Учитесь ли вы иностранному языку или говорите на нем в совершенстве, любите ли читать книги на языке автора, а не в переводе – вам в этот раздел! Успешным бизнесменам, топ-менеджерам и тем, кто хочет таковыми стать будет полезен Курс делового английского языка. Тем, кто уже владеет английским, повезло - они могут прямо сейчас, не дожидаяь перевода на русский, прочитать захватывающий роман Стивена Joyland и европейский бестселлер Inferno Дэна Брауна. Ну, а тем, кто решил провести свой отпуск во Франции, пригодится Русско-французский разговорник и словарь.
It is Midwinter`s Eve, the night before Will`s eleventh birthday. But there is an atmosphere of fear in the familiar countryside around him. Will is about to make a shocking discovery - that he is the last person to be born with the power of the Old Ones, and as a guardian of the Light he must begin a dangerous journey to vanquish the terrifyingly evil magic of the Dark.
Bestselling author Thad Beaumont would like to say he has nothing to do with the evil that has committed a series of monstrous murders. But he can`t. He created it.
ISBN: 0451167317
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: февраль 2002
Roland Deschain and his ka-tet are bearing southeast through the forests of Mid-World on their quest for the Dark Tower. Their path takes them to the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis. But beyond the tranquil farm town, the ground rises to the hulking darkness of Thunderclap, the source of a terrible affliction that is stealing the town`s soul. The wolves of the Thunderclap and their unspeakable depredation are coming. To resist them is to risk all, but these are odds the gunslingers are used to. Their guns, however, will not be
ISBN: 978-0-7434-9657-5
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When Alexandria Houton encounters evil in San Francisco, out of the darkness swoops Aidan Savage, an ageless, mysterious, and powerful Carpathian male. But is Aidan a miracle or a monster? Alex soon longs to surrender to Aidan s unearthly seduction.
Goldy Schulz has a lucrative new gig, preparing breakfasts and conference-room snacks for a local law firm. It`s time-consuming, but Goldy is enjoying it - until the night she arrives to find Dusty, the firm`s paralegal, dead. The poor young woman also happened to be Goldy`s friend and neighbor, and now Dusty`s grieving mother begs Goldy to find out who murdered her daughter. Just because the police are on the case doesn`t mean Goldy can`t do a little snooping herself. While catering a party at the home of one of the firm`s lawyers, she manages to overhear an incriminating conversation and ends up discovering a few clues in the kitchen. Before long, Goldy is knee-deep in suspects, one of whom is incre-dibly dangerous and very liable to...
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...
Roland, the Last Gunslinger, is moving ever closer to the Dark Tower, which haunts his dreams and nightmares. Pursued by the Ageless Stranger, he and his friends follow the perilous path to Lud, an urban wasteland. And crossing a desert of damnation in this macabre new world, revelations begin to unfold about who - and what - is driving him forward. A blend of riveting action and powerful drama, "The Waste Lands" leaves readers breathlessly awaiting the next chapter. And the Tower is closer.
ISBN: 978-0-340-82977-6
Издательство:
Hodder
Дата выхода: август 2011
The most anticipated book in Stephen King`s legendary career, The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower is the final installment to the bestselling author`s epic series-a story that began thirty-three years ago with The Gunslinger and has gathered millions of ardent fans since Donald M. Grant published a limited edition of that first volume in 1981. This volume completes the quest of Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger in a world which has "moved on." Like the first book in the series, the last is beautifully illustrated by famed fantasy artist Michael Whelan. And with the same mix of triumph and loss that made Wolves of the Calla a runaway bestseller, The Dark Tower tracks Roland towards his ultimate goal, the tower itself-the center of all...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-0393-4
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
From palace intrigue and a city in turmoil to wolf-haunted mountains, underground tunnels and a suspicious hidden factory, Miss Temple, Doctor Svenson, and Cardinal Chang must overcome war and heartache to battle old enemies and a host of new villains, all hoping to seize for themselves the power of the blue glass books.
ISBN: 978-0-14-102754-8
Издательство:
Книжный мир
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When Batman sees the Bat-Signal up in the sky, it means that danger is near! He`ll need his Batsuit and Bat-Pod to help keep Gotham City safe from its newest enemy—the Joker!
In a saloon in the town of Tull, the last gunslinger is approached by a bizarre figure that has a message for him. The message is terrifying. What`s worse, it is delivered by a dead man named Nort whose corpse was animated to serve this very purpose. And that`s only the beginning of the horrors awaiting the gunslinger in this strange place deep within Mid-World as Roland Deschain continues his quest for the Man in Black that has become his obsession.
