After alleged serial killer Edgar Roy is apprehended and locked away in a mental facility private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy`s lawyer - an old friend of Sean King - to look into the case. But their investigation is derailed before it begins: while en route to their first meeting with the lawyer, King and Maxwell discover his dead body. It is up to King and Maxwell to uncover the truth: is Roy a killer or not? Edgar Roy - an alleged serial killer held in a secure, fortress-like Federal Supermax facility - is awaiting trial. He faces almost certain conviction. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy`s attorney, Sean`s old friend and mentor Ted Bergin, to help work the case. But their...
Sixties Design provides a richly illustrated survey of a remarkable decade. The text reviews the period through certain all-important themes-the Modernist continuum, pop culture, space age styles, utopian ambitions and `anti-design`, identifying the impact of new thinking on every area of design. Embracing a wide variety of media, and making connections between domestic and industrial design, graphics, film, fashion, architecture and city planning, the illustrations highlight the best design examples of the decade. Формат: 23 см х 31 см.
ISBN: 978-3-8365-0475-1
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
Heather should be happy. She`s finally got a boyfriend and although he was only supposed to be her "rebound guy", things have gotten serious fast ...She`s also actually passing her first college course, and better yet her dad`s moving out. On the down side, her boss, Dr. Veatch, may well be the most boring man on the face of the planet ...But that hardly seems reason enough to put a bullet through his head. Can Heather find her boss` murderer, answer Tad`s question, and get her landlord Cooper to realize that by letting her go, he`s making the biggest mistake of his life, all while maintaining a fifteen hundred calorie per day diet?
ISBN: 978-0-330-45586-2
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Easy Learning gives your child a head start. Each practice book builds essential skills through hours of activity-packed fun. Activities are designed to give your child a real sense of achievement. This helps to boost their confidence and develop good learning habits for life. This book develops numeracy skills. Its colourful motivating activities make learning fun. Helpful tips and answers are included to help you to support your child`s learning. Carol Medcalf is an expert in early learning, and writer of many bestselling books for preschool children.
ISBN: 978-0-00-730093-8
Издательство:
Collins
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
It`s the first day of the winter semester at New York College, and assistant dorm director Heather Wells has a lot more to worry about than roommate conflicts. One of the New York College cheerleaders has lost her head - literally - in the Fischer Hall cafeteria, and no one can find the rest of her. With the entire population of the dorm under suspicion for murder, it doesn’t look like anyone on campus, least of all Heather, who is starting night classes, is going to have a good semester. She’s got a decapitated cheerleader and a demoralized student body to deal with, as well as enough guy problems to make a normal girl seek shelter in a convent. With her ex insisting she has to be at his wedding - The Celebrity Wedding of the...
ISBN: 978-0-330-44909-0
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
"New York Times" - bestselling author Garwood weaves magnificent stories of passion, adventure, and intrigue. Now she raises the heat and combines scorching romance with thrilling suspense as she introduces a new family: the Prescotts.
ISBN: 978-0-345-50078-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Mark Renton has it all: he`s good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there`s no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher`s government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone. When his family starts to fracture, Mark`s life swings out of control and he succumbs to the defeatism which has taken hold in Edinburgh`s grimmer areas. The way out is heroin. It`s no better for his friends. Spud Murphy is paid off from his job, Tommy Lawrence feels himself being sucked into a life of petty crime and violence - the worlds of the thieving Matty Connell and psychotic Franco Begbie. Only Sick Boy, the...
1896: Four Englishmen flee for their lives across the merciless Kalahari Desert carrying a stolen fortune in raw diamonds and hunted by a fierce African tribe. The thieves manage to reach the waiting HMS Rove – only to die with their pursuers in a vicious storm that buries them all under tons of sand… The present day: Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon have barely escaped a mission on the Congo River when they intercept a mayday from a defenceless boat under fire off the African coast. Cabrillo takes action, saving the beautiful Sloane Macintyre – who’s looking for a long-submerged ship that may hold a fortune in diamonds. But what surprises Cabrillo is her story about a crazy fisherman who claims to have...
ISBN: 978-0-14-102162-1
Издательство:
Книжный мир
Дата выхода: август 2011
