Some know her as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Others as Merry Gentry, LA private eye. In the fey and mortal realms alike, her life is the stuff of royal intrigue and celebrity drama. Among her own kind, she has confronted enemies, endured the treachery and malevolence of her kith and kin, and honoured her duty to conceive a royal so she could claim a throne. But now she`s turned her back on court and crown in favour of exile in the human world. However, while she may have rejected the throne, she cannot abandon her people. Someone is killing the fey. The LAPD are baffled and Merry is worried: her kind are not easily captured or killed. At least not by mortals. And it`s not just these murders that concern her. It appears...
ISBN: 978-0-553-82592-3
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil`s Ghost comes a remarkable, intimate novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is shattered by an incident of violence that sets fire to the rest of their lives. Divisadero takes us from San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada`s casinos and eventually to the landscape of southern France. As the narrative moves back and forth through time and place, we find each of the characters trying to find some foothold in a present shadowed...
ISBN: 978-0-307-38975-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
It is the 1970s in Northern California. A farmer and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work the land with the help of Coop, the enigmatic young man who lives with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until they are riven by an incident of violence - of both hand and heart.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-9495-6
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Packed with hair-raising escapades and laugh out-loud moments, this is the perfect tonic to cheer everyone up this year. Footloose, fancy free and ready to get back in the game Newly divorced Ben is back home with mum which is just where she wants him. But best mate Dickie has other ideas, and soon they are sharing a flat, up to all sorts and plotting Ben`s future romantic adventures. But being single isn`t all it`s cracked up to be. Ben staggers from one disaster to another - all under the beady gaze of his ex, who may not want him but doesn`t want anyone else to have him either! And then there`s Ben`s co-worker Poppy, who seems very interested in his escapades too - could she have plans of her own! Laugh-out-loud funny and based on...
ISBN: 978-0-00-730143-0
Издательство:
Collins
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Dizzy`s mum left when she was small. But every year, on her birthday, something arrives in the post - a present or a card with her mum`s loopy writing on it. Dizzy has kept everything. This year is different. Nothing comes in the post, but something amazing is about to arrive on Dizzy`s doorstep. Something that will whisk her away and put Dizzy`s world in a spin.
ISBN: 978-0-14-133886-6
Издательство:
Puffin
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Provides information about the physical characteristics, habits, and behavior of such animals as hedgehogs, peacocks, penguins, salamanders, and snakes.
ISBN: 978-0-7566-1972-5
Издательство:
Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
DNS on Windows Server 20003 is a special Windows-oriented edition of the classic DNS and BIND, newly updated to document the many changes to DNS, large and small, found in Windows Server 2003. Veteran O\'Reilly authors, Cricket Liu, Matt Larson, and Robbie Allen explain the whole system in terms of the new Windows Server 2003, from starting and stopping a DNS service to establishing an organization\'s namespace in the global hierarchy.
ISBN: 0-596-00562-8
Издательство:
O'Reilly
Дата выхода: декабрь 2003
