After their thrilling exploits in Matthew Reilly’s bestseller Seven Ancient Wonders, super-soldier Jack West and his loyal team of adventurers are back, and now they face an all-but impossible challenge. For a mysterious ceremony in an unknown location has triggered a catastrophic countdown that will climax in the destruction of all life on Earth. But there is one last hope. If Jack’s team can find and rebuild a legendary ancient device known only as the “Machine”, they might be able to ward off this coming Armageddon. The only clues to its location, however, are held within the fabled Six Sacred Stones, long lost in the fog of history. And so the hunt From Stonehenge in England, to the deserts of Egypt, to the spectacular Three...
ISBN: 978-0-330-42658-9
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Telling us candidly about his parents` marital troubles, The Dog, and his life as a tortured poet and `misunderstood intellectual`, Adrian`s painfully honest diary is still hilarious and compelling reading thirty years after it first appeared.
ISBN: 978-0-14-104642-6
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
A millionaire businessman hires Nero Wolfe to snoop on his daughter`s boyfriend. It seems like a simple case. Then a powerful gangland boss tries to convince Wolfe to drop the matter by shooting up his orchid room. The great detective soon finds himself in a highly complex case involving drugged drinks, man-killing debutantes and a decidedly un-American party.
ISBN: 0-553-24594-5
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: май 2008
Max Frei`s novels have been a literary sensation in Russia since their debut in 1996, and have swept the fantasy world over. Presented here in English for the first time, The Stranger will strike a chord with readers of all stripes. Part fantasy, part horror, part philosophy, part dark comedy, the writing is united by a sharp wit and a web of clues that will open up the imagination of every reader. Max Frei was a twenty-something loser - a big sleeper (that is, during the day; at night he can`t sleep a wink), a hardened smoker, and an uncomplicated glutton and loafer. But then he got lucky. He contacts a parallel world in his dreams, where magic is a daily practice. Once a social outcast, he`s now known in his new world as the...
ISBN: 978-0-575-08982-2
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This volume is a collection of plays about a world-famous detective, and his assistant Dr. Watson, investigating the cases of The Speckled Band, and The Crown Diamond. The book also includes amazing plays like "The Speckled Band", "Waterloo", and "The Crown Diamond".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07183-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." In this harrowing tale of good and evil, the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll develops a potion that unleashes his secret, inner persona - the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde. This book is about losing control. Its about addiction, about giving in to your darker desires and the struggle that all people go through: wanting to do something and knowing you shouldnt.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00209-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
Джек Лондон - классик американской литературы, автор ярких, живых приключенческих романов и рассказов. "Морской волк" - один из самых знаменитых и ярких романов Джека Лондона, повествующий о потрясающем путешествии Хэмфри Ван-Вэйдена на борту шхуны "Призрак" вместе с командой жестокого капитана Волка Ларсена, в ходе которого приходит осознание того, что настоящая любовь является мощнейшим стимулом для...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05360-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Вниманию читателей предлагаются известные рассказы Э.Хемингуэя: "Недолгое счастье Френсиса Макомбера", "Снега Килиманджаро" . Издание рассчитано на лиц, владеющих основами английского языка и совершенствующих свои навыки в нем.
ISBN: 978-5-9542-0090-4
Издательство:
Икар
Дата выхода: май 2010
Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 -1927) was an English writer and humorist. "The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" is a collection of humorous essays. This collection offers the author`s witty observations on all manner of topics, ranging from love to children to cats and dogs.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07905-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
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 Sea-Wolf is a psychological adventure novel that tells the story of Humphrey van Weyden, a literary critic and a survivor of an ocean collision. After the rescue, he falls under the influence of a powerful and amoral sea captain Wolf Larsen. So a soft, domesticated man is forced to become tough and self-reliant through exposure to cruelty and brutality.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08157-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
The Story of Art, one of the most famous and popular books on art ever written, has been a world bestseller for over four decades. Attracted by the simplicity and clarity of his writing, readers of all ages and back-grounds have found in Professor Gombrich a true master, who combines knowledge and wisdom with a unique gift for communicating his deep love of the subject. For the first time in many years the book has been completely redesigned. The illustrations, now in colour throughout, have all been improved and reoriginated, and include six fold-outs. The text has been revised and updated where appropriate, and a number of new artists have been incorporated. The bibliographies have been expanded and updated, and the maps and charts...
ISBN: 0714832472
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002
Miss Emily Fido Faithfull is a woman of business and a spinster pioneer in the British women`s movement, independent of mind but naively trusting of heart. Distracted from her cause by the sudden return of a once-dear friend, the unhappily
ISBN: 978-1-4472-1259-1
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
When my parents split up they didn`t know what to do with My family always lived at Mulberry Cottage. Mum, Dad, me - and Radish, my Sylvanian rabbit. But now, Mum lives with Bill the Baboon and his three kids. Dad lives with Carrie and her twins. And where do I live? I live out of a suitcase. One week with Mum`s new family, one week with Dad`s. It`s as easy as A B C. That`s what everyone says. But all I want is to go home - back to Mulberry
ISBN: 978-0-440-86773-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate winter in its history. For two pairs of lovers - young Anna and Andrei, Anna's novelist father and actress Marina - the siege becomes a battle for survival. They will soon discover what it is like to be so hungry you boil shoe leather to make soup, so cold you burn furniture and books. But this is not just a struggle to exist, it is also a fight to keep the spark of hope alive. The Siege is a brilliantly imagined novel of war and the wounds it inflicts on ordinary people's lives, and also a profoundly moving celebration of love, life and survival.
ISBN: 978-0-241-95219-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Classic / British English Mary Lennox goes to live with her uncle in a big, old house in the country. There are many gardens round the house. One day Mary finds a garden that has high walls and no doors. What is the secret of the garden?
ISBN: 978-1-4082-0952-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
