More than three decades have passed since the events described in John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick. The three divorcées - Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie - have left town, remarried, and become widows. They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world, to such foreign lands as Canada, Egypt, and China, and renew old acquaintance. Why not, Sukie and Jane ask Alexandra, go back to Eastwick for the summer? The old Rhode Island seaside town, where they indulged in wicked mischief under the influence of the diabolical Darryl Van Horne, is still magical for them. Now Darryl is gone, and their lovers of the time have aged or died, but enchantment remains in the familiar streets and scenery of the village, where...
ISBN: 978-0-14-104106-3
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
From the author of THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, a novel about an acclaimed writer which examines three critical moments of her life. The first part deals with an incident in the Hamptons when she is a toddler, the second is concerned with a crisis in her romantic life, and the third with her adjustments to motherhood and life without her husband.
ISBN: 978-0-552-14668-5
Издательство:
Corgi Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten. Ruth`s story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life. When we first meet her--on Long Island, in the summer of 1958--Ruth is only four. The second window into Ruth`s life opens in the fall of 1990, when Ruth is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career. She distrusts her judgment in men, for good reason. A Widow for One Year closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother. She`s about to fall in love for the first time. Richly comic, as well as deeply disturbing A Widow...
ISBN: 978-0-345-43479-1
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
When the three witches - now old, remarried and widowed - decide to go back to Eastwick to spend a summer together, many things have changed. Darryl Van Horne is gone. Their husbands and lovers have gone. The lithe and supple bodies with which they wrecked marriages and wreaked havoc many years before have gone.
It was supposed to be simple. All Navy SEAL Nathan Malone had to do was rescue three young girls from a Columbia drug cartel, then allow himself to be captured long enough to draw out a government spy. That was before his mission went disastrously before his wife, Bella, was told that Nathan was never coming `s mourned her husband`s death for three long years. But she has no idea he`s still alive. Forced to assume a new identity, the man Nathan is now dead. If he can get back to his wife, can he keep the secret of who he really as desire threatens to consume them? And as danger threatens to tear Bella from Nathan`s arms once more?
ISBN: 978-0-312-94579-4
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
This is geography with the gritty bits left in! Does geography grind you down? Fed up with miserable maps, rotten rock piles and crazy contour lines? Wave goodbye to boring geography lessons as you are cast away on the far-flung shores of `Wild Islands`... Marvel! as a brand-new island pops up from the sea. Gasp! at the hot-tempered island that blew its top. Choke! on the smell of an island dragon`s foul breath. And if that`s not wild enough for discover where to find coconuts with magical powers, try to crack the case of the missing island and read the remarkable story of a real life Robinson Crusoe. It`s earth-shatteringly exciting! Geography has never been so horrible!
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1081-3
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
From a chapter all about the famous great white shark to the lesser known goblin shark, this book covers a wide range of topics. Learn all about the many different species and what makes the shark so special. Find out what they eat and who their very worst enemy is (you may be surprised at the answer!) For real shark enthusiasts this book also suggests websites and places to visit to find out even more! Other titles in this series: Big Cats, Spiders, Elephants, Bees, Dinosaurs, Wolves, Snakes, Rats, Frogs and Toads, Whales, Crocodiles, Dogs and Horses.
ISBN: 978-0-19-911931-8
Издательство:
Oxford
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
A group of Vietnam Vets who still keep in touch: the Custer Hill Club. They are prepared to attack foreign countries if America is attacked and their current rule is that if an Islamic country attacks America, then all Islamic countries will be nuked - thus deterring Korea, China or other countries having similar ideas against the US. The Custer Hill Club gets more ambitious and aggressive. The men decide to choose an American city to attack themselves, pretending it is an Islamic terrorist attack (either San Francisco or LA, the reader won’t know) in order for them to be able to nuke Mecca, the Aswan Dam and many other places. America will rule the world!
ISBN: 978-0-7515-3827-4
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. Tess and Grant are tour leaders for a group walking holiday in France. And they don`t get on at all. Tess is an artist and a dreamer, whose father owns the tour company. Grant is experienced, knowledgeable and efficient - and enjoys making Tess appear foolish. As the rain pours down, things go from bad to worse until ...
ISBN: 9780521713672
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Presented in large full-colour format, this title helps children learn how to survive when animals get horrible: how to cope with a killer croc, why you shouldn`t turn your back on a tiger and what to do if a shark bumps into you. It includes wild animal facts, life-saving tips, and heart-stopping survival stories.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1758-4
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
`Between grief and nothing I will take grief`. In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the temptations of respectability. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict sets forth across a flooded river, risking his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation, survival and self-sacrifice, a novel in which elemental danger is juxtaposed with fatal injuries of the spirit.
ISBN: 978-0-09-928292-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the heart. A world that lovingly captures the ties that bind us to one another-the joys and sorrows, heartbreaks and misunderstandings, and glad, perfect moments when we are in true harmony. A world filled with evocative, engrossing, and above all, enjoyable portraits of people`s lives and loves, tenderly laid open for Oliver Dobbs was a writer first, and a man second. To him other people were tools. Even though he had broken Victoria Bradshaw`s heart once, when he arrived on her doorstep with a two-year-old son, she found she could not refuse him, and the three of them set out for a castle in Scotland. There, Victoria meets the new laird and...
ISBN: 978-0-312-96123-7
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
The New York Times Bestseller. A New York Times Notable Book. From the acclaimed master of mystery and suspense comes a thrilling novel about the illusion of film - and the reality of murder.
ISBN: 978-0-425-19674-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
Leopard shifter Conner Vega carries the scent of a wild animal in its prime, and bears the soul-crushing sins of past betrayals. Isabeau Chandler`s never forgiven him - or forgotten him. The mating urge is still with her, and hotter than ever.
ISBN: 978-0-515-14790-2
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Victoria Bradshaw fell in love with London playwright Oliver Dobbs when she was just eighteen. But he left her and disappeared from her life. Now, years later, he is a widower standing on her doorstep with his two-year-old son in his arms. And Victoria is foolish enough to want to take him back. Their early spring journey to a castle in Scotland becomes an odyssey of emotional discovery ...can they rekindle their love in the tranquil beauty of the countryside, or will Oliver`s career dictate another course?
Help your baby discover all about wild animals with touch and feel textures. Stroke, tickle and touch the textures together with your baby and help them discover all about wild animals. Let their little hands roam and feel how furry the tigers are and how scaly the crocodiles feel. They`ll learn as you play. Twinkly, bumpy, scaly, silky, sandy, sticky and shiny textures in a chunky package: perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and tiny minds to develop.
ISBN: 978-1-4053-4122-6
Издательство:
Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
White Star’s bestselling CubeBook series has earned a reputation for presenting high-quality images in an appealing, affordable format. Featuring exotic species and familiar favorites, these images capture fleeting moments in the lives of a vast international menagerie of wild animals. Readers experience untamed creatures caring for their young, hunting for food, basking in the sun, grooming, and in other everyday activities that, when viewed through the lens of these photographers, become very special indeed. We are whisked away on a tour of the world’s wild life, from the big cats and noble elephants of the African savanna to crocodiles and hippopotamuses and tropical-jungle monkeys to more familiar creatures such as bears and...
ISBN: 978-88-544-0195-2
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: июль 2011
