Aidan Cain has had the worst week of his life. His gran died, he was sent to a foster home, and now malicious beings are stalking him. There is one person Gran told Aidan to go to if he ever got into trouble--a powerful sorcerer who lives at Melstone House. But when Aidan arrives on the doorstep, he finds that the sorcerer`s grandson, Andrew, has inherited the house. The good news is that Aidan can tell immediately that Andrew`s brimming with magic, too--and so is everyone else at Melstone. The bad news is that Andrew doesn`t remember anything his grandfather taught him. Chaos is swiftly rising, and he has no idea how to control it. A sinister neighbor is stealing power from the land, magic is leaking between and it`s only a matter of...
A brilliant, intricate and magical novel from the Godmother of British fantasy. When Andrew Hope`s magician grandfather dies, he leaves his house and field-of-care to his grandson who spent much of his childhood at the house. Andrew has forgotten much of this, but he remembers the very strong-minded staff and the fact that his grandfather used to put the inedibly large vegetables on the roof of the shed, where they`d have vanished in the morning. He also remembers the very colourful stained glass window in the kitchen door, which he knows it is important to protect. Into this mix comes young Aidan Cain, who turns up from the orphanage asking for safety. Exactly who he is and why he`s there is unclear, but a strong connection between the...
ISBN: 978-0-00-732080-6
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
When Joe, Beth and Frannie move to a new home, an Enchanted Wood is on their doorstep. And when they discover the Faraway Tree, that is the beginning of many magical adventures! Join them and their friends Moonface, Saucepan Man and Silky the fairy as they discover which new land is at the top of the Faraway Tree. Will it be the Land of Spells, the Land of Treats, or the Land of Do-As-You-Please? There`ll be adventures waiting for them, whatever happens! Funny, magical adventures that will delight children again and again.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-3027-8
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: август 2011
- A re-telling of the classic story for children growing in reading confidence. - The Enchanted Castle tells the story of Jerry, Jimmy and Cathy, three children who discover a magical castle occupied by an invisible princess, and enter a world full of magic and adventure. - Evocatively illustrated by Alan Marks. - Usborne Young Reading has been developed with reading experts from Roehampton University.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-7072-7
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: август 2011
The excitement and wonder of a mid-winter sled ride - seen through the vivid imagination of a young child - allows readers to follow along as the child transforms into a queen, observes colorful soldiers in formation, visits a gypsy camp, and goes wherever her lucid imagination takes her.
Guy Kawasaki is an entrepreneur`s entrepreneur who gives reliable and entertaining advice on getting a business off the ground. His bestseller The Art of the Start is the essential reference book for starting any new enterprise. The Art of Enchantment is an update of Dale Carnegie`s How to Win Friends and Influence People, in which Kawasaki asserts that the fundamental goal of influence is not to get your own way, but to bring about a change of heart in other people by working with and through them. Covering subjects like How To Make An Enchanting Product, How To Overcome Resistance, and How To Enchant Your Boss, this is another classic in the making from one of the most respected voices in business.
ISBN: 978-0-241-95364-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
When Jerry, Jimmy and Cathy discover a tunnel that leads to a castle, they pretend that it is enchanted. But when they discover a Sleeping Princess at the centre of a maze, astonishing things begin to happen. Amongst a horde of jewels they discover a ring that grants wishes. But wishes granted are not always wishes wanted, so the children find themselves grappling with invisibility, dinosaurs, a ghost and the fearsome Ugli-Wuglies before it is all resolved. This edition of The Enchanted Castle has forty-seven evocative illustrations by Millar
ISBN: 978-1-85326-129-9
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2016
For women answer an advertisement in The Times newspaper. They leave cold, rainy London and go on holiday to San Salvatore - an Italian castle by the sea. They leave their husbands, their friends and their unhappiness behind in England. In Italy, they find enchantment, happiness and love. Retold by Margaret Tarner.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7291-5
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself `Mogor dell`Amore`, the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess: Qara Koz, "Lady Black Eyes", a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, who becomes the lover of a certain Argalia, a Florentine soldier of fortune. When Argalia returns home with his Mughal mistress the city is mesmerized by her presence, as two worlds are brought together by one woman attempting to command her own But is Mogor`s story true? And if so, then what happened to the lost princess?
