The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper`s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become embroiled in the bloody battles of the French and Indian War. James Fenimore Cooper`s historical imagination is profound, his creative use of the gothic landscape is uniquely American, and his influence on plot and characterization in American fiction is pervasive and extensive.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06172-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2017
Thwarting an attack by a suspected serial killer puts Virginia`s Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta in the harsh glare of the spotlight. As her personal and professional lives come under suspicion, she discovers that the so-called Werewolf murders may have extended to New York City and into the darkest corners of her past. A formidable prosecutor, a female assistant district attorney from New York, is brought into the case - and Scarpetta must struggle to make what she knows to be the truth prevail against mounting and unnerving evidence to the contrary. Tested in every way, she turns inward to ask, `Where do you go when there is nowhere left`?
ISBN: 0-425-18063-8
Издательство:
Rem Distributors
Дата выхода: январь 1993
Terry Fox has cancer and he has an artificial leg. He runs across Canada for sick children and he gets $10,000,000. Read about his Marathon of Hope, his pain, and his short life. This is the true story of a strong athlete-and a Canadian hero. An exciting new series which provides reading and language learning at five levels. As well as enjoyable stories and texts, each book provides a range of integrated activities designed to develop reading skills, consolidate vocabulary, and offer personalised project work. Each book is supported by a CD-ROM which contains additional activities and the complete audio recording. What`s special about Penguin Active Reading? Beautiful illustrations, photographs, maps and diagrams help to bring the...
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8455-6
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Concluding the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the final part of Tolkien`s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring an exclusive cover image from the film, the definitive text, and a detailed map of Middle-earth. The armies of the Dark Lord Sauron are massing as his evil shadow spreads ever wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to do battle agains the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring. The devastating conclusion of Tolkien`s classic tale of magic and adventure, begun in The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, features the definitive edition of the text and includes the Appendices and a revised Index in full. To celebrate the release of...
Sebold s mesmerizing and luminous first novel--a #1 national bestseller--builds a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, and even joy, following an unspeakable tragedy.
ISBN: 9780316044400
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: октябрь 2009
Imbued with all the lyricism, compassion, and suspense of her bestselling novel The Memory Keeper`s Daughter, Kim Edward`s "The Lake of Dreams" is a powerful family drama and an unforgettable story of love lost and found. Lucy Jarrett is at a crossroads in her life, still haunted by her father`s unresolved death a decade earlier. She returns to her hometown, "The Lake of Dreams", and, late one night, she cracks the lock of a window seat and discovers a collection of objects. They appear to be idle curiosities, but soon Lucy realizes that she has stumbled across a dark secret from her family`s past, one that will radically change her-and the future of her family-forever.
Книга входит в серию иллюстрированных учебных пособий "Читаем вместе". Каждая глава известной сказки сопровождается занимательными упражнениями, составленными с учётом новейших методик преподавания английского языка в раннем возрасте. Их выполнение поможет ребёнку не только легко, без зубрежки усвоить языковой материал, но и превратит чтение в увлекательную игру. Книга также содержит англо-русский...
ISBN: 978-5-8112-5558-0
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: январь 2015
Building on the story begun in The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring, this is the second part of Tolkien`s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring an exclusive cover image from the film, the definitive text, and a detailed map of Middle-earth. Frodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in the battle with an evil spirit in the Mines of Moria; and at the Falls of Rauros, Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo and Sam made their escape the rest of the company were attacked by Orcs. Now they continue...
"The Lord of the Rings" cannot be described in a few words. J.R.R. Tolkien`s great work has been labelled both a heroic romance and a classic of science fiction. It is, however, impossible to convey to the new reader all of the book`s qualities, and the range of its creation. By turns comic, homely, epic, monstrous and diabolic, the narrative moves through countless changes of scenes and character in an imaginary world which is totally convincing in its detail. Tolkien created a new mythology in an invented world which has proved timeless in its appeal. This one volume paperback edition includes the complete unabridged text of the three books, "The Fellowship of the Ring", "The Two Towers and The Return of the King", that together make...
ISBN: 0-00-717200-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
It is Christmas of 1183, and Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine are, for once, together in the drafty castle at Chinon. For all their regal status, they are much like any long-estranged but inseparably married couple: Henry flaunts his new mistress; Eleanor plots against him with their sons. They will do anything they can to hurt each other and they love each other to distraction.
ISBN: 9780812973358
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: декабрь 2004
LANG wall calendars are the most popular brand among consumers year after year. Premiun quality, attention to detail and exquisite artwork set LANG calendars apart. Features 12 full color images, linen embossed paper stock and 2 free matching bookmarks. Size: 14" wide x 13-3/8"h (13-1/4"w x 24"h opened). Artist Margoelein Bastin paints with extraordinary detail and color. Each month features an intimate look at nature through the eyes of this world renown artist.
