The Seven are very fond of Tolly and his horse, Brownie, so they`re determined to help out when Brownie is sick. But they need to find Tolly and Brownie somewhere to hide out - somewhere that dangerous horse thieves will never find. But where?
ISBN: 978-0-340-91768-8
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Visit palaces closed to the public, admire exceptional works of art away from the tourist circuit, listen to a concert in a magnificent hidden oratory, have your dog or car blessed, observe the miraculous liquefaction of the blood of Saint Pantaleon, puzzle over a rare catoptric meridian or a wonderful anamorphic fresco, discover the remarkable motorised Rubens, enter into the secrets of the Vatican, rediscover a lost Bernini masterpiece, say a prayer before an image of the Holy Face of Jesus like that deposited on the moon in 1969, organise a dinner for two in a private palace, protect your throat from the rigours of winter. Far from the crowds and the usual cliches, Rome is still a reserve of well-concealed treasures that only reveal...
ISBN: 9782915807615
Издательство:
Jean-Laurent Cassely
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
The Circle`s power has lured her Forced to move from sunny California to gloomy New England, Cassie longs for her old life. Even so, she feels a strange kinship to a terrifying group of teens who seem to rule her school. Initiated into the coven of witches that`s controlled New Salem for hundreds of years, she`s drawn into the Secret Circle, a thrill that`s both intoxicating and deadly. But when she falls for the mysterious and intriguing Adam, Cassie must choose whether to resist temptation or risk dark forces to get what she wants - even if it means that one wrong move could ultimately destroy her.
In this, the bind up of The Initiation and The Captive Part 1, is the start of Cassie`s story. Forced to move from sunny California to gloomy New England, Cassie is homesick - until she forms a bond with a group of teenagers at her school. This clique rules the school - no one dare cross them - but Cassie feels a strange kinship with them, and when she is initiated into their `secret circle` she is both terrified and thrilled to be part of a coven of witches that have controlled New Salem for hundreds of then Cassie falls in love. Now she has a tough decision to make: does she walk away, or does she step over to the dark side?
ISBN: 978-0-340-99954-7
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Set in the 1930`s, the new novel from bestselling author Lesley Pearse tells the story of one girl`s struggle against cruelty and, her quest for love. Adele Talbot is twelve when her younger sister is killed in a road accident in London`s Kings Cross, and her mother Rose so devastated by the loss begins to abuse her. Adele is sent to a children`s home in Tunbridge Wells, but soon runs away to trace her grandmother - Honour who she has discovered lives in Sussex. But Honour is a bitter, eccentric woman who is not best pleased to see her grandaughter. Eventually the two forge some sort of bond and Honour allows Adele to stay. When Adele meets Michael Bailey on the marshes two years later and real love and friendship enter her life, she...
ISBN: 978-0-14-101696-2
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Walter Kitty is no ordinary housecat. He`s Fang - a swashbuckling protector of the high seas, a tiger waiting to pounce on unsuspecting prey, and a caped superhero ready to save the day. But do his people, Mr. and Mrs. Biddle, acknowledge his greatness? Not even So once in a good long while, Walter will answer to Wally or Kitten or even Snookums, but most of the he`s Fang With a hilarious text by Barbara Jean Hicks and fabulously fun illustrations by Dan Santat, Walter Kitty is one cat readers will not soon forget
ISBN: 978-0-375-83196-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
"You have an affair. You finish it. You think it`s over. You`re dead wrong . . . Miranda Cotton thinks she`s put boyfriend Brendan out of her life for good. But two weeks later, he`s intimately involved with her sister. Soon what began as an embarrassment becomes threatening - then even more terrifying than a girl`s worst nightmare. Because this time Brendan will stop at nothing to be part of Miranda`s life - even if it means taking it from her . . ."
ISBN: 978-0-14-100651-2
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
From the bestselling author of "Beneath the Skin" and "Killing Me Softly" comes a chilling novel about an affair that leads to a deadly obsession, available at a special low price.
ISBN: 978-0-446-61710-9
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
There are strange happenings indeed at Torling Castle! Someone is hiding out in the ruined tower, making the resident jackdaws very unsettled. Who is it, and what do they want? The Secret Seven are on it!
ISBN: 978-0-340-91765-7
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The rules of selling rarely change. In some areas of business fashions and buzzwords come and go at the speed of light, but in sales there is a gold standard that changes little over time. This book describes that gold standard for you. Once learnt, The Secrets of Selling will stay with you for life you`ll wonder what you ever did without them. This is an extremely practical book with advice that you can put into practice to improve your sales success straightaway. It offers common sense guidelines that you will want to refer to again and again. The Secrets of Selling is divided into three sections. The first deals with sales meetings and sales proposals and the second shows you the most effective methods for winning new work, not just...
