Gorgeous Faith Duffy has been a lot of things in her 30 years. She started as an exotic dancer at 18, then became a Playboy model, a devoted wife to her 81-year-old husband Virgil, and now, a widow and business owner. Virgil Duffy owned the Seattle Chinooks hockey team and left it to Faith in his will, even though she knows nothing about the sport. Determined to prove she`s more than just one of Hef`s bunnies, she dives in, learning all she can about hockey and her new team. The only obstacle is the team captain, Ty Savage. Brooding and intimidating, Ty has led his team to the NHL playoffs, and he`s not about to let some gold digger of a widow ruin his chances. The press build up the initial rivalry between Faith and Ty, but the pair may...
Sookie Stackhouse works as a cocktail waitress in Merlotte`s, a little bar in Bon Temps, a small town deep in Louisiana. She`s funny and pretty and well-mannered, but she doesn`t have that many close friends - mind you, that`s not so surprising when you consider how few people can appreciate her abilities as a mind-reader. It`s not a quality that has the guys beating down her door - well, unless they`re vampires or werewolves or the but they`re not just supernatural freaks, some of them are friends, even And then along comes Bill: he`s tall, he`s dark and he`s handsome - and Sookie can`t `hear` a word he`s thinking. He`s exactly the type of guy she`s been waiting all her life for. But Bill has a disability of his own: he`s fussy about...
ISBN: 978-0-575-09122-1
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Effortless and inevitable are architect Steven Harris`s two favorite words. With sensitivity to the surrounding landscape, Harris designs homes custom-made to his client`s daily-lived experience. His dining rooms are not aggrandizements of tradition, they are places to eat, to gather, or even work; his entry halls are not the primary places of arrival, but rather the final segments of a long trajectory that begins when the resident turns off the main road or exits the elevator. True Life, the firm`s first monograph, showcases Harris`s residential work over the past twenty-five years. Organized by the activities that propel his designs-dine, lounge, study, play, sleep, and so on-it focuses on people rather than objects. Harris`s works are...
ISBN: 978-1-56898-971-6
Издательство:
Daedalus
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Four true, breathtaking stories of adventure and courage which take us across the ocean, the ice of the Antarctic, the sky and the desert. ‘Lost at Sea’ tells the adventures of a family sailing round the world and their battle to survive in the ocean after a shipwreck. In ‘The Impossible Journey’ we follow Sir Ernest Shackleton as he and his men make their way on foot towards the South Pole. The brave young woman in ‘Amy Johnson, Woman Pioneer’ attempts a heroic solo flight from England to Australia. In ‘David Livingstone’s Last African Expedition’ we meet the great explorer on his last expedition to find the source of Africa’s longest river, the Nile.
ISBN: 978885300-830-5
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: август 2011
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. A musician disappears, leaving only a strange e-mail message. Her husband, in a desperate search to find her, revisits their shared past and has to face up to some unpleasant realities, before trying to rebuild his life. His journey of discovery takes us across the world to Poland and Rio and deep into the human heart.
ISBN: 978-0-521-68619-8
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: август 2011