ISBN: 978-0-09-942192-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Clara, Josephine, Lucille, Agnes, Philippe et Rapha ont grandi ensemble a Montrouge. lis ont habite le meme immeuble et sont alles dans les memes ecoles. Depuis, leurs vies ont pris des tournants differents mais leur amitie a resiste au temps, a la reussite des uns, aux echecs des autres. lis pratiquent toujours leurs rites d`amitie, meme si leur "musique", parfois, emet quelques fausses notes. Mais une nouvelle epreuve, plus sournoise, plus terrible, s`annonce, et le groupe menace de voler en
ISBN: 978-2-253-14671-1
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The Sunday Times bestselling series is back. Eve Dallas is investigating the murder of a much-loved actor at a glittering party. The spotlight has never been brighter. Or deadlier…It was a glittering event full of A-listers, hosted by Eliza Lane and Brant Fitzhugh, the most glittering of all celebrity couples. Everyone had expected the party to be in the newspapers the next day but not because one of the hosts was murdered! As the crowd had gathered to watch Eliza sing, Fitzhugh had raised a final toast to his glamorous wife and fallen to the floor. Death by cyanide poisoning. It’s time for Lt. Eve Dallas to make her entrance.From all accounts, Fitzhugh wasn’t the kind of star who made enemies. Eliza, on the other hand, had many...
`I once travelled back from Africa on a ship with an Irish captain who did not like animals. This was unfortunate, because most of my luggage consisted of about two hundred odd cages of assorted wildlife . . .`Gerald Durrell`s accounts of the animals he e
ISBN: 978-0-241-95583-3
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language is one of the publishing phenomena of recent times. Rarely has a book so packed with accurate and well researched factual information been so widely read and popularly acclaimed. It has played a key role in the spread of general interest in language matters, generating further publications and broadcasting events for an avid audience. Its First Edition appeared in hardback in 1995 and a revised paperback in 1997. There have been numerous subsequent updated reprintings; but this Second Edition now presents an overhaul of the subject for a new generation of language-lovers and of teachers, students and professional English-users concerned with their own linguistic legacy. The length of the...
ISBN: 0-521-53033-4
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Aurelio Zen is posted to Calabria, where in the heart of a tight-knit traditional community there has been a brutal murder. Zen is determined to find a way to penetrate the code of silence and uncover the truth. But his mission is complicated
ISBN: 978-0-571-23617-6
Издательство:
Faber
Дата выхода: август 2011
Aurelio Zen is posted to remote Calabria, at the toe of the Italian boot. And beneath the surface of a tight-knit traditional community he discovers that violent forces are at work. There has been a brutal murder. Zen is determined to find a way to penetrate the code of silence and uncover the truth. But his mission is complicated by another secret which has drawn strangers from the other side of the world - a hunt for buried treasure launched by a single-minded player with millions to spend pursuing his bizarre and deadly obsession. Michael Dibdin has crafted another suspenseful, action-packed thriller full of unexpected twists and turns through the dark corners of the human heart.
This title is about a father`s worst nightmare. It`s first light and George Marshalson`s daughter hasn`t returned home. He doesn`t yet know that she never will - that her body lies prone just yards from the family house. Or that he will himself make the shocking discovery. Chief Inspector Wexford has never known a case of a father finding the murdered body of his daughter. He has daughters of his own but can barely imagine himself in Mr Marshalson`s position. Tasked with picking through the pieces of a shattered family, Wexford unearths some surprising secrets about the dead teenager`s lifestyle. And when a second girl is found murdered - a victim unquestionably linked to the first - Wexford has to put his own family problems aside to...
ISBN: 978-0-09-949114-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the heart. A world that lovingly captures the ties that bind us to one another-the joys and sorrows, heartbreaks and misunderstandings, and glad, perfect moments when we are in true harmony. A world filled with evocative, engrossing, and above all, enjoyable portraits of people`s lives and loves, tenderly laid open for After years in the United States, Jane returns to the tranquil Scottish estate, Elvie, where she spent a magical childhood. Memories of Elvie had always summoned the image of Sinclair, the rakish man Jane had once dreamed of marrying, but now that she is home, she finds Sinclair a different man. His charm has a purpose, and Jane...
ISBN: 978-0-312-96128-2
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
