`Thinner` - the old gypsy man barely whispers the word. Billy feels the touch of a withered hand on his Halleck, prosperous if overweight citizen, happily married, shuddered then turned angrily away. The old woman`s death had been none of his fault. The courts had cleared him. She`d just stumbled in front of his car. Now he simply wanted to forget the whole messy business. Later, when the scales told him he was losing weight, it was what the doctor ordered. His wife was pleased - as she should have been. `Thinner` - the word, the old man`s curse, has lodged in Billy`s mind like a fattening worm, eating at his flesh, at his reason. And with his despair, comes violence.

ISBN: 978-1-4447-2355-7
Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: январь 2013

Billy Halleck, good husband, loving father, is both beneficiary and victim of the American Good Life: he has an expensive home, a nice family, and a rewarding career as a lawyer. But he is also fifty pounds overweight and, as his doctor keeps reminding him, heading into heart attack country. Then, in a moment of carelessness, Billy sideswipes an old gypsy woman as she is crossing the street - and her ancient father passes a bizarre and terrible judgment on him. `Thinner`, the old gypsy man whispers, and caresses his cheeks like a lover. Just one word... but six weeks later and ninety-three pounds lighter, Billy Halleck is more than worried. He`s terrified. And desperate enough for one last gamble... that will lead him to a nightmare...

ISBN: 0-451-16134-3
Издательство: Rem Distributors
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

The Third Reich was the name Hitler and the Nazi Party gave to the dictatorship that began in 1933 and ended twelve years later with the utter destruction of Germany and Hitler`s suicide. Defined by the messianic, iconic figure of the Fuhrer, the Third Reich was one of the pivotal periods of the modern age. From small beginnings in the 1920s, Hitler`s movement came to dominate German society in the 1930s, bringing with it the militarization of German society, the apparatus of state terror and a policy of violent discrimination against political opponents, the so-called `asocials`: gypsies, homosexuals, and, above all, the Jews. The history of the Reich is bound up with territorial aggression, total war and genocide. The end result was...

ISBN: 978-0-85738-175-0
Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: февраль 2012

A perplexed girl thinks she might have killed someone...Three single girls shared the same London flat. The first worked as a secretary; the second was an artist; the third who came to Poirot for help, disappeared convinced she was a murderer.Now there were rumours of revolvers, flick-knives and blood stains. But, without hard evidence, it would take all Poirot`s tenacity to establish whether the Third Girl was guilty innocent or insane...

ISBN: 9780008129606
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022

Features updated material and a special foreword from Arianna for the UK audience It`s not an exaggeration to say that the hard-working, average citizen on an average income is an endangered species and that the American Dream of a secure, comfortable standard of living has become outdated. The USA is in danger of becoming a Third World nation. The evidence is all around: its industrial base is vanishing, taking with it the kind of jobs that have formed the backbone of America`s economy for more than a century; the education system is in shambles, making it harder for tomorrow`s workforce to acquire the information and training it needs to land good twenty-first-century jobs; its infrastructure - roads, bridges, water, and electrical...

ISBN: 978-0-00-743732-0
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

The Third Reich in Power examines how it was possible for a group of ideological obsessive to remould a society famous for its sophistication and complexity into a one-party state directed at war and race hate. Richard J. Evans shows how the Nazis won over the hearts and minds of German citizens, twisted science, religion and culture, and transformed the economy, education, law and order to achieve total dominance in German politics and society. Drawing on an extraordinary range of research, blending narrative, description and analysis he creates a picture of a dictatorship consumed by visceral hatreds and ambitions and driven by war.

ISBN: 978-0-14-100976-6
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011

Graham Greene was one of the greatest story-tellers of the twentieth century. This anthology contains the novella The Third Man, on which Carol Reed`s chilling film starring Orson Wells was based, as well as the story The Fallen Idol which Reed also filmed. Greene`s often bleak view of humanity is leavened by the somewhat camp May We Borrow Your Husband? with its hilarious ending, the tragic-comic A Shocking Accident and ten more stories that illustrate the author`s mastery of the short story. They are: Beauty, Chagrin in Three Parts, The Over-night Bag, Mortmain, Cheap in August, The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen, Awful When You Think of It, Doctor Crombie, The Root of All Evil and Two Gentle People.

