The definitive, acclaimed history of the Britpop era, when English music, celebrity, and politics co-mingled in a manner that was as unprecedented as it was fascinating
The ultimate code of conduct for young men-written by TV character Barney Stinson-describes how a true "bro" will behave in any and all situations, describing the history of the "Bro Code," a profile of a "bro," the essential principles and tenets of the code, amendments and violations, and more. Original. 100,000 first printing.
ISBN: 978-1-84739-930-4
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
THE BRO CODE provides men with all the rules they need to know in order to become a bro and behave properly among other bros. THE BRO CODE has never been published before. Few know of its existence, and the code, until now, has been verbally communicated between those in the `bro`. Containing approximately 150 unspoken rules, this code of conduct ranges from the simple (bros before hos) to the complex (the hot-to-crazy ratio, complete with bar graphs and charts). With helpful sidebros THE BRO CODE will help any ordinary guy become the best bro he can be. Let ultimate bro and co-author Barney Stinson and his book, THE BRO CODE share their wisdom, lest you be caught making eye contact in a devil`s three-way (two dudes, duh.) Sample...
ISBN: 978-1-847-39931-1
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: апрель 2011
In his final hours in the Oval Office the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems that Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the world`s most sophisticated satellite surveillance system. Backman is quietly smuggled out of the country in a military cargo plane, given a new name, a new identity, and a new home in Italy. Eventually, after he has settled into his new life, the CIA will leak his whereabouts to the Israelis, the Russians, the...
ISBN: 978-0-09-945716-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
With such tense novels as Blindsighted and Kisscut, Karin Slaughter has firmly positioned herself as one of the most capable exponents of the crime novel at work today - and certainly one of the most disturbing (a skill the author is clearly proud of). What's more, she ensures that each new book is subtly different from its predecessor, as her latest, Broken, demonstrates, with its innovative, edgy mix of tried and trusted elements. We are introduced once again to former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton, proving that the Jacobean taste for bloodshed and mystery is alive and well in contemporary USA. A woman's corpse is discovered in the waters of Lake Grant, and a note is found which seems to point to suicide - but...
A new Logan McRae thriller from the bestselling author of Cold Granite and Dying Light, set in gritty Aberdeen. In the pale grey light of a chilly February, Aberdeen is not at its best! There`s a rapist prowling the city`s cold granite streets, leaving a string of tortured women behind. But while DS Logan McRae`s girlfriend is out acting as bait, he`s dealing with the blood-drenched body of an unidentified male, dumped outside Accident and Emergency. When a stash of explicit films turns up, all featuring the victim, it looks as if someone in the local bondage community has developed a taste for violent death, and Logan gets dragged into the twilight world of pornographers, sex-shops and S&M. To make matters worse, when they finally...
ISBN: 978-0-00-719318-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: май 2012
Unsettled by her pregnancy, werewolf Elena Michaels is given the task of retrieving a stolen letter allegedly written by Jack the Ripper, but she soon discovers that the letter contains a portal to Victorian London`s underworld, allowing the vicious killer access to the twenty-first century, where he and a pair of zombie thugs are searching for Elena.
ISBN: 978-0-553-58818-7
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When the body of a young woman is discovered in Lake Grant, a note points to suicide. But soon it becomes clear that this is no suicide. It`s a brutal murder. Former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton finds herself unwittingly drawn into the case. But when she arrives at the local police station to see the chief suspect, he is lying dead.
ISBN: 978-0-09-953866-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they`re working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer. Both men work hard, marry, and have kids because that`s what cowboys do. But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it.
Before he was sent to federal prison for treason (among other things), Joel Backman was an extremely powerful man. Known as "the broker," Backman was a high roller--a lawyer making $10 million a year who could "open any door in Washington." That is, until he tried to broker a deal selling access to the world`s most powerful satellite surveillance system to the highest bidder. When caught, Backman accepted prison as the one option that would keep him safe and alive, since the interested parties (the Israelis, the Saudis, the Russians, and the Chinese) were all itching to get their hands on his secrets at any cost. Little does he know that his own government has designs on accessing that information--or at least letting it die with him....
ISBN: 978-0-440-24158-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Truckers, Diggers, and Wings: To the thousands of tiny nomes living under the floorboards of a large department Store, there is no Outside. They have no day or night, no sun or rain. They`re just daft old legends. Until they hear the devastating news that the Store is to be
JANE EYRE "The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself". "WUTHERING HEIGHTS" "May you not rest, as long as I am living! You said I killed you - haunt me, then!" AGNES GREY "The name of governess, I soon found, was a mere my pupils had no more notion of obedience than a wild, unbroken colt". THE PROFESSOR "She was not handsome, she was not rich, she was not even accomplished, yet she was my life`s treasure; I must then be a man of peculiar discernment".
