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Аделина Амутеру пережила кровавую лихорадку. Десять лет назад смертельная болезнь охватила ее нацию. Большинство инфицированных погибло, в то время как у многих выживших детей остались странные отметины. Черные волосы Аделины посеребрились, ресницы побледнели, и теперь на месте ее левого глаза остался только неровный шрам. Ее жестокий отец считает, что она мальфетто, мерзость, разрушающая доброе имя их семьи и стоящая на пути их богатства. Но, по слухам, у некоторых из выживших после лихорадки есть нечто большее, чем просто шрамы - считается, что они обладают таинственными и могущественными дарами, и хотя их личности остаются в секрете, их стали называть Молодой элитой • Терен Санторо работает на короля. Как лидер Оси Инквизиции, его работа заключается в поиске молодых представителей элиты, чтобы уничтожить их до того, как они уничтожат нацию

The most famous person in the world is going undercover • Global phenomenon Winter Young is the pop star of a generation. With sell-out tours and smash-hit records, everyone wants him, or wants to be him • That's why a top-secret government organisation think he'll make the perfect spy • His target is infamous business tycoon, and all-round bad guy, Eli Morrison. Because Morrison's daughter has just one birthday wish: a private concert with Winter Young • Winter must use his stardom to crack his target's inner circle and bring Morrison down. With him will be expert spy, and expert bad-ass, Sydney Cossette - and she's convinced Winter doesn't have what it takes • But as the stakes get higher and the tension ramps up, Sydney and Winter might find their best chance is each other

The Last Star is the heart-stopping finale to the bestselling 5th Wave series by award-winning author, Rick Yancey. Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Maze Runner • The enemy is Other. The enemy is us. They're down here, they're up there, they're nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us • But beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet. Betrayed first by the Others, and now by ourselves • In these last days, Earth's remaining survivors will need to decide what's more important: saving themselves . . . or saving what makes us human

'June the first, a bright summer's evening, a Monday . . .' • And into the busy, bustling homes at 66 Star Street slips, unseen, a mysterious visitor • As the couples, flatmates and repentant singletons of No. 66 fall in and out of love, clutch at and drop secrets, laugh, cry and simply try to live, no one suspects the visitor patiently waiting in the wings • For soon, as the light slowly fades to dark, everything is going to change

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short stories opens up a world of wonder, love, cruelty and curious twists of fate, where nothing is as it seems. In 'The Fugitive' an office worker composes the most beautiful poem ever with unforeseen consequences, while 'Magic Paint' sees a group of researchers develop a paint that mysteriously protects them from misfortune. 'Gladiators' and 'The Knall' are chilling explorations of mass violence, and in 'The Tranquil Star' a simple story of stargazing becomes a meditation on language, imagination and infinity

The explosive finale to Marie Lu's New York Times bestselling Legend trilogy - perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent! • He is a Legend • She is a Prodigy • Who will be Champion? • June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic - and each other - and now their country is on the brink of a new peaceful existence. June is back in the good graces of the Republic, working within the government's elite circles while Day has been assigned a high level military position • But when a plague outbreak, deadlier than any other, causes panic in the Colonies, and war threatens the Republic's border cities, the two are thrown back together. June is the only one who knows the key to her country's defence. But saving the lives of thousands will mean asking the one she loves to give up everything he has

The highly anticipated coming-of-age story for the world's greatest super hero: BATMAN by the # 1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu • Returning home from his lavish eighteenth birthday party, Bruce Wayne stops a criminal's getaway - disobeying the police and crashing his car during the chase • Sentenced to community service in Gotham City's Arkham Asylum, he encounters some of the the city's most dangerous and mentally disturbed criminals. Among these, Bruce meets the intriguing Madeleine who has ties to the Nightwalker gang that is terrorizing Gotham City • She's a mystery Bruce has to unravel but can he trust her? The Nightwalkers target the rich, and Bruce's name is next on their list

The incredible sequel to sci-fi thriller Warcross by bestselling author Marie Lu • Return to the immersive, action-packed world of Warcross in this thrilling sequel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu • Emika Chen barely made it out of the Warcross Championships alive. Now she can no longer trust the one person she's always looked up to - Hideo Tanaka. His plan: to wipe out all crime on Earth by ending the free will of its citizens • Emika is determined to put a stop to him, but she soon finds out that someone's put a bounty on her head, and her sole chance for survival lies with the ruthless Zero. But his protection comes at a price • Caught in a web of betrayal, just how far will Emika go to take down the man she loves?

«Мэр Кэстербриджа» – один из самых ярких и увлекательных великих романов Викторианской эпохи. На его страницах читателя ждут яркие примеры несравненного литературного мастерства Томаса Гарди. У классика английской литературы получилось создать трагедию поистине шекспировских масштабов с продуманным до мелочей и стремительно развивающимся сюжетом. Герой этой книги с подзаголовком «История человека с характером» – Майкл Хенчард, мужчина сильный и стойкий, но не лишённый пороков. Много лет назад он спьяну продал свою жену и маленькую дочь матросу на ярмарке за пять гиней. Ужаснувшись содеянному, он решил начать жизнь с чистого листа, отказался от алкоголя и стал сначала уважаемым торговцем зерном, мэром города Кэстербридж и одним из столпов местного сообщества

The Haunted Life is the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be one of his last innocent summers in his tranquil New England home town. But with the war escalating in Europe and his two closest friends both plotting their escapes, he realizes how sheltered his upbringing has been. As he surveys the competing influences of his youth, he struggles to determine what might lead to an intellectually authentic life • The Haunted Life is ultimately a meditation on intellectual truth, male friendship and the desire for movement - all themes that would dominate Kerouac's later work

Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign or second language • In Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, strong sled dogs are in high demand. Buck is stolen from his comfortable home in California and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. Will he survive life in the wild? • Penguin Readers is a series of the best new fiction, essential non-fiction and popular classics written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activities that help readers to develop key skills

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad • 'Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world' • In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters instruct him to discredit the anarchists in a humiliating fashion, and when his evil plan goes horribly awry, Verlac must deal with the repercussions of his actions • The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction written in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels, to the beginning of the First World War