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 ...
With an Introduction by Dr Richard Serjeantson, Trinity College, Cambridge Since its first publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes''s Leviathan has been recognised as one of the most compelling, and most controversial, works of political philosophy written in English. Forged in the crucible of the civil and ...
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 ...
Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn''s sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name, ''Breakfast at Tiffany''s'' is Truman Capote''s timeless portrait of tragicomic cultural icon Holly Golightly, published in ''Penguin Modern Classics''. It''s New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from ...
They want to find me. I will find them first. Juliette has escaped. She has found the headquarters of the rebel resistance - and people like her. People with gifts. She is free from The Reestablishment, free from their plan to use her as a weapon, and free to love Adam. But Juliette will never be free ...
#1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER They are at the center of a multimillion-dollar legal hurricane: twelve men and women who have been investigated, watched, manipulated, and harassed by high-priced lawyers and consultants who will stop at nothing to secure a verdict. Now the jury must make a decision in ...
