Jason has a problem. He doesn`t remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently she`s his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they`re all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for "bad kids." What he did to end up here, Jason has no idea-except that everything seems very wrong. Piper has a secret. Her father has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal that he`s in terrible danger. Now her boyfriend doesn`t recognize her, and when a freak storm and strange creatures attack during a school field trip, she, Jason, and Leo are whisked away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood. What is going on? Leo has a way with tools. His new cabin at Camp...
ISBN: 978-0-14-132549-1 Издательство: Penguin Group Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
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
ISBN: 9781847494733 Издательство: Alma Books Дата выхода: январь 2020
«Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — коллекция, которая собрана из бессмертных произведений великих мастеров пера, написанных ими на их родном языке. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углублённо изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. Учись английскому у Френсиса Скотта Фицджеральда!
ISBN: 978-5-519-49537-0 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: август 2016
"The Last Man" is Mary Shelley`s apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation. Set in the late twenty-first century, the novel unfolds a sombre and pessimistic vision of mankind confronting inevitable destruction. Interwoven with her futuristic theme, Mary Shelley incorporates idealised portraits of Shelley and Byron, yet rejects Romanticism and its faith in art and nature. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was the only daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, author of "Vindication of the Rights of Woman", and the radical philosopher William Godwin. Her mother died ten days after her birth and the young child was educated through contact with her father`s intellectual circle and her own reading. She met Percy Bysshe Shelley in...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-403-0 Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Ltd. Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Джордж Макдональд - шотландский романист, автор множества прекрасных книг для детей. Его сказочно-фантастическая проза получила высочайшую оценку Дж. Р. Толкина, а его истории читают до сих пор по всему миру. "Невесомая принцесса" - одна из самых известных и поучительных английских сказок. Она рассказывает удивительную историю о прекрасной, но заколдованной принцессе, которая стала совершенно бездушной и...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05487-9 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: июль 2017
The first book in a brand new series, "The Last Kingdom" is set in England during the reign of King Alfred. Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria. Orphaned at ten, he is captured and adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtreds fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the only English kingdom to survive the Danish assault. The struggle between the English and the Danes and the strife between christianity and paganism is the background to Uhtreds growing up. He is left uncertain of his loyalties but a slaughter in a winter dawn propels him to the English side and he will become a man just as the Danes launch their fiercest attack yet on Alfreds...
ISBN: 0-00-721801-X Издательство: HarperCollins UK Дата выхода: январь 2011
ISBN: 9781472208422 Дата выхода: январь 2016
Antoine de Saint-Exupery`s tender and magical classic fable, adapted for picture book readers for the very first time!Please – draw me a sheep.I blinked.The voice belonged to a charming little prince.The characters of Antoine de Saint-Exupery`s classic tale have captured the hearts of generations of readers. Meet the pilot stranded in the desert. Meet The Little Prince who tends his beautiful rose on a planet of his own. Follow him as he embarks on a strange and wonderful journey to puzzling new planets and finally to Earth, where he discovers the nature of love.Adapted by award-winning poet Louise Greig, author of the Greenaway-medal-nominated Sweep and The Night Box, with enchanting new artwork from the critically acclaimed...
ISBN: 9781405288125 Издательство: Egmont Books Ltd Дата выхода: ноябрь 2023
ISBN: 9780141377599 Дата выхода: январь 2019
ISBN: 9781788004725 Издательство: Nosy Crow Дата выхода: январь 2020
ISBN: 9780241339374 Дата выхода: январь 2018
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. The Lost World tells the story of a journalist Edward Malone who decides to join the dangerous but exciting expedition to a world populated by dinosaurs. The Land of Mist is a novel about Professor Challenger, heavily inspired by the ideas of Spiritualism. This book contains a brilliant story about exploring the world of supernatural through the series of fascinating seances.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08142-4 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: август 2018
ISBN: 9780751530629 Издательство: Orion Publishers Дата выхода: январь 2014
`Anything you do in the past changes the future. The tiniest little actions have huge consequences. You might tread on an ant now and it might entirely prevent someone from being born in the future.`Rincewind, inept wizard and reluctant hero, has found himself magically stranded on the Discworld`s last continent.It`s hot. It`s dry. There was this thing once called The Wet, which no one believes in any more. Practically everything that`s not poisonous is venomous. But it`s the best bloody place in the world, all right?And in a few days, it will die. The only thing standing between The Last Continent and wind-blown doom is Rincewind, and he can`t even spell wizard. Still . . . no worries, eh?The Last Continent is the sixth book in the...