It s the return of the bestselling comic book series, inspired by Stephen King s epic "The Dark Tower." Don t miss the next chapter in the saga of the Gunslinger whose quest for the Dark Tower will shake the foundation of reality itself. Collects "Dark Tower: The Long Road Home" #1-5.
Richard Knox has served his time, so why shouldn`t he be allowed to live wherever he wants? Yes, in the past he was a violent rapist, but he has seen the error of his ways, found God, and wants to leave his dark past in Newcastle behind him and make a new start-or so he says. Detective Sergeant Logan McRae isn`t exactly thrilled to be part of the team helping Knox settle into his new Aberdeen home, and he`s even less thrilled to be stuck with DSI Danby, the man who put Knox behind bars for 10 years, supposedly here to "keep an eye on things". Only things are about to go very, very wrong. Edinburgh gangster Malk the Knife wants a slice of the development boom Donald Trump`s golf course is bringing to the Granite City, whether local crime...
ISBN: 978-0-00-724461-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
From New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh come two classic tales of love turned dangerous, set amid the splendor of Regency England--a time rife with passion, betrayal, and intrigue. DARK ANGEL: Jennifer Winwood has been engaged for five years to a man she hardly knows but believes to be honorable and good: Lord Lionel Kersey. Suddenly, she becomes the quarry of London`s most notorious womanizer, Gabriel Fisher, the Earl of Thornhill. Jennifer has no idea that she is just a pawn in the long-simmering feud between these two headstrong, irresistible men - or that she will become a prize more valuable than revenge. LORD CAREW`S BRIDE: Jennifer`s cousin Samantha Newman is smarting after she too is toyed with by Lord Kersey. In the...
ISBN: 978-0-440-24544-5
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Juan Cabrillo and his motley crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a very comfortable living working for high-powered Western interests. But their newest clients have come from the Far East to ask for Cabrillo`s special brand of assistance: a consortium of Japanese shipping magnates whose fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates the waters of South-East Asia. Normally, such attacks on the high seas are limited to smaller ships and foreign-owned yachts. Now, however, giant commercial freighters are disappearing. But when Cabrillo confronts the enemy, he discovers a deadly international conspiracy - a scheme of death and slavery that Juan Cabrillo is going to blow out of the water.
ISBN: 978-0-425-21092-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
Based on the blockbuster Warner Bros. Pictures film starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger. Allied with both the police department and the district attorney’s office, the vigilante known as Batman continues to bring justice and hope to Gotham City. But one man dares to mock Batman’s mission. A man with a twisted sense of humor. A man whose grotesque smile is reflected on the calling card he leaves at the scene of his crimes: The Joker.
ISBN: 978-0-425-22286-7
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he`s offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship leaves Norway: five men and eight huskies, crossing the Barents Sea by the light of the midnight sun. At last they reach the remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year. Gruhuken. But the Arctic summer is brief. As night returns to claim the land, Jack feels a creeping unease. One by one, his companions are forced to leave. He faces a stark choice. Stay or go. Soon he will see the last of the sun, as the polar night engulfs the camp in months of darkness. Soon he will reach...
ISBN: 978-1-4091-2118-3
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
The chaos spirit had chosen the child Alexander to be its human host. But Parmenion, most powerful warrior of ancient Greece, had won a small victory over the darkness that sought to rule through Alexander. The boy`s soul had not been destroyed by evil, but instead had merged with it - and now Parmenion aided Alexander in the battle between light and dark that constantly raged within there was another world, where the creatures of Greece`s legends still flourished. There, the chaos spirit already ruled, through a demon king. In this Greece, there was a prophecy that a child of great power, the legendary golden child, would come and restore the fading magic of the land to the creatures of myth. The demon king believed also that devouring...
ISBN: 978-0-345-49478-8
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
In the fertile lands of the East, the farming community has been warned the wolves are coming back. Four gunslingers, led by Roland of Gilead, are also coming their way. And the farmers of the Calla want to enlist some hard calibers. Torn between protecting the innocent community and his urgent quest, Roland faces his most deadly perils as he journey through the Mid-World towards the Dark Tower.
ISBN: 978-0-340-83615-6
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
In the fifth novel in King`s bestselling epic fantasy series, the farming community in the fertile lands of the East has been warned the wolves are coming back. Four gunslingers, led by Roland of Gilead, are also coming their way. And the farmers of the Calla want to enlist some hard calibers. Torn between protecting the innocent community and his urgent quest, Roland faces his most deadly perils as he journey through the Mid-World towards the Dark Tower.
ISBN: 978-1-4447-2348-9
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012