A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marraige, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence `Tubby` Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy, cognitive-behaviour therapy or acupuncture can cure his puzzling knee pain or his equally inexplicable mid-life angst. As Tubby`s life fragments under the weight of his self-obsession, he embarks - via Kierkegaard, strange beds from Rummidge to Tenerife to Beverly Hills, a fit of literary integrity and memories of his 1950s South London boyhood - on a picaresque quest for his lost contentment.
ISBN: 978-0-09-955419-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Sandy Shortt has been obsessed about where missing things - and people - end up ever since the disappearance of a childhood friend twenty years ago. It has even motivated her to become a private investigator, attempting to track down missing loved ones and giving devastated families hope. So when she finds herself one of the missing people, stuck in a strange place with people who vanished into thin air years ago, she wonders if she has found the answer to one of life`s greatest mysteries. But if she has, will she be able to return to life as she knows it? If Jack Ruttle, her latest client and mystified by her own disappearance, has anything to do with it she
"I`m the Cat in the Hat, and we`re off to have fun. We`ll visit the planets, the stars and the sun!" And so Dr. Seuss` famous Cat in the Hat whisks young readers off on a fun-filled tour of the solar system. This title and others form part of a series of books that takes an off-beat look at nature and natural sciences through a fun combination of Seussian rhymes and zany illustrations. Aimed at early readers - from four to seven year olds - the books are designed to bridge the gap between concept books written for preschoolers and more formal non fiction titles that require fluent reading skills. By presenting the facts in a lively and rhythmic manner, they provide the critical foundation upon which complex facts and ideas can eventually...
ISBN: 978-0-00-713056-6
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: август 2011
Blast off for educational fun! Beginning readers and budding astronomers are launched via Seussian sorcery on a wild trip to visit the nine planets in our solar system along with the Cat in the Hat, Thing One, Thing Two, and Dick and Sally.
"There`s a Wocket in My Pocket" is filled with bizarre creatures and rhymes: the nupboard in the cupboard, ghairs beneath the stairs, and the bofa on the sofa!
Vanishings and aparitions, nightmares and twists of fate, mysterious ailments and supernatural interventions haunt these stories by the Russian master Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, heir to the spellbinding tradition of Gogol and Poe. Blending the miraculous with the macabre, and leavened by a mischievous gallows humor, these bewitching tales are like nothing being written in Russia - or anywhere else in the world - today.
ISBN: 978-0-14-311466-6
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Join Dr. Seuss on the road to reading with a host of crazy creatures, from wockets in pockets to waskets in baskets!Is there a woset in your closet, or a nink in the sink? As that would be rather nice, I think! Learn all about rhymes and fun with words in this classic Dr. Seuss title.With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranking among the UK`s top ten favourite children`s authors, Seuss is firmly established as a global best-seller, with over 600 million books sold worldwide.As part of a major rebrand programme, HarperCollins is relaunching...
Seff off on the road to reading with a host of crazy crackpot creatures, from wockets in pockets to waskets in basckets. By combining the funiest stories, craziest creatures and zaniest pictures with his unique blend of rhyme, rhythm and repetition, Dr Seuss helps children of all ages enjoy learning to read.
ISBN: 978-0-00-716995-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Give me a dollar or I`ll spit on you. That`s Bradley Chalker for you. He is the oldest child in the class. He tells enormous lies. He picks fights with girls, and the teachers say he has serious behaviour problems. No one likes him - except Carla, the new school counsellor. She thinks Bradley is sensitive and generous, and she even enjoys his far-fetched stories. Carla knows that Bradley could change, if only he weren`t afraid to try. Sometimes the hardest thing in the world is believing in yourself.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-8952-5
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Тереза Ракен выходит замуж за своего кузена Камилля, и ее будущее обещает быть унылым и лишенным любви. Все меняется с приездом Лорена, друга Камилля. Лорен и Тереза влюбляются друг в друга. Их любовь становится столь необузданной, что может кончиться только трагедией.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7538-1
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When Therese Raquin marries her sickly cousin Camille, her future looks as if it will be both dull and loveless. This all changes, however, with the arrival of Camille`s friend Laurent. Laurent and Therese soon begin a love affair, an affair so passionate it can only result in tragedy.
ISBN: 978-0-230-03533-1
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Avingt-sept ans, en 1867, Emile Zola ne s`est pas encore attaque aux Rougon-Macquart, son oeuvre geante. Comment s`imposer "quand on a le malheur d`etre ne au confluent de Hugo et de Balzac"? Comment recrire La Comedie humaine apres ce dernier? Mais ses tatonnements sont brefs. Therese Raquin, son premier grand roman, obtient un vif succes. Therese a ete elevee par sa tante dans le but d`epouser son cousin, un homme au temperament maladif. Bientot, elle ne supporte plus cette vie cloitree, ni ce sinistre passage du Pont-Neuf ou Mme Raquin installe sa mercerie. Toute sa sen-sualite refoulee s`eveille au contact de Laurent, un peintre rate dont elle devient la maitresse. Les amants decident de noyer le mari. L`aprete, la sexualite, le...
ISBN: 978-2-266-15921-0
Издательство:
Pocket
Дата выхода: июль 2011
After Matthew Hope slips into a coma--the result of a drive-by shooting--his friends, private eye Warren Chambers and police detective Morris Bloom--must follow in his investigative footsteps to discover why he was shot. All signs point to the local circus--an underworld of offbeat sex, drugs, blackmail, murder, and in the center of it all, there was a little girl.
ISBN: 0-446-60214-0
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
