Trying to determine why his last two clients were ruthlessly murdered, Nero Wolfe wonders if the answer is linked to a young boy who turns up at his brownstone apartment and finds clues in a gray Cadillac, a...
In my eyes she had always been old, always been mine, always been Granny Dan. But in another time, another place, there had been dancing, people, laughter, She had had another life before she came to us, long before...
An outstanding collection chronicling the growth of the american short story from humorous legend to powerful contempory fiction.
In 1957, published the very first Beginner Book, "The Cat in the Hat", and made a major impact on the world of education, proving that learning to read can indeed be fun. Now, for the first time, children can hear...
Elizabeth Nightingale found peace and tranquility on her nightly walks through the rich, dense forests surrounding Myfleet Manor. But the peace she treasured was shattered one night when she found death waiting in the...
Gulag: History (TPB) Pulitzer Prize
The Gulag - a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners - was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst...
As the bloody Human-Covenant War rages on Halo, the fate of humankind may rest with one warrior, the lone SPARTAN survivor of another legendary the desperate, take-no-prisoners struggle that led humanity to Halo - the...
Издание на английском языке
Today is your birthday! Today you are you!...There is no one alive that is younger than you! Six pages of rollicking pop-ups animate this simple adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic. It`s the best-of-the-best way to...
Haunted is a novel made up of twenty-three horrifying, hilarious, and stomach-churning stories. They’re told by people who have answered an ad for a writer’s retreat and unwittingly joined a “Survivor”-like scenario...
Deftly combining the sacred and the profane - the unmistakable hallmark of her fiction over the past decade - Susan Howatch gives us a spellbinding, suspenseful and psychologically intense new novel. The financial...
With the insight, humor, and compassion we have come to expect from her, Maeve Binchy tells a story of family, friends, patients, and staff who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the...
A riveting new thriller from the award-winning author of Ghost Story. Nora, a bored housewife, married to a weakling of a husband, is kidnapped at gunpoint by Dick Dart, a man who is suspected of committing four...
This mosaic of tales featuring a Byronic officer is the first major prose novel in Russian literature. Set in the rugged Caucasus, Lermontov`s 1840 psychological masterwork follows the cynical Pechorin as he charges...
“Save the cheerleader, save the world” are the defining words of Heroes, the phenomenal series that has transformed television drama. They are also the cryptic marching orders for the show’s cross section of ordinary...
Successful London lawyer Carter Graham has power, sex appeal, and a well-ordered life. Everything has gone according to plan, including her recent marriage to Kim Betz, an investment banker with the right combination...
His Majestys Dragon (Temeraire 1)
Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain's defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons....
The clone assassin has been played long enoug - now it’s more than a game. Bred to kill, Agent 47 is The Agency’s most valuable assassin. So when a competing murder-for-hire organization decides to destroy The Agency,...
