Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. Bleak House is one of Dickens` finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. Its representations of a great city`s underworld, and of the law`s corruption and delay, draw upon the author`s personal knowledge and experience. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, these are some of the lives that Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07935-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
It is 1852 and three young people meet for the first time in High Court of Chancery. They are the latest victims to be caught in the long-running court case of Jamdyce vs Jamdyce. A case which has caused the financial and moral breakdown of many previous claimants.
ISBN: 978-1-405-07321-9
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: январь 2011
Set in the Kaw River Valley where Paretsky grew up, BLEEDING KANSAS is the story of the Schapens and the Grelliers, two farm families whose histories have been entwined since the 1850s, when their ancestors settled the valley as antislavery emigrants. Sara Paretsky is the New York Times bestselling author of FIRE SALE and KILLING ORDERS.
ISBN: 978-0-451-22445-3
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
There are fourteen books in this series to provide more difficult reading practice associated with blending adjacent consonants in words containing the vowel graphemes `a, e, i, o, u`. The consonant digraphs th, sh, ch, ng, ck, nch, tch are also covered as well as the double consonants ll, ff, ss. One or two of the books in the series have a small crease on the front cover.
The brilliant new international thriller by the modern spy master. Russia`s intentions are aggressive. They want to control more of Europe. The Kremlin is threatening to invade Ukraine, a country vital to the West`s oil and gas supplies. On the ground, in the seething pit of rumour and fear that is the city of Odessa, on the shore of the Black Sea, two top secret agents are searching for ways to prevent the horrors of invasion and war. Anna Resnikov, ex KGB, and Logan Patterson must negotiate the knife-edge of diplomacy and intimidation that pervades every corner of every street, cafe and back ally. They need information, the gold currency of espionage. The CIA is exerting heavy muscle and MI6 is influencing hearts and minds and both...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-7335-2
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: август 2011
From the bestselling author of "Kafka on the Shore" and "The Wind-up Bird Chronicles" comes this superb collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakami`s mastery of the form. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and relentlessly entertaining. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an iceman, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. Whether during a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile in Greece, a holiday in Hawaii, or in the grip of everyday life, Murakami`s characters confront grievous loss, or sexuality, or the glow of a firefly, or the impossible...
ISBN: 978-0-307-38632-8
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The new Logan McRae thriller set in gritty Aberdeen, from the bestselling author of Cold Granite and Flesh House. Aberdeen`s growing Polish community is under attack from a serial offender who leaves mutilated victims to be discovered on building sites - eyes gouged out and the sockets burned. Detective Sergeant Logan McRae is assigned to the investigation, codenamed Operation Oedipus, but with the victims too scared to talk, it`s going nowhere fast. When the next victim turns out to be not a newly arrived eastern european, but Simon McLeod, owner of the Turf n` Track bookies, Logan suddenly finds himself caught up in a world of drug wars, prostitution rings and gun-running courtesy of Aberdeen`s oldest and most vicious crime lord.
ISBN: 978-0-00-734257-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we wish for. Whether during a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile in Greece, a holiday in Hawaii or in the grip of everyday life, Murakami`s characters confront loss, or sexuality, or the glow of a firefly, or the impossible distance between those who ought to be closest of all.
ISBN: 978-0-09-951282-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
"A well-tangled web of intrigue and ; -Entertainment Weekly "Kellerman invariably rides high in the bestseller lists…Blindman's Bluff shows ; -St. Louis Post-Dispatch One of the popular couples in contemporary crime fiction, LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus are back in Blindman's Bluff-and placed in harm's way in the wake of a horrific home invasion and brutal multiple murder. Author Faye Kellerman, whose novels perennially live on the New York Times bestseller list, proves once again that "no one working in the crime genre is better" (Baltimore Sun) with this twisty, surprising shocker. A 3 phone call summons LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker to the well-fortified Coyote Ranch compound...
ISBN: 978-0-06-196828-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an inspiring and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time. A brilliant and
ISBN: 978-0-14-102616-9
Издательство:
Книжный мир
Дата выхода: август 2011
A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it`s only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer`s twisted work becomes clear. Sara`s ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, leads the investigation - a trail of terror that grows increasingly macabre when another local woman is found crucified a few days later. But he`s got more than a sadistic serial killer on his hands, for the county`s sole female detective, Lena Adams - the first victim`s sister - want to serve her own justice. But it is Sara who holds the key to finding the killer. A secret from her past could unmask the brilliantly malevolent or mean...
ISBN: 978-0-380-82088-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
In his international bestseller "The Tipping Point", Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in "Blink", he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within.
