Современная проза на английском языке [T], часть 1

THe Doomsday Conspiracy
When a mysterious weather balloon crashes to earth in the Swiss Alps, the head of the NSA handpicks Robert Bellamy to track down and identify the ten known witnesses to the event. A man whose obsession with his covert assignments has cost him the only woman he can ever love, Bellamy now faces the impossible. But as he searches for clues from Rome to Budapest to Texas, this mission blows up in his face - and rips the lid off an incredible conspiracy that stretches around the globe and even into space...

Alone and betrayed on every side, Bellamy must run for his life - holding an astonishing secret and the key to the planet's very survival.

The impressive #1 New York Times bestseller - with 18 weeks on the list--by the world renowned author with more than 150 million copies of his books in print. When a weather balloon crashes, a dedicated Navy man is sent to investigate and soon uncovers knowledge of a conspiracy of terror that reaches around the world, and into space - threating the very survival of the planet.
Год: 2005
Производитель: Grand Central Publishing
Артикул: 487586
ISBN: 9780446363662
Автор: Sheldon Sidney

Tales Of Ten Worlds
"I work in a space station. From my office, I can see the Earth twenty thousand miles away. It floats in space like a big green and blue ball."

Arthur C. Clarke tells ten strange science fiction stories. This collection of tales takes us from Earth to Venus, to Saturn and beyond.

Retold by Helen Reid-Thomas.

Серия: Macmillan Readers
Год: 2015
Производитель: Macmillan Education
Артикул: 489081
ISBN: 9781405072823
Автор: Clarke Arthur C

Tales from Shakespeare
The Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb were written to be an 'introduction to the study of Shakespeare', but are much more entertaining than that. All of Shakespeare's best-loved tales, comic and tragic, are retold in a clear and robust style, and their literary quality has made them popular and sought-after ever since their first publication in 1807.

This edition contains the delightful pen-and-ink drawings of Arthur Rackham.

Серия: Children s Classics
Год: 2014
Производитель: Wordsworth
Артикул: 444102
ISBN: 978-1-85326-140-4
Автор: Lamb Charles and Mary

Tales of Ordinary Madness
Inspired by DH Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme and has attracted a cult following, while his life was as weird and wild as the tales he wrote. This collection of short stories gives an insight into the dark, dangerous lowlife of Los Angeles that Bukowski inhabited. From prostitutes to classical music, Bukowski ingeniously mixes high and low culture in his 'tales of ordinary madness'. These are angry yet tender, humorous and haunting portrayals of life in the underbelly of Los Angeles.
Год: 2016
Производитель: Virgin books
Артикул: 563729
ISBN: 176, 978-0-7535-1387-3
Автор: Bukowski Charles

Tales of the Peculiar (Peculiar Children)
A new set of stories from the world of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Now in paperback with a brand-new story: The Man who Bottled the Sun.

In this collection of fairy tales, Ransom Riggs invites you to uncover hidden legends of the peculiar world. A fork-tongued princess, a girl who talks to ghosts, and wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars are just a few of the characters whose stories will have you hooked.

Featuring stunning illustrations from world-renowned artist Andrew Davidson, this compelling, rich and truly peculiar anthology is the perfect gift for fans - and for all lovers of great storytelling.

Watch the movie, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, directed by the visionary Tim Burton and starring Judi Dench, Eva Green and Samuel L Jackson.

Praise for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children:'A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story.' John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars
Год: 2018
Производитель: Puffin
Артикул: 627369
ISBN: 978-0-14-137165-8
Автор: Riggs Ransom

Talk to the Hand
A battle-cry for civilised behaviour from the author of the multi-million selling Eats, Shoots and Leaves. "Talk to the hand 'cause the face ain't listening, " the saying goes. When did the world get to be so rude? When did society become so inconsiderate? It's a topic that has been simmering for years, and Lynne Truss says that it has now reached boiling point. Taking on the boorish behaviour that has become a point of pride for some, Talk to the Hand is a rallying cry for courtesy. Like Eats, Shoots and Leaves, Talk to the Hand is a spirited conversation, not a stuffy guidebook. It is not about forks, for a start. Why hasn't your nephew ever thanked you for that perfect Christmas present? What makes your builder think he can treat you like dirt in your own home? When you phone a utility with a complaint (and have negotiated the switchboard), why can't you ever speak to a person who is authorised to apologise? What accounts for the appalling treatment you receive in shops? Most important, what will it take to roll back a culture that applauds rudeness and finds it so amusing? For anyone who's fed up with the brutality inflicted by modern manners (and is naturally too scared to confront the actual yobs), Talk to the Hand is a colourful call to arms from the wittiest defender of the civilised world.
Год: 2007
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 323359
ISBN: 9780007329076
Автор: Truss Lynne

Tall, Dark and Hungry
When Terri flew from England to New York to help plan her cousin Kate's wedding, she didn't know what she expected - but it certainly wasn't the Argeneaus.

Her new in-laws may seem a little strange, with the sometimes-chipper sometimes-brooding writer Lucern - Kate's fiancee - and Vincent, the wacky stage actor (she couldn't imagine Broadway casting a hungrier looking all singing, all dancing Dracula), but having just discovered how expensive New York hotels can be, suddenly their offer of accomodation looks much more attractive.

... and then there's Bastien. Even taller, darker and hungrier looking than the other two, just looking into his eyes is enough to make Terri admit she's falling for him. Surely she can put up with the Argeneau's odd habits for a few days - to stay in their luxurious penthouse apartment, with the lovely Bastien - if it lets her avoid New York's blood-sucking hotel prices!
Год: 2010
Производитель: Orion
Артикул: 795493
ISBN: 9780575093843
Автор: Sands Lynsay

Tara Road
New York Times bestselling author Maeve Binchy has captured the hearts of millions with her unforgettable novels. Binchy's graceful storytelling and wise compassion have earned her the devotion of fans worldwide--and made her one of the most beloved authors of our time. Now she dazzles us once again with a new novel filled with her signature warmth, humor, and tender insight. A provocative tale of family heartbreak, friendship, and revelation, Tara Road explores every woman's fantasy: escape, into another place, another life. "What if..." Binchy asks, and answers in her most astonishing novel to date.
Год: 2017
Производитель: Dell book
Артикул: 582908
ISBN: 978-0-440-23559-0
Автор: Binchy Maeve

Tarantula: The Skin I Live In
This title introduces a film by Almodovar, based on Jonquet's novel, due on 18th November 2011, starring Antonio Banderas. Richard Lafargue is an eminent plastic surgeon haunted by dirty secrets. He has an operating theatre in the basement of his chateau and keeps his partner Eve imprisoned in her bedroom, a room he has equipped with an intercom and 300-watt speakers through which he bellows orders. Eve is only allowed out to be paraded at cocktail parties and on the last Sunday of each month, when the couple visit a young woman in a mental asylum. Following these outings, Lafargue humiliates Eve by forcing her to perform lewd sexual acts with strangers while he watches through a one-way mirror. In alternating chapters, Jonquet introduces seemingly unrelated characters - a criminal on the run after murdering a policeman, and an abducted young man who finds himself chained naked in a dark chamber, forced to endure all manner of physical torture at the hands of a mysterious stranger, whom he calls Mygale, after a type of tropical spider. All of these characters are caught in a deceitful web, waiting to meet their fate.
Год: 2013
Производитель: Serpent's Tail
Артикул: 415282
ISBN: 978-1-84668-794-5
Автор: Jonquet Thierry

Telex from Cuba
Fidel and Raul Castro are in the hills, descending only to burn sugarcane plantations and recruit rebels.



Rachel K is in Havana's Cabaret Tokio, entangled with a French agitator trying to escape his shameful past.



Everly and K.C. are growing up in the dying days of a crumbling US colony, about to discover the cruelty and violence that have created their childhood idyll.
Год: 2014
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 886022
ISBN: 9780099586999
Автор: Kushner Rachel

Tell Me Your Dreams
Ashley, elegant yet haunted...Toni, sultry as well as vivacious...Alette, lovely and totally without conceit...three beautiful young women suspected of committing a series of horrifying murders. Now one of the most bizarre murder trials of the century is about to begin-and reveal an astounding, startling piece of medical evidence almost impossible to believe. Sweeping from London to Rome, from Quebec to San Francisco, this tale from the world's reigning master storyteller is so much more than a mystery: If is a searching, riveting, and, finally, triumphant foray into the dark, wild depths of the human heart.
Год: 1999
Производитель: Grand Central Publishing
Артикул: 309930
ISBN: 9780446607209
Автор: Sheldon Sidney

Tell Me Your Dreams
The fast-paced new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Best Laid Plans, Morning, Noon & Night and Bloodline.

