Penguin The Last Four Things Hoffman Paul

цена 1 770 руб.

Перейти в интернет-магазин

купить в магазине My-shop.ru г. Москва

The Last Four Things is the second in Paul Hoffman's remarkable series • Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell • These are the Last Four Things • Now there are Five • Meet Thomas Cale • Returning to the Sanctuary of the Redeemers, Thomas Cale is told by the Lord Militant that the destruction of mankind is necessary; the only way to undo God's greatest mistake • Cale seemingly accepts his role in the ending of the world: fate has painted him as the Left Hand of God, the Angel of Death. Absolute power is within his grasp, the terrifying zeal and military might of the Redeemers a weapon for him to handle as simply as he once used a knife • But perhaps not even the grim power that the Redeemers hold over Cale is enough - the boy who turns from love to poisonous hatred in a heartbeat, the boy who switches between kindness and sheer violence in the blink of an eye подробнее

Clive Cussler continues his thrilling NUMA Files with The Navigator • Iraq, 2003: in the post-war looting of the treasures from Baghdad's antiquities museum, a legendary Phoenicean statue is stolen • Known as the Navigator, the statue points back to the days of King Solomon and is the vital clue to a secret of unimaginable power. Lucky then that UN investigator Carina Mechadi recovers it quickly. But a daring raid by helicopter in Iceberg Alley off Newfoundland and the statue is gone again - while Carina is only saved by the timely intervention of Kurt Austin of NUMA • Now Austin and Carina are scouring the globe. Firstly, to track down the statue as it leaves a trail of murder and mayhem in its wake. And, secondly, to beat the thieves to the secret of the Navigator - for if it falls into the wrong hands, the world could be changed for ever

My-shop.ru г. Москва

2 197 руб.

Penguin The Spider's House Bowles Paul

Fez, 1954, and American ex-pat Stenham reluctantly accepts a guide for his night-time walk home through the streets of the Medina. A nationalist uprising is transforming the country, much to the annoyance of Stenham, who enjoys the trappings of the old city. His path soon crosses with the young, illiterate son of a healer, another outsider to the newly politicised life of Morocco, in this brutally honest novel of life in the midst of terrorism, violence and the ugly opportunism that accompanies both • Bowles's most masterly novel combines his classic themes: the conflict of Eastern and Western cultures and the trials of otherness

My-shop.ru г. Москва

1 996 руб.

Penguin The Last Train to Zona Verde. Overland from Cape Town to Angola Theroux Paul

The Last Train to Zona Verde is Paul Theroux's compelling account of his final African journey • Heading north from Cape Town, through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Angola, Paul Theroux makes a final journey along Africa's western edge. The end of the line is the Congo but Theroux discovers that his trip's pleasures are tempered by a growing sense that the Africa which so long ago helped form him has vanished, along with the hopes of many of its people. Yet after 2,500 miles Theroux finds that though this will be his ultimate African adventure there are still surprises to be found by the traveller prepared to step off the beaten track

My-shop.ru г. Москва

1 995 руб.

Penguin The Last Star Yancey Rick

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

My-shop.ru г. Москва

1 770 руб.

Penguin The Last Tycoon Фицджеральд Фрэнсис Скотт

Unfinished at the time of his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon is a story of doomed love set against the extravagance of America's booming film industry. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Edmund Wilson • The studio lot looks like 'thirty acres of fairyland' the night that a mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monroe Stahr, the last of the great Hollywood princes. Enchanted by one another, they begin a passionate but hopeless love affair, starting with a fast-moving seduction as slick as a scene from one of Stahr's pictures. The romance unfolds, frame by frame, watched by Cecilia, a thoroughly modern girl who has taken her lessons in sentiment and cynicism from all the movies she has seen. Her buoyant humour and satirical eye perfectly complement Fitzgerald's panorama of Hollywood at its most lavish and bewitching

My-shop.ru г. Москва

1 995 руб.

