Marlowe is being paid to follow a sad-looking red-head named Eleanor King. Or is she called Betty Mayfield or Mrs Kinsolving? And what is the man with the swift left hook holding over her? Even in a nice little town like Esmerelda there`s no shortage of PIs, cops and bellhops to make a case more difficult, and Marlowe`s overdeveloped sense of justice is getting him into trouble again. Still, at least there`s a blonde with a snooty look and a great pair of legs to take the sting out of things ... Throughout the 1940s and 1950s Philip Marlowe stalked the tawdry neon wilderness of Southern California. There Raymond Chandler`s creation became the most famous fictional detective since Sherlock Holmes; often imitated, never bettered. Read the...
"The Playboy" is the second of three lighthearted and sexy contemporary romances about the three Chandler brothers, whose mother schemes to marry them off in order to get what she wants most in life: grandchildren.
ISBN: 978-0-446-61055-1
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
It. Is. On. From the pen of the prolific (and bestselling) author Barney Stinson comes the indispensable guide for every Bro looking to score with The Ladies. Featuring the famous plays including: - The Lorenzo Von Matterhorn - Mrs. Stinsfire - The Ted Mosby - The Time Traveller - The `SNASA` - The Scuba Diver - The `He`s Not Coming`... and other greatest hits from Barney Stinson`s secret Playbook of legendary moves. So suit up and get ready to be schooled in awsomeness.
ISBN: 978-1-849-83249-6
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: март 2011
Harry Hunter was everywhere you looked - bearing down from bus billboards, beaming out from the society pages, falling out of nightclubs in the gossip columns, and flirting up a storm on the telly chat show circuit. Harry Hunter is the new golden boy of the literary world. With his books selling by the millions, the paparazzi on his tail, and a supermodel on each arm, he seems to have the world at his feet. Women all over the world adore him but few suspect that his angelic looks hide a darker side, a side that conceals a lifetime of lies and deceit. Tor, Cress and Kate have been best friends for as long as they can remember. Through all the challenges of marriage, raising children and maintaining their high-flying careers, they have...
ISBN: 978-0-330-51376-0
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Издание полностью на английском языке. This is a real-time five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick, the down-on-his-luck airport lounge bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool Hitchcock blonde incapable of true human contact; and, finally a mysterious voice known as Player One. Slowly, each reveals the truth about themselves while the world as they know it comes to an end. In the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and Ballard, Coupland explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion and the afterlife. The book asks as many questions as it answers...
ISBN: 978-0-09-953819-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Vonnegut`s spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines.
ISBN: 978-0-385-33378-8
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Книга для чтения на английском языке. Английский писатель Артур Конан-Дойль известен как создатель Шерлока Холмса и один из основателей детективного жанра. Несколько менее известен он как автор исторических, фантастических и приключенческих романов, повестей и рассказов. И почти совсем не известен как сочинитель увлекательных историй, в которых сильны элементы загадки, мистики и необъяснимо...
ISBN: 5-8346-0036-0
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
This book gives a practical method for playing the harpsichord in a way that was lost when the instrument was marginalized by the piano in the 19th century. Since a thorough knowledge of historical performance practice is such an important aspect of playing this repertoire, excerpts from relevant primary sources are given at the end of many of the lessons.
Connie has been happily married for a year. She`s just met John Harding. Imagine the sexiest man you can think of. He`s a walking stag weekend. He`s a funny, disrespectful, fast, confident, irreverent pub crawl. He is also completely unscrupulous. He`s about to destroy Connie`s peace of mind, her grand plan for living happily ever after with her gentle, loving husband Luke. It`s against the rules. It`s the closest thing you`ll get to an affair, without actually having one.
ISBN: 978-0-14-029065-3
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: май 2012
Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC Championship game, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually got into the game. With a 17-point lead and just minutes to go. Rick provided what was arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL. Overnight, he became a national laughingstock - and was immediately cut by the Browns and shunned by all other teams. But all Rick knows is football, and he insists that his agent find a team that needs him. Against enormous odds. Rick finally gets a job - as the starting quarterback for the Mighty Panthers… of Parma, Italy. The Parma Panthers desperately want a former NFL player - any former NFL player - at their helm. And...
