Книги жанра Hodder&Stoughton
Название: The Devil's Paintbrush
Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton
Год: 2010
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Paris, 1903. Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald, one of the greatest heroes of the British Empire, is facing ruin in a shocking homosexual scandal when he meets the notorious occultist, Aleister Crowley. As they set out into the night on a wild journey through the sinful city, the story of Macdonald's tragedy begins to unfold — with startling revelations both for the General and the aspiring magician. In a tale that ranges from the battlefields of Sudan to the backstreets of Edinburgh, Jake Arnott brings alive a fascinating, forgotten figure of history, and a world trembling on the brink of a brutal new era. Black magic, Baden-Powell and Islamic revolution are just some of the ingredients in this bold and exhilarating novel, which explores imperialism, sexuality and the very nature of belief with an immediacy that resonates into the present.
Название: The Gates
Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton
Год: 2010
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A strange novel for strange young people. Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Hallowe'en. Which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with Satanism. But it just happens to coincide with a malfunction in the Large Hadron Collider that creates a gap in the universe. A gap in which there is a pair of enormous gates. The gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings just itching to get out...Can Samuel persuade anyone to take this seriously? Can he harness the power of science to save the world as we know it?
Название: Hitler's War
Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton
Год: 2010
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What if the second world war had started in 1938? The two sides of the Spanish civil war are still locked in a blood-soaked stalemate. Stalin's purge of the Red Army is barely underway. And Neville Chamberlain — sickened by the arrogance and duplicity of the Germans — does not return from Munich waving the piece of paper that would give the Czech arms factories to Hitler and postpone the war until 1939. On October 1, German tanks cross the Czech frontier, touching off declarations of war from France, from England, from the USSR. Poland, fearing the Russians more than Hitler, declares war on the German side. Soon Fascist Spain attacks Gibraltar, the Japanese army crosses the Manchurian frontier into Siberia...and the British Army sets off for France, which has launched a pre-emptive attack on the Rhineland. The war we know as World War II has begun — a year early, in an entirely different way.
Название: Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts
Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton
Год: 2009
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Wanted: new homes...When the strays from a local dogs' home are matched with brand new owners, it turns out it might not just be the lost dogs who need rescuing. Helen's ex-husband has given their children a puppy. The kids are in love, but she's the one stuck training the impossible Labrador. She's nearly at the end of her tether — until then the puppy bounds up to a handsome doctor...Meanwhile Kirsten and Johnny are happily married, even if it's not been so easy since they started trying for a baby. But can owning a neurotic basset hound really make up for not having a child? And Ambrose and Winnie just fear that they're too old for a new dog. But there's life in them yet, as a loyal dachshund will teach them. As the new owners' paths cross, their lives all become interwoven and linked. Just as they — and their dogs — learn lessons about loyalty, companionship, and maybe even some unconditional love...
Название: The Lovers
Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton
Год: 2010
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When Charlie Parker was still a boy, his father, a NYPD cop, killed a young couple, a boy and a girl barely older than his son, then took his own life. There was no explanation for his actions. Stripped of his private investigator's license, and watched by the police, Parker is working in a Portland bar, holding down a job and staying out of trouble. But in the background, he is working on his most personal case yet, an investigation into his own origins and the circumstances surrounding the death of his father, Will. It is an investigation that will reveal a life haunted by lies, by his mother's loss and his father's betrayal, by secrets kept and loyalties compromised. And by two figures in the shadows, a man and a woman, with only one purpose: to bring an end to Charlie Parker's existence...
Название: One Day
Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton
Год: 2010
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'I can imagine you at forty', she said, with malice in her voice. 'I can picture it right now.' He smiled without opening his eyes. 'Go on then.' 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows? Twenty years, two people, ONE DAY. From the author of the massive bestseller STARTER FOR TEN.
