What makes a Stalin? Was he illegitimate? Was Stalin a Tsarist agent or Lenin's chief gangster? Was he to blame for his wife's death? And when did the killing start? Born in poverty, scarred by his upbringing, exceptional in his studies, this charismatic but dangerous boy was hailed as a romantic poet and trained as a priest but found his mission as a fanatical revolutionary. He became the mastermind of bank robberies, protection rackets, arson and murder. Surprisingly, he is also revealed as a scandalously prolific lover, leaving a trail of mistresses and illegitimate children. This is the story of how Stalin became Stalin.
ISBN: 978-0-7538-2379-8
Издательство:
Орион
Дата выхода: август 2010
Half term may be over but the chaos has just begun. Mr Logan has run off and eloped with Miss Sharkreve leaving the Lower Sixth with a new housemistress - the tyrannical, catty Mrs Dicks. And with the rules getting tighter at St Cecilia`s the students are getting way more creative in finding ways to break them - especially as they`re all feeling a bit frisky. Tally, broken hearted and on the rebound, sets her sights on safe bet Rando, while Alice and Tristan decide to take their relationship to the next level. Things between Dylan and Jasper are seriously heating up - could she finally have found a guy who won`t disappoint her? As tensions reach an explosive high, a pool party at Rando`s country estate should be just the thing to cool...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-4589-2
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: август 2011
The year is 1868, and Sherlock Holmes is fourteen. He has witnessed his first murder and travelled to America to unravel a deadly mystery, but now he faces his most dangerous mission yet. Mycroft, Sherlock`s older brother, has suddenly vanished. Sherlock discovers that he has headed to Russia and has no choice but to follow him, across the freezing Baltic Sea, into strange territory and to face an unknown but will he arrive too late to save his brother? Young Sherlock Holmes is a series of novels in which the iconic detective is reimagined as a brilliant, troubled and engaging teenager - creating unputdownable detective adventures that remain true to the spirit of the original books.
ISBN: 978-0-330-51200-8
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
One year of training in samurai school and Jack is in real He`s busy preparing for the Circle of Three, an ancient ritual that tests courage, skill and spirit to the limit. And, at the same time, Jack is caught in a running battle with fellow student Kazuki and his gang. But these are the least of Jack`s problems. He knows his deadly rival - the ninja Dragon Eye - could strike at any moment. Jack possesses the very thing he will kill for. Can Jack master the Way of the Sword in time to survive a fight to the death?
ISBN: 978-0-14-132431-9
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Using a sharply realistic and humorous style, Bulgakov reveals his doubts about his own competence and the immense burden of responsibility, as he deals with a superstitious and poorly educated people struggling to enter the modern age. This acclaimed collection represents some of Bulgakov`s most personal and insightful observations on youth, isolation and progress.
ISBN: 978-1-84749-177-0
Издательство:
Alma Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Lucy stole her friend Rose`s `happily ever after` because she wanted Rose`s husband, Peter, and Lucy always gets what she wants. Big mistake. Rose was the ideal wife and is the ideal mother; Lucy was the perfect mistress. Connie
ISBN: 978-0-14-102478-3
Издательство:
Книжный мир
Дата выхода: май 2012
Young Genius is a bright little boy who escorts children through the pages of this amusing and instructive color-illustrated book. Kids will discover answers to many interesting questions about their brains. For example: How can you look at your brain without taking it out of your head? Where do headaches come from? What is imagination? Does having a big brain make you more clever? Young Genius books explain different parts of the human body to children, showing and telling kids how each part works. In each book, Young Genius also talks about nourishing foods to help keep those body parts in great condition, and he asks questions that will prompt boys and girls to giggle but also to get a clearer understanding of how their bodies...
ISBN: 978-0-7641-3670-2
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The year is 1868, and Sherlock Holmes is fourteen. His life is that of a perfectly ordinary army officer`s son: boarding school, good manners, a classical education - the backbone of the British Empire. But all that is about to change. With his father suddenly posted to India, and his mother mysteriously `unwell`, Sherlock is sent to stay with his eccentric uncle and aunt in their vast house in Hampshire. So begins a summer that leads Sherlock to uncover his first murder, a kidnap, corruption and a brilliantly sinister villain of exquisitely malign intent ..."The Death Cloud" is the first in a series of novels in which the iconic detective is reimagined as a brilliant, troubled and engaging teenager - creating unputdownable detective...
ISBN: 978-0-330-51198-8
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: август 2011
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
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
