In his classic caper novels, Donald E. Westlake turns the world of crime and criminals upside down. The bad get better, the good slide a bit, and Lord help anyone caught between a thief named John Dortmunder and the current object of his intentions. Now Westlake`s seasoned but often scoreless crook must take on an impossible crime, one he doesn`t want and doesn`t believe in. But a little blackmail goes a long way WHAT`S SO FUNNY?
Like a princess in a fairytale, Grace Hamilton has been showered with blessings: professional success, a happy marriage, and she even lives in a beautiful castle. But the only thing she really wants - her heart`s desire - is the one thing she can never have. Her sister, the beautiful Susannah, has made a mess of her life. Like a reverse Midas, everything she touches turns to shit. But the Fate puts Grace`s future in Susannah`s hands, changing the balance of power between the sisters forever.
ISBN: 978-0-330-51367-8
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Michael Caine is the best-loved film actor Britain has ever produced. Here, for the first time, he reveals the truth about his childhood, his family and his hard-fought journey from London to Hollywood, bringing to life the lean years and the triumphs with astonishing candour. And with typical charm and humour he talks about the movies, about his relationships - on and off the screen - with other actors and directors, and about the memorable screen presence which is his hallmark.
ISBN: 978-0-09-955319-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Donald Westlake turns the world of crime and criminals upside down and has the last laugh in What`s So Funny?, his latest comic caper novel. His perennially depressed master thief, John Dortmunder, finds himself involved an impossible crime, one he doesn`t want and doesn`t believe in and which he`d rather avoid if but a little blackmail goes a long way. All it takes is a few underhanded moves by a tough ex-cop named Eppick to pull Dortmunder into a game he never wanted to play. With no choice, he musters his always-game gang and they set out on a perilous treasure hunt for a long-lost gold and jewel-studded chess set once intended as a birthday gift for the last Romanov czar. Unfortunately for everyone, then and now, he became the last...
ISBN: 978-1-84724-385-0
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Jess and the gang are getting ready for a surprise party - there`s lots to do! What party food have Jinx and Joey made? What is stealing the berry jelly? And who is the surprise party for?
ISBN: 978-1-4052-5800-5
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
What`s the Time, Mr Wolf? It`s story time with Debi Gliori! Join Mr Wolf from breakfast to bedtime and see that he`s really not that big and bad after all. Have fun spotting your favourite nursery rhyme characters - from Little Red Riding Hood to Three Little Pigs... An enchantingly original story inspired by the well-known playground game, also perfect for learning to tell the ti
ISBN: 9781408819418
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: март 2023
Footballs tossed in the air! Lunches scattered and drawings splattered! Hop on this big yellow bus for a crazy, rollicking ride on which the grown-ups are the troublemakers while the kids are the ones trying to sit still. Laura Huliska-Beith creates a wonderfully zany world of bright color and chaos for a unique variation of the familiar song "The Wheels on the Bus."
Perched like a black crow on a crag in the most hostile depths of the Himalayas stands a monastery. For a thousand years the monks have kept guard. Now their sanctum has been violated, the secret carried off. After a millennium of hiding from the world, the guardians of the treasure will have to turn to an outsider for help. Luckily Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast is no stranger. Having trained body and mind in Tibet, he knows the land well. But neither he nor his ward, Constance, are prepared for the truth about what the monks have been protecting. The pursuit of the stolen artefact takes Pendergast and Constance far from the snowy wastes, to where the largest-ever ocean liner is preparing for her maiden voyage. As Pendergast and...
ISBN: 978-0-7528-8281-9
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The Wheel of Time turns, and Robert Jordan gives us the eleventh volume of his extraordinary masterwork of fantasy. The dead are walking, men die impossible deaths, and it seems as though reality itself has become unstable: All are signs of the imminence of Tarmon Gai’don, the Last Battle, when Rand al’Thor, the Dragon Reborn, must confront the Dark One as humanity’s only hope. But Rand dares not fight until he possesses all the surviving seals on the Dark One’s prison and has dealt with the Seanchan, who threaten to overrun all nations this side of the Aryth Ocean and increasingly seem too entrenched to be fought off. But his attempt to make a truce with the Seanchan is shadowed by treachery that may cost him everything....
ISBN: 978-0-8125-7756-3
Издательство:
Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Not suitable for children under 2 years of age This colourful playbook from Ladybird`s touch and count range is ideal for children aged 1-3 years. Touching each object as they count is the best way for young children to learn about numbers. The familiar rhymes and patterns will also help children with the skills they need for early reading and writing. Enjoy reading the rhyme together and help your child to touch and count. Lift the flaps and read the extra rhymes. Read the words and help your child to trace the patterns at the bottom of each page. Have fun feeling the textures. What do they feel like? Each spread encourages children to make noises and actions. In a new cased board format with foil cover.
ISBN: 978-1-4093-0472-2
Издательство:
Ladybird Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
From America`s premier fantasy writer - #1New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of "Crossroads of Twilight" - comes "New Spring: The Novel". For three days battle has raged in the snow around the great city of Tar Valon. In the city, a Foretelling of the future is uttered. On the slopes of Dragonmount, the immense mountain that looms over the city, is born an infant prophesied to change the world. That child must be found before the forces of the Shadow have an opportunity to kill him. Moiraine Damodred, a young Accepted soon to be raised to Aes Sedai, and Lan Mandragoran, a soldier fighting in the battle, are set on paths that will bind their lives together. But those paths are filled with complications and dangers, for...
ISBN: 978-0-7653-4545-5
Издательство:
Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
The Last Battle has started. The seals on the Dark One’s prison are crumbling. The Pattern itself is unraveling, and the armies of the Shadow have begun to boil out of the Blight. The sun has begun to set upon the Third Age. Perrin Aybara is now hunted by specters from his past: Whitecloaks, a slayer of wolves, and the responsibilities of leadership. All the while, an unseen foe is slowly pulling a noose tight around his neck. To prevail, he must seek answers in Tel’aran’rhiod and find a way--at long last--to master the wolf within him or lose himself to it forever. Meanwhile, Matrim Cauthon prepares for the most difficult challenge of his life. The creatures beyond the stone gateways--the Aelfinn and the Eelfinn--have confused...
ISBN: 978-0-7653-6487-6
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
"The story of one of the most important and least-understood jobs in moviemaking--film editing--is here told by one of the wizards, Ralph Rosenblum, whose credentials include six Woody Allen films, as we"
Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, but he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels. "When the Sleeper Wakes" is a dystopian science fiction novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London where he has become the richest man in the world.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08225-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2018
Stephen was handsome, unreliable and beguiling. Maude was courageous, beautiful and insanely arrogant. They fought for twenty years and devastated England. Their flair for dramatic events and immense catastrophes made sure that they were never boring.
