Not so very long ago, Eragon - Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider - was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now, the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders. The Rider and his dragon have come farther than anyone dared to imagine. But can they topple the evil king, Galbatorix, and restore justice to Alagaesia? And if so, at what cost?
A classic collection of stories featuring some of the funniest episodes in the life of Bertie Wooster, gentleman, and Jeeves, his gentleman`s gentleman - in which Bertie`s terrifying Aunt Agatha stalks the pages, seeking whom she may devour, while Bertie`s friend Bingo Little falls in love with seven different girls in succession (he marries the last, the bestselling romantic novelist Rosie M. Banks). And Bertie, with Jeeves`s help, just evades the clutches of the terrifying Honoria At its heart is one of Wodehouse`s most delicious stories, `The Great Sermon Handicap`. Формат: 13 см x 19,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-09-951368-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
With its main focus on reading and writing, Initiative is appropriate for groups of adults/young adults who prefer a more serious approach to language, perhaps as part of their academic studies. The course emphasises vocabulary work and grammar exercises in order to ensure success in written assignments.
ISBN: 978-0-521-57582-9
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
La celebre methode Intitial a ete entierement revue afin de prendre en consideration le passage a l`euro ! Le cahier d`exercices propose pour chaque unite des activite complementaires correspondant au livre de l`eleve pour etre bien introduit au francais. Le cahier d`exercices de Initial 1 propose pour chaque lecon des activites portant sur le vocabulaire, la grammaire, la comprehension ecrite, la phonetique, la graphie, la comprehension orale et la production ecrite. Les exercices sont concus a l`image de l`ouvrage, puisqu`ils introduisent les notions de maniere tres progressive. Les consignes sont claires et securisantes et l`on guide l`eleve en lui demandant de reproduire les modeles introduits pour chacun des exercices. Afin de...
ISBN: 2-090-33459-2
Издательство:
CLE International
Дата выхода: март 2012
Unbeknownst to mortals, a power struggle is unfolding in a world of shadows and danger. After centuries of stability, the balance among the Faery Courts has altered, and Irial, ruler of the Dark Court, is battling to hold his rebellious and newly vulnerable fey together. If he fails, bloodshed and brutality will follow. Seventeen-year-old Leslie knows nothing of faeries or their intrigues. When she is attracted to an eerily beautiful tattoo of eyes and wings, all she knows is that she has to have it, convinced it is a tangible symbol of changes she desperately craves for her own life. The tattoo does bring changes—not the kind Leslie has dreamed of, but sinister, compelling changes that are more than symbolic. Those changes will bind...
ISBN: 978-0-00-726717-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Life in the Inkworld has been far from easy since the extraordinary events of Inkspell, when the story of Inkheart magically drew Meggie, Mo and Dustfinger back into its pages. With Dustfinger dead, and the evil Adderhead now in control, the story in which they are all caught has taken an unhappy turn. Even Elinor, left alone in the real world, believes her family to be lost - lost between the covers of a book. But as winter comes on there is reason to hope - if only Meggie and Mo can rewrite the wrongs of the past and make a dangerous pact with death.
ISBN: 978-1-905294-84-8
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Months have passed since Dustfinger sacrificed his life for his apprentice Farid`s, and Meggie read the oily Orpheus into the Inkworld with the faint hope he could bring back the fire-eater. Now, under the rule of the evil Adderhead, the fairy tale land is in bloody choas, its characters dar beyond the control of Fenoglio, their author. Facing the threat of eternal winter, Mo inks a dangerous deal with Death itself. One chance remains to change the cursed
Ever since the extraordinary events of Inkspell, when the story of Inkheart magically drew Meggie, Mo and Dustfinger back into its pages, life in the Inkworld has been far from easy. With Dustfinger dead, and the evil Adderhead now in control, the story in which they are all caught has taken an unhappy turn. Even Elinor, left alone in the real world, believes her family to be lost - lost between the covers of a book. As winter turns to spring, there is reason to hope - but only if Meggie and her father, and their loyal band of followers, are ready to make a dangerous deal with death.
The Adderhead - his immortality bound in a book by Meggie`s father, Mo - has ordered his henchmen to plunder the villages. The peasants` only defense is a band of outlaws led by the Bluejay - Mo`s fictitious double, whose identity he has reluctantly adopted. But the Book of Immortality is unraveling, and the Adderhead again fears the White Women of Death. To bring the renegade Bluejay back to repair the book, the Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, dooming them to slavery in his silver mines unless Mo surrenders. First Dustfinger, now Mo: Can anyone save this cursed story? 6. INKSPELL, Book Sense Book of the Year, has spent more than 40 weeks of the NYT list. 7. INKHEART movie, starring Paul Bettany, Brendan Fraser, and...
One cruel night, Meggie`s father, Mo, reads aloud from INKHEART, and an evil ruler named Capricorn escapes the boundaries of fiction, landing instead in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie`s in the middle of the kind of adventure she thought only took place in fairy tales. Somehow she must master the magic that has conjured up this nightmare. Can she change the course of the story that has changed her life forever? the story seems to have been sprinkled with some magical fairy dust.
