Contemporary / British English Young Prince Einon is dying. Only the Great Dragon can help him! But first the boy has to say, I won`t be a cruel king. I`ll love my people and be kind to them.` But Einon is cruel, and everybody in the country is afraid. Now the Dragon, good Sir Bowen and the peasants have to fight in a great battle between Good and Bad.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8158-6
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: август 2011
Young Prince Einon is dying. Only the Great Dragon can help him! But first the boy has to say, I won`t be a cruel king. I`ll love my people and be kind to them.` But Einon is cruel, and everybody in the country is afraid. Now the Dragon, good Sir Bowen and the peasants have to fight in a great battle between Good and Bad.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7834-0
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
For millions of readers the world over, the name Pern is magical, conjuring up grand vistas of a distant planet whose blue skies are patrolled by brave dragons and their noble riders, a paradise threatened by the periodic fall of deadly Thread. But not all dangers descend from the skies. Now, in their third collaboration, Anne McCaffrey and her son, Todd McCaffrey, spin a tale of a mysterious illness that may succeed in doing what centuries of Threadfall could not: kill every last human on Pern. Life in the Harper Hall is busy for best friends Kindan, Nonala, and Kelsa. As the only female apprentices, Nonala and Kelsa are the butt of jokes and easy targets for the bully Vaxoram and his cronies. But when Kindan springs to Kelsa’s...
ISBN: 978-0-345-48031-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
From the author of "Outlander"... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland`s majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones ...about a love that transcends the boundaries of time ...and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his .... Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, Brianna, as Claire`s spellbinding journey of...
ISBN: 978-0-440-21562-2
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Все, что вы хотели бы знать о драконах, вы сможете прочитать в этом наиболее полном энциклопедическом издании по драконологии, составленном исследователем Эрнестом Дрейком. Такая книга будет интересна как взрослым, так и детям, ведь помимо увлекательных историй и красочных цветных иллюстраций в ней можно найти раскладывающиеся карты, вклейки, вырубки и аппликации. This faux nonfiction title carries echoes of James Gurney\'s Dinotopia...
Dracula (a Gothic horror novel, first published in 1897) tells the story of the vampire Count Dracula`s attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.
ISBN: 978-5-521-00197-2
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: январь 2017
In this blistering and soulful novel of the underworld, an ex-con finds himself caught between the light and the dark sides of the street after a malevolent young killer spoils his chances to stay straight.
ISBN: 978-0-446-61144-2
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Jane Boyers, sleek, gorgeous and highly successful TV executive, barely has time to eat and sleep, let alone keep up with old friends. Especially ones like Miranda, who has rejected glamorous New York in favour of settling with the love of her life in rural Ireland. But when Jane`s career comes crashing down, her panicked response is to jump straight on a plane to Dublin and throw herself on Miranda`s mercy. Life there is definitely not what Jane is used to, and the culture shock goes both ways. When she gets herself mixed up with an independent theatre company, her no nonsense American approach gets right up the natives` noses – particularly the rather attractive nose of Shay Gallagher, the enthusiastic, if hopelessly disorganised...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-4572-4
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When a young woman returns from holiday to find her elderly neighbour dead, she immediately alerts the police. Commissario Brunetti is called to the scene but, though there are signs of a struggle, it seems the woman has simply suffered a fatal heart attack. Vice-Questore Patta is eager to dismiss the case as a death from natural causes, but Brunetti believes there is more to it than that. His suspicions are further aroused when the medical examiner finds faint bruising around the victim`s neck and shoulders, indicating that someone might have grabbed and shaken her. Could this have caused her heart attack? Was someone threatening her? Conversations with the woman`s son, her upstairs neighbour, and the nun in charge of the old-age home...
ISBN: 978-0-09-955977-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: май 2012
When Brian Duffy, an ageing soldier of fortune, is recruited in Venice by a strange old man to work as a bouncer in Vienna at an inn where the fabulous Herzwesten beer is brewed, everything seems straightforward. But his journey is far from it. Pursued and attacked from all sides, guarded and guided by creatures of myth, Duffy is no sooner in Vienna than the city is besieged by the turkish armies if Suleiman. And it becomes apparent that Duffy`s presence is no accident and that it is up to him to preserve the West until the drawing of the
ISBN: 978-0-575-07426-2
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
