Ensconced in a lovely tropical villa on idyllic Triggerfish Lane, Jim Davenport anticipates the good life to come. But this isn`t living - it`s Florida and the neighborhood is not quite what it seems. It`s got overly aggressive Little League parents, drug-free Rastafarians, homicidal hookers, unnatural sex and casual violence. Oh, yes, and there`s a psychopathic serial killer-cum-Sunshine-State folklorist named Serge A. Storms living directly across the street. So it`s only a matter of time before Jim up and actually kills somebody ...
A class of young South African schoolchildren go on a trip to a safari park. They have been looking forward to it and they can hardly contain their enthusiasm, so their teacher has to be very patient! They have a lot of laughs and a lot of fun, but they also manage to learn something!
ISBN: 978885300-886-2
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
"Triple" is the riveting story of the most successful espionage coup - and best-kept secret - of this century. It is 1968. Israeli intelligence has learned that Egypt, with Soviet help, will develop atomic bombs within months - an untimely end for the young nation unless a source of uranium for Israeli bombs can be had in complete secrecy. Impossible, of course, unless someone as improbable as the plan can be found to steal Working alone, Israeli agent Nat Dickstein concocts an ingenious scenario for the biggest, and quietest, hijacking in history. Against him are the Russian KGB, Egyptian Intelligence and the Arab extremist Fedayeen. With him is a half-English, half-Arab young woman of uncertain allegiance, who discovers Dickstein`s...
ISBN: 978-0-330-35228-4
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Jack Reacher is not pleased when Costello, a private detective, comes nosing around asking questions. Determined to keep out of trouble, he conceals his identity. But when Costello is found dead Reacher has two questions: who was Costello`s employer, and why is she determined to find him.
ISBN: 978-0-553-81185-8
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Die beruhmte Geschichte von Tristan und Isolde in der Zeit von Konig Artus und seiner Tafelrunde. Tristan und Isolde trinken aus Versehen einen Zaubertrank. Das Schicksal nimmt seinen
ISBN: 978885300-870-1
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: август 2011
One of the great romances of the Middle Ages, Tristan and Isolde has inspired writers, poets, artists and musicians for centuries. After slaying a dragon and winning a tournament, the young prince Tristan wins the hand of beautiful Isolde for marriage to his uncle, King Mark. But on their journey back to Mark’s court, they drink a love potion that was intended for the king and his young bride. They instantly fall in love - a love that is impossible.
ISBN: 9788853006424
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Moscow-a city under siege by hardcore Communists threatening to plunge the country back into Stalinist darkness. Into the heart of the firestorm, American ambassador Stephen Metcalf has been summoned to find the one man who controls the levers of power in absolute secrecy-an official known only as the Dirizhor. His support of the bloody coup will bring the entire world to the brink of nuclear war. Metcalfe is the only man with the cunning to reach him and to convince him to resist. It`s up to Metcalf to change the course of history. He`s done it before. For Metcalf, returning to Russia is also a personal mission that will stretch across three continents and fifty years into his past where the loyalties of a former love-a woman both...
1940. American Stephen Metcalfe is a minor asset in the US`s secret intelligence forces in Europe. Through a wild twist of fate, he must instigate a bold plan that may be the only hope for what remains of the free world. Now he must travel to wartime Moscow to find, and possibly betray, a former 1991. The Communist empire is on the verge of oblivion, and a coup is being planned by a powerful new cabal. Stephen Metcalfe, now a retired ambassador, must return to Moscow and finally reveal a secret that has haunted him since the fall of a secret that might just avert a global cataclysm.
ISBN: 978-1-4091-1777-3
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Günter de Bruyn stellt die Geschichte von Tristan und Isolde, dem klassischen Liebespaar der mittelhochdeutschen Literatur, in einer poetischen Nacherzählung vor. Es ist die Geschichte von Tristan, der für König Marke nach Irland fährt und zahlreiche Abenteuer und Kämpfe zu bestehen hat, und von Isolde, um die er für König Marke werben muß und die Tristan liebt und von ihm wiedcrgelicbt wird, obwohl sie König Markes Frau wird. Tristan und Isolde, von Gottfried von Straßburg im 13. Jahrhundert besungen, von Richard Wagner zu Opernhelden gekürt, waren das erste Paar in der deutschen Literaturgeschichte, das im Namen einer höheren Moral gegen die Gesetze der höfischen...
In the Sudan, decades of brutal misgovernment by the ruling Egyptian Khedive in Cairo precipitate a fierce and bloody rebellion and Holy War headed by a charismatic new religious leader, The Madhi or "Expected One". The British are forced to intervene to protect their national interests and to attempt to rescue the hundreds of British subjects stranded in the country. Along with hundreds of others, British trader and businessman, Ryder Courtney is trapped in the capital city of Khartoum. It is here that he meets Captain Penrod Ballantyne of the 10th Hussars, as well as the British Consul, David Benbrook and his three beautiful daughters. Against the vivid and bloody backdrop of the siege of Khartoum, in which British General Charles...
ISBN: 978-0-330-41265-0
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: июль 2012
"In the Sudan decades of brutal misgovernment by the ruling Egyptian Khedive in Cairo precipitate a fierce and bloody rebellion and Holy War headed by a charismatic new religious leader, the Mahdi or `Expected One`. The British are forced to intervene to protect their national interests and to attempt to rescue the hundreds of British subjects stranded in the country." Along with hundreds of others, British trader and businessman Ryder Courtney is trapped in the capital city of Khartoum. It is here that he meets Captain Penrod Ballantyne of the 10th Hussars, as well as the British Consul, David Benbrook, and his three beautiful daughters. Against the vivid and bloody backdrop of the siege of Khartoum, in which British General Charles...
ISBN: 978-0-312-93918-2
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Long hailed as the grand master of adventure fiction, Clive Cussler has continued to astound with the intricate plotting and astonishing set pieces of his novels. Now, with a surprising twist, he gives us his most audacious work yet. In the final pages of Valhalla Rising, Dirk Pitt discovered, to his shock, that he had two grown children he had never known-twenty-three-year-old fraternal twins born to a woman he thought had died in an underwater earthquake. Both have inherited his love of the sea: the girl, Summer, is a marine biologist; the boy, himself named Dirk, is a marine engineer. And now they are about to help their father in the adventure of a lifetime. There is a brown tide infesting the ocean off the shore of Nicaragua. The...
ISBN: 978-0-425-19932-9
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
The Troll longs for a juicy goat to eat - but he`s stuck with boring old fish for supper. Bother! Meanwhile, Hank Chief and his pirate crew love fish, but without a decent recipe their slimy, soggy dinner is even worse. If only they could find their buried treasure and pay for a ship`s but it seems they`ve sailed to the wrong island. Again. Watch the fun unfold as two very different worlds collide in a gloriously comic story from the creators of the highly acclaimed Tyrannosaurus Drip.
ISBN: 978-0-230-01794-8
Издательство:
Macmillan ELT
Дата выхода: август 2011
Sam Flynn is about to enter a new world. It is a world full of unknown enemies, hi-tech gadgets, and mysterious allies. There is danger at every turn. Unlike Sam, readers have this insider`s look at all things Tron.
ISBN: 978-1-4231-3152-6
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When Sam Flynn discovers a secret lab in the basement of his father`s old arcade, he accidentally gets zapped into a digital frontier. Now, trapped inside this mysterious new world, Sam must face highly trained opponents in a series of games.
ISBN: 978-1-4231-3156-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
