Yappy Hour
Год выхода: 2016
Серия: Roundup Crew Mystery Series (#1)
With side-splitting humor, an irresistable cast of characters--both human and canine--and an intimate small town setting, *Yappy Hour* is sure to delight fans of Rita Mae Brown and Diane Kelly. Every Friday night in the idyllic seaside town of Pacific Cove, CA, the Roundup Crew, a group of dog-loving friends, meet at a neighborhood wine bar for Yappy Hour. When Rachel, the owner, mysteriously leaves town and asks her sister, Maggie (who is neither pet friendly nor business savvy), to run the bar...
Beaglemania
Год выхода: 2011
Серия: Pet Rescue Mysteries (#1)
### From Publishers Weekly Animals play a passive role in Johnston's less than engaging first in a new series featuring Lauren Vancouver, who runs HotRescues, a private no-kill animal shelter in Granada Hills, Calif. After raiding a puppy mill, Lauren is certain that Efram Kiley, an animal care apprentice who'd abused his own dog and was working for her as part of a legal agreement, tossed beagle puppies down a drainpipe. When Efram is later found stabbed to death at Lauren's shelter, she...
Purr M for Murder
Год выхода: 2017
Серия: Cat Rescue Mysteries (#1)
Sydney McCall left behind an ex-fiance and a New York advertising job to return home to Deer Park, North Carolina and help her sister, Kat, run the local animal shelter, Friendly Paws. Determined to save the shelter from financial trouble, Sydney and Kat organize a cat cafe fundraising event at a local coffee shop. Things are looking up until their landlord, Trowbridge Littleton, threatens to shut down the event. When Sydney drops by his art gallery to make peace, she finds Kat--along with...
Yarn to Go
Год выхода: 2013
Серия: A Yarn Retreat Mystery (#1)
*Dessert chef Casey Feldstein doesn’t know a knitting needle from a crochet hook. But after her aunt dies unexpectedly, leaving Casey to run her yarn retreat business, the sweets baker finds herself rising to the occasion—and trying to unravel a murder mystery* When Casey finds out that her late aunt’s business, Yarn2Go, has one more yarn retreat scheduled, she decides to go ahead and host the event, despite her complete lack of experience as a knitter. At least the retreat is on the beautiful...
Death Overdue
Серия: A Haunted Library Mystery (#1)
Carrie Singleton is just about done with Clover Ridge, Connecticut until she's offered a job as the head of programs and events at the spooky local library, complete with its own librarian ghost. Her first major event is a program presented by a retired homicide detective, Al Buckley, who claims he knows who murdered Laura Foster, a much-loved part-time library aide who was bludgeoned to death fifteen years earlier. As he invites members of the audience to share stories about Laura, he suddenly...
Drop Dead on Recall
Год выхода: 2012
When a top-ranked competitor keels over at a dog obedience trial, photographer Janet MacPhail is swept up in a maelstrom of suspicion, jealousy, cut-throat competition, death threats, pet-napping, and murder. She becomes a “person of interest” to the police, and apparently to major hunk Tom Saunders as well. As if murder and the threat of impending romance aren’t enough to drive her bonkers, Janet has to move her mother into a nursing home, and the old lady isn’t going quietly. Janet finds...
The Cat Next Door
Год выхода: 2002
Margot returns to her well-to-do family in England on the eve of her Aunt Chloe's murder trial—she is accused of fatally stabbing her twin sister with a kitchen knife in the garden. Nothing has been the same since Claudia's body was found: her 14-year-old daughter, Lynette, refuses to leave her bedroom, the paparazzi are relentless, and Tikki, the family's beloved Abyssinian, goes to stay with the neighbors. When another body, whom no one recognizes, shows up facedown in the pond while the...
Canapés for the Kitties
Год выхода: 1996
Серия: Brimful Coffers (#1)
The cat's out of the bag: dead bodies are piling up in Brimful Coffers, a picturesque English village. Among the deceased is Boswell, a pet white rat. His killers were caught: Had-I and But-Known, two mischievous felines belonging to Lorinda Lucas, mystery writer. Unfortunately, the other victims were all too human--and their killer remains at large... The danger in Brimful Coffers was unforeseen when several authors created an informal writers' colony in this lovely town outside of London. In...
Reel Murder
Год выхода: 1985
Серия: Trixie dolan & evangeline sinclair mystery (#1)
Written by Marian Babson. When two grand dames of Hollywood, silent film star Eve Sinclair ('she put the sin in Cinema') and ex-hoofer Trixie Dolan set out for London to attend a film retrospective held in Eve's honour, they fully expect to be the centre of attention. What they don't expect is that all the lovely attention will be generated not by an appreciation of their talents but by a series of grisly murders associated with the retrospective. Even less do they expect to find themselves...