Название: Please Forgive Me
Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton
Год: 2010
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Leonie was in love and engaged. But now she has fled her beloved Dublin to start again — somewhere no one knows her or the secret she's running from. Settling in to her new apartment she happens upon a bundle of love letters, all written by a man called Nathan to an unknown woman, and all intriguingly ending with the same three words 'Please forgive me'. Moved by Nathan's heartfelt words, Leonie sets out to uncover the mystery behind the couple and what went wrong between them. If she reunites the letters with their rightful owner, might the love of Nathan's life find it in her heart to forgive him? And along the way, Leonie might just resolve a few forgiveness issues of her own...
Название: Playing with Fire
Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton
Год: 2010
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May, who is the doppelganger of a naiad (yes, really...) falls in love with a brooding, gorgeous man. Sparks fly — literally — when she discovers he's actually a dragon...But can fire and water mix?
Название: The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton
Год: 2009
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Leamas is finished. Every agent he ran in the field has been remorselessly hunted and killed. It is time to come home, to come in from the cold. But in the moral ambiguities of the Cold War, nothing is ever as it seems — particularly where George Smiley is involved. With its thrillingly effective atmosphere and lean, brilliant prose, John le Carre's breakthrough novel is a suspenseful masterpiece, and a gripping insight into the unforgiving ethics of espionage. With it, he changed the rules of the game, and was rocketed to worldwide fame.
Название: How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse
Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton
Год: 2010
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Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. But it wasn't always like that. Hiccup's memoirs look back to when Hiccup was just an ordinary boy, and finding it very hard to be a Hero. Fishlegs has been struck with deadly Vorpentitis. The only cure is rare and almost impossible to find...a potato. But where on Berk will Hiccup find such a thing? Hiccup will have to dodge Sharkworms, battle Doomfangs and outwit crazy Hooligans if he's going to be a Hero...again.
Название: How to be a Pirate
Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton
Год: 2010
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Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. But it wasn't always like that. Hiccup's memoirs look back to when Hiccup was just an ordinary boy, and finding it very hard to be a Hero. What happens when someone says 'Do Not Open This Box'? Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, now in pirate training, finds out when the box is opened not once, not twice, but three times!
Название: Bad Dog!
Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton
Год: 2002
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A superb series of graded readers using the highly acclaimed phonic approach developed by reading expert Ruth Miskin. There are four levels — Blue (the easiest), Green, Purple and Turquoise (the hardest). Each level is linked to one of the core Superphonics books. Blue Storybooks practise the sounds taught in Superphonics Book 2. All the Storybooks are fun to read and beautifully designed and illustrated in colour.
Название: Big Bath Band
Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton
Год: 2001
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Superphonics — the simplest, fastest way to teach your child to read. A superb series of graded readers using the phonic approach. There are four levels — Blue (the easiest), Green, Purple and Turquoise (the hardest). Each level is linked to one of the core Superphonics books. Green Storybooks practise the sounds taught in Superphonics Book 3. All the Storybooks are fun to read and beautifully designed and illustrated in colour.
Название: A Bull in a China Shop
Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton
Год: 2002
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This text is part of the Superphonics series of graded readers which use a phonic approach developed by reading expert Ruth Miskin. There are four levels in this series; Blue (the easiest), Green, Purple and Turquoise (the hardest). Each level is linked to one of the core Superphonics books. Green storybooks practise the sounds taught in Supersonics Book 3. A Bull in a China Shop focuses on the following sounds: double consonants, for example ll as in bull; blended conconants, for example ng as in rang; and two or three consonants together, for example lp as in help and sm as in smash.
Название: Fiona Fusspot
Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton
Год: 2002
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A superb series of graded readers using the highly acclaimed phonic approach developed by reading expert Ruth Miskin. There are four levels — Blue (the easiest), Green, Purple and Turquoise (the hardest). Each level is linked to one of the core Superphonics books. Green Storybooks practise the sounds taught in Superphonics Book 3. All the Storybooks are fun to read and beautifully designed and illustrated in colour. Fiona Fusspot focuses on the following sounds: double consonants, e.g. 'll' as in 'yell', blended consonants, e.g. 'ng' as in 'hang' and two or three consonants together, e.g. 'sk' as in 'skin', and 'ft' as in 'lift'.
