Учитесь ли вы иностранному языку или говорите на нем в совершенстве, любите ли читать книги на языке автора, а не в переводе – вам в этот раздел! Успешным бизнесменам, топ-менеджерам и тем, кто хочет таковыми стать будет полезен Курс делового английского языка. Тем, кто уже владеет английским, повезло - они могут прямо сейчас, не дожидаяь перевода на русский, прочитать захватывающий роман Стивена Joyland и европейский бестселлер Inferno Дэна Брауна. Ну, а тем, кто решил провести свой отпуск во Франции, пригодится Русско-французский разговорник и словарь.
The Wit and Wisdom of the Master – all compacted into 128 pithy pages! Tony Ring, the president of the Wodehouse Association and author of the 600,000-word Millennium Wodehouse Concordance, has drawn on his extensive knowledge and even more wonderful enthusiasm to compile an absolutely cracking anthology, which answers all our Christmas present problems in one volume. Here are not only witty epigrams we all know and love (and perhaps lots we don’t!) but also longer humorous extracts which are full of wisdom. Evelyn Waugh has written that Wodehouse produced three wholly original similes on every page he wrote – which, even allowing for exaggeration, must make this one of the most original gift books ever! It will certainly be one of...
ISBN: 978-0-09-952224-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
When the note, written in ordinary ballpoint, turns up in the homework books Mr Crossley is marking, he is very upset. For this is Larwood House, a school for witch orphans, where witchcraft is utterly forbidden. And yet magic keeps breaking out all over the place - like measles! The last thing they need is a visit from the Divisional Inquisitor. If only Chrestomanci could come and sort out all the trouble. Формат издания: 13 см х 19,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-00-726769-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
When Death takes her fairy godmother, Princess Emberella is left in the care of her other not-so-good-and-wise godmother. It`s up to the three witches - Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg - to hop on their broomsticks and make for far-distant Genua to ensure the servant girl "doesn`t" marry the Prince. The 12th novel in the Discworld series.
ISBN: 978-0-06-102061-2
Издательство:
HarperTorch
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
After his adventure in New Ottosland changed his life forever, Gerald Dunwoody has gone into secret training for the Ottosland government. Unbeknownst to him, Princess Melissande is now living in Ottosland as well, and has started a witching and wizarding locum agency. Witches Incorporated is hired to solve a case of staff pilfering in a prestigious magical Research and Development firm. One that also happens to have ties to the government. Confusion arises when Melissande and Gerald discover that they are both working at the firm for separate allegiances. Deciding to team up rather than work apart, Gerald and Melissande quickly find that their number one suspect also happens to be Gerald`s professional rival. In order to triumph, they...
ISBN: 978-0-316-03544-6
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: август 2011
On the verandah of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking. And the witching hour once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches - a family given to poetry and incest, to murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being. A hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult across four centuries, The Witching Hour could only have been written by the spellbinding bestselling author of The Vampire Chronicles.
ISBN: 978-0-09-947142-4
Издательство:
Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: август 2011
The fire was a family tragedy that Jamie can`t forget, even in his dreams. And now there is something terrifying happening to him in Crownhill, the village where he`s been sent to get over his problems. Something to do with an evil old witch who gets into his nightmares, and a frightened girl, the victim of a long-ago witch hunt, whose presence lingers on. A present-day boy, a seventeenth-century girl, an ancient crone: for a single moment their lives are fused by fire. And as the dark secrets of Crownhill are revealed Jamie has to confront his worst fears in order to free himself from the horrors of the past. Marcus Sedgwick weaves extracts from reports of a seventeenth-century witch hunt into a tense and brilliant novel.
During the witch hunts of the mid-1600s, many young Englishwomen died on the gallows, innocent victims of false or hysterical accusations of witchcraft. But what of those women who actually claimed the name "witch" as their own? In the pages of her secret journal, Mary Nuttall reveals what it is like to live in a climate of mistrust and piety in which differences are dangerous and rumors can kill, where she must hide her heritage as a healer and pagan. With a sure hand, she describes her beloved grandmother`s trial and hanging as a witch, her own rescue by a mysterious noblewoman, and her eventual passage to the New World and the forest settlement of Beulah. There Mary falls under a curtain of suspicion when she willingly chooses to...
ISBN: 978-0-7475-6451-5
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The world is changing - the government has seized control of every aspect of society, and now kids are disappearing. For fifteen-year-old Wisty and her older brother Whit, life turns upside-down when they are hauled out of bed one night, separated from their parents, and thrown into a secret compound for no reason they can comprehend. The new government is clearly trying to suppress life, liberty, and the pursuit of being a normal teenager. Imprisoned together and condemned to death, Wisty and Whit begin exhibiting strange abilities and powers they never dreamed of. Maybe there is a reason they were singled out. Can this newly discovered witch and a wizard master their skills in time to save themselves, their parents - and maybe the world?
