Scuba diving off the Tanzanian coast, husband and wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo discover a huge ship`s bell, covered in cryptic carvings. But as they struggle to first recover the bell and then decode its clues, they find they are not alone in wanting to discover it secrets. When news of the find is publicised, Mexican President Quauhtli Garza is forced to act. He knows that this bell comes from a former Confederate ship that sank off the African coast and he fears that the discovery of a missing piece of a Quetzalcoatl statuette, which was aboard the ship, will undermine his plans for Mexico`s future. With Garza determined to stop the Fargos` investigation at all costs, the couple are drawn into a deadly conspiracy that...
ISBN: 978-0-241-95535-2
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
"This is wonderful, Professor Challenger"! I said. "You have found a place which no one knows about - a lost world. A world where creatures from the past still live". "But nobody in London believes my story", said the Professor. "People say the drawing and the photograph are fakes - they aren`t real". "I want to return to the Lost World. Other people must see the Lost World. Then everyone will know it is real"! Retold by Anne Collins.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7271-7
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling that finds famed symbologist Robert Langdon in a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen all under the watch-full еyе of Brown`s most terrifying villain to date. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, , The Lost Symbol is an intelligent, lightning-paced story with surprises at every turn. This is Dan Brown`s most exciting novel yet.
ISBN: 978-0-307-74190-5
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
With recipes of glamorous by-gone desserts, and packed with history and anecdotes of famous classic restaurants and the people who frequented them, Lost Desserts features delicious and sometimes exotic favorites from the new world and the old. Conjuring up the heyday of Hollywood are such American classics as the Brown Derby’s Orange Chiffon Cake, Trader Vic’s Flaming Tahitian Ice Cream, and Chasen’s Banana Shortcake with Banana Sauce, while the old-world elegance of Paris and London is evoked with delightful concoctions like Escoffier’s Mont Blanc and Lady Jekyll’s Orange Jelly with Compote. The seventy recipes included here, adapted for the home cook and updated for the modern palate to taste as good as they look and are...
ISBN: 978-0-8478-2983-5
Издательство:
Rizzolli
Дата выхода: август 2011
The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland is a compelling, irresistible, and heart-rending novel, perfect for all book lovers.Книжный магазин "Потерянные слова" Стефани Батленд — захватывающий, неотразимый и душераздирающий роман, идеально подходящий для всех любителей книг.
I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to. And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn`t hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of trim and sunny place where the films of his youth were set. Instead, his search led him to Anywhere, USA; a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by lookalike people with a penchant for synthetic fibres. Travelling around thirty-eight of the lower states - united only in their mind-numbingly dreary uniformity - he discovered a continent that was doubly lost; lost to itself because blighted by greed,...
ISBN: 978-0-552-99808-6
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The "same age as Jesus when he died", Adrian Mole has become a martyr: a single father bringing up two young boys in an uncaring world. With the ever-unattainable Paqdora pursuing her ambition to become Labour`s first female PM; his over-achieving half-brother Brett sponging off him; and literary success ever elusive, Adrian tries to make ends meet and find a purpose. But little does he realize that his own modest life is about to come to the attention of those charged with policing The War Against Terror ...
ISBN: 978-0-241-95939-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: май 2012
The key to eternal life has been found beneath two thousand feet of icy water in an area known as the Lost City. To a family of ruthless French arms dealers the Lost City is the key to world domination. To Kurt Austin, leader of NUMA`s Special Assignments Team, and his colleague Joe Zavala, it may be their greatest-and deadliest-challenge of all.
ISBN: 978-0-425-20419-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
Опоре де Бальзак - один из самых известных французских писателей, и основоположник реализма в литературе Европы, заслуженный классик, покоривший сердца читателей во всём мире. "Утраченные иллюзии" — блестящий роман автора, в котором раскрывается многообразие тем, а перед нашими глазами предстаёт целое историческое полотно, выхваченное из общественной жизни Франции начала XIX века. Главные герои, молодые...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05739-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
The vision has haunted him for four years - a young woman lying crumpled in death, her hand outstretched in silent supplication. Harry Bosch was taken off the Angella Benton murder case when the production assistant`s death was linked with the violent theft of two million dollars from a movie set. Both files were never closed. Now retired from the , Bosch is determined to find justice for Angella. Without a badge to open doors and strike fear into the guilty, he`s on his own. And even in the face of an opponent more powerful and ruthless than any he`s ever encountered, Bosch is not backing down.
ISBN: 978-0-446-61163-3
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
