Книги жанра HarperCollins Publishers
Название: The Whole Day Through
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2009
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The new novel from Patrick Gale, author of Richard & Judy-bestseller Notes from an Exhibition. When forty-something Laura Lewis is obliged to abandon a life of stylish independence in Paris to care for her elderly mother in Winchester, it seems all romantic opportunities have gone up in smoke. Then she runs into Ben, the great love of her student days — and, as she only now dares admit, the emotional touchstone against which she has judged every man since. She's cautious — and he's married — but they can't deny that feelings still exist between them. Are they brave enough to take the second chance at the lasting happiness that fate has offered them? Or will they be defeated by the need to do what seems to be the right thing? Taking its structure from the events of a single summer's day, The Whole Day Through is a bittersweet love story, shot through with an understanding of mortality, memory and the difficulty of being good. In it, Patrick Gale writes with scrupulous candour about the tests of love: the regrets and the triumphs, and the melancholy of failing. The Whole Day Through is vintage Gale, displaying the same combination of wit, tenderness and acute psychological observation as his Richard & Judy bestseller Notes From an Exhibition.
Название: Easy Learning English Idioms
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2010
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Collins Easy Learning English Idioms leaves no stone unturned in this accessible guide to common English idioms. An indispensable dictionary of common idioms that will help you make head or tail of contemporary English usage and become the cat's whiskers at communication. Collins Easy Learning Idioms is the helpful, and often fun, guide to key English idioms, providing explanations of use, real-world examples, usage guidance and notes on where the idioms come from.
Название: Easy Learning English Verbs
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2010
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Collins Easy Learning Verbs is an accessible introduction to English verbs, tenses and morphology. With clear, concise explanations of English verb systems, this book is an indispensable guide for the language learner. Collins Easy Learning Verbs is the helpful guide to English verbs. Covering tense, aspect, modality and the morphological structures of verbs as well as irregular and phrasal verbs, the English learner will appreciate the clear guidance provided in this book. Each point is described in a user-friendly format that combines explanations with examples from modern English.
Название: Collins Mini English Dictionary
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2010
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Collins Mini English Dictionary is the perfect dictionary for everyday reference. It contains all the words and definitions you need on a daily basis in a handy portable format that is ideal for carrying to school or work. Collins Mini English Dictionary is a great choice for everyday use. The attractive, open layout is a pleasure to consult, as all entry words and spelling forms are highlighted in colour. Based on analysis of Collins corpus, the largest database of the English language, Collins Mini English Dictionary includes completely up-to-date coverage of written and spoken English. All definitions are provided in clear, no-nonsense language, and modern meanings come first so it is easy to find the sense needed. The clear, concise usage notes give advice on puzzling or disputed points in using English.
Название: Collins Mini Thesaurus
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2010
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The Collins Mini Thesaurus is ideal for use in home, school, and office. Comprehensive and authoritative, it gives all the synonyms and antonyms you need. This new edition of Collins Mini Thesaurus is an ideal reference for everyday use. It contains a wide selection of alternative words and opposites, with the most useful words highlighted. The clear colour layout makes the content easily accessible and the handy size makes it easy to carry with you wherever you may be. Collins Mini Thesaurus is the perfect companion to the Collins Mini Dictionary.
Название: Easy Learning Writing
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2010
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Collins Easy Learning Writing is an accessible guide to successful writing in the English language With clear, concise explanations of everything from the basics of sentence and paragraph structure, to writing CVs, letters and essays, this book is an indispensable guide for the language learner. Collins Easy Learning Writing is the helpful guide to good written style. Covering areas such as sentence structure, punctuation and page layout, the English learner will truly appreciate the clear advice provided in this book. Each point is described in a user-friendly format that combines explanations with examples from modern English.
