Bestselling author Robert Ryan brings one of the greatest epic journeys of all time to life in this captivating story of Captain Scott`s last Antarctic expedition. January 18, 1912: Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition reaches the South Pole. Just a few weeks later, trapped in one of the worst blizzards Antarctica has ever known, Scott and his four companions perish in subzero temperatures. How did the icy conditions overwhelm Scott, Captain Oates and their party on the fateful return journey? The story of Scott and Oates, their incredible journey and their tragic final days, combines ambition, national pride and the kind of bravery and dignity most men can only dream of.
ISBN: 978-0-7553-5653-9
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: август 2011
Dorina Basarab is a dhampir - half-human, half-vampire - and the only way she can stay sane is by unleashing her sometimes uncontrollable rage on demons and vampires that deserve killing. After the fortunate demise of her insane uncle Dracula, Dory is back home in Brooklyn, hoping that life will calm down for a while. But then two visitors arrive: her friend Claire, asking for Dory`s help in finding a magical Fey relic, and the gorgeous master vampire Louis-Cesare, desperate to find his former mistress, a vampire named Christine. Dory and Louis-Cesare soon discover their problems may be connected: the same master vampire Christine is bound to is also rumored to be in possession of the relic. But they soon realize there`s more at stake...
ISBN: 978-0-14-103952-7
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs exploded onto bestseller lists worldwide with her phenomenal debut novel Deja Dead - and introduced "[a] brilliant heroine" (Glamour) in league with Patricia Cornwell`s Kay Scarpetta. Dr. Temperance Brennan, Quebec`s director of forensic anthropology, now returns in a thrilling new investigation into the secrets of the dead. In the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, Tempe Brennan is digging for a corpse buried more than a century ago. Although Tempe thrives on such enigmas from the past, it`s a chain of contemporary deaths and disappearances that has seized her attention - and she alone is ideally placed to make a chilling connection among the seemingly unrelated events. At the crime scene, at the...
First published in 1912, Death in Venice tells how Gustave von Aschenbach, a writer utterly absorbed in his work, arrives in Venice as the result of a `youthfully ardent thirst for distant scenes`, and meets a young boy by whose beauty he becomes obsessed. His pitiful pursuit of the object of his affection and its inevitable and pathetic climax are told here with the particular skill the author has for this shorter form of fict
ISBN: 0-09-945845-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
In this book Hemingway shares his passion for bullfighting. The technical skills are described and explained, with chapters on individual bullfighters and the bulls. This work also contains a number of short stories inspired by the intense life and inevitable death of those violent afternoons.
ISBN: 0-09-990910-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
With a rich man footing the bills and a handsome lover on the side, Isabel Kerr was taken care of well. When someone takes care of her in a more final sense, her murder is pinned on a detective friend of Nero Wolfe`s. Agreeing to help clear his buddy`s name, Wolfe winds up entertaining a party of fools and lovers connected with the doxy`s death.
ISBN: 978-0-553-27606-0
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2012
The publication of Death and the Penguin, Andrey Kurkov`s debut novel, heralds a unique new voice in post-soviet satire. Set in the Ukraine in the years immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this dark, deadpan tale chronicles the journalistic career of Victor, who shares a flat with Misha, his depressed Penguin, rescued from the under-funded zoo in Kiev. Victor is asked to write obelisks, obituaries, for a prominent city paper about notable figures in the community, and quickly transforms himself from struggling writer to wealthy journalist. It soon becomes apparent that there is a more sinister motive at play, and Victor finds himself descending in a Kafkaesque realm of suspicion and unease.
ISBN: 1-86046-945-0
Издательство:
Harvill Press
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
A milestone of storytelling set in the world of The Sword of Truth, "Debt of Bones" is the story of young Abby`s struggle to win the aid of the wizard Zedd Zorander, the most important man alive. Abby is trapped, not only between both sides of the war, but in a mortal conflict between two powerful men. For Zedd, who commands power most men can only imagine, granting Abby`s request would mean forsaking his sacred duty. With the storm of the final battle about to break, both Abby and Zedd are caught in a desperate fight to save the life of a neither can escape the shadow of an ancient betrayal. With time running out, their only choice may be a debt of bones. The world-for Zedd, for Abby, for everyone-will never again be the same. Discover...
ISBN: 978-0-7653-5154-8
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Number - one bestselling author Tom Clancy takes a bold, incisive look at what our nation`s leaders are calling "the new world order." The time and place: a world at peace, where yesterday`s enemies are tomorrow`s allies. The players: Jack Ryan as the new President`s National Security Advisor, and his CIA colleagues, John Clark and Domingo Chavez. The crisis: a shocking chain of events in which the wages of peace are as fully complex - and devastating - as those of war.
Lauren Blount`s life is perfectly arranged: she`s very rich, very young, very thin, very pretty and very, very divorced. The most glamorous of Manhattan`s Debutante Divorcee set, Lauren captivates newlywed Sylvia Mortimer, which is no surprise after Sylvia`s husband goes AWOL on their honeymoon. With New York`s most notorious Husband Huntress setting her sights on Sylvia`s man, a decision must be made: either subscribe to Lauren`s "Who needs a husband anyway?" philosophy or stand and fight for her man. Формат: 11 см x 18 см.
ISBN: 978-0-14-102987-0
Издательство:
Книжный мир
Дата выхода: июль 2011
