Осем часа. Шестима приятели. Един снайперист. Осемнайсетгодишната Ред Кени се отправя на пътешествие през Щатите заедно с петима приятели, нетърпеливи да отбележат пролетната ваканция на плажа. Но кемперът, с който пътуват, внезапно аварира насред нищото и изглежда, че гумите му са отстреляни една по една... Бързо става ясно, че това не е съвпадение. Без мобилен обхват и без жива душа наоколо, групата се оказва в безизходица. А из сенките се крие някой, който добре познава Ред и приятелите ѝ. Мистериозният снайперист неслучайно ги причаква - стрелецът е готов да пролее кръв за техните най-мрачни тайни. Предстоят ... |
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Book Twelve of "The Wheel of Time" ... The final volume of "The Wheel of Time", A Memory of Light, was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson , New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordan's editor his wife, Harriet McDougal, to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so The Gathering Storm is the first of three novels that will cover the outline left by Robert Jordan, chronicling Tarmon Gai'don and Rand al'Thor's ... |
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Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn't pick, a book she couldn't steal, or a bad decision she wouldn't make. She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie. Now, she's trying to distance herself from past mistakes, but going straight isn't easy. Bartending at a dive, she's still entirely too close to the corrupt underbelly of the Berkshires. Not ... |
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This beautiful gift book presents 100 poems, organised by theme to encourage the discovery of new favourites. Bright, colourful illustrations are packed with charm and detail to capture the imaginations of young children. Poems include classics from Robert Burns , William Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, Louisa M Alcott and Edward Lear. ... |
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Sorcery is a scam. Four months after fleeing his own people, Kellen has discovered he's an even worse outlaw than he was a mage. It doesn't help that his only allies are a swaggering card player and a thieving squirrel cat. Then he meets Seneira, a blindfolded girl who isn't blind, and whose secrets pull them into a conspiracy of magic, blackmail and murder. "Exotic, original and gripping." Jonathan Stroud "Gloriouly escapist fantasy." Observer ... |
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Sydney's dad is the only psychiatrist for miles around in their small Ohio town. He is also unexpectedly dead. Sydney believes the crash was anything but an accident. And when the threatening texts begin, and June Copeland - homecoming queen and golden child - appears at his funeral out of nowhere, she's sure of it. But through Sydney's newfound relationship with June, she's given a glimpse of a life without the darkness of an unresolved grief and the chance, just maybe, of a fresh start. Until it's clear that the secrets won't go away, and the truth might bring everything crashing down... ... |
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Новата тийн сензация. ... Луси Дервиш търси Сянката и Поета - мистериозни художници на графити, които са оставили своите творби из целия град. Тя е запленена от творчеството на Сянката, което сякаш ѝ говори нещата, които тя има нужда да чуе. В последната вечер от гимназията Луси и приятелите ѝ се впускат в неочаквано приключение - тя е твърдо решена да намери Сянката; приятелките ѝ Джаз и Дейзи искат да намерят любовта; Ед и Лео се забъркват в опасна схема, за да изплатят свои дългове. Последният, с когото Луси очаква да прекара нощта, е Ед - момчето, с което е имала единствената несполучлива среща в ... |
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Four siblings. A country in ruin. One quest to save them all. Vira is desperate to get out of her mother's shadow and establish her legacy as a revered queen of Ashoka. But with the country's only quarry running out of magic - a precious resource that has kept Ashoka safe from conflict - she can barely protect her citizens from the looming threat of war. And if her enemies discover this, they'll stop at nothing to seize the last of the magic. Vira's only hope is to find a mysterious object of legend: the Ivory Key, rumoured to unlock a new source of magic. But in order to infiltrate enemy territory and ... |
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Fate can be fatal. ... Kellen and his murderous squirrel cat, Reichis, are on their own. They’ve heard rumour of a mythical monastery, known as the Ebony Abbey. It’s a place that outsiders can never find – but Kellen is getting desperate. He’s been told that the monks inside the Ebony Abbey know more about the Shadowblack than anyone else – and that they even know how to cure it. Then Kellen and Reichis are separated and for the first time, Kellen must face the world alone – and venture deeper into shadow magic than he ever knew he could."Gloriously escapist fantasy." Observer "Exotic, original and ... |
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The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks and vampires. It`s no place for Shadowhunters, but through twi centures a Silent Brother has visited. Brother Zachariah was once a Shadowhunter called Jem Carstairs and his love, then and always, is the warlock Tessa Gray. Now he is searching for a relic from his past. Follow Jem and see, against the backdrop of the Market’s dark dealings, Anna Lightwood’s doomed romance, Matthew Fairchild’s great sin and Tessa Gray as she is plunged into a world war. Valentine Morgenstern buys a soul and a young Jace Wayland finds safety. In the Market is hidden a ... |
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Бестселър на Ню Йорк Таймс. Пътешествие из времето и историята. Книга за религии, страни, култури, хора, власт и пари. ... "Сенки по пътя на коприната" е пътуване из най-грандиозните места по света. Пътешествие през сърцето на Китай, през планините на Централна Азия и Северен Афганистан, Иранската равнина и кюрдската част на Турция. Авторът Колин Таброн пътува от града на Жълтия император (митичният родоначалник на китайския народ) до древното средиземноморско пристанище Антиохия, като изминава 7000 мили за осем месеца в едно от най-опасните и трудни пътувания, правени някога. Запазена марка на Таброн като ... |
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Award-winning readers series of original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. A tragic love story is uncovered as journalist Clare Crowe goes to Switzerland to bring home a relative's body. Clare's grandfather has been found frozen in a glacier, 74 years after a climbing accident. Clare knows this could make an interesting story for her newspaper, but as she investigates her grandfather's last climb, she learns that the accident wasn't as simple as she had first thought. ... |