Название: School Dictionary
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2008
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This new COLOUR edition of the Collins Gem School English Dictionary is the perfect portable dictionary for all students aged 11-14. This handy dictionary, in the best-selling Gem format, has been developed with teachers to be the perfect tool for both school work and homework. The new COLOUR Collins Gem School English Dictionary provides clear, concise definitions and extra help with difficult pronunciations. With core vocabulary for key exam subjects and a handy Word Power supplement, this dictionary is an indispensable tool for any school student aged 11+. Have confidence Help with spelling, pronunciation and difficult words Get it right Clear definitions and core vocabulary for key subjects Get there fast Clear, colour layout for easy accessibility
Название: The Last of the Mohicans
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2010
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Death and honour are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not'. Set in frontier America in the midst of the French-Indian war, as the French are attempting to overthrow an English fort, Cooper's story follows Alice and Cora Munro, pioneer sisters who are trying to find their way back to their father, an English commander. Guided by an army major and Magua, an Indian from the Huron tribe, they soon meet Hawk-eye, a frontier scout and his Mohican Indian companions Chingachgook and Uncas. Magua is not all that he seems and the sisters are kidnapped. In The Last of the Mohicans, Cooper sets Indian tribe against Indian tribe and lays bare the brutality of the white man against the Mohicans.
Название: The Secret Garden
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2010
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Where, you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow'. Orphaned and sent to live with her uncle in his austere manor on the moors, Mary Lennox is a lonely and unhappy child. A meeting with Dickon, her servant's brother begins her adventure and it is through their friendship and her relationship with her troubled hypochondriac cousin Colin that she begins to learn about herself. Their lives all begin to change when a Robin shows Mary the door to a mysterious secret garden.
Название: The Cat Sanctuary
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2009
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A powerful and moving novel in which Patrick Gale casts a compassionate yet satirically sharp eye over the pains and abuses inflicted by families, friends and lovers. Judith and Deborah are sisters driven apart by traumatic events in their childhood, but thrown back together again when Deborah's diplomat husband is accidentally assassinated. Judith's lover, Joanna, the instigator of this awkward reunion, finds that as the sisters' murky past is raked up, so too is her own, and the three women become embroiled in a tangle of passion and recrimination.
Название: Cirque du Freak
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2009
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Darren goes to a freak show with his friend, Steve. It's the gothic Cirque du Freak where weird, half human/half animals appear and interact with the audience. Darren falls in love with a tarantula and determines to steal the spider so that he can train it to perform amazing deeds.
Название: Koko
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2001
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Koko. Only four men knew what it meant. All were as different as men could be. And now they are joined together again on a quest that could take them from the graveyards of the Far East to the human jungle of New York, hunting an inhuman ghost of the past risen from nightmare darkness to kill.
Название: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2002
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It's a magic wardrobe. There's a wood inside it, and it's snowing! Come and see, begged Lucy. Lucy has stumbled upon a marvellous land of fauns and centaurs, nymphs and talking animals. But soon she discovers that it is ruled by the cruel White Witch, and can only be freed by Aslan, the great Lion and four children. This is the second adventure in the exciting Chronicles of Narnia.
Название: Gone With the Windsors
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2006
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Presents the fictional diary of Maybell Brumby, a wealthy American widow who arrives in London in 1932 and discovers that an old school friend is in town: Bessie Wallis Warfield. Maybell and Wally are made for one another. One has money and a foothold in high society. The other has ruthless ambition and enough energy to power the National Grid.
Название: The Complete Guide to Middle-earth
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2003
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An illustrated A-Z guide to the names, places and events in the fantasy world of J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien's fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion have delighted millions of readers over the years. Middle-earth, the world in which the stories take place, is as real and complex as our own. Events, geography and names were created with care and loving attention by Tolkien, who wanted every single detail of his books to fit into their total pattern. A belief in perfection, the fun of the sub-creation and the desire to create something totally convincing involved him in map-making, endless charts of dates and events and the development of his many invented languages.
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2003
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Written by the writer and broadcaster Brian Sibley, this slipcase features Tolkien's maps of The Hobbit, Beleriand and Middle-earth. Each map is presented in a box-set illustrated by Tolkien artist John Howe, the conceptual artist employed by Peter Jackson to work on his Lord of The Rings film trilogy. The maps, presented with individual books and wallets show Tolkien's mythical lands in detail — they are also bound with fewer folds, making them suitable for portfolios or framing.
