Didier van Cauwelaert Hors de moi «J`ai tout perdu, sauf la mémoire. Il m`a volé ma femme, mon travail et mon nom. Je suis le seul à savoir qu`il n`est pas moi: j`en suis la preuve vivante. Mais pour combien de temps? Et qui va me croire»? Un formidable suspense. Olivier Maison, Marianne. L`histoire fonctionne à merveille et dépasse les imaginations les plus débridées. Jérôme Béglé, Paris Match. Derrière le charme rythmé de l`écriture, l`implacable habileté de l`intrigue. Jusqu`à la fin, vous ne lâcherez pas ce polar scientifico-métaphysique. Nita Rousseau, Le Nouvel Observateur. Un thriller fascinant dont le rythme d`enfer tient le lecteur en...
ISBN: 978-2-253-11248-8
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: август 2011
Frédérique est professeur de collège. Elle vit avec son fils Quentin, séparée de son mari Jean-Pierre, qu`elle voit souvent, avec qui elle passe parfois des vacances. Ainsi les quelques jours de la Toussaint, à Trouville. Si on allait finir la soirée au casino? La roulette? Un jeu simple. Frédérique a trente-six ans. Elle joue pour la première fois le 36, perd, rejoue, gagne. Et rentre à Paris. Elle étudie, comme on prépare un concours, les différentes catégories de mises: plein, transversale, cheval, repart jouer. Par Passion? Allons donc. Ces vertiges lui vont mal. Son lot, c`est l`envie de les éprouver. Un jour pourtant, sans rien décider, elle...
ISBN: 978-2-07-038204-0
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: август 2011
Be it a racing horse or a cart horse, a charger or a pony - man`s history would have taken an altogether different course without the horse. In war and on the hunt, at work and at play: the horse has always been man`s faithful companion. Artists and writers too, have paid repeated tribute to the power, beauty and grace of this the most noble of all creatures. More than 300 works of art and countless quotations from world literature make up a striking portrait of a partnership that has survived down through time. From pre-historic cave paintings in France to the precise drawings by Leonardo de Vinci to the colourful oil paintings by Franz Marc. Издание на английском языке. Формат: 19 см х 13,5 см.
ISBN: 978-3-8228-5997-1
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
The horse is an icon of civilization. Man has long depended on the horse in farming, transportation, war, religion, and exploration, and as a consequence we have a wonderfully rich legacy of horses depicted in art. This spectacular book presents the horse in its many roles since its discovery and domestication until the present day. Distinguished author John Baskett begins with the horse in ancient civilizations, including masterpieces from Asia, and then discusses the horse in the Middle Ages, in which the animal was bred for warfare and agriculture and is represented in such scenes as the Bayeaux Tapestry. Renaissance artists, whose interest in horses was as great as that for the human form, are then discussed, evidence of which is...
Contemporary / British English One winter`s morning in New York State, there is an accident on an icy mountain road. Thirteen-year-old Grace and her much-loved horse, Pilgrim, are very badly hurt. Grace`s mother beleives her daughter will only recover if her horse can be saved. Can Pilgrim be nursed back to health? Can the Horse Whisperer work his magic?
ISBN: 978-1-4082-0955-4
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: август 2011
One of Usborne`s most enduring and well-known series has been given an exciting new look. Each guide has been completely updated and has a striking new cover. These guides are perfect companions for enthusiasts, who are keen to discover the many fascinating aspects of the natural world. They offer full-colour illustrations of around 100-200 different species per title, which have been reproduced from the original artwork using the latest technology. They are an ideal field guides for both children and adults and incredible value for money.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-7359-9
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
In the still of a snow-covered morning in upstate New York, a girl out riding her horse is hit by a 40-ton truck. Though horribly injured, both thirteen-year-old Grace Maclean and her horse Pilgrim survive. But the impact on their lives is devastating. Grace is the only child of prominent New York magazine editor, Annie Graves, and her lawyer husband Robert. In a way that none of them at first understands, their destiny comes to depend on Pilgrim`s. So mutilated and traumatised is he that even the vet who saved him wishes he hadn`t. Annie refuses to have him put down, sensing that if she does, something in Grace will die too. Then Annie hears about a man called Tom Booker, a `whisperer` who is said to have the gift of healing troubled...
ISBN: 978-0-7515-3936-3
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2012
His name is Tom Booker. His voice can calm wild horses, his touch can heal broken spirits. And Annie Graves has traveled across a continent to the Booker ranch in Montana, desperate to heal her injured daughter, the girl s savage horse, and her own wounded heart. She comes for hope. She comes for her child. And beneath the wide Montana sky, she comes to him for what no one else can give her--a reason to believe. National ads/media.
ISBN: 9780440222651
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: октябрь 1996
Horton the Elephant is BIG, big-hearted, and one of Dr. Seuss`s most beloved creations! Join him in this collection of adventures and cheer for Horton as he saves the Whos, hatches the egg, and brings that special Horton kindness to everyone he meets.Horton Hears a Who!Horton Hatches the Egg.Horton and the Kwuggerbug.The perfect book for reading aloud with young children, or for more confident readers to tackle on their own.
