What mystical secrets lie beneath the Great Pyramids? The world changes for Ethan Gage—one-time assistant to the renowned Ben Franklin—on a night in post-revolutionary Paris, when he wins a mysterious medallion in a card game. Framed soon after for the murder of a prostitute and facing the grim prospect of either prison or death, the young expatriate American barely escapes France with his life—choosing instead to accompany the new emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte, on his glorious mission to conquer Egypt. With Lord Nelson`s fleet following close behind, Gage sets out on the adventure of a lifetime. And in a land of ancient wonder and mystery, with the help of a beautiful Macedonian slave, he will come to realize that the unusual prize...
The two-time winner of the Best Designer of the Year Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America, and hailed as the king of minimalism, Narciso Rodriguez is poised to take his place in the pantheon of great American designers. As Anna Wintour put it, "No one but Narciso has ever made a simple line look more stunning". Like the famously copied wedding dress he made for Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Rodriguez’s designs are revered for their exquisite tailoring but also for being wearable. His exceptionally varied and loyal following — from Salma Hayek and Sarah Jessica Parker, to Oprah Winfrey and the late Celia Cruz—is a testament to his success. This elegant volume reveals the artist at work in his atelier. Rodriguez takes...
ISBN: 978-0-8478-3141-8
Издательство:
Знак
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Six months have passed since Anita has seen either Jean-Claude or Richard. Six months of celibacy. Six months of indecision. Six months of danger. For her body carries the marks of both vampire and werewolf, and until the truimvariate is consummated, all three remain vulnerable. But when a kidnapper targets innocents that Anita has sworn to protect, she needs all the help she can get. In an earth-shattering union, Anita, Jean-Claude and Richard merge the marks - and melt into one another. Suddenly, Anita can harness both their powers. She can feel their their their Nothing can save Anita from a twist of fate that draws her ever closer to the brink of humanity-to finally surrender to the bloodlust, the beast and the desire transforming...
ISBN: 978-0-515-13387-5
Издательство:
Rem Distributors
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Former LAPD Detective Harry Bosch returns in this "New York Times" bestseller. Harry investigates the death of an old friend who had ties to the hunt for the infamous serial killer, The Poet. What Harry finds leads him into the most terrifying situation he has ever encountered.
ISBN: 978-0-446-61164-0
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The EARLYREAD series contains both original stories and traditional favourites, as well as some cultural readers, graded over five levels. Features of all readers are: • beautiful illustrations, which not only encourage reading but actively help children to understand the story • picture dictionaries, for active vocabulary work • fun activities and games, often for more than one participant, which practise vocabulary and structures in the story. • a recording of the whole text, either on an accompanying CD or downloadable at no charge from the Black Cat website. All the readers can be easily dramatised. The most recent titles are accompanied by playscripts which can also be downloaded free from the Black Cat website. Earlyread...
ISBN: 9788853006998
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
1925, a damp wintry night in Berlin. Englishman Philip Gibson, in Germany to seek the answers to a tantalising mystery surrounding the Grand Duchess Anastasia, witnesses an attack on Natasha, a young woman who has fled from Russia. When Philip takes the fragile, lonely Natasha in to help her recuperate, she quickly falls for his kind and caring nature. But when further threats are made on her life, Philip finds himself at the heart of another mystery. What is it that links Natasha to this mysterious, damaged woman? And will her love for Philip survive the secrets that will be unearthed?
ISBN: 978-0-552-15092-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A dazzling debut, and a publishing phenomenon: the tender, savagely funny collection from a young immigrant who has taken the critics by storm. Few readers had heard of David Bezmozgis before May 2003, when Harper’s, Zoetrope, and The New Yorker all printed stories from his forthcoming collection. In the space of a few weeks, America thus met the Bermans - Bella and Roman and their son, Mark - Russian Jews who have fled the Riga of Brezhnev for Toronto, the city of their dreams. Told through Mark’s eyes, the stories in Natasha possess a serious wit and uniquely Jewish perspective that recall the first published stories of Bernard Malamud and Philip Roth, not to mention the recent work of Jhumpa Lahiri, Nathan Englander, and Adam...
ISBN: 978-0-312-42393-3
Издательство:
Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Even if one takes nothing else away from this elegant, tightly focused survey of Russian culture, it`s impossible to forget the telling little anecdotes that University of London history professor Figes (A People`s Tragedy) relates about Russia`s artists, writers, musicians, intellectuals and courtiers as he traces the cultural movements of the last three centuries. He shares Ilya Repin`s recollection of how peasants reacted to his friend Leo Tolstoy`s fumbling attempts to join them in manual labor ("Never in my life have I seen a clearer expression of irony on a simple peasant`s face"), as well as the three sentences Shostakovich shyly exchanged with his idol, Stravinsky, when the latter returned to the Soviet Union after 50 years of...