Someone was following her. She had read about stalkers, but they belonged in a different, faraway world. She had no idea who it could be, who would want to harm her. She was trying desperately hard not to panic, but lately her sleep had been filled with nightmares, and she had awakened each morning with a feeling of impending doom.

Thus begins Sidney Sheldon's chilling novel, Tell Me Your Dreams. Three beautiful young women are suspected of committing a series of brutal murders. The police make an arrest that leads to one of the most bizarre murder trials of the century. Based on actual events, Sheldon's novel races from London to Rome to Quebec City to San Francisco, with a climax that will leave the reader stunned.
Год: 1999
Производитель: HarperCollins
Артикул: 403604
ISBN: 978-0-00-651224-0
Автор: Sheldon Sidney

Tell Tale
Author of the bestselling Clifton Chronicles, Jeffrey Archer, gives us fifteen gripping and rewarding short stories for readers to return to time and again.

Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to solve a murder and the pretentious schoolboy whose discovery of the origins of his father's wealth changes his life forever. Follow the stories of the woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League university during the 1930s, and another young woman who thumbs a lift and has an encounter of a lifetime.

From the master of the short story, the refreshingly original stories in Tell Tale prove why Archer has been described by the Mail on Sunday as 'probably the greatest storyteller of our age'.
Год: 2018
Производитель: Pan Books
Артикул: 681709
ISBN: 978-1-5098-8410-0
Автор: Archer Jeffrey

Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope)
Telling Tales is the second book in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series - which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn, VERA.

Ten years after Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of fifteen-year-old Abigail Mantel, disturbing new evidence proving her innocence emerges in the East Yorkshire village of Elvet. Abigail's killer is still at large.

For Emma Bennett, the revelation brings back haunting memories of her vibrant best friend - and of the fearful winter's day when she had discovered her body lying cold in a ditch.

Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope makes fresh inquiries, and the villagers are hauled back to a time they would rather forget. Tensions begin to mount, but are people afraid of the killer, or of their own guilty pasts?

Also available in the Vera Stanhope series are The Crow Trap, Hidden Depths, Silent Voices and The Glass Room. Ann Cleeves' Shetland series (BBC television drama SHETLAND) contains five titles, of which Dead Water is the most recent.
Год: 2017
Производитель: Pan Macmillan
Артикул: 582845
ISBN: 978-1-5098-1590-6
Автор: Cleeves Ann

Temptation of Lila and Ethan
THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Ella's best friend Lila has always been a good girl who likes pretty clothes and preppy boys. But ever since the first day she met Micha's best friend Ethan, she hasn't been able to stop thinking about him. Girls have always flocked to Ethan -- but never princesses like Lila. And until Lila came into his life he never wanted them to. From the outside the two couldn't seem more different, but somehow they have a connection deeper and more intense than anyone could have imagined. Can two people from such dramatically different worlds really have a love that lasts?
Год: 2014
Производитель: Sphere
Артикул: 497949
ISBN: 9780751552263
Автор: Sorensen Jessica

Tempted: House of Night. Book 6
Zoey needs a break after some serious excitement. Sadly, the House of Night school for vampyres doesn't feature breaks on its curriculum - even for a High Priestess in training and her gang. Plus juggling three guys is no stress reliever, especially when one is a sexy Warrior so into protecting Zoey that he's sensing her emotions. Wider stresses lurk too, and the dark force in Tulsa's tunnels is spreading. Could Stevie Rae be responsible for more than a group of misfit fledglings? And Aphrodite's visions warn Zoey to stay away from the immortal Kalona and his dark allure - but they also show that only Zoey can stop him. She's not exactly keen to meet up, but if Zoey don't go to Kalona he'll exact a fiery vengeance on those closest to her. She just has to find the courage to do what's necessary, or everything that's important to her will be destroyed. - Not suitable for younger readers

Note: The pages of this book do not have orange color on the edges.
Год: 2012
Производитель: Atom
Артикул: 329160
ISBN: 978-1-905654-58-1
Автор: Cast Kristin, Cast P. C

Ten Short Stories
Penguin Student Editions have been specifically designed for readers who are studying a text in detail. They include a helpful introduction and explanatory notes, character sketches, a text summary, a chronology, language notes, a selection of questions and topics for discussion and analysis, as well as suggestions for further reading.

There is not a modern short story writer anywhere to be compared with Roald Dahl. Each of his stories is so clever has such a startling twist at the end of it leaves the reader gasping. The then stories in this book may depict human nature at its darkest, but they are also brilliantly funny and completely unforgettable.

Серия: Penguin Student Edition
Год: 2008
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 160662
ISBN: 9780140817799
Автор: Dahl Roald

Tenth of December
George Saunders's most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of troubling preoccupations. A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions; Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums and the prospect of DarkenfloxxTM in some unusual drug trials; and Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue behind a winning smile that he hopes will make him popular. With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past and the ever-settling present, this collection sings with astonishing charm and intensity.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 777309
ISBN: 9781408894811
Автор: Saunders George

Test Signal
A ground-breaking anthology of the best contemporary northern writing, showcasing the wealth of literary talent in the North of England.



'Test Signal ... is testament to the fact that there is no singular prescription of what it means to be a northern writer and no such thing as a definitive northern voice; instead it celebrates a community of writers, each telling a different story in their own words' JESSICA ANDREWS



bridges over the Tyne / crumbling coastlines / influencers' online worlds / asylum applications / packed train carriages / forgotten village social clubs / family in Nigeria / holidays in Greece / shining university campuses / ghosts in city cemeteries / jobs in London / teenage explorations / monstrous graffiti / suburban woodland



We are the North



With ground-breaking new authors, a thriving independent publishing scene and vibrant grass-roots networks, the North is driving a revolution in new literature. This anthology showcases the best of its talent, from every corner of the region and across all its vibrant genres. Some contributors are well-known established names, others are newcomers; all of them are part of the new northern writing scene.



This is Test Signal
Год: 2022
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 881242
ISBN: 9781526630902
Автор: Hurley Andrew Michael, Stewart Amy, Wan Melissa

Thanks for Memories
Joyce Conway remembers things she shouldn't. She knows about tiny cobbled streets in Paris, which she has never visited. And every night she dreams about an unknown little girl with blonde hair.

Justin Hitchcock is divorced, lonely and restless. He arrives in Dublin to give a lecture on art and meets an attractive doctor, who persuades him to donate blood. It's the first thing to come straight from his heart in a long time.

When Joyce leaves hospital after a terrible accident, with her life and her marriage in pieces, she moves back in with her elderly father. All the while, a strong sense of d?j? vu is overwhelming her and she can't figure out why
Год: 2012
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 309931
ISBN: 9780007275380
Автор: Ahern Cecelia

Thanks for the Memories
With her marriage already in pieces, Joyce Conway nearly lost everything else. But she survived the terrible accident that left her hospitalized-and now, inexplicably, she can remember faces she has never seen, cobblestone Parisian streets she's never visited. A sudden, overwhelming sense of d?j? vu has Joyce feeling as if her life is not her own.

Justin Hitchcock's decision to donate blood was the first thing to come straight from his heart in a long time. He chased his ex-wife and daughter from Chicago to London-and now. restless and lonely, he lectures to restless and bored college students in Dublin. But everything is about

to change with the arrival of a basket of muffins with a "thank you" note enclosed-the first in a series of anonymous presents that will launch Justin into the heart of a mystery... and forever alter two lives.
Год: 2008
Производитель: HarperCollins
Артикул: 403613
ISBN: 978-0-06-172901-0
Автор: Ahern Cecelia

Thanks for the Memories
A compelling and perceptive tale of intimacy, memory and relationships from the No.1 bestselling author. How can you know someone you've never met?

Joyce Conway remembers things she shouldn't. She knows about tiny cobbled streets in Paris, which she has never visited. And every night she dreams about an unknown little girl with blonde hair.

Justin Hitchcock is divorced, lonely and restless. He arrives in Dublin to give a lecture on art and meets an attractive doctor, who persuades him to donate blood. It's the first thing to come straight from his heart in a long time.

When Joyce leaves hospital after a terrible accident, with her life and her marriage in pieces, she moves back in with her elderly father. All the while, a strong sense of deja vu is overwhelming her and she can't figure out why ...
Год: 2017
Производитель: HarperCollins
Артикул: 618673
ISBN: 978-0-00-723369-4
Автор: Ahern Cecelia

That Girl From Nowhere
'Where are you coming from with that accent of yours?' he asks.

