With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric light. How his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice - on the eve of Revolution - is described in Bulgakov`s delightful blend of candid realism and imaginative exuberance.
ISBN: 978-0-09-952956-9
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Alfred held the telegram under the lamp and started reading: "Dracula Village 10th November, 1895. Will always remember my visit to England and particularly meeting you and your remarkable friend who knows so much about bats. I have bad news. I am dying and badly in need of your help. I wish to clear the Dracula name before I leave this world. Please come quickly".
ISBN: 9781842166185
Издательство:
Express Publishing
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
Pre-empting novels such as the Booker Prize-winning "Time`s Arrow" by as much as twenty years, Counter-Clock world is a story of racial tensions told against the background of the year 1998 in which time flows in reverse as people are born old only to grow younger and younger.
ISBN: 978-0-00-712770-2
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Cutting-edge international thriller follow-up to The Insider, set in the world of hackers, techno-thieves and inside traders, for fans of John Grisham Approached to crack a safe by the owner`s suspicious wife, reformed hacker Henrietta `Harry` Martinez can`t resist the challenge. Now her client`s absconded with a fortune in diamonds, leaving Harry sole witness to a brutal murder. And next in line for a ruthless assassin who doesn`t like loose ends. The police are unconvinced, suspicious of Harry`s past, and not even an attempt on her life can sway them. It`s up to Harry to track down her mystery client. The trail leads from a top racing yard to a smuggling operation in the illegal South Africa world of conflict diamonds. To get to the...
ISBN: 978-0-00-728592-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Cousin Phillis is a novel about 19-year-old Paul Manning, who moves to the country and befriends his mother`s family and his cousin Phillis Holman. This novel is also recognized as a fitting prelude for Gaskels final and most widely acclaimed novel, Wives and Daughters.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07596-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Cousin Phillis is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. The story is about 19-year-old Paul Manning, who moves to the country and befriends his mother`s family and his (second) cousin Phillis Holman. This novel is also recognized as a fitting prelude for Gaskell`s final and most widely acclaimed novel, Wives and Daughters.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06835-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2018
A sweet holiday treat! Get ready for the holidays by joining mama and baby bear as they bake gingerbread men! A Gingerbread Christmas is a small and sweet board book that can be used as a gift tag or Christmas ornament. With adorable illustrations, simple rhyming text, and fun die cuts, this mini-book is sure to become a holiday favorite.
Honoring a family pact that compels him to return to Transylvania to take part in a secret ceremony, young Arkady Tsepesh of the family Dracul learns a devastating truth about his ancestor, Prince Vlad.
ISBN: 978-0-440-21543-1
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In the brilliant fourth book from Andy McDermott, Nina Wilde must battle the Covenant of Genesis if she is to find the world’s greatest archaeological Off the coast of Indonesia, archaeologist Nina Wilde makes an explosive find: evidence of a settlement that existed over a hundred thousand years before any previously known civilisation. But when her ship is attacked, it becomes clear that the clandestine religious group calling itself the Covenant of Genesis will stop at nothing to prevent her from revealing this knowledge. With her fiancé Eddie Chase, Nina embarks upon a dangerous worldwide search to expose the Covenant of Genesis – and the incredible secret they will kill to conceal. Is she about to discover the greatest...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-4553-3
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
St Cedd`s Church fete had been held in the grounds of Martingale manor house for generations. As if organizing stalls, as well as presiding over luncheon, the bishop and the tea tent, were not enough for Mrs Maxie on that mellow July afternoon, she also had to contend with the news of her son`s sudden engagement to her new parlour maid, the sly single mother, Sally Jupp. On the following morning Martingale and the whole village are shocked by the discovery of Sally Jupp`s body. Investigating the violent death at the manor house, Detective Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh is embroiled in the complicated passions beneath the calm surface of English village life.