ISBN: 978-0-14-029796-6
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Klassiker fur ungeubte Leserinnen und Leser. Viele Jugendliche finden heute keinen Zugang mehr zu klassischen Texten. Das Verstandnis und das Lesevergnugen scheitern oft an den sprachlichen Hurden. Die Reihe einfach klassisch versucht, auch diese Schulerinnen und Schuler mit klassischen Stoffen bekannt zu machen und ihr Leseinteresse zu wecken. Die Originaltexte wurden gekurzt und sprachlich vereinfacht, ungebrauchliche Worter durch gelaufige ersetzt, schwer verstandliche Satzkonstruktionen aufgelost. Die Bearbeitung halt sich dabei so nah wie moglich an das Original, um literarische Eigenart und Intention der ursprunglichen Fassung zu erhalten. Die zeitgemasse Gestaltung, der zweifarbige Druck, die Bilder und Fotos, die Info-Kasten, die...
ISBN: 978-3-464-60936-1
Издательство:
Cornelsen
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Following the National Theatre`s success with plays based on novels by well-loved children`s writers like Philip Pulman ("His Dark Materials"), Jamila Gavin ("Coram Boy") and Michael Morpurgo ("War Horse"), the National now stages Mark Ravenhill`s exhilarating adaptation of Terry Pratchett`s witty and challenging adventure story in a major Christmas production for 2009. Its a parallel world, 1860. Two teenagers thrown together by a tsunami that has destroyed Mau`s village and left Daphne shipwrecked on his South Pacific island, thousands of miles from home. One wears next to nothing, the other a long white dress; neither speaks the other`s language; somehow they must learn to survive. As starving refugees gather, Daphne delivers a baby,...
ISBN: 978-0-552-16215-9
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The sea has taken everything. Mau is the only one left after a giant wave sweeps his island village away. But when much is taken, something is returned, and somewhere in the jungle Daphne - a girl from the other side of the globe - is the sole survivor of a ship destroyed by the same wave. Together the two confront the aftermath of catastrophe. Drawn by the smoke of Mau and Daphne`s sheltering fire, other refugees slowly arrive: children without parents, mothers without babies, husbands without wives - all of them hungry and all of them frightened. As Mau and Daphne struggle to keep the small band safe and fed, they defy ancestral spirits, challenge death himself, and uncover a long-hidden secret that literally turns the world upside...
Alone on a desert island - everything and everyone he knows and loves has been washed away in a storm - Mau is the last surviving member of his nation. He`s completely alone - or so he thinks until he finds the ghost girl. She has no toes, wears strange lacy trousers like the grandfather bird, and gives him a stick that can make fire. Daphne, sole survivor of the wreck of the Sweet Judy, almost immediately regrets trying to shoot the native boy. Thank goodness the powder was wet and the gun only produced a spark. She`s certain her father, distant cousin of the Royal family, will come and rescue her but it seems, for now, that all she has for company is the boy and the foul-mouthed ship`s parrot, until other survivors arrive to take...
Presents a collection of "National Geographic" magazine photographs, the facts behind them, and the inside stories of the men and women who took them. This book describes the photographers` achievements from technical, journalistic, and artistic points of view.
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0291-9
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
On the day the world ends… …Mau is on his way home from the Boys` Island. Soon he will be a man. And then the wave comes - a huge wave, dragging black night behind it and bringing a schooner which sails over and through the island rainforest. The village has gone. The Nation as it was has gone. Now there`s just Mau, who wears barely anything, a trouserman girl who wears far too much, and an awful lot of big misunderstandings… Wise, witty and filled with Terry Pratchett`s inimitable comic satire, this is a terrific adventure that - quite literally - turns the world upside down.
ISBN: 978-0-552-55780-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This new edition of the "Encyclopedia of Native Tribes of North America" is revised and expanded, including newly commissioned color plates, an extended and illustrated glossary, an appendix that covers major museum and cultural exhibits, and updated census information for both the and Canada. Respected researcher Michael G. Johnson meticulously details every aspect of each tribe’s history, arts, crafts, and material culture. His clear and detailed text is complemented by hundreds of stunning illustrations and photos, both archival and current. Far removed from the oversimplifications and stereotypes of the “noble savage”, the "Encyclopedia of Native Tribes of North America" is a testament to the history and cultural significance...
In Nativity Poems six superb poets in English have come together to translate the ten as yet untranslated poems from this sequence, and the poems are presented in English in their entirety in a beautiful, pocket-sized edition illustrated with Mikhail Lemkhin`s photographs of winter-time St. Petersburg.
ISBN: 978-0-374-52857-7
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
