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
ISBN: 9781847394668 Издательство: Simon & Schuster UK Дата выхода: январь 2017
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: 9781784876272 Издательство: Vintage Classics Дата выхода: январь 2020
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
`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
ISBN: 9781847494733 Издательство: Alma Books Дата выхода: январь 2020
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: 9780751530629 Издательство: Orion Publishers Дата выхода: январь 2014
ISBN: 9781405954440 Дата выхода: октябрь 2023
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
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
A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The Last Man is Mary Shelley`s most important novel after Frankenstein. With intriguing portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, the novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction against Romanticism, and demonstrates the failure of the imagination and of art to redeem the doomed characters.
ISBN: 978-0-19-955235-1 Издательство: Oxford University Press Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
ISBN: 9781471508295 Издательство: Express Publishing Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
The new volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues spans almost 100 years.
ISBN: 9781603090001 Дата выхода: май 2009
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
ISBN: 9781472208422 Дата выхода: январь 2016
Bram Stoker (1847-1912) was an Irish novelist, best known today for his universally famous gothic novel "Dracula," the main villain of which is still one of the most popular antagonists in the modern media. "The Lair of the White Worm" is a horror novel based on the legend of the Lambton Worm. The story of the book revolves around Adam Salton, who goes to Derbyshire to meet his great-uncle Richard Salton for the family reunion. Adam travels to his house and soon finds himself at the center of dark and mysterious events in which a local woman Arabella March is involved.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07522-5 Издательство: Т8 Дата выхода: июль 2018
ISBN: 9780141377599 Дата выхода: январь 2019
ISBN: 9781788004725 Издательство: Nosy Crow Дата выхода: январь 2020
ISBN: 9780241339374 Дата выхода: январь 2018
For five hundred years, the survivors of the Great Wars lived peacefully in a valley sanctuary shielded by powerful magic from the dangerous outside world. But the enchanted barriers have crumbled, and the threat of annihilation looms large once more. As he lay dying, Sider Ament, bearer of the last black staff and protector of the valley, gave stewardship of the powerful talisman to the young Tracker Panterra Qu. Now the newly anointed Knight of the Word must take up the battle against evil wherever it threatens: from without, where an army of bloodthirsty Trolls is massing for invasion; and from within, where the Elf king of Arborlon has been murdered, his daughter stands accused, and a heinous conspiracy is poised to subjugate the...
ISBN: 978-0-345-48422-2 Издательство: Random House (USA) Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
