When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an apparent change to his previously outgoing personality. Crippled by migraines, and suspicious of his psychiatrist, he begins to display sporadic bouts of aggression, particularly against women, especially his ex-fiancee who seems unable to accept that the relationship is over. After his injuries prevent his return to the army, he cuts all ties with his former life and moves to London. Alone and unmonitored, he sinks into a private world of guilt and paranoid until a customer annoys him in a Bermondsey pub and he attracts the attention of local police investigating three murders which appear to have been...
ISBN: 978-0-330-44955-7
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Le cahier d`exercices propose pour chaque unité des activités complémentaires correspondant au livre de l`élève ainsi qu`un lexique des mots nouveaux introduit à chaque unité. Le cahier d`exercices propose pour chaque unité des activités complémentaires correspondant au livre de l`élève et portant sur le vocabulaire, la grammaire, la compréhension écrite, la phonétique, la graphie, la compréhension orale et la production écrite. La transcription des enregistrements et les corrigés des exercices figurent à la fin du cahier. L`apprenant peut donc l`utiliser de façon autonome. D`autre part, à la fin du cahier, se trouve un lexique que...
ISBN: 2-09-033673-0
Издательство:
CLE International
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Le mode d`emploi des différentes séquences de chaque unité de Champion 1 pour le professeur! Ce guide du professeur propose des pistes d`exploitation pour la classe à la fois ludiques, interactives et tournées vers la communication. Il fournit également les informations culturelles nécessaires à l`explication des séquences. On y trouve: - un rappel des objectifs de chaque unité; - une séquence à dominante "oral"; - une séquence à dominante "écrit"; - une séquence compétences et préparation au DELF.
ISBN: 978-2-09-033674-0
Издательство:
CLE International
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Cahier d`exercices Le cahier d`exercices propose pour chaque unite des activites complementaires correspondant au livre de l`eleve ainsi qu`un lexique des mots nouveaux introduit a chaque unite. Le cahier d`exercices propose pour chaque unite des activites portant sur le vocabulaire, la grammaire, la comprehension ecrite, la phonetique, la graphie, la comprehension orale et la production ecrite. La transcription des enregistrements et les corriges des exercices figurent a la fin du cahier. L`apprenant peut donc l`utiliser de facon autonome. D`autre part, a la fin du cahier, se trouve un lexique que l`apprenant pourra traduire dans sa langue maternelle, de facon a se constituer son propre dictionnaire.
ISBN: 978-2-09-033677-1
Издательство:
CLE International
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Il etait une fois deux soeurs virtuoses, Tune pianiste, l`autre violoniste. Un soir, alors que l`ainee conduisait, ce fut l`accident, et la pianiste perdit a jamais l`usage de ses mains. Soixante ans plus tard, dans une ile pour millionnaires au large de la Cote, la cadette tient enfin sa vengeance: puisque sa soeur tire tant de vanite d`etre bientot cente-naire, il suffit de lui trouver une rivale en gloire et en age et de Tintroduire sur
ISBN: 978-2-07-040409-4
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: август 2011
Champion 1 s`adresse a des grands adolescents et adultes faux debutants en francais. Cette methode permet a I`apprenant de communiquer dans des situations de vie quotidienne, a I`oral et a I`ecrit. Les competences acquises grace a cette methode preparent notamment I`apprenant au passage de I`unite A1 du Delf. Champion 1 permet egalement de ma?triser les elements necessaires pour se presenter a I`unite A4 du Delf lorsque celle-ci est placee en premiere ou deuxieme position. Les dialogues se deroulent dans un quartier d`une ville de province et mettent en scene des personnages de niveaux socioculturels varies. Ces personnages apparaissent a la fois dans les dialogues de depart et dans les differentes activites proposees.
ISBN: 978-2-090-33671-9
Издательство:
CLE International
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Faith Usher tells anyone willing to listen that she wants to kill herself. So when she dies after drinking champagne at the annual gala for unwed mothers, everyone insists that it was suicide. Everyone except Archie Goodwin, the perennial wise guy, who was watching her drink.