ISBN: 978-0-09-954374-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
How do we find the courage to always be true to ourselves—even if we are unsure of whom we are? That is the central question of international bestselling author Paulo Coelho\`s profound new work, The Witch of Portobello. It is the story of a mysterious woman named Athena, told by the many who knew her well—or hardly at all. Among them: "People create a reality and then become the victims of that reality. Athena rebelled against that—and paid a high price." Heron Ryan, journalist "I was used and manipulated by Athena, with no consideration for my feelings. She was my teacher, charged with passing on the sacred mysteries, with awakening the unknown energy we all possess. When we venture into that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in...
ISBN: 978-0-06-147277-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: февраль 2011
From the author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles comes a huge mesmerizing novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries. Two people with special powers are drwan together and set out in a passionate alliance to unlock the mystery
ISBN: 978-0-345-38446-1
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A book about `real witches` - the ones that absolutely loathe children and are always plotting to get rid of them. Great new Quentin Blake cover as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.
ISBN: 978-0-14-132264-3
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Ever since Whit and Wisty Allgood were cruelly torn from their home and family in the middle of the night, the soldiers of a brutal totalitarian government have relentlessly tried to capture and execute them for `collusion, conspiracy, and experimentation with the dark and foul arts`. But this supremely skilled witch and wizard have instead boldly spearheaded the fight against the wicked regime of the New Order and its systematic destruction of music, art, books, and imagination. The villainous leader of the New Order is just a breath away from the ability to control the forces of nature and to manipulate his citizens on the most profound level imaginable - through their minds. There is only one more thing he needs to triumph in his evil...
ISBN: 978-0-09-954373-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A collection of seven short plays following the story of Roald Dahl`s book in sequence. Some are for three or four actors and a couple are ideal for performance by a whole class.
ISBN: 978-0-14-131084-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Horne, a charismatic magus of a man who entrances the trio, luring them to his
ISBN: 978-0-14-118897-3
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
"A great deal of fun to Fresh, consantly John Updike remains a wizard of language and observation." THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER In a small New England town in the late 1960s, there lived three witches. Alexandra Spofford, a sculptress, Jane Smart, a cellist, and Sukie Rougemont, the local gossip columnist. Their supernatural gifts were intriguing, to say the least. Divorced but hardly celibate, content but always ripe for adventure, one day all three witches found themselves under the spell of a new man in town, Darryl Van Horne. His hot tub was the scene of some bewitching delights, but that doesn`t being to conjure the half of
After Mary sees her grandmother accused of witchcraft and hung for the crime, she is hurried to safety by an unknown woman who gives her tools to keep a record of her days - paper and ink. Then Mary is taken to a boat in Plymouth and from there sails to the New World where she hopes to make a new life among the pilgrims. But old superstitions die hard and soon Mary finds that she will have to make important choices to ensure her survival. Vividly evoked, this is a powerful literary achievement by Celia Rees that is utterly engrossing from start to finish.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-8997-6
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Juliet Joyce adores Christmas. She loves the presents, the tree, the turkey, the tinsel... just everything! Already the festive spirit is upon her, which is just as well as this Christmas things are starting to get a little out of hand. Her son Tom is out of work and bringing home a slew of unsuitable partners; pregnant daughter Chloe and her little boy have moved back in; Juliet`s father, Frank, is getting over a heartbreak of his own and Rita, her eccentric mother, is behaving more erratically each day. And has the chaos got too much for Juliet`s husband, Rick? With the big day fast approaching, Juliet hopes that she can stop everything spiralling out of control, because the only thing she wants is her family all around her and her...
ISBN: 978-0-7515-4548-7
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: январь 2013
When the Metropolitan Police fail to realise a serial killer is at work, London ignites over the fact that the killer`s victims are young black and mixed race boys. Institutionalised racism is claimed by the community`s activists and tabloids alike. Acting Superintendent Thomas Lynley is given the case, and his Scotland Yard task force is soon handling more killings and a looming tragedy. Elizabeth George brings to the familiar subject of the serial killer a freshness and clarity of vision that provide illuminating insight into the psychological complexity of the tortured criminal mind. She does so within a richly textured, thrillingly suspenseful narrative that defies any reader to predict its outcome. Nor does she neglect our favourite...
`There was nothing different about that night. It was the same as every other night, I thought. But that night, my life started to change. I didn`t know it then, but I know it now. It`s the night when Nancy meets George. But it isn`t easy for them to be together. There`s Nancy`s job and her boyfriend. And will George have to return to his own country? Cambridge English Readers is an exciting series of original fiction, specially written for learners of English. Graded into seven levels -from starter to advanced - the stories in this series provide easy and enjoyable reading on a wide range of contemporary topics and themes.
ISBN: 978-0-521-68616-7
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: август 2011