'Nowhere, ' I reply. 'I'm from nowhere.'

'Everyone's from somewhere, ' he says.

'Not me, ' I reply silently.



Clemency Smittson was adopted as a baby and the only connection she has to her birth mother is a cardboard box hand-decorated with butterflies. Now an adult, Clem decides to make a drastic life change and move to Brighton, where she was born. Clem has no idea that while there she'll meet someone who knows all about her butterfly box and what happened to her birth parents.



As the tangled truths about her adoption and childhood start to unravel, a series of shocking events cause Clem to reassess whether the price of having contact with her birth family could be too high to pay...
Год: 2016
Производитель: Arrow Books
Артикул: 886181
ISBN: 9780099598831
Автор: Koomson Dorothy

That Perfect Someone
A tempestuous tale from the world's favourite romance writer.

When Richard Allen's ambitious father forces him into a betrothal with Julia Miller, the daughter of London's wealthiest merchant, the two loathe each other on sight. Richard flees London and takes to the sea, determined never to see Julia again.

Nine years later, after many adventures on the high seas, Richard is forced to return to England.

He finds himself completely smitten with a married woman, Georgina Mallory, and despite her indifference to him he persists in seeking her affections. But at a ball, where he had hoped to see Georgina, to his astonishment he comes face to face with... Julia Miller.

Legally still bound to the man she has come to hate, Julia tries to wreak her revenge. But not all goes quite according to plan...
Год: 2011
Производитель: Corgi book
Артикул: 427895
ISBN: 9780552160858
Автор: Lindsey Johanna

The Accidental
The Accidental pans in on the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family one hot summer. There a beguiling stranger called Amber appears at the door bearing all sorts of unexpected gifts, trampling over family boundaries and sending each of the Smarts scurrying from the dark into the light.



A novel about the ways that seemingly chance encounters irrevocably transform our understanding of ourselves, The Accidental explores the nature of truth, the role of fate and the power of storytelling.
Год: 2006
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886740
ISBN: 9780141010397
Автор: Smith Ali

The Accidental
'My mother began me one evening in 1968 on a table in the cafe of the town's only cinema . . .'



One hot summer a stranger arrives at the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family. Intriguing, beguiling, arresting, Amber brings love, joy, pain and not a little upheaval, throwing the carefully ordered world of the Smarts into the air. They will be forever changed by Amber but how will they know whether it is for the bad, the good or something else entirely?



'Joyous ... writing as rapture, as giddy delight' The Times



'Funny, sexy, poignant, bewitching' Observer

Серия: Penguin Essentials
Год: 2020
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 769977
ISBN: 9780241989111
Автор: Smith Ali

The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man
The sequel to Jonas Jonasson's international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and DisappearedIt all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they're not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harbouring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim Jong-un ...Soon Allan and Julius are at the centre of a complex diplomatic crisis involving world figures from the Swedish foreign minister to Angela Merkel and President Trump. Things are about to get very complicated ...
Год: 2020
Производитель: HarperCollins
Артикул: 758239
ISBN: 9780008304928
Автор: Jonasson Jonas

The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man
The sequel to Jonas Jonasson's international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they're not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harbouring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim Jong-un

Soon Allan and Julius are at the centre of a complex diplomatic crisis involving world figures from the Swedish foreign minister to Angela Merkel and President Trump. Things are about to get very complicated

Praise for The Hundred-Year-Old Man:

A mordantly funny and loopily freewheeling debut novel about ageing disgracefully' Sunday Times

Imaginative, laugh-out-loud . . . a brilliant satire on the foibles of mankind' Daily Telegraph

Fast-moving and relentlessly sunny' Guardian
Год: 2019
Производитель: Random House
Артикул: 681020
ISBN: 9780008275570
Автор: Jonasson Jonas

The Accidental Tourist
Discover a beautiful story of what it is to be human from Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling Anne Tyler



How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life?



With the loss of his son, the departure of his wife and the arrival of Muriel, a dog trainer from the Meow-Bow dog clinic, Macon's attempts at ordinary life are tragically and comically undone.
Год: 2016
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885088
ISBN: 9780099480013
Автор: Tyler Anne

The Act of Love
No man has ever loved a woman and not imagined her in the arms of someone else.



Felix Quinn calls himself a happy man. He owns one of London's oldest antiquarian bookshops. He is married to and adores the beautiful Marisa. But a childhood experience has taught him that loss is intrinsic to love, and Felix realises that he can only be truly happy if his wife is sleeping with another man. Enter Marius into Marisa's affections. And now Felix must ask himself, is he really happy?



By the winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize.
Год: 2009
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885400
ISBN: 9780099526735
Автор: Jacobson Howard

The Adventure of English
English is the collective work of millions of people throughout the ages. It is democratic, ever-changing and ingenious in its assimilation of other cultures. English runs through the heart of world finance, medicine and the Internet, and it is understood by around two thousand million people across the world. Yet it was very nearly wiped out in its early years. In this book Melvyn Bragg shows us the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language. THE ADVENTURE OF ENGLISH is not only an enthralling story of power, religion and trade, but also the story of people, and how their day-to-day lives shaped and continue to change the extraordinary language that is English.
Год: 2017
Производитель: Sceptre
Артикул: 582828
ISBN: 978-0-340-82993-6
Автор: Bragg Melvyn

The Affirmation
Christopher Priest is the Arthur C. Clarke Award and World Fantasy Award-winning author of THE SEPARATION, THE GLAMOUR, THE DREAM ARCHIPELAGO and THE PRESTIGE, which was filmed by Christopher Nolan and starred Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale. THE AFFIRMATION is his compulsive and original novel of an autobiography that isn't - partly a thriller, partly a haunting study of schizophrenia, it is the mark of one of Britain's finest novelists at the very height of his powers.

Peter Sinclair is tormented by bereavement and failure. In an attempt to conjure some meaning from his life, he embarks on an autobiography, but he finds himself writing the story of another man in another, imagined, world, whose insidious attraction draws him even further in...

Серия: SF Masterworks
Год: 2011
Производитель: Gollancz
Артикул: 597976
ISBN: 9781407244105
Автор: Priest Christopher

The Aftermath
In the bitter winter of 1946, Rachael Morgan arrives with her only remaining son Edmund in the ruins of Hamburg. Here she is reunited with her husband Lewis, a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city. But as they set off for their new home, Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis has made an extraordinary decision: they will be sharing the grand house with its previous owners, a German widower and his troubled daughter. In this charged atmosphere, enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 758242
ISBN: 9780241984062
Автор: Brook Rhidian

The Alchemist
Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers for ever. Paulo Coelho's "The Alchemist" is such a book. With over 30 million copies sold worldwide and translated into 63 languages, "The Alchemist" has already achieved the status of a modern classic. This updated edition includes exclusive new material.

This is the story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who dreams of traveling the world in search of a treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the exotic markets of Tangiers and then into the Egyptian desert, where a fateful encounter with the alchemist awaits him.

"The Alchemist" is an unforgettable novel about the essential wisdom of listening to our heart and, above all, following our dreams.

Серия: The international bestseller
Год: 2002
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 328215
ISBN: 9780007155668
Автор: Coelho Paulo

The Alchemist
"This Brazilian wizard makes books disappear from stores." New York Times

"[Coelho's] books have had a life-enchanting effect on millions of people." London Times

"A magical little volume." San Francisco Chronicle

"Beneath this novel's compelling story and the shimmering elegance with which it's told lies a bedrock of wisdom about following one's heart." Booklist

"As memorable and meaningful as Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince. " Austin American-Statesman
Год: 2006
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 329154
ISBN: 978-0-06-123384-5
Автор: Coelho Paulo

The Amateur Marriage
Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other.



The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in Baltimore, he was smitten, and in the heat of World War II fervour, they marry in haste. From the sound of the cash register in the old grocery to the counter-culture jargon of the sixties, from the miniskirts to the multilayers of later years, we watch their lives unspool and see the consequences of their very mismatched marriage.
Год: 2015
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 884994
ISBN: 9780099469599
Автор: Tyler Anne

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Every town on Discworld knows the stories about rats and pipers, and Maurice - a streetwise tomcat - leads a band of educated ratty friends (and a stupid kid) on a nice little earner. Piper plus rats equals lots and lots of money.

Until they run across someone playing a different tune.

Now he and his rats must learn a new concept: evil...

Издание полностью на английском языке.

