Penguin Readers are written by specialist ELT authors. The language, vocabulary, style and content of every book is carefully graded to make sure it suits the learner`s own language ability. Every Penguin Reader has a range of activities in the book and accompanying Factsheet to help increase comprehension and develop reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.
ISBN: 978-1-4479-2538-5
Издательство:
Pearson Education Limited
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Rachel Morgan has fought vampires, werewolves, demons, and other supernatural dangers as both witch and bounty hunter and lived to tell the tale. But she`snever faced off against her own kind - until now.
ISBN: 978-0-06-113804-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
David Morrell, whose many bestsellers include Double Image, Extreme Denial, and The Brotherhood of the Rose, has consistently redefined the modern thriller. Now he turns to a darker side of suspense in a powerful collection of tales, many of them award winners, that delve into the weird, uncanny terrors that lurk just beneath the comforting surfaces of daily life. Fear of loss, fear of pain, fear of madness, fear of being trapped, fear of the inescapable, unspeakable horrors that fester deep within the soul.... No matter who or where you are, fear is always with you, always ready to attack from behind the masks of thought and dream. Let David Morrell tell you a story...
ISBN: 0-446-60864-5
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative - her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches - to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgänger, “Goblin”, a spirit from a dream world that Quinn can’t escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelgänger becomes...
ISBN: 978-0-345-44368-7
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
An urgent call from physicist Sir Claud Amory sends famed detective Hercule Poirot rushing from London to a sprawling country estate. Sir Claud fears a member of his own household wants to steal a secret formula destined for the Ministry of Defence. But Poirot arrives too late. The formula is missing. Worse, Sir Claud has Peen poisoned Py his after-dinner coffee. Poirot soon identifies a potent brew of despair, treachery, and deception amid the mansion`s occupants. Now he must find the formula and the while letting no poison slip `twix his own lips.
ISBN: 978-0-312-97007-9
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
In this swashbuckling novel, by the author of Treasure Island, young Dick Shelton is left orphaned. So he seeks the help of the mysterious Black Arrow fellowship. Brimming with adventure and suspense, this is a portrait of England during the War of the Roses, when many, like Dick, were torn between their loyalties.
ISBN: 978-0-451-52916-9
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Остросюжетный детектив. Салахадин Эль Нур работает инспектором в отделе античного искусства египетской полиции. После гибели археолога из Европы он разыскивает бесценную древнюю статуэтку. Вскоре Салахадин нападает на след международной банды контрабандистов.
ISBN: 978-0-230-02923-1
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children`s Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They`re books to treasure and return to again and again. From his simple beginnings under the shady trees in the meadow, Black Beauty`s life takes many twists and turns - from a riding horse on a country estate to a cab horse on the busy streets of London. Over time he has many owners, some of whom treat him cruelly, but throughout it all he keeps his sweet temper and fine spirit.
ISBN: 978-0-19-272798-5
Издательство:
OXED
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
Black Magic, White Noise presents an unsettling and fascinating collection of visuals focusing on the physical and the psychological as interpreted by contemporary designers from around the globe. From dark images of mystery and horror to works in which the irrational infiltrates broad daylight, the book draws its readers into an ambivalent world of chillingly beautiful illustration, photography, graphic design, collage, painting and installation. Not for the fainthearted, Black Magic, White Noise is a potent cocktail of the drastic themes and motifs that are being used and finding widespread acceptance in present-day design and other creative disciplines.
