Deeply moving and compelling, The Rain Before It Falls is the story of three generations of one family riven by tragedy. When Rosamond, a reluctant bearer of family secrets, dies suddenly, a mystery is left for her niece Gill to unravel. Some photograph albums and tapes point towards a blind girl named Imogen whom no one has seen in twenty years. The search for Imogen and the truth of her inheritance becomes a shocking story of mothers and daughters and of how sadness, like a musical refrain, may haunt us down the years. Формат: 13 см х 20 см.
ISBN: 978-0-14-103321-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
British Intelligence recruits a derelict, saxophone-playing publisher who visits the Moscow Book Fair and stumbles across the hottest Soviet defence secrets in years. Classic spy moves in what is both a love story and a thriller from the creator of Smiley and author of "A Perfect Spy".
ISBN: 0-340-51121-4
Издательство:
Hodder
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Let me tell you who I am, on the chance that these scribblings do survive... “I am Murgen, Standardbearer of the Black Company, though I bear the shame of having lost that standard in battle. I am keeping these Annals because Croaker is dead, One–Eye won’t, and hardly anyone else can read or write. I will be your guide for however long it takes the Shadowlanders to force our present predicament to its inevitable end...” This omnibus volume comprises the novels Bleak Seasons and She is the Darkness.
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. This is the last volume of the Littlepage Manuscripts trilogy, narrating the history of three generations of a Dutch-descended American family starting from the mid-eighteenth century.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06658-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2018
SQL Server 2008 is the latest update to Microsoft`s flagship database management system. This is the largest update since SQL Server 2005, and it brings increased ability to deliver data across more platforms, and thus many different types of devices. New functionality also allows for easy storage and retrieval of digitized images and video. These attributes address the recent explosion in the popularity of web-based video and server and desktop virtualization. The Real MCTS SQL Server 2008 Exam 70-433 Prep Kit prepares readers for the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist exam: SQL Server 2008, Database Development. This is a new exam in the SQL Server product family, and is comprised of some objectives from exam 70-431 from SQL...
The Rough Guide to Comedy Movies uncovers cinema`s funniest and most varied genre, from silent slapstick, to 90s gross-out and the dark indie humour of today. The canon of fifty greatest funnies runs from The Gold Rush and Duck Soup to Airplane and Shaun of the Dead, plus double-acts, drag-acts and ensembles from Laurel & Hardy and the Marx Bros, to the Pythons and the Coen Brothers. Seeking out the films that have amused people the most - or simply amused the most people - the Rough Guide gives you the ultimate lowdown on laughter in the movies from Wes Anderson`s Rushmore to Withnail and I, and from John Belushi to Billy Wilder.
ISBN: 978-1-84353-464-8
Издательство:
Rough Guides
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Jack London (1876-1916) 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. This book is an autobiographical memoir full of London`s experiences living as a hobo during the economic crisis in the United States, hopping freight trains, begging for money or food, and making up stories for the police to avoid prison term. He also describes his arrest and the time in the thirty days in the Erie County Penitentiary, a place of "unprintable horrors", as he mentions in the book.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07516-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Дэвид Герберт Лоуренс - выдающийся английский писатель, романы и повести которого составляют неотъемлемую часть литературы XX века. Роман "Радуга", изданный в 1915 году, сразу же после печати был запрещён, а первый тираж сожжён. В этой незаурядной книге автор представляет на суд читателей историю о жизнь двух поколений маленькой семьи, в которой кипят нешуточные страсти... Читайте зарубежную литературу в...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05488-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
A novel of naval life in Napoleonic France. After forty years of piracy on Eastern seas, Citizen Peyrol returns to his native France, a country now ravaged and scarred by revolution and war. Looking for peace in which to end his days, he withdraws to a safe harbor in a remote farmhouse on Escampobar Peninsula, which looks out to the distant Mediterranean, where the lovely Arlette lives with her aunt and the revolutionary Scevola. But the arrival of young Lieutenant Real calls Peyrol once again to action in a mission of danger, patriotism and heroism.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06672-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
It takes patience and enthusiasm to get a guide to Moscow right. The author of The Rough Guide to Moscow lived in the city, married a Russian, and survived the storming of the White House (he was outside, not inside) – never losing a single note. The results, in remarkable detail, are all here in this contemporary and practical guide to the reborn Russian capital. We’ve included information on the most interesting sights, detailed reviews of the best places to eat, drink and stay, and a comprehensive section on Russian history and culture. 34 maps (4 pages of colour maps)
ISBN: 1-85828-700-6
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004