Human
betrayal, medical terror and a race against time... Jealousies, distrust, and
hidden rivalries uncover dark secrets, then a dozen vials of a deadly virus go
missing. As a blizzard whips out of the north on Christmas Eve, several people
converge on a remote family house. Stanley Oxenford, director of a
pharmaceutical research company, has everything riding on a drug he is
developing to fight a lethal virus. Several others are interested in his
success too: his children, at home for Christmas with their offspring, have
their eyes on the money he will make; Toni Gallo, head of his security team and
recently forced to resign from the police, is betting her career on keeping it
safe; an ambitious local television reporter sniffs a story, even if he has to
bend the facts to tell it; and a violent trio of thugs are on their way to
steal it, with a client already waiting. As the storm worsens and the group is
laid under siege by the elements, the emotional sparks crackle and dark secrets
are revealed that threaten to drive Stanley and his family apart for ever.
Filled with
startling twists, Whiteout is the ultimate knife-edge drama from an
international bestselling author who is in a class by himself.
Секретная правительственная лаборатория ограблена!
Сверхсовременная система сигнализации почему-то не сработала.
Лаборант, занимавшийся разработкой вакцины против таинственного вируса, погиб.
И похищен контейнер, содержащий смертельный вирус.
Кто преступники?
Почему подвергают угрозе жизни сотен тысяч людей?!
Расследование начинает начальник службы безопасности лаборатории Тони Галло.
Пока ее единственная надежда - снежная буря, которая должна хотя бы на время остановить преступников!..
Andrew Loomis "Creative illustration"
Книга
о рисовании на английском языке
Andrew Loomis
(1892-1959) was an illustratorfrom the United Stateswho is best
remembered now for a series of art instruction books that continues to
influence realist artists, though they are in 2004all out of print,
except for some excerpts available from the art publisher Walter
Foster. The Loomis family, who still holds the copyrights to all the
books published by Andrew Loomis, has not expressed any intention of
re-printing any of his work in recent days despite popular demand.
Anna is the first of Arnold Bennett's 'Five Towns' novels. It was started in 1896, two years before the debut of his first published novel A Man from the North in 1898, but did not finally appear until September 1902 after six years of re-writing and polishing and several changes of title. It is therefore an extremely important work, the more so because it began a long series of stories set in his thinly-disguised birthplace - the Potteries - over a period of nearly twenty years. As is frequently the case with an aspiring author, A Man from the North was basically autobiographical in a personal way, but there was little personal, though much of upbringing and living social history, in Anna.
This is the very first Poirot/Hastings story. Set in 1916, we meet Captain Hastings as he is invalided out of the Great War and goes to convalesce at Styles Court, the family home of his great friend, John Cavendish. By an extraordinary coincidence, billeted in the village is a brilliant little retired detective with an egg-shaped head, who made a considerable impression on the Captain when he was in Belgium. Styles is not a happy household and in the blistering summer heat, tensions mount. Even so, the tragic murder, which occurs is not expected. The entire family is drawn into the case but with their reluctant permission, Hastings calls upon the services of the diminutive Belgian.
Everybody loves a carnival! Who can fail to delight in the colorful people, the unworldly spectacle, the fabulous freaks? A carnival is a place for good family fun, as long as one has a family, that is. For the Baudelaire orphans, their time at a carnival turns out to be yet another episode in a now unbearable series of unfortunate events. In fact, in this appalling ninth installment in Lemony Snicket's serial, the siblings must confront a terrible lie, an ambidextrous person, a caravan, and Chabo the wolf baby.
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