ISBN: 978-0-545-04626-8
Издательство:
Scholastic Inc
Дата выхода: июль 2011
MEGGIE LOVES STORIES, BUT HER FATHER, MO, HASN`T READ ALOUD TO HER SINCE HER MOTHER MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARED. WHEN A STRANGER KNOCKS AT THEIR DOOR, MO IS FORCED TO REVEAL AN EXTRAORDINARY SECRET - WHEN HE READS ALOUD, WORDS COME ALIVE, AND DANGEROUS CHARACTERS STEP OUT OF THE PAGES. SUDDENLY, MEGGIE IS LIVING THE KIND OF ADVENTURE SHE HAS ONLY READ ABOUT IN BOOKS, BUT THIS ONE WILL CHANGE HER LIFE FOR EVER. FROM CORNELIA FUNKE - THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING CHILDREN`S AUTHOR OF THE THIEF LORD AND DRAGON RIDER - COMES INKHEART, A STORY WITHIN A STORY, WHERE THE IMAGINARY BECOMES REAL. READING HAS NEVER BEEN SO EXCITING OR SO DANGEROUS.
ISBN: 978-1-905294-77-0
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
One cruel night, as Meggie`s father reads a book called Inkheart aloud, an evil ruler named Capricorn escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, the two are plunged into the kind of adventure Meggie has only encountered in fiction, and they must somehow learn to harness the magic they were reading about to change the course of the story - before it ruins their lives forever.
Meggie can`t stop thinking about Inkheart, the book whose characters came to life. Neither can Dustfinger, the fire-eater who was written into being. Dustfinger finds an unscrupulous storyteller to transport him back into the book - with devastating results. When his apprentice Farid and Meggie follow, the story threatens to unfold in ways they could scarcely imagine.
ISBN: 978-0-439-55401-5
Издательство:
Scholastic Inc
Дата выхода: март 2012
Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of the extraordinary events of Inkheart, and the story whose characters strode out of the pages, and changed her life forever. But, for Dustfinger, the fire-eater, torn from his world of words, the need to return has become desperate.
Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of INKHEART, the book whose characters became real. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to return to the tale has become desperate. When he finds a crooked storyteller with the ability to read him back, Dustfinger leaves behind his young apprentice Farid and plunges into the medieval world of his past. Distraught, Farid goes in search of Meggie, and before long, both are caught inside the book, too. But the story is threatening to evolve in ways neither of them could ever have imagined.
Alison Weir, our pre-eminent popular historian, has now fulfilled a life`s ambition to write historical fiction. She has chosen as her subject the bravest, most sympathetic and wronged heroine of Tudor England, Lady Jane Grey. Lady Jane Grey was born into times of extreme danger. Child of a scheming father and a ruthless mother, for whom she was merely a pawn in a dynastic power game with the highest stakes, she lived a life in thrall to political machinations and lethal religious fervour. Jane`s astonishing and essentially tragic story was played out during one of the most momentous periods of English history. As a great-niece of Henry VIII, and the cousin of Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I, she grew up to realize that she could never...
ISBN: 978-0-09-949379-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
This book is John Grishams first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, in his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland As, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits - drinking, drugs and women. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept 20 hours a day on her sofa. In 1982, a 21 year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police...
The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life - and to lose his unwanted innocence. The promise of his new life begins to be fulfilled as Leonard becomes a crucial part of the surveillance team, while simultaneously being initiated into a new world of love and sex by Maria, a beautiful young German woman. It is a promise that turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening - a night when Leonard Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he`s...
ISBN: 978-0-09-927709-5
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The phenomenal series set in a future New York City returns as NYPSD Lt. Eve Dallas hunts for the killer of a seemingly ordinary history teacher-and uncovers some extraordinary surprises. Craig Foster`s death devastated his young wife, who`d sent him to work that day with a lovingly packed lunch. It shocked his colleagues at the private school, too, and as for the ten-year-old girls who found him in his classroom in a pool of bodily fluids-they may have been traumatized for life. Eve soon determines that Foster`s homemade lunch was tainted with deadly ricin, and that Mr. Foster`s colleagues have some startling secrets of their own. It`s Eve`s job to sort it out and discover why someone would have done this to a man who seemed so...
Ron Williamson was a star college baseball player in the small town of Ada, Oklahoma. When he left to pursue his dreams he seemed destined for glory. But years of injury, drinking, drugs and women took their toll. He returned to Ada a lonely drifter. In 1982, a 21 year-old cocktail waitress was raped and murdered. After five years of fruitless investigation the police arrested Williamson for want of any other suspect. The case against him was built on bogus evidence and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. He was found guilty at trial and sent to Death Row. This is a true story of the criminal justice system gone terribly wrong. Of vengeful prosecutors and incompetent defence lawyers. Of a man`s journey to hell. A journey...
ISBN: 978-0-09-949357-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Même la giboulée de mars qui tombait depuis une heure était savoureuse, car elle donnait à l’atelier une couleur plus intime. On retrouvait les toits de Paris que la pluie laquait d’un noir bleuâtre et le ciel était d’un gris qui gardait une certaine luminosité.
ISBN: 978-2-253-12490-0
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: июль 2012
The first #1 New York Times bestseller for Robb The phenomenal series set in a future New York City continues, as Lieutenant Eve Dallas hunts for the killer of a seemingly ordinary history teacher-and uncovers some extraordinary surprises.
ISBN: 978-0-425-21754-2
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
Erendira is a dark fairy tale covered in the blanket of magic realism that has become Gabriel Garcia Marquez`s trademark. The story itself unfolds like a bizarre daydream that follows a 14 year old Erendira as she is plagued by the "wind of her misfortune." It is this wind that causes Erendira to burn down her grandmother`s lavish villa. Upon seeing the ruin and ashes the Grandmother informs Erendira that "it would take a lifetime to back the debt you owe me." And so begins the young girl`s life of prostitution. In order to earn back her money, the Grandmother sells Erendira to countless men, day and night. It is only when Erendira meets angelic Ulysses that her tortured life seemingly begins to change. Perhaps the most brilliant aspect...
ISBN: 978-0-14-103248-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
