To the casual observer, the great enlightened city of Edinburgh, home of no-nonsense philosophers and cream teas, might appear immune to the rollercoaster of strong emotions. But at 44 Scotland Street, as Matthew and Elspeth embark on the risky enterprise of married love, the raffish portrait painter Angus Lordie has a premonition of disaster. And soon enough Irene Pollock is shocked to learn that her small son Bertie harbours a highly unsuitable ambition; the gloriously vain Bruce discovers a wrinkle and confronts rejection; and Angus finds himself facing the grave consequences of unbridled bliss, not to mention a large Glaswegian gangster bearing
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: август 2011
Detective Catherine McLeod was always taught that in Glasgow, they don`t do whodunit. They do score-settling. They do vendettas. They do petty revenge. They do can`t-miss-whodunit. It`s a lesson that has served her well, but Glasgow is also a dangerous place to make assumptions. Either way she looks at it, she recognises that the discovery of a dead drug-dealer in a back alley is merely a portent of further deaths to come. Elsewhere in the city, aspiring actress Jasmine Sharp is reluctantly - and incompetently - earning a crust working for her uncle Jim`s private investigation business. When Jim goes missing, Jasmine has to take on the investigator mantle for real, and her only lead points to Glen Fallan, a gangland enforcer and...
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Englishness is an ancient and powerful concept, but no one seems sure exactly what it means in the twenty-first century. In exploring our national identity, Tony Thorne has compiled a fascinating compendium of the hundred words and phrases that have become the cornerstones of modern English, and have been used - sometimes deliberately, but often inadvertently - to stake out our common ground, to define what makes us essentially English, and thus different from those beastly foreigners who lurk just off our shores.
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Celebrated animal portraitist Rachael Hale brings us the next instalment in her adorable pet book repertoire with 101 Cataclysms: For the Love of Cats. This collection features 101 images of enchanting and magnificent felines. Hale`s special rapport with animals has allowed her to capture the true essence of her subjects. You will see it in the bald-faced cheekiness of Hilander, the Sphynx or the sassiness of Puffy, the Persian ball of fluff, and in the playfulness of Yabba Dabba Doo, the British Shorthair. Cataclysms also contains quotations from well-known personalities that will tickle the reader as they peruse this gem of a book, such as James Herriot`s `Cats are the connoisseurs of comfort`. 101 Cataclysms: For the Love of Cats is a...
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Rachael Hale`s signature style catches the eye of everyone who comes across it. Featuring 101 colour photographs of Westies and other Terriers, Retrievers and Great Danes and everything in between, 101 SALIVATIONS presents dogs in all sorts of wonderful poses that bring out their most endearing characteristics In between the irresistible photographs, the book is peppered with humorous and touching quotations from well-known authors, such as J.R. Ackerley, who wrote: `A dog has one aim in life. To bestow his heart.` or A.A. Milne`s `A Pekingese is not a pet dog...he is an undersized lion.` This whimsical compilation of heartwarming portraits celebrates the quirky character of our canine companions. 101 SALIVATIONS is a tribute to the...
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
"Every now and then you stumble across an extraordinary book that at first appears like countless others, but then you read it and are amazed at the treasure within. A Walk to Remember is such a book" New York Sunday Post Landon Carter would never have dreamed of asking Jamie Sullivan out, but a twist of fate throws them together. In the months that follow, Landon breaks down Jamie`s natural reserve and begins to get to know her and to fall in love. But then he discovers that Jamie has a reason for not letting people close - a secret that will break his heart. "Achingly moving...will have you weeping for the joy and tragedy of it all" Daily Mail
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Everything we know about solving the world`s problems is wrong. Out: Plans, experts and above all, leaders. In: Adapting - improvise rather than plan; fail, learn, and try again In this groundbreaking new book, Tim Harford shows how the world`s most complex and important problems - including terrorism, climate change, poverty, innovation, and the financial crisis - can only be solved from the bottom up by rapid experimenting and adapting. From a spaceport in the Mojave Desert to the street battles of Iraq, from a blazing offshore drilling rig to everyday decisions in our business and personal lives, this is a handbook for surviving - and prospering - in our complex and ever-shifting world.
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2012
"Ansel Adams at 100" is the most significant book yet on the great photographers work, edited and with text by legendary curator John Szarkowski. John Szarkowski has painstakingly selected what he considers Adams greatest work - 114 images - and has attempted to find the single best photographic print of each. He notes, It includes many photographs that will be unfamiliar to lovers of Adams work, and a substantial number that will be new to Adams scholars. This book, with Szarkowskis incisive essay, is the first serious effort since Adams death in 1984 to re-evaluate his achievement as an artist.
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2011
They were teenage sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks - with a passion that would change their lives for ever. But life would force them apart. Years later, the lines they had drawn between past and present are about to Called back to their hometown for the funeral of the mentor who once gave them shelter when they needed it most, they are faced with each other once again, and forced to confront the paths they chose. Can true love ever rewrite the past? The new epic love story from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of "The Notebook" and "The Last Song". Nicholas Sparks is one of the world`s most beloved authors.
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
All any of us could talk about was Chris`s disappearance and how bizarre it was that he had last been seen so close to the House of Night. I didn`t want to believe it. But everything inside me said that the kid would be found, but he`d be found Things seem to be going pretty well for Zoey Redbird. She`s settled in at the House of Night finishing school and is coming to terms with her incredible new powers. It all seems too good to be true. And guess what? Someone has begun murdering human teenagers, and all evidence points to the vampyres at Zoey`s school. Which means her first assignment as the leader of the Dark Daughers is finding out which one of her classmates or gulp teachers is a killer. Sigh. And she thought her boyfriends (yes:...
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Abby is dedicated to turning herself into a vampire. Her boyfriend Steve is researching a serum to turn the undead back into mortals. Chet? An enormous vampire cat? Is busy turning the stray cats of San Francisco into vampiric kitties. And vampire lovers Jody and Tommy are imprisoned in a bronze statue and have to try to In the unpredictable, blood-sucking, thrillingly paranormal San Francisco Christopher Moore has created, a love story unfolds that has real warmth and bite.
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2011
To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs. Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella`s life - first...
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: январь 2013
To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fate of two tribes hangs. Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating and unfathomable consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella`s life - first...
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
`The apathy of Sunday lay upon the streets. Houses were closed, withdrawn. They don`t know, he thought, those people inside, how one gesture of mine, now, at this minute, might alter their world. A knock on the door, and someone answers? A woman yawning, an old man in carpet slippers, a child sent by its parents in irritation; and according to what I will, what I decide, their whole future will be Sudden murder. Theft. Fire. It was as simple as that. ` In this collection of suspenseful tales in which fantasies, murderous dreams and half-forgotten worlds are exposed, Daphne du Maurier explores the boundaries of reality and imagination. Her characters are caught at those moments when the delicate link between reason and emotion has been...
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2012