Серия: Discworld
Год: 2011
Производитель: Corgi book
Артикул: 329095
ISBN: 9780552562928
Автор: Pratchett Terry

The Amber Spyglass
Издание полностью на английском языке.

The third novel in Philip Pullman's epic His Dark Materials trilogy. The first, Northern Lights, is now the stunning motion picture

The terrible war foretold by the witches is coming. Will is the bearer of the subtle knife, the most powerful weapon in all the worlds, and must deliver it to Lord Asriel. But he faces his dangerous journey alone, for Lyra has disappeared...

"An extraordinary masterpiece" Daily Mail
Год: 2007
Производитель: Scholastic Inc.
Артикул: 322914
ISBN: 9781407104065
Автор: Pullman Philip

The Ambler Warning
On Parrish Island, off the coast of Virginia, there is a little known and never visited psychiatric facility where the government stores former intelligence employees whose psychiatric state makes them a danger to their own government.

One of these employees is former agent Hal Ambler. But there's one difference between Hal and the other patients - Hal isn't crazy. Hal pulls off a daring escape and now he's out to discover who stashed him here and why. But the world he returns to has changed. No one remembers him, there are no official records of Hal Ambler, and, when he first looks in the mirror, the face he sees is not his own...
Год: 2010
Производитель: Orion
Артикул: 406327
ISBN: 978-1-4091-1767-4
Автор: Ludlum Robert

The Anatomy Lesson
'The Anatomy Lesson is a ferocious, heartfelt book - lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions' John Updike



With his fortieth birthday receding into the distance, along with his hairline and his most successful novel, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, finds himself physically unable to write a line.



He treks from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Could it be, he wonders to himself, that the cause of the pain is nothing less than the books he has written?



As he grapples with this possibility, he tries an onslaught of painkillers, then vodka, and finally marijuana. He contemplates threatening the pain with suicide, attempting to scare it out of his system. He toys with the prospect of a dramatic career change. What will it take for the pain to finally leave him alone?
Год: 2016
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885048
ISBN: 9780099476610
Автор: Roth Philip

The Ankh-Morpork Archives. Volume One
A comprehensive guide to the enigmatic capital city of Terry Pratchett's DISCWORLD, getting to the heart of Ankh-Morpork's secrets, societies and guilds

Think you know Ankh-Morpork? Think again.

In this top-secret guide, travellers will receive a first-hand experience of the real city. If you've ever wondered where Unseen University students wet their whistles (while managing to avoid their teachers doing the same), or exactly what the Assassins' Guild constitutes a true and proper means of inhumation - there are standards to be upheld, after all - then this is the book for you.

Just don't let the Thieves' Guild catch you with this. They won't appreciate their methods being flogged behind their back. Flogging's their job, after all.

Completely revamped and redesigned, this full-colour book contains material from DISCWORLD DIARIES across the decades.
Год: 2019
Производитель: Orion
Артикул: 776029
ISBN: 9781473205352
Автор: Pratchett Terry

The Appeal
In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply, causing the worst "cancer cluster" in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it. Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided? The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a billionaire like Mr. Trudeau. Through an intricate web of conspiracy and deceit, his political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate. They finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mould him into a potential Supreme Court justice.Their Supreme Court justice. The Appeal is a powerful, timely, and shocking story of political and legal intrigue, a story that will leave readers unable to think about the electoral process or judicial system in quite the same way ever again.
Год: 2012
Производитель: Arrow Books
Артикул: 329107
ISBN: 9780099481768
Автор: Grisham John

The Appeal
"Politics has always been a dirty game. Now justice is, too. "In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply, causing the worst "cancer cluster" in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it. Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided? The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a billionaire like Mr. Trudeau. Through an intricate web of conspiracy and deceit, his political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate. They finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mold him into a potential Supreme Court justice. "Their" Supreme Court justice.
Год: 2016
Производитель: Dell book
Артикул: 576538
ISBN: 9780440243816
Автор: Grisham John

The Apple. Crimson Petal Stories
The Crimson Petal and the White is one of the best-loved novels of recent years. Now a major BBC TV drama, it captured hearts and left readers desperate for more. In The Apple, Faber returns to Silver Street to find it still teeming with life, and conjures further tantalising glimpses of Sugar, Clara, Mr Bodley and many other favourites.
Год: 2011
Производитель: Canongate
Артикул: 776500
ISBN: 9780857860859
Автор: Faber Michel

The Arms Maker of Berlin
A ruthless arms billionaire and a disgraced history professor share a terrible secret.

Nat Turnbull is dragged abruptly from his quiet academic life when his former mentor Professor Gordon Wolfe is arrested for stealing top secret archive documents dating back to the Second World War.

Coerced into examining the archives for the FBI, Nat finds intriguing references both to Wolfe's activities in an Allied intelligence office in Switzerland during the war, and to a mysterious student resistance group in Berlin known as the White Rose.

Following Wolfe's cryptic clues to Europe, soon Nat is in a desperate race to unlock the truth, before it gets him killed.
Год: 2010
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 795151
ISBN: 9780340961285
Автор: Fesperman Dan

The Art of Detection
In this thrilling new crime novel that ingeniously bridges Laurie R. King's Edgar and Creasey Awards-winning Kate Martinelli series and her bestselling series starring Mary Russell, San Francisco homicide detective Kate Martinelli crosses paths with Sherlock Holmes-in a spellbinding dual mystery that could come only from the "intelligent, witty, and complex" mind of New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King

Kate Martinelli has seen her share of peculiar things as a San Francisco cop, but never anything quite like this: an ornate Victorian sitting room straight out of a Sherlock Holmes story-complete with violin, tobacco-filled Persian slipper, and gunshots in the wallpaper that spell out the initials of the late queen.

Philip Gilbert was a true Holmes fanatic, from his antiquated decor to his vintage wardrobe. And no mere fan of fiction's great detective, but a leading expert with a collection of priceless memorabilia-a collection some would kill for.

And perhaps someone did: In his collection is a century-old manuscript purportedly written by Holmes himself-a manuscript that eerily echoes details of Gilbert's own murder.

Now, with the help of her partner, Al Hawkin, Kate must follow the convoluted trail of a killer-one who may have trained at the feet of the greatest mind of all times.
Год: 2007
Производитель: Bantam books
Артикул: 415221
ISBN: 978-0-553-58833-0
Автор: King Laurie R

The Art of Fielding
At Westish College, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league until a routine throw goes disastrously off course. In the aftermath of his error, the fates of five people are upended. Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president Guert Affenlight has fallen unexpectedly and helplessly in love. Owen Dunne becomes caught up in a dangerous affair. Mike Schwartz realizes he has guided Henry's career at the expense of his own. And Pella Affenlight returns to Westish after escaping an ill-fated marriage, determined to start a new life.

As the season counts down to its climactic final game, these five are forced to confront their deepest hopes, anxieties, and secrets. Written with boundless intelligence and filled with the tenderness of youth, "The Art of Fielding is mere baseball fiction the way Moby Dick is just a fish story" (Nicholas Dawidoff). It is an expansive, warmhearted novel about ambition and its limits, about family and friendship and love, and about commitment--to oneself and to others.
Год: 2011
Производитель: Back Bay Books
Артикул: 403526
ISBN: 978-0-316-21753-8
Автор: Hardbach Chad

The Association of Small Bombs
When the Khurana boys and their friend Mansoor set out for one of Delhi's markets, disaster strikes without warning. A 'small' bomb detonates, killing the brothers instantly. Mansoor is one of the few survivors.



From India to America, the lives of victims and bystanders, mothers and fathers, comrades and adversaries are changed forever. Even the young bomb maker cannot escape the heat of the blast.
Год: 2017
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885371
ISBN: 9780099523284
Автор: Mahajan Karan

The Attack
A strikingly powerful novel exploring the motivations of a suicide bomber in Israel, told through the eyes of her husband.



Now an award-winning film, winner of the Frankfurt Book Fair prize for best literary film adaptation.



Tel Aviv. A suicide bomber has killed 19 in a packed city centre restaurant. Dr Amin Jaafie, an Israeli Arab, is a surgeon at a nearby hospital. Respected and admired by his colleagues, the doctor represents integration at its most successful. But this night of turmoil and death takes a horrifyingly personal turn as his beloved wife's body is found among the dead... could she have caused the devestation?



From the graphic, shocking description of the bombing that opens the novel to its searing conclusion, The Attack portrays the reality of terrorism and its costs. Intense and humane, thoughtful, sensitive and heartfelt, it displays a profound understanding of that which can seem incomprehensible.
Год: 2007
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885172
ISBN: 9780099499275
Автор: Khadra Yasmina

The Authenticity Project
Six strangers with one thing in common: their lives aren't always what they make them out to be.

