Robin, a postgrad student in Coventry, has spent four and a half years not writing his thesis. He and his academic colleagues, united by pallor, social ineptitude and sexual inexperience, once spent hours discussing their theories, but they somehow never made it into print. Now his unfinished thesis languishes in a drawer, and Robin hides in his room, increasingly frightened by a world he doesn`t understand. His friends have failed him and romance eludes him. His only outlet is his short stories, scribbled in notebooks and expressing his secret obsessions and frustrations. Then, when an unfortunate and embarassing incident in a public park lands him in serious trouble, Robin`s life finally spirals out of control ..
ISBN: 978-0-14-103331-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Returning to the magnificent setting of Australia`s open frontiers, the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author weaves her most powerful novel since "The Thorn Birds" - a new saga of an Australian family that spans from the 1870s to the turn of the 20th century.
ISBN: 978-0-671-02419-2
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
This title helps you learn all about the alphabet with touch and feel textures in this chunky board book. You can learn your ABC with the twinkly, bumpy, scaly, silky, sandy, sticky and shiny textures in a chunky package that will help your child discover all about the alphabet. A is for apple - but how does it feel? Touch the skin on C (for crocodile) - it`s bumpy! Let their little hands roam, read it together - they`ll learn as they play. These Touch and Feel chunky padded board books will help encourage your child`s early learning and language. It is perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and great for sensory development.
The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates’s climb of the mountain Siula Grande. When Joe breaks his leg high on the mountain, he knows that he will probably die. But Simon is determined to help his friend and determines to lower him down the mountain on a rope. The plan seems to be going well. But then disaster strikes. Touching the Void is a gripping story of human courage and the will to survive.
ISBN: 978-0-230-03445-7
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
With over 50 sturdy flaps to lift, and clear, simple text and bright photography, Lift the Flap Busy Farm introduces children to the animals, vehicles, and people who live and work on a farm. A busy scene on each spread encourages children to find pictures and learn first words - perfect for curious little ones! The fun design and simple words will develop observation skills, increase vocabulary, and encourage language skills, while the flaps will help develop hand-eye coordination.- Foam-padded case ensures the book remains light and easy to handle.- More than 50 sturdy flaps to lift, touch, and explore!- Clear, simple text encourages language skills and increases children`s vocabulary.- Featuring bright and colorful photography to...
Wood demands to be touched. It embodies not only a feeling of well-being and stability, but also a natural charm that is comforting and life-affirming. This economical, multifunctional and renewable resource has been in use as a building material for centuries; yet in the current age of energy consciousness and ecological awareness it is gaining fresh attention. Today`s architects are testing bold new interpretations of this traditional building material, resulting in some very special buildings.
ISBN: 978-3-938780-50-3
Издательство:
Braun
Дата выхода: май 2011
What does Baa the sheep feel like? What does Jess` barn feel like? This board book helps readers find the answers by touching the exciting textures on each page.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-5668-1
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
A collection of some of the best-loved children`s nursery rhymes accompanied by illustrations and touchy-feely patches. It features the rhymes "Baa Baa Black Sheep" and "Little Bo Peep" amongst many other favourites.
ISBN: 978-1-4095-0856-4
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Handsome, powerful Rurik Wilder holds the power to transform himself into a fierce bird of prey-a gift that`s caused death and destruction. At last he`s offered the chance to redeem himself. Only one woman stands in his way-a beautiful writer determined to wreak revenge on the assassins who murdered her family. Assassins, it`s been rumored, who have powers no human should ever
ISBN: 978-0-451-22184-1
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Can you ever really trust a vampire? Cassandra Palmer can see the future and communicate with spirits - talents that make her attractive to the dead and the undead. The ghosts of the dead aren`t usually dangerous; they just like to lot. The undead are another matter. Like any sensible girl, Cassie tries to avoid vampires. But, when the bloodsucking mafioso she escaped three years ago finds Cassie again with vengeance on his mind, she`s forced to turn to the vampire Senate for protection. The undead senators won`t help her for nothing, and Cassie finds herself working with one of their most powerful members, a dangerously seductive master vampire - and the price he demands may be more than Cassie is willing to
ISBN: 978-0-451-46093-6
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her job as a cocktail waitress in Merlotte`s, a small-town bar in small-town Bon Temps, deep in Louisiana. She`s funny and pretty and, thanks to her grandmother, she`s very well-mannered - but since not many people truly appreciate her ability to read their minds, the guys haven`t exactly been beating down her And then along came Bill, tall, dark and handsome - and Sookie couldn`t `hear` a word he was thinking. He was exactly the type of guy she`d been waiting all her life for. Of course, Bill had a disability of his own: fussy about his food, not into suntans, bit of a night person: yep, Bill was a vampire. But at least now Sookie nows there *are* guys she can date who won`t worry about her catching them...
ISBN: 978-0-575-09444-4
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Teach your child all about Farms with touch and feel textures in this chunky board book.Twinkly, bumpy, scaly, silky, sandy, sticky and shiny textures in a chunky package will help your child discover all about farms. Oink oink! Quack quack! Let their little hands roam and feel how velvety the pigs nose is and how fluffy the chicks feel. Read it together - they`ll learn as you play.These Touch and Feel chunky padded board books will help encourage your child`s early learning and language. Perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and great for sensory development.
The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates’s climb of the mountain Siula Grande. When Joe breaks his leg high on the mountain, he knows that he will probably die. But Simon is determined to help his friend and determines to lower him down
ISBN: 978-0-230-53352-3
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
brilliant and vigorous observer of both French and British societies, which she knows intimately, 32-year-old Agnes Catherine Poirier has spent the last ten years explaining the peculiarities of France to the British and of Britain to the French. Not an easy job. Having studied both in Paris and London, writing in both languages for the French and British press, Agnes Catherine Poirier plays with national stereotypes, which are both stupid and dangerous, with dexterity and savoir faire. She goes beneath the surface to explain why France and Britain keep arguing and competing endlessly, why they are so different and why they do things in almost opposite ways. Covering the worlds of art, politics, action, food, institutions, sex, history,...
ISBN: 978-0-7538-2170-1
Издательство:
Орион
Дата выхода: июль 2011
`Self at his most nihilistic and funny; you`ll laugh and flinch at the same time` - "Guardian". `Self has turned out a hilarious collection, with the requisite touch of disorientation. "Flytopia", the story about a man who suddenly finds flies more lovable than his girlfriend, follows the Kafkaesque line Self opened with his recent novel "Great Apes" - man as "Story for Europe", about a two-year-old north Londoner who suddenly starts speaking business German, is comic genius` - "New Statesman". `When Will Self wants to step outside his cultivated amoral threshold and shock us into rage, the effect can be profound. This is Self`s third short-story collection and like all the best books it delivers what its title an awesome London Dungeon...
ISBN: 978-0-14-104021-9
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Esteemed criminologist Mr. Treves notes that a good murder mystery begins long before the actual murder. Truer words have never been spoken, for a psychopathic killer insinuates himself with cunning manipulation into a quiet village on the river Tern. But who is his intended victim? And how and when will he reach the point of murder?
ISBN: 978-0-312-98130-3
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Ben Turnbull is a 66 year-old retired investment consultant living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and China has thinned the population and brought social chaos. Nevertheless, Ben`s life, traced by his journal entries over the course of the year, retains much of its accustomed comforts. Something of a science buff, he finds his personal history cuaght up in the dysjunctions and vagaries of the `many universes`; his identity branches into variants extending back through history and ahead in the evolution of the universe, as both it and his own mortal, nature-shrouded existence move toward the end of
ISBN: 978-0-14-118896-6
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
