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.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-6235-6
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Special Agent Faith Mitchell returns home to a nightmare. Her baby daughter Emma has been locked outside, and there`s a trail of blood to the front door. Without waiting for back-up, Faith enters the house. Inside a man lies dead in a pool of blood. Most worrying of all, her mother is missing. When the Atlanta police arrive, Faith has some difficult questions to answer. But she has some desperate questions of her own. What were the killers searching for? And where is her mother? Suspended from duty, Faith turns to her work partner, Will Trent. Together he and Sara Linton must piece together the fragments of a brutal and complicated case, and catch a vicious murderer with only one thing on his mind. To keep on killing until the truth is...
ISBN: 978-0-09-955027-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Instant. Intense. Weirdly The moment Luce looks at Daniel she knows she has never felt like this before. Except she can`t shake the feeling that she has ... and with him - a boy she doesn`t remember evejfoetting eyes on. Will her attempt to find out why enlighten her - or destroy her?
ISBN: 978-0-552-56173-0
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
New Orleans, 1840s. Sent to watch over the decadent city, the angel Gabriel loses himself in the liquid pleasure of absinthe. So when his mistress, Anne, is murdered — and all evidence points to him — a foggy Gabriel cannot be sure he didn’t do it. His penance: to be forever denied love. Then in modern-day New Orleans he meets forensic scientist Sara
ISBN: 978-0-515-14462-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The First Inspector Felse Mystery. A deadly loss of innocence... All the school boys of Comerford look up to Chad Wedderburn, a classics master who was a hero of the Resistance in World War II. But they are puzzled by his unwavering stand against all violence. And when he is blamed for the brutal murder of a former German prisoner of war who settled in this remote Shropshire town, none of them believe he did it. Policeman George Felse is also deeply troubled by this killing. His son Dominic discovered the body, and now the boy is doggedly pursuing clues in the isolated countryside to clear his teacher. As young Felse digs deeper, his father feels a mounting pressure. For Inspector Felse knows all too well that Dominic is playing with...
ISBN: 0-446-40318-0
Издательство:
Mysterious Press
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
The Reign of Terror has washed the streets of France blood-red. And in England a terrified aristocracy awaits the next blow. Secure in their wealth and power, the noble Lazenders remain safe from history`s violent storm behind the walls of their opulent "little kingdom". But theirs is a house under siege. With the family`s heir, Toby Lazender, away in revolution-torn France hunting the brutal murderers of the woman he loved, a secret cabal of powerful and dangerous assassins—the Fallen Angels—conspires to bring the chaos to England`s shores by seizing the vast resources of Lazen Castle. And only one obstacle stands in their way: Toby`s sister, Lady Campion Lazender. Caught in an ever-tightening net of conspiracy, Campion sees...
Contemporary / British English This book is the life story and family history of Adeline Yen Mah. Adeline was born in China at a time of great change and trouble. At the same time, she suffered terrible unkindness from the members of her own family. Falling Leaves is a story of pain and fear, but also of hope as Adeline fights for her independence.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8216-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
1901 was the year of Queen Victoria`s death. The two graves stood next to each other, both beautifully decorated. The two families visiting the cemetery to view their respective neighbouring graves were divided more by social class than by taste. They would certainly never have become acquainted had not their two girls become best friends.
ISBN: 978-0-00-721723-6
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Contemporary / British English This book is the life story and family history of Adeline Yen Mah. Adeline was born in China at a time of great change and trouble. At the same time, she suffered terrible unkindness from the members of her own family. Falling Leaves is a story of pain and fear, but also of hope as Adeline fights for her independence. Penguin Readers are written by specialist ELT authors. The language, vocabulary, style and content of every book is carefully graded to make sure it suits the learner`s own language ability. Every Penguin Reader has a range of activities in the book and accompanying Factsheet to help increase comprehension and develop reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-9430-7
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
Maddy Harvey was a bit of an ugly duckling as a teenager, what with her N.H.S. specs, unfortunate hair and wonky teeth. Thankfully she`s blossomed since then. But when she meets Kerr McKinnon one starry summer`s night and discovers, days later, who he actually is... well, that`s when the problems really start. Because everyone in Ashcombe knows what happened eleven years ago, and as far as her mother`s concerned, Marcella would rather tear that family to pieces with her bare hands than see Maddy associate with a McKinnon. It`s Romeo and Juliet all over again. Quick, hide those sharp knives and that little bottle of poison...
ISBN: 0-7553-0485-3
Издательство:
Hodder
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
A magnificent, essential work of fiction about the event that defines turn-of-the-twenty-first-century America, from the award-winning author of White Noise, Libra and Underworld. FALLING MAN begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and follows the aftermath in the intimate lives of a few individuals. First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he`d always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his estranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes. This is the inner seam of history, a novel that traces the way the events of September 11 reconfigured our emotional...
ISBN: 978-0-330-52491-9
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: июль 2012
When the privileged daughter of a merchant banker disappears, a search through her e-mails uncovers her secret life-and a bizarre correspondence with an on-line game player who delights in macabre puzzles. The first game was for the girl. The next one is for Inspector John Rebus, a man haunted by the impenetrable riddles of his own troubled past. But the lead is soon complicated by an unexpected twist. A hand-carved wooden doll in an eight-inch coffin is found on the grounds of the victim`s home-a clue that links her vanishing to the deaths of four other women, and to a centuries-old offense that still scars the grisly history of Edinburgh. From the shadowy world of an Internet stalker to the quicksand of lies in the missing girl`s...
ISBN: 978-0-312-98240-9
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
On the heels of his critically acclaimed New York Times bestsellers "Fear Nothing" and "Seize the Night", "America`s most popular suspense novelist" will stun readers with a deeply sinister and endlessly surprising tale of a rare and terrifying phobia: autophobia— fear of oneself. Martie Rhodes is a young wife (happily married to Dustin for three years), a video game designer, and a compassionate woman who takes her agoraphobic friend Carol to therapy sessions. Carol is so afraid of leaving her apartment that the trips are grim ordeals for both women—but bonding experiences as well. Then one morning Martie experiences a sudden fear of her own, a brief but disquieting terror shadow. The episode it over quickly. It leaves her shaken...
