In a London squat, a band of bourgeois revolutionaries unite in their loathing for the waste and cruelty they see in the world around them. But soon they become involved in terrorist activities far beyond their level of competence. Only Alice, motherly, practical and determined, seems capable of organising anything. She likes to be on the battlefront: picketing, being bound over and spray-painting slogans. But her enthusiasm is also easy to exploit and she soon becomes ideal fodder for the group`s more dangerous and potent cause. When their naive radical. fantasies turn into a chaos of real destruction, they realise that their lives will never be the same again. Формат: 13 см x 20 cм.
ISBN: 978-0-00-724721-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
From the glittering ballrooms of Manhattan to the fires of World War I, Danielle Steel takes us on an unforgettable journey in her new novel-a spellbinding tale of war, loss, history, and one woman`s unbreakable Filled with breathtaking images and historical detail, Danielle Steel`s new novel introduces one of her most unique and fascinating characters: Annabelle Worthington, a remarkable woman, a good woman, a true survivor who triumphs against overwhelming odds. For Annabelle`s story is more than compelling fiction, it is a powerful celebration of life, dignity, and courage-and a testament to the human will to survive.
ISBN: 978-0-440-24330-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
Ben Grant is fed up with always meeting the wrong girl. Having just celebrated his 30th birthday by being dumped by his 30th girlfriend, he decides he can`t go on like this. Why can`t he be as blissfully happy as his best friend Ashif, about to marry the beautiful Prithi, a bride chosen for him by his parents? Suddenly Ben has a great idea: why not ask his own parents to do the same for him? But while Ben`s parents see this as the perfect opportunity to set their son on the right path to matrimonial bliss, it soon becomes clear that Ben`s idea of the kind of woman he wants to settle down with is quite different from that of his somewhat traditional mum and dad. Following a series of disastrous dates, Ben starts to realize that he...
ISBN: 978-1-84739-523-8
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Using the credit card and identity of a handcuff salesman, professional failure Tyndale Corbett arrives in Miami for a law enforcement conference to discover the joys of luxury hotels and above all the delight of being someone else, someone successful. Feeling his previous lack of success might be due to insufficient ambition, Tyndale decides on a new money-making scheme. He will up the ante substantially and exponentially, and pretend to be someone really important and successful—God. His mission to convince the citizenry of Miami that he is, despite appearances, the Supreme Being, results in him taking over the Church of the Heavily Armed Christ. His duties there involve him in forming a private army, hiring call girls, trafficking...
Cannie Shapiro never wanted to be famous. The smart, sharp, plus-sized reporter was perfectly happy writing about other people`s lives for her local newspaper. And for the past twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her job, her friends, her dog and her life. She loves her apartment and her commodious, quilt-lined bed. She has made a tenuous peace with her body and she even felt okay about ending her relationship with her boyfriend Bruce. But now `Loving a larger woman is an act of courage in our world`, Bruce has written in a national woman`s magazine. And Cannie - who never knew...
ISBN: 978-1-84983-400-1
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: март 2011
Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. . .Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. . .Неадаптированное издание на английском языке. .
ISBN: 978-5-519-02434-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Another misadventure by everyone s favorite literal-minded maid finds Amelia Bedelia in charge of the house when Mr. and Mrs. Rogers go out for the day and leave her with a list of chores.
ISBN: 9780060511159
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2003
As winter turns to spring across Botswana`s red earth and slow green rivers, all is not well on Zebra Drive. Mma Ramotswe has plenty of work, ranging from thefts at the printing works to suspicious deaths at the Mochudi hospital. Meanwhile Mma Makutsi`s forthcoming marriage appears to threaten a happy working relationship. But when Mr - trying to prove himself a worthy husband - has a go at a little detective work, disaster Witty and wise, the latest instalment in the lives of McCall Smith`s extended Botswana family teaches the importance of trust, love and what really makes a good husband.
ISBN: 978-0-349-11773-7
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Mr Matekoni becomes involved in the agency`s work when he investigates an errant husband. But can a man investigate such matters as competently as one of the ladies? Mma Ramotswe has her doubts. One thing, though, that she does not doubt is the good nature of Mr Matekoni, who stands for all that is solid and true in a shifting world.
Set in the wild, seamy and extremely strange America of the nineteenth century: a historical novel so richly involving and so touching that you never want it to end. Young Ren is missing his parents and a hand and doesn’t know what happened to any of them. So he is beginning to fear that he will never be claimed from his cold New England orphanage: that his dream of a family – of a life – will come to nothing. But one day a glamorous stranger arrives at the orphanage. To Ren’s astonishment, the charming Benjamin Nab says he is his brother, come to bring him home. And even when his stories grow more and more extraordinary, when he puts Ren’s life in danger again and again and sets him first to theft and then to grave-robbing,...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-5004-9
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: август 2011
The Good Soldier is a masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction, an inspiration for many later, distinguished writers, including Graham Greene. Set before the First World War, it tells the tale of two wealthy and sophisticated couples, one English, one American, as they travel, socialise, and take the waters in the spa towns of Europe. They are `playing the game` in style. That game has begun to unravel, however, and with compelling attention to the comic, as well as the tragic, results the American narrator reveals his growing awareness of the sexual intrigues and emotional betrayals that lie behind its facade.
ISBN: 978-1-84022-653-9
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Taking a cynical look at the horror genre, this book features Crowley and Aziraphale, two friends who attempt to prevent the prophesised Armageddon. When the Antichrist is born they divert him from his original home at the American Embassy to Tadfield, were he grows into an unkempt individual. Формат: 10,5 см х 18 см.
ISBN: 0-552-13703-0
Издательство:
Corgi Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
This is the second story about the March family. Three years on from "Little Women", the March girls and their friend Laurie are young adults with their futures ahead of them. Although they all face painful trials along the way - from Meg`s sad lesson in housekeeping to Laurie`s disappointment in love and a tragedy which touches them all - each of the girls finally finds happiness, if not always in the way they expect. Retold by Anne Collins.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7230-4
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: август 2011
It`s a tough life for witch Rachel Morgan, sexy, independent bounty hunter, prowling the darkest shadows of downtown Cincinnati for criminal creatures of the night. She can handle the leather-clad vamps and even tangle with a cunning demon or two. But a serial killer who feeds on the experts in the most dangerous kind of black magic is definitely pressing the limits. Confronting an ancient, implacable evil is more than just child`s play - and this time, Rachel will be lucky to escape with her very soul.
Robert Graves`s marvellously candid self-portrait of his childhood and his experiences as a young officer in the First World War. Graves entered the war in 1914 and he describes in vivid, raw detail life in the trenches. The dehumanizing horrors he witnessed left him shell-shocked and haunted him throughout his long life. In "Goodbye to All That" he also gives a fascinating portrayal of his unhappy school days at Charterhouse, of his encounters with fellow writers and poets, and of his increasingly embittered marriage to Nancy Nicholson, before he finally went abroad in 1929, vowing `never to make England my home again`.
ISBN: 978-0-14-027420-2
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Nick Lortz is sitting outside a cafe in Whistler, a village in the Canadian mountains, when a stranger comes and sits next to him. She`s young, pretty, and has a beautiful smile. Nick is happy to sit and talk with her. But why does she call Nick `Mr Hollywood`? Why does she give him a big kiss when she leaves? And who is the man at the next table - the man with short white hair? Nick learns the answers to these questions three long days later - in a police station on Vancouver Island.
ISBN: 978-0-194-78905-9
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июнь 2011
