Kit Kincade, American, with diamond-studded ears and friends in low places, believes women are little more than a life support system to an ovary. Shelly Green, pinstripe-underpanted, cultured, classical guitarist, thinks optimism is an eye disease and hates all men. The perfect pair? Yes, according to a `Desperate and Dateless` reality TV competition. A computer has matched them - physically and emotionally - with huge financial rewards if they can survive their five-star honeymoon on a paradise island. Kit and Shelly meet the day they are to be and it`s hate at first sight Love may be blind, but marriage is a real eye opener.
ISBN: 978-0-7434-6875-6
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana. She`s pretty. She does her job well. But she has only a few close friends, because not everyone appreciates Sookie`s gift: she can read minds. That`s not exactly every man`s idea of date bait -unless they`re undead; vampires and the like can be tough to read. And that`s just the kind of guy Sookie`s been looking for. Maybe that`s why, when she comes across a naked vampire on the way home from work, she doesn`t just drive on by. He hasn`t got a clue who he is, but Sookie has: Eric looks just as scary and sexy -and dead - as the day she met him. But now he has amnesia, he`s sweet, vulnerable, and in need of Sookie`s help - because whoever took his memory now wants his life....
ISBN: 978-0-575-08942-6
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
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
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?
The bitingly funny paranormal romance series that began with "Dead End Dating" continues in this second book which finds the sassy proprietor of a vampire dating service mixed up with murder, a pack of lovelorn lady werewolves, and her own undead ex.
ISBN: 978-0-345-49217-3
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
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
"Dark fantasy has a new heroine." -SFX When the dead call, she answers. Bounty hunting is a helluva job, but it pays the bills. And it lets Necromance Dante Valentine forget her issues-like struggling with her half-demon side and the memory of her lover`s death. Now psychics all over the city are being savagely murdered-and a piece of the past Dante thought she`d buried is stalking the night with a vengeance. Too bad she`s got no way to tell which fiend--or friend--to trust. Or that her most horrifying nightmares are gathering to take one kick-ass bounty hunter down for the count. But that`s only the beginning. The Devil just called. He`s looking for Dante`s lover--the one he
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
After almost a decade, Tom Clancy--the acknowledged master of international intrigue and non-stop military action-returns to the world he knows better than anyone: a world of chaos, caught in the crossfire of politics and power, placed on the edge of annihilation by evil men. But there are other men who are honor-bound to stop the bloodshed and protect their homeland-by any means It is called the Campus. Secretly created under the administration of President Jack Ryan, its sole purpose is to hunt down, locate, and eliminate terrorists and those who protect them at will, without sanction or oversight. A self- sufficient entity, it has no official connection to the American government-a necessity in a time when those in power consider...
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
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.
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
You’ve probably heard of Lord Horatio Nelson. He is dead famous for: courageously winning the Battle of Trafalgar, carelessly losing and arm and an eye – and being stuck up a very high column! But did you know that Horatio nearly got killed by a polar bear, ate rats and maggots, and was pickled in a barrel of brandy? Yes – even though he’s dead, he’s still full of surprises!
‘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
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
When their country is invaded and their families are taken, eight high school teenagers band together to fight. Seventeen-year-old Ellie and her friends have survived the invasion and hit back at the soldiers who still hold their family and friends captive. But two of their band are captured: Kevin is imprisoned and Corrie is alive, but in a coma. Homer and Ellie are determined to get them back and to continue their campaign against the enemy. They discover that there are other rebels out there, fighting the invaders - but who are they and can they be trusted? As the pressure grows, can Ellie work out her conflicted feelings for the brilliant, arrogant Homer and the strong, gentle Lee? As war rages, and the enemy closes in, Ellie and her...
ISBN: 978-0-85738-873-5
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2012
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
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