Название: Conrad's Fate
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2006
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This is a splendid, new, magical adventure from Diana Wynne Jones, set in the worlds of Chrestomanci. Conrad is young, good at heart, and yet is apparently suffering from the effects of such bad karma that there is nothing in his future but terrible things. Unless he can alter his circumstances well, quite frankly, he is doomed. Conrad is sent in disguise to Stallery Mansion, to infiltrate the magical fortress that has power over the whole town of Stallchester, and to discover the identity of the person who is affecting his Fate so badly. Then he has to kill that person. But can any plan really be that simple and straightforward? Of course it can't! And things start to go very strangely for Conrad from the moment he meets the boy called Christopher. This is trademark DWJ; packed with laugh-aloud humour, insane logic, spot-on observations, organised chaos, and all wrapped up in a rattling good adventure which oozes magic from every seam.
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2006
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The first book in a trilogy from the author of the Farseer, Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies. Young Nevare Burvelle is the second son of a second son. Traditionally in Gernia, the firstborn son is heir to the family fortunes, the second son bears a sword and the third son is consecrated to the priesthood.
Название: Forest Mage: Bk: 2: Soldier Son Trilogy
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2007
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The second book in the brand new trilogy from the author of the Tawny Man trilogy, following on from the bestselling Shaman's Crossing. The King's Cavalla Academy has been ravaged by the Speck plague. The disease has decimated the ranks of both cadets and instructors, and even the survivors remain sickly. Many have been forced to relinquish their military ambitions and return to their families to face lives of dependency and disappointment. As the Academy infirmary empties, Cadet Nevare Burvelle also prepares to journey home, to attend his brother Rosse's wedding. Far from being a broken man, Nevare is hale and hearty after his convalescence. He has defeated his nemesis, Tree Woman and freed himself of the Speck magic that infected him and attempted to turn him against his own people. A bright future awaits him as a commissioned officer betrothed to a beautiful young noblewoman. Yet his nights are still haunted by dreams of the voluptuous Tree Woman, dreams in which his Speck self betrays everything he holds dear in his waking life. Has the plague infected him in ways far more mysterious than the merely physical? Despite his fears, Nevare will journey back to Widevale in high spirits, in full expectation of a jubilant homecoming and a tender reunion with his beautiful fiancee, Carsina. But his life is about to take a shocking turn, as the magic in his blood roars to life and forces him to recognize that his most dangerous enemy, an enemy that seeks to destroy all he loves, might dwell within him.
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2008
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The final book in the Soldier Son from the author of the Tawny Man and Farseer trilogies, following on from the bestselling Shaman's Crossing and Forest Mage. The people of Getty's town remember the death of their cemetery soldier vividly. They remember believing him guilty of unspeakable crimes, condemning him, and then watching as other men of his unit beat him until he no longer drew breath. But Nevare Burvelle didn't die that day, though everyone believes they saw it happen. He was cornered by a power far more intractable than an angry mob. When he was a boy, the magic of the Specks — the dapple-skinned tribes of the frontier forests — claimed Nevare as a saviour; severing his soul in two, naming his stolen half Soldier's Boy and shaping him into a weapon to halt the Gernian expansion into their lands and save their beloved ancestor trees. Until now Nevare has defied the magic, unable to accept his traitorous fate. But the magic has won: it has extinguished his once golden future, devastated his family and has now turned his own people against him. Faced with endangering the only loved-ones he has left, Nevare has no choice but to surrender to its will and enter the forest. But surrendering to his Speck destiny is only the beginning of his trials. Before he submits completely, Nevare makes one desperate last attempt to deter the Gernians from the Barrier Mountains without causing them harm. But the magic accepts no compromise. Exhausted, Nevare can no longer suppress his traitorous Speck self, Soldiers Boy. Losing control, he becomes a prisoner in his own body; able only to watch helplessly as his other half takes Soldier's Boy is determined to stop the Gernian expansion at all cost, and unlike Nevare, he has no love, nor sympathy for his spirit-twin's world.
