Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg - an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius - were never going to fit in at elite, polished Harvard. Yet that all changed when master-hacker Mark crashed the university`s entire computer system by creating a rateable database of female students. Narrowly escaping expulsion, the two misfits refocused the site into something less controversial - `The Facebook` - and watched as it spread like a wildfire across campuses around the country, along with their popularity. Yet amidst the dizzying levels of cash and glamour, as silicon valley, venture capitalists and reams of girls beckoned, the first cracks in their friendship started to appear, and what began as a simple argument spiralled...
ISBN: 978-0-09-955123-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Ever since an accident turned her into a knockout vamp, Elvi Black`s been catching her z`s in a coffin, staying out of the sun, and giving up garlic. She knows there`s more to being undead than what she saw in Dracula, but she can`t very well ask her mortal friends about proper biting etiquette. But when her neighbors placed a personal ad for her in the local paper, she never imagined she`d meet Victor Argeneau, a vampire who could have his pick of any woman—dead or alive. Rich, powerful, and drop—dead gorgeous, Victor`s the perfect man for a novice neck—biter like Elvi. He`s willing to teach her everything he knows, but he`ll have to do it fast. Someone`s out to put a stake through her new vamp life, and only Victor can keep her...
"You`re almost a virgin again": When Stacy Hamilton`s best friend points out how long it`s been since Stacy broke up with her last boyfriend she can`t believe it. In college, a dry month had seemed unbearable. So what`s happened? You`d think her job at concocting sexy lingerie would get her in the mood. But the guys she`s been dating recently aren`t exactly enticing. Stacy decides drastic action is required. It`s time to widen her search for the ideal man!
ISBN: 978-0-7553-4481-9
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Desperate for any kind of a job as a wizard, Gerald, a Third Grade wizard born outside the Wizarding class, takes the position as royal court wizard to Lionel, the spoiled young king of New Ottosland, only to find himself coping with a kingdom moving ever closer to war and with strangely increasing magical abilities. Original.
ISBN: 978-0-316-03542-2
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: август 2011
For Maria, nothing is certain. Her life is a chain of accidents. Friendship passes her by, and she`s unimpressed by the devoted Ronny and his endless proposals of marriage. Maria lives in a world of her own - yet not of her own making. Stumbling through university, work, marriage and motherhood, she finds it hard to see what all the fuss is about. Will she ever be able to control the direction of her life? Or will it end, as it began, by accident? What does chance have in store for the accidental woman?
ISBN: 978-0-14-103332-7
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
This is the story of the comic and yet relentless struggle for survival of Austin Gibson Grey, the accidental man. Austin is one of those people who needs to survive through the destruction of others. The others, in Austin`s case, include his successful elder brother, Matthew, and the women who, one after the other, are so touchingly convinced that they can `save` him. In this latter role we meet Austin`s estranged wife, Dorina, a crazed angel, and Austin`s far from angelic alcoholic landlady, Mitzi. Other women interest themselves too in Austin`s fate, with hilarious and appalling results. An Accidental Man is a novel of extraordinary scope and variety in which Iris Murdoch`s astonishing fertility of mind and unerring narrative skill...
ISBN: 978-0-09-943356-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
The Smart family`s lacklustre holiday in Norwich is turned upside down when a beguiling stranger called Amber appears, bringing with her love, joy, pain and upheaval. The Smarts try to make sense of their bewildering emotions as Amber tramples over family boundaries and forces them to think about their world and themselves in an entirely new way.
ISBN: 978-0-14-101039-7
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Barron’s Business Review Books are typically used as college textbook supplements or as main texts in adult education and business brush-up courses. They also make excellent teach-yourself texts for readers who want to expand their business knowledge outside classroom settings. This expanded and updated title explains accounting as the main tool for organizing, maintaining, recording, and analyzing the financial activities of every business. Topics explained include the accounting equation, the different financial statements and their differing functions, the process of recording business transactions, special journals and controls, assets and liabilities, inventories, payroll and government regulations, different forms of business...
ISBN: 0-7641-3547-3
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: январь 2011
Du cachemire sinon rien! Becky est enceinte et s`il est une chose qu`une fashionista de son calibre peut se jurer, c`est bien d`éviter les couches recyclées à bébé Brandon. Ce sera de la layette griffée, le top de la tétine, le nec plus ultra du pyjama branché. Sa carte bleue chauffe déjà que l`échographie n`a pas encore révélé le sexe de l`enfant! Qu`importe. La seule et unique question importante? À combien s`élève le découvert autorisé d`un placenta? Du shopping de haut vol mais pas seulement: Becky n`en démord pas, il lui faut Venetia Carter. L`accoucheuse des stars et - surprise! - l`ex-girlfriend de Luke, le mari de Becky et heureux...
ISBN: 978-2-266-19136-4
Издательство:
Pocket
Дата выхода: июль 2012
The fifteenth novel in the bestselling Marcus Didius Falco series is a tale of corruption, informers and the Roman courts of law. Following his trip to Londinium, Falco takes up employment with Paccius Africanus and Silius Italicus, two lawyers at the top of their trade. For the trial of a senator they need Falco to make an affidavit confirming repayment of a loan. Having been out of the country, and starved of Forum gossip for some time, Falco has little interest in this, so he makes his deposition and then leaves. The prosecution is successful and a large financial judgment is made, but one month later the senator is dead, apparently by suicide. The heirs are now in a situation of not having to pay up. Silius Italicus decides to start...
An unsettling, shocking and very funny collection of stories. The characters in this extraordinary book are often - on the surface - depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. Two professors of philosophy turn pugilists; Leith removal men become the objects of desire for Hollywood goddesses; God turns Boab Coyle into a housefly; and in the novella "A Smart Cunt", the drug-addled I young hero spins off on a collision course with his past. Формат: 13 см x 19,5 см.
ISBN: 0-09-943501-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Across Cultures is a new modular, flexible, user-friendly course which presents a wide variety of material on the English-speaking world. Traditional topics, such as geography and institutions, are fully covered, along with the most up-to-date themes and topics.
ISBN: 978-0-582-81814-9
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The War is just over. In Venice, a city elaborately and affectionately described, Richard Cantrell, an American colonel, falls passionately in love with Renata, a young Italian countess who has `a profile that could break your or anyone else`s heart`. Catrell is embittered, war-scarred old enough to be Renata`s father but is overwhelmed by the selflesess and freshness of the love she is offering. But this is no fairy tale. The fighting may be ended, but the wounds of war have not yet healed. And for some the longed-for peace has come too late.
ISBN: 0-09-990960-X
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules. Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone--one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship--tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn`t do something soon, her parents will be next. Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed`s hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there`s only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the...
ISBN: 978-1-59514-454-6
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
From the host of the popular "Steve Harvey Morning Show" comes a funny, honest, and foolproof guide for all women that takes them inside the heads of men and shows how men think about love, sex, and commitment.
`No man has ever loved a woman and not imagined her in the arms of someone else`. Felix Quinn calls himself a happy man. He owns one of London`s oldest antiquarian bookshops. He is married to and adores the beautiful Marisa. But a childhood experience has taught him that loss is intrinsic to love, and Felix realizes that he can only be truly happy if his wife is sleeping with another man. Enter Marius into Marisa`s affections. And now Felix must ask himself, is he really happy?
ISBN: 978-0-09-952673-5
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
