The beginning of an exciting new urban fantasy series by the author of "The Maker s Song," about a fledgling voodoo priestess who gets caught up in murderous intrigue. Original.
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
Black Beauty is handsome and spirited, with a sweet temper. When he is four years old he is sold to a new owner who gently breaks him in. He is no longer free to gallop around the fields yet there is happiness and adventure among the hardship as his situation changes from being a carriage horse on a country estate to a cab horse in town. At the same time he is aware that his well-being and future fate depend very much on the kindness or cruelty of his various masters. The author's only book, Black Beauty was a huge success when it was first published in 1877. Its exposure of the ill-treatment of horses at the hands of their owners'led to a change in people's attitudes towards horses and domestic animals in general.
ISBN: 978-0-14062-418-2
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2010
... When the men were all looking at the treasure, something like a black shadow came to the top of the stairs ... It stayed back in the darkness of the stairs until the men moved the chest to their boats ... No one could see it, but the shadow was really a ghost that looked like a pirate ... No one could see him, but it was Blackbeard and the treasure was his to watch ...
ISBN: 9781842169582
Издательство:
Express Publishing
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
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
Издание полностью на английском языке. The inventor Sir Claud Amory is left with a bitter taste in his mouth when the formula for his powerful new explosive is stolen - by someone staying in his own house. Seeking a swift remedy, Sir Claud locks the doors and switches off the lights to allow the thief to replace the formula, no questions asked. But the darkness brings death, and Hercule Poirot is left to unravel a tangle of family feuds, old flames and suspicious guests to find the killer and prevent a catastrophe.
ISBN: 978-0-00-651137-3
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Cornelius von Baerle lives only to cultivate the elusive black tulip and win a magnificent prize for its creation. But when his powerful godfather is assassinated, the unwitting Cornelius becomes caught up in a deadly political intrigue. Falsely accused of high treason by a bitter rival, Cornelius is condemned to life in prison. His only comfort is Rosa, the jailer`s beautiful daughter, who helps him concoct a plan to grow the black tulip in secret. As Robin Buss explains in his informative introduction, Dumas infuses his story with elements from the history of the Dutch Republic (including two brutal murders) and Holland`s seventeenth-century "tulipmania" phenomenon. Retold by Florence Bell.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7228-1
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When railwayman Jim Stringer is assigned to drive holiday makers to Blackpool in the summer of 1905, he thinks he`s struck lucky. But his dreams are soon destroyed - when his train meets a huge millstone on the line. A thriller of sabotage, this book brings a twist to tales of Edwardian England, steam railways and amateur sleuthing.
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
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
This is a new edition of this popular "Young Reading" title re-issued with a hardback cover and the audio CD inserted into a wallet inside the back cover, making the book and CD easy to store together. "Black Beauty" is the classic story of the adventures of a beautiful horse. "The Young Reading" series is developed with experts at Roehampton University to help young readers grow in confidence and ability. The new packaging allows potential purchasers to view the inside of the book.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-9348-1
Издательство:
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When the game begins in New Orleans this Super Bowl 80000 people had better get ready to die. The Super Bowl - where thousands have gathered for an all-American tradition. Suddenly it`s the most terrifying place on Michael Lander is the most dangerous man in America. He pilots a television blimp over packed football stadiums every weekend. He is fascinated with explosives. And he happens to be very, very crazy. That`s why a beautiful PLO operative has seduced him. That`s why - on Super Bowl Sunday - the world will witness the bloody assassination of the U. S. president and the worst mass murder in history. Unless someone discovers what Michael Lander and can kill him first.
ISBN: 978-0-451-20415-8
Издательство:
Rem Distributors
Дата выхода: июль 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
It is a secret that has been hidden for more than a half-century. The clues have been scattered across the globe. Now someone has begun to piece them together. And the future of the world depends on their being stopped in time. In Maryland, a vicious gang breaks into the National Cryptologic Museum and steals a Nazi Enigma machine. In a London hospital, an Auschwitz survivor is murdered in his bed, his killers making off with a macabre trophy: the old man`s severed left arm. In Prague, a seemingly worthless painting is stolen from a synagogue. Three cities. Three thefts. Could there possibly be a connection?
When Maxudov`s bid to take his own life fails, he dramatises the novel whose failure provoked the suicide attempt. To the resentment of literary Moscow, his play is accepted by the legendary Independent Theatre and Maxudov plunges into a vortex of inflated egos. With each rehearsal more sparks fly and the chances of the play being ready to perform recede. "Black Snow" is the ultimate back-stage novel and a brilliant satire by the author of "The Master and Margarita" on his ten-year love-hate relationship with Stanislavsky, Method-acting and the Moscow Arts Theatre.
ISBN: 978-0-09-947932-1
Издательство:
Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In the wake of 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the quagmire in Iraq, and other apparently unexpected disasters, it seems reasonable to wonder about our stunted powers of prediction. Couldn`t we have foreseen these debacles and others and taken steps to avoid them? Informed skeptic and former Wall Street trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb very much doubts it, and in this arresting meditation on our wrongheaded beliefs about what is and isn`t likely - he draws his title from the illogical assumption that all swans are white - he explores how and why we`re wired to get the future wrong. You may be put off by Taleb`s discursiveness and, ironically, his smug certainty about our incurable "epistemic arrogance"; but in the face of his deeply considered...
ISBN: 978-0-14-103459-1
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands. His subjects are ill informed and unruly, and corruption, double-dealing and bloodshed are rife. However, with the aid of the Minister of Modernization, Basil Seal, Seth plans to introduce his people to the civilized ways of the West - but will it be as simple as that? "A comic novel, a novel of absurdities, conducted in a farcical world of double-cross and double-double-cross". Malcolm Bradbury
ISBN: 0-14-118398-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2001
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
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
Blackwater by Conn Iggulden is a fast-moving story told by Davey, a man who has lived his life as a tragic victim, often suffering at the hands of those closest to him. The book starts with Davey standing in the cold, calm, dark, nocturnal sea at Brighton beach, wearing his best suit and reflecting on his awful life.
ISBN: 978-0-00-722166-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012