ISBN: 978-3-89955-187-7
Издательство:
Die Gestalten Verlag
Дата выхода: июль 2011
"Black Beauty" is a touching story written from a horse`s point of view. Black Beauty, a handsome, intelligent horse, lives in Victorian England on a peaceful farm with a wonderful master. But his life changes when he is sold to different masters-some are kind and understanding, but others are very cruel… Published in 1877, "Black Beauty" is surely the most loved animal story of all times – an unforgettable classic for readers of all ages
ISBN: 978-8-853-00499-4
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: январь 2011
Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. Until the prophesy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. There must be a way for the Black Company to find
ISBN: 978-0-8125-2139-9
Издательство:
Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
LAPD detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch, protagonist of the highly praised mystery The Black Echo, returns in a procedural thriller set in and around the drug-trafficking underworlds of inner-city Los Angeles and the wastelands of Mexico. When Bosch arrives at a sleazy hotel room where a fellow officer has committed suicide, he senses that something is awry. Noncommittal superior officers, a diffident widow and tales linking the dead man to a newly created street drug called "black ice" (heroin, crack and PCP rolled into one) send Bosch down a winding trail of forensic impossibilities, brutally violent drug traffickers and an ultimately shocking case of mistaken identity. Award-winning Connelly`s second fictional effort is strong and...
ISBN: 978-0-446-61344-6
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Впервые опубликованный в 1877 году, а затем экранизированный, роман о нелёгкой судьбе чёрного жеребца по имени Красавчик завоевал сердца читателей во всем мире. История Красавчика, рассказанная им самим, начиная с первых лет его жизни в английской деревне до тяжёлых рабочих будней в Лондоне, наполнена радостями и трудностями, встречами и расставаниями. Это позволяет взглянуть читателю на привычные нам...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05126-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
A #1 "New York Times" - bestselling author takes readers deep into the rugged Black Hills of South Dakota, where the shadows hide secrets, hunters stalk the land, and a childhood friendship matures into an adult passion.
ISBN: 978-0-515-14804-6
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A cargo ship arriving from Belgium at Richmond`s Deep Water Terminal is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway. Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is on the case. Author Web site.
ISBN: 0-425-17540-5
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Always be good, so people will love you. Always work hard and do your best.` These were the words of Black Beauty`s mother to her son when the two horses lived with Farmer Grey. But when Black Beauty got older, this was sometimes very difficult for him. Not everybody was as kind as Farmer Grey.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-4281-5
Издательство:
Longman Group UK Limited
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When Nikos, a detective in the final years of his career, is persuaded back to his home town he is faced with the gory murder of a young boy near the old monastery. Echoing two murders committed 33 years previously in the exact same spot, and a mass cult suicide, it brings back a part of the island`s history that it has tried hard to forget. There is a lot at stake - the island`s lucrative tourist trade and the open secret of the drugs trade that goes hand in hand with the hordes of mainly young British holidaymakers.
ISBN: 978-0-571-24483-6
Издательство:
Daedalus
Дата выхода: август 2011
A New York Times Bestseller. Kirkus Reviews hailed Clive Cussler`s last Dirk Pitt(R) novel, Trojan Odyssey, as Hurricane Clive at his most tumultuous. Nobody has been able to match Cussler for the intricate plotting and the sheer audacity of his work - and Black Wind sets the bar even higher.
ISBN: 978-0-425-20423-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by his melancholic sister, who has decided to come live with him; his ex-wife, who has infuriating hopes of redeeming the past; her delinquent brother, who wants money and emotional confrontations; and Bradley`s friend and rival, Arnold Baffin, a younger, deplorably more successful author of commercial fiction. The ever-mounting action includes marital cross-purposes, seduction, suicide, abduction, romantic idylls, murder, and due process of law. Bradley tries to escape from it all...
This is an audio version of the classic horse story, told by the title character himself. It is suitable for children aged 7 to 9 years old. "Black Beauty" is the classic horse story, a beautiful and touching tale told by the title character himself. Set in Victorian London, it follows Beauty`s life and changing fortunes as he moves from owner to owner. As the horse encounters new experiences and new friends who reveal their own histories, the story quietly paints a fascinating portrait of how animals were treated during that era. Now even the youngest children can appreciate the story with this handy new audio package, containing a paperback version of the book and two CDs.
ISBN: 978-1-4027-7363-1
Издательство:
Sterling USD
Дата выхода: август 2011