Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She`s quiet, keeps to herself and doesn`t get out much. 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 a reputation for trouble - of the murderous kind.And then one of Sookie`s colleagues at the bar is killed and it`s beginning to look like Sookie might be the...
Sookie`s got just a month, before the next full moon, to find out who wants her brother dead - and to stop the fiend! Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her life, mostly. She`s a great cocktail waitress in a fun bar; she has a love life, albeit a bit complicated, and most people have come to terms with her telepathy. The problem is, Sookie wants a quiet life - but things just seem to happen to her and her friends. Now her brother Jason`s eyes are starting to change: he`s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. She can deal with that, but her normal sisterly concern turns to cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population. She afraid not just because Jason`s at risk, but because his new were-brethren...
ISBN: 978-0-575-09105-4
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The Frankenstein story is updated to the 21st century by the great American storyteller Dean Koontz. Now someone new is playing god. Frankenstein lives! And so too does his monstrous creation but this creature of legend is a monster no more, except in appearance. The scars he bears from his maker`s wrath have been disguised with tattooes, but he has only half a face. His name is Deucalion. Frankenstein has resurfaced in 21st century, pre-Katrina New Orleans, and Deucalion determines to try again to kill the evil doctor before the new generation of monsters infecting the city can kill more people. So far, in Prodigal Son and City of Night, he has won the trust of two police officers, Detectives Carson O`Connor and Michael Maddison. But...
ISBN: 978-0-00-720311-6
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. Until the vampire of her dreams walks into her life-and one of her coworkers checks Maybe having a vampire for a boyfriend isn`t such a bright idea.
ISBN: 978-0-441-01699-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 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. Detective Flick Laine goes to Pine Crest, a ski resort in Colorado USA, to investigate the murder of Janine, a 23-year-old student of journalism. What was the big story Janine was working on before her death? Contains a paperback and 2 Audio CDs with complete text recordings from the book.
ISBN: 978-0-521-69392-9
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: август 2011
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
Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress at Merlotte`s, in her home town of Bon Temps, Louisiana. Other than being telepathic, she`s always considered herself pretty normal - though she had a hard time at first, until she learned to filter out other people`s thoughts. She thought life was pretty dull, but then the vamps and the weres and the shifters came out of the closet, and she met a vampire called Bill and she couldn`t hear him at And Bill was her first love, even if he hadn`t been alive since the 1860s. But then Sookie found herself all caught up in vampire politics, and betrayal, and since then her life has been anything but normal. And life in Bon Temps has never been the same.
ISBN: 978-0-575-09654-7
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: май 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
This title includes an introduction by David Stuart Davies. Oliver Onions is unique in the realms of ghost story writers in that his tales are so far ranging in their background and substance that they are not easily categorised. His stories are powerfully charged explorations of psychical violence, their effects heightened by detailed character studies graced with a powerful poetic elegance. In simple terms Oliver Onions goes for the cerebral rather than the jugular. However, make no mistake, his ghost stories achieve the desired effect. They draw you in, enmeshing you in their unnerving and disturbing narratives. This collection contains such masterpieces as The Rosewood Door, The Ascending Dream, The Painted Face, and The Beckoning...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-640-9
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 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
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
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
