A WEDDING IN DECEMBER: *`Anita Shreve specialises in the way unresolved past events can erupt into the present, and how tragedy lurks in the most ordinary lives` DAILY MAIL *`The perfect, weightless read is not always escapist. Some of us like to escape Author`s Biography: Anita Shreve is the author of twelve critically acclaimed and bestselling novels, all published in Abacus paperback.
Club Gouge: Chicago`s edgiest night spot, where a woman calling herself the Body Artist invites the audience to use her naked body as a canvas. The show attracts all kinds of people, from a menacing off-duty cop to Ukrainian mobsters and Iraq war veterans. A tormented young painter comes too, and the designs she creates on the Body Artist drive one of the soldiers into a violent rage. When the painter is shot, the police assume the shell-shocked veteran went off the rails. But his family hires to clear his name, and the detective uncovers a chain of ugly truths stretching from Iraq to Chicago`s South Side.
ISBN: 978-1-4447-0023-7
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
Someone is stalking Beryl Madison, watching her while she shops and phoning her at all hours. Then, and for reasons unknown, Beryl lets him into her home. The next day she is found dead and Chief Medical examiner, Dr Kay Scarpetta, investigates. Did Beryl know her killer?
ISBN: 0-7515-3042-5
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing once again, she has answered an ad to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage. But when the Edwards` two grown sons, Ben and Jeff, arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a destructive web of old tensions and bitter divisions. As the brothers vie for her affections, the fragile existence Sydney has rebuilt for herself is threatened. With the subtle wit, lyrical language, and brilliant insight into the human heart that has led her to be called an author at one with her metier (Miami Herald), Shreve weaves a novel about marriage, family,...
ISBN: 978-0-316-05985-5
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Agatha Christie's world-famous Miss Marple mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. It's seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now smeared across her cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry? The respectable Bantrys invite Miss Marple to solve the mystery… before tongues start to wag.
ISBN: 978-0-00-712083-3
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles literally meets her match-and must face a savage serial killer and shattering personal revelations-in the brilliant new novel of suspense by the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon and The Sinner. Dr. Maura Isles makes her living dealing with death. As a pathologist in a major metropolitan city, she has seen more than her share of corpses every day-many of them victims of violent murder. But never before has her blood run cold, and never has the grim expression dead ringer rung so terrifyingly true. Because never before has the lifeless body on the medical examiner`s table been her own. Yet there can be no denying the mind-reeling evidence before her shocked eyes and those of her...
ISBN: 978-0-345-45894-0
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
From "Muscle & Fitness" magazine comes a complete how-to guide showing how to get incredible, lifetime-lasting results in the quickest way possible. 150 photos.
From the "New York Times" - bestselling author of "The Other Boleyn Girl" comesa tempestuous Tudor tale about two queens, Anne of Cleves and Catherine Parr, and the woman who destroys them both.
Three women who share one fate: the Boleyn Inheritance. She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a court ruled by the terror of a vengeful king who despises her. Her Boleyn Inheritance: accusations and false witness. She is in love - but not with the diseased old man who made her queen and beds her night after night. Her Boleyn Inheritance: the threat of the axe. She is the Boleyn girl whose testimony sent her husband and sister-in-law to their deaths. Throughout Europe, her name is a byword for malice, jealousy, and twisted lust. Her Boleyn Inheritance: a fortune and a title, in exchange for her soul. The Boleyn Inheritance is a novel drawn tight as a lute string about three women whose positions...
The year is 1539. Henry VIII must take another wife and the dangerous prize of the crown of England is won by Anne of Cleves. Although she is fascinated by the glamour of her new surroundings, she can sense a trap closing around her. Katherine Howard, meanwhile, is to flirt her way to the throne. But her kinswoman Jane Boleyn is haunted by the past and the Boleyn inheritance of suspicion, betrayal and death. In this time of upheaval and uncertainty, these three young women must try to survive the most volatile court in Europe.
ISBN: 978-0-00-719033-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
With an introduction by Fidel Castro Che Guevara`s famous last diary, found in his backpack after he was captured by the Bolivian Army in 1967, and which played a pivotal role in catapulting him to iconic status after his death. In 1967 Che Guevara left Cuba to lead the Bolivian Liberation Army. In the jungles of Bolivia they attempted to initiate a revolution like that in Cuba, in which Che had played such a central role. This fascinating diary describes the troubled guerrilla campaign until Che`s final entry on the 7th October 1967 - the day before his capture by the CIA-backed Bolivian Army and his execution. Following the phenomenally successful film adaptation of `Motorcycle Diaries`, two of Che Guevara`s later and most insightful...
