Four little words can ruin a life.When Jess meets five-year-old Daisy and her mum, Morag, in a local London park, they seem a perfectly happy and loving pair. Until Daisy whispers four little words that send ice seeping down Jess’s spine…She’s not my mum.Determined to save Daisy, Jess becomes obsessed with unearthing Morag’s secrets. As she digs ever deeper, her friends and family start to question her own increasingly paranoid behaviour…Four little words can end a life.But Jess knows what she heard and she’s certain the fear in Daisy’s eyes was real. Of course she isn’t imagining things… Or is she?Mummy’s Little Secret is a nerve-shredding new psychological thriller from the author of The Missing Children Case Files...
Already know how to develop Windows applications in C#? Then this book will turn you into a professional web programmer. The first 5 chapters present a quick-start course that works both for beginners and for experienced web developers who are new to ASP.NET. Then, the next 3 sections present (1) the skills you need for any web application in business, (2) the skills you need for database-driven web sites, and (3) the skills you need for eCommerce applications, like how to ensure security, how to use ASP.NET AJAX, how to deploy web applications, and how to take advantage of reusable code with WCF services.
No secret is too dark. No revelation too sick. But you must have the appetite for it. After forty years, twenty-eight ODs, three botched suicides, two heart attacks, a couple of jail stints, and a debilitating stroke, Steven Adler, the most self-destructive rock star ever, is ready to share the shattering untold truth in My Appetite for Destruction. When Adler was eleven years old he told his two closest friends he was going to be a rock star in the world`s greatest band. Along with four uniquely talented - but very complicated and demanding - musicians, Adler helped form Guns N` Roses. They rose from the streets - primal rockers who obliterated glam rock and its big hair to resurrect rock`s truer blues roots. They were relentless rock...
ISBN: 978-0-06-191712-7
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
English Adventure makes learning English a magical, memorable experience, by using the familiar fantastic world of Disney characters that children know and love.
ISBN: 978-0-582-77822-1
Издательство:
Longman
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In the Activity Book: * Activities and games reinforce the basic language presented in the main units * A wide range of activities appeal to a range of learning styles and enable vocabulary practice * Children can practise what they have learnt
ISBN: 978-0-582-79363-7
Издательство:
Pearson Education Limited
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In the Activity Book: * Activities and games reinforce the basic language presented in the main units * A wide range of activities appeal to a range of learning styles and enable vocabulary practice * Children can practise what they have learnt
ISBN: 978-0-582-79352-1
Издательство:
Pearson Education Limited
Дата выхода: июль 2011
An informative sticker book that helps young children learn about the fundamentals of geography, including a range of different habitats and the animals that live there, the weather system and how it works, and the basic geography of continents, land and water.
ISBN: 9781409597582
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2023
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was an American abolitionist and author. She is best known for her novel "Uncle Tom`s Cabin", which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. "My Wife and I" is lesser-known Stowe`s novel, where she emphasized the importance of the marriage decision for men as well as women. The main character is Harry Henderson, the youngest son of a New England minister, who recounts his experiences through childhood, college, and his early career as a journalist.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08305-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2019
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. This book is the first part of a "Mysteries and Adventures" series, containing author`s earliest fiction stories. The narratives revolve around different themes, such as romance, crime, colonial life, politics, and even supernatural.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07151-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. This book is the first part of a "Mysteries and Adventures" series, containing author`s earliest fiction stories. The narratives revolve around different themes, such as romance, crime, colonial life, politics, and even supernatural. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08053-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Enthralling children`s fiction for everyone who loves Robin Steven`s Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries and Frances Hardinge`s The Lie Tree.Twelve mysteries.Twelve authors.One challenge: can YOU solve the crimes before the heroes of the stories?These are twelve brand-new short stories from twelve of the best children`s crime writers writing today.These creepy, hilarious, brain-boggling, heart-pounding mysteries feature daring, brilliant young detectives, and this anthology is a must for fans of crime fiction and detection, especially the Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, The Roman Mysteries and The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow.The Crime Club are twelve UK-based authors who are mad about crime fiction. Clementine Beauvais, Elen...
ISBN: 9781405282642
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. This book is the second part of a "Mysteries and Adventures" series, containing author`s earliest fiction stories. The narratives revolve around different themes, such as romance, crime, colonial life, politics, and even supernatural. . .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08054-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Nada the Lily is the thrilling story of the brave Zulu warrior Umslopogaas and his love for the most beautiful of Zulu women, Nada the Lily. Young Umslopogaas, son of the bloodthirsty Zulu king Chaka, is forced to flee when Chaka orders his death. In the adventures that ensue, Umslopogaas is carried away by a lion and then rescued by Galazi, king of an army of ghost-wolves.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07735-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey where extraordinary things are happening under the cover of night. A spectacular popular and critical success, "The Name of the Rose" is not only a narrative of a murder investigation but an astonishing chronicle of the Middle Ages.
ISBN: 978-0-09-946603-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Widely thought of as the best book Terry Pratchett ever wrote, this is a story of a Nation, a story of a friendship, a story of growing up and the truths we must learn. It is epic in every sense . . .Prepare for the world to be turned upside down . . .For Mau, halfway between boy and man, it happens when a great wave destroys his entire village. For Daphne, it’s when the same wave crashes her ship into the island that was once Mau’s home. Everything they once had is now so far away, lost to distance and time.But when Daphne stops trying to shoot Mau (she did apologise for it), and instead uses a salvaged invitation card to invite him to tea, they discover a new home can be theirs.And then people start arriving on the island – some...
