In his final hours in the Oval Office the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems that Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the world`s most sophisticated satellite surveillance system. Backman is quietly smuggled out of the country in a military cargo plane, given a new name, a new identity, and a new home in Italy. Eventually, after he has settled into his new life, the CIA will leak his whereabouts to the Israelis, the Russians, the...
ISBN: 978-0-09-945716-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
Unsettled by her pregnancy, werewolf Elena Michaels is given the task of retrieving a stolen letter allegedly written by Jack the Ripper, but she soon discovers that the letter contains a portal to Victorian London`s underworld, allowing the vicious killer access to the twenty-first century, where he and a pair of zombie thugs are searching for Elena.
ISBN: 978-0-553-58818-7
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A new Logan McRae thriller from the bestselling author of Cold Granite and Dying Light, set in gritty Aberdeen. In the pale grey light of a chilly February, Aberdeen is not at its best! There`s a rapist prowling the city`s cold granite streets, leaving a string of tortured women behind. But while DS Logan McRae`s girlfriend is out acting as bait, he`s dealing with the blood-drenched body of an unidentified male, dumped outside Accident and Emergency. When a stash of explicit films turns up, all featuring the victim, it looks as if someone in the local bondage community has developed a taste for violent death, and Logan gets dragged into the twilight world of pornographers, sex-shops and S&M. To make matters worse, when they finally...
ISBN: 978-0-00-719318-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: май 2012
Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they`re working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer. Both men work hard, marry, and have kids because that`s what cowboys do. But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it.
With such tense novels as Blindsighted and Kisscut, Karin Slaughter has firmly positioned herself as one of the most capable exponents of the crime novel at work today - and certainly one of the most disturbing (a skill the author is clearly proud of). What's more, she ensures that each new book is subtly different from its predecessor, as her latest, Broken, demonstrates, with its innovative, edgy mix of tried and trusted elements. We are introduced once again to former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton, proving that the Jacobean taste for bloodshed and mystery is alive and well in contemporary USA. A woman's corpse is discovered in the waters of Lake Grant, and a note is found which seems to point to suicide - but...
Before he was sent to federal prison for treason (among other things), Joel Backman was an extremely powerful man. Known as "the broker," Backman was a high roller--a lawyer making $10 million a year who could "open any door in Washington." That is, until he tried to broker a deal selling access to the world`s most powerful satellite surveillance system to the highest bidder. When caught, Backman accepted prison as the one option that would keep him safe and alive, since the interested parties (the Israelis, the Saudis, the Russians, and the Chinese) were all itching to get their hands on his secrets at any cost. Little does he know that his own government has designs on accessing that information--or at least letting it die with him....
ISBN: 978-0-440-24158-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When the body of a young woman is discovered in Lake Grant, a note points to suicide. But soon it becomes clear that this is no suicide. It`s a brutal murder. Former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton finds herself unwittingly drawn into the case. But when she arrives at the local police station to see the chief suspect, he is lying dead.
ISBN: 978-0-09-953866-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
Truckers, Diggers, and Wings: To the thousands of tiny nomes living under the floorboards of a large department Store, there is no Outside. They have no day or night, no sun or rain. They`re just daft old legends. Until they hear the devastating news that the Store is to be
JANE EYRE "The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself". "WUTHERING HEIGHTS" "May you not rest, as long as I am living! You said I killed you - haunt me, then!" AGNES GREY "The name of governess, I soon found, was a mere my pupils had no more notion of obedience than a wild, unbroken colt". THE PROFESSOR "She was not handsome, she was not rich, she was not even accomplished, yet she was my life`s treasure; I must then be a man of peculiar discernment".
ISBN: 978-0-14-104380-7
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
The extraordinary creativity of the Brontë sisters, who between them wrote some of the most enduring fiction in the English language, continues to fascinate and intrigue modern readers. The tragedy of their early deaths adds poignancy to their novels, and in the popular imagination they have become mythic figures. And yet, as Patricia Ingham shows, they were fully engaged with the world around them, and their writing, from the juvenilia to "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights", reflects the preoccupations of the age in which they lived. Their novels, which so shocked their contemporaries, address the burning issues of the day: class, gender, race, religion, and mental disorders. As well as examining these connections, Patricia Ingham...
ISBN: 978-0-19-953666-5
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha, share the same bed, living in one room with their brother and parents. Then the routine of their hard impoverished life is shattered on 22 June 1941 when Hitler invades Russia. For the Metanov family, for Leningrad and particularly for Tatiana, life will never be the same again. On that fateful day, Tatiana meets a brash young man named Alexander. The family suffers as Hitler`s army advances on Leningrad, and the Russian winter closes in. With bombs falling and the city under siege, Tatiana and Alexander are drawn inexorably to each other, but theirs is a love that could tear Tatiana`s family apart, and at its heart lies a secret that could mean death to anyone who hears it. Confronted on the one hand by...
ISBN: 978-0-00-651322-3
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when a job is offered in America, it is clear that she must go. Leaving her family and home, Eilis sets off to forge a new life for herself in Brooklyn. Young, homesick and alone, she gradually buries the pain of parting beneath the rhythms of a new life - days at the till in a large department store, night classes in Brooklyn College and Friday evenings on the dance floor of the parish hall - until she realizes that she has found a sort of happiness. But when tragic news summons her back to Ireland, and the constrictions of her old life unexpectedly give way to new possibilities, she finds herself...
ISBN: 978-0-14-104776-8
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Complete First for Schools is official preparation for the revised 2015 Cambridge English: First (FCE) for Schools exam.This Student`s Book combines the very best in contemporary classroom practice with engaging topics aimed at younger students. The information, practice and advice contained in the course ensure that they are fully prepared for all parts of the test, with strategies and skills to maximise their score.Informed by Cambridge`s unique searchable database of real exam candidates` answers, the Cambridge English Corpus, Complete First for Schools includes examples and exercises which tackle common problem areas at this level.The CD-ROM contains grammar and vocabulary exercises for motivating, flexible study.
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Nathan and Tom are an uncle and nephew double-act - one in remission from lung cancer, divorced, and estranged from his only daughter, the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career. Matters change when Lucy, a little girl who refuses to speak, comes into their
ISBN: 978-0-571-22499-9
Издательство:
Faber
Дата выхода: август 2011
This brilliant work by one of Russia`s foremost novelists teems with greed, passion, depravity, and complex moral issues. Three brothers, involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father, find their lives irrevocably altered as they are driven by intense, uncontrollable emotions of rage and revenge.