ISBN: 0-553-24438-8
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
From the casinos of Las Vegas to the streets of New York, Chances was the name of the and everybody took them. A brand spanking new, rejacketed B format edition featuring a letter from Jackie Collins to her Gino Santangelo – a boy from the New York slums carves himself a crime empire that takes him all the way to the top. His daughter, Lucky, proves herself to be as deadly as her father. Sensual and provocative, she is too much like him not to make a bid for his Chances spins through six decades like a giant roulette wheel, where the high stakes are on big money, dangerous sex and irresistible power.
ISBN: 978-0-330-44846-8
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Chance is narrated by Conrad`s regular narrator, Charles Marlow, but is characterized by a complex, nested narrative in which different narrators take up the story at different points. The novel is also unusual among its author`s works for its focus on a female character: the heroine, Flora de Barral. The narrators describe and attempt to interpret various episodes in the life of the Miss de Barral, the daughter of a convicted swindler, named Smith de Barral.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06668-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Inver Brass: a group of high-minded and high-placed intellectuals. They see a monstrous threat to the country in Hoover`s unethical use of his scandal-ridden private files. And so they decide to do away with him - quietly, efficiently, with no hint of impropriety. Until bestselling thriller writer Peter Chancellor stumbles onto information that makes his previous books look like harmless fairy tales. Now Chancellor and Inver Brass are on a deadly collision course, spiralling across the globe in an ever-widening arc of violence and terror. They are hurtling towards a showdown that will rip Washington`s intelligence community apart, leaving only one damning document to survive: The Chancellor
The stunning new summer besteller from Freya North. Sparkling, poignant and wise, Chances is a tale of love, marriage and friendship, and the accidental love triangle people can sometimes find themselves in. When Vita`s relationship with Tim ended, they both knew they had to move on but Vita`s struggling to come to terms with Tim`s new girlfriend. Then Oliver comes into her life and he seems to be the perfect man but will she ever be able to compete with the memories of his late wife? Meanwhile, Tim, Vita`s ex, finds himself similarly torn between two women as he tries to make peace with Vita and work out his true feelings for his new girlfriend. What Vita is about to discover is that people come into your life for a reason and that...
ISBN: 978-0-00-732666-2
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: май 2011
For almost a century, the name Chanel has been inextricably linked to elegance, modernity, and fashion innovation. It was Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel who single-handedly made striped jerseys and loose trousers chic, costume jewelry desirable, the little black dress the height of sophistication, and tweed suits a staple of every fashion-conscious woman`s wardrobe. In this beautifully illustrated book, drawing on the renowned collections of the V&A, fashion historian Amy de la Haye celebrates Chanel as the couturi?re who changed the way stylish women everywhere dress, then and now. She also examines the creative output of this most famous of fashion houses, from its infancy in the 1920s to the present day as it continues to prosper under the...
ISBN: 978-1-85177-643-6
Издательство:
V&A Publishing
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
A sparkling collection of Zadie Smithas nonfiction over the past decade. Zadie Smith brings to her essays all of the curiosity, intellectual rigor, and sharp humor that have attracted so many readers to her fiction, and the result is a collection that is nothing short of extraordinary. Split into four sections: Reading, Being, Seeing, and Feeling. Changing My Mind invites readers to witness the world from Zadie Smith`s unique vantage. Smith casts her acute eye over material both personal and cultural, with wonderfully engaging essays some published here for the first time on diverse topics including literature, movies, going to the Oscars, British comedy, family, feminism, Obama, Katharine Hepburn, and Anna Magnani. In her investigations...
