Lawyer Amanda Jaffe takes on a case no one else will touch - and uncovers a fiercely secret fraternity of powerful men hiding a political conspiracy that extends all the way to the Presidency of the United States.
This beautiful and comprehensive work illustrates a seemingly inexhaustible selection of the oil and electric light fixtures issued by the Tiffany studios: table and floor lamps, chandeliers and sconces. Also included are the other metalware items produced by the firm, including fancy goods, desk sets, miscellaneous household goods such as toiletry and smoking accessories, inkstands, candlesticks, photograph frames, book ends, tea screens, clocks, tobacco jars, humidors - the list is almost endless. "Tiffany Lamps and Metalware" is the ultimate pictorial reference work for both enthusiasts and collectors of Tiffany. There is a comprehensive index that cross references the firms original model numbers to the illustrations. Формат:...
ISBN: 1-85149-517-7
Издательство:
Antique Collector Club
Дата выхода: январь 2000
`Having sifted through everything I have heard about the tiger and his wife, I can tell you that this much is fact: in April of 1941, without declaration or warning, the German bombs started falling over the city and did not stop for three days. The tiger did not know that they were ` A tiger escapes from the local zoo, padding through the ruined streets and onwards, to a ridge above the Balkan village of Galina. His nocturnal visits hold the villagers in a terrified thrall. But for one boy, the tiger is a thing of magic - Shere Khan awoken from the pages of The Jungle Book. Natalia is the granddaughter of that boy. Now a doctor, she is visiting orphanages after another war has devastated the Balkans. On this journey, she receives word...
When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building. After some deliberation, he even includes the unpleasant caretaker and his wife. There are a few other genuine friends on the list, but he definitely does not want to include his girlfriend, Claudia, as that might involve asking her husband. The party will be one everyone remembers. But not for the right reasons. All the occupants of Lichfield House are about to experience a dramatic change in their Living opposite, in reclusive isolation, is a young, beautiful Asian woman, christened Tigerlily by Stuart. As though from some strange urban fairytale, she emerges to exert a terrible spell. And Mr and Mrs Font, the worried...
ISBN: 978-0-09-955064-8
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In a London tea shop, a desperate young mother armed with a pistol holds off three men. Sally Lockhart is fighting for her daughter - against a powerful and secret enemy determined to destroy her. Driven into hiding. Sallys desperate attempts to discover her unknown pursuer lead her ever deeper into the murderous lair of the
ISBN: 978-1-4071-3056-9
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
The groom in question is Tommy Giordano - and he`s about to marry Steve Carella`s sister, Angela. So the wedding party suddenly becomes a deadly game of hide-and-seek for Steve and the boys of the 87th Precinct. Tommy is it and Steve has only a few hours to find a killer and prevent Tommy from being tagged out for good. But how do you find a murderer with hundreds of wedding guests to choose from? Is it Tommy`s best man, who would collect everything the groom owns if the killer finds his mark? Or Ben Darcy, who is still madly in love with the bride and would do anything to get her back? Or what about the crazy ex-GI who swore he`d get revenge against Tommy? Carella has to work fast, or someone is going to make Angela a widow on her wedding
"You killed two people", Beth said. "You`re likely to spend the rest of your life in prison." Susan looked up. Her eyes had a faint spark now. "It was worth it", she said. Beth Powell and Susan Wright were best friends - both from troubled families, their only happy times were the summers they spent together as children. Until fate intervened and separated them. It`s twenty-nine years later when they meet again. Susan is a down-and-out who has shot two people in cold blood. Beth is the lawyer allocated to defend her. Yet their friendship still endures, even as the evidence against Susan mounts up - a friendship that must be stronger than the traumas of the past. Because for one of them, there can be no happy ending ...
ISBN: 978-0-14-100648-2
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
This tale of two princesses - one beautiful and one unattractive - and of the struggle between sacred and profane love is Lewis`s reworking of the myth of Cupid and Psyche and one of his most enduring works.
ISBN: 978-0-15-690436-0
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
An alternative World War II takes an unexpected turn when a race of lizard-like space aliens sweep down to conquer Earth, causing the Allied and Axis forces to combine atomic bomb technologies.
ISBN: 978-0-345-38998-5
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Mary Horton is content with her comfortable, solitary existence... until she meets Tim. A beautiful young man with the mind of a child - a gentle outcast in a cruel, unbending world - he illuminates the darkness of Mary`s days with his boyish innocence. And he will shatter the lonely, middle-aged spinster`s respectable, ordered life with a forbidden promise of a very special love.
ISBN: 0-380-71196-6
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Meet Mr Bones, the canine sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, the brilliant, troubled and altogether original poet-saint from Brooklyn. Like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza before them, they sally forth on a last great
ISBN: 978-0-571-20329-1
Издательство:
Faber
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial as he delivers a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small southern Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young man. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father acquires an assault rifle - and takes justice into his own outraged hands. For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client`s and then his
ISBN: 0440211727
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: март 2003
When Robert and Lucy see Grandad`s time-travel phones on his desk, they can`t resist using them. Soon they are swirling and whirling through time, having adventure after adventure.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-6030-1
Издательство:
Macmillan
Дата выхода: январь 2016
