Modern, original fiction for learners of English. A collection of stories that offer eight slices of life in England today. The themes covered include British eating habits, the media, inner-city problems, immigration, football hooliganism, student life, leisure activities and the countryside. Well-observed, lively and amusing, these stories provide a fascinating picture of the country at the start of a new century.
ISBN: 0-521-75078-4
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: январь 2004
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student\`s ability. A collection of stories that offer eight slices of life in England today. The themes covered include British eating habits, the media, inner-city problems, immigration, football hooliganism, student life, leisure activities and the countryside. Well-observed, lively and amusing, these stories provide a fascinating picture of the country at the start of a new century. Contains a paperback and 3 Audio CDs with complete text recordings from the book.
ISBN: 978-0-521-68647-1
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: январь 2011
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. A collection of stories that offer eight slices of life in England today. The themes covered include British eating habits, the media, inner-city problems, immigration, football hooliganism, student life, leisure activities and the countryside. Well-observed, lively and amusing, these stories provide a fascinating picture of the country at the start of a new century.
ISBN: 9780521750783
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: январь 2023
Hot on the heels of Richard Castle`s #1 New York Times bestseller Heat Rises comes the fourth novel in the Nikki Heat series, Frozen Heat. Nikki Heat and Jameson Rook are together again, facing an unsolved murder mystery that has haunted Nikki for ten years. NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat arrives at her latest crime scene to find an unidentified woman stabbed to death and stuffed inside a suitcase left on a Manhattan street. Nikki is in for a big shock when this new homicide connects to the unsolved murder of her own mother. Paired once again with her romantic and investigative partner, top journalist Jameson Rook, Heat works to solve the mystery of the body in the suitcase while she is forced to confront unexplored areas of her...
When 24-year old Henri Cartier-Bresson acquired a Leica camera in 1932, his casual interest in photography turned into passion. This volume explores the photographer’s early work documenting the poor and disenfranchised in Italy, Spain, Eastern Europe, and Mexico. Marked by tangible empathy and solidarity with the models, it is an original body of work to be rediscovered.
ISBN: 978-3-8296-0338-6
Издательство:
Schirmer/Mosel
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. Five entertaining stories about the power of discovery set in countries across the globe. A perfume made from some very unusual ingredients becomes more effective than expected. A remarkable change in a woman`s life leaves her family to make a decision. The secret and danger of high intelligence are revealed to a university student. A teacher discovers a way of making time stand still. And a book tells a young manager more than he wants to know.
ISBN: 978-0-521-68611-2
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Spanning 1979-1987, "The Fry Chronicles" charts Stephen`s arrival at Cambridge up to his thirtieth birthday. "Heartbreaking, a delight, a lovely, comfy book". ("The Times")". "Perfect prose and excruciating honesty. A grand reminiscence of college and theatre and comedyland in the 1980s, with tone-perfect anecdotes and genuine readerly excitement. What Fry does, essentially, is tell us who he really is. Above all else, a thoughtful book.
ISBN: 978-0-14-103980-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lope de Vega fue uno de los poetas у dramaturgos mas importantes del Siglo de Oro espanol у, рог la extension de su obra, uno de los autores mas prolificos de la literatura universal. Fuenteovejuna es una obra de contenido social у reivindicativo. Presenta la rebelion del pueblo, unido ante la tirania у la injusticia expuestas crudamente a finales del siglo XV principios del XVI; la obra esta escrita en 1610 у se puede considerar de una gran valentia у de caracter pedagogico.
ISBN: 978-5-521-05991-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
An der Schwelle zwischen Leben und Tod findet Logan Thibault einen Glücksbringer: die Fotografie einer lächelnden, schönen Frau. Obwohl er sie noch nie zuvor gesehen hat, glaubt Thibault, dass sie den Schlüssel zu seinem Schicksal in Händen hält. Er sucht die geheimnisvolle Frau auf - und sein Leben nimmt eine so wunderbare wie dramatische Wendung.
Jakob Beer is seven years old when he is rescued from the muddy ruins of a buried village in Nazi-occupied Poland. Of his family, he is the only one who has survived. Under the guidance of the Greek geologist Athos, Jakob must steel himself to excavate the horrors of his own history. A novel of astounding beauty and wisdom, Fugitive Pieces is a profound meditation on the resilience of the human spirit and love`s ability to resurrect even the most damaged of hearts.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-9925-8
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Want to know where Chuck Palahniuk`s tonsils currently reside? Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets? Curious about Chuck`s debut in an MTV music video? What goes on at the Scum Center? How do you get to the Apocalypse Caf-? In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and more as he takes you through the streets, sewers, and local haunts of Portland, Oregon. According to Katherine Dunn, author of the cult classic Geek Love, Portland is the home of America`s `fugitives and refugees.` Get to know these folks, the `most cracked of the crackpots`, as Palahniuk calls them, and come along with him on an adventure through the parts of Portland...