Holly Colshannon is a young journalist who thinks her career is about to take a terminal nosedive when she is moved from covering `pet deaths` for her local Bristol paper and made Crime Correspondent - a poisoned chalice if ever there was one. However, a brilliant idea from the new police PR officer sees Holly shadowing a detective and writing a diary column about his working life. Detective James Sabine is bit of a sour puss - although he does have very nice green eyes - and he`s furious that he has been landed with magnificently accident-prone Holly especially since her arrival comes six weeks before his wedding to faultless Fleur. Holly, however, has a career to think about and this infuriating man is not going to stand in her way....
ISBN: 0-7515-3574-5
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
In these tales Gogol guides us through the elegant streets of St Petersburg, the city erected by force and ingenuity on the marshes of the Neva estuary. Something of the deception and violence of the city`s creation seems to lurk beneath its harmonious facade, however, and it confounds its inhabitants with false dreams and absurd visions - `nothing is what it seems!` warns Gogol. St Petersburg is also the setting for "Marriage", Gogol`s satire on courtship and cowardice. Finally, for "The Government Inspector", indisputably Russia`s greatest comedy, we move to the provinces although even here St Petersburg`s preoccupation with status and appearances makes its presence felt.
ISBN: 978-0-19-955506-2
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
As a playwright Chekhov was subversive, even revolutionary, breaking away from the prevailing fashions of contemporary theatre to create an exhilarating new form of drama. He created many plays without heroes and villains, and focused instead on the individual grappling with a moral dilemma. In place of the happy ending came ambiguity, in place of dramatic conflict came the solitary quest. Shocking to his first audiences, his plays are equally provocative today. A new translation by Peter Carson with an introduction by Richard Gilman.
ISBN: 978-0-14-044733-0
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Anton Chekhov`s popularity in the west is without parallel for a foreign writer. He has been absorbed into our culture, and accepted as one of our own. His plays lend themselves easily to the stage, calling for actors with intelligence and common sense rather than a dramatic voice or histrionic skills. He takes from everyday life themes of frustration which apply to us all - the difficulty of carving out a happy existence, the problems of love, the fading of hope, the universal feeling that time passes and we never quite get things right. This seems pessimistic, and yet Chekhov claimed he was writing comedy. Readers, actors and directors must decide for themselves which way to play these pieces. They are full of sadness, but a sadness...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-617-1
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: август 2010
Teach your baby all about playtime with touch and feel textures. Stroke, tickle and touch the textures together with your baby and help them discover all about playtime. Let their little hands roam and feel how cuddly the teddies are but how shiny and smooth the toy train feels. 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: 978-1-4053-3198-2
Издательство:
Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Дата выхода: август 2011
This colourful four-level course is for very young learners aged 5-7 years. English is acquired through play, which means children learn the language and have lots of fun at the same time. At Levels 1 and 2 children learn to use English confidently through listening and speaking before they are taught to read and write at Levels 3 and 4. The course materials include a video with entertaining stories and a set of beautifully illustrated story cards to help children remember what they`ve learnt. For teachers looking for further support, optional components such as picture cards and musical videos are available for extra class work and practice.
ISBN: 0-521-65694-X
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
This colourful four-level course is for very young learners aged 5-7 years. English is acquired through play, which means children learn the language and have lots of fun at the same time. At Levels 1 and 2 children learn to use English confidently through listening and speaking before they are taught to read and write at Levels 3 and 4. The course materials include a video with entertaining stories and a set of beautifully illustrated story cards to help children remember what they`ve learnt. For teachers looking for further support, optional components such as picture cards and musical videos are available for extra class work and practice.
ISBN: 978-0-521-65693-1
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: январь 2012
This colourful four-level course is for very young learners aged 5-7 years. English is acquired through play, which means children learn the language and have lots of fun at the same time. At Levels 1 and 2 children learn to use English confidently through listening and speaking before they are taught to read and write at Levels 3 and 4. The course materials include a video with entertaining stories and a set of beautifully illustrated story cards to help children remember what they`ve learnt. For teachers looking for further support, optional components such as picture cards, an activity book and musical videos are available for extra class work and practice.
ISBN: 978-0-521-65669-6
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Playway to English Second edition is a new version of the popular four-level course for teaching English to young children. Pupils acquire English through play, music and Total Physical Response, providing them with a fun and dynamic language learning experience. In the Pupil`s Book: * Fantastic varied tasks keep children motivated * Cross-curricular activities take children`s learning beyond the English language classroom * Self evaluation sections help children retain and recycle new language * Regular Word play sections encourage pupils to use the target language creatively
ISBN: 978-0-521-13117-9
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: январь 2015