ISBN: 9781804990230 Дата выхода: октябрь 2023
The Department has faded since the war, effectively mothballed, without agents or resources. But now, with intelligence of a possible missile threat, it again has a mission. This is a chance to prove its influence to those at the Circus, like George Smiley, who think the Department`s time has passed. Формат: 11 см x 18 см.
ISBN: 978-0-340-99436-8 Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man`s search for safety of a man torn beween the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s McCarthyite America. Born in the and reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salome. Making himself useful in the household of the famed Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, and exiled Bolshevik leader Lev Trotsky, young Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution. A violent upheaval sends him north to a nation newly caught up in World War II. In the mountain city of Asheville, North Carolina he remakes himself in America`s hopeful image. But political winds continue to throw him between north and south, in a plot that...
ISBN: 978-0-571-25266-4 Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
ISBN: 9780007574902 Дата выхода: январь 2019
ISBN: 9780099552260 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: январь 2012
Classic tales by Laura Ingalls Wilder about life on the frontier and America`s best-loved pioneer family.When a blizzard cuts the town of De Smet off from the railroad, the community is left for weeks without food or fuel deliveries and the Ingalls family are forced to eke out the last of their supplies.As the terrible winter drags on, things begin to look desperate, until Almanzo Wilder and his friend brave the icy storms in search of help from another settlement.The timeless stories that inspired a TV series can now be read by a new generation of children. Readers who loved Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, and Heidi will be swept up by this timeless rural coming of age saga. Perfect escapism for readers aged 8+. Beautifully...
ISBN: 9781405280150 Издательство: Egmont Books Ltd Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
The town psychiatrist has decided to switch everybody in Pine Cove, California, from their normal antidepressants to placebos, so naturally — well, to be accurate, artificially — business is booming at the local blues bar. Trouble is, those lonely slide-guitar notes have also attracted a colossal sea beast named Steve with, shall we say, a thing for explosive oil tanker trucks. Suddenly, morose Pine Cove turns libidinous and is hit by a mysterious crime wave, and a beleaguered constable has to fight off his own gonzo appetites to find out what`s wrong and what, if anything, to do about it.
ISBN: 978-0-06-073545-6 Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
ISBN: 9780099521242 Издательство: Random House Дата выхода: январь 2011
In the good old days, magic was powerful, unregulated by government, and even the largest spell could be woven without filling in magic release form B1-7g. Then the magic started fading away. Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs Kazam, an employment agency for soothsayers and sorcerers. But work is drying up. Drain cleaner is cheaper than a spell, and even magic carpets are reduced to pizza delivery. So it`s a surprise when the visions start. Not only do they predict the death of the Last Dragon at the hands of a dragonslayer, they also point to Jennifer, and say something is coming. Big
ISBN: 978-1-4447-0721-2 Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
ISBN: 9781409309581 Издательство: Ladybird Books Дата выхода: январь 2012
The Ladybird Book of British History is the ideal first reference book for primary school children. It is packed with information about topics children will learn at school, including the Romans, the Tudors, and Victorian Britain. Full of fascinating facts and detailed drawings, this handy book will form an invaluable part of any child`s first reference library. Includes a weblink to a downloadable timeline of British history.
ISBN: 978-1-4093-0872-0 Издательство: Ladybird Books Дата выхода: июнь 2011
