This volume features one of science fiction`s most popular characters. When the human race spreads out among the stars, they take the profit motive with them, and none exemplifies that fact better than Nicholas Van Rijn, interstellar trader and capitalist extraordinaire.
ISBN: 978-1-4391-3326-2
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Van Von Hunter: A Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Graphic Novel features: *The complete Van Von Hunter graphic novel adventure *More than 300 vocabulary words frequently tested on the SAT highlighted throughout the text *The number of Students preparing for the SAT and ACT exams has never been higher. Kaplan has joined forces with TOKYOPOP to bring these students a unique and engaging way to studying vocabulary, Kaplan`s SAT / ACT Score-Raising Manga series As seen with the success of Kaplan`s SAT Score-Raising Classics series, students are eager for enjoyable alternatives to lengthy word lists. *Kaplan`s SAT / ACT Score-Raising Manga series features an assortment of today`s most popular graphic novels (narratives related through a combination...
Back in 1974, the sexual revolution was in full swing and the adult entertainment business was on the verge of becoming Big Business. Deep Throat had created America’s first porn star in 1972, but by 1974 Linda Lovelace was already retired and the industry was seeking the next big thing. Vanessa del Rio should have been that thing, except in 1974 there were no ethnic sex stars. Undeterred, Vanessa took any role they’d give her, because, amazingly, she was there for the sex more than the money. Fans, awed by her ferocious onscreen sexuality, made her a top box office draw and America’s first Latina star. Retired since 1986, Vanessa del Rio remains a sexual icon who cuts across all ethnic boundaries. What her fans don’t know is...
ISBN: 978-3-8365-2109-3
Издательство:
Evergreen
Дата выхода: май 2010
For Nick Heller, high-powered investigator with a private corporate intelligence firm, this time the investigation is personal. Nick`s estranged brother has vanished and with his disappearance old wounds re-surface in Nick`s life as he is pitted against one of the most powerful private military companies in the world. Those in control will stop at nothing to protect the secrets that Nick is determined to uncover to find his brother. Secrets that reach into the highest level of the government. Secrets that threaten to tear Nick`s family apart for good if they don`t get him killed first. This is the first book in a brand-new series by Joseph Finder, featuring a new ongoing series character, Nick Heller.
ISBN: 978-0-7553-7000-9
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: май 2012
Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own Search and Rescue bloodhound - which she uses to find missing persons. But as she plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can`t recall. Then a policeman shows up at her door, arresting her father for the kidnap of a little girl. And Delia`s past and present fracture into little pieces. "Vanishing Acts" is a book about the very nature and power of memory. It explores what happens when the past we have been running from catches up to us, and questions who we trust to tell us the story of our lives before we are capable of remembering it ourselves.
ISBN: 978-0-340-97689-0
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis in this timely and relentless new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Body Double. A nameless, beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. An apparent suicide, she lies on a gurney, awaiting the dissecting scalpel of medical examiner Maura Isles. But when Maura unzips the body bag and looks down at the body, she gets the fright of her life. The corpse opens its eyes. Very much alive, the woman is rushed to the hospital, where with shockingly cool precision, she murders a security guard and seizes one of them a pregnant patient, Jane Rizzoli. Who is this...
ISBN: 978-0-345-47698-2
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A significant departure for Maggie O'Farrell in terms of maturity and style, the paperback publication of THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX will be an unmissable event. Set between the 1930s, and the present, Maggie O'Farrell's new novel is the story of Esme, a woman edited out of her family's history, and of the secrets that come to light when, sixty years later, she is released from care, and a young woman, Iris, discovers the great aunt she never knew she had. The mystery that unfolds is the heartbreaking tale of two sisters in colonial India and 1930s Edinburgh - of the loneliness that binds them together and the rivalries that drive them apart, and lead one of them to a shocking betrayal - but above all it is the...
"Vanished" tells the story of a man and woman faced with an almost unthinkable tragedy - the mysterious abduction of their son. In the late 1930s, in the shadow of the Lindbergh kidnapping, and as war looms in Europe, Marielle Patterson shares and elegant Manhattan brownstone with her husband, Malcolm, and their little boy, Teddy. Though the couple`s lives are filled with secrets, Marielle is a devoted wife and mother, and Malcolm is a man everyone admires. On the eve of Teddy`s disappearance, Marielle runs into her first love, American expatriate Charles Delauney. And when Teddy is kidnapped, Charles is first blamed, then arrested. But as the search for Teddy widens, even Marielle is scrutinized by the FBI and special agent John Taylor....
ISBN: 978-0-440-21746-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In the late 1930s in New York, Marielle Patterson shares her life with her husband Malcolm and their little boy Teddy. But their lives are filled with secrets. Haunted by a past she has kept secret even from her husband, Marielle secretly lights a candle each year for a child who died in a tragic accident when he was scarcely more than a baby. Then Marielle runs into her first love, American expatriate Charles Delauney. And when her little Teddy is kidnapped Charles is first blamed, then arrested, as the Pattersons, the New York Police and the FBI turn the country upside down, looking for Teddy. A terrifying court drama seeks to put Charles Delauney behind bars, as a series of revelations begin to unravel the truth about Marielle,...
ISBN: 978-0-552-13526-9
Издательство:
Corgi Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Written in 1848, Vanity Fair is an excellent satire of English society in the early 19th Century. Thackeray states several times that it is a novel "without a hero", and at a couple of points tries to claim that Amelia, a good person but who inevitably comes across as rather wishy-washy, is the heroine. Thackeray apparently saw people as "abominably selfish and foolish", and this negative view comes across loud and clear with his use of vicious vocabulary, and his unremittingly dark portrayal of human nature. The author`s voice is continually present, and his wry observations do contribute to making the novel vastly entertaining. They were also intended to make it instructive to his readers.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06225-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: декабрь 2017
A richly comic dissection of English society during the Napoleonic Wars. Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley together leave the shelter of Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies. They now inhabit the infinitely more fascinating and dangerous Vanity Fair where the only standard is worldly sucess. Becky, charming and amoral, is well-fitted for the fight; when an ill-judged bowl of punch ruins her plans for marriage, her quick wits soon find a range of alternatives. But sweet and sentimental Amelia only longs for her worthless soldier lover. Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.
ISBN: 0140620850
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2002
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Becky Sharp, an intelligent young lady with no family or money, becomes a governess. But this type of life is not enough for her. She has big plans for herself. Is she clever enough to find success? Will she marry and be happy? Or will life be unkind to her?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7942-2
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Vanity Fair was first published in 1848, with the subtitle A Novel without a Hero, reflecting Thackeray`s interest in deconstructing his era`s conventions regarding literary heroism. The story follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars.
ISBN: 978-5-521-00166-8
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: январь 2017
