`Even the smallest person can change the course of the future`. The prophetic words of Galadriel, addressed to Frodo as he prepared to travel from Lothlorien to Mordor to destroy the One Ring, are just as pertinent to J R R Tolkien`s own fiction. For decades, hobbits and the other fantastical creatures of Middle-earth have captured the imaginations of a fiercely loyal tribe of readers, all enhanced by the immense success of Peter Jackson`s films: first The Lord of the Rings, and now his new The Hobbit. But for all Tolkien`s global fame and the familiarity of modern culture with Gandalf, Bilbo, Frodo and Sam, the sources of the great mythmaker`s own myth-making have been neglected. Mark Atherton here explores the chief influences on...
Give me a dollar or I`ll spit on you. That`s Bradley Chalker for you. He is the oldest child in the class. He tells enormous lies. He picks fights with girls, and the teachers say he has serious behaviour problems. No one likes him - except Carla, the new school counsellor. She thinks Bradley is sensitive and generous, and she even enjoys his far-fetched stories. Carla knows that Bradley could change, if only he weren`t afraid to try. Sometimes the hardest thing in the world is believing in yourself.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-8952-5
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
"I`m the Cat in the Hat, and we`re off to have fun. We`ll visit the planets, the stars and the sun!" And so Dr. Seuss` famous Cat in the Hat whisks young readers off on a fun-filled tour of the solar system. This title and others form part of a series of books that takes an off-beat look at nature and natural sciences through a fun combination of Seussian rhymes and zany illustrations. Aimed at early readers - from four to seven year olds - the books are designed to bridge the gap between concept books written for preschoolers and more formal non fiction titles that require fluent reading skills. By presenting the facts in a lively and rhythmic manner, they provide the critical foundation upon which complex facts and ideas can eventually...
ISBN: 978-0-00-713056-6
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: август 2011
Join Dr. Seuss on the road to reading with a host of crazy creatures, from wockets in pockets to waskets in baskets!Is there a woset in your closet, or a nink in the sink? As that would be rather nice, I think! Learn all about rhymes and fun with words in this classic Dr. Seuss title.With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranking among the UK`s top ten favourite children`s authors, Seuss is firmly established as a global best-seller, with over 600 million books sold worldwide.As part of a major rebrand programme, HarperCollins is relaunching...
Since Sandy Shortt's childhood classmate disappeared twenty years ago, Sandy has been obsessed with missing things. Finding what is lost becomes her single-minded goal - from the lone sock that vanishes in the washing machine to the car keys she misplaced. It's no surprise, then, that Sandy's life's work becomes finding people who have vanished from their loved ones. Sandy's family is baffled and concerned by her increasing preoccupation. Her parents can't understand her compulsion, and she pushes them away further by losing herself in the work of tracking down these missing people. She gives up her life in order to offer a flicker of hope to devastated families - and escape the disappointments of her own....
ISBN: 978-0-7868-9131-3
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A woman finds herself filling a pit in the forest in the middle of the night; a family lock each other in their bedrooms to battle a strange plague; a wizard punishes two beautiful ballerinas by turning them into one hugely fat circus performer; a colonel is warned not to lift the veil from his dead wife`s face; and, a distraught father brings his daughter back to life by eating human hearts in his dreams. In these blackly comic tales of revenge, disturbing deaths and haunting melancholy, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya blends miracles and madness in the darkest of modern fairy tales.
When Therese Raquin marries her sickly cousin Camille, her future looks as if it will be both dull and loveless. This all changes, however, with the arrival of Camille`s friend Laurent. Laurent and Therese soon begin a love affair, an affair so passionate it can only result in tragedy.
ISBN: 978-0-230-03533-1
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Seff off on the road to reading with a host of crazy crackpot creatures, from wockets in pockets to waskets in basckets. By combining the funiest stories, craziest creatures and zaniest pictures with his unique blend of rhyme, rhythm and repetition, Dr Seuss helps children of all ages enjoy learning to read.
ISBN: 978-0-00-716995-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
After Matthew Hope slips into a coma--the result of a drive-by shooting--his friends, private eye Warren Chambers and police detective Morris Bloom--must follow in his investigative footsteps to discover why he was shot. All signs point to the local circus--an underworld of offbeat sex, drugs, blackmail, murder, and in the center of it all, there was a little girl.
ISBN: 0-446-60214-0
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Sandy Shortt has been obsessed about where missing things - and people - end up ever since the disappearance of a childhood friend twenty years ago. It has even motivated her to become a private investigator, attempting to track down missing loved ones and giving devastated families hope. So when she finds herself one of the missing people, stuck in a strange place with people who vanished into thin air years ago, she wonders if she has found the answer to one of life`s greatest mysteries. But if she has, will she be able to return to life as she knows it? If Jack Ruttle, her latest client and mystified by her own disappearance, has anything to do with it she
One of the most beloved romantic heroes in all of literature, Fitzwilliam Darcy remains an enigma even to Jane Austen`s most devoted fans. No longer. With this concluding volume in the "Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman" trilogy, novelist and Austen aficionada Pamela Aidan at last gives readers the man in full. "These Three Remain" follows a humbled Darcy on the journey of self-discovery, after Elizabeth Bennet`s rejection of his marriage proposal, in which he endeavors to grow into the kind of gentleman he desires to become. Happily, a chance meeting with Elizabeth during a tour of his estate in Derbyshire offers Darcy a new opportunity to press his suit, but his newfound strengths are put to the test by an old nemesis, George Wickham....
"Встреча в Багдаде" - одна из шпионских историй Агаты Кристи повествует о том, как уволенная с работы стенографистка разоблачает политических заговорщиков.
ISBN: 978-5-94962-149-3
Издательство:
Антология
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2009
Издание полностью на английском языке.Miss Marple senses clanger when she visits a friend living in Stoneygates, a rehabilitation centre for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when someone shoots at the administrator. Though he is not injured, a mysterious visitor is less fortunate - shot dead simultaneously in another part of the building.Pure coincidence? Miss Marple thinks not, and must use all her cunning to solve the riddle of the stranger`s visit... and his murder.
ISBN: 9780008196561
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: январь 2020
Baghdad is holding a secret superpower summit, but the word is out, and an underground organisation in the Middle East is plotting to sabotage the talks. Into this explosive situation appears Victoria Jones, a girl with a yearning for adventure who gets more than she bargains for when a wounded spy dies in her hotel room. The only man who can save the summit is dead. Can Victoria make sense of his dying words: "... Lefarge…" Формат: 11 см x 17,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-00-715493-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Издание полностью на английском языке. Miss Marple senses clanger when she visits a friend living in Stoneygates, a rehabilitation centre for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when someone shoots at the administrator. Though he is not injured, a mysterious visitor is less fortunate - shot dead simultaneously in another part of the building. Pure coincidence? Miss Marple thinks not, and must use all her cunning to solve the riddle of the stranger's and his murder.
ISBN: 978-0-00-712087-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
