Scientist Harry Dalton knows about volcanoes. His boss, Paul Dreyfus, sends him to Dante`s Peak, a small town in the Cascade Mountains, because one of the mountains is moving. Can Harry help the town`s people before the volcano explodes? Why is Paul stopping him? How much time have they got?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7833-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
I`m Tracy Beaker, the great inventor of extremely outrageous dares - and I dare you to read a more brilliant story than this! I`ve bought a big fat purple notebook for writing down all my mega-manic ultra-scary stories in. But especially for my own story, of how my foster-mum, Cam, has turned out to be a real meanie; no designer clothes, when I really need them; a pokey flat, and a horrible new school. No wonder I bunk Still, it will have to do until my real mum comes and gets me. And until then, no-one is going to be better at the Dare Game than Tracy Beaker!
ISBN: 978-0-440-86758-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Boys don`t get all the fun. Whether readers consider themselves tomboys, girly-girls, or a little bit of both, this is the manual for everything that girls of all ages really need to know. Find out about female heroes in history, secret note-passing techniques, science projects, and friendship bracelets. Learn to play Double Dutch and cat`s cradle, turn the perfect cartwheel, and induce giggles at sleepovers and discover the eternal mystery of what boys are actually thinking.
Bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the first novel in an extraordinary new trilogy about the lives and loves of sisters of the heart. Margo, Laura and Kate were brought up like sisters amidst the grandeur of Templeton House. But it was Margo, the housekeeper s daughter, whose dreams first took her far away, on a magnificent journey full of risk and reward, to find herself--and love.
The final volume sees gunslinger Roland on a roller-coaster mix of exhilarating triumph and aching loss in his unrelenting quest to reach the dark tower. Roland`s band of pilgrims remains united, though scattered. Susannah-Mia has been carried off to New York to give birth. Terrified of what may happen, Jake, Father Callahan and Oy follow. Roland and Eddie are in Maine, looking for the site which will lead them to Susannah. As he finally closes in on the tower, Roland`s every step is shadowed by a terrible and sinister creation. And finally, he realises, he may have to walk the last dark strait You`ve come this far, Come a little farther, Come all the way, The sound you hear may be the slamming of the door behind you. Welcome to The Dark...
ISBN: 978-1-4447-2350-2
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2012
A prodigal son. A dangerous love. Haunted Grace Divine, daughter of the local pastor, always knew something terrible happened the night Daniel Kalbi disappeared and her brother Jude came home covered in his own blood. Now that Daniel`s returned, Grace must choose between her growing attraction to him and her loyalty to her brother. As Grace gets closer to Daniel, she learns the truth about that mysterious night and how to save the ones she loves, but it might cost her the one thing she cherishes most: her soul.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-5458-8
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: август 2011
In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there`s a deadly turf war going on between vampires and their slayers. There exists a secret band of brothers like no other-six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Yet none of them relishes killing more than Wrath, the leader of The Black Dagger Brotherhood. The only purebred vampire left on earth, Wrath has a score to settle with the slayers who murdered his parents centuries ago. But, when one of his most trusted fighters is killed-leaving his half-breed daughter unaware of his existence or her fate-Wrath must usher her into the world of the undead-a world of sensuality beyond her wildest dreams.
ISBN: 978-0-451-21695-3
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The charismatic and cunning Spenser Mallon is a campus guru in the 1960s, attracting the devotion and demanding sexual favours of his young acolytes. After he invites his most fervent followers to attend a secret ritual in a local meadow, the only thing that remains is a gruesomely dismembered body - and the shattered souls of all who were present. Years later, one man attempts to understand what happened to his wife and his friends by writing a book about this horrible night, and it`s through this process that they begin to examine the unspeakable events that have bound them in ways they cannot fathom, but that have haunted every one of them throughout their lives. As each of the old friends tries to come to grips with the darkness of...
ISBN: 978-0-7538-2882-3
Издательство:
Орион
Дата выхода: август 2011
This is the second in C. J. Sansom`s remarkable historical crime series. It`s 1540, three years after Shardlake was commissioned by Cromwell to investigate the murders at Scarnsea monastery. It is the hottest summer of the sixteenth century. Shardlake is trying to keep a low profile, believing himself to be out of favour with Thomas Cromwell while at the same time maintaining his London-based legal practice. He has been pulled, against his better judgement, into defending Elizabeth Wentworth, charged with murdering her cousin. But Elizabeth refuses to plead either guilty or not guilty. The penalty for not pleading is to be crushed under a weight until you plead or die. Shardlake is powerless to help the girl yet she is suddenly granted a...
Internationally acclaimed author John Connolly thrilled readers with his debut bestseller, Every Dead Thing. Now he gives a new name to fear with this atmospheric, spine-tingling page-turner. Haunted by the murder of his wife and daughter, former New York police detective Charlie Parker retreats home to Scarborough, Maine, to rebuild his shattered life. But his return reawakens old ghosts, drawing him into the manhunt for the killer of yet another mother and child. The obvious suspect is the young woman`s violent ex-husband. But there is another possibility - a mythical killer who lurks deep in the dark hollow of Parker`s own past, a figure that has
ISBN: 978-0-7434-1022-9
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
The strange power: Kaitlyn is an artist, but not an ordinary one; everything she draws comes true. When she is invited by Dr Xetes, a scientist who is studying psychic abilities, to join his school of talented individuals in California, Kaitlyn is only too happy to go. There she meets Rob, a healer, and Gabriel, a dark lone wolf, who apparently wants nothing to do with her. But with so much supernatural energy going around, it`s hardly surprising that the psychics soon develop a telepathic link that can`t be broken. The Possessed: Having learned the dark secrets of the psychic institute, Kaitlyn and her new friends are on the run, not even daring to contact their parents or old friends. As the group hide-out together they grow closer and...
ISBN: 978-1-84738-682-3
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Number One bestselling author Philippa Gregory`s new historical novel tracks the rise of the Tidelands family in London, Venice and New England.Midsummer Eve, 1670. A turbulent time to seek the truth . . .A wealthy man waits outside a poor London warehouse to meet with Alinor, the woman he failed twenty-one years before. He has everything to offer: money, land, status. He believes she has the only thing he cannot buy: his son and heir.Meanwhile in New England, Alinor`s brother Ned cannot find justice in the New World, as the King`s revenge stretches across the Atlantic and turns the pioneers against each other and against the American Indians.Then, a beautiful widow, Livia, arrives from Venice. She claims Alinor as her mother-in-law and...
Haunted by the murder of his wife and daughter, former New York police detective Charlie Parker retreats home to Scarborough, Maine, to rebuild his shattered life. But his return awakens old ghosts, drawing him into the manhunt for the killer of yet another mother and child. The obvious suspect is the young woman`s violent ex-husband. But there is another possibility - a mythical figure who lurks deep in the dark hollow of Parker`s own past, a figure that has haunted his family for generations: the monster known as Caleb
