A passenger train hurtling through the night. An unwed teenage mother headed to Moscow to seek a new life. A cruel-hearted soldier looking furtively, forcibly, for sex. An infant disappearing without a trace. So begins Martin Cruz Smith`s masterful Three Stations, a suspenseful, intricately constructed novel featuring Investigator Arkady Renko. For the last three decades, beginning with the trailblazing Gorky Park, Renko (and Smith) have captivated readers with detective tales set in Russia. Renko is the ironic, brilliantly observant cop who finds solutions to heinous crimes when other lawmen refuse to even acknowledge that crimes have occurred. He uses his biting humor and intuitive leaps to fight not only wrongdoers but the corrupt...
Two classic stories - The Three Little Pigs and Goldilocks - get a brand-new look with Jerry Smath`s unique and whimsical illustrations. These favorite fairy tales are perfect for snuggle time, bedtime, or any time! The pack contains a 64 page storybook and CD with a read-along version of the story - with prompts indicating when to turn the page - as well as a read-through version (with no prompts) of both stories, stickers, memory games, and a special link to coloring pages and more activities online.
There are four of them - George, Harris, the writer himself and that dog, .Montmorency - all participants in a boating expedition on the Thames. The difficulties and vicissitudes heaped upon these innocents develop to epic proportions as they experience the hazards of the great English waterway. Their problems are in no way diminished by the outrageous behaviour of .Montmorency, who lays waste to several riverside communities in the course of their journey.`What is а "bummel?` said George. `How would you translate it?` `А "bummel",` I explained, `I should describe as a journey, long or short, without an end; the only thing regulating it being the necessity of getting back within a given time to the point from which one started...`After...
ISBN: 9781853260513
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2008
The Three Little Pigs is part of the enduringly popular Well-Loved Tales fairy tales series from Ladybird. Even today, Well-Loved Tales are still beloved by adults and children alike.First published in 1965, this beautiful book has been specially re-released to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Ladybird Books in 2015. Complete with stunning dust jacket, this facsimile copy of the original book written by Vera Southgate and illustrated by Robert Lumley has all the beautiful, memorable pictures that people remember, now available for a new generation to fall in love with.
ISBN: 9780723297581
Издательство:
Ladybird
Дата выхода: январь 2020
Plop is a baby barn owl. He is perfect in every way—except for one thing. He`s afraid of the dark! One day Suzy the cat finds herself flying away in a hot-air balloon. How is Suzy going to find her way home? Hilda is a small, speckled hen. When she makes up her mind to visit her new cousin chicks nothing can stop her! Three heart-warming animal tales, perfect for young readers.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-2009-5
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Серия книг Penguin Readers, включающая классические и современные произведения, предлагает литературу для изучающих английский язык на уровнях Beginner – Advanced. Увлекательное чтение может дополняться аудиозаписями.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-9446-8
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
With the first cup of tea, you are a stranger. With the friend. With the third cup of tea, you are family. One day Greg Mortenson set out to climb K2 - the world`s second highest mountain - in honour of his younger sister, but things went wrong and Greg became lost. He wandered into a poor village, where the chief and his people took him in. Moved by their kindness, Greg promised to return and build a school for the children. This is the remarkable story of how Greg built not one but more than sixty schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and how he has dedicated his life to promoting literacy, peace and understanding.
ISBN: 978-0-14-241412-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
This Ladybird retelling of The Three Little Pigs is a wonderful introduction to classic fairy tales for toddlers and preschool children. Enjoy reading the simple text together, looking at the bright pictures and feeling the different touch-and-feels on every page.
ISBN: 978-1-4093-0452-4
Издательство:
Ladybird Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Sherlock Holmes is a great detective. There are few cases that he cannot solve. In these three stories we meet a young woman who is terrified of a mysterious speckled band`, a family who think that five orange pips are a sign of death, and a banker who believes that his son is a thief. But are things really as they seem?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-6242-4
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
