You`ve probably heard of Al Capone. He is dead famous for: being handy with a machine gun, having one or two scars and hanging around with a rather nasty gang. But have you heard that Al: lived with his mum all his life, was a trend-setter in banana-coloured suits and went bananas in Alcatraz prison?
Although Dead Souls (1842) was largely composed by Gogol during self-imposed exile in Italy in the late 1830s, his last work remains to this day the most essentially Russian of all the great novels in Russian literature. As we follow its hero Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant turned confidence man, about the Russian countryside in pursuit of his shady enterprise, there unfolds before us a gallery of characters worthy in comic range of Chaucer, Rabelais, Fielding, and Sterne. With its rich and ebullient language, ironic twists, and startling juxtapositions, Dead Souls stands as one of the most unusual and poetic masterpieces of the nineteenth century. This new translation by Christopher English includes the surviving chapters and...
ISBN: 978-0-19-955466-9
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She`s quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn`t get out much - not because she`s not pretty - she`s a very cute bubbly blonde - or not interested in a social life. She really is ...but Sookie`s got a bit of a disability. She can read minds. And that doesn`t make her too dateable. And then along comes Bill: he`s tall, he`s dark and he`s handsome - and Sookie can`t `hear` a word he`s thinking. He`s exactly the type of guy she`s been waiting all her life for. But Bill has a disability of his own: he`s fussy about his food, he doesn`t like suntans and he`s never around during the day ...Yep, Bill`s a vampire. Worse than that, he hangs with a seriously creepy crowd, with...
ISBN: 978-0-575-08936-5
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Re-inventing the spy story for the 21st century. John Le Carre meets Jason Bourne! Daniel Marchant, a suspended MI6 officer, is running the London Marathon. He is also running out of time. A competitor is strapped with explosives. If he drops his pace, everyone around him will be killed, including the US ambassador to London. Marchant tries to thwart the attack, but is he secretly working for the terrorists? There are those in America who already suspect Marchant of treachery. Just like they suspected his late father, the former head of MI6, who was removed from his job by the CIA. Marchant is treated like an enemy combatant - rendition, waterboarding - but he has friends who are disillusioned with America`s war on terror. Friends like...
ISBN: 978-0-00-730071-6
Издательство:
Collins
Дата выхода: август 2011
Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a song. What he does not say is that he then proposes to take out a huge mortgage against these fictitious citizens and buy himself a nice estate in Eastern Russia. Will he get away with it? Who will rumble him?
ISBN: 978-1-84022-637-9
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Carly Chase is traumatized ten days after being in a serious traffic accident. Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare. The drivers of the other two vehicles involved have been hunted down by a sadistic killer. Now Detective Superintendent Roy Grace of the Sussex police force issues a stark and urgent warning to Carly: she could be next. The police advise her that her only option is to go into tiding and change her identity. The terrified woman disagrees - she knows these people have ways of tracking you down anywhere. If the police are unable to stop them, he has to find a way to do it herself. But already the killer s one step ahead of her, watching, waiting, and
ISBN: 978-0-330-53548-9
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
All the creatures of the night gather in "the Hollows" of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party ... and to feed. Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond imagining - and it’s Rachel Morgan`s job to keep that world civilized. A bounty hunter and witch with serious sex appeal and an attitude, she`ll bring `em back alive, dead ... or undead.
Anne Scott’s address was scribbled on a crumpled note in the pocket of Morse’s smartest suit. He turned the corner of Canal Street, Jericho, on the afternoon of Wednesday, 3rd October. He hadn’t planned a second visit. But he was back later the same day – as the officer in charge of a suicide
ISBN: 978-0-330-45122-2
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: июль 2012
We last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Utah desert to die - only to be discovered by John Ford, who`s there shooting his latest Western. "The Dead Republic" opens in 1951. Henry is returning to Ireland for the first time since his escape in 1922. With him are the stars of Ford`s latest film, John Wayne and Maureen O`Hara, and the famous director himself, who has tried to suck the soul out of Henry and turn it into Hollywood gold-dust. Ten years later Henry is in Dublin, working in Ratheen as a school caretaker. When he is caught in a bomb blast, he loses his leg for the second time. He is claimed as a hero, and before long Henry will discover he has other uses too, when the peace...
