Inside the paralysed shell, she struggled, she strained. She looked up into the eyes of her killer. Into the eyes of a friend. Why? Every cop gets angry when a police officer is killed. And Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no exception. Throwing every resource into solving Amarylis Coltraine\''s brutal murder, ...
''Once upon a time, there was a boy who lost his mother !''As twelve-year-old David takes refuge from his grief in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother, he finds the real world and the fantasy world begin to blend. That is when bad things start to happen. That is when the Crooked Man ...
In the chaos of Cannery Row a collection of misfits gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists live side-by-side. There is Dora, of the flaming orange hair, who runs the brothel with clockwork efficiency; Mack and his gang of good-natured losers, who inhabit the Palace Flophouse; Lee Chong, astute owner ...
The warm, engrossing new paperback from the natural heir to Maeve Binchy. Welcome to Avalon: a quaint, sleepy town on the Irish coast. Nothing has changed here for generations - least of all the huge mansion on Willow Street; the house in which sisters Tess and Suki Power grew up. Now, years later, Tess ...
Un mystere a r�soudre. pour le plaisir de tous ! Themes : Amiti� ; �cole ; Aventure Dans cet ouvrage : des dossiers culturels; un glossaire des mots et expressions difficiles ; des activit�s ludiques tres vari�es ; des activit�s type DELF. Sophie est une jeune fille de 14 ans qui aime les ...
A body has been found on the overlook near Mulholland Drive. The victim, identified as Dr. Stanley Kent, has two bullet holes in the back of his head from what looks like an execution-style shooting. LAPD detective Harry Bosch is called out to invest igate. It is the case he has been waiting for, his ...
It''''s the night of the full Cold Moon — the month of December according to the lunar calendar. A young man is found dead in lower Manhattan, the first in a series of victims of a man calling himself the Watchmaker. This killer''''s obsession with time drives him to plan the murders with the precision ...
Nové začiatky bývajú náročné.Pred začiatkom štvrtého ročníka na strednej sme sa presťahovali do Západnej Virgínie a mne nezostalo nič iné ako vysporiadať sa s tamojším nárečím, chabým prístupom na internet a nekončiacou nudou. až som raz zbadala svojho vysokého sexi suseda s tajomnými zelenými očami. ...
Summer With My Sister is a fascinating tale of family secrets and hidden rivalries by bestselling author Lucy Diamond. Polly has always been the high-flier of the family, with the glamorous city lifestyle to match. Clare is a single mum with two children, struggling to make ends meet in a ramshackle ...
The rise of Robert Harris as one of the UK''''s premier novelists has been something of a phenomenon. His breakthrough book was, of course, Fatherland, and even though the premise (Germany had won the Second World War and occupied Britain) was not original, the treatment was astonishingly assured. From ...
Oxford Bookworms Library (1000 headwords). ´When we are happy, we are always good´, says Lord Henry, ´but when we are good, we are not always happy.´ Lord Henry´s lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world where it is better to be beautiful than to be good, a world where anything can ...
Maya Angelou''s even volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In this first volume ...
Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they\''re nervous. By definition they\''re all first-timers. Riding the subway in New York at two o\''clock in the morning, Reacher knows the twelve giveaway signs to look out for. Watching one of his fellow-passengers, ...
The police urgently need Harry Hole.A killer is stalking Oslo’s streets. Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once investigated, but failed to solve. The murders are brutal, the media reaction hysterical.But this time, Harry can’t help anyone.For years, detective Harry Hole has ...
The stunning sequel to Gayle Forman''''s international best seller, If I Stay - Now a major film starring Chloe Grace Moretz. If you had a second chance at first love... would you take it? It''''s been three years since Adam''''s love saved Mia after the accident that annihilated life as she knew it... ...
