Michael Meyer begs to differ. In this compelling account of the revolutions that roiled Eastern Europe in 1989, Meyer draws together vivid on-the-ground accounts of the rise of Solidarity in Poland, the stealth opening of the Hungarian border, the Velvet Revolution in Prague, and the collapse of ...
The harrowing scene is always the same: the home of a single woman, no signs of forced entry, no evidence of an intruder, and no victim - only a bathtub filled with blood. Newly promoted homicide detective Angel Alves wants to make his mark in the department and a difference on the streets, but ...
The eighth book in the extremely popular, number one bestselling Women's Murder Club detective series. Behind the closed doors of San Francisco's grandest mansions, beautiful people party the nights away in a heady mix of money, drugs, drink and sex. But the rich and famous aren't the only ones ...
Narrator powieści, Grégoire, nie wyróżnia się niczym poza kanciastym łbem i wielkimi dłońmi. Mieszka sam, pracuje w warsztacie samochodowym. Ma jedno marzenie ? chciałby stać się zbrodniarzem jak Angoualima, słynny seryjny zabójca. Grégoire odwiedza jego grób na cmentarzu ...
Martin and Alex finish university and rent a house in the middle of nowhere with their girlfriends. While the girls try to find jobs, the boys spend the day sleeping, and the tensions build. But when a hedonistic American student arrives, events quickly spiral out of control. Debut novel, in a ...
Alex Cross tells the incredible story - passed down through the generations - of an ancestor's courageous fight for freedom.
From his grandmother, Alex Cross has heard the story of his great-uncle Abraham and his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, Alex records the ...
Easy Classics - a new series of well-loved novels from the treasury of English and American literature, retold and abridged by native speakers for learners of English.
All titles are richly illustrated and annotated.
When a Glasgow journalist receives a call promising unsavoury information about a Scottish Justice Minister, his instinct is that the scoop won't warrant space in the newspaper. But as leads proliferate, he grows obsessed with the story. And as he digs deeper, he learns that there is indeed a story ...
A hard-boiled crime drama set in Dublin. Det. Ed Loy is investigating a 15 year old murder and begins to suspect the case has links to the IRA. Hughes's The Wrong Kind Of Blood was shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger Award and won the 2007 Shamus Award for Best First Novel.
Following the fall of Baghdad, two Iraqi boys stumble upon armed men looting the city zoo. The floodgates have been opened for the smuggling of hundreds of exotic birds, mammals, and reptiles to Western nations, but this crime hides a deeper secret. Amid a hail of bullets, a concealed underground ...
Arthur Dent's accidental association with that wholly remarkable book THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY has not been entirely without incident.
Arthur has traveled the length, breadth, and depth of known, and unknown, space. He has stumbled forward and backward throught time. He has been blown ...
In that institution, celebrated for its angelic texts, lives Sister Evangeline, who prays, tends to library matters, and has become a creature of obedience and duty since her father brought her there when she was 12, two years after her mother's death. The scholar Verlaine seeks concrete evidence ...
Paul Chowder is a poet of some little reknown who is sitting in his barn, trying to write the introduction to a new anthology of poetry called Only Rhyme. What unfolds is a wholly entertaining and beguiling love story about poetry, among other things; Paul tells us about all of the great poets, ...
Every politician has a secret. And when the daughter of a politically connected family is kidnapped abroad, America's new president will agree to anything - even a deadly and ill-advised rescue plan - in order to keep his secret hidden.
But when covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvarth is ...
New Mexico Territory, 1882: two itinerant lawmen walk their horses down the long, shale-scattered slope into the frontier town of APPALOOSA. They are here to restore the rule of law. They've done it before, they know what to do only too well. But they are not the only new arrivals in town... A ...
In the tradition of bestselling authors Ian McEwan and Anne Enright, Samantha Bruce-Benjamin's brilliant and timeless debut unveils the dark side of human nature as four women share the poignant tale of love, obsession, and ultimate betrayal that binds them forever.
The Assassin
A gangster is poisoned. A crooked financier dies in a car crash. A bomb explodes in a crowded hotel. And all the evidence points to Samuel Carver.
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Zwischen nationalem Selbstwertgefuhl und Selbstkritik. Sachliteratur uber die Deutschen Anno 2009 aus auslandsgermanistischer SichtZur kognitiven Funktion von Fachsprachen und zur Geschichte ihrer ...
Książka z serii "Felberg First English Readers" - adaptacji popularnych bajek i opowiadań przeznaczonych dla dzieci przedszkolnych i wczesnoszkolnych (5-10) lat uczących się języka angielskiego. Każda z bogato ilustrowanych książeczek tej serii zawiera historię opowiedzianą prostym ...
Meet Scarlett O'Hara - wedding planner extraordinaire - who's famous for making dreams come true. Scarlett's personal life ran just as smoothly. Until now. Her dependable boyfriend has moved to Brazil. She's had to give up her Dublin flat and move back home. And she's pregnant. Worse still, she ...
