Behind the facade of a Soho shop selling dubious merchandise lives Verloc with his wife Winnie, her mother and her retarded brother, Stevie. Verloc is an overweight, indolent anarchist who conceals his political activities, such as they are, under a veneer of domesticity and family life. According to the First Secretary, Mr Vladimir, Verloc has done little to earn his money in recent years and it is time for a 'dynamic outrage' to provoke the middle classes. So Verloc, accepting his duty, plants a bpmb at the Greenwich Observatory. But when the blast has done its work, Verloc finds he has destroyed a great deal more than the complacency of the bourgeoisie. Издание полностью на английском языке....

ISBN: 0140620567
Издательство: Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2002

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

If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children`s Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They`re books to treasure and return to again and again. After the death of her parents, Mary Lennox is sent to her uncle`s house on the Yorkshire Moors. But the house is an unhappy one. A tragedy happened there years before, and Mary`s uncle has never recovered. Miserable and lonely, Mary starts to explore the house`s gardens. There, led by a mischievous robin, she discovers a secret so important, so enchanting, that it will change her life

ISBN: 978-0-19-272799-2
Издательство: OXED
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012

Once known only by an elite who were unwilling to share their knowledge of the power, `the secret` of obtaining anything you desire is now revealed by prominent physicists, authors and philosophers as being based in the universal Law of Attraction. And the good news is that anyone can access its power to bring themselves health, wealth and happiness. Fragments of The Secret have been found in oral traditions, literature, religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. A number of the exceptional people who discovered its power went on to become regarded as the greatest human beings who ever lived. Among them: Plato, Leonardo, Galileo and Einstein. Now `the secret` is being shared with the world. Beautiful in its simplicity, and...

ISBN: 978-1-84737-029-7
Дата выхода: август 2011

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

Ceux qui ont tenté de percer l`énigme du treizième apôtre ne sont plus là pour en Assassiné dans le train Rome-Paris, le père Andrei était sur le point de découvrir un secret que l`Église s`acharne, depuis sa fondation, à dissimuler. Avant sa mort, il avait eu le temps de se confier à son ami, le père Nil. À son tour, celui-ci se lance sur les traces d`une mystérieuse épître qui prouverait que Jésus n`est pas le fils de Rome va tout faire pour l`en empêcher, Jérusalem et La Mecque aussi: car c`est l`ordre du monde qui est en jeu. Meurtres, mensonges, Des coulisses du Vatican aux grottes de Qumran, des mystères esséniens à...

ISBN: 978-2-253-12300-2
Издательство: Livre de Poche
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

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...

ISBN: 978-0-273-71300-5
Дата выхода: август 2011

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

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

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