Bestseller Archer put his time in prison to fine literary use, as evidenced by the twelve stellar entries in his fifth story Collection… The economy and precision of Archer`s prose never fail to delight. The criminal doesn`t always get away with his crime and justice doesn`t always prevail, but the reader wins with each and every story. While incarcerated for two years in five different prisons, Jeffrey Archer picked up several ideas for short stories. They range from a tale of "The Man Who Robbed His Own Post Office" to the story of a company chairman who tried to poison his wife while on a trip to St Petersburg - both with unexpected consequences. In another, "Maestro", an Italian restaurateur ends up in jail, unable to explain to...
ISBN: 978-0-330-41883-6
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The cat is on the mat, the island`s fun to see, guess who says, `Toot, Toot` then all fall down with me! Four of Brian Wildsmith`s classic pieces of visual story-telling are brought together in this bright and beautiful collection for the youngest readers.
"Big Daddy" Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion: Gooper, his wife and children, Brick, an ageing football hero who has turned to drink, and his feisty wife Maggie. As the hot summer evening unfolds, the veneer of happy family life and Southern gentility gradually slips away as unpleasant truths emerge and greed, lies, jealousy and suppressed sexuality threaten to reach boiling point. Made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" is a masterly portrayal of family tensions and individuals trapped in prisons of their own making.
ISBN: 978-0-14-119028-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
A powerful and moving novel in which Patrick Gale casts a compassionate yet satirically sharp eye over the pains and abuses inflicted by families, friends and lovers. Judith and Deborah are sisters driven apart by traumatic events in their childhood, but thrown back together again when Deborah`s diplomat husband is accidentally assassinated. Judith`s lover, Joanna, the instigator of this awkward reunion, finds that as the sisters` murky past is raked up, so too is her own, and the three women become embroiled in a tangle of passion and recrimination.
ISBN: 978-0-00-730768-5
Издательство:
Collins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The little cat Deric Longden saw sitting forlornly on an upturned bucket belonged to the neighbours, but somehow when it began to rain it seemed only natural to bring him inside. Once there he slipped so easily into Deric and Aileen`s lives that there was an unspoken agreement that he had found his real home. Little did he know that he had entered the Longden world, in which the unexpected (almost) always Aileen being Aileen, it was probably inevitable that sooner or later the kitten would be trapped in the refrigerator. And Deric being Deric, the obvious way to thaw him back to life was to make a little coat for him out of a shrunken thermal vest. Thus the cat who came in from the cold got his name - Thermal - and joined the wonderful...
ISBN: 978-0-552-15619-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
Is it just a cas of summertime blues or a full-blown career crisis? Newspaper reporter Jim Qwilleran isn`t sure, but he`s hoping a few days in the country will help him sort out his life.
In this delightful new novel featuring Jim Qwilleran and his lovable cats, Koko and Yum Yum, the rites of spring are celebrated with the fine art of a fateful act of murder. It seems that this spring, a cat`s fancy may turn to
ISBN: 978-0-515-12463-7
Издательство:
Rem Distributors
Дата выхода: июль 2011
As Colonel Colin Campbell and Gwen Novak careen forward and back through millennia of anarchy and vengeance, they alone hold the key to wars that will decide the freedom, the future and the history of the entire Multiverse.
Jim Qwilleran is enjoying his stay at the Nutcracker Inn in Black Creek. His two Siamese, Koko and Yum Yum, don’t seem quite as pleased with the accommodations…though Koko does enjoy keeping a keen eye on the squirrels and other local wildlife. Then, while Koko’s eagerly watching some jumping trout, he spots something else: a body, floating downstream. When it’s revealed that the victim was a guest at the inn-and had nuggets of gold hidden in his shoes-Qwill dives into the case. And if he and the cats don’t solve it soon, they’re going to be up the creek without a paddle…
ISBN: 978-0-515-13438-4
Издательство:
Rem Distributors
Дата выхода: август 2011
From tame tabby to puma, from pussy cat to ocelot, the ten chapters of this picture book are devoted entirely to a species with a mind of its own, slender beasts of shimmering gracefulness and supple elegance, who have long been a favourite motif in the fine arts. Solitary or socializing cats, cats at play or catching mice: Around 400 works by renowned artists, interlaced with plenteous literary quotes, present cats of the world through the ages - from bronze statues fashioned thousands of years ago, to the feline beauties of Leonardo da Vinci and Diirer, to David Hockney`s thoroughly modern kitty. Издание на английском языке. Формат: 19 см х 14 см.
ISBN: 978-3-8228-6516-3
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
Catalogs, direct mail, and e-commerce websites are selling more products than ever before--more than $120 billion in sales annually. How can designers make their catalogs stand out from all the many, many others out there? The Catalog Book showcases an incredible selection of outstanding and innovative catalogs, direct mail pieces, and e-commerce sites that lead the pack in successfully projecting a brand image and selling merchandise. Full-color pictures plus brief, insightful commentary tell the story of great design and great marketing. Whether the client is selling electronics or earrings, sportswear or salami, The Catalog Book is the complete guide to creating cutting-edge catalogs that make a compelling statement to the consumer. *...
ISBN: 978-1-58471-097-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This guide covers both the backcountry as well as the city of Barcelona. It includes a section on eating and drinking like a Catalunya local and investigates the splendour of Gaudi`s architecture, including La Sagrada Familia and Parc Guell and the Teatre-Museu Dali in his birthplace, Figuere.
ISBN: 1-74059-381-2
Издательство:
Lonely Planet
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Crippled and disconsolate, sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. Yet that is when she miraculously meets and talks with the Blessed Virgin as though she were her own mother. But in the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, the Church is apt to take a serious view of such an ostentatious claim. The last of Maugham`s novels, Catalina is a romantic celebration of Spain and a delightfully mischievous satire on absolutism.
ISBN: 978-0-09-928684-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Peeta Mellark are still alive. Katniss should be relieved, but now there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol - a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create. Hs the nation matches Katniss and Peeta, the stakes are higher than euer. One false moue and the consequences mill be unimaginable.
ISBN: 978-1-407109-36-7
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: май 2011
Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger`s New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world...
ISBN: 9780316769488
Издательство:
Little, Brown
Дата выхода: январь 2020
A successful, happily married businesswoman, Holly Krauss is loved and admired by everyone she meets. But that`s only one side of Holly: the other takes regular walks on the wild side. When the two sides of Holly`s life collide, her world spirals out of
ISBN: 978-0-446-61816-8
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Growing up on the wrong side of the tracks taught Alicia Maldonado that she`d have to fight to get ahead. Though it hasn`t been easy, the thirty-something beauty is now Monterey County`s star prosecutor. But Alicia`s once promising career has stalled-and her alleged love life is in dire need of resuscitation. Then a local millionaire is found murdered, and the kind of case that every prosecutor dreams of handling falls into her lap. Alicia won`t let anything jeopardize this opportunity-not even the distractingly handsome news reporter whose interest in her investigation is more than just professional. With her future hanging in the balance, Alicia is about to discover what lines she`s willing to cross to find out the truth...and to...
ISBN: 0-451-20945-1
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Just how badly do you want to find paradise? When Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home, this taxi driver takes his young family to live on the tropical island of Phuket, Thailand. Phuket is all the Finn family dreamed of - a tropical paradise where the children swim with elephants, the gibbons sing love songs in the jungle, the Andaman Sea is like turquoise glass and this young family is free to grow. But both man-made disaster and the unleashed forces of nature shatter this tropical idyll for Tom Finn`s family. CATCHING THE SUN is a gripping, moving story of a family who go in search of Paradise - and end up discovering themselves.