When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities` Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control. And soon both sundrenched Euphoric State university and rain-kissed university of Rummidge are a hotbed of intrigue, lawlessness and broken
ISBN: 978-0-09-955417-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
How did George Eliot?s love life affect her prose? Why did Kafka write at three in the morning? In what ways is Barack Obama like Eliza Doolittle? Can you be over-dressed for the Oscars? What is Italian Feminism? If Roland Barthes killed the Author, can Nabokov revive him? What does ?soulful? mean? Is Date Movie the worst film ever made? A collection of essays that brims over with personality and warmth, Changing My Mind is journalism at its most expansive, intelligent and funny ? a gift to readers and writers both. Within its covers an essay is more than a column of opinions: it?s a space in which to think freely.
ISBN: 978-0-14-101946-8
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Top TV anchorwoman Melanie Adams had given up on love after a failed marriage and an unhappy affair. With her two teenage children and her television news career, she had no room in her life for a man. Then she met famous heart surgeon Peter Hallam, a widower with three children of his own. Suddenly Melanie was experiencing feelings she thought were gone forever. But two families (one in New York and one in Los Angeles), two exciting careers, and two strong-willed people were too much to handle. And Melanie faced a painful choice between her glamorous life in the public eye, her private life, the needs of her family, and the new family she took on. Changes lead each of them to new places, new problems, new people, and the new life they...
ISBN: 978-0-345-52706-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Picoult bangs out another ripped-from-the-zeitgeist winner, this time examining a condemned inmate`s desire to be an organ donor. Freelance carpenter Shay Bourne was sentenced to death for killing a little girl, Elizabeth Nealon, and her cop stepfather. Eleven years after the murders, Elizabeth`s sister, Claire, needs a heart transplant, and Shay volunteers, which complicates the state`s execution plans. Meanwhile, death row has been the scene of some odd events since Shay`s arrival — an AIDS victim goes into remission, an inmate`s pet bird dies and is brought back to life, wine flows from the water faucets. The author brings other compelling elements to an already complex plot line: the priest who serves as Shay`s spiritual adviser...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-5434-9
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
To dare to Heart surgeon Dr Peter Hallam was trained to fight time, to conquer odds beyond hope. He had saved the lives of countless strangers, only to see his own wife die tragically beyond the reach of his healing hands. Months later the deep wound of loss had begun to heal as he learned to live without love. Melanie Adams, television newscaster, lived for her work and her children: nothing else mattered. On screen she was the ultimate professional, covering the biggest stories and meeting the hardest deadlines, but she was lonely inside. After heartbreak and desertion she had made her way to the top alone. And she, like Peter, had learned to live without love. But one day, for Peter and Melanie, everything changes.
ISBN: 978-0-7515-4244-8
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Twenty-eight-year-old Geraldine travels to Kenya with her new husband James with the intent of staying a year. In a dizzying multicultural city, she struggles to maintain her balance as her sense of self, her marriage, and her understanding of
ISBN: 978-0-316-07259-5
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Twenty-eight-year-old Geraldine travels to Kenya with her new husband James with the intent of staying a year. In a dizzying multicultural city, she struggles to maintain her balance as her sense of self, her marriage, and her understanding of the world are shaken to the core. Invited on a climbing expedition to Mt. Kenya, the newlyweds are caught up in a horrific accident. In its aftermath, Geraldine must try to understand exactly what happened on that mountain and what it has done to her and to her marriage. A major author in terms of critical acclaim and bestseller status, Anita Shreve limns the secrets at the core of our closest relationships and the ways in which lives can turn on the axis of a single catastrophic event.
ISBN: 978-0-349-12059-1
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: август 2011
Alexia Tarabotti, the Lady Woolsey, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears - leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural soldiers encamped on her doorstep, a plethora of exorcised ghosts, and an angry Queen Victoria. But Alexia is armed with her trusty parasol, the latest fashions, and an arsenal of biting civility. Even when her investigations take her to Scotland, the backwater of ugly waistcoats, she is prepared: upending werewolf pack dynamics as only the soulless can. She might even find time to track down her wayward husband, if she feels like it.
ISBN: 978-0-316-07414-8
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: июль 2011