The Diamond Cat
Год выхода: 1995
A lifetime of craving more cuddly companionship than her hectoring mother has led fortyish Bettina Bilby to board her neighbors' felines for a long holiday weekend: an expectant tabby, a pampered blue-eyed Balinese, a depressed ginger Persian with a cod-liver-oil addiction, and Adolf, an imperious mouser with a patchwork face. But a freak storm sets the pigeon among the cats—a carrier bird downed on the doorstep with a tiny load of large flawless diamonds. And Bettina's dilemma escalates, as...
Cover-Up Story
Год выхода: 2012
Douglas Perkins of Perkins and Tate (Public Relations) Ltd believed that the business of a PRO was to put the client's best foot forward, and try to hide the other three cloven hooves. He even went on believing it when Black Bart and his Troupe of Hillbilly Singers were wished on the firm by their American associates, who had arranged for the Troupe to make a few appearances on English TV shows. The tangled personal relationships and professional jealousies within the Troupe soon gave Perkins a...
Alanna_The First Adventure
Год выхода: 1983
*From now on I'm Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. I'll be a knight.* And so young Alanna of Trebond begins the journey to knighthood. Though a girl, Alanna has always craved the adventure and daring allowed only for boys; her twin brother, Thom, yearns to learn the art of magic. So one day they decide to switch places: Thom heads for the convent to learn magic; Alanna, pretending to be a boy, is on her way to the castle of King Roald to begin her training as a page. But the road to knighthood...
Terrier
Год выхода: 2008
### Amazon.com Review *Terrier* , Pierce returns to the Tortall universe (home to her Song of the Lioness, Immortals, Protector of the Small, and Daughter of the Lioness series). Want to learn more? Read an exclusive essay from Tamora Pierce below. *\--Daphne Durham* * * * **An Essay from Tamora Pierce** Sixteen-year-old Beka Cooper lives far removed from knights, palaces, and the nobility. Her world revolves around thieves, beggars, taverns, and the lowest of the low. She's a trainee for the...
Смешные рассказы / The Funny Stories
Год выхода: 2017
Серия: Легко читаем по-английски (#4)
Произведения Марка Твена по праву считают классикой американской литературы. Его рассказы известны своим тонким интеллектуальным юмором и оригинальностью образов. В эту книгу вошли его лучшие смешные рассказы. Книга содержит комментарии и словарь, облегчающие чтение.
Предназначается для продолжающих изучать английский язык (уровень 4 – Upper-Intermediate).
Англо-русский учебный словарь
Год выхода: 1984
Словарь содержит около 75 000 слов и выражений, употребительных в современном английском языке. Предназначается как для иностранного читателя, изучающего русский язык, так и для русского читателя, изучающего английский язык. В словаре широко представлена словосочетаемость, дается много иллюстративных фраз и предложений, которые помогут читателю в овладении современной разговорной лексикой. Словарь окажет значительную помощь студентам и преподавателям языковых вузов.
Глубокий сон [англ. и рус. параллельные тексты]
Серия: Английский и русский параллельные тексты (#6)
Раймонд Чэндлер (1888–1959) — один из самых известных американских писателей, работавших в жанре детектива. Как обычно, главный герой Чэндлера частный сыщик Марло ищет справедливости, постоянно сталкивается с алчностью, беспринципностью, преступлениями сильных мира сего, а заодно и тех «стражей порядка», которые, казалось бы, должны с этим бороться.
Растим двуязычного ребёнка
Книга «Растим двуязычного ребёнка» ответит на многие волнующие родителей вопросы, касающиеся двуязычия. В книге даны самые разные советы, начиная от того, как оформить комнату двуязычного ребёнка, как его накормить, чтобы мозг малыша максимально работал, но не перенапрягался, и заканчивая современной методикой разнообразных, развивающих речь игр. Все игры успешно опробованы в двуязычном детском саду в Израиле.
Лучшие английские сказки / Best english fairy tales
Год выхода: 2016
Серия: Легко читаем по-английски (#2)
Книга содержит двадцать пять сказок на английском языке на разные сюжеты. Занимательные сказки позволят вам погрузиться в мир заколдованных великанов и храбрых принцесс, а также познакомиться с культурой разных стран.
Все тексты адаптированы для удобства читателя и снабжены комментариями. В конце книги вы найдете общий словарь, который поможет понимаю текста.
Предназначается для всех, кто изучает английский язык (уровень 2 – для продолжающих нижней ступени).