Sumptuous historical novel from bestselling author of the other boleyn girl and the queen`s fool Elizabeth I has acceded to the throne of England, a position she has waited and schemed for all her life. She is surrounded by advisers, all convinced that a young woman cannot form political judgements. Elizabeth feels that she can rely on just one man: her oldest friend, Robert Dudley. It is soon plain that he is more than merely a friend. In a house in the countryside waits a very different woman, Amy Robsart - Robert`s wife. She has no taste for life at court and longs for the day when her husband will return home. She has loved him since she was a girl, but now they are adults she hardly sees him. Meanwhile, the pressure grows for...
ISBN: 978-0-00-714731-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
With bridal magazine covers to her credit, Mackensie "Mac" Elliot is most at home behind the camera - ready to capture the happy moments she never experienced while growing up. Her father replaced his first family with a second, and now her mother, moving on to yet another man, begs Mac for attention and money. Mac`s foundation is jostled again moments before an important planning meeting when she bumps into the bride-to-be`s brother…an encounter that has them both seeing stars. Carter Maguire is definitely not her type: he`s stable, and he`s safe. He`s even an English teacher at their high school alma mater. There`s something about him that makes Mac think a casual fling is just what she needs to take her mind off dealing with...
"Visions of Paradise" is a panoply of experiences from the most peripatetic photographers on Earth - the photographers of "National Geographic Magazine". After all the stories and all the journeys, each man and each woman shares with us the place he or she found to be Heaven on Earth. The pictures come from all seven continents, from different times of year, in different climates. The stories are as minute as the glance of an amorous leopard seal before lunch or as vast as the landscape of Iceland during the days of the midnight sun. You will swim with penguins underneath the ice in the Antarctic, rest on a leaf in the Amazon with a dragonfly, and roam the forest floor in Borneo with a recognized scientist. By the end, you will know that...
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0338-1
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Two women, victims of sexual harassment, left the army under dubious circumstances. Both are now dead. Jack Reacher knew them both. A perfect psychological match, he is arrested, but is released when another woman is murdered. Everyone fears a serial killer is on the loose and Reacher finds himself heavily involved in the investigation.
ISBN: 978-0-553-81188-9
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: август 2011
Tired of the same old vampires? Anne Rice has called "Vittorio" her vampire version of "Romeo and Juliet". The hunky Vittorio is sweet 16 and "incalculably rich" in 15th-century Italy, the epoch of the Medicis and Vittorio`s favorite painter, madly passionate Filippo Lippi. Florence is to "Vittorio the Vampire" what New Orleans is to "Interview with the Vampire".
ISBN: 0-345-42239-2
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
In this book, you will see that there are two main tendencies: designers who embrace the ornamental, and designers who tackle the patterr by imbuirg it with content (as opposed to meaning, as one would nePen to the intrinsic, mystical bearing oP Middle-Eastern patterns, Por example). Sometimes, these terdencies blend, especially in the case oP illustnation-orier-tated designers.
ISBN: 978-84-96774-26-1
Издательство:
Index Book
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Бенджамин Дизраэли - это не только известный английский писатель, представитель "социального романа", но и важный государственный деятель Великобритании XIX века. "Вивиан Грей" - одно из самых читаемых произведений, которое бурно обсуждалось критиками и современниками после выхода книги в свет. Автор демонстрирует большую изобретательность при построении повествования, оригинальность в изложении...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05713-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
`You have a much better life if you wear impressive clothes`, according to Vivienne Westwood. A global icon, Vivienne Westwood`s career has spanned three decades from the early days of punk to the successful establishment of her own fashion house. This book is a study of her work as a ground-breaking fashion designer.
ISBN: 978-1-85177-405-0
Издательство:
V&A Publishing
Дата выхода: август 2011
DRACULA. A name of horror, depravity and the darkest sensuality. Yet the real Dracula was just as alluring, just as terrifying, his story not of a monster but of a man and a contradiction. For the one they called `The Devil`s Son` was both tyrant and lawgiver, crusader and mass slaughterer, torturer and hero, lover and murderer. His tale is told by those who knew him best. The only woman he ever loved and whom he has to sacrifice. His closest comrade and traitor. And his priest, betraying the secrets of the confessional to reveal the mind of the man history would forever remember as Tepes - `The Impaler`. But Vlad`s actions defy such labels. His extraordinary life burns with passion, taking him from his years as hostage to the Turk,...
ISBN: 978-1-4091-0299-1
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