ISBN: 978-0-09-946467-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Le rideau se leve. Le public consterne apprend que la premiere etoile a disparu! Le commissaire Morand debrouillera les fils de cette intrigue, conduit par les notes obsedantes d’une fugue de Bach. Suivez pas a pas l’enquete et partez a la decouverte de Geneve, de la danse et des voitures de collection.
ISBN: 9788853001191
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Polo instructor Nicholas Kaharchek senses danger the minute he sees Billie Pearce. She represents everything he`s so artfully avoided. Happy in her home life, a divorced mother of two, Billie is the epitome of stability. They have nothing in common. To his horror, Nick is fascinated - and irresistibly attracted. When Billie generously offers to share her home with Nick`s crazy cousin Deedee for a while, Nick finds himself visiting - often. And while each is slowly seduced by the other`s charms, and both are wildly encouraged by devious Deedee, Billie and Nick find out that what they have in common is most important of all. But neither one knows that danger is lurking where they least expect it and a killer is closing in on them.
ISBN: 978-0-312-98327-7
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
`A husband, security, a home, children - what’s wrong with all that?` At eighteen years old, beautiful Tana Roberts found it hard to say. All she knew was that, for her, career came before marriage - even if that meant defying convention and the wishes of her fussing, over-protective mother. Throughout the turbulent Sixties, Tana followed her heart wherever it lead her, searching for fulfilment in her work as a highly successful lawyer, in friendships, and in fleeting affairs. Until one day, quite unexpectedly, she discovers a gaping void in her life that only true love could fill…
ISBN: 978-0-7515-0544-3
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
`I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger`, writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up `1922`, the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife Arlette proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness. In `Big Driver`, a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger is along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face to face with another stranger: the one inside...
ISBN: 978-1-4447-1256-8
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
Rosie moved out when she got married, but it didn`t work out, so now she is back with her parents. Helen is a teacher and doesn`t earn enough for a place of her own. Anthony writes songs and is just waiting for the day when someone will pay him for them. Until then, all three are happy at home. It doesn`t cost them anything, and surely their parents like having a full house? Then there is a crisis, and Dee decides things have to change for the whole whether they like it or not.
ISBN: 978-1-4091-3661-3
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: март 2012
Contemporary / British English Gaz and five others decide to form a strippers` group. none of the men have stripped before. Gaz must make sure the local women come to the show, so he tells them that the group will take their clothes off. Will these unlikely strippers dare to go for the `full monty`? The Full Monty is a very popular and funny British film!
ISBN: 978-1-4082-0957-8
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Dear Reader: Mercury`s in retrograde, and folks in Beaumont, South Carolina are dealing with gossip, scandal, misunderstandings, and more secrets than ever. Local pediatrician Maggie Farnsworth has even bigger worries. Her wild-girl past has caught up with her in the form of her ex-boyfriend, a jailbird who just flew the coop--and is bent on tracking down Maggie and her daughter. Fortunately, FBI agent Zack Madden is on hand for protection. Unfortunately, his presence is turning up the heat on an attraction Maggie simply has no time does she? But Maggie and Zack aren`t the only ones getting busy: Fleas, the hound dog, is up to his old tricks - this time with Butterbean, a very Jamie Swift and millionaire Max Holt have babies on the...
ISBN: 978-0-312-93431-6
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Following on the heels of his stunning #1 bestseller "Under the Dome", Stephen King delivers a new collection of four original never-before-published stories, all linked by the common theme of retribution.
Welcome to the world of Jamie Swift and Max Holt! My good friend Charlotte Hughes and I have teamed up to create a series of books featuring these two characters and they`ve taken on a life of their own! These books are not set in the same world as my Stephanie Plum novels, but what they have in common is lovable, dysfunctional characters, villains you love to hate, and a cross-eyed way of looking at life. Jamie and Max have intense chemistry-even though they drive each other crazy. Max thinks Jamie is a magnet for trouble and Jamie thinks Max is the most annoyingly sexy, mysterious man she`s ever met. She knows she should stay away from him. But boy, oh boy, do the sparks fly when they get together. Jamie is a newspaper owner from a...
ISBN: 978-0-312-98329-1
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
I believe there is another man inside every man, a ` writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up `1922`, the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife Arlette proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness. In `Big Driver`, a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger is along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face to face with another stranger: the one inside herself....
ISBN: 978-1-4447-1255-1
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
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