ISBN: 978-0-09-954689-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
‘I wondered if I was dying. I wasn’t afraid to die, but such was the pain in my gut, I wished it would happen soon’. The night before the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket sees the great and the good of the horse-racing community gathered for a black-tie gala dinner at the Hay Net - the racing town’s favourite Michelin-starred restaurant - founded by Max Moreton, something of a local celebrity. Spending the night retching in the throes of agony is the last thing Max expected of the evening. But much worse is to come…his food is suspected of putting twenty-four dinner guests in hospital. Within hours, Max’s restaurant is forcibly closed, his reputation teeters on the brink of ruin, and a court case looms. But the day is far from over,...
ISBN: 978-0-330-45482-7
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student`s capabilities. A dead girl in a swimming pool
ISBN: 978-0-521-69379-0
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: март 2012
The body of a missing teenager is dredged from the seabed off the Sussex coast, missing vital organs. Soon after, a further two more bodies are found . . . Caitlin Beckett, a fifteen-year-old in Brighton will die if she does not receive an urgent transplant. When the health system threatens to let her down her mother takes drastic action and goes to an online broker in black-market organs. The broker can provide what she wants, but it will come at a price. As Superintendent Roy Grace investigates the recovered bodies, he unearths the trail of a gang of child traffickers operating from Eastern Europe. Soon Grace and his team will find themselves in a race against time to save the life of a young street kid, while a desperate mother will...
ISBN: 978-0-330-45677-7
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: январь 2012
Somalia - a lawless, violent land, ignored by the West, ripped apart by civil war and famine, fought over by drug-fuelled, gun-crazy clan fighters. They want the world to sit up and take notice. They have a new and terrifying weapon - pirates. And now, the pirates have in their possession the young son of a Russian oligarch, snatched from a luxury yacht in the Seychelles. His father wants him back, will pay anything, stop at nothing to retrieve his boy. Up to now everything he has tried has failed. He needs the one man with the know-how, the means and the guts to complete the mission: ex-SAS trouble-shooter Nick Dead Centre takes you to the reality behind the headlines, into the poorest and most violent country on the planet, a place...
ISBN: 978-0-552-16653-9
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian, vaguely left-wing radio shock-jock living in London. After a wedding breakfast, people start dropping fruits from a balcony on to a deserted car park below. As they get carried away, dropping more, they`re told a plane has just crashed into the World Trade Center.
ISBN: 978-0-349-11664-8
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them to "make your lives extraordinary!" Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society—a secret club where, free from the constraints and expectations of school and parents, they let their passions run wild. As Keating turns the boys on to the great words of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, they discover not only the beauty of language, but the importance of making each moment count. But the Dead Poets Pledges soon realize that their newfound freedom can have tragic consequences. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from...
ISBN: 978-1-4013-0877-3
Издательство:
Книжный клуб "Клуб семейного досуга"
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
A vivacious vampire with a flair for accessorizing, Lil Marchette is unlike most of her kind. She prefers lively shades of pink to dismal black (soo not her color), plus she’s a hopeless romantic. In need of a steady paycheck to support a compulsive cosmetics habit, Lil starts Dead End Dating (DED), a Manhattan-based matchmaking service that helps smart, sophisticated singles like herself find eternity mates – and may even help her stake a claim to her very own Count Right! When Lil meets geeky vampire Francis Deville, she knows he’s the perfect first client. If she can hook up Francis – after a little revamping, of course – she will prove her skills to the vampire community and turn DED into the hottest dating service in the...
ISBN: 978-0-345-49216-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut`s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors - a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb - Rudy Waltz, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what we and who we say we are.
ISBN: 978-0-385-33417-4
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is propelled from north to south when a nine-year-old girl is brutally shot on a Montreal street and the remains of a missing North Carolina teenager are found hundreds of miles away. The connection between the crimes leads Brennan into a bizarre culture of outlaw motorcycle gangs, where one misstep can bring disaster.
ISBN: 978-0-671-02836-7
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