ISBN: 978-0-316-05790-5
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Publisher`s Weekly Starred Review. Best-selling author Gladwell (The Tipping Point) has a dazzling ability to find commonality in disparate fields of study. As he displays again in this entertaining and illuminating look at how we make snap judgments-about people`s intentions, the authenticity of a work of art, even military strategy-he can parse for general readers the intricacies of fascinating but little-known fields like professional food tasting (why does Coke taste different from Pepsi?). Gladwell`s conclusion, after studying how people make instant decisions in a wide range of fields from psychology to police work, is that we can make better instant judgments by training our mind and senses to focus on the most relevant facts-and...
ISBN: 978-0-14-102204-8
Издательство:
Книжный мир
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
A collection of short fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from schooldays to Discworld and the present day. In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world`s best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short-form fiction collected into one volume. A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett`s long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press, and the origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People; and on again to the dizzy mastery of the phenomenally successful Discworld series. Here are characters both familiar and yet to be discovered;...
This novel, by the author of Oscar and Lucinda, tells the story of a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell. For the first time in his life, Harry Joy sees the world as it really is, and takes up a notebook to explore and note down the true nature of the Underworld.
ISBN: 978-0-571-20979-8
Издательство:
Faber
Дата выхода: август 2011
The Cop Detective Sergeant Brant is tough and uncompromising, as sleazy and ruthless as the villains he`s out to get. While his violent methods may be questionable, Brant always gets results. The Killer: a psychopath has started a killing spree across London. Calling himself `The Blitz`, his weapon of choice is a workman`s hammer. And his victims are all cops. The Target: the police squad are desperate to catch the killer before he catches up with them. And Brant is top of his
Even the most diehard baseball fans don`t know the true story of William `Blockade Billy` Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first - and only - player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game`s history. Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional baseball, and with good reason. Blockade Billy had a secret darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in sports today. His secret was much, much and only Stephen King, the most gifted storyteller of our age, can reveal the truth about the world, once and for all. The...
ISBN: 978-1-4447-1619-1
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
The terrifying, spine-tingling new thriller from the author of Sacrifice and Awakening. A TIME TO BE BORN. Twelve-year-old Tom and his family have just moved to a small town perched on the crest of the moor. But troubles begin when Tom sees a mysterious child lurking around the nearby churchyard. A TIME TO DIE. Psychiatrist Evi is trying to treat a young woman haunted by the disappearance of her little girl. A devastating fire burned down their home, but even two years on she is convinced her daughter survived. A TIME TO KILL. Harry is the town`s new vicar, quickly befriended by the locals. But unusual events around the church suggest he isn`t entirely welcome, and that this odd little town harbours a terrifying secret. "From the Trade...
ISBN: 978-0-552-15977-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
It began with the kind of call no daughter ever wants to get, in this case a call from the Queen`s University Life Science Department to tell private investigator Vicki Nelson her mother had died. But what started as an all too normal personal tragedy soon became the most terrifying case of Vicki`s career. For when Marjory Nelson`s body mysteriously disappeared from the funeral home, Vicki immediately called on the two men in her life-vampire Henry Fitzroy and homicide detective Mike Celluci-for help. Vicki swore she`d find the culprit, and see her mother properly laid to rest. But what she hadn`t counted on was that someone at Queen`s University seemed determined to keep Mrs. Nelson on the job-alive or dead! Watch Vicki, Henry, and Mike...
Third in Mancusi`s hip, sassy vampire series, featuring the heroine of Stake That! She`s a vampire. She`s also a vampire slayer. (It`s a long story.) And now Rayne McDonald, Goth girl, has to carry out her most deviant mission yet: trying out for the cheerleading squad. Rayne already has enough on her plate: her twin keeps whining about whether or not to go all the way; her mom`s boyfriend is moving in; and her man, Jareth, who`s now allowed out in the sun, has turned from a dark, brooding hottie vamp into a surfer dude. But this vampire slayer is still on the clock, and she has a new assignment. A member of the football team has disappeared-and her bosses at Slayer Inc. think the cheerleaders had something to do with it. Now they want...
ISBN: 978-0-425-21716-0
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
Set at the time of the Russian Revolution, the end of a centuries old dynasty, the rise of the Bolsheviks sent shockwaves around the world. This is the story of one man who was there. It`s real history - about the riches and excesses, the glory of the Russian nobility, Nicholas and Alexandra, their haemophiliac son, Alexei, notorious Rasputin, Lenin and Trotsky who ruled from palaces where the Czars had once danced till dawn. The man was real too, his name was Arthur Ransome. He was a writer, accused of being a spy, perhaps even a double agent, and he left his wife and beloved daughter and fell in love with Russia and a Russian woman, Evgenia. Fictionalising history and blending it with real life, part i is told as a fairy tale. Wise and...
ISBN: 978-1-84255-637-5
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011