Miles Ryan`s life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, ...
A satirical fantasy on the rise of a tyrant state. Adam Krug stands alone in opposition to the new regime. His antagonist is the leader of the new party, Paduk. Grieving over his wife`s recent death, Krug is at first dismissive of Paduk`s activities. Then his son David is seized.
ISBN: 0-14-118576-7
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 1998
The terrifying new psychological thriller featuring Tony Hill, criminal profiler and hero of TV`s Wire in the Blood. The race is on to uncover the identity of a murderer with nothing to lose - and everything to kill for. When Robbie Bishop, star midfielder for the Bradfield Vics, is poisoned by a rare and deadly toxin, profiler Dr Tony Hill and trusted colleague DCI Carol Jordan have their work cut out for them. Robbie was adored, so the public want answers - but the answers aren`t coming, and trails are running cold. Then a bomb explodes in the football stadium, causing massive casualties - and another man dies from poisoning. Is there a link between the cases? And what are the motives for these crimes? The clock is ticking for Tony and...
ISBN: 978-0-00-734469-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The third exciting novel in Phoenix`s critically acclaimed, gritty dark fantasy series set in New Orleans begins as the mysterious and seductive vampire Dante is questioned about his involvement in a string of brutal murders. Original.
ISBN: 978-1-4391-3729-1
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Zoe, Jennifer, and Nadia are three women with nothing in common. Except for the man who wants to kill them. He sends them terrifying letters, full of the intimate details of their lives - the clothes they wear, their little habits, how they act when they think they`re alone - and promises that he will bring those lives to a violent, horrible end. But not before he has enjoyed himself. Invisible and apparently unstoppable, he delights in watching the women suffer, thrilled by his power to destroy their lives and their faith in those closest to them; to leave them utterly helpless, alone in their terror and confusion. But they`re not all as helpless as he thinks ...
ISBN: 978-0-14-028106-4
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
An adventurous trader, hearing from some natives in the territory that lies at the back of Quilimane, the legend of a great treasure buried in or about the sixteenth century by a party of Portuguese who were afterwards massacred, as a last resource attempted its discovery by the help of a mesmerist. According to this history the child who was used as a subject in the experiment, when in a state of trance, detailed the adventures and death of the unhappy Portuguese men and women, two of whom leapt from the point of a high rock into the Zambesi.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06616-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. It is first and foremost a compelling narrative about a civilized man and his child caught up in the tyranny of a police state. Professor Adam Krug, the country`s foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the government attempts to co-opt Krug`s support in order to...
ISBN: 978-0-679-72727-9
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Raccontimmagini e una collana per l’insegnamento dell’italiano rivolta a bambini stranieri (6-11 anni). Consta di 5 volumi di livello A1-A1+ del Quadro Comune Europeo di Riferimento. Ogni libro presenta due storie illustrate, seguite da una sezione di esercizi e di giochi collettivi per il riutilizzo del lessico incontrato. Ogni racconto presenta parole nuove, espres¬sioni e frasi utili al bambino per comunicare e compiere alcune semplici azioni quotidiane. Benvenuto! propone una situazione che il bambino straniero incontrera il suo primo giorno di scuola in una nuova classe italiana/di italiani e la necessita di conoscere e socializzare con i nuovi compagni. La mia famiglia e un racconto che si focalizza sul tema della famiglia....
ISBN: 978960663-203-7
Издательство:
Edizioni EdiLingua
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold, for there exists an illuminating commentary on the text of the poem by the translator himself, in the written form of a series of lectures given at Oxford in the 1930s; and from these lectures a substantial selection has been made, to form also a commentary on the translation in this book. From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out...
In fifth-century Denmark, a murderous monster stalks the night, and only the great prince of the Geats has the strength and courage to defeat him. Beowulf`s terrifying quest to destroy Grendel, the foul fiend, a hideous sea-hag and a monstrous fire-dragon is the oldest surviving epic in British literature. Artfully retold and magnificently illustrated, this companion volume to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is made instantly accessible to children by a formidable children`s book partnership.
ISBN: 978-1-4063-0597-5
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
This is a new title in the Usborne Reading Programme, which is aimed at children whose reading ability and confidence allows them to tackle longer and more complex stories. Here, the oldest surviving epic in British literature is retold for younger readers following the adventures of hero Beowulf. This title is developed in consultation with Alison Kelly, who is a senior lecturer in education and an early reading specialist from Roehampton University.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-9686-4
Издательство:
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Дата выхода: июль 2011
History can be a powerful and ruthless enemy. Taras Petrenko, an ambitious lieutenant of the Russian Security Service, is sieving through the Moscow archives of Stalin`s regime when he stumbles over file N1247 - a case first opened by the Russian secret police two centuries earlier. He realises that three crucial documents are missing which could, if found, alter the political balance of Europe. One country would come crashing down. A second country would never forgive the discovery, and a third would never forget. Taras is determined not let this happen - but there are others who believe it should. In London, Kate, a young British solicitor, meets a secretive Ukrainian holding three documents he claims could change the lives of millions...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-5637-9
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Painstakingly restored from Tolkien’s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of Beren and Luthien will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, Dwarves and Orcs and the rich landscape and creatures unique to Tolkien’s Middle-earth.The tale of Beren and Luthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following year.Essential to the story, and never changed, is the fate that shadowed the love of Beren and Luthien: for Beren was a...
Ingrid Bergman was born beautiful, but, unusually for one so blessed, she knew that beauty is never enough. She wanted to be great as well. Did any movie star of the classic era demonstrate more ambition? On the stage, she performed Strindberg, Ibsen, Turgenev, Shaw, and O`Neill - some several times. On television she acted in Zweig, Henry James, and Cocteau, and in movies there was Joan of Arc (1948) and a relentless film for Ingmar Bergman, Autumn Sonata (1978). Those stage performances were acclaimed in their time, but they are gone. What is left is a succession of films recording an indelible combination of profoundly female beauty with stolid peasant strength - a tawny sensuality that made her particularly adept at portraying...
ISBN: 978-3-8228-2208-1
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
