Bloomsbury The Good Life McInerney Jay

It is 2008 and Russell and Corrine Calloway have spent half their lives in the bright lights of New York. Obama and Clinton are fighting for leadership and the collapse of Lehman Brothers looms. Meanwhile, Russell is running his own publishing company, and clinging to their downtown loft; Corrine manages a charity, and is desperate to move somewhere with more space for their twins. Although they try to forget each other's past indiscretions, when Jeff Pierce's posthumous novel gathers a new cult following, the memory of their friend begins to haunt the couple. Then, with devastating timing, Corrine's former lover makes an unexpected reappearance…

There's nothing to do about boredom, I'm bored, but one day I won't be bored anymore. Soon I'll know that it's not even worth the trouble. We'll have the easy life • Twenty-five-year-old Francine Veyrenattes, confined to the family farm, already feels that life is passing her by. But after Francine lets slip a terrible secret, culminating in the violent deaths of her brother and uncle, her world is shattered • Fleeing the farm for the seaside, Francine finds herself disintegrating. Lying in the sun with her toes in the sand, she restlessly wishes for things to be somehow easier, to have a life worth living • But then the calm and quiet is broken yet again – by another tragedy and a senseless death, in which Francine finds herself implicated. Cast out of paradise, and stranded between her home and the rest of the world, she must confront her rapidly dissolving sense of self if she is to find a way to survive

A hilarious book from bestselling author and stand-up comic James Campbell, who has visited over 3,000 primary schools to tell stories and encourage children to write their own • Uncover the sidesplitting life of cucumber scaredy-cats, non-stop pooping hamsters, exploding fish and everything in-between (and some things that have nothing to do with pets but are still ridiculously funny). This hilarious book answers all the big questions, like: do sausage dogs eat sausages? Why has my cat done a poo behind my wardrobe? And how can I persuade my parents to get me a pet? For real-life pet facts, imaginary stories, and a generally laugh-so-hard-snot-comes-out-your-nose read, this is the only pet book you'll ever need! • Written by the outstanding children's comedian James Campbell, prepare yourself for The Funny Life of Pets! But be WARNED - this IS NOT a normal book…You read a normal book by starting on page one and reading to the end (BORING)

"Период полураспада Валерия К" - роман Наташи Полли • В 1963 году в сибирском ГУЛАГе бывший специалист-ядерщик Валерий Колханов освоил все необходимое для выживания: правильные связи с охранниками для доступа к еде и сигаретам, подходящую пару теплых ботинок, чтобы избежать обморожения, и правильное отношение к маленьким радостям жизни. Но в один обычный день все меняется: появляется университетский наставник Валерия и забирает его из замерзшего лагеря для военнопленных в таинственный безымянный городок, спрятанный в лесу, настолько разрушенном, что кажется, будто деревья проржавели изнутри • Книга на английском языке • The truth must come out • In 1963, in a Siberian gulag, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov has mastered what it takes to survive: the right connections to the guards for access to food and cigarettes, the right pair of warm boots to avoid frostbite, and the right attitude toward the small pleasures of life

Nine year old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful - and dangerously, disturbingly, disaster-prone. When he falls off a cliff into a ravine, the accident seems almost predestined. Louis miraculously survives - but the family has been shattered • Louis father has vanished, his mother is paralysed by shock, and Louis lies in a deep coma from which he may never emerge. In a clinic in Provence, Dr Pascal Dannachet tries to coax Louis back to consciousness. But the boy defies medical logic, startling Dannachet out of his safe preconceptions, and drawing him inexorably into the dark heart of Louis buried world • Only Louis holds the key to the mystery surrounding his fall - and he can't communicate. Or can he?

A hilarious fact and fiction hybrid from bestselling author and stand-up comic James Campbell, who has visited over 3,000 primary schools to tell stories and encourage children to write their own • Want to know why OCTOPUSES can't play football? And how to play the game across multiple DIMENSIONS? How about learning the REAL RULES of how football is played, why Henry VIII banned it, plus where it came from and who the greatest players of ALL TIME are? • Whether you love a game of TABLE FOOTBALL, can't get enough of BACK-GARDEN BALL, only enjoy the game from your SOFA or would sooner swim with sharks than play it, if you LOVE to LAUGH – then this is the book for you! • But be warned - this is NOT a normal book. You can read it forwards, backwards, sideways and in approximately 861,000 different ways in between

А.Х. Бенджамин: Добрый маленький волк • Маленький волк не хочет быть похожим на плохих волков из его сборников рассказов. Итак, он убегает в лес, где старается быть хорошим. Но каждый раз, когда Маленький Волк помогает, все злятся! Станет ли Маленький Волк когда-нибудь героем? И напишет ли кто-нибудь когда-нибудь историю о добром маленьком волке? • Это необычное приключение от автора А.Х. Бенджамина идеально подходит для детей, которые учатся читать самостоятельно, и для ключевого этапа. В нем представлены привлекательные иллюстрации Сары Аспиналл и симпатичный герой, перед которым юным читателям будет трудно устоять • Книга на английском языке • A charming alternative fairy tale, ideal for practising reading with children at home or in school • Little Wolf doesn't want to be like the bad wolves in his storybooks

У только что сошедшей с корабля из Англии Виты Марлоу есть задача. Ее любимого дедушку Джека обманул, лишив его дома и имущества, известный мошенник со связями в мафии. Видя, что дух Джека сломлен, Вита отчаянно хочет снова сделать его счастливым, и разрабатывает план, как перехитрить его врагов и вернуть его дом • Она находит молодого карманника, работающего на улицах города. А два мальчика с весьма необычными навыками и собственными секретами вот-вот будут втянуты в ее беззаконный, бросающий вызов смерти план • "Хорошие воры", пятый роман Кэтрин Ранделл - это невиданное ранее ограбление, история группы детей, которые сделают все, чтобы исправить несправедливость • Книга на английском языке • Fresh off the boat from England, Vita Marlowe has a job to do

Платформа: Windows, Windows 10, PC, • Тип издания: стандартное, • Язык: английский, • Возрастное ограничение: 6+, • Дата релиза: 02.11.2012, • Жанр: Приключения/Симулятор

The internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, linking huge data centres to one another and eventually to us. All are owned by someone, financed by someone, regulated by someone • We refer to the internet as abstract from reality. By doing so, we obscure where the real power lies • In this powerful and necessary book, James Ball sets out on a global journey into the inner workings of the system. From the computer scientists to the cable guys, the billionaire investors to the ad men, the intelligence agencies to the regulators, these are the real-life figures powering the internet and pulling the strings of our society • Ball brilliantly shows how an invention once hailed as a democratising force has concentrated power in places it already existed – that the system, in other words, remains the same as it did before

Joshua is a troubled boy who lives with his mother and stepfather in a divided city, where a wall and soldiers separate two communities, and the rubble-strewn residue of their broken world gives hints of the old life before the wall was built. Joshua discovers a manhole, which leads to a tunnel, which leads in pitch darkness under the wall and across to the other side. Forbidden territory, dangerous territory, violent territory, which a boy like him – visibly different – shouldn't stray into. An act of kindness from a girl saves his life, but leads to a brutal act of cruelty and a terrible debt he's determined to repay. And no one, no one must find out that he's been there – or the consequences will be unbearable