Lola Santisi is a twenty-six-year-old member of Hollywood Royalty (Papa`s vying for Best Director Oscar #2 and Mom`s a fixture at The Ivy). Without a kingdom--or even a condo--to call her own, she suffers from twin afflictions: Actorholism (a fatal addiction to dating hunky actors) and CDD (Career Deficit Disorder, an epidemic among children of Hollywood Royalty). Her latest gig as a Hollywood Ambassador means she`s been engaging in LA`s cruelest blood sport: convincing celebrities to wear her designer`s gowns to the Oscars. Lola`s first best friend is Kate, a Hollywood talent agent desperate to go from unter to uber, whether we`re talking sex, work, or both. Lola`s other BFF is Cricket, a struggling model/actress looking to surpass her...
ISBN: 978-0-7528-8322-9
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Q: What do Tiger, Paris, Lindsay, Alec, and Oprah have in common with the enduring characters of Anton Chekhov? A: Love, loss, pride, yearning, heartbreak, renewal, transcendence: the very stuff of life. The immortal stories of Anton Chekhov have long entranced readers with their insights into the universal truths of human but you`ve never read them quite like this. Former friends Nicole and Paris exchange prickly pleasantries in Tall and Short. Talk-show host Dave narrowly averts another potential domestic crisis in A Transgression. Reality star Kim shares her newfound notoriety with Khloe and Kourtney in Joy. In a witty, graceful, and revelatory feat of literary reinvention, acclaimed novelist and humorist Ben Greenman takes nineteen...
Civilization slipped into its second dark age on an unsurprising track of blood but with a speed that could not have been foreseen by even the most pessimistic futurist. By Halloween, every major city from New York to Moscow stank to the empty heavens and the world as it had been was a memory. The event became known as The Pulse. The virus was carried by every cell phone operating within the entire world. Within hours, those receiving calls would be infected. A young artist Clayton Riddell realises what is happening. He flees the devastation of explosive, burning Boston, desperate to reach his son before his son switches on his little red mobile
ISBN: 978-1-4447-0782-3
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Witness Stephen King`s triumphant, blood-spattered return to the genre that made him famous. Cell, the king of horror`s homage to zombie films (the book is dedicated in part to George ) is his goriest, most horrific novel in years, not to mention the most intensely paced. Casting aside his love of elaborate character and town histories and penchant for delayed gratification, King yanks readers off their feet within the first few pages; dragging them into the fray and offering no chance catch their breath until the very last page. In Cell King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism. Mobile phones deliver the apocalypse to millions of unsuspecting humans by wiping their brains of any humanity, leaving only...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-3481-5
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916) was a noted literary and folklorist. He edited a number of books of fairy tales, including this work and its sequel, More Celtic Fairy Tales. It includes the famous stories Conal Hammerclaw, The Story of Deirdre, Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree, The Wooing of Olwen, Jack and His Comrades, The Sea Maiden, Fairm Brown and Trembling, The Battle of the Birds, Brewery of Eggshells and many others. It is illustrated throughout with black and white Art Nouveau style plates and vignettes by John D. Batten.
ISBN: 978-1-907360-18-3
Издательство:
CRW Publishing
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for "A superb achievement: his prose has instant, lucid beauty and his narrative voice has a perfect poise and certainty. His account of deprivation and survival is marvellously sure, and the imaginative alignment of his story is exactly right". Tom Paulin "Marvellously creates the atmosphere of youngsters given that instant adulthood they all crave, where the ordinary takes on a mysterious glow and the extraordinary seems rather commonplace. It is difficult to fault the writing or the construction of this eerie fable". Sunday Times "An extremely assured, technically adept and...
But the gorgeous Jay proves an exception to the rule when he bowls Stella off her Prada wedges at a press junket on the Cote d`Azur. He might seem to have everything going for him, but Stella is about to realize there`s only one thing worse than having a boyfriend with no money... and that`s having one with too much. Jetset lifestyles can be fabulous, but Stella`s career as a journalist isn`t something she wants to jeopardize for any man, no matter how filthy rich or gorgeous. And then there`s her father - a six-times-married prime slice of Alpha Male with a grudge against inherited wealth... and Jay. There`s no denying money makes the world go round and diamonds are a girl`s best friend, but they don`t make the path to love any easier...
ISBN: 0-141-01961-1
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: март 2011
A gripping new Roman army novel from the Sunday Times bestselling authorIn the first century AD the Roman Empire faces a new threat from its long-standing enemy Parthia. Parthia is vying with Rome for control of Palmyra, an officially neutral kingdom. Palmyra`s royal household is on the brink of open revolt, and so a task force under the command of experienced soldiers Macro and Cato is dispatched to defend its king and guard its borders. When Parthia hears of the Roman army`s presence, it starts amassing its troops for war. Macro`s cohort must march against the enemy, deep into treacherous territory. If Palmyra is not to fall into the clutches of Parthia, they will have to defeat superior numbers in a desperate siege. The quest for a...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-4836-7
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: август 2011
British agent Ian Munro goes to the Caribbean. He is looking for two dangerous terrorists. Munro`s boss tells him: `Go. Watch. Listen. Why are they there? What are they doing?` Munro first finds the men and a third terrorist. Then he tries to stop them before it is too late.Cambridge English Readers is an exciting series of original fiction, specially written for learners of English. Graded into seven levels -from starter to advanced - the stories in this series provide easy and enjoyable reading on a wide range of contemporary topics and themes.Visit the Cambridge English Readers website for free resources, including a worksheet for this title.
