Три безследно изчезнали жени, повече от десет безплодни години издирване и улики, които не дават отговори, а будят въпроси. Първо изчезва младата Шелби Тибоу. Скоро след това се оказва, че Меридит Дики и дъщеря ѝ Дилайла също са в неизвестност. Следите и на трите се губят на почти едно и също място. И страхът сграбчва в прегръдките си целия квартал. Свързани ли са случаите? След безплодно издирване разследването е изоставено. Сега - 11 години по-късно, Дилайла внезапно се появява. Всички искат да знаят какво се е случило, къде са другите две жени, защо повече от десетилетие никой не е чул нищо за тях и как така се ... |
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Los Angeles. Len Samuel is a private detective. Carmen Blane is prisoner of the Young Ones. They want $100 000. Carmen's father is a rich man. But he is also a bad man. Len Samuel has a dangerous job. This book is in British English. Free resources including worksheets, tests and author data sheets at www.macmillanreaders.com . ... |
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A princess must have her prince. I have a heart for every year I've been alive. There are seventeen hidden in the sand of my bedroom. Every so often, I claw through the shingle to check they're still there. Buried deep and bloody. Princess Lira is siren royalty and revered across the sea until she is cursed into humanity by the ruthless Sea Queen. Now Lira must deliver the heart of the infamous siren killer or remain a human forever. Prince Elian is heir to the most powerful kingdom in the world, and captain to a deadly crew of siren hunters. When he rescues a drowing woman from the ocean, she promises to help ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. A heart-rending story of strength in adversity, A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute is a celebration of the overwhelming power of love. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by bestselling novelist, Jenny Colgan. Jean Paget, a young English woman, is captured by the Japanese army in Malaya during World War Two. She is ... |
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From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of The Song of Achilles and Circe , an enchanting short story that boldly re-imagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion. In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece - the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen - the gift of life. Now his wife, he expects Galatea to please him, to be obedience and humility personified. But she has desires of her own, and yearns for independence. In a desperate bid by her obsessive husband to keep her under control, she is locked away under the constant ... |
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Die Welt der Ornamente. L'Univers de L'ornement. Multilingual Edition: English, French, German. ... Discover a world of decorative ideas with this compendium of history's most elegant patterns and ornamental designs. "The World of Ornament" brings together the two greatest encyclopedic collections of ornament of the 19th century: Auguste Racinet’s L'Ornement polychrome Volumes I and II (1875 - 1888) and Auguste Dupont-Auberville's L'Ornement des tissus (1877) to provide one lavish source book spanning jewelry, tile, stained glass, illuminated manuscript, textile and ceramic ornament. ... |
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Icon painting in Bulgaria is closely connected with the historical destiny of the Bulgarian people and with Christianity adopted in 865 as official state religion. That was the time of the emergence of a new pictorial system, interpreted and evolved on the basis of a rich ancient artistic heritage of the Graeco-Roman and Thracian cultures, but subordinated to the traditions and lifestyle of the proto-Bulgarian and Slavonic tribes, a fact which makes it so original. The ceramic icons made in the late 9th and early 10th century in Preslav, the capital of the First Bulgarian state and the surrounding monasteries reveal the ... |
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Едно семейство, три съдби. Джордах са американска фамилия, в чиято история се преплитат вечните теми за любовта, омразата и сблъсъка между поколенията. Майката и бащата са озлобени един срещу друг неудачници, които са твърде далеч от сбъдването на американската мечта. Трите им деца са обречени да градят живота си от дъното. Единият син, Рудолф, е прилежен ученик, който упорито и неотклонно се стреми към богатство и обществено признание. Брат му Том е агресивен неудачник, който умее да получава своето само със силата на юмруците си. Сестра им Гретхен е лекомислена хубавица, която мисли, че лесният и приятен живот е на ... |
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"Скъпа, всяка жена се омъжва за непознат", гласи предупреждението на майката на Джейси. След поредица от връзки с неподходящи мъже, Джейси се запознава с Джед и от самото начало всичко е различно. Отправили поглед към общото си бъдеще, двамата не са споделяли нищо за миналото си, но то скоро ще ги настигне. Четири месеца след сватбата Джейси, вече бременна, се отправя на дълго пътуване със съпруга си до северната част на щата Мичиган, където ще гостуват на доктор Аш, бащата на Джед. У Джед постепенно настъпва осезаема промяна и въпреки сърдечния прием от страна на баща му в уютната обширна вила, уединена насред ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Gorgeous, strange and magical, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is perhaps the best loved of William Shakespeare 's plays. A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and sprites soon take an interest in human affairs, dispensing love potions and casting mischievous spells. In this dazzling comedy, confusion ends in harmony, as love is transformed, misplaced, and - ultimately - restored. This Macmillan ... |
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+ 29 recipes. ... "Nine Rabbits" tells two stories, that of a six-year-old girl, and of her grown-up self: Manda grows up on the Black Sea coast during the height of socialism in the 1960s, raised by her tyrannical grandmother along with her young aunts and uncles. While Grandma Nikula wages open and covert wars with life, Manda lives out the adventures of her childhood under the shadow of her absent grandfather. Forty years later on, we find that same child has become a woman, now living in a democratic Bulgaria and racked by an identity crisis. Manda has swallowed up her tyrannical grandmother, turning that ... |
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Explore "Game of Thrones" with this beautifully rendered and wholly original Tarot card deck. This deluxe box melds the tradition of the tarot with the deep archetypes of "Game of Thrones". Each card, from the Major Arcana to the Cups, Coins, Spears, and Swords of the Minor Arcana, offers a rich and meaningful experience. "Game of Thrones" fans will pore over a treasure trove of much-loved characters, scenes, and stories depicted in a style both surprising and true to the world of Westeros. An accompanying hardcover booklet explains the symbolism of each card and how to use them in a tarot ... |
