Once upon a time, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, He was not a werewolf, vampire, ghoul, or unnameable creature from the enchanted forest or snow wastes; he was only a Cujo is a huge Saint Bernard dog, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. Then one day Cujo chases a rabbit into a bolt-hole. Except it isn`t a rabbit warren any more. It is a cave inhabited by rabid Cujo falls sick. Very sick. And the gentle giant who once protected the family becomes a vortex of horror inexorably drawing in all the people around
ISBN: 978-1-4447-0812-7
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
If you want to understand and get true value from your online content you need to understand how it is used by your customers. If you work with web analytics and online search optimization, this book will provide you with the tools and insight you need to do just that. Even more, it will give you an actionable plan to transform the culture of your organization into one that uses web analytics on a daily basis, focusing on real changes you can make to your department and processes to transform the way your business works. With examples from dozens of companies ranging from small businesses, to consumer sites like Amazon, to some of the largest companies in the world including Tesco and Google, Cult of Analytics demonstrates just how...
A trustee of the John Grier orphanage has offered to send Judy Abbott to college. The only requirements are that she must write to him every month and that she can never know who he is. Judy`s life at college is a whirlwind of friends, classes, parties and a growing friendship with the handsome Jervis Pendleton. With so much happening in her life, Judy can scarcely stop writing to `Daddy-Long-Legs`, or wondering who her mysterious benefactor is.
ISBN: 978-0-14-133111-9
Издательство:
Puffin
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Zarek, a feral Dark-Hunter, has been exiled in Alaska for 900 years. Now the gods send Astrid, sister of the Three Fates, to judge him. Zarek feels fear for the first time because he ll have to let Astrid into his heart and soul. Original.
ISBN: 9780312984830
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: декабрь 2003
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. "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: 978-5-521-08083-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Number One bestselling author Philippa Gregory`s new historical novel tracks the rise of the Tidelands family in London, Venice and New England.Midsummer Eve, 1670. A turbulent time to seek the truth . . .A wealthy man waits outside a poor London warehouse to meet with Alinor, the woman he failed twenty-one years before. He has everything to offer: money, land, status. He believes she has the only thing he cannot buy: his son and heir.Meanwhile in New England, Alinor`s brother Ned cannot find justice in the New World, as the King`s revenge stretches across the Atlantic and turns the pioneers against each other and against the American Indians.Then, a beautiful widow, Livia, arrives from Venice. She claims Alinor as her mother-in-law and...
In this first novel in his epic fantasy masterpiece, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner, on a spellbinding journey into good and evil, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own. In his first step towards the powerful and mysterious Dark Tower, Roland encounters an alluring woman named Alice, begins a friendship with Jake, a kid from New York, and faces an agonising choice between damnation and salvation as he pursues the Man in Black. Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, THE GUNSLINGER leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter. And the Tower is
ISBN: 978-1-4447-2344-1
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Libby Day was just seven years old when her older brother massacred her family while she hid in a cupboard. Her evidence helped put him away. Ever since then she has been drifting, surviving for over twenty years on the proceeds of the `Libby Day fund`. But now the money is running out and Libby is desperate. When she is offered $500 to do a guest appearance, she feels she has to accept. But this is no ordinary gathering. The Kill Club is a group of true-crime obsessives who share information on notorious murders and they think her brother Ben is innocent.Ben was a social misfit, ground down by the small-town farming community in which he lived. But he did have a girlfriend - a brooding heavy metal fan called Diondra. Through her, Ben...
ISBN: 9780753827031
Издательство:
Орион
Дата выхода: январь 2024
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Dawn is a story of Philip Caresfoot who promised to marry the local heiress, Maria Lee. They are both to inherit small fortunes in their own right. And thus their marriages to each other would make an ever wealthier household. However, when Hilda, a noblewoman with no wealth of her own, arrives in town to become Maria`s companion, Philip begins to fall in love with her.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07751-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Australian mountain climber Hall chronicles the amazing story of his rescue following a night spent near the summit of Mount Everest, where he had been left for dead by the other members of his expedition.
Agatha Christie`s most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything - until she lost her life.Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: `I`d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.` Yet in this exotic setting` nothing is ever quite what it seems...
The publication of Death and the Penguin, Andrey Kurkov`s debut novel, heralds a unique new voice in post-soviet satire. Set in the Ukraine in the years immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this dark, deadpan tale chronicles the journalistic career of Victor, who shares a flat with Misha, his depressed Penguin, rescued from the under-funded zoo in Kiev. Victor is asked to write obelisks, obituaries, for a prominent city paper about notable figures in the community, and quickly transforms himself from struggling writer to wealthy journalist. It soon becomes apparent that there is a more sinister motive at play, and Victor finds himself descending in a Kafkaesque realm of suspicion and unease.
ISBN: 1-86046-945-0
Издательство:
Harvill Press
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
«Дебет и кредит» (1926) - поздний сборник английского писателя Редьярда Киплинга - своего рода его «литературный счет», - состоящий из рассказов, стихотворений и двух сцен из неоконченной пьесы. Он завершает мрачный период в жизни Киплинга, когда писатель тяжело болел и переживал гибель единственного сына в Первую мировую войну. Киплинг пишет о религии, масонстве, литературном творчестве, войне, смерти. И все...
ISBN: 978-5-517-10783-1
Издательство:
RUGRAM
Дата выхода: март 2024
The gruesome discovery on the frozen River Thames--a dead man with coins covering his eyes--interrupts the eagerly anticipated Frost Fair. As the Queen s Lady Pursuivant, Grace must unravel the mystery.