When renowned ocean explorer Bob Ballard embarked on a highly-publicized search for the Titanic in 1985, it was just a convenient cover story. Ballard, acting on behalf of the Navy, made several deep sea dives not to find the doomed ocean liner, but to inspect the wreck of the USS Scorpion, a nuclear sub that mysteriously sank in May 1968. Ballard`s actual mission: to determine if, instead of sinking as a result of mechanical problems, the sub was actually struck by a Soviet torpedo at the height of the Cold War. In ALL HANDS DOWN: The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the USS Scorpion (Simon & Schuster; April 15, 2008), authors Kenneth Sewell and Jerome Preisler follow the submarine`s fateful last tour of duty and reveal what actually...
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. Alex is a thirty-year-old art gallery assistant and hopelessly in love with her boss, Brad. Then, an incident at the gallery means they have to spend a few days at Brad`s country house. This is Alex`s opportunity to impress but nothing seems to go the way she planned. A surprise guest and a Christmas party help Alex to discover what she really, really wants.
ISBN: 0-521-79454-4
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Alex is thirty and wants just one thing in life: her boss, Brad. But however hard she tries; things keep on going wrong for her. Then Alex discovers what it is she really, really wants. "Cambridge English Readers" is an exciting series of original fiction, specially written for learners of English. Graded into seven levels -from starter to advanced - the stories in this series provide easy and enjoyable reading on a wide range of contemporary topics and themes.
ISBN: 978-0-521-68626-6
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: август 2011
Toni Davis`s Christmas wish list 1. Springing my best friend from the psych ward. 2. Living somewhere that doesn`t have coffins in the basement. Occupied coffins. 3. Finding Mr. Right. Please make him tall, dark, handsome, and alive. This Christmas isn`t so merry for Toni. Her best friend`s been locked up in a mental hospital ever since she told the police she was attacked by vampires, and the only way for Toni to get her out is to prove that bloodsuckers really do exist. So she`s taken a job as a bodyguard for the Undead, but she gets more than she bargained for, especially when she meets Ian MacPhie, a Scottish rascal looking for Ms. Right. Although Ian`s nearly five centuries old, he looks and acts like a twenty-seven-year-old hunk....
In Joe and Kate Keller`s family garden, an apple tree - a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been torn down by a storm. But his loss is not the only part of the family`s past they can`t put behind them. Not everybody`s forgotten the court case that put Joe`s partner in jail, or the cracked engine heads his factory produced which caused it and dropped twenty-one pilots out of the sky!
ISBN: 978-0-14-118997-0
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
In haunting ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures Suite Francaise and some of the themes of Nemirovsky`s great unfinished sequence of novels. All Our Worldly Goods, though, is complete, and exquisitely so - a perfect novel in its own right. First published in France in 1947, after the author`s death, it is a gripping story of family life and starcrossed lovers, of money and greed, set against the backdrop of France from 1911 to 1940 between two terrible wars. Pierre and Agnes marry for love against the wishes of his parents and the family patriarch, the tyrannical industrialist Julien Hardelot, provoking a family feud which cascades down the is Balzac or The Forsyte Saga on a smaller, more intimate scale, the bourgeoisie...
ISBN: 978-0-09-952044-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
In certain uncanny ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures Suite Francaise and rehearses some of the themes of her big unfinished sequence of novels. Nemirovsky must have down put her pen in 1940 and picked it straight up again to embark on Suite novel, though is finished, and exquisitely so - first published in France in 1947. It tells the story of two intertwined but warring French families through two world wars from 1911 to 1940, and its themes are war, love and money. This is Balzac or The Forsyte Saga on a smaller, more intimate scale, with the bourgeoisie observed close-up, with Nemirovsky`s characteristically clear-eyed compassion and sly humour. Full of moving, vivid observation of the devastating effects of the two...
ISBN: 978-0-7011-8213-7
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
This is the book that changed America. Beginning with the story of a simple burglary at Democratic headquarters and then continuing with headline after headline, Bernstein and Woodward kept the tale of conspiracy and the trail of dirty tricks coming - delivering the stunning revelations and pieces in the Watergate puzzle that brought about Nixon`s scandalous downfall. Their explosive reports won a Pulitzer Prize for “The Washington Post” and toppled the President.
ISBN: 978-1-4165-2291-1
Издательство:
Pocket Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Dru has finally beaten her bad-girl rep, only to have her quiet life shaken by Carver`s arrival. The fact that this handsome, hard eyed tough guy pushes all her right buttons only proves how wrong he is for her. But how long can she resist a heart that aches to trust in love again.
Over half a century before the rise of the great ‘Queens of Crime’, Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, Amelia B. Edwards was an expert practitioner of crime fiction and murder mysteries, of which the best dozen are included in this volume. These gripping tales range from ingenious ‘whodunnits’ - ‘All Saints’ Eve’ and ‘The Tragedy in the Palazzo Bardello’ - to encounters with homicidal lunatics - ‘Cain’ and ‘A Railway Panic’ - clairvoyant visions preventing disaster or imminent murder - ‘The Professor’s Story’ and ‘A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest’ - and ghost stories ‘The Four-fifteen Express’, ‘Number Three’, ‘In the Confessional’, ‘Sister Johanna’s Story’, and ‘Was...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-094-0
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A full size, colorful calendar is included with 12 extra cute monthly headers, numbers 1-31 and special days symbols that can be placed on the calendar.
This delightful book is the perfect way for little ones to improve spoken language skills before they start school. Each page is filled with words to learn, covering everything from shapes, colours and numbers to animals, weather and classroom objects. A friendly book for adults and children to share, read and talk about together.
Sookie`s beginning to get used to being surrounded by all varieties of undead, changeling, shapeshifting and other supernatural beings - but even she has her limits. She`d really like to take a while to get over being betrayed by Bill, her long-time vampire lover, and get used to her new relationship with the sexy shapeshifter Quinn - but instead, she finds herself attending the long-planned vampire summit, the destination of choice for every undead power player around, as a sort-of human `Geiger counter` for Sophie-Anne Leclerq, vampire queen of Louisiana. But the job is fraught with difficulties. Sophie-Anne`s power base has been severely weakened by Hurricane Katrina, and she`s about to be put on trial during the event for murdering...
ISBN: 978-0-575-08392-9
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In the midst of WW II, James is training for the Royal Air Force, while going home to Yorkshire whenever possible to see his very pregnant wife, Helen. Musing on past adventures through the dales, visiting with old friends, and introducing scores of new and amusing characters - animal and human alike - Herriot enthralls readers once again with his uncanny ability to spin a most engaging and heartfelt yarn.
ISBN: 978-0-312-96655-3
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