Название: Fish and Chips
Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton
Год: 2002
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This text is part of the Superphonics series of graded readers which use a phonic approach developed by reading expert Ruth Miskin. There are four levels in this series; Blue (the easiest), Green, Purple and Turquoise (the hardest). Each level is linked to one of the core Superphonics books. Blue storybooks practise the sounds taught in Supersonics Book 2. Fish and Chips focuses on the following sounds: a as in jam, e as in bed, i as in fish, o as in box and u as in mug.
Название: In Search of the English Eccentric
Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton
Год: 2009
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The English eccentric is under threat. In our increasingly homogenised society, these celebrated parts of our national identity are anomalies that may soon no longer fit. Or so it seems. On his entertaining and thought-provoking quest to discover the most eccentric English person alive today, Henry Hemming unearths a surprisingly large array of delightfully odd characters. He asks what it is to be an eccentric. Is it simply to thrive on creativity and non-conformity, and where does this incarnation of Englishness stem from? Hemming concludes that this tribe is, in fact, in rude health, as essential as ever to the English national identity, only they are no longer to be found where you'd expect them.
Название: Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders
Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton
Год: 2008
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This work is set in London, 1889. Oscar Wilde, celebrated poet, wit, playwright and raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet. Yet when he chances across the naked corpse of sixteen-year-old Billy Wood, posed by candlelight in a dark stifling attic room, he cannot ignore the brutal murder. With the help of fellow author Arthur Conan Doyle he sets out to solve the crime — but it is Wilde's unparalleled access to all degrees of late Victorian life, from society drawing rooms and the bohemian demi-monde to the underclass, that will prove the decisive factor in their investigation of what turns out to be a series of brutal killings. The Oscar Wilde Murders is a gripping detective story of corruption and intrigue, of Wilde's growing success, of the breakdown of his marriage, and of his fatal friendship with Aidan Fraser, Inspector at Scotland Yard! Set against the exotic background of fin-de-siecle London, Paris, Oxford and Edinburgh, Gyles Brandreth recreates Oscar Wilde's trademark sardonic wit with huge flair, intertwining all the intrigue of the classic English murder mystery with a compelling portrait of one of the greatest characters of the Victorian age.
Название: Theodore Boone
Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton
Год: 2010
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When it comes to giving advice on divorce issues and impounded pets, 13-year-old Theodore Boone is first choice with his teachers and classmates. Theo knows more about the law than most lawyers. But he also knows he has no business getting involved in his home town's first murder trial in years. That is, until a witness tells Theo he saw things the day of the murder that could bust the case wide open. The only problem is, he's too scared to talk — Theo is the only person he'll trust. With the trial about to be lost for lack of evidence, and a witness who won't take the stand, suddenly Theo finds himself caught in the middle of his — and the town's — biggest case ever...
Жанр: Hodder&Stoughton
Год: 2008
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Lorna Martins life is in chaos. She is embroiled in a dysfunctional relationship and is close to quitting her job as a high-flying journalist. Having missed three flights in ten days, she finds herself seeking solace in the airport bar at 7am. On top of all that, shes the only woman she knows in her mid-thirties without a partner, a mortgage or even a cat. Egged on by her friends, she signs up for some intensive therapy. What follows is a glorious journey of self-discovery. For Lorna, therapy involves owning up to feeling jealous of her baby nephew and admitting that shes secretly expecting The One to come and save her. And she still cant stop herself from sabotaging her prospects with a certain Doctor McDreamy. But with support (and not a little exasperation) from her friends and long-suffering sister, some serious setting-the-world-to-rights sessions involving too many bottles of wine, and the help of her inscrutable shrink, Lorna feels she might be getting her life together. Revealing, intimate and highly entertaining, Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is a must-read for any woman who loves the idea of being in love and worries about settling for second best.
