John Wells is the only CIA agent to ever penetrate al Qaeda. While living in the mountains of Pakistan, he became a Muslim, convinced of the decadence and shallowness of the United States.
ISBN: 978-0-515-14434-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
The author of "The Name of the Rose" considers a wide range of topics, from "Superman" and "Casablanca", Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni, Jim Jones and mass suicide, and Woody Allen, to pop festivals and football, and not least the social and personal implications of tight jeans.
ISBN: 0-7493-9628-8
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
1995, Scotland - The prison of Cornton Vale. Laura Brannigan is in jail for murder. For two years she`s been battling for justic - insisting that she didn`t kill her best friend, Jackie. Yet with her spirits at their lowest ebb, she receives a letter that takes her back to a different time and memory of an old love ...Twenty years ago was a heady time for Laura: she`d escaped an abusive home and together with new best friend Jackie she`d made a fresh start. The pair had sworn to be sisters for ever. And Stuart had come into their lives - giving Laura a brilliant summer of love. So what went wrong in the intervening years? And why is Stuart writing to Laura now? Does he have faith in her innocence? And can he help free Laura from prison -...
ISBN: 978-0-14-103048-7
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The Faith is the bible of graffiti. It forever captures the place, the time, and the writings of those of us who made it happen. In 1973, author Norman Mailer teamed with photographer Jon Naar to produce The Faith of Graffiti, a fearless exploration of the birth of the street art movement in New York City. The book coupled Mailer`s essay on the origins and importance of graffiti in modern urban culture with Naar`s radiant, arresting photographs of the young graffiti writers` work. The result was a powerful, impressionistic account of artistic ferment on the streets of a troubled and changing city - and an iconic documentary record of a critical body of work now largely lost to history. This new edition of The Faith of Graffiti, the first...
ISBN: 978-0-06-196170-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Джек Лондон - классик американской литературы, автор замечательных приключенческих романов и рассказов. В сборник "Мужская верность и другие рассказы" включены яркие, живые и душевные произведения, которые покорили сердца читателей во всём мире. В книгу вошли такие рассказы, как «Набег на устричных пиратов», «Осада "Ланкаширской королевы"», «Мужская верность», «Гиперборейский напиток» и...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05762-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
Brilliant plotting, relentless suspense, raved the Washington Post, A new synonym for terror, crowned the Detroit Free Press. The critics agree: no one writes suspense like Karin Slaughter, whose thrillers featuring medical examiner Sara Linton and her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, have propelled her to the top of bestseller lists the world over. Now Slaughter fuses her unmatched grasp of forensic science and a mastery of complex relationships in a riveting tale of faith, doubt, and murder. The victim was buried alive in the Georgia woods-then killed in a horrifying fashion. When Sara Linton and Jeffrey Tolliver stumble upon the body, both become consumed with finding out who killed the pretty, impeccably dressed young...
ISBN: 978-0-440-24291-8
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The course of Frank Mackey`s life was set by one defining moment when he was nineteen. The moment his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, failed to turn up for their rendezvous in Faithful Place, failed to run away with him to London as they had planned. Frank never heard from her again. Twenty years on, Frank is still in Dublin, working as an undercover cop. He`s cut all ties with his dysfunctional family. Until his sister calls to say that Rosie`s suitcase has been found. Frank embarks on a journey into his past that demands he reevaluate everything he believes to be true.
ISBN: 978-0-340-97762-0
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: март 2012
Matilda Goodnight and Davy Dempsey are both trying to get the upper hand with gold-digging Clea Lewis, but they forge a temporary alliance to take on an inept art collector, an exasperated hitman, and a seductive femme fatale.
ISBN: 978-0-312-98382-6
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: август 2011
In 1860, a man and woman approach the coast of Africa aboard a swift clipper - in the command of an American who knows no law. Robyn Ballantyne and her brother Morris have waited years for this moment: to return to Africa, to search for their missionary father who had disappeared somewhere in the wilderness. Traveling north from Cape Town, they follow a map left by a madman - into an uncharted world of waterfalls and jungle, teeming wildlife, murderous disease, and the ghastly ruins of an astounding city. Uncovering their father`s trail, Robyn and her brother are in the midst of a slave trade that pours out of Africa like a bloody wound. Now, to survive what they have found, they must make their separate ways out - through pitched...
