В этом издании читателям предлагаются неадаптированный оригинальный текст и классический перевод заключительной повести из волшебной эпопеи «Хроники Нарнии». Чтение текста в оригинале позволит значительно усовершенствовать знание английского, а перевод на русский язык поможет разрешить возникающие по ходу чтения вопросы и трудности. Для углубления знаний английского и облегчения понимания текста п…
Naomi Novik’s stunning series of novels follow the global adventures of Captain William Laurence and his fighting dragon Temeraire as they are thrown together to fight for Britain during the turbulent time of the Napoleonic Wars.Captain Will Laurence has been at sea since he was just twelve years old; finding a warmer berth in Nelson's navy than any he enjoyed as the youngest, least important son …
BORN AS TWINSRAISED AS ENEMIESBOUND BY DEATHCass is born a few minutes after her brother, Zach. Both infants are perfect, but only one is a blessing; only one is an Alpha.The other child must be cast out. But with no discernible difference, other than their genders, their parents cannot tell which baby is tainted.Perfect twins. So rare, they are almost a myth. But sooner or later the Omega will sl…
Когда до восемнадцати лет остается полгода, жизнь Богданы внезапно превращается в сплошную страшную загадку. Ужас в глазах окружающих, невероятные случаи, подозрительные личности – все это явно связано с новым одноклассником, таинственным Артуром, за которым шлейфом тянутся необъяснимые и смертельно-опасные происшествия. Парень уверяет, что они знакомы тысячу лет, а может, и больше. Совсем скоро Б…
У него есть "Демократизатор", "Капитал", верные друзья, а теперь еще и Безумный легион. Ему нужны деньги. Много денег. Бойся мир! Он вновь идет причинять добро и творить справедливость. И никто не уйдет обиженным.
Действующие лица существа мира Эльниум. Сюжет повествует сразу о нескольких героях. Один из них жаждет могущества, другой ищет ответы на мучащие его вопросы, а третий преодолевает препятствия выпавшие на его жизненном пути. Но каждый из них всего лишь маленькая пешка в игре куда более могущественных сил мира Эльниума. Присутствует нецензурная брань.
Драгомир построен на драгоценных камнях и минералах. Каждый его обитатель владеет даром одной из четырех стихий, а некоторые – еще и способностью исцелять. В Драгомире царила гармония, пока ведьма Жадеида не наложила проклятие и не развязала войну, которая длится вот уже 13 лет. Остановить ее может только Луна – девочка, родившаяся в ночь проклятия. Но где же она? Луна еще не знает, что она – насл…
This is the story of a girl who lived but was not alive…Carrie Anne is desperately unhappy. Tangled in a web of abuse, she seeks solace in the cemetery that backs onto her garden. But something creeps between the gravestones. Carrie Anne is not alone……and a boy who was dead, but could not die.'The cemetery is home to a boy. He has guarded these forgotten bones since meeting a gruesome end two hund…
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.‘But it was not only the heart-rending sound that almost paralysed poor Mimi with terror. What she saw was sufficient to fill her with evil dreams for the remainder of her life…’At the estate of Castra Regis in Derbyshire, mystery lurks in the woods, a place where snakes dwell and murderous deeds take place in…
No.1 bestselling author Conn Iggulden takes on the story of the mighty Kublai Khan. An epic tale of a great and heroic mind; his action-packed rule; and how in conquering one-fifth of the world’s inhabited land, he changed the course of history forever.A scholar who conquered an empire larger than those of Alexander or Caesar.A warrior who would rule a fifth of the world with strength and wisdom.A…
Harlequins are lost souls, so loved by the devil that he would not take them to hell, but left them to roam the earth. In French, the word is hellequin – the name given to the English archers who crossed the Channel to lay waste the towns and countryside.In the fourteenth century the English were just beginning to discover their national identity, and one of the strongest elements of this was the …
The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series.In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce.But for Thomas of Hookton, the hero of Harlequin and Vagabond, there is no end to the fighting. He is pursuing the grail, the most sacred of Christendom's relics, and is sent…
Naomi Novik’s stunning series of novels follow the global adventures of Captain William Laurence and his fighting dragon Temeraire as they are thrown together to fight for Britain during the turbulent time of the Napoleonic Wars.Laurence and Temeraire have been banished from the country they’ve fought so hard to protect – and the friends they have made in the British Aerial Corps.Found guilty of t…
The third book in the critically acclaimed Seven Realms epic fantasy series from Cinda Williams ChimaHan Alister thought he had already lost everyone he loved. But when he finds his friend Rebecca Morley near death in the Spirit Mountains, Han knows that nothing matters more than saving her. The costs of his efforts are steep, but nothing can prepare him for what he soon discovers: the beautiful, …
The Serpent Bride is the first book in the Darkglass Mountain trilogy, revisiting the tempestuous magical world of Tencendor with all it’s strange and wonderful inhabitants.Tencendor is no more; the cherished home of the Acharites, Avar and Icarii crumbled beneath the Widowmaker Sea five years ago.But the sacrifice of a continent may not save a world. The Timekeeper Demons were defeated, but a mor…