One night, away from his family, Eric finds a golden seal. People want to shoot golden seals for their beautiful fur. Eric`s father is one of those men. A stranger arrives in a boat. What does he want? Eric loves the seal. He wants her to live. But what can he do?
ISBN: 978-1-4082-6118-7
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: апрель 2011
Julie Barenson`s young husband left her two unexpected gifts before he died—a Great Dane puppy named Singer and the promise that he would always be watching over her. Now, four years have passed. Still living in the small town of Swansboro, North Carolina, twenty-nine-year-old Julie is emotionally ready to make a commitment to someone again. But who? Should it be Richard Franklin, the handsome, sophisticated engineer who treats her like a queen? Or Mike Harris, the down-to-earth nice guy who was her husband`s best friend? Choosing one of them should bring her more happiness than she`s had in years. Instead, Julie is soon fighting for her life in a nightmare spawned by a chilling deception and jealousy so poisonous that it has become a...
ISBN: 0-446-61343-6
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
From the author of `Blonde`, `The Falls` and `We Were the Mulvaneys`, this new novel takes in the themes of race, immigration, family and social mobility, and is Joyce Carol Oates at her storytelling best. `The Gravedigger`s Daughter` tells the tale of Rebecca Schwart, born in the late 1930s to an immigrant family from Nazi Germany, just as they are arriving to America. The family settles in a small, bleak town in upstate New York, where the only job the father can get is as the town gravedigger and caretaker of the cemetery. Soon the town`s prejudice and the family`s own emotional frailty results in unspeakable tragedy. In the wake of this loss, and in an attempt to put her past behind her, young Rebecca Schwart moves on, across America...
ISBN: 978-0-00-725846-8
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
What does he mean? What`s going on? Are you two thinking of putting Granny into a Home? Thinking is finished`, Natasha told him. `It is decided. The four children, Ivan, Sophie, Tanya and Nicholas, can`t believe it. Their parents are planning to put their grandmother into a Home. She`s a bit of a dotty old lady - sometimes demanding, often annoying - but as much a part of their lives as their shambly house or the whirring of the washing machine. So they decide to take action. They begin `The Granny Project`, with immediate and sensational
ISBN: 978-0-552-55438-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
No child likes going to bed and as every parent knows, their little treasures will try and delay it for as long as possible! Discover all the antics children get up to before going to bed, in this hilarious board book, written and illustrated in Boynton`s own unique humourous style. The perfect way to read kids to sleep!
ISBN: 978-0-689-86114-7
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
