Учитесь ли вы иностранному языку или говорите на нем в совершенстве, любите ли читать книги на языке автора, а не в переводе – вам в этот раздел! Успешным бизнесменам, топ-менеджерам и тем, кто хочет таковыми стать будет полезен Курс делового английского языка. Тем, кто уже владеет английским, повезло - они могут прямо сейчас, не дожидаяь перевода на русский, прочитать захватывающий роман Стивена Joyland и европейский бестселлер Inferno Дэна Брауна. Ну, а тем, кто решил провести свой отпуск во Франции, пригодится Русско-французский разговорник и словарь.
Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. Written mostly during author`s "Klondike" period, "Love of Life" consists of eight wonderful short stories like "The Story of Keesh", "A Day`s Lodging," and "Negore, The Coward".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07499-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. On holiday in the Lake District with her new jet-skiing boyfriend, Nick, Laura meets the local vet, Robert. Robert dislikes both Laura and Nick on sight. However, Laura soon discovers why Robert hates people from the city. Slowly Laura and Robert get to know each other better, and she soon has to make a choice: Nick or Robert?
ISBN: 9780521714600
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
The classic novel that spawned the hit 1970 film tells the story of rich Harvard jock Oliver Barrett IV and working-class Radcliffe student Jenny Cavilleri - how they are opposite in every way, how they share a love that defies everything, and how a love lingers in the heart now and forever. Now repackaged with an updated look for the 21st century.
ISBN: 978-0-380-01760-7
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
In London, Christmas is coming and the people in this story have love on their minds. Some have found love; some have lost it. Some accept their loneliness; others live in hope. Even the new British prime minister’s thoughts are not always on his job – because love, actually, is all around us.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7968-2
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: август 2011
Love Over Scotland is the third in the series and revolves around the many colourful characters that come and go at No. 44 Scotland Street. McCall Smith handles the characters with his customary charm and deftness - the stalwart Tory chartered surveyor, the pushy mother, most importantly in this novel, the Italian-speaking prodigy, Bertie.
Harriet Swift thinks she has the perfect life - a satisfying career, her own flat and a new boyfriend who respects her need for her own space. But then her only sister is killed in a car crash and Harriet is forced to give up her well ordered life and to help look after her orphaned niece and nephew. Moving back to her childhood home in Maple Drive, and sacrificing so much, doesn`t come easy and before long Harriet discovers things about her family she never believed possible. Meanwhile, the shabbiest house in Maple Drive has a new occupant. Will Hart also thinks he has the perfect life. Having swapped his successful career as a lawyer for that of an antiques dealer, he believes in living for the moment and is entirely happy with his...
ISBN: 978-0-7528-8341-0
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Sometimes the best letters are the ones that go unanswered. It begins as an assignment for English class: write a letter to a dead person - any dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain - he died young, and so did Laurel`s sister May - so maybe he`ll understand a bit of what Laurel is going through.Иногда лучшие письма — это те, на которые нет ответа. Это начинается с задания на уроке английского языка, где нужно написать письмо мертвому человеку — любому мертвому человеку. Лорел выбирает Курта Кобейна - он умер молодым, как и сестра Лорел-...
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs - yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty-one years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.
ISBN: 978-0-307-38881-0
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
When photographer Callie has life-changing news, she - and her whole family - learn that love is not just about word. It is about deeds. After all, love means being there, through everything. 'Everyone in Callie's family is busy; her sister is a free-spirited Manhattan chef, her best friend Lila is coping with the vitriol of her new man's ex-wife, and her parents, Walter and Honor, have rich though separate lives. But when Callie discovers the breast cancer she thought she'd beaten has returned, they all find that their lives shift to focus on caring for Callie. A beautifully written and intensely sad lesson in what it really means to love someone you know you're going to lose' Daily Telegraph
ISBN: 978-0-241-95218-4
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
When the heroine gets in the way of someone trying to kill the hero, he must make her a vampire to save her life. Then he must teach her to love the night and him!
"История любви", роман современного американского писателя Эрика Сегала, стал бестселлером в 70-х гг. ХХ в. Рассказывая самую обычную историю, автор заставляет читателя задуматься о важных вещах: о любви и людях, которых любишь. Роман написан простым, современным языком. Издание сопровождается подробным комментарием.
ISBN: 978-5-8112-3960-3
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: май 2010
Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Arizo`s impassioned advances and married Dr. Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half century, Florentino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina. Having sworn his eternal love to her, he lives for the day when he can court her again. When Fermina`s husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love. But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives?
ISBN: 978-0-14-103242-9
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Love Eternal is a story of young Godfrey Knight, the son of a puritanical parson, who lives in the Essex countryside. From childhood on, he and his neighbor, Isobel Blake, the daughter of a wealthy shipping magnate, have been strangely drawn to one another, although their natures are wholly dissimilar. Despite their fathers\' many attempts to keep them apart, the two do unite in matrimony, but unfortunately, their earthly happiness is a short-lived one.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07753-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Tom has failed his exams so he cannot study photography at art college and must work in a library instead. Rita wants to be a fashion model but cannot find an agency to employ her. One rainy day, Rita and Tom`s lives miraculously cross.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7272-4
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Tully Sullivan is just like any other suburban mom - except she`s just woken up in a strange place surrounded by strange people who keep insisting that they`re dragons - and that she`s one
ISBN: 978-0-451-22971-7
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Dan and Carmen are hip, healthy and wealthy. They have their own companies, plenty of money and friends and are the proud parents of one year-old They live the cool life in Amsterdam, until beautiful and optimistic Carmen is diagnosed with breast cancer. With that their world transforms into a roller-coaster ride of doctors and hospitals. As his way of coping, the hedonistic Dan faithfully accompanies Carmen to her chemo and radiotherapy treatments, but spends his nocturnal hours crazily immersed in the nightlife and women of Amsterdam and Miami. "Love Life" is the account of a relationship and a terminal illness, devoid of fake sentiment and told with humour and deep humanity. And it is very much an ode to love. "A wonderful novel about...
ISBN: 978-0-330-53898-5
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Fourteen-year-old Prue and her sister Grace have been educated at home by their controlling, super-strict father all their lives. They know they are different to `normal` girls but their attempts to find out what being an ordinary teenager are like - buying nice clothes instead of wearing Mum`s odd hand-made garments, reading teenage magazines etc - are greeted with fury by their Dad. But when Dad has a stroke and ends up in hospital, unable to move or speak, Prue suddenly discovers what it`s like to have a little freedom. Unable to cope with their education and a sick husband, the girls` mother sends them to the local comprehensive and they experience school life for the first time. Prue had never thought it would be so bitchy and that...
ISBN: 978-0-552-55352-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: февраль 2012