Young James, now married and working as a small-town vet, encounters a cast of extraordinary characters as he makes his way through the Yorkshire countryside tending to sick cattle, pregnant ewes, ailing dogs - and their eccentric owners. As always, Herriot`s warmth, humor, and singular view of life makes readers laugh and cry, as they marvel at the everyday miracles he creates.
ISBN: 978-0-312-96619-5
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
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.
A classic Christmas tale from the bestselling Queen of Suspense At the heart of the novel are two of Mary Higgins Clark`s most loved characters: Alvirah, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and her husband, Willy, who are caught up in a Christmas mystery that calls on all of their skills and experience. Willy has been looking forward to playing Santa at the after-school centre recently set up to care for the children of working parents on New York`s Upper West Side, and Alvirah has been busy with rehearsals for the Christmas pageant. But suddenly a shadow falls upon the Christmas cheer. The centre is threatened with closure, a substitute promised for the play is mysteriously withdrawn, a valuable chalice is stolen from a...
This is Volume One of the "Border Trilogy". `A uniquely brilliant told in language as subtly beautiful as its desert setting. One of the most important pieces of American writing of our time` - Stephen Amidon, "Sunday Times". John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood. "All the Pretty Horses" is an acknowledged masterpiece and a grand love story: a novel about childhood passing, along with innocence and a...
ISBN: 978-0-330-51093-6
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: август 2011
According to Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, two of America?s most acclaimed business journalists, no-one has put all the pieces of the financial crisis together. The finger was pointed at greedy traders, cowardly legislators and clueless home buyers, but many devils helped bring hell to the economy. All The Devils Are Here goes back several decades to explore the motivations of everyone from CEOs and politicians to anonymous lenders, borrowers and Wall Street traders. It exposes the hidden role of companies including AIG and Goldman Sachs. It delves into the powerful mythology of homeownership. And it proves that the crisis ultimately wasn?t about finance at all; it was about human nature. Bethany McLean?s The Smartest Guys in the Room...
For the first time in one volume--in a special oversized format--comes "The Rules" and "The Rules II," the phenomenal bestsellers that captured the interest of millions of readers in search of Mr. Right. Original.
ISBN: 9780446618793
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: январь 2007
All Your Perfects is a profound novel about a damaged couple whose potential future hinges on promises made in the past. This is a heartbreaking page-turner that asks: Can a resounding love with a perfect beginning survive a lifetime between two imperfect people?"Все твои совершенства" — глубокий роман о разбитой паре, потенциальное будущее которой зависит от обещаний, данных в прошлом. Это душераздирающий вопрос, переворачивающий страницы: может ли потрясающая любовь с идеальным началом выжить между двумя...
Join five animal friends as they start school in this delightful introduction to the school day, from getting dressed in the morning to home time. Charming illustrations describe the school day and some of the early years concepts children will learn, including colours, numbers and counting, getting dressed, seasons and more.
ISBN: 9781409597575
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2023
Where`s the beef? With the cold war ebbing, crime and inflation at record levels, and movie star-turned-President Ronald Reagan launching a Star Wars of his own, the 1980s did not seem likely to become one of the most outrageous, flamboyant, and prosperous decades of the 20th century. The "greed is good" mantra on Wall Street spawned the power-dressing, exercise-obsessed "Me Generation" of Yuppies-high on cash, cocaine, and Calvins. The art world enjoyed the influx of capital; computers and video games ruled in the office and at home; and the Rubik`s cube craze swept the nation. Leg warmers were big, shoulder pads were bigger and hair was biggest of all. Whether your heart warms nostalgically at the memory of E.T., marathon Trivial...
ISBN: 3-8228-3833-0
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
The dawn of consumerism: when ads were works of art. A far cry from the aggressive ads we`ve become used to, American print advertisements from the first two decades of the 20th century were almost shockingly pleasant. Intricately designed and beautifully illustrated, often in the art nouveau style popular at the time, four-color, full-page magazine advertisements were welcome respites from the bland, text-filled pages among which they appeared. Sales pitches were earnest and friendly; beer, for example, was billed as "The Evening Glass of Cheer" and toothpaste was described as "Delicious Ribbon Dental Cream"-perhaps not the catchiest slogans, but they were on to something. The American consumerist boom of the 20th century was just...
ISBN: 3-8228-2512-3
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
This novel is the final volume of the Allan Quatermain saga. Once more Quatermain takes the hallucinogenic taduki drug, as he did in previous novels, and he finds himself reliving as Wi, an civilized man living in the barbaric ice age as part of a clan of cavemen. The novel has been noted as a treatment of the topics of eugenics and evolution in literature and culture.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06444-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
This adventure story tells of three men and their guide Umslopogaas who trek into the remote interior of Africa in search of a lost white race. Through unknown territories their perilous journey takes them to Zu-vendis, a kingdom ruled by the beautiful twin sisters, Nyleptha and Sorais.
ISBN: 978-0-14-062155-6
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A sequel to the famous novel King Solomon`s Mines is based on author`s own experience in the African continent. Quatermain has lost his only son and longs to get back into the wilderness. Having persuaded Sir Henry Curtis, Captain John Good, and the Zulu chief Umbopa to accompany him, they set out from the coast of east Africa, this time in search of a white race reputed to live north of Mount Kenya. They survive fierce encounters with Masai warriors, undergo a terrifying subterranean journey, and discover a lost civilization before being caught up in a passionate love-triangle that engulfs the country in a ferocious civil war.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06432-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
The novel H. Rider Haggard`s celebrated Allan Quatermain series, this book tells more stories of Quartermain`s time in South Africa — presenting his observations about two dueling witch doctors, his father`s death, and, eventually, the fate of his wife, Stella.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06435-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
