The first book in the heart-stopping The Darkest Minds trilogy, also now a major movie, from the bestselling author of Lore.Ruby is sixteen. She is dangerous. And she is alive. For now.A mysterious disease has killed most of America’s children. Ruby might have survived, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse than a virus: frightening abilities they cannot control. Pressured by the government, Ruby’s parents sent her to Thurmond, a brutal state ‘rehabilitation camp’, where she has learned to fear and suppress her new power. But what if mastering it is a whole generation’s only chance for survival?

ISBN: 9781786540249
Дата выхода: январь 2024

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The title raised the ire of Christopher Hitchens.A New York Times article about a hostile letter sent to the publisher from the Orwell estate, which cited issues of copyright infringement, precipitated a journalistic and online debate about the book at a time when Orwell's legacy was under question, due to a list of "crypto-Communists" he handed over to the British Foreign Office.Marxists and Orwell admirers also objected to the work.Hitchens accused Reed of being a "Bin Ladenist." As was reported in Australian paper The Age:" Hamilton, of London, said: 'If it were a straight parody, I would say 'Good on you.' But this book seems to take rather than give." Reed said: 'I think that Orwell, were...

ISBN: 978-6-1313-8638-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

When space combat hero Captain Mureke receives from his beautiful wife, Anastasia, a strange gift - an Atallian, a creature he wraps around his wrist - he little knows it is going to save his life. Sent on a mission to warn Earth of an impending disaster, Mureke bursts into the White House to alert the president. The leader`s cowardly and arrogant reaction sends Mureke - quite literally - to Hell and back, and pitches humanity to the brink of chaos. In this dramatic, merciless exposure of hypocrisy and hubris, the author pulls no punches. Weaving together myths of Atlantis, Christianity and evolutionary theory, he points to religious bigotry as the prime source of human ills. Acknowledging the continuing conflict of good and evil, he...

ISBN: 9781932077186
Дата выхода: январь 2003

At the centre: Toby O`Dare - Lucky the Fox - a contract killer of underground fame. A soulless soul, a dead man He`s fallen far from grace, and lives under a series of aliases. Lucky takes his orders from someone he calls `The Right Man`, someone whose name and allegiances he doesn`t know. When the novel opens, the time is the present. The place is Riverside, California, the Mission Inn. For Lucky, it is his place of solace; he can be there without disguise. This time, he`s been sent on an assignment to kill. Into his nightmarish world of lone and lethal missions, comes a mysterious stranger, a seraph, who offers him a chance to save lives, rather than destroy them. Lucky, who grew up in a New Orleans, son of an alcoholic mother and a...

ISBN: 978-0-09-955109-6
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011

You`re about to turn thirty, all your friends are getting engaged and pregnant - and your body-clock is ticking. Then you get an offer to move to New York. So you take a chance and break up with your boyfriend - only to land yourself in the singles capital of the world. When Bridget Harrison arrived in Manhattan to work for America`s most famous tabloid, the "New York Post", she was in at the deep end from day one. Dispatched by day to cover murders and muggings in the roughest corners of New York, by night she began to write a column about her search for love in a dating shark tank. So far so Sex and the City - until she realised the one man she was falling for also happened to be her boss (and unfortunately this wasn`t fiction). The...

ISBN: 978-0-552-15371-3
Издательство: Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2012

Elizabeth Moynihan, a young journalist, has hit the jackpot. It`s 1992 and a chance remark has sent her to a small farm in the middle of nowhere in Colorado. There resides Russia`s most notorious sniper-turned-spy, the one-time beautiful assassin, Tat`yana Levchenko, and she`s ready to tell her story. During the Second World War, Tat`yana was Russia`s secret weapon. After the Germans killed her daughter, aged four, she enlisted as a sniper for the Russian army. Having finally achieved her goal of killing three hundred Germans, she was badly injured in a siege and shipped back to Moscow. She was presented to Stalin, paraded among the ranks of high society and before the world`s press. Her duty to her country not yet over, she was sent to...

ISBN: 978-0-85738-133-0
Издательство: Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nauru competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, that celebrated in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. Nauru was represented by the Nauru Olympic Committee, and was the only nation out of 204 participating nations and territories that sent only a single athlete, and was one of 117 that won no medals at the Games. The sole athlete to represent the nation was Itte Detenamo, who participated in the weightlifting, and was the flag bearer in both the opening and closing ceremonies. This was the same number of athletes as at the 1996 Olympics, when Marcus Stephen (who later became President of Naaru) represented the country in the same sport, but was a decrease from the nation`s last...

ISBN: 978-5-5106-4098-4

It`s astonishing what people can bear, as astonishing as the things people can do to one another. This is the story of one boy and the pain he suffered at the hands of people - adults - who should have known better. John is one of too many children for his mum to cope with alone while his dad is off fighting in the Second World War, so he is sent to a foster family for the duration. However, they aren`t much of a family, and John is subjected to some appalling abuse. He is only six years old. Things seem to look up for John when his father returns from the war to rescue him and, at last, his life starts to return to normal. However, this stability is short lived as an incident in the boxing ring kick starts a chain of events which lead...