Penguin The Last Tycoons. The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co Cohan William D

William D. Cohan's The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. is the astonishing story of the world's most elite and legendary investment bank - and the men who reigned over it all • For over 150 years Lazard Freres had stood apart from other Wall Street firms by offering ultra-wealthy clients the wisdom of its 'Great Men': from Felix Rohatyn, the escapee from Nazi-occupied France turned financial genius, to Michel David-Weill, the inscrutable French billionaire 'Sun King'; from Steve Rattner, the boy wonder from Long Island who clashed violently with the old guard, to larger-than-life CEO Bruce Wasserstein, 'Bid-Em-Up-Bruce', who broke with the bank's traditions and made himself billions in the process. They amassed unimaginable fortunes and would stop at nothing to make a deal, until their titanic egos started to jeopardize everything

My-shop.ru г. Москва

3 792 руб.

Penguin The Last of the Mohicans Купер Джеймс Фенимор

Angered by the values of his materialistic society, Hawk-eye lives apart from the other white men, sharing the solitude and sublimity of the wilderness with his Mohican Indian friend, Chingachgook. As the savageries of war test these exiled men, they agree to guide two sisters in search of their father through hostile Indian country – even if it means risking everything. An enduring American classic, The Last of the Mohicans is a fast-paced portrait of fierce individualism and courage, set against massacres, raids, battles and a doomed love affair. It is also the unforgettable story of the friendship between two men

My-shop.ru г. Москва

1 516 руб.

Penguin The Last Days of Socrates Plato

'Nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death' • The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of classical Athens. In tracing these events through four dialogues, Plato also developed his own philosophy of a life guided by self-responsibility. Euthyphro finds Socrates outside the court-house, debating the nature of piety, while the Apology is his robust rebuttal of the charges against him. In the Crito, awaiting execution in prison, Socrates counters the arguments of friends urging him to escape. Finally, in the Phaedo, he is shown calmly confident in the face of death

My-shop.ru г. Москва

1 598 руб.

Penguin The Last Tycoon Фицджеральд Фрэнсис Скотт

These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death • Their eyes 'met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call' • A novel of the glittering decadence of Hollywood in its heyday, this was Fitzgerald's last work and he died without completing it. The novel's tragic tycoon hero is Stahr. Caught in the crossfire of his own effortless cynicism and his silent, secret vulnerability, Stahr inhabits a world dominated by business, alcohol and promiscuity. If there is a moral or social necessity to film-making in this West Coast never-never land, Stahr does not always believe in it. If there is love he does not always see it

My-shop.ru г. Москва

2 997 руб.

Penguin The Last Asylum. A Memoir of Madness in our Times Taylor Barbara

In July 1988, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, was admitted to what had once been England's largest psychiatric institution: Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, later known as Friern Hospital • This searingly honest, thought-provoking and beautifully written memoir is the story of the author's madness years, set inside the wider story of the death of the asylum system in the twentieth century. It is a meditation on her own experience of breakdown and healing, but also that of the millions of other people who have suffered, are suffering, will suffer mental illness

My-shop.ru г. Москва

2 086 руб.

Penguin The Last White Man Hamid Mohsin

From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change • One morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned dark, his reflection a stranger to him. At first he tells only Oona, an old friend, newly a lover. Soon, reports of similar occurrences surface across the land • Some see in the transformations the long-dreaded overturning of an established order, to be resisted to a bitter end. In many, like Anders's father and Oona's mother, a sense of profound loss wars with profound love • As the bond between Anders and Oona deepens, change takes on a different shading: a chance to see one another, face to face, anew

My-shop.ru г. Москва

2 465 руб.

Penguin The Last Jameson Hanna

Twenty Survivors. One Hotel. One Killer • The world as we know it has ended • You and nineteen other survivors hole up in an isolated Swiss hotel • You wait, you survive • Then you find the body • One of your number has blood on their hands • The race is on to find the killer • Before the killer finds you

My-shop.ru г. Москва

1 896 руб.

My-shop.ru — интернет-магазин: книги, учебники, игрушки, канцтовары, подарки, видео, музыка, софт и др. товары.