This delightful tabbed board book features the words of six seasonal lullabies that are guaranteed to induce a peaceful slumber, including "Away in a Manger", "I Saw Three Ships" and "In the Bleak Midwinter". The accompanying CD contains the melodies for all the lullabies in the book, plus eight additional tracks of soothing Christmas music, including one composed exclusively for this book. Each lullaby is stylishly illustrated by Elena Temporin. This is the prefect Christmas gift for parents of babies and young children.
ISBN: 978-1-4095-3846-2
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
A collection of three stories of future shock and suspense. This title includes: The Long Walk, Roadwork, and The Running Man - in which Stephen King also explains `Why I was Richard Bachman`.
ISBN: 978-0-340-95225-2
Издательство:
Hodder Education
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
When the corpse of the shady industrialist who owns the local football team is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen is called to Bologna to oversee the investigation. Recovering slowly from surgery, and fleeing an equally painful crisis in his personal life, Zen is only too happy to take on what at first appears to be a routine and relatively undemanding assignment. But soon a world-famous university professor is shot with the same gun, immediately after publicly humiliating Italy`s leading celebrity television chef, and the case - intertwined with the fates of an earnest student of semiotics and a mysterious young immigrant who claims to be from Ruritania - spins out of control, and Zen...
When the corpse of the shady industrialist, who owns the local football team, is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen is called to Bologna to oversee the investigation. Recovering slowly from surgery, Zen is only too happy to take on what at first appears to be an undemanding assignment.
ISBN: 978-0-571-22777-8
Издательство:
Faber
Дата выхода: август 2011
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information retrieval system, without permission from Pearson Education, Inc. Формат: 15 см x 21 см.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-0029-7
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Tansy is desperate to get away from her media job, her coke habit, her dead mother and her selfish boyfriend. Travelling through Asia, she finds it more smelly than romantic, but she is determined not to give in. Soon she starts to enjoy her journey, until she discovers murder is following her.
ISBN: 978-0-7472-6676-1
Издательство:
Hodder
Дата выхода: август 2011
Darcey and Nieve were best friends for life. Until Nieve stole the heart of Aidan, the boy Darcey had fallen in love with while Nieve was travelling. Aidan was going to propose the very night Nieve caught his eye, and Darcey had seen the ring. For the next ten years she`s haunted by the memory of her humiliation. No career success, no comfort her eccentric but loving family can offer, not even (short-lived) marriage to Neil, can console her. And then the invitation comes: to the wedding of Aidan and Nieve, neither of whom she`s seen since they left Ireland for life in the USA. They`re coming home to have the wedding of a lifetime at Ireland`s most expensive hotel. Will Darcey be there? Will there be fireworks? And can the past be put to...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-4130-6
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Sunny McDonald is in the ultimate forbidden relationship. Her boyfriend Magnus is a vampire, and the leader of the Blood Coven. And when the Coven decides that Magnus needs a mate to be his co-ruler, Sunny`s humanity puts her out of the running. The Coven`s chosen candidate is Jane Johnson, a magna cum laude graduate of Oxford University who just happens to look like a vampiric supermodel. Sunny is suspicious of a Rhodes Scholar who can`t answer the most basic poli-sci questions, but Magnus brushes it off as petty jealousy. Still, when the Blood Coven goes to Las Vegas for a vampire convention, Sunny and her twin sister Rayne secretly tag along. And Sunny`s not going home before she learns the truth about Jane. Because not everything...
ISBN: 978-0-425-23264-4
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Bad Cat returns in this loopy picture book for readers up to 8, and he`s up to his old tricks. The toothy feline runs into a restaurant kitchen to cook himself breakfast, puts his painty paws on an artist`s canvas, and climbs up a ladder some thieves are climbing down. Finally he slinks backstage and finds himself the center of a big dance production. Yet somehow everything Bad Cat does "wrong" seems to turn out right, even though it doesn`t matter to him one way or the other; "I`m Bad Cat, top hat cat, dancing on my way, to the twinkly lights in Stinkytown, razzle-dazzle hey" he sings in defiant triumph. Tracy-Lee McGuinness-Kelly renders her insouciant hero in jazzy computer-generated collages. "This book is brimming with, well,...