ISBN: 978-0-571-24590-1
Издательство:
Daedalus
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Harriet`s invited to accompany her aunts, Thessalonica and Japonica to America. She`s terribly excited, knowing very well that with two expert detectives for aunts, this is going to be no ordinary trip. She soon discovers, to her enormous surprise, that they`re actually on their way to see her sixth aunt, Formica! And as if this weren`t surprising enough, she finds out that Aunt Formica is a cowgirl, and the reason for their visit is to help her catch some rustlers that have been stealing cattle from her ranch. Harriet and her three aunts must move like greased lightening if they`re to get on the trail of the slippery cattle thieves. It`s time to saddle-up and yee-ha!
ISBN: 978-0-7475-8044-7
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
From the master of subversive humor comes a perennial fan favorite. "Coyote Blue" introduces Sam Hunter, a 35-year-old insurance salesman who ran away from an Indian reservation at the age of 15. That life is a distant memory until Old Man Coyote enters the picture.
ISBN: 978-1-4165-5847-7
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
In "The Crack in Space", a repairman discovers that a hole in a faulty Jifi-scuttler leads to a parallel world. Jim Briskin, campaigning to be the first black president of the United States, thinks alter-Earth is the solution to the chronic overpopulation that has seventy million people cryogenically frozen; Tito Cravelli, a shadowy private detective, wants to know why Dr Lurton Sands is hiding his mistress on the planet; billionaire mutant George Walt wants to make the empty world all his own. But when the other earth turns out to be inhabited, everything changes. Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration...
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3006-4
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
This is geography with the gritty bits left in! Wave goodbye to boring geography lessons as you clamber up some "Cracking Coasts"...Marvel! at the ginormous Giant`s Causeway, Scream! as you surf an awesome reef breaker, Shiver! with fear as you take a trip to the spooky Skeleton Coast, and if that`s not cracking enough for an eerie lighthouse where the light suddenly went out and go sailing with ...a snail. It`s earth-shatteringly exciting! Geography has never been so horrible!
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1080-6
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
Cracow, for 700 years the ancient capital of Poland, is its most historic and architecturally ornate city and one of Europe`s architectural gems. Its oldest quarter is on UNESCO`s list of the world`s 12 most precious monuments. Cracow tells the story of the city from its Silver Age in the 14th century through its Golden Age in the 15th and 16th centuries, up to the present day. Photographs show the city in all its splendour, including the late Gothic St Mary`s Church, Wawel Castle, and Main Square (the largest medieval piazza in Europe) conveying all that is magnificent and unique about this unforgettable city.
ISBN: 978-0-7112-2571-8
Издательство:
Frances Lincoln
Дата выхода: август 2011
Clare Elian has always known the risk of being married to a rich, handsome younger man like Marc. She just never thought she`d be the one to bring the danger home. But when she gives birth to two gorgeous babies - one of each, naturally - she discovers motherhood isn`t quite the cinch she`d expected. Desperate to escape back to her chic chain of boutique flower shops, she hires Jenna, a confident, efficient nanny keen to escape a relationship that has gone horribly wrong. Before long, a deadly rivalry emerges for control of the nursery. And as events spiral out of their control, both women find themselves forced to make wrenching decisions about love, loyalty and motherhood.
ISBN: 978-0-330-46112-2
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
"Cranford" is the best known and most charming of Elizabeth Gaskell`s novels. It is a comic portrait of an early Victorian country village and its genteel inhabitants, mostly women, whose social attitudes remain firmly unchanging against the modernising world, and whose domestic details dominate conversation. Gaskell describes the uneventful lives of Cranford`s inhabitants in this witty and poignant classic which deserves to be read and re-read.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-9446-8
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `I`ll not listen to reason, she said, now in full possession of her voice, which had been rather choked with sobbing. Reason always means what someone else has got to say. `First published in serial format in a magazine, Gaskell`s Cranford is a delightfully light-hearted series of stories about early Victorian life in a country village. Following the lives of two spinster sisters, Miss Matty and Miss Deborah as they gossip about the inconsequential goings-on of the community around them, Gaskell`s best-loved work affectionately comments on the role of women in society at that time and the changing face of the Victorian world.
ISBN: 978-0-00-742031-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011