Meet prizewinning reporter Jim Qwilleran and his extraordinary Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum—the most unlikely, most unusual, most delightful team in detective fiction! The way Jim Qwilleran sees it, there’s nothing worse than being left high and dry. But that’s exactly where he’s been ever since a record-breaking drought hit Moose County. He’s bedraggled. Beleaguered. And, following a rash of fires at local historic minesites, deeply bewildered. Some blame the blazes on bad weather conditions, but Qwill’s thinking arson. And when a mysterious explosion is followed by a blood-chilling murder, he starts seriously praying for snow — and answers. Good thing Koko can smell trouble a mile away…
ISBN: 978-0-515-13226-7
Издательство:
Rem Distributors
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
This comprehensive course of Russian aims to help you to understand spoken language in everyday situations. The teaching method is based on lessons which include lively dialogs, short grammar commentaries, quizzes and cultural notes. The structure of the course enables quick mastery of conversation skills. Try this unique, simple, and successful approach to language learning. Equivalent to two full years of college-level study. Course contains 8 audio CDs.
ISBN: 5-8033-0113-2
Издательство:
Живой язык
Дата выхода: июль 2003
Jack London`s novels and ruggedly individual life seemed to embody American hopes, frustrations and romantic longings in the turbulent first years of the 20th century, years infused with the wonder and excitement of great technological and historic change. His restless spirit, taste for a life of excitement and probing mind led him on a series of hard-edged adventures from the Klondike to the South Seas. Out of these sometimes harrowing experiences - and his fascination with the theories of such thinkersas Darwin, Spencer and Marx - came the inspiration for novels of adventure that would make him one of America`s most popular writers. `The Call of the Wild`, considered by many London`s greatest novel, is a gripping tale of a heroic dog...
ISBN: 0-486-26472-6
Издательство:
Dover
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2005
The Churchills dominated world politics for generations - but, like every family, they too have their secrets. Winston`s mother, Jennie, had an affair with the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, and her spendthrift habits devastated the family`s reputation. The younger brother, Jack, played a crucial role both in Winston`s successes and in holding the family together during tough times. From Sir Randolph`s alleged syphilis to Winston`s illegitimacy, from Jennie`s gambling problem to Jack`s dashed ambitions, authors Celia and John Lee use never-before-seen archives to cut through the rumors and lies and get to the truth about the life of the former prime minister and his relationship with his family.
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "The Call of the Wild" is a short adventure novel set in Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush. The story starts when someone steals the main character, a dog Buck of a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, from his home and sells him into service as a sled dog in Alaska. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08112-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
`The Coral Island` -`A Tale of the Pacific Ocean` opens with the shipwreck on a Pacific island of the young friends Ralph Rover, Jack Martin and Peterkin Gay. Despite the pleasurable presence on their island of delicious breadfruit, coconuts and succulent oysters, the intrepid trios are not alone and they soon witness a battle between rival bands of cannibals and encounter a distinctly hostile pirate band led by `Bloody Bill`. Their lives are placed in serious peril from which only courage and determinedpluck can save them.
ISBN: 1-85326-170-X
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are ruled by pure logic and the harmony of numbers But just because the Disc is different doesn`t mean that some things don`t stay the same. Its very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the arrival of the first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. But if the person charged with maintaining...
ISBN: 978-0-552-15292-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Издание полностью на английском языке. An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save him. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, Travis Boyette abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Dontй Drumm, a local football star, and marched him off to death row. Now nine years have passed. Travis has just been paroled in Kansas for a different crime; Dontй is four days away from his execution. Travis suffers from an inoperable brain tumor. For the first time in his miserable life, he decides to do what’s right and
Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "The Call of the Wild" is a short adventure novel set in Yukon, Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush. The story starts when someone steals the main character, a dog Buck of a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, from his home and sells him into service as a sled dog in Alaska.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07488-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
В настоящий том включен второй роман трилогии `Приключений капитана Блада`, написанной английским писателем Рафаэлем Сабатини. Рафаэль Сабатини (1875-1950) - классик приключенческой литературы, написавший десятки историко-приключенческих романов, к лучшим из которых, несомненно, принадлежит предлагаемая читателям `Хроника капитана Блада`. Книга выдержала десятки изданий на русском языке, и теперь читающие...
ISBN: 5-8346-0161-8
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: август 2002
In a derelict cottage in , a young woman is found savagely murdered. Naked, strung from two wooden posts, the skin has been ripped from her face - while she was still alive. On the nape of her neck is carved a strange double-cross: the signature of a psychopath known as the Crucifix Killer. But that`s not possible. Because, two years ago, the Crucifix Killer was caught and executed. Could this be the work of a copycat? Or is Homicide Detective Robert Hunter forced to face the unthinkable? Is the real Crucifix Killer still out there, taunting Hunter with his inability to catch him? Robert Hunter and his rookie partner are about to enter a nightmare beyond
ISBN: 978-1-84739-642-6
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history", Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller`s drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town`s most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of...
Four of Diana Wynne Jones s classic fantasy novels about an enchanter with nine lives titled Chrestomanci are now available in beautiful omnibus volumes that each contain two books each. Volume One includes "The Lives of Christopher Chant" and "Charmed Life", while Volume Two contains "The Magicians of Caprona" and "Witch Week".
The procession that crosses Chaucer`s pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters — including Chaucer himself ~ are real people, with human emotions and weaknesses. When it is remembered that Chaucer wrote in English at a time when Latin was the standard literary language across western Europe, the magnitude of his achievement is even more remarkable. But Chaucer`s genius needs no historical introduction; it bursts forth from every page of The Canterbury Tales.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06150-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2017