ISBN: 978-1-907360-31-2
Издательство: CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: май 2012

Alice Hoffman is my favorite writer. Alice Hoffman is one of our most beloved writers. Here on Earth was an Oprah Book Club selection. Practical Magic and Aquamarine were both bestselling books and Hollywood movies. Her novels have received mention as notable books of the year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, and People magazine, and her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times, The Boston Globe Magazine, Kenyon Review, Redbook, Architectural Digest, Gourmet, and Self. Now, in The Third Angel, Hoffman weaves a magical and stunningly original story that charts the lives of three women in love with the wrong men: Headstrong Madeleine Heller finds herself hopelessly attracted to her...

ISBN: 978-0-307-39385-2
Дата выхода: июль 2011

With action that sizzles from the opening paragraph and insider details that bring the story to vivid life, The Third Option showcases a New York Times bestselling author who is just hitting the peak of his extraordinary storytelling powers. Mitch Rapp, the CIA`s top counterterrorism operative, is sent on his final mission, to eliminate a European industrialist who has been selling sensitive equipment to one of terrorism`s most notorious sponsors. But he doesn`t know that the ultimate target of this mission is himself. Set up by forces within the US who do not want the next Director-elect of the CIA to take over, and therefore need a disaster for the present regime, Mitch refuses to the conspirators have made an awful miscalculation....

ISBN: 978-0-7434-6823-7
Издательство: Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Through her research on twins and the genetic components of aggression, scientist Jeannie Ferrami makes a startling discovery. Using a restricted FBI database, she finds two young men who appear to be identical twins: Steve, a law student, and Dennis: a convicted murderer. Yet they were born on different days, to different mothers, in hospitals hundreds of miles apart. As Ferrami delves into their backgrounds, she unwittingly locks horns with some of the most powerful forces in America, including the university where she works, The New York Times, even the Pentagon. What secret has Ferrami uncovered? Can she trust her boss and mentor, or must she put her life in the hands of Steve Logan, the twin she finds herself falling in love with -...

ISBN: 978-0-449-22742-8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

Ellie and her friends have achieved more than they ever thought possible as an unarmed bunch of amateur teenage fighters. But it`s not enough. The war wages on, their families are in captivity and their country is on its knees. Hiding back in Hell, the friends face a big question: what to do next? The gang have another success when they manage to rescue Kevin. He returns to them equipped with a new knowledge of explosives. Suddenly the question of what to do next becomes clear - launch an attack on the major enemy target of Cobblers` Bay. Can Ellie, Homer, Fi, Robin, Lee and Kevin really stage a major military attack on the enemy? And in their attempt to pull it off, what will they have to sacrifice? They have already lost Corrie and...

ISBN: 978-0-85738-875-9
Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2012

When two of his American employees were held hostage in Iran, H. Ross Perot and a select group of his employees took matters into their own hands. They faced incalculable odds on a mission only true heroes would have

ISBN: 978-0-330-34837-9
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: август 2011

A perplexed girl thinks she might have killed someone… Three single girls shared the same London flat. The first worked as a secretary; the second was an artist; the third who came to Poirot for help, disappeared convinced she was a murderer. Now there were rumours of revolvers, flick-knives and blood stains. But, without hard evidence, it would take all Poirot’s tenacity to establish whether the third girl was guilty innocent or insane…

ISBN: 978-0-00-712110-6
Издательство: HarperCollins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

ISBN: 978-1-78470-510-7
Издательство: Vintage Books
Дата выхода: январь 2018

A bind-up of this classic paranormal thriller series from bestselling author Christopher Pike. Originally published in 1994, Pike`s Thirst series introduces Alisa, a 5,000-year-old vampire who befriends a human boy who may be her only chance at finding her maker.

ISBN: 978-1-4169-8308-8
Дата выхода: июль 2011