What would happen if they told the truth instead?

Julian Jessop is tired of hiding the deep loneliness he feels. So he begins The Authenticity Project - a small green notebook containing the truth about his life.

Leaving the notebook on a table in his friendly neighbourhood cafe, Julian never expects Monica, the owner, to track him down after finding it. Or that she'll be inspired to write down her own story.

Little do they realize that such small acts of honesty hold the power to impact all those who discover the notebook and change their lives completely.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Black Swan
Артикул: 818723
ISBN: 9781784164690
Автор: Pooley Clare

The Autograph Man
The Autograph Man follows one Alex-Li Tandem: a twenty-something Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organised religion. From London to New York, love to death, fathers to sons, Alex tries to discover how a piece of paper can bring him closer to his heart's desire. Exposing our misconceptions about our idols - about ourselves - Zadie Smith delivers a brilliant, unforgettable tale about who we are and what we really want to be.
Год: 2003
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886376
ISBN: 9780140276343
Автор: Smith Zadie

The Awakening
Constrained and confined by the limitations surrounding marriage and motherhood, Edna Pontellier begins to challenge the notion of femininity - questioning her love for her husband, and opening herself up to the possibilities of other men and a life outside of societal convention. Heralded as one of the first instances of feminist literature, Chopin's fascinating exploration of a woman's gradual awakening of her own desires is powerful, daring and ultimately tragic in its conclusions.

Серия: Collins Classics
Год: 2011
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 328223
ISBN: 9780007420056
Автор: Chopin Kate

The Awkward Age
What does it take to be a family?



Julia has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. James is her second chance, and everything she never knew she wanted. It s perfect but for two things: their children.



Julia s beloved daughter Gwen loathes James and James s son Nathan takes pleasure in antagonising his new stepsister. Uniting two households is never easy, but the teenagers unexpected actions will eventually threaten everyone s hard-won happiness.
Год: 2018
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885821
ISBN: 9780099569534
Автор: Segal Francesca

The Ballad of a Small Player
His name is Lord Doyle.



His plan: to gamble away his last days in the dark and decadent casino halls of Macau.



His game: baccarat punto blanco -- 'that slutty dirty queen of casino card games.'



Though Doyle is not a Lord at all. He is a fake; a corrupt lawyer who has spent a career siphoning money from rich clients. And now he is on the run, determined to send the money and himself up in smoke.



So begins a beguiling, elliptical velvet rope of a plot: a sharp suit, yellow kid gloves, another naughty lemonade and an endless loop of small wins and losses. When Lady Luck arrives in the form of Dao-Ming, a beautiful yet enigmatic lost soul, so begins a spectacular and unnatural winning streak in which millions come Doyle s way. But in these shadowy dens of risk and compulsion, in a land governed by superstition, Doyle knows that when the bets are high, the stakes are even greater.



The Ballad of a Small Player is a sleek, dark-hearted masterpiece: a ghost story set in the land of the living, and a decadent morality tale of a Faustian pact made, not with the devil, but with fortune s fickle hand.
Год: 2015
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 886191
ISBN: 9780099599685
Автор: Osborne Lawrence

The Bat. The First Harry Hole Case
Harry is out of his depth.

Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out of trouble. A young Norwegian girl taking a gap year in Sydney has been murdered, and Harry has been sent to Australia to assist in any way he can.

He's not supposed to get too involved.

When the team unearths a string of unsolved murders and disappearances, nothing will stop Harry from finding out the truth. The hunt for a serial killer is on, but the murderer will talk only to Harry.

He might just be the next victim.

Appearing in English for the first time, The Bat is the legendary first novel from the worldwide phenomenon Jo Nesbo.

Серия: Harry Hole
Год: 2013
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 723933
ISBN: 9780099581871
Автор: Nesbo Jo

The Battle of the Newton Road
The houses in Newton Road are small, but people are very happy there. Then a civil engineer wants to knock down the houses and build a new road. The people of Newton Road are very angry. But can they win the battle?

Серия: Pearson English Readers
Год: 2008
Производитель: Pearson
Артикул: 763704
ISBN: 9781405876940
Автор: Dunkling Leslie

The Beach + CDmp3. Level 6. Advanced
Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading.

Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to learners of all abilities.

Through the imagination of some of the world's greatest authors, the English language comes to life in pages of our Readers. Students have the pleasure and satisfaction of reading these stories in English, and at the same time develop a broader vocabulary, greater comprehension and reading fluency, improved grammar, and greater confidence and ability to express themselves.

Retold by Joanna Strange

Серия: Pearson English Readers
Год: 2008
Производитель: Pearson
Артикул: 880428
ISBN: 9781408274194
Автор: Garland Alex

The Beach House
Lose yourself in the perfect heart-warming read for summer, for fans of Jill Mansell, Katie Fforde, and Carole Matthews, from number one bestseller Jane Green



Nan, a widow whose family has flown the nest, is an independent, free-spirited woman who couldn't care less what people think about her living alone in her beloved beach house.



But when money starts running out and she might lose her home, she knows it's time for a drastic change.



Nan decides to rent out rooms for the summer, filling the house with noise, laughter and tears.



Among the visitors is Daniel, a recently divorced father, who's struggling to find out who he really is, and Daff, the single mother of a truculent teenager who blames her mother unreservedly for her parents' divorce.

But as the house comes to life again, Nan finds her family growing . . .



Her son comes home for the summer and an unexpected visitor turns up, turning all their lives upside down.



From the bestselling author of The Sunshine Sisters, Summer Secrets and Falling comes a heart-warming and compelling story of friendship, love and those moments that can change your life.
Год: 2009
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 886802
ISBN: 9780141022031
Автор: Green Jane

The Beacon
Colin. May. Frank. Berenice. The Prime children grew up in a bleak country farm house called The Beacon. Colin and Berenice married locally. May went to university in London, but came home within a year and never left again. Only Frank, quiet, watchful Frank, got away. He left for Fleet Street and a career in journalism but its the publication of a book about his childhood that brings the fame and money he craves - and tears his family apart.
Год: 2009
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885405
ISBN: 9780099526957
Автор: Hill Susan

The Beautiful Creatures Paperback Set
Fans of the New York Times bestselling Beautiful Creatures series will devour this gorgeous gift set.

There were no surprises in Gatlin County. At least, that's what I thought. Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong.

Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world where a curse has marked Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals for generations.

Mysterious, suspenseful, and romantic, Beautiful Creatures, Beautiful Darkness, Beautiful Chaos, and Beautiful Redemption introduce a secret world hidden in plain sight. A world where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen. Sometimes life-ending.

This stunning set makes the perfect gift for fans of this bestselling Southern gothic romance.
Год: 2012
Производитель: Little, Brown and Company
Артикул: 403497
ISBN: 978-0-316-24376-6
Автор: Garcia Kami, Штоль Маргарет

The Beekeeper of Aleppo
In the midst of war, he found love

In the midst of darkness, he found courage

In the midst of tragedy, he found hope

What will you find from his story?

Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo - until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by war, they are forced to escape.

As Nuri and Afra travel through a broken world, they must confront not only the pain of their own unspeakable loss, but dangers that would overwhelm the bravest of souls. Above all - and perhaps this is the hardest thing they face - they must journey to find each other again.

Moving, powerful, compassionate and beautifully written, The Beekeeper of Aleppo is a testament to the triumph of the human spirit. Told with deceptive simplicity, it is the kind of book that reminds us of the power of storytelling.
Год: 2020
Производитель: Kings Road Publishing
Артикул: 818824
ISBN: 9781838770013
Автор: Lefteri Christy

The Beggar Maid
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**



Born into the back streets of a small Canadian town, Rose battled incessantly with her practical and shrewd stepmother, Flo, who cowed her with tales of her own past and warnings of the dangerous world outside. But Rose was ambitious - she won a scholarship and left for Toronto where she married Patrick. She was his Beggar Maid, 'meek and voluptuous, with her shy white feet', and he was her knight, content to sit and adore her.



Alice Munro's wonderful collection of stories reads like a novel following Rose's life as she moves away from her impoverished roots and forges her own path in the world.
Год: 2004
Производитель: Random House
Артикул: 829554
ISBN: 9780099458357
Автор: Munro Alice

The Beginner's Goodbye
When Dorothy came back from the dead, it seemed to Aaron that some people simply didn t notice.



