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
For a Nebraska farmer, the turning point come when his wife threatens to sell off the family homestead. A cozy mystery writer plots a savage revenge after a brutal encounter with a stranger. Harry Streeter gets the chance to cure himself from illness - if he agrees to impose misery on an old rival. First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mix of eroticism and violence, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a true classic and established James M. Cain as a major novelist. And Darcy Anderson discovers a box containing her husband's dark and terrifying secrets - he's not the man who keeps his nails short and collects coins. And now he's heading
ISBN: 978-1-4447-1257-5
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 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
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
`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
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
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
The temperature is on "sizzle" again in Beaumont, South Carolina, and the peach trees are bursting into full bloom in this fifth book in the mega-bestselling Full series from the bestselling team of Evanovich and Hughes.
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.
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
When the moon is full at Blandings, strange things happen: among them the painting of a portrait of The Empress, twice in succession winner in the Fat Pigs Class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show. What better choice of artist, in Lord Emsworth`s opinion, than Landseer. The renowned painter of The Stag at Bay may have been dead for decades, but that doesn`t prevent Galahad Threepwood from introducing him to the castle - or rather introducing Bill Lister, Gally`s godson, so desperately in love with Prudence that he`s determined to enter Blandings in yet another imposture. Add a gaggle of fearsome aunts, uncles and millionaires, mix in Freddie Threepwood, Beach the Butler and the gardener McAllister, and the moon is full indeed....
ISBN: 978-0-09-951385-8
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
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
When a bomb devastates the office of London`s most unusual police unit and claims the life of its oldest detective, Arthur Bryant, his surviving partner John May searches for clues to the bomber`s identity. His search takes him back to the day the detectives first met as young men in 1940. In Blitz-ravaged London, a beautiful dancer rehearsing for a sexy, sinister production of `Orpheus In The Underworld` is found without her feet. Bryant & May`s investigation plunges them into a bizarre gothic mystery, where a faceless man stalks terrified actors and death strikes in darkness. Tracking their quarry through the blackout, searching for a murderer who`ll stop at nothing to be free of a nightmare, the duo unwittingly follow the same path...
ISBN: 978-0-553-81552-8
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: июль 2012
`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
This is a six-level series of readers for children learning English. Each title contains a factual section that introduces children to a variety of exciting topics. The concepts and structures learnt in the factual section are then reinforced by an enjoyable story based on the topic. The series provides reinforcement of basic structures and vocabulary and can be used alongside any primary course. Level 2
ISBN: 9780230469204
Издательство:
Macmillan
Дата выхода: январь 2019
