Agent Pendergast has become one of crime fiction`s most endearing characters. His greatest enemy is one who has stalked him all of his life, his cunning and diabolical brother Diogenes. And Diogenes has thrown down the gauntlet. Now, several of the people closest to Pendergast are viciously murdered, and Pendergast is framed for the deeds. On the run from federal authorities, with only the help of his old friend NYPD Lieutenant Vincent D`Agosta, Pendergast must stop his brother. But how can he stop a man that is his intellectual equal - one who has had 20 years to plan the world`s most horrendous crime?
ISBN: 978-0-446-61709-3
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
A mean elf has trapped Swiper in a bottle. To save him, Dora has to dance her way to the Castle where she can win a wish to set Swiper free. Will Dora be able to dance to Swiper s rescue? Full color.
Lorna has been twenty five for nearly ten years and it`s starting to show. Successful and sassy, her money`s been spent on hard living and tough toyboys. She`s hoping to pull her Ferrari into the last gas station before the desert. Gloria is watching her hard earned business go up the nose of her womanising ex. Tired of life and not yet thirty, she`s determined never to go back to poverty again. Sandy has other things on her mind. This is the story that could make or break her career as a journalist. But will her long red curls win her a husband into the bargain? Three women, one bolshy billionaire. Hopelessly romantic Mr Big has whittled down the single women of Ireland and now he`s coming over to choose. Will he find a more crafty cat...
ISBN: 0-330-48491-5
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
This book features pregnant women, students and journalists; farmers and birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and dancing girls. All ordinary people or are they? In this collection of short stories, Margaret Atwood maps human motivation we scarcely know we have.
ISBN: 978-0-09-974111-4
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
A gentle and deeply moving story of a young girl and her bear, told with great charm by a master storyteller. High in the mountains, in a tiny village, an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child. Soon they are inseparable, beloved by the whole village - safe, until the arrival of a glamorous film crew who need a dancing bear!
Книга представляет собой известное произведение американского писателя-фантаста Р.Брэдбери "Вино из одуванчиков". Эта повесть — о впечатлениях двенадцатилетнего подростка, его восприятии мира. Мальчик впервые старается понять, что такое жизнь и смерть, учится видеть мир "по-взрослому", радоваться первым победам и вкушать горечь первых поражений. Мы сами на пике эмоций юного Дуга Спеллинга как бы впервые...
ISBN: 978-5-8112-5651-8
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: март 2015
Ностальгическая книга Вино из одуванчиков (1957) особняком стоит в творчестве писателя. Это рассказ о событиях лета 1928 года в тихом городке Гринтауне, увиденных глазами двенадцатилетнего Дугласа Сполдинга. Цветочное вино, которое готовит дед мальчика, хранит каждый день лета, полного чудес: здесь нашлось место и машине счастья, и крепкой дружбе, и таинственным явлениям. Но есть у летних дней и темная сторона:
ISBN: 978-5-94962-171-7
Издательство:
Антология
Дата выхода: январь 2010
Книга представляет собой известное произведение американского писателя-фантаста Р.Брэдбери "Вино из одуванчиков". Эта повесть - о впечатлениях двенадцатилетнего подростка, его восприятии мира. Мальчик впервые старается понять, что такое жизнь и смерть, учится видеть мир "по-взрослому", радоваться первым победам и вкушать горечь первых поражений. Мы сами на пике эмоций юного Дуга Сполдинга как бы впервые...
ISBN: 978-5-8112-4800-1
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2012
The summer of `28 was a vintag season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma`s belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding--remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury. "Bradbury is an authentic original." - "Time"
ISBN: 9780553277531
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: январь 2020
Четыре участника геологической экспедиции не могут выбраться из непроходимого леса, т. к. река разрушила мост, отрезав единственно возможный путь. Леон, старший в группе, начинает терять контроль над ситуацией.
ISBN: 978-0-230-03503-4
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
For a number of years, William plays a game with a ghost before he goes to sleep. The ghost is a poltergeist that William calls ‘Poldy’. At the beginning William and Poldy play a friendly game every night, but then the game begins to change. It becomes a dangerous game. Who will win?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8181-4
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
For a number of years, William plays a game with a ghost before he goes to sleep. The ghost is a poltergeist that William calls Poldy`. At the beginning William and Poldy play a friendly game every night, but then the game begins to change. It becomes a dangerous game. Who will win?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7895-1
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Part of a 6 level series of readers for children learning English, this work brings together a variety of fiction and non-fiction titles. It aims to provide reinforcement of the basic structures and vocabulary contained in the most major primary courses.
ISBN: 978-0-230-01022-2
Издательство:
Macmillan ELT
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "Danger! And Other Stories" is a collection of fascinating short stories like "One Crowded Hour", "A Point of View", "How It Happened", "The Prisoner`s Defence", and "Three of Them".
ISBN: 978-5-521-07171-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
A brand spanking new, rejacketed B format edition featuring a letter from Jackie Collins to her In "Chances", Lucky grew up in a top crime family, in" Lucky" she was married three times, in" Lady Boss" she took on Hollywood and bought Panther Studios, and in "Vendetta: Lucky`s Revenge", she fought off a life-long enemy to keep the studio and her husband. Now in "Dangerous Kiss", when a member of her family is brutally gunned down in a random car-jacking, Luky`s fury knows no bounds. While tracking the killer, her relationship with her husband is severely put to the test. And suddenly into her life comes a man from her past. A man with a dangerous kiss.
ISBN: 978-0-330-44991-5
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Sebastian, the fifty-six-year-old patriarch of the Locke clan, is handsome, charismatic, a man of immense charm and intelligence. He heads up the philanthropic Locke Foundation, funded by the vast family fortune built by his forefathers. Committed to relieving the suffering of those in genuine need, Locke travels the globe, personally giving away millions a year to the poor, the sick, and the victims of natural disasters and wars. He is seen as a beacon of light in today`s darkly violent world. That is why the police are so baffled when Sebastian is found dead in mysterious circumstances. Has he been murdered, and if so who would want to kill the world`s greatest philanthropist? Could such an upstanding man have enemies? Vivienne Trent,...
An Upper Level story in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of titles and divided into five levels: Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner (600); Elementary (1100); Intermediate (1600); and Upper (2200). Some of the titles are also available on cassette.
ISBN: 978-0-435-28832-7
Издательство:
Macmillan ELT
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Четыре участника геологической экспедиции не могут выбраться из непроходимого леса, т. к. река разрушила мост, отрезав единственно возможный путь. Леон, старший в группе, начинает терять контроль над ситуацией.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-7612-8
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: июль 2011