The accident that killed Dorothy involving an oak tree, a sun porch and some elusive biscuits leaves Aaron bereft and the house a wreck. As those around him fuss and flap and bring him casserole after casserole, Aaron ploughs on. But then Dorothy starts to materialise in the oddest places. At first, she only comes for a short while, leaving Aaron longing for more. Gradually she stays for longer, and as they talk, they also bicker and the cracks that were present in their perfectly ordinary marriage start to reappear...
Год: 2016
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885835
ISBN: 9780099572237
Автор: Tyler Anne

The Bellini Card
Charged by the Sultan to find a stolen painting by Bellini, Yashim the detective enlists the help of his friend Palewski, the Polish Ambassador, and goes undercover. Venice in 1840 is a city of empty palazzos and silent canals, and Palewski starts to mingle with Venetian dealers - but when two bodies turn up in the canal, he realises that art in Venice is a deadly business, and it is up to Yashim to attempt to rescue his intrepid friend from forces bigger than they had ever imagined . . .
Год: 2009
Производитель: Faber and Faber
Артикул: 776596
ISBN: 9780571239917
Автор: Goodwin Jason

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Discover the Sunday Times bestselling novel that inspired the beloved hit film starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, Dev Patel and Penelope Wilton.



Enticed by advertisements for a luxury retirement home in India, a group of strangers leave England to begin a new life.



On arrival, however, they discover the palace is a shell of its former self, the staff are more than a little eccentric and the days of the Raj appear to be long gone.



But, as they soon discover, life and love can begin again, even in the most unexpected circumstances.



Previously published with the title These Foolish Things.
Год: 2016
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885944
ISBN: 9780099579038
Автор: Moggach Deborah

The Best Laid Plans
He wanted power; she wanted revenge. The magnificent novel by the internationally bestselling author of The Other Side of Midnight and Morning, Noon and Night.

He wanted power, she wanted revenge

'Dear Diary: This morning I met the man I am going to marry.' It was a simple enough entry in a young woman's diary which gave not the slightest portent of the elaborate chain of events that was about to occur.

The Best Laid Plans tells the explosive story of the beautiful and ambitious Leslie Stewart, who learns that for some men power is the greatest aphrodisiac; and of Oliver Russell, the handsome governor of a small southern state, who finds out why hell has no fury like a woman scorned.

With the unexpected twists and turns that are the hallmarks of his mega best-selling novels, Sidney Sheldon spins a tale of two equally determined people headed on a collision course. Oliver has a strategy to win the White House; Leslie has a scheme to make him wish he'd never been born. They both should have known that even the best laid plans can go dangerously astray in a deadly dangerous way.
Год: 2012
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 403605
ISBN: 97800065105, 9780006510550, 978-0-00-651055-0
Автор: Sheldon Sidney

The Best of Me
The bestselling love story behind the massive Hollywood film starring James Marsden and Michelle Monaghan. 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 slip ...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? This is the new epic love story from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of The Notebook, The Lucky One and The Last Song. Nicholas Sparks is one of the world's most beloved authors.
Год: 2011
Производитель: Sphere
Артикул: 584326
ISBN: 978-0-7515-5333-8
Автор: Sparks Nicholas

The Best of Me
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 slip . . . 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?

This is the new epic love story from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of The Notebook, The Lucky One and The Last Song. Nicholas Sparks is one of the world's most beloved authors.
Год: 2012
Производитель: Sphere
Артикул: 584325
ISBN: 978-0-7515-4297-4
Автор: Sparks Nicholas

The Bible. The Biography
The Bible is the most widely distributed book in the world. Translated into over two thousand languages, it is estimated that more than six billion copies have been sold in the last two hundred years alone. In this seminal account, Karen Armstrong traces the gestation of the Bible to reveal a complex and contradictory document created by scores of people over hundreds of years. Karen Armstrong begins her analysis with the origins of the very earliest books of the Hebrew Bible, in which God was called both 'Yahweh' and 'Elohim'. She then traces the development of both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament to reveal the disparate influences that helped to form these sacred texts. From the Jewish practice of Midrash and the Christian cult of Jesus; to the influence of Paul's letters on the Reformation and the manipulation of Revelations by Christian fundamentalism, Armstrong explores the contexts in which these sixty-six books were understood and explains the social needs they answered. In the process she reveals an unfamiliar and paradoxical work that will permanently alter our understanding of the Bible.
Год: 2015
Производитель: Canongate
Артикул: 579935
ISBN: 978-1-78239-640-6
Автор: Armstrong Karen

The Big Bag Mistake + CD. Per 0 Easystart
Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading.

Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to learners of all abilities.

Through the imagination of some of the world's greatest authors, the English language comes to life in pages of our Readers. Students have the pleasure and satisfaction of reading these stories in English, and at the same time develop a broader vocabulary, greater comprehension and reading fluency, improved grammar, and greater confidence and ability to express themselves.

Серия: Pearson English Readers
Год: 2008
Производитель: Pearson
Артикул: 880430
ISBN: 9781405880541
Автор: Escott John

The Big Bag Mistake. PER 0 Easystarts
Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading.

Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to learners of all abilities.

Through the imagination of some of the world's greatest authors, the English language comes to life in pages of our Readers. Students have the pleasure and satisfaction of reading these stories in English, and at the same time develop a broader vocabulary, greater comprehension and reading fluency, improved grammar, and greater confidence and ability to express themselves.

Серия: Pearson English Readers
Год: 2008
Производитель: Pearson
Артикул: 880429
ISBN: 9781405876704
Автор: Escott John

The Big Short
While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a fortune. This book tells the story of the misfits, mavericks and geniuses who, against all odds, made the greatest financial killing in history.
Год: 2015
Производитель: Penguin
Артикул: 683061
ISBN: 9780141983301
Автор: Lewis Matthew Gregory

The Black Tower
Commander Dalgliesh is recuperating from a life-threatening illness when he receives a call for advice from an elderly friend who works as a chaplain in a home for the disabled on the Dorset coast. Dalgliesh arrives to discover that Father Baddeley has recently and mysteriously died, as has one of the patients at Toynton Grange. Evidently the home is not quite the caring community it purports to be. Dalgliesh is determined to discover the truth of his friend's death, but further fatalities follow and his own life is in danger as he unmasks the evil at the heart of Toynton Grange.

Серия: Fiction - Crime
Год: 1990
Производитель: Faber and Faber
Артикул: 776691
ISBN: 9780571228683
Автор: James P. D

The Blackmailer
Judith Lane, not-quite-beautiful but charmingly serious, is the young widow of the war hero Anthony Lane, and an editor at the successful if rather rakish publisher Hanescu Lane & Co. Ltd. But one evening the harmonious routine of Judith's life is interrupted when she receives her first visit from Baldwin Reeves, who reveals that Anthony's wartime adventures were not quite as glorious as the newspaper reports would have her believe. To protect Anthony's family from the scandal, Judith reluctantly acquiesces to the repellent but attractive Reeves's demands but both blackmailer and blackmailee soon find themselves out of their depth in ways they could not have anticipated.



Darkly funny, strangely sexy, and glittering with Isabel Colegate's scalpel-sharp wit, The Blackmailer is a savage and sinister comic classic.
Год: 2022
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 881195
ISBN: 9781526615541
Автор: Colegate Isabel

The Blood Gospel
In his first-ever collaboration, New York Times bestselling author James Rollins combines his skill for cutting-edge science and historical mystery with award-winning novelist Rebecca Cantrell's talent for haunting suspense and sensual atmosphere in a tale about an ancient order and the hunt for a miraculous book known only as... The Blood Gospel.

After an earthquake in Israel reveals a tomb deep inside a mountain, a trio of investigators-a military forensic expert; a Vatican priest; and a brilliant archaeologist-set out to find a book rumored to have been written by Christ and said to hold the secrets to His divinity. But the enemy who hounds them is like no other, a force of ancient evil directed by a leader of impossible ambitions and incalculable cunning. The mysteries all lead back to a secret sect within the Vatican, a shadowy order called the Sanguines.
Год: 2013
Производитель: HarperCollins
Артикул: 420857
ISBN: 9780062295576
Автор: Rollins James, Cantrell Rebecca

The Body
Gordie Lanchance and his three friends are always ready for adventure. When they hear about a dead body in the forest they go to look for it. Then they discover how cruel the world can be.

Retold by Robin Waterfield.

