When Jonny went missing everything changed. His mother`s heart is full of terror and sadness instead of joy. His father`s study overflows with newspaper cuttings and profiles on missing people instead of the academic texts that were there before. His sister, once carefree, now carries the weight of the world on her shoulders. His bedroom at home remains untouched and ready for his return. A place is set for him at the table on Christmas day each year. His birthday is always celebrated; his unopened gifts gather dust. The hands on the clock continue to turn and yet Jonny hasn`t returned. Where is he?
ISBN: 978-0-241-95007-4
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Original / British English (Available April 2008) Pete and Carla are students. One day they look at some very old coins and stamps in a shop. Pete wants to buy some stamps, but they are very expensive. Later that day some coins are missing from the shop and the shopkeeper wants to find Pete.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7668-1
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: август 2011
Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancastershire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: The vicar of Wimslough, the man they had come to see, is dead--a victim of accidental poisoning. Unsatisfied with the inquest ruling and unsettled by the close association between the investigating constable and the woman who served the deadly meal, Simon calls in his old friend Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley. Together they uncover dark, complex relationships in this rural village, relationships that bring men and women together with a passion, with grief, or with the intention to kill. Peeling away layer after layer of personal history to reveal...
ISBN: 0-553-56604-0
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Hailed everywhere as a masterpiece of suspense, John le Carre`s return to Africa is the story of Bruno Salvador (aka Salvo), the 25-year-old orphaned love child of an Irish missionary and a Congolese woman. Quickly rising to the top of his profession as an interpreter, Salvo is dispatched by British Intelligence to a top-secret meeting between Western financiers and East Congolese warlords, where he hears things not meant for his ears - and is forced to interpret matters never intended for his reawoken African conscience. By turns thriller, love story, and comic allegory of our times, THE MISSION SONGrecounts Salvo`s heroically naive journey out of the dark of Western hypocrisy and into the heart of lightness. A ragingly readable...
In the wake of a summer storm, terror New York Times bestselling author Stephen King suspends a small town in a haze of terror-as humanity makes its last stand against unholy
ISBN: 978-0-451-22329-6
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Evil has been defeated. The war has just begun. They did the impossible, deposing the godlike being whose brutal rule had lasted a thousand years. Now Vin, the street urchin who has grown into the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and Elend Venture, the idealistic young nobleman who loves her, must build a healthy new society in the ashes of an empire. They have barely begun when three separate armies attack. As the siege tightens, an ancient legend seems to offer a glimmer of hope. But even if it really exists, no one knows where to find the Well of Ascension or what manner of power it bestows. It may just be that killing the Lord Ruler was the easy part. Surviving the aftermath of his fall is going to be the real challenge.
ISBN: 978-0-7653-5613-0
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: август 2011
Brandon Sanderson, fantasy’s newest master tale spinner, author of the acclaimed debut "Elantris", dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails? What kind of world results when the Dark Lord is in charge? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises and magical martial-arts action that begins in "Mistborn". For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the “Sliver of Infinity”, reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred,...
ISBN: 978-0-7653-5038-1
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Who is the Hero of Ages? To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the Deepness---the lethal form of the ubiquitous mists---is back, along with increasingly heavy ashfalls and ever more powerful earthquakes. Humanity appears to be doomed. Having escaped death at the climax of The Well of Ascension only by becoming a Mistborn himself, Emperor Elend Venture hopes to find clues left behind by the Lord Ruler that will allow him to save the world. Vin is consumed with guilt at having been tricked into releasing the mystic force known as Ruin from the Well. Ruin wants to end the world, and its near omniscience and ability to warp reality make stopping it seem impossible. She can`t even discuss it...
ISBN: 978-0-7653-5614-7
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: август 2011
Mister В. Gone marks the long-awaited return of Give Barker, the great master of the macabre, to the classic horror story. This bone-chilling now a medieval devil speaks directly to Mrs reader - his tone murderous one moment the next - is a never-before-published memoir allegedly penned in the year 1438. The demon has embedded himself in the very words of this tale of terror, turning the book itself into a dangerous object, laced with menace only too ready to break free and exert its power. A brilliant and truly unsettling tour de force of the supernatural, Mister B. Gone escorts the reader on an intimate and revelatory journey to uncover the shocking truth of the battle between Good and Evil.
Un a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with almost everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens`s classic Great Expectations. So begins this rare, original story about the abiding strength that imagination, once ignited, can provide. As artillery echoes in the mountains, thirteen-year-old Matilda and her peers are riveted by the adventures of a young orphan named Pip in a city called London, a city whose contours soon become more real than their own blighted landscape. But in a ravaged place where even children are forced...
This is a stunning new picture book from Eric Carle about Mister Seahorse and other `male mothers`, with special acetate pages that hide fish behind rocks and reeds. As he floats through the sea, Mister Seahorse meets a Mr Stickleback, Mr Tilapia, Mr Kurtus and many other fish fathers caring for their eggs and babies in the most surprising ways.
Mistero in Via dei Tulipani (A1-A2) e una storia coivolgente, e non senza colpi di scena, che si sviluppa all’interno di un condominio. Tutto inizia con l’omicidio del signor Cassi, l’inquilino del secondo piano. Due sedicenni, Giacomo e Simona, decidono di mettersi sulle tracce dell’assassino. Le indagini porteranno i ragazzi a scoprire non solo il colpevole, ma anche l’amore. Primiracconti e la collana di Edilingua di racconti didattizzati per studenti adulti e adolescenti.
ISBN: 9789606930157
Издательство:
Edizioni EdiLingua
Дата выхода: август 2011
You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames`. Bougainville, 1991. A small village on a lush tropical island in the South Pacific. Eighty-six days have passed since Matilda`s last day of school as, quietly, war is encroaching from the other end of the island. When the villagers` safe, predictable lives come to a halt, Bougainville`s children are surprised to find the island`s only white man, a recluse, reopening the school. Pop Eye, aka Mr Watts, explains he will introduce the children to Mr Dickens. Matilda and the others think a...
ISBN: 978-0-7195-2183-6
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Un viaje inesperado al pais de la infancia. El amor. Una experiencia mistica. ?Cambiarian tu vida? Miguel es un hombre normal que debe realizar un viaje por trabajo. En su pais natal lo espera una experiencia que cambiara su vida para siempre. Incluye actividades de explotacion.
ISBN: 978849694-292-9
Издательство:
En Clave-Ele
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
I am Princess Meredith, heir to a throne of faerie. My day job, once upon a time, was as a private detective in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, princess has now become a full-time occupation. My aunt, Queen Andais, will have it no other way. And so I am virtually a prisoner in faerie
ISBN: 978-0-345-44361-8
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
