Cassel Sharpe knows he`s been used as an assassin, but he`s trying to put all that behind him. He`s trying to be good, even though he grew up in a family of con artists and cheating comes as easily as breathing to him. He`s trying to do the right thing, even though the girl he loves is inextricably connected with crime. And he`s trying to convince himself that working for the Feds is smart, even though he`s been raised to believe the government is the enemy.But with a mother on the lam, the girl he loves about to take her place in the Mob, and new secrets coming to light, the line between what`s right and what`s wrong becomes increasingly blurred. When the Feds ask Cassel to do the one thing he said he would never do again, he needs to...
ISBN: 9780575096813
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: январь 2024
«Черный Красавец» - единственный роман британской писательницы Анны Сьюэлл, автобиография коня, получившего кличку за изумительный черный окрас. Черный Красавец рассказывает о своей юности, проведенной на ферме в окружении друзей и любящих хозяев. Но когда обстоятельства меняются, он узнает, что не все люди так же добры. Переходя от владельца к владельцу, конь сталкивается с жестокостью и бедностью,...
ISBN: 978-5-517-10750-3
Издательство:
RUGRAM
Дата выхода: февраль 2024
Twelve-year-old Steven Lamb digs holes on Exmoor, hoping to find a body. Every day after school, while his classmates swap football stickers, Steven goes digging to lay to rest the ghost of the uncle he never knew, who disappeared aged eleven and is assumed to have fallen victim to the notorious serial killer Arnold Avery. Only Steven`s Nan is not convinced her son is dead. She still waits for him to come home, standing bitter guard at the front window while her family fragments around her. Steven is determined to heal the widening cracks between them before it`s too late. And if that means presenting his grandmother with the bones of her murdered son, he`ll do it. So the boy takes the next logical step, carefully crafting a letter to...
ISBN: 978-0-552-15884-8
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. In Black Heart and White Heart, Henry Rider Haggard mounts once more those trusty steeds of his, the nobility of the savage and the rascality of the civilized white. He rides, too, with all his old dexterity, and the story concerning Zulus, witches, battles, sacrifices, and traitors.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07598-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