Серия: Pearson English Readers
Год: 2008
Производитель: Pearson
Артикул: 763736
ISBN: 9781405882378
Автор: King Stephen

The Bone Season
Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney works in the criminal underworld of Scion London. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people's minds. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, she commits treason simply by breathing. The New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller also includes an exclusive excerpt of the sequel, The Mime Order.
Год: 2014
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 448053
ISBN: 9781408849989
Автор: Shannon Samantha

The Book Thief
Special 10th Anniversary Edition with exclusive extra behind-the-scenes material from the author.

It is 1939. In Nazi Germany, the country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier - and will become busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed forever when she picks up a single object, abandoned in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, and this is her first act of book thievery. So begins Liesel's love affair with books and words, and soon she is stealing from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library . . . wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times, and when Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, nothing will ever be the same again. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. Now a major film from Twentieth-Century Fox starring Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson.
Год: 2016
Производитель: Definitions
Артикул: 619596
ISBN: 978-1-909531-61-1
Автор: Zusak Markus

The Book Thief
Here is a small fact - You are going to die 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall. Some Important Information - This novel is narrated by Death. It's a small story, about: a girl an accordionist some fanatical Germans a Jewish fist fighter and quite a lot of thievery. Another thing you should know - death will visit the book thief three times.

Серия: Fiction
Год: 2005
Производитель: Random House
Артикул: 583529
ISBN: 978-0-552-77973-9
Автор: Zusak Markus

The Book of Fires
A stunning historical novel, "The Book of Fires" is the unforgettable story of Agnes Trussel - and love, fireworks and redemption. Brought up in rural Sussex, seventeen-year-old Agnes Trussel is carrying an unwanted child. Taking advantage of the death of her elderly neighbour, Agnes steals her savings and runs away to London. On her way she encounters the intriguing Lettice Talbot who promises that she will help Agnes upon their arrival. But Agnes soon becomes lost in the dark, labyrinthine city. She ends up at the household of John Blacklock, laconic firework-maker, becoming his first female assistant. The months pass and it becomes increasingly difficult for Agnes to conceal her secret. Soon she meets Cornelius Soul, seller of gunpowder, and hatches a plan which could save her from ruin. Yet why does John Blacklock so vehemently disapprove of Mr.Soul? And what exactly is he keeping from her? Could the housekeeper, Mrs.Blight, with her thirst for accounts of hangings, suspect her crime or condition? Historical fiction at its very best, "The Book of Fires" is utterly intriguing, completely compelling and impossible to put down.
Год: 2010
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 323363
ISBN: 9780007305735
Автор: Borodale Jane

The Book of Human Skin
The book of human skin is a large volume with many pages of villainy writ upon it.

There are people who are a disease, you know.

13 May, 1784, Venice: Minguillo Fasan, heir to the decaying, gothic Palazzo Espagnol, is born. Yet Minguillo is no ordinary child: he is strange, devious and all those who come near him are fearful. Twelve years later Minguillo is faced with an unexpected threat to his inheritance: a newborn sister, Marcella. His untempered jealousy will condemn his sister to a series of fates as a cripple, a madwoman and a nun. But in his insatiable quest to destroy her, he may have underestimated his sister's ferocious determination, and her unlikely allies who will go to extraordinary lengths to save her...
Год: 2020
Производитель: Bloomsbury
Артикул: 777302
ISBN: 9781408809648
Автор: Lovric Michelle

The Book of Intimate Grammarvin
Eleven years old and on the cusp of puberty, Aron Kleinfeld is precocious, imaginative - the leader of his gang of friends. But his bar mitzvah is looming, his friends are all hitting puberty and Aron, terrified and revolted by what he sees around him, enters a state of arrested development. He stops growing, retreats from the world, and is imprisoned in the body of a child for three long years. While Israel inches towards the Six-Day War, and his friends cross the boundary between childhood and adolescence, Aron remains in his child's body, spying on the changes that adulthood wreaks as, like his hero Houdini, he struggles to escape the trap of growing up.
Год: 2018
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885695
ISBN: 9780099552321
Автор: Grossman David

The Book of Strange New Things
OASIS, an Amazon Original Series, coming in 2017 'I am with you always, even unto the end of the world ...' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, Peter sets out on a quest to take the word of God to the farthest corners of the galaxy. His mission will challenge everything - his faith, his endurance and the love that can hold two people together, even when they are worlds apart.
Год: 2015
Производитель: Canongate
Артикул: 579936
ISBN: 978-1-78211-408-6
Автор: Faber Michel

The Book of Summers
Beth Lowe has been sent a parcel.

Inside is a letter informing her that her long-estranged mother has died, and a scrapbook Beth has never seen before. Entitled The Book of Summers, it's stuffed with photographs and mementos complied by her mother to record the seven glorious childhood summers Beth spent in rural Hungary.

It was a time when she trod the tightrope between separated parents and two very different countries; her bewitching but imperfect Hungarian mother and her gentle, reticent English father; the dazzling house of a Hungarian artist and an empty-feeling cottage in deepest Devon. And it was a time that came to the most brutal of ends the year Beth turned sixteen.

Since then, Beth hasn't allowed herself to think about those years of her childhood. But the arrival of The Book of Summers brings the past tumbling back into the present; as vivid, painful and vital as ever.
Год: 2012
Производитель: Headline
Артикул: 793285
ISBN: 9780755390854
Автор: Hall Emylia

The Book of Tomorrow
"A sweet, life-affirming tale . . . with a liberal sprinkling of magic."

-Marie Claire (UK)

"Filled with family secrets, intrigue, and magic aplenty."

-Booklist

Bestselling author Cecelia Ahern follows The Gift and P.S. I Love You with the mesmerizing story of a teenaged girl coming face-to-face with grief, growth, and magic in the Irish countryside, after a mysterious book begins to reveal her own memories from one day in the future. Perfect for long-time fans of Ahern, as well as for younger readers coming to her for the first time, The Book of Tomorrow's strong voice and sophisticated storytelling mark an instant new classic from this already beloved author.

Raised in the lap of luxury, spoiled and tempestuous sixteen-year-old Tamara Goodwin has never had to think about tomorrow. But when her world is irrevocably shaken by her father's self-imposed death, she and her mother are left drowning in debt and forced to move in with Tamara's peculiar aunt and uncle in a tiny countryside village.

Lonely and bored, Tamara's sole diversion is a traveling library. There she finds a large leather-bound book with a gold clasp and padlock, but no author name or title. Intrigued, she pries open the lock, and what she finds takes her breath away-for what's written inside is not only impossible and magical . . . it's her future.
Год: 2010
Производитель: HarperCollins
Артикул: 403611
ISBN: 978-0-06-196831-0
Автор: Ahern Cecelia

The Book of Tomorrow
Tamara Goodwin always had everything she wanted. Why would she ever give a thought to tomorrow? But suddenly life takes a difficult turn, and Tamara faces the hard decision to swap her glamorous town living for life in the country. However, Tamara is soon lonely and longing for her old life. Then a travelling library arrives in the village, bringing with it a mysterious leather-bound book locked with a gold clasp and padlock. What Tamara discovers within its pages takes her breath away and shakes her world forever. An unforgettable story about how tomorrow can change what happens today...
Год: 2012
Производитель: Harpercollins
Артикул: 328236
ISBN: 9780007182817
Автор: Ahern Cecelia

The Books of Jacob
The Nobel Prize winner s richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe.

In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas and a new unrest begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires with throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Catholicism, is pilloried as a heretic and revered as the Messiah, and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian alike, with scandalous rumors of his sect s secret rituals and the spread of his increasingly iconoclastic beliefs. The story of Frank a real historical figure around whom mystery and controversy swirl to this day is the perfect canvas for the genius and unparalleled reach of Olga Tokarczuk. Narrated through the perspectives of his contemporaries those who revere him, those who revile him, the friend who betrays him, the lone woman who sees him for what he is The Books of Jacob captures a world on the cusp of precipitous change, searching for certainty and longing for transcendence.

In a nod to books written in Hebrew, The Books of Jacob is paginated in reverse, beginning on p. 955 and ending on p. 1 but read traditionally, front cover to back.
Год: 2021
Производитель: Penguin USA
Артикул: 859708
ISBN: 9780593332528
Автор: Tokarczuk Olga

The Border
The war has come home.

For over forty years, Art Keller has been on the front lines of America's longest conflict: The War On Drugs.

Now elevated to the highest ranks of the DEA, Keller finds himself surrounded by an incoming administration that's in bed with the very drug traffickers that Keller is trying to bring down.

From the slums of Guatemala to the marbled corridors of Washington, D.C., Winslow follows a new generation of narcos, cops, addicts, politicians, and mere children fleeing the violence for the chance of a life in a new country.