ISBN: 978-0-312-94071-3
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was an English novelist, dramatist, and short story writer, universally known for her Gothic novel "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus". The novel "Falkner" focuses on the character of Elizabeth Raby, raised under the influence of her foster-father Rupert Falkner. When he is acquitted of murdering her lover`s mother, Elizabeth tries to do all she can to reconcile the two men she loves. The book`s story and resolution propose the triumph of female values over violent masculinity.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07529-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
There are five stories in this book. The Fall of the House of Usher` and The Barrel of Amontillado` are stories of madness; The Maelstrom` describes fear of death during a storm on the ocean; and in The Murders of the Rue Morgue` and The Stolen Letter` meet C. Auguste Dupin, Poe`s famous Parisian detective.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7900-2
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Sophia Chrysanthis is initially dazzled when the celebrated German archaeologist, Herr Obermann, comes in search of a Greek bride who can read the works of Homer and assist in his excavations of the city he believes is Ancient Troy. But Obermann`s past turns out to be full of skeletons and when a young American arrives to question the archeologist`s methods and dies of a mysterious fever, Sophia wonders just how far he will go to protect his vision of Troy. Soon a second, British archeologist arrives, only to fall in love with Sophia, and as their relationship begins to parallel their Ancient Greek counterparts events move towards a gripping and terrible conclusion.
ISBN: 978-0-09-949275-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2012
This is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to President Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution. In a plot of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from...
ISBN: 978-0-230-71007-8
Издательство:
Macmillan ELT
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Classic / American English There are five stories in this book. `The Fall of the House of Usher` and `The Barrel of Amontillado` are stories of madness; `The Maelstrom` describes fear of death during a storm on the ocean; and in `The Murders of the Rue Morgue` and `The Stolen Letter` meet C. Auguste Dupin, Poe`s famous Parisian detective. This Pack contains a Book and MP3
ISBN: 978-1-4479-2549-1
Издательство:
Pearson Education Limited
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
The Fall of Arthur, the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends of Arthur King of Britain, may well be regarded as his finest and most skilful achievement in the use of the Old English alliterative metre, in which he brought to his transforming perceptions of the old narratives a pervasive sense of the grave and fateful nature of all that is told: of Arthur`s expedition overseas into distant heathen lands, of Guinevere`s flight from Camelot, of the great sea-battle on Arthur`s return to Britain, in the portrait of the traitor Mordred, in the tormented doubts of Lancelot in his French castle. Unhappily, The Fall of Arthur was one of several long narrative poems that he abandoned in that period. In this case he evidently began it...
This selection of Poe`s critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind.
In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manwe, chief of the Valar.Central to this enmity of the gods is the city of Gondolin, beautiful but undiscoverable. It was built and peopled by Noldorin Elves who, when they dwelt in Valinor, the land of the gods, rebelled against their rule and fled to Middle-earth. Turgon King of Gondolin is hated and feared above all his enemies by Morgoth, who seeks in vain to discover the marvellously hidden city, while the gods in Valinor in heated debate largely refuse to intervene...
From the authors of the instant New York Times bestseller The Strain comes the next volume in one of the most imaginative and frightening thriller series in many, many years Last week they invaded Manhattan. This week they will destroy the world. The vampiric virus unleashed in The Strain has taken over New York City. It is spreading and soon will envelop the globe. Amid the chaos, Eph Goodweather-head of the Centers for Disease Control`s team-leads a band out to stop these bloodthirsty monsters. But it may be too late. Ignited by the Master`s horrific plan, a war erupts between Old and New World vampires, each vying for control. At the center of the conflict lies a book, an ancient text that contains the vampires` entire history and...
ISBN: 978-0-06-207794-3
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep, beloved by millions of readers and acclaimed by critics. Now, Ken Follett takes readers on a new journey in Fall of Giants. This magnificent new historical epic, and the first novel in The Century Trilogy, traces the fortunes of five interrelated families-one American, one English, one Welsh, one Russian, and one German-as they are buffeted by the extraordinary events of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the women's suffrage movement.
ISBN: 978-0-451-23258-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: май 2011
This is an epic of love, hatred, war and revolution. This is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to President Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution. In a plot of unfolding drama and intriguing...
ISBN: 978-0-330-53544-1
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
