Whether your looking for a thought provoking adventure concerning the nature of miracles and the supernatural or simply an entertaining story about pre-colonial Africa, The Wizard will meet and exceed your expectations. Truly a rare book that could be enjoyed by both adults and children alike while teaching them valuable lessons about courage, love and magic.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06607-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But for the handful of families on Yamacraw island, America is a world away. For years the people here lived proudly from the sea, but now its waters are not safe. Waste from industry threatens their very existence–unless, somehow, they can learn a new life. But they will learn nothing without someone to teach them, and their school has no teacher. Here is PAT CONROY’S extraordinary drama based on his own experience–the true story of a man who gave a year of his life to an island and the new life its people gave him.
ISBN: 0-553-26893-7
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Howard Lovecraft was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Despite the fact that he was virtually unknown before he died, today he is known as the most influential author in his genre. "The White Ship and Other Stories" is a collection of wonderful short stories such as "Memory," "The White Ship," "The Doom That Came to Sarnath," "The Cats of Ulthar" and others. These stories, full of mystery and fantastic creatures, have captured the minds of readers all over the world.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00258-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2019
David Liss`s bestselling historical thrillers, including A Conspiracy of Paper and The Coffee Trader, have been called remarkable and rousing: the perfect combination of scrupulous research and breathless excitement. Now Liss delivers his best novel yet in an entirely new setting-America in the years after the Revolution, an unstable nation where desperate schemers vie for wealth, power, and a chance to shape a country`s destiny. Ethan Saunders, once among General Washington`s most valued spies, now lives in disgrace, haunting the taverns of Philadelphia. An accusation of treason has long since cost him his reputation and his beloved fiancee, Cynthia Pearson, but at his most desperate moment he is recruited for an unlikely task-finding...
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7453-9
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
For readers new to The Dark Tower, The Wind Through The Keyhole is a stand-alone novel, and a wonderful introduction to the series. It is a story within a story, which features both the younger and older gunslinger Roland on his quest to find the Dark Tower. Fans of the existing seven books in the series will also delight in discovering what happened to Roland and his ka tet between the time they leave the Emerald City and arrive at the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis. This Russian Doll of a novel, a story within a story, within a story, visits Mid-World`s last gunslinger, Roland Deschain, and his ka-tet as a ferocious storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V.)...
Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish novelist, best known today for his universally famous gothic novel "Dracula," the main villain of which is still one of the most popular antagonists in the modern media. "The Watter`s Mou`" is Bram Stoker`s third novel. It is an adventure romance about Maggie MacWhirter and her lover, young coast guard officer William Barrow who is bound by duty to stop his girlfriend`s father and other local fishers from smuggling. Torn between her love for the coastguard officer and her love for her father, Maggie plans a dangerous mission to try to keep them both safe.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07518-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Hailed as "one of the best" ( Toronto Sun ) writers of contemporary suspense fiction, international bestselling author John Connolly returns with an electrifying novel featuring his acclaimed private detective, Charlie Parker.In South Carolina a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of Marianne Larousse, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. It`s a case that nobody wants to touch, deeply rooted in old evil -- and old evil is Charlie Parker`s specialty. H`s about to enter a living nightmare, a dreamscape of sorrow haunted by the murderous specter of a hooded woman, by a black car waiting for a passenger that never comes, and by the sinister complicity of both friends and enemies in Larousse`s brutal...
ISBN: 978-0-7434-5639-5
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Пожалуй, нет такого человека на земле, который не знал удивительно добрую и поучительную сказку о девочке Дороти и её верном псе Тото, перенесённых в Волшебную Страну внезапным ураганом. Книга американского писателя Лаймена Фрэнка Баума "Волшебник из Страны Оз" - прекрасная история о храбрости и любви, настоящей дружбе и преданности, которая продолжает покорять сердца взрослых и детей во всём мире....
ISBN: 978-5-521-05200-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2017
When a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, she fears that she will never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry ever again. But she meets the Munchkins, and they tell her to follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City where the Wonderful Wizard of Oz will grant any wish. On the way, she meets the brainless Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion. The four friends set off of seek their hearts` desires, and in a series of action-packed adventures they encounter a deadly poppy field, fierce animals, flying monkeys, a wicked witch, a good witch, and the Mighty Oz himself.
ISBN: 1-85326-112-2
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2001
Moscow 1876. A young law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow`s Alexander Gardens. But this is no ordinary death, for the young man was the son of an influential industrialist. Erast Fandorin, a hotheaded new recruit to the Criminal Investigation Department, is assigned to the case. Brilliant, young, and sophisticated, Fandorin embarks on an investigation that will take him from the palatial mansions of Moscow to the seedy back-streets of London in his hunt for the conspirators.
ISBN: 978-0-7538-1759-9
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
A group of disenchanted former soldiers has begun its own smuggling operation. Anything can be smuggled between Maine and Canada - drugs, cash, and even people. To stop it, Charlie Parker must form an uneasy alliance with a killer he fears more than any other - The Collector.
In Thailand, Anderson Lake is a calorie company man working for big business. Under cover as a factory manager, he combs Bangkok`s street markets in search of near-extinct foodstuffs. And there he meets the Windup Girl, the beautiful and enigmatic Emiko - now abandoned to the streets. She is one of the underclass of New People, creche-grown and bred to suit the whims of the rich. Engineered as slaves, soldiers and toys, they are seen as soulless by some and as devils by others. As Lake becomes more drawn to Emiko, conspiracies breed within his working life becomes and the politics of a troubled age threaten to spiral out of control. The pressures mount as what he should do conflicts with what he wants to do, threatening to bring down his...
Джон Голсуорси - признанный английский писатель XIX века, лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе. В чём-то комедийный роман "Белая обезьяна" - известное продолжение саги о Форсайтах, история второго поколения. Молодые Форсайты уже преодолели предрассудки викторианской эпохи, однако безнадёжно запутались в радостном гедонистическом безумии "новой эпохи"… Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!
ISBN: 978-5-521-05458-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