ISBN: 9781847480705

The Battle of Salamanca saw an Anglo-Hispano-Portuguese army under the Duke of Wellington defeat Marshal Auguste Marmont's French forces among the hills around Arapiles south of Salamanca, Spain on July 22, 1812 during the Peninsular War. The battle was a succession of strokes in oblique order, initiated by the Portuguese cavalry brigade and Pakenham's 3rd division, and continued by the British heavy cavalry and the 4th, 5th and 6th divisions. The French left wing was routed. By chance, both Marmont and his deputy commander General Bonet were wounded by shrapnel in the first few minutes of firing. The French command confusion may have been decisive in creating the opportunity, which Wellington successfully seized and exploited. General...

ISBN: 978-6-1308-1864-7
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Michael John Nelson (born 23 March, 1980 in Gateshead) is an English professional footballer who currently plays as a defender for Football League One side Norwich City. Nelson started his playing career as a semi-professional, playing for non league teams such as Spennymoor United, Leek Town and Bishop Auckland. Nelson’s performances attracted the attention of league clubs who sent scouts to watch him. Nelson was given a trial at Hartlepool but he was not offered a contract by the then Hartlepool manager Chris Turner. However Nelson was offered a contract at Bury by manager Andy Preece after Bury scout Peter Ward convinced him to give Nelson a chance. Данное издание не...

ISBN: 978-6-1316-1129-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jacob Roggeveen (1 February 1659, Middelburg - 31 January 1729, Middelburg) was a Dutch explorer who was sent to find Terra Australis, but he instead came across Easter Island by chance. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1316-5976-8
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Imbert de Batarnay, Seigneur du Bouchage (1438? – 1523), French statesman, was born of an old but obscure family in Dauphine, about the year 1438. In consequence of a chance circumstance he entered into relations with the dauphin Louis at that time (1455) in arms against the king his father; he attached himself to the prince, and followed him on his retreat into Burgundy. From the beginning of his reign Louis XI loaded Batarnay with favors: he married him to a rich heiress, Georgette de Montchenu, lady of Le Bouchage; besides making him captain of Mont Saint Michel and giving him valuable estates, with, later, the titles of counsellor and chamberlain to the king. In 1469 Batarnay was sent to...

ISBN: 978-6-1316-6281-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eurymedon (d. 414 BC), was one of the Athenian generals (strategoi) during the Peloponnesian War. In 428 BC he was sent by the Athenians to intercept the Peloponnesian fleet which was on its way to attack Corcyra. On his arrival, finding that Nicostratus, with a small squadron from Naupactus, had already secured the island on behalf of Athens, he took command of the combined fleet. Owing to the absence of the Peloponnesians, Eurymedon had no chance to distinguish himself. In the following summer, in joint command of the Athenian land forces, he ravaged the district of Tanagra. In 425 BC he was appointed, with Sophocles, the son of Sostratides, to the command of an expedition destined for...

ISBN: 978-6-1325-2137-8
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Godred II, also known as king Gofraidh mac Amhlaibh and Guthrod Olavssonn (died November 10, 1187) was King of Mann and the Isles from 1153 – 1158 and from 1164 – 1187, much of the kingdom being lost in the strife after he became deposed and before his second reign. King Godred was son of King Olaf I, "Olav Morsel," and Aufrica of Galloway. In 1140, Godred's half-sister Ragnhailt had married Somerled, King of Kintyre. The year 1153 saw the deaths of two kings: David I of Scotland and Godred's father Olaf I. There was much confusion and discord as a result and Somerled took his chance - making offensive moves against both Scotland and Mann. Godred for a short period ruled over Dublin also. A...

ISBN: 978-6-1327-7337-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Safe Harbor is a 2009 television film based on a true story starring Treat Williams and Nancy Travis. The film first aired on Hallmark Channel on May 30, 2009. Doug (Treat Williams) and Robbie Smith (Nancy Travis) are a happily married couple about to retire and spend their days cruising around the world on their sailboat. But before they have the chance to leave, their good friend Judge David Roberts (Orson Bean), asks them to care for two teenage boys he sentenced to juvenile hall. The facility is currently at capacity and instead of being sent to county jail, the judge tells the couple that the boys can help them prepare their boat for sailing day. The Smiths agree and soon take on two more...

ISBN: 978-6-1313-4136-6
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Dubai Millennium was a racehorse owned by the Godolphin Stables, who raced predominantly in Europe. He was by Seeking The Gold, out of Colorado Dancer. He is considered one of the best racehorses from 1990 onwards.Dubai Millennium was foaled on 20 March 1996. He was initially named Yazaar and sent as a 2-year-old to be trained by David Loder, which was the policy of Godolphin at the time. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, owner of Godolphin, was desperate to win the 2000 Dubai World Cup and asked Loder which of his current 2-year-olds would stand the best chance of fulfilling this ambition. Loder selected Yazaar and he became Dubai Millennium. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...