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student`s capabilities. Detective Inspector Helen Shepherd is called to investigate the murder of a young woman on a beach on the south coast of England. The young woman was one of a group of workers from a music company who are staying at a nearby hotel. Shepherd and her new sergeant Webb question the other workers to find out who had a motive for murder. More than one has, so which one is the murderer and how did they do it? Contains a paperback and two Audio CDs with complete text recordings from the book.
ISBN: 978-0-521-17918-8
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011
Camilla Cream loves lima beans, but she never eats them because the other kids in her school don`t like them. And Camilla Cream is very worried about what other people think of her. In fact, she`s so worried that she`s about to break out in a bad case of stripes.
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student`s capabilities. Detective Inspector Helen
ISBN: 978-0-521-17919-5
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Mandy has been picked on at school for as long as she can remember. That`s why she is delighted when cheeky, daring, full-of-fun Tanya picks her as a friend. Mum isn`t happy - she thinks Tanya`s a bad girl and a bad influence. Mandy`s sure Tanya can only get her out of trouble, not into could she?
ISBN: 978-0-440-86762-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Four girls — Mary, Bea, Meena and Atlanta — are thrown together when they are picked for very different reasons by their teacher, to form a book review club. Their discussions and reviews will be heard on radio, chaired and presented by the incredibly cool Jazz. As the girls gradually relax and talk more and more animatedly about what they think about the different books, they find they are learning from, as well as about, each other. And so they become
ISBN: 978-0-7475-7567-2
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Original stories at seven levels from starter to advanced, written specially for learners of English. With gripping plots and a range of genres to satisfy every taste, Cambridge English Readers offer high-quality original fiction that students
ISBN: 978-0-521-53653-0
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. Detective Flick Laine meets handsome Dr Jack Daly at a party in Denver, USA. When Daly calls later, inviting her to meet him to `talk about something`, she accepts. But before they
ISBN: 978-0-521-68628-0
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: август 2011
From the first shocking scenes in Child`s explosive new novel, Jack Reacher is plunged into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends and is on its way to becoming something even worse.
ISBN: 978-0-440-24366-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Connolly tells a raw, gripping tale in his latest "New York Times" bestseller. In 1693, the people of a small Maine island were slaughtered. Since the massacre, the island has enjoyed 300 years of peace - until now.
ISBN: 978-0-7434-8785-6
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The Bad Mother`s Handbook is the story of a year in the lives of Charlotte, Karen and Nan, none of whom can quite believe how things have turned out. Why is it all so difficult? Why do the most ridiculous mistakes have the most disastrous consequences? When are you too old to throw up in a flowerbed after too much vodka? When are you too young to be a mother? Both hilarious and wise, it is a clear-eyed look at motherhood - and childhood - in its many guises, from the moment the condom breaks to the moment you file for divorce or, more optimistically, from the moment you hear your baby`s first cry to the moment you realize that there are as many sorts of mother as there are children, and that love sometimes is the most important thing of...
ISBN: 978-0-330-45004-1
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Jill Murphy started putting books together (literally with a stapler) when she was six. Her Worst Witch series, the first of which was published in 1974, is hugely successful. She has also written and illustrated several award-winning picture books for younger children.
ISBN: 978-0-14-031446-5
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
"Bad Things" offers a pulse-pounding psychological thriller of deception, misfortune, complicity, and guilt from the bestselling author of "The Straw Men" and "The Intruders." Original.
Here is Stephen King`s most gripping and unforgettable novel - a tale of grief and lost love`s enduring bonds, of haunting secrets of the past, and of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire. Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie and Kyra`s struggle, as he...
ISBN: 978-0-671-02423-9
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
here is a reason why Stephen King is one of the bestselling writers in the world, ever. Described by Robert McCrum in the Observer as 'a sophisticated literary craftsman' whose 'work anatomises, with folksy charm, the social fabric of small town American life', Stephen King knows how to write stories that draw you in and are impossible to put down. When Mike Noonan's wife dies unexpectedly, the bestselling author suffers from writer's block. Until he is drawn to his summer home, the beautiful lakeside retreat called Sara Laughs. Here, Mike finds the once familiar town in the tyrannical grip of millionaire Max Devore. Devore is hellbent on getting custody of his deceased son's daughter and is twisting...
ISBN: 978-1-4447-2068-6
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011