Dean Koontz`s compelling and high-concept new thriller is the story of a young man who owes his life to a heart transplant but confronts an imminent and far worse death because of whose heart it was. At 34, Ryan Perry never expected to find himself on a waiting list for a heart transplant, with time running out. So when miraculously he receives a new heart and the transplant is a success, he thinks his troubles are over. A year later, he has never felt so good. But then he starts to get mysterious gifts from an unknown person. He has the feeling he is being watched. $100,000 suddenly vanishes from his bank account, donated to the cardiology department of the local hospital. And then comes a terrifying threat: everything he has - his...
ISBN: 978-0-00-726758-3
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
A wonderfully gripping, dramatic, touching and warm novel for the women`s fiction market from the expert hand of a bestselling author who just gets better and better. Iona`s not pregnant. It`s a blow, but she knows that when husband Frank gets home he`ll reassure her that their dream of a family together will come true. Sally, on the other hand, has just discovered that she`s very much pregnant. Which is quite a surprise, with her only child now a seventeen-year-old. And Sally`s not sure how her husband`s going to feel about it, when he gets home. Except Frank`s not going to get home - to either of his wives. Frank`s bigamy of several years is about to be exposed, because Frank was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now his wives are...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-3405-6
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: август 2011
Youth`s narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity, and transform it into art. Arriving at last in London, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance. Instead he succumbs to the monotony of life as a computer programmer, from which random, loveless affairs offer no relief. Devoid of inspiration, he stops writing and begins a dark pilgrimage in which he is continually tested and continually found wanting. Set against the background of the 1960s, Youth is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness turning in on...
ISBN: 978-0-09-943362-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Portraying a young man`s first sea-voyage to the East in Youth, and the blind old age of Captain Whalley in The End of the Tether, the stories in this volume are united in their theme — the `Ages of Man` — and in their scepticism. Conrad`s vision has influenced twentieth-century writers and artists from T. S. Eliot to Jorge Luis Borges and Werner Herzog, and continues to draw critical fire.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06450-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Kristin Burns has lived her life by the philosophy, ‘don’t think, just shoot’ – pictures that is. Struggling to make ends meet, she works full time as nanny to the fabulously wealthy Turnbull family, looking after their two children and waiting for her life as a New York fashion photographer to begin. But Kristin has a major distraction: forbidden love. The man of her dreams is almost hers for keeps. Breathless with an inexhaustible passion and the excitement of being within reach of everything she wants, Kristin ignores all signs of catastrophe brewing. Fear exists for a reason. And Kristin can only dismiss the warnings for so long. Searching desperately for the truth through the lens of her camera she can only hope that it’s...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-3045-4
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: август 2011
A beautiful box set with Yuval Harari`s three phenomenal global bestselling titles:Includes:SAPIENSHOMO DEUS21 LESSONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURYThese books are must haves for anyone interested in the history of humanity and the lessons we can learn from the past as we prepare for our future.These books have sold over 30 million copies in 60 languages worldwide and they continue to take the world by storm.Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling historian and philosopher, is considered one of the world`s most influential thinkers and pubic intellectuals. He has a PhD from the University of Oxford and now lectures at the department of history, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
ISBN: 9781529115666
Издательство:
Vintage Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2021
A novelists search for the wife who left him without an explanation takes him on a long journey from France to Central Asia where he discovers something new about the meaning of life, marriage, and his own celebrity.
ISBN: 978-0-06-083131-8
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
One day a renowned author discovers that his wife, a war correspondent, has disappeared leaving no trace. Was she kidnapped, blackmailed, or simply bored with their marriage? His search for her - and for the truth of his own life - takes him from South America to Spain, France, Croatia and, eventually, the bleakly beautiful landscape of Central Asia. More than that, it leads him into a new understanding of the nature of love, the power of destiny and what it really means to follow your heart.
ISBN: 978-0-00-721362-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Zoe can`t wait to visit the Frost Fair with her best friend, Astra, the fairy unicorn. But when cursed snowflakes begin falling, the unicorns are turned to ice. Who could be behind this evil plan - and can Zoe and Astra stop them? A magical addition to Young Reading Series Three, for newly fluent readers who are ready for longer stories.
Scaldingly sarcastic yet enduringly empathetic, The Zap Gun is Dick`s remarkable novel depicting the insanity of the arms race. Lars Powderdry and Lilo Topchev are counterpart weapons fashion designers for a world divided into two factions-Wes-bloc and Peep-East. Since the Plowshare Protocols of 2002, their job has been to invent elaborate weapons that only seem massively lethal. But when alien satellites hostile to both sides appear in the sky, the two are brought together in the dire hope that they can create a weapon to save the world, a task made all the more difficult by Lars falling in love with Lilo even as he knows she`s trying to kill him.
ISBN: 978-0-575-07672-3
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Here are eleven exuberant essays on the pleasures of writing from one of the most creative, imaginative, and prolific artists of the twentieth century - an author who truly enjoys his craft and tells you why and how. Bradbury shares his wisdom and enthusiasm for writing as he examines a lifetime of creating and composing scores of stories, novels, plays, poems, films, television programs, and musicals. Refreshingly direct, each essay shares a single compelling theme: writing is a celebration, not a chore. Unlike so many books on writing, this one does not belabor the technical or become obsessed with the how-to aspects of the craft. What Bradbury does bring to every discussion of writing is the fever, the ardor, the delight that he has...
ISBN: 978-0-553-29634-1
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Former hit singer Hollis is down on her luck after the Crash and can`t turn down the offer of a job again from mysterious global ad agency, Blue Ant. Stanley Milgrim, ex-addict freshly out of an expensive rehab paid for by Blue Ant-founder Hubertus Bigend, is also on the payroll. Bigend wants them to do some discreet research on an a secret, obscurely fashionable denim. It may not matter that they know nothing about fashion - but it does matter, at least to them, when bullets start to fly and they realize that Bigend`s business obsession is leading them down a dangerous path. Set among London`s dark and tangled streets, Zero History is a brilliant thriller about the webs and networks of the new century.
From David Baldacci - the modern master of the thriller and #1 worldwide bestselling novelist-comes a new hero: a lone Army Special Agent taking on the toughest crimes facing the nation. And Zero Day is where it all John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the Army`s Criminal Investigation Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison. Puller has an indomitable spirit and an unstoppable drive to find the truth. Now, Puller is called out on a case in a remote, rural area in West Virginia coal country far from any military outpost. Someone has stumbled onto a brutal crime scene, a family slaughtered. The local homicide...
And Zero Day is where it all John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the Army`s Criminal Investigation Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison. Puller has an indomitable spirit and an unstoppable drive to find the truth. Now, Puller is called out on a case in a remote, rural area in West Virginia coal country far from any military outpost. Someone has stumbled onto a brutal crime scene, a family slaughtered. The local homicide detective, a headstrong woman with personal demons of her own, joins forces with Puller in the investigation. As Puller digs through deception after deception, he realizes that absolutely...
Tamara kann ihr Glück kaum fassen: Geld auf der Bank, ein Mann im Bett. Doch wie sie mit Mutterwitz bemerkt: Du denkst, es läuft wie am Schnürchen, schon hat die Sache einen Haken. Als Jamal zum Hauptverdächtigen in einem Mordfall wird, ist Tamara mehr gefordert denn je.
ISBN: 978-3-257-23916-4
Издательство:
Diogenes
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Zoey fools around They`ve all grown up together on a tiny island. They think they know everything about one they`re only just beginning to find out the truth. Zoey fools around, and it turns their world upside down. New couples are formed, friends become enemies, and secrets and