ISBN: 978-0-14-104380-7
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
The extraordinary creativity of the Brontë sisters, who between them wrote some of the most enduring fiction in the English language, continues to fascinate and intrigue modern readers. The tragedy of their early deaths adds poignancy to their novels, and in the popular imagination they have become mythic figures. And yet, as Patricia Ingham shows, they were fully engaged with the world around them, and their writing, from the juvenilia to "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights", reflects the preoccupations of the age in which they lived. Their novels, which so shocked their contemporaries, address the burning issues of the day: class, gender, race, religion, and mental disorders. As well as examining these connections, Patricia Ingham...
ISBN: 978-0-19-953666-5
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha, share the same bed, living in one room with their brother and parents. Then the routine of their hard impoverished life is shattered on 22 June 1941 when Hitler invades Russia. For the Metanov family, for Leningrad and particularly for Tatiana, life will never be the same again. On that fateful day, Tatiana meets a brash young man named Alexander. The family suffers as Hitler`s army advances on Leningrad, and the Russian winter closes in. With bombs falling and the city under siege, Tatiana and Alexander are drawn inexorably to each other, but theirs is a love that could tear Tatiana`s family apart, and at its heart lies a secret that could mean death to anyone who hears it. Confronted on the one hand by...
ISBN: 978-0-00-651322-3
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Nathan and Tom are an uncle and nephew double-act - one in remission from lung cancer, divorced, and estranged from his only daughter, the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career. Matters change when Lucy, a little girl who refuses to speak, comes into their
ISBN: 978-0-571-22499-9
Издательство:
Faber
Дата выхода: август 2011
In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when a job is offered in America, it is clear that she must go. Leaving her family and home, Eilis sets off to forge a new life for herself in Brooklyn. Young, homesick and alone, she gradually buries the pain of parting beneath the rhythms of a new life - days at the till in a large department store, night classes in Brooklyn College and Friday evenings on the dance floor of the parish hall - until she realizes that she has found a sort of happiness. But when tragic news summons her back to Ireland, and the constrictions of her old life unexpectedly give way to new possibilities, she finds herself...
ISBN: 978-0-14-104776-8
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Koontzs beloved hero leaves the small desert town of Pico Mundo for the solitude and peace of an isolated monastery as he tries to find a way to live fully again. But Odd Thomas has a knack for finding trouble and must confront an enemy who eclipses any he has yet encountered, in this third "New York Times" bestseller featuring this beloved hero.
ISBN: 978-0-553-58910-8
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: июль 2011
There`s no one Karl Lion loves more than his older brother, Jonathan, who is brave, strong, and handsome - everything Karl believes he is not. Karl never wants to be parted from him. But Karl is sick, and knows he`s going to die. To comfort him, Jonathan tells him stories of Nangiyala, the wonderful place he`ll be going to when he dies, and where he will wait until Jonathan is ready to join him there. Then the unthinkable Jonathan is killed in an accident. Heartbroken, Karl longs for the day he`ll be reunited with his brother. When the time comes, he finds Nangiyala just as wonderful as he`d imagined. However, Nangiyala is under threat. A cruel tyrant is determined to claim it as his own, and at his command is a terrible beast that is...
ISBN: 9780192729040
Издательство:
OXED
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
This brilliant work by one of Russia`s foremost novelists teems with greed, passion, depravity, and complex moral issues. Three brothers, involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father, find their lives irrevocably altered as they are driven by intense, uncontrollable emotions of rage and revenge.
A fire at the Cathedral of Turin and the discovery of a strangely mutilated body attract the attention of Italy`s special Art Crimes Department. Chief Marco Valoni leads a crack team of investigators in a race to solve a crime he`s certain is about to shock the world - someone is planning to steal the Holy Shroud.
ISBN: 978-0-440-24302-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
If his enemies would just leave him alone, Miles Vorkosigan (alias Admiral Naismith) decided bitterly, the Dendarii Free Mercenary Fleet would collapse all on its own. But his enemies were plotting a more deadly fall. For some unexplained reason the Dendarii payroll is missing and the orders from the Barrayaran Imperial Command are being delayed by Miles`s superior, Captain Galeni. What connects the impeccable insufferable Captain Galeni and the Komarran rebel expatriates on Earth anyway? But the most deadly question of all before Miles is more personal: are Miles`s two identities, Admiral Naismith of the Dendarii and Lieutenant Lord Vorkosigan of Barrayar, splitting apart along the lines of his divided loyalties? And who is trying to...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-5544-5
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Sister Blue is not at home. Where is Sister Blue? Brother Blue can find her. Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign or second language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully written, the series combines the best of Ladybird content with the structured language progression that will help children develop their reading, writing, speaking, listening and critical thinking skills. The five levels of Readers and Activity Books follow the CEFR framework and include language activities that provide preparation for the Cambridge English: Young Learners (YLE) Starters, Movers and Flyers exams. Brother Blue, a Starter B...
ISBN: 978-0-241-28328-8
Издательство:
Ladybird
Дата выхода: январь 2017
Серия книг "Зарубежная классика - читай в оригинале" - это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. Неадаптированное издание на английском языке.
ISBN: 978-5-519-02181-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2016