Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of his private correspondence, the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway. When that first book of letters appeared in 1997, Time pronounced it "deliriously entertaining"; Rolling Stone called it "brilliant beyond description"; and The New York Times celebrated its "wicked humor and bracing political conviction". Spanning the years between 1968 and 1976, these never-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend: running for sheriff in Aspen, Colorado; creating the seminal road book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; twisting political reporting to new heights for Rolling Stone; and making sense of it all in the...
The worst day of Tim Blake`s life started out with him making breakfast for his seventeen-year-old daughter Sydney. Syd was staying with him while she worked a summer job - even if he wasn`t entirely sure what her job at the Just Inn Time motel actually was - and Tim hoped this quality father-daughter time would somehow help her deal with his divorce. When she didn`t arrive home at her usual time, he thought she`d probably gone to the mall to hang with her friends. When she didn`t answer her phone he began to worry. When she didn`t come home at all, he began to panic. And when the people at the Just Inn Time said they had no Sydney Blake working at the motel and never had, he began to see his life going into freefall. If she hadn`t been...
ISBN: 978-0-7528-8335-9
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
In the fourteenth book in the series, the stakes are raised even higher as Stephanie Plum finds herself in her most dangerous, hilarious, hottest, chase yet. With her loveably offbeat family along for the ride (as well as a few new faces), it`s clear to see why the Plum novels are called «Hot Stuff» by the New York Times and why Evanovich herself is called «the master.» --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
ISBN: 978-0-7553-3763-7
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The Crime: Armed robbery to the tune of nine million dollars. Dom Rizzi robbed a bank, stashed the money, and did the time. His family couldn’t be more proud. He always was the smart one. The Cousin: Joe Morelli. Morelli is Dom’s cousin. He’s also a cop. Less than a week after Dom’s release from prison, Morelli has shadowy figures breaking into his house and dying in his basement. Meanwhile, Dom has gone missing… The Catastrophe: Moonman. Morelli hires Walter “Mooner” Dunphy, stoner and “inventor” turned crime fighter, to protect his house. Morelli is low on cash. Mooner will work for potatoes. The Cupcake: Stephanie Plum. Stephanie and Morelli have a long-standing relationship that involves sex, affection, and driving...
Science with the squishy bits left in. "The Fearsome Fight for Flight" will send you sky-high. Are you in a flap to discover who put a parachute on a puppy? Why scientists fire dead birds from cannon? What happened to the world`s first flying sheep? If you think you can stomach the sick side of Science, then read on as we go plane crazy. Laugh at some seriously silly flying stunts, find out which scientist was blown up in a balloon, and learn how to build a world-beating plane. With fantastic fact files, quirky quizzes and crazy cartoons, "The Fearsome Fight for Flight" is a real high-flier. Science has never been so horrible.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1027-1
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Think Amelie is scary? Meet her dad, the terrifying vampire Mr. Bishop. What does he want - and what will Amelie do about it? Claire`s caught in the middle, along with her friends and even her parents, as Morganville`s fragile alliance between humans and vampires starts to fracture. Soon, everyone will have to choose a companion for the Feast of a side.
ISBN: 978-0-451-22463-7
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
In the days before the Civil War, there lived a Louisiana people unique in Southern history. For though they were descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who had enslaved them. They were the gens de couleur libres-the Free People of Color-and in this dazzling historical novel, Anne Rice chronicles the lives of four of their number, men and women caught perilously between the worlds of master and slave, privilege and oppression, passion and
ISBN: 978-0-345-33453-4
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy-king Tommen. The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burned itself out, but in its bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life. The Martells of Dome and the Starks of Winterfell seek vengeance for their dead. Euron Crow`s Eye, as black a pirate as ever raised a sail, returns from the smoking ruins of Valyria to claim the Iron Isles. From the icy north, where Others threaten the Wall, apprentice Maester Samwell Tarly brings a mysterious babe in arms to the Citadel. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory will go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel and the coldest hearts.
Feder, widowed after a short marriage of love, moved to Paris, desperate to conquer the world and make a fortune. Seduced by his melancholy and his ambition, the beautiful Rosalind, famous dancer, becomes his mistress and run it as a fashionable painter. Success is not long. One day a rich provincial Feder asked to portray Valentine, his young wife ... Great painter of the human soul and the passions that animate it, Stendhal, in this short novel is reminiscent of the finest pages of his masterpiece The Red and the Black.
ISBN: 978-2-07-030820-0
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: август 2011
"Si les vieilles dames se mettent a buter les jeunots, si les doyens du troisieme age se shootent comme des collegiens, si les commis-saires divisionnaires enseignent le vol a la tire a leurs petits-enfants, et si on pretend que tout ca c`est ma faute, moi, je pose la question : ou va-t-on ?" Ainsi s`interroge Benjamin Malaussene, bouc emissaire professionnel, pave pour endosser nos erreurs a tous, frere de famille elevant les innombrables enfants de sa mere, cceur extensible abritant chez lui les vieillards les plus drogues de la capitale, amant fidele, ami in-faillible, maitre affectueux d`un chien epilep-tique, Benjamin Malaussene, l`innocence meme (" l`innocence m`aime ") et pourtant, le coupable ideal pour tous les flics de la...
ISBN: 978-2-07-040370-7
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: май 2012
Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time ... Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones ... And Bascule the Teller, in search of an ant, is about to enter the chaos of the crypt ... And everything is about to change ... For this is the time of the encroachment and, although the dimming sun still shines on the vast, towering walls of Serehfa Fastness, the end is close at hand. The King knows it, his closest advisers know it, yet sill they prosecute the war against the clan Engineers with increasing savagery. The crypt knows it too; so an emissary has been sent, an emissary who holds the key to all their futures.
ISBN: 978-1-85723-273-8
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
There`s a werewolf with pre-lunar tension in Ankh-Morpork. And a dwarf with attitude and a golem who`s begun to think for itself.But for Commander Vimes, Head of Ankh-Morpork City Watch, that`s only the start . . .There`s treason in the air. A crime has happened.He`s not only got to find out whodunit, but howdunit too. He`s not even sure what they dun. But soon as he knows what the questions are, he`s going to want some answers.