David lives in a house with lots of books and his cat, Socrates. But is he happy? Then he makes friends with Ella. `You`re a nice boy,` says Ella. `But you don`t know anything about me. You don`t know me. I`m not a good person.`
ISBN: 9780521156776
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: январь 2019
The #1 New York Times Bestselling series featuring Lucas Davenport. Of all the criminals that Lucas Davenport has hunted, none has been as frighteningly intelligent as the woman who`s hunting him now.
ISBN: 978-0-425-17427-2
Издательство:
Rem Distributors
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Once a sworn enemy of all monsters, Anita is now the human consort of both Master Vampire Jean Claude and leopard shapeshifter Micah. When a centuries old vampire hits St. Louis, Anita finds herself needing all the dark forces her passion can muster to save the ones she loves.
ISBN: 978-0-515-13681-4
Издательство:
Rem Distributors
Дата выхода: июль 2011
With "Wizard`s First Rule" and seven subsequent masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of his storytelling. Now Goodkind returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring their epic story to its culmination. After being gravely injured in battle, Richard awakes to discover Kahlan missing. To his disbelief, no one remembers the woman he is frantically trying to find. Worse, no one believes that she really exists, or that he was ever married. Alone as never before, he must find the woman he loves more than life she is even still alive. If she was ever even real.
ISBN: 978-0-7653-4431-1
Издательство:
Holtzbrink
Дата выхода: август 2011
No one knows the dark side of “The Street” better than master storyteller Stephen Frey, author of such riveting novels as Shadow Account and The Day Trader. Now, in his most ambitious work to date, Frey proves that no writer can put a high-powered hero at greater risk, nor offer readers more thrilling rewards. A towering legend among New York private equity partnerships, Everest Capital is aptly named. When its founder meets an untimely death, thirty-six-year-old superstar Christian Gillette gets the top job. But with the power and prestige come risks. The day he narrowly escapes a fiery explosion that consumes his limo and takes two innocent lives, Gillette instantly understands how intense those risks are. It comes as no surprise...
ISBN: 978-0-345-45761-5
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
The first joint project of photographer Bettina Rheims and writer/art critic Serge Bramly. The cultivated literary confessions of Monsieur X, a perfectly discreet voyeur with an obsessive curiosity about the female body, are set against photographs speaking a far clearer language that tells of female eroticism and exhibitionism as no one else does.
ISBN: 978-3-8296-0316-4
Издательство:
Schirmer/Mosel
Дата выхода: август 2011
Seventy-year old Sam Cayhall has been on death row for more than twenty years. Then a young lawyer named Adam Hall appears on the scene and declares his mission to save him. Can Adam save Sam from execution? And what does he discover about Sam`s past?
ISBN: 978-1-4082-7437-8
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Adam Hill is 26 years old and in his first year at a top Chicago law firm. He volunteers for the toughest assignment any lawyer could ask for. His prospective client doesn`t want Adam or his law firm. He is an unrepentant and outspoken racist with a violent past. He is on Death Row for the murder of two Jewish children in a horrific bombing in 1967. Why would he take on Adam, a complete novice, to defend him? And why would Adam want his case so desperately? The answer lies in the past, in a twenty-year-old secret buried in the madness of another
In the Corridors of Chicago`s Top Law Firm: A young lawyer stands on the brink of a brilliant career. Now twenty-six-year-old Adam Hall is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case. Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. Cayhall has run out of chances - except for one: a young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens to be his grandson. While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather and the TV cameras wait, Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his client. For between the two men is a chasm of shame, family lies, and secrets - including the one secret that could save...
ISBN: 0440220602
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: февраль 2002
Contemporary / American English The horror of death row is that you die a little each day. The waiting kills you. Seventy-year-old Sam Cayhall is on Mississippi`s death row. Sam hates lawyers but his date with the gas chamber is close, and time is running out. Then Adam Hall, a young lawyer arrives. Can he and his secret persuade Sam to accept his help?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8261-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an apparent change to his previously outgoing personality. Crippled by migraines, and suspicious of his psychiatrist, he begins to display sporadic bouts of aggression, particularly against women, especially his ex-fiancee who seems unable to accept that the relationship is over. After his injuries prevent his return to the army, he cuts all ties with his former life and moves to London. Alone and unmonitored, he sinks into a private world of guilt and paranoid a customer annoys him in a Bermondsey of control and only prevented from killing the man by the intervention of a 250-pound female weightlifter...
ISBN: 978-0-230-01566-1
Издательство:
Macmillan ELT
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an apparent change to his previously outgoing personality. Crippled by migraines, and suspicious of his psychiatrist, he begins to display sporadic bouts of aggression, particularly against women, especially his ex-fiancee who seems unable to accept that the relationship is over. After his injuries prevent his return to the army, he cuts all ties with his former life and moves to London. Alone and unmonitored, he sinks into a private world of guilt and paranoid until a customer annoys him in a Bermondsey pub and he attracts the attention of local police investigating three murders which appear to have been...
ISBN: 978-0-330-44955-7
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: июль 2011
From the casinos of Las Vegas to the streets of New York, Chances was the name of the and everybody took them. A brand spanking new, rejacketed B format edition featuring a letter from Jackie Collins to her Gino Santangelo – a boy from the New York slums carves himself a crime empire that takes him all the way to the top. His daughter, Lucky, proves herself to be as deadly as her father. Sensual and provocative, she is too much like him not to make a bid for his Chances spins through six decades like a giant roulette wheel, where the high stakes are on big money, dangerous sex and irresistible power.
ISBN: 978-0-330-44846-8
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: июль 2012