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
The greatest power is the power to create. With supreme abilities, like being able to shape-shift and move objects with his mind, Daniel is strong enough to take on anything in the world. It`s the things from beyond this planet that are the real problem. Daniel possesses a coverted List - that belonged to his father, before he was brutally murdered - targeting intergalactic criminals preying on the human race. Now, Daniel vows to take on his father`s dangerous mission as the Alien Hunter. In the first book of the series, Daniel must conquer the deadly Ergent Seth. The fate of the world rests on Daniel X, and he will have his revenge, whatever the cost.
ISBN: 978-0-446-55159-5
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Now with brand-new photos and the newest dish on the actor who portrays Harry Potter - including his recent work on stage - this updated biography includes an 8-page full-color photo insert.
Only in her final novel, in 1876, did George Eliot turn to contemporary English and European life as material for the expression of her own idealism. Daniel Deronda is a psychologically incisive investigation, probing the egoism of a spoiled girl and her increasing awareness of conscience through suffering. Gwendolen comes to regard Daniel as her moral and spiritual mentor, but chance, the revelation of his Jewish birth, and his practical and sympathetic identification with his race draw him away from her. The text is that of Graham Handley`s Clarendon edition, which is based on the novel`s first published form. emergent nationalism and the bitter internal struggle.
ISBN: 978-0-19-953848-5
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011
All`s quiet in the small town of Holliswood - television sets, computers, and portable devices aglow in every home, classroom, and store. But everything is not as perfect as it may seem. An evil is lurking, just out of sight, behind the screen. From the darkest depths of imagination flickers the most terrifying enemy Daniel X is yet to face. A villain with more ambition than the world can withstand, dead set on throwing the sleepy neighbourhood into chaos and documenting the destruction of every person in it, including Daniel, his friends, and his family. Daniel X is the only person who can stop this devilish director. But, as the super-villain assembles an all-star team of his own creation, not even Daniel can imagine the enormity of...
ISBN: 978-0-09-952526-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The Alien Hunter is playing with Daniel X is on an impossible mission: to eliminate every intergalactic criminal on the face of the Earth. Using his incredible superpower to create objects out of thin air, he`s taken on some of the most fearsome and fiendish aliens in the universe.
ISBN: 978-0-09-952527-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
Read along with your favorite I Can Read Book characters I Can Read Books are the premier line of beginning readers encouraging children to learn-and love-to read. Featuring award-winning authors and illustrators, I Can Read Books offer a full spectrum of entertaining stories for every stage of a child`s reading development. Now the beloved characters and adventures from this popular line of books come to life with I Can Read Book and CDs. Each package includes a best-selling beginning-reader storybook and a lively audio recording featuring: Word-for-word narration Music and sound effects One version with turn-the-page signals One version of uninterrupted reading.
Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world`s No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake`s inimitable artwork. Danny lives in a gipsy caravan with his father, the most marvellous and exciting father any boy ever had. All the land around them belongs to Mr Victor Hazell, a rich snob with a great glistening beery face and tiny piggy eyes. Nobody likes him, not one-little bit. So one day, Danny and his father concoct a daring plot that will give the old blue-faced baboon Victor Hazell the greatest shock of his life - so long as they don`t get caught...
ISBN: 9780141365411
Издательство:
Puffin Books
Дата выхода: январь 2016
A new edition of the well-loved story of Danny and his father who outwit their greedy, rich neighbour, Mr Victor Hazell. With a great new cover by Quentin Blake as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.
ISBN: 978-0-14-132267-4
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Ranging across the whole spectrum of horror in popular culture from the seminal classics of "Count Dracula" and "Frankenstein", Stephen King describes his ideas on how horror works on many levels and how he brings it to bear on his own inimitable novels. Told in the chatty, intelligent style of the course for which this was originally devised, this is a charming book replete with pertinent anecdote and observation.
ISBN: 978-0-340-89909-0
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
The uniquely complicated life of Anita Blake, the necromancer, gets even more complicated when Anita discovers she may be pregnant in the 14th novel in bestseller Hamilton`s vampire hunter series (Micah, etc.). Her sexual magic powers require multiple lovers, so there are six potential fathers. One possible dad, werewolf Richard, has trouble understanding that, baby or not, Anita`s still a federal marshal who raises the dead and executes vampires. In addition, terrifying, life-threatening obstetrical challenges are involved, since the maybe-mommy has to deal with vampirism and several strains of lycanthropy coursing through her veins. That Anita has no detecting to do may disappoint some fans, but playing hostess to a gathering of North...
ISBN: 978-0-515-14281-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.` Considered one of the greatest medieval poems written in the common vernacular of the time, Dante`s Inferno begins on Good Friday in the year 1300. As he wanders through a dark forest, Dante loses his way and stumbles across the ghost of the poet Virgil. Virgil promises to lead him back to the top of the mountain, but to do so, they must pass through Hell, encountering all manner of shocking horrors, sins and evil torments along the way, evoking questions about God`s justice, human behaviour and Christianity.
ISBN: 978-0-00-790209-5
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Allan Prime looked ready to die of fright, even before the bright, shining spear with the blood-soaked tip reached his head ...The death mask of the poet Dante is to be exhibited at the premiere of a controversial new film, "Inferno". But at the grand unveiling this priceless artefact is replaced by a macabre death mask of the film`s star, Allan Prime. Minutes later the leading actress, Maggie Flavier, is threatened before her attacker is shot. Nic Costa and his team are sidelined from the investigation in Rome and follow the movie to its next showing in San Francisco, hoping to recover the stolen death mask. But in California confusing new clues suggest that there is more behind the killing than a crazed Dante fan. With the authorities...
ISBN: 978-0-330-45258-8
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Scientist Harry Dalton knows about volcanoes. His boss, Paul Dreyfus, sends him to Dante`s Peak, a small town in the Cascade Mountains, because one of the mountains is moving. Can Harry help the town`s people before the volcano explodes? Why is Paul stopping him? How much time have they got?
ISBN: 978-1-4082-8496-4
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
I`m Tracy Beaker, the great inventor of extremely outrageous dares - and I dare you to read a more brilliant story than this! I`ve bought a big fat purple notebook for writing down all my mega-manic ultra-scary stories in. But especially for my own story, of how my foster-mum, Cam, has turned out to be a real meanie; no designer clothes, when I really need them; a pokey flat, and a horrible new school. No wonder I bunk Still, it will have to do until my real mum comes and gets me. And until then, no-one is going to be better at the Dare Game than Tracy Beaker!
ISBN: 978-0-440-86758-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the first novel in an extraordinary new trilogy about the lives and loves of sisters of the heart. Margo, Laura and Kate were brought up like sisters amidst the grandeur of Templeton House. But it was Margo, the housekeeper s daughter, whose dreams first took her far away, on a magnificent journey full of risk and reward, to find herself--and love.