Black Swan: Impact of Highly Improbable
In the wake of 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the quagmire in Iraq, and other apparently unexpected disasters, it seems reasonable to wonder about our stunted powers of prediction. Couldn`t we have foreseen these debacles...
A modern, action-packed detective story. Salahadin El Nur is an inspector in the Antiquities Department of the Egyptian police. The death of a visiting European archaeologist leads Salahadin to investigate the...
‘Always be good, so people will love you. Always work hard and do your best`. These were the words of Black Beauty’s mother to her son when the two horses lived with Farmer Grey. But when Black Beauty got older, this...
Black Snow (intro. Terry Gilliam)
When Maxudov`s bid to take his own life fails, he dramatises the novel whose failure provoked the suicide attempt. To the resentment of literary Moscow, his play is accepted by the legendary Independent Theatre and...
Paha Sapa, `Black Hills`, is a Red Indian shaman who as a young boy at the Battle of Little Bighorn takes the ghost of the dying General Custer into his own body. Sixty years later as an old man working as a dynamiter...
Alexandre Dumas`s novels are notable for their suspense and excitement, their foul deeds, hairsbreadth escapes, and glorious victories. In The Black Tulip (1850), the shortest of Dumas`s most famous tales, the real...
Black Beauty = Черная Красота: роман на англ.яз
Впервые опубликованный в 1877 году, а затем экранизированный, роман о нелёгкой судьбе чёрного жеребца по имени Красавчик завоевал сердца читателей во всем мире. История Красавчика, рассказанная им самим, начиная с...
Blackpool Highflyer (Jim Stringer Steam Detective)
When railwayman Jim Stringer is assigned to drive holiday makers to Blackpool in the summer of 1905, he thinks he`s struck lucky. But his dreams are soon destroyed - when his train meets a huge millstone on the line....
Black Swan Green (UK bestseller)
It`s a dank January in the Worcestershire village of Black Swan Green and thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in the deadest village on Earth. But...
Features the indomitable Cat Royal who turns pirate, undertakes a Caribbean Cruise and gets mixed up in a slave revolt.
A cargo ship arriving from Belgium at Richmond`s Deep Water Terminal is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway. Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is on...
When the game begins in New Orleans this Super Bowl 80000 people had better get ready to die. The Super Bowl - where thousands have gathered for an all-American tradition. Suddenly it`s the most terrifying place on...
In this swashbuckling novel, by the author of Treasure Island, young Dick Shelton is left orphaned. So he seeks the help of the mysterious Black Arrow fellowship. Brimming with adventure and suspense, this is a...
This is a new edition of this popular "Young Reading" title re-issued with a hardback cover and the audio CD inserted into a wallet inside the back cover, making the book and CD easy to store together. "Black Beauty"...
It is a secret that has been hidden for more than a half-century. The clues have been scattered across the globe. Now someone has begun to piece them together. And the future of the world depends on their being...
An urgent call from physicist Sir Claud Amory sends famed detective Hercule Poirot rushing from London to a sprawling country estate. Sir Claud fears a member of his own household wants to steal a secret formula...
