By #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black, the first book in a stunning new series about a mortal girl who finds herself caught in a web of royal faerie intrigue.Автор бестселлеров №1 по версии New York Times Холли Блэк — первая книга из потрясающей новой серии о смертной девушке, которая оказывается в паутине королевских волшебных интриг.
First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London`s masterpiece. Based on London`s experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike.
ISBN: 9780007420230
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: январь 2019
Five short stories set in Amercia in the 1920s and 1940s. The Cut Glass Bowl, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Gretchen\`s Forty Winks, Magnetism and Three Hours Between Planes.
ISBN: 978-1-405-07323-3
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: январь 2011
This volume completes the canon of the illustrated Sherlock Holmes stories reprinted from `The Strand Magazine` It contains the short series `Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes`, `The Valley of Fear`, - a sinister novella which appeared in 1914-15 - `His Last Bow: The War Service of Sherlock Holmes` and the last twelve stories `The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes`.
ISBN: 1-85326-070-3
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2001
Stefan Salvatore has always had an uneasy relationship with his brother Damon. But when Damon is taken captive by Samuel-a vampire from Katherine`s past bent on revenge-Stefan is determined to rescue him before it is too if it means seeking help from the most unlikely of places. Stefan forms a tentative alliance with a coven of witches in order to save his brother, only to learn that Samuel`s end game is far more sinister then they could have imagined. With Samuel on the brink of securing unlimited power, the brothers are in for their deadliest battle yet. Full of dark shadows and surprising twists, the final book in the latest arc of Stefan`s Diaries series raises the stakes for the Salvatore brothers as they face unimaginable threats....
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Chainbearer is the second book in a trilogy starting with "Satanstoe" and ending with "The Redskins". The novel focuses mainly on issues of land ownership and the displacement of American Indians as the United States moves Westward.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07964-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Произведения Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда, одного из самых известных и блистательных авторов "эпохи джаза", остаются актуальными, интересными и по сей день. А загадочная, фантастическая история молодеющего с каждым днём Бенджамина Баттона не только завоевала признание читателей всего мира, но и стала вдохновением для известной экранизации Дэвида Финчера. Читатель получит незабываемые впечатления от...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05103-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
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
Dallas, November`63 - the heart of the American Dream detonated. Wayne Tedrow Jr., a young Vegas cop, arrives with a loathsome job to do. He`s got six thousand in cash and no idea he is about to plunge into the cover-up conspiracy already brewing around the assassination of JFK, no idea that this will mark the beginning of a hellish five-year ride through the private underbelly of public policy. Ellroy`s furiously paced narrative tracks Tedrow`s journey: Dallas to Vega, with the Mob and Howard Hughes, south with the Klan and J. Edgar Hoover, shipping out to Vietnam and returning home, the bearer of white powder, plotting new deaths as 1968 approaches...The Cold Six Thousand is the 1960s under Ellroy`s blistering lens, the icons of the...
ISBN: 0-09-989330-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
`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
For decades, the West has been fighting the cocaine cartels-and losing- until the president decides enough is enough and asks one man to take charge. His task: to destroy the cocaine industry. His name: Cobra. It is the ultimate secret war. But only one side can
ISBN: 978-0-451-23398-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
A secret group of Washington`s most powerful men have J. Edgar Hoover killed in order to reach his secret files only to discover there is someone else capable of using these personal dossiers for blackmail and extortion.
ISBN: 978-0-553-26094-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Yielding to a compulsion he can`t explain, Ted Barton interrupts his vacation in order to visit the town of his birth, Millgate, Virginia. But upon entering the sleepy, isolated little hamlet, Ted is distraught to find that the place bears no resemblance to the one he left behind—and never did. He also discovers that in this Millgate Ted Barton died of scarlet fever when he was nine years old. Perhaps even more troubling is the fact that it is literally impossible to escape. Unable to leave, Ted struggles to find the reason for such disturbing incongruities, but before long, he finds himself in the midst of a struggle between good and evil that stretches far beyond the confines of the valley. Winner of both the Hugo and John W....
ISBN: 978-0-575-07670-9
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. . .Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. . .Неадаптированное издание на английском языке. .
ISBN: 978-5-519-02048-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
