Infamous poet Lord Byron comes to life with incendiary brilliance in this spellbinding blend of gothic imagination and documented fact. Wandering in the mountains of Greece, the supreme sensualist is drawn to the beauty of a mysterious fugitive slave; soon he is utterly entranced, and his fate is sealed. He embarks on a life of adventure even his genius could not have foreseen; chosen to enjoy powers beyond those any vampire has ever known, Byron traverses the centuries and enters a dark, intoxicating world of long-lost secrets, ancient arts and scorching excesses of evil. But Byron`s gift is also his torment: an all-consuming thirst that withers life at the root, damning all those he loves. With its impeccable scholarship and...
ISBN: 978-0-349-12046-1
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2011
John Polidori`s classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley`s "Frankenstein". Set in Italy, Greece, and London, Polidori`s tales is a reaction to the
ISBN: 978-0-19-955241-2
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011
Van Gogh, who followed a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairing and self-destructive man his whole life long. His truest friend was his brother Theo, who supported him unstintingly throughout and followed him to the grave just six months later. This richly illustrated study by two experts on van Gogh follows the artist from the early gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of peasants and workers in his home parts, through the bright and colourful paintings he did in Paris, to the work of his final years under a southern sun in Arles, where he at last found the light that produced the unmistakable van Gogh style. Издание на английском языке. Формат: 24,5...
ISBN: 978-3-8228-3768-9
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
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
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
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
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
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
"Ярмарка тщеславия" не только изобилует неожиданными сюжетными поворотами, но и блестяще отражает дух времени. Ироничное, порой саркастичное произведение, изобличающее сборище подлых самовлюблённых людей, остаётся интересным и актуальным и по сей день. Неудивительно, что именно эта история поиска счастья двух подруг считается вершиной творчества знаменитого английского классика! Читайте зарубежную...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05108-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2017
