, "The Red Rover".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07954-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Mackie Doyle is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a Replacement-left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, because of fatal allergies to iron, blood, and consecrated ground, Mackie is fighting to survive in the human world. Mackie would give anything to live among us, to practice on his bass or spend time with his crush, Tate. But when Tate`s baby sister goes missing, Mackie is drawn irrevocably into the underworld of Gentry, known as Mayhem. He must face the dark creatures of the Slag Heaps and find his rightful place, in our world, or theirs. Edward Scissorhands meets...
ISBN: 978-1-59514-381-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
It`s not just a game when you`re running for your life. Every night they tuned in to the nation`s favourite prime-time TV game show. They all watched, from the sprawling slums to the security-obsessed enclaves of the rich. They
ISBN: 978-1-4447-2354-0
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Вниманию читателей предлагаются известные рассказы Э.Хемингуэя: "Недолгое счастье Френсиса Макомбера", "Снега Килиманджаро" . Издание рассчитано на лиц, владеющих основами английского языка и совершенствующих свои навыки в нем.
ISBN: 978-5-9542-0090-4
Издательство:
Икар
Дата выхода: май 2010
Ill-chance brought young Fawn Bluefield together with Dag Redwing Hickory, the seasoned soldier-sorcerer, but it was love and loyalty that joined their fates. While their unorthodox marriage has been grudgingly accepted by the clever farm girl`s people, Dag`s Lakewalker kin are less tolerant, greeting their union with derision, suspicion, and prejudice.
ISBN: 978-0-06-113906-2
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