ISBN: 978-0-00-727719-3
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Kit Fielding`s patron, Princess Casilia, is in trouble. Her invalid husband is being threatened by a business partner. And to enforce the threat all the Princess`s best runners are being wantonly destroyed - shot by a bolt. The only person she can turn to is Kit, but he has problems of his own. His fiance Danielle appears to have changed her mind. And the old Fielding-Allardeck feud has once again violently intensified. Wherever he goes, the champion jockey seems to attract
INTERACT WITH LITERATURE offers a wide range of original literary texts from intermediate level upwards (unabridged short stories or extracts from novels, as well as complete unabridged plays) from English-speaking countries, designed to introduce students to the world of literature. The aim of these volumes is to familiarise readers with the language of literature and encourage them to formulate their own response to what they read. Each volume concentrates on a particular theme, genre or literary current. Key features: • biographical details about each author • carefully selected texts relevant to the theme of the volume • linguistic accessibility with numerous footnotes to guide understanding • stimulating, graded activities...
ISBN: 978887754-547-3
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A teenager murdered. A teacher accused. A secret that won`t stay year ago, accusations of an affair with a pupil cost Mark Bradley his teaching job. Now the student`s sister has been found dead, and Mark faces a hostile town convinced of his guilt. Hilary Bradley is determined to protect her husband, but digging into the girl`s secrets proves dangerous. Her only ally is a quirky Florida detective named Cab Bolton. As the facts emerge about the murdered girl`s past, Cab`s suspicion grows that others are involved in her death. But there are people willing to kill to keep the truth hidden - and to make sure Mark pays the ultimate price for a young girl`s murder. Hilary and Cab are both outsiders in a place that doesn`t trust strangers and...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-4880-0
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
US Navy intelligence analyst Ryan Evans is used to treating life like a code to be deciphered. But a brutal kidnapping in the Iraqi desert presents him with an excruciating dilemma that turns his whole world upside home in Texas, the serial killer dubbed `Bone Man` is about to be released, amid allegations that the wrong man was put behind bars. When Bone Man strikes again, hunter becomes hunted and Evans must risk everything he has to win a cruel game - and protect everything he loves. A tense psychological puzzle that explores the complexity and compromises of relationships, this is a dark and frightening thriller that drills into the ultimate battleground between good and evil - the human heart.
ISBN: 978-0-340-99610-2
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Marsilia, the local vampire queen, has learned that Mercy crossed her by slaying a member of her clan. Now, she`s out for blood. But since Mercy is protected from direct reprisal by the werewolf pack-and her relationship with its sexy Alpha-it`s not Mercy`s blood Marsilia is
ISBN: 978-0-441-01836-9
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Abducted by two men, Neil Griffon discovers that unless he agrees to their unreasonable demands, they will destroy his father`s precious horses and racing stable - and, ultimately, Neil himself. Returned to his father`s stables, he must find a way to bring down these criminals. Because having to choose between his integrity and his life is no choice at all.
ISBN: 978-0-425-20885-4
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
At twenty to midnight Neil Griffon`s home is broken into and he is roughly abducted by masked men. He has no idea who they are, or what they want. But when Neil wakes up, hours later, he quickly discovers that unless he cooperates his kidnappers will destroy his father`s precious horses, racing stable and ultimately Neil himself. Returned to take charge of the stables, Neil can tell no-one about his ordeal. Vicious threats and horrible violence against his horses become a day-to-day reality and he is forced to comply with his blackmailer`s wishes. Trapped in a war of attrition, Neil realises he must find a way to stop these criminals before his nerve gives out. After all, a choice between his integrity and his life is no choice at
Temperance Brennan, like her creator Kathy Reichs, is a brilliant, sexy forensic anthropologist called on to solve the toughest cases. But for Tempe, the discovery of a young girl`s skeleton in Acadia, Canada, is more than just another assignment. Evangeline, Tempe`s childhood best friend, was also from Acadia. Named for the character in the Longfellow poem, Evangeline was the most exotic person in Tempe`s eight-year-old world. When Evangeline disappeared, Tempe was warned not to search for her, that the girl was dangerous. Thirty years later, flooded with memories, Tempe cannot help wondering if this skeleton could be the friend she lost so many years ago. And what is the meaning of the strange skeletal lesions found on the bones of the...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-2565-3
Издательство:
Pocket Books
Дата выхода: июнь 2012