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!
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
"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
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
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
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. In Cambridge, Fanella bravely faces the challenge of adopting a child alone after her partner leaves her. Fanella and five-year-old Ellie get off to a rocky start, but Fanella patiently steers their relationship on to more solid ground. Meanwhile, her relationship with Rod, Ellie`s teacher and a married man, is a little more complicated.
ISBN: 978-0-521-68618-1
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: август 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
Cornelius Hedge finds it difficult enough to talk to people he does know let alone people he doesn`t. So he`s plunged into gloom when he is dragooned into driving the female friend of a colleague`s wife through France. How on earth is he expected to make small talk from Boulogne to Montelimar? First impressions are not auspicious: the moment he introduces himself, the woman inexplicably bursts into tears. But by the time they`ve reached their destination, Cornelius has grown increasingly fond of the unassuming Katrina. She is interesting, entertaining, amusing; he`d actually like to see more of her. At their age however, the past has a habit of intruding on the present. Ex-husbands, ex-wives, selfish sisters and sulky teenagers all seem...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-2677-3
Издательство:
Pocket Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