The Border is an unflinching portrait of modern America, a story of - and for - our time.
Год: 2020
Производитель: HarperCollins
Артикул: 778589
ISBN: 9780008336424
Автор: Winslow Don

The Bourne Ultimatum +CD
Two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed "Jason Bourne." Only they know Bourne's true identity and understand that the telegrams are really a message from Bourne's mortal enemy, Carlos, also known as The Jackal, the world's deadliest and most elusive terrorist. And furthermore, they know what the Jackal wants: a final confrontation with Bourne.

Now David Webb must do what he hoped never to do again - assume the terrible identity of Jason Bourne. His plan is simple: to infiltrate the Medusan group and use himself as bait to lure the cunning Jackal into a deadly trap - a trap from which only one of them will escape.

Retold by David Maule.

Серия: Pearson English Readers
Год: 2012
Производитель: Pearson
Артикул: 763738
ISBN: 9781408263952
Автор: Ludlum Robert

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Lines may divide us, but hope will unite us...

Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas.

Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. And in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably become subsumed by the terrible process.
Год: 2008
Производитель: Definitions
Артикул: 724534
ISBN: 9781862305274
Автор: Boyne John

The Brass Verdict
A superb new novel featuring both Mickey Haller and Harry Bosch from the No.1 bestselling author.

Defence lawyer Mickey Haller has had some problems but now he's put all that behind him and is ready to resume his career. Then another lawyer, Vincent, dies, and Haller gets an unexpected windfall: he inherits all Vincent's clients - putting his stalled career back on track at a stroke.

Not only that, but Vincent had taken on a high profile and potentially lucrative murder case. It'll be a trial that promises big fees and an even bigger place in the media spotlight - and if Mickey can win against the odds, he'd really be back in the big leagues.

The only problem is the detective handling the case - a certain Harry Bosch - is convinced the killer must be one of Vincent's clients. Suddenly Mickey is faced with the biggest challenge of his career: how to successfully defend a client who might just be planning to murder him.
Год: 2012
Производитель: Orion
Артикул: 406315
ISBN: 978-1-4091-0203-8
Автор: Connelly Michael

The Brethren
Trumble is a minimum security federal prison, home to drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, and three former judges who call themselves The Brethren. They meet each day in the law library where they spend hours writing letters. They are fine-tuning a mail scam, and it's starting to pay big. The money is pouring in. But then their little scam goes awry. It ensnares the wrong victim, a powerful man on the outside, a man with dangerous friends, and The Brethren's days of quietly marking time are over.
Год: 2011
Производитель: Random House
Артикул: 584296
ISBN: 978-0-09-928025-5
Автор: Grisham John

The Bridges of Madison County
Fall in love with one of the bestselling novels of all time - the legendary love story that became a beloved film starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep.



If you've ever experienced the one true love of your life, a love that for some reason could never be, you will understand why readers all over the world are so moved by this small, unknown first novel that they became a publishing phenomenon and #1 bestseller.



The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, The Bridges of Madison County gives voice to the longings of men and women everywhere - and shows us what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again.
Год: 1997
Производитель: Arrow Books
Артикул: 884795
ISBN: 9780099421344
Автор: Waller Robert James

The British Museum Is Falling Down
The British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted - not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the 1960s, he and his wife must rely on 'Vatican roulette' to avoid a fourth child.

Серия: Vintage Classics
Год: 2011
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885714
ISBN: 9780099554226
Автор: Lodge David

The British laugh at... Английские анекдоты (на английском языке)
Данная книга представляет собой сборник современных английских анекдотов.

Для всех интересующихся юмором и английским языком.

Серия: English
Год: 2005
Производитель: Лицей
Артикул: 72005
ISBN: 5-8053-0404-4, 5-8053-0407-4
Автор: Сиротин Павел

The Burial Hour
Number one bestselling author and master of suspense Jeffery Deaver returns with the thirteenth Lincoln Rhyme thriller, which sees a crime go global...



When a man is snatched from a New York street in broad daylight, the only clue is a miniature noose left on the pavement.

By the time criminal forensic scientist Lincoln Rhyme is involved, a video of the missing man is already online, his dying breaths set to a grisly music by someone calling himself The Composer.

Rhyme and fellow investigator Amelia Sachs must follow The Composer across the globe as he continues his horrifying creation, kidnapping further victims to add their last breaths to his piece.

But with Rhyme and Sachs in a whole new world with its own rules, how can they possibly guess what danger they're in when the music finally stops?

Серия: Lincoln Rhyme Thrillers
Год: 2018
Производитель: Hodder & Stoughton
Артикул: 717441
ISBN: 9781473618664
Автор: Deaver Jeffery

The Buried Giant
The extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day.

The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin.

But at least the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. They expect to face many hazards - some strange and other-worldly - but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark and forgotten corners of their love for one another.

Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge and war.
Год: 2016
Производитель: Faber and Faber
Артикул: 549829
ISBN: 978-0-571-31506-2
Автор: Ishiguro Kazuo

The Butterfly Room
Full of her trademark mix of unforgettable characters and heart-breaking secrets, The Butterfly Room is a spellbinding, multi-generational story from Sunday Times bestseller Lucinda Riley.

Posy Montague is approaching her seventieth birthday. Still living in her beautiful family home, Admiral House, set in the glorious Suffolk countryside where she spent her own idyllic childhood catching butterflies with her beloved father, and raised her own children, Posy knows she must make an agonizing decision. Despite the memories the house holds, and the exquisite garden she has spent twenty-five years creating, the house is crumbling around her, and Posy knows the time has come to sell it.

Then a face appears from the past - Freddie, her first love, who abandoned her and left her heartbroken fifty years ago. Already struggling to cope with her son Sam's inept business dealings, and the sudden reappearance of her younger son Nick after ten years in Australia, Posy is reluctant to trust in Freddie's renewed affection. And unbeknown to Posy, Freddie - and Admiral House - have a devastating secret to reveal . . .
Год: 2019
Производитель: Pan Books
Артикул: 729975
ISBN: 9781529014969
Автор: Riley Lucinda

The Calling
The end of the world is coming. Play now. Or we all lose.

After centuries waiting in secret, twelve unbroken bloodlines, armed with hidden knowledge and lethal training, are called to take humanity's fate into their hands

The first book in a game-changing new series by bestselling author, James Frey.

Bryan High School, Omaha, Nebraska: Sarah stands at her graduation ceremony - perfect SATs, a star athlete, her life ahead of her. Then a meteor wipes out half her school. But Sarah is not hurt and not surprised. Because she is the Player of the 233rd line - the Cahokian. And she knows what this means.

Endgame is here.

Juliaca, Puno, Peru: Jago walks the streets after the meteor hits. There's looting and violence but he's not scared. He is the Player of the 21st line - the Olmec. And he's ready.

Endgame is here.

China, Australia, Turkey Twelve meteors fall. Cities and people burn. The news is full of the end of the world.

But Sarah, Jago and ten others are already plotting and planning for the fight. They are the Players and Endgame is here.

All but one of them will fail. But that one will save the world. We hope

Written into this book is a puzzle. Solve the puzzle, and you will find the key to open a case of gold. Read the Books. Find the Clues. Solve the Puzzle. Who will Win?

Google Niantic is building a mobile location-based augmented reality videogame inextricably tied to the books and mythology, a major prize will be tied to a puzzle in each book, and Twentieth Century Fox has bought the movie rights.
Год: 2015
Производитель: HarperCollins
Артикул: 767569
ISBN: 9780007585205
Автор: Frey James

The Camomile Lawn
Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in the dizzying heat of August 1939, five cousins have gathered at their aunt's house for their annual ritual of a holiday. For most of them it is the last summer of their youth, with the heady exhilarations and freedoms of lost innocence, as well as the fears of the coming war.



The Camomile Lawn moves from Cornwall to London and back again, over the years, telling the stories of the cousins, their family and their friends, united by shared losses and lovers, by family ties and the absurd conditions imposed by war as their paths cross and recross over the years. Mary Wesley presents an extraordinarily vivid and lively picture of wartime London: the rationing, imaginatively circumvented; the fallen houses; the parties, the new-found comforts of sex, the desperate humour of survival - all of it evoked with warmth, clarity and stunning wit. And through it all, the cousins and their friends try to hold on to the part of themselves that laughed and played dangerous games on that camomile lawn.
Год: 2006
Производитель: Vintage books
Артикул: 885169
ISBN: 9780099499145
Автор: Wesley Mary