The fifth novel in Auel`s Earth`s Children series continues as Ayla and Jondalar face new and perilous challenges at the old stone settlement in prehistoric southwest France - home to the Zelandonii.
ISBN: 978-0-553-28942-8
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
A new age is dawning on Pern, for since the dragons have changed the orbit of the Red Star, the horrors of Threadfall will soon be a thing of the past. But now comes a fresh and terrible catastrophe - a large cometary fragment is hurtling towards Pern and cannot be deflected.
ISBN: 978-0-552-14631-9
Издательство:
Corgi Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The main character of this story, Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London`s Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple tale" proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London`s fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06451-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
The Subterraneans haunt the bars and clubs of San Francisco, surviving on a diet of booze and benzedrine, Proust and Verlaine. Living amongst them is Leo, an aspiring writer, and Mardou, half-Indian, half-Negro, beautiful and neurotic. Their bitter-sweet and ill-starred love affair sees Kerouac at his most evocative. Many regard this as being Kerouac`s most touching and tender book. Формат: 12,5 см x 19,5 см.
ISBN: 0-14-118489-2
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2002
General Khrapov, newly appointed Governor-General of Siberia and soon-to-be Minister of the Interior, is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St Petersburg to Moscow. The killer, disguised as Fandorin, leaves a knife thrust up to the hilt in his victim`s chest and escapes through the window of the carriage. Can Fandorin escape suspicion? A battle of wills and ideals, revolutionaries and traditionalists and good versus evil.
ISBN: 978-0-7538-2642-3
Издательство:
Орион
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
The fourth volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkiens epic tale of war, "The Silmarillion". In this fourth volume of "The History of Middle-earth", the shaping of the chronological and geographical structure of the legends of Middle-earth and Valinor is spread before us. We are introduced to the hitherto unknown Ambarkanta or Shape of the World, the only account ever given of the nature of the imagined Universe, ccompanied by maps and diagrams of the world before and after the cataclyusms of "The War of the Gods" and the "Downfall of Numenor". The first map of Beleriend is also reproduced and discussed. In "The Annals of Valinor" and "The Annals of Beleriend" we are shown how the chronology of...
ISBN: 978-0-261-10218-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. However, it is not so much her harshsentence, but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed, that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book`s poignant climax.
ISBN: 1-85326-029-0
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 1998
The red letter "A" on her dress marks young mother Hester Prynne among her Puritan neighbors, who demand to know who fathered her child. Rumors swirl, but the shunned and shamed Hester keeps her secret for years, until a guilt-ridden confession reveals the truth, with unexpected consequences. Set in seventeenth-century Massachusetts, Hawthorne`s masterwork was originally subtitled "a romance," though its themes include the limits of law, the power of religion, and the nature of sin.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06190-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2017
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
Джек Лондон - классик американской литературы, автор ярких, живых приключенческих романов и рассказов. "Морской волк" - один из самых знаменитых и ярких романов Джека Лондона, повествующий о потрясающем путешествии Хэмфри Ван-Вэйдена на борту шхуны "Призрак" вместе с командой жестокого капитана Волка Ларсена, в ходе которого приходит осознание того, что настоящая любовь является мощнейшим стимулом для...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05360-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
When my parents split up they didn`t know what to do with My family always lived at Mulberry Cottage. Mum, Dad, me - and Radish, my Sylvanian rabbit. But now, Mum lives with Bill the Baboon and his three kids. Dad lives with Carrie and her twins. And where do I live? I live out of a suitcase. One week with Mum`s new family, one week with Dad`s. It`s as easy as A B C. That`s what everyone says. But all I want is to go home - back to Mulberry
ISBN: 978-0-440-86773-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
New from the global bestselling author of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA: it`s a match made in hell.Sweeping from Wimbledon to the Caribbean, from LA to mega yachts in the Med, The Singles Game is a brilliantly entertaining romp through a world where the stakes are high - and no-one plays by the rules.When Charlotte `Charlie` Silver makes a pact with the devil, infamously brutal tennis coach Todd Feltner, she finds herself catapulted into a world of stylists, private parties and secret dates with Hollywood royalty.Under Todd it`s no more good-girl attitude: he wants warrior princess Charlie all the way. After all, no-one ever won by being nice.Celebrity mags and gossip blogs go wild for Charlie, chasing scandal as she jets around the globe. But...