Late at night, a New York cafe. Jack Reacher orders coffee in a cup made of foam, not china. So he can move on at a moment`s notice. He owns nothing, carries less. He has never met a woman who said no. Or a case he couldn`t solve. But now Reacher faces a new case so disturbing that the truth eludes him. He has to sweat the details and work the clues. Doing it the hard way. Until what started on a busy New York street explodes three thousand miles away, in the sleepy English countryside. With Reacher striding alone in the shadows. Armed and dangerous.
ISBN: 978-0-553-81587-0
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
From the bestselling creators of THE GRUFFALO, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler Quick! Hide all your goodies! The Highway Rat`s coming, and he`s going to steal your He takes clover from a rabbit, nuts from a squirrel -- he even steals his own horse`s hay! Can no one stop him? The creators of STICK MAN and A GOLD STAR FOR ZOG stand and deliver this fabulous new story of a wickedly loveable villain who gets his just deserts.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-2438-4
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
The third book in the Blackwood - Royal Marines saga. "The Horizon" takes Jonathan Blackwood into the 1914-1918 war, and is in two parts. The first, the Gallipoli campaign offers a horrifying initiation into war and the second half concerns the Naval Division in Flanders and trench warfare.
ISBN: 0-330-32518-3
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811—1863) was a British author and novelist mostly known for his satir-ical works such as "Vanity Fair" that showed an ironic representation of the British society of those times. "The History of Henry Esmond" is a historical novel that tells the story of Henry Esmond, a colonel in the service of Queen Anne of England. Most of the major events of the book happen between the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, specifically English Restoration, the Glorious Revolution, the War of the Spanish Succession, the Hamilton—Mohun Duel and the Hanoverian Succession.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07826-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
What could be more intriguing to Amelia Peabody and her irresistible, irascible husband, Emerson ("the Father of Curses"), than meeting a masked stranger who offers to show them an Egyptian queen`s lost tomb? The mysterious disappearance of that midnight visitor before he can disclose the secret! Thus begins Amelia`s newest adventure along the Nile. Helped or hampered by two teenagers, their son Ramses and their beautiful ward, Nefret, the Emersons set sail for Thebes to find the hidden tomb of Queen Tetisheri. With them is a timid (or is she?) governess named Miss Marmaduke. Soon to join the expedition are Amelia`s sister-and brother-in-law, Evelyn and Walter, whose marriage is going through a rocky patch. As usual, archaeology is only...
ISBN: 0-446-60398-8
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
A great modern classic and the prelude to The Lord of the Rings.Smaug certainly looked fast asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out on to the floor when he caught a sudden thin and piercing ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaug’s left eye. He was only pretending to sleep! He was watching the tunnel entrance!Whisked away from his comfortable, unambitious life in his hobbit-hole in Bag End by Gandalf the wizard and a band of dwarves, Bilbo Baggins finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon. Although quite reluctant to take part...
The House by the Churchyard is a novel by Sheridan Le Fanu published in 1863 that combines elements of the mystery novel and the historical novel. Set in the village of Chapelizod, near Dublin, in the 1760s the story opens with the accidental disinterment of an old skull in the churchyard, and an eerie late-night funeral. This discovery relates to murders, both recent and historical whose repercussions disrupt the complacent pace of village affairs and change the lives of many of its notable characters forever. Charm and chilling darkness abound in equal measure in one of the greatest novels of a Victorian master of mystery.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06166-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2017
An exciting new series which provides reading and language learning at five levels. As well as enjoyable stories and texts, each book provides a range of integrated activities designed to develop reading skills, consolidate vocabulary, and offer personalised project work. Each book is supported by a CD-ROM which contains additional activities and the complete audio recording. What`s special about Penguin Active Reading? Beautiful illustrations, photographs, maps and diagrams help to bring the stories alive and reinforce meaning Integrated activities help your students think about the story/text in advance, check comprehension, learn new vocabulary and practise key grammar structures Outside the classroom - a bank of ideas for project...
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8454-9
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
How shall we begin? This is the story of a book called The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy—not an Earth book, never published on Earth and, until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or even heard of by any Earthman. Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book. or This is the story of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a number-one best seller in England, a weekly radio series with millions of fanatic listeners, and soon to be a television spectacle on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. or This is the story of Arthur Dent, who, secnds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, is plucked off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who has been posing as an out-of-work actor for the last...
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5292-9
Издательство:
АСТ/Астрель
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
