Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf`s own joyful holidays of her youth. But as time passes, and in its wake the First World War, the transience of life becomes ever more apparent through the vignette of the thoughts and observations of the novel`s disparate cast. A landmark of high modernism and the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf`s novels, To the Lighthouse explores themes of loss, class structure and the question of perception, in a hauntingly beautiful memorial to the lost but not forgotten. Chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.
2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. Here the millenium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can see through these high-tech specs can make you rich--or get you killed. Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on the digitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is the greatest high. And a mind can be a terrible thing to crash...
ISBN: 0-553-56606-7
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Saints, sinners, and the mere mortals in betweenWhat do you need to be a saint these days? Ambition, determination and good PR. But what do you do if your mother`s a saint and you just want to be human? Anna and Harriet are about to find out Anna and Harriet share a burden: hellishly saintly mothers. So when they meet, initial loathing turns swiftly to recognition and firm friendship. Happily settled in a chaotic flat and armed with a wicked sense of humour, they set out to paint the town red. And for a while life goes swimmingly. But when they tread on one toe too many, they find that they have only their worst instincts - and each other - to rely on.Be good. And if you can`t be good, be careful...
ISBN: 0-09-941475-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Une enfance menacee par la maladie, une mere omni-presente et possessive. A vingt-neuf ans, Paul Folley se rebelle. Pour echapper a l`etouffement, il choisit de seduire et d`epouser la premiere fille rencontree. Elle est terne, coincee, meme godiche. Rien ne les rap-proche que la solitude. Et pourtant ces deux etres entrent sans le savoir dans une histoire impitoyable, marquee par tous les dechirements de Famour fou. Sebastien Japrisot a dix ans de moins que son heros quand il publie ce recit. Comme on l`ecrivit alors : "Tant de surete dans la violence, tant de maitrise dans la peinture des passions, n`ont pas fini d`eton-ner".
ISBN: 978-2-07-038179-1
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
London, 1952. Only hours before he is murdered, a prominent biochemist claims to know something that could change the world. Tracing the victim`s final footsteps is ex-spy-turned-Scotland Yard detective Herbert Smith. It leads straight to a secret that is coveted by both the CIA and the KGB, and threatened by the last vestige of the Third Reich.
With bridal magazine covers to her credit, Mackensie "Mac" Elliot is most at home behind the camera - ready to capture the happy moments she never experienced while growing up. Her father replaced his first family with a second, and now her mother, moving on to yet another man, begs Mac for attention and money. Mac`s foundation is jostled again moments before an important planning meeting when she bumps into the bride-to-be`s brother…an encounter that has them both seeing stars. Carter Maguire is definitely not her type: he`s stable, and he`s safe. He`s even an English teacher at their high school alma mater. There`s something about him that makes Mac think a casual fling is just what she needs to take her mind off dealing with...
"Visions of Paradise" is a panoply of experiences from the most peripatetic photographers on Earth - the photographers of "National Geographic Magazine". After all the stories and all the journeys, each man and each woman shares with us the place he or she found to be Heaven on Earth. The pictures come from all seven continents, from different times of year, in different climates. The stories are as minute as the glance of an amorous leopard seal before lunch or as vast as the landscape of Iceland during the days of the midnight sun. You will swim with penguins underneath the ice in the Antarctic, rest on a leaf in the Amazon with a dragonfly, and roam the forest floor in Borneo with a recognized scientist. By the end, you will know that...
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0338-1
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Two women, victims of sexual harassment, left the army under dubious circumstances. Both are now dead. Jack Reacher knew them both. A perfect psychological match, he is arrested, but is released when another woman is murdered. Everyone fears a serial killer is on the loose and Reacher finds himself heavily involved in the investigation.
ISBN: 978-0-553-81188-9
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: август 2011
Книга является полным руководством по системе программирования Visual C++ 6. Наряду с общим представлением об этом программном продукте, вы ознакомитесь с его новыми компонентами. Большое внимание уделяется программированию графического интерфейса с помощью библиотеки MFC. Рассмотрено использование механизма OLE, а также создание и применение элементов ActiveX. Для программистов любого уровня — как начинающих,...