ISBN: 978-6-1306-4844-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In modern cryptography, symmetric key ciphers are generally divided into stream ciphers and block ciphers. Block ciphers operate on a fixed length string of bits. The length of this bit string is the block size. Both the input (plaintext) and output (ciphertext) are the same length; the output cannot be shorter than the input — this follows logically from the Pigeonhole principle and the fact that the cipher must be reversible — and it is undesirable for the output to be longer than the input. Until the announcement of NIST's AES contest, the majority of block ciphers followed the example of the DES in using a block size of 64 bits (8 bytes). However the Birthday paradox tells us that after...

ISBN: 978-6-1324-9408-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Heat Shield Rock is a basketball-sized iron-nickel meteorite found on Mars by the Mars rover Opportunity in January 2005. The meteorite was formally named Meridiani Planum meteorite by the Meteoritical Society in October, 2005 (meteorites are always named after the place where they were found). Opportunity encountered the meteorite entirely by chance, in the vicinity of its own discarded heat shield (hence the name). Opportunity had been sent to examine the heat shield after exiting the crater Endurance. This was the first meteorite found on another planet and the third found on another Solar System body — two others, Bench Crater and Hadley Rille, were found on the Moon. The rock was...

ISBN: 978-6-1338-3350-0
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Canada competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. The Canadian Olympic Committee sent a team of over 200 athletes, the lowest since Canada boycotted the games in 1980. This is a result of the COC changing its standards for qualifying, with the aim of sending fewer athletes but focusing its energy on those who have the best chance at winning medals. This somewhat controversial policy was pursued after a reduced medal showing at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1339-6657-4
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

When Tess Durbeyfield is sent by her family to seek out her rich relatives, she soon finds herself pursued and violently seduced by the ruthless Alex D`Urberville. The sad event which follows gives Tess the chance to hide her past and move on. Eventually she falls in love and finds happiness with Angel Clare, a clergyman`s son. But Tess`s honest nature means she is doomed to never escape her past as events force her to finally take control of her fate.

ISBN: 978-0-230-03532-4
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Special Circumstances: The words have sent chills down Tally`s spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor - frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting a Special. But Tally`s never been ordinary. And now she`s been turned into one of them: a superamped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid. The strength, the speed, and the clarity and focus of her thinking feel better than anything Tally can remember. Most of the time. One tiny corner of her heart still remembers something more. Still, it`s easy to tune that out - until Tally`s offered a chance to stamp out the...

ISBN: 978-1-4169-4795-0
Дата выхода: июль 2011

It is the time of the Great Terror. Inspector Pekkala - known as the Emerald Eye - was the most famous detective in all Russia. He was the favourite of the Tsar. Now he is the prisoner of the men he once hunted. Like millions of others, he has been sent to the gulags in Siberia and, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, he is as good as dead. But a reprieve comes when he is summoned by Stalin himself to investigate a crime. His mission - to uncover the men who really killed the Tsar and his family, and to locate the Tsar`s treasure. The reward for success will be his freedom and the chance to re-unite with a woman he would have married if the Revolution had not torn them apart. The price of failure - death. Set against the...

ISBN: 978-0-571-25058-5
Дата выхода: август 2011

hen you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the heart. A world that lovingly captures the ties that bind us to one another-the joys and sorrows, heartbreaks and misunderstandings, and glad, perfect moments when we are in true harmony. A world filled with evocative, engrossing, and above all, enjoyable portraits of people`s lives and loves, tenderly laid open for Whenever Selina asked about her late father, the grandmother who raised her changed the subject. The chance discovery of a photograph gave Selina hope that he was still alive and sent her searching for him on a small Spanish island. In this lush paradise, Selina found George Dyer, a writer who would help her solve the mystery of...

ISBN: 978-0-312-96125-1
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011

Thomas Kydd has dragged himself up in the navy from press-ganged seaman to captain of his own ship. Now he faces disgrace. After losing favour with his superiors, and suffering terrible personal tragedy, Kydd and his ship are sent to guard the Channel Islands from Napoleons forces. When he is brutally betrayed off the Normandy Coast and removed from command, only his old friend Renzi is willing to stick by him. Kydd is determined to clear his name, but soon finds himself fighting yet another battle he seems to have no chance of winning. Can he defeat his enemies on both sides, and win back the glory taken from him?

ISBN: 978-0-340-96114-8
Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: февраль 2012

After twenty-three years, Orson Scott Card returns to his acclaimed best-selling series with the first true, direct sequel to the classic "Ender`s Game". In "Ender’s Game", the world’s most gifted children were taken from their families and sent to an elite training school. At Battle School, they learned combat, strategy, and secret intelligence to fight a dangerous war on behalf of those left on Earth. But they also learned some important and less definable lessons about life. After the life-changing events of those years, these children—now teenagers—must leave the school and readapt to life in the outside world. Having not seen their families or interacted with other people for years—where do they go now? What can they do?...

ISBN: 978-0-7653-4415-1
Издательство: Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: июнь 2012