Why is the Portuguese coat of arms set at an angle of 17° on the facade of Rossio station? Where in Portugal was The Magic Flute played for the first time and why did Mozart dedicate it to his master Cagliostro? What is the theory concerning the fifth dynasty of Portugal, traces of which are found in the street layout? Where can you find the most beautiful azulejos secreted around the city? Why and how did Lusitania become Portugal (Porto Graal), the place harbouring the legendary Holy Grail? Where can you find the Lisboan serial killer's head preserved in formalin? Why was the south doorway of the Jeronimos Monastery designed according to Hebrew Kabbalistic principles? What symbols are concealed within the Saint Vincent polytych...
ISBN: 9782915807684
Издательство:
Jean-Laurent Cassely
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Soviet Union, 1956: Stalin is dead. With his passing, a violent regime is beginning to fracture - leaving behind a society where the police are the criminals, and the criminals are innocent. The catalyst comes when a secret manifesto composed by Stalin`s successor Khrushchev is distributed to the entire nation. Its message: Stalin was a tyrant and a murderer. Its promise: The Soviet Union will transform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget Stalin`s tyranny so easily, that demand revenge of the most appalling nature. Meanwhile, former MGB officer Leo Demidov is facing his own turmoil. The two young girls he and his wife Raisa adopted have yet to forgive him for his involvement in the murder of their parents....
ISBN: 978-1-84983-486-5
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
The creator of "The Secret" takes readers through the next vital steps by offering 365 new insights that build on the work`s powerful truths. Readers can learn to attract more joy, abundance, and blessings into their lives - every single day of the year.
ISBN: 978-1-4391-3083-4
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers` story comprehension and...
A tale of high adventure and derring-do set in the same Victorian-style world as the acclaimed The Court of the Air and The Rise of the Iron Moon. A secret grave enough to kill for! The isolated island of Jago is the only home Hannah Conquest has ever known. But her carefree existence comes to an abrupt halt when her guardian, Archbishop Alice Grey, is brutally murdered. Someone desperately wants to suppress a secret kept by the archbishop, and if the attempts on Hannah`s own life are any indication, the killer believes that Alice passed the knowledge of it onto her ward before her head was separated from her neck. Meanwhile, a deadly power struggle is brewing on Jago. And as Hannah digs deeper into the mystery Alice left behind,...
ISBN: 978-0-00-728966-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: февраль 2011
How do we design sentences to fit their purposes and how do we combine them to communicate complex, contextualized meanings? This work takes discourse apart to show how it is organized and how it aids communication.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-6407-1
Издательство:
Macmillan
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
After the death of her parents, the neglected and spoiled Mary Lennox is sent to her uncle`s large and lonely house on the Yorkshire Moors. There she discovers a secret garden and with the help of her strange, animal-charming friend Dickon, not only restored the garden but in the process transforms herself from a sullen, unhappy child to an unselfish, happy one, and helps to cure her sick cousin and to rehabilitate his gloomy, grief-stricken father. Frances Hodgson Burnett`s passionate belief in the redemptive forces of renewal is shown nowhere more clearly than in The Secret Garden, her most sensitive and popular children`s novel. First published in 1911, it lies in the best tradition of the family story developed by such writers as E....
ISBN: 978-0-19-954986-3
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: март 2012
Маленькая девочка Мэри, сирота, приезжает из Индии, где она потеряла своих родителей, к своему дяде в Йоркшир. Мэри чувствует себя одинокой и ненужной. Предоставленная сама себе, она изучает большой дом дяди и однажды обнаруживает таинственный сад. Мэри пытается разгадать его загадку, и вскоре жизнь всех меняется.
ISBN: 978-0-230-03442-6
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Dine in the home of a perfect stranger, enjoy your meal on an extraordinary, little-known terrace looking out on the Parc de Monceau, eat lunch at a restaurant that’s totally invisible from the street, have a drink at a bar next to a man taking a shower in a glass box, join a band of artistic squatters for an afternoon barbecue, visit a Royalist bar, catch up with a moveable feast, get unbeatable value for money at a hostelry school, and experience numerous other timeless venues and atmospheres…. Beyond the traditional Parisian restaurant, the French capital is full of wonderful unusual places.
ISBN: 9782915807479
Издательство:
Jean-Laurent Cassely
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, has a shop in London. He lives there peacefully with his wife Winnie, her mother and her brother, Stevie. When Mr Verloc becomes involved with an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Royal Observatory, things go disastrously wrong. Mr Verloc’s job as a secret agent leads to tragic consequences for him and all his family.
ISBN: 9788853003133
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
India lives in a large, luxurious house with a mum she can`t stand and a dad she adores, though he hasn`t had much time for her recently. She seeks solace in her journal, which she keeps in sincere imitation of her heroine, Anne Frank. Treasure lives on the local council estate with her loving and capable grandmother. She is devoted to her nan but lives in fear of having to go back to live with her mother and violent stepfather. A chance meeting sparks a great friendship between the girls. And when Treasure has to run away to avoid her stepfather, India comes up with a hiding place inspired by her favourite author. India hasn`t got a real Secret Annexe but she has got a hidden This is a fantastic new novel from our bestselling author...
ISBN: 978-0-440-86761-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