Everyone laughs when Horton the Elephant offers to sit on Mayzie bird`s egg while she goes on holiday. Horton`s kindness and faithfulness are sorely tested when he, and the egg, are kidnapped and sold to a circus - but his reward for being faithful is more wonderful than he could ever have dreamed! With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr Suess has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranked among the UK`s top ten favourite children`s authors, Dr. Seuss is a global best-seller, with nearly half a billion books sold worldwide. As part of a major rebrand programme, HarperCollins is relaunching...
ISBN: 978-0-00-717519-2
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Horton the kindly elephant has his work cut out saving the tiny Whos who live on a speck of dust - no one else believes they are there! But Horton eventually convinces everyone that `A person`s a person, no matter how small`! With a special jacket to tie-in with the brand new animated movie from 20th Century Fox. With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranked among the UK`s top ten favourite children`s authors, Dr. Seuss is a global best-seller, with nearly half a billion books sold worldwide. To celebrate 20th Century Fox`s brand new animated...
ISBN: 978-0-00-717520-8
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Horton the elephant babysits an egg in this classic tale of kindness from Dr. Seuss. Everyone laughs when Horton the Elephant offers to sit on Mayzie bird`s egg while she goes on holiday. Horton`s kindness and faithfulness are sorely tested when he, and the egg, are kidnapped and sold to a circus - but his reward for being faithful is more wonderful than he could ever have dreamed! With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranking among the UK`s top ten favourite children`s authors, Seuss is firmly established as a global best-seller, with...
Distraught at the judgement of the Emperor, the Word Bearers cast their fury and fervour onto the battlefield. All the while they explore the old ways of Colchis, seeking their own path - one that can only lead to damnation and heresy?
ISBN: 978-1-84416-885-9
Издательство:
Ред Фиш
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
After the betrayal at Isstvan, Horus begins his campaign against the Emperor, a galaxy-wide war that can lead only to Terra. But the road to the final confrontation between father and son is a long one - seven years filled with secrecy and silence, plans and foundations being formed across distant stars. An unknown history is about to be unveiled as light is shed on the darkest years of the Horus Heresy, and revelations will surface that will shake the Imperium to its very
A Great War is coming, and it will engulf the Imperium of Man. The Space Marines of the Alpha Legion, the last and most secretive of all the Astartes brotherhoods, arrive on a heathen world to support the Imperial Army in a pacification campaign against strange and uncanny forces. But what drives the Alpha Legion? Can they be trusted, and what side will they choose when the Great War begins? Loyalties are put to the test, and the cunning schemes of an alien intelligence revealed in this latest instalment of the ground-breaking SF series, as the fate of mankind hangs in the balance.
ISBN: 978-1-84416-536-0
Издательство:
Ред Фиш
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
After thousands of years of expansion and conquest, the human Imperium is at its height. His dream for humanity accomplished, the Emperor hands over the reins of power to his Warmaster, Horus. But is Horus strong enough to continue the Emperor s grand design? Original.
ISBN: 9781844162949
Издательство:
Ред Фиш
Дата выхода: апрель 2006
The start of a special two-part story. When the ill-fated primarch Magnus foresees the treachery of Warmaster Horus and warns the Emperor with the very powers he`s been forbidden to use, the Master of Mankind dispatches fellow primarch Leman Russ to attack Prospero itself.
ISBN: 978-1-84416-809-5
Издательство:
Ред Фиш
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Hospital Babylon is an in-depth, amusing and highly insightful expose of the extraordinary world of modern medicine. It will take the reader on a journey through the various departments and wards where babies are made, thighs are reduced, noses straightened and spare kidneys are flown in from the Indian subcontinent. We will meet doctors who sleep with nurses. Doctors who sleep with patients. Doctors who fiddle their insurance forms. Doctors who suck fat, pump up breasts, plump lips and lengthen penises. The doctor who specialises in flatulence. The doctor who shoots up before he operates. Doctor Feelgood who will give you anything and everything you need. As well as the doctor who makes a fortune doing buttock enlargements in the...
ISBN: 978-0-552-16285-2
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
In this tantalizing SF thriller, planet-hopping parasites are inserting their silvery centipede selves into human brains, curing cancer, eliminating war and turning Earth into paradise. But some people want Earth back, warts and all, especially Melanie Stryder, who refuses to surrender, even after being captured in Chicago and becoming a host for a soul called Wanderer. Melanie uses her surviving brain cells to persuade Wanderer to help search for her loved ones in the Arizona desert. When the pair find Melanie`s brother and her boyfriend in a hidden rebel cell led by her uncle, Wanderer is at first hated. Once the rebels accept Wanderer, whom they dub Wanda, Wanda`s whole perspective on humanity changes. While the straightforward...
ISBN: 978-0-316-05642-7
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: июль 2011