Sara Shepard hat an der New York University studiert und am Brooklyn College ihren Magisterabschluss in Creative Writing gemacht. Momentan lebt sie mit ihrem Mann in Tucson, Arizona. Sara Shepard wuchs in den Vororten Philadelphias auf; ihre Zeit dort hat die Pretty Little Liars - Serie inspiriert.
Following the death of a friend, poet and pets` mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering into the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday. There, Dennis enters the fragile and bizarre world of Aimée, the naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr Joyboy, the master of the embalmer`s art ... A dark and savage satire on the Anglo-American cultural divide, The Loved One depicts a world where love, reputation and death cost a very great deal.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118424-1
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Howard Lovecraft was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Despite the fact that he was virtually unknown before he died, today he is known as the most influential author in his genre. "The Lurking Fear and Other Stories" is a collection of wonderful short stories such as "The Lurking Fear," "The Shunned House," "The Colour." These stories, full of mystery and fantastic creatures, have captured the minds of readers all over the world.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00252-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2019
Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile. The great solace of her life is her brother Charles, an aspiring writer. It is no surprise when Mary falls for the bookseller's son, antiquarian William Ireland, from whom Charles has purchased a book. But this is no ordinary book - it once belonged to William Shakespeare himself. And William Ireland with his green eyes and red hair is no ordinary young man. In The Lambs of London , Peter Ackroyd brilliantly creates an urban world of scholars and entrepreneurs, a world in which a clever son will stop at nothing to impress his showman father, and no one knows quite what to believe. Ingenious and vividly alive, The...
ISBN: 978-0-09-947209-4
Издательство:
Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. The plot of "The Little Lady of the Big House" revolves around a love triangle that includes rich Californian landowner Dick Forrest, his wife Paola, and their friend Evan Graham. Full of intricacies and love intrigues, the novel is devoted to the relationship of strong-for-life personalities and shows the power and depth of feelings that can generate love in the hearts of such people.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07484-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Two couples. Two love stories. One epic tale. Ninety-one-year-old Ira Levinson is in trouble. Struggling to stay conscious after a car crash, with his mind fading, an image of his adored - and long-dead - wife Ruth appears. Urging him to hang on, she lovingly recounts the joys and sorrows of their life together - how they met, the dark days of WWII and its unrelenting effect on their families. A few miles away, college student Sophia Danko`s life is about to change. Recovering from a break-up, she meets the young, rugged Luke and is thrown into a world far removed from her privileged school life. Sophia sees a new and tantalising future for herself, but Luke is keeping a secret that could destroy it all. Ira and Ruth. Sophia and Luke....
ISBN: 9780751549966
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: январь 2020
2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Junior cop Sally Jansson is called out to the house of Willis Lynsey, a reclusive scientist, for an animal-cruelty complaint: the man was seen forcing a horse in through the door of his home. Inside there is no horse. But Sally finds a kind of home-made utility belt. She straps this on - and `steps` sideways into an America covered with virgin forest. Willis came here with equipment and animals, meaning to explore and colonise. And when Sally gets back, she finds Willis has put the secret of the belt on the internet. The great migration has The Long Earth: our Earth is but one of a chain of parallel worlds, lying side by side in a higher space of possibilities, each differing from its neighbours by a little (or...
Modern, original fiction for learners of English. Hundreds of dead fish, some unexplained deaths and a birdless town. Three newspaper reports from Finland attract interest from the British secret service. `Foreign Executive` Ian Munro is sent to Lahti to investigate. But when his first contact is killed in front of him, Munro realises that someone knows why he is there...and that they will do anything to protect their secret.
ISBN: 0-521-75082-2
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
The Two Towers is die second part of J.R.R. Tolkien\'s epic adventure The Lord of the Rings. Frodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in a battle with an evil spirit in the Mines of Moria; and at the falls of Rauros, Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo and Sam made their escape the rest of the Company were attacked by ores. Now they continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin - alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go. This is the second part...
ISBN: 0-00-714922-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: март 1999
On the planet Winter, there is no gender. The Gethenians can become male or female during each mating cycle, and this is something that other cultures find incomprehensible. The Ekumen of Known Worlds has sent an ethnologist to study the inhabitants of this forbidding, ice-bound world. At first he finds his subjects difficult and off-putting, with then- elaborate social systems and alien minds. But in the course of a long journey across the ice he reaches an understanding with one of the Gethenians - it might even be a kind of love...
ISBN: 0-441-47812-3
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: апрель 2004