The Secret of Saturday Cove
Автор: Barbee Oliver Carleton
Год издания: 0000
David Blake and his sister Sally have grown up with the legend of the Blake treasure, buried on one of the islands off Saturday Cove, a fishing village on the coast of Maine. One day, while lobstering in the bay, David and Sally seek shelter from a summer storm in an abandoned house on Blake's Island. There they find a musty chart that seems to be a definite clue. Curious and excited, they decide to solve the family mystery.<P> But Sally loses the chart, and David reckons without the troublesome interference of Roddy McNeil, a newcomer to Saturday Cove. Roddy's father threatens to buy Blake's Island and the children fear the treasure will be lost to them forever.<P> The mystery is heightened with the discovery of an unidentified eavesdroppers, the disappearance of a rare pewter button, and the fishermen's growing suspicion that it is David who is stealing lobsters from their traps.<P> Barbee Oliver Carleton successfully captures the special flavor of the Maine coast, and brings to children a story of unusual imagination and excitement.<P> "A savory sea tale exudes the salty tang and ruddy, weathered atmosphere of Cape Cod." – Kirkus
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Автор: Дж. К. Роулинг
Год издания:
"'There is a plot, Harry Potter. A plot to make most terrible things happen at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year.'"
Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby, and rescue from the Dursleys by his friend Ron Weasley in a magical flying car! Back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his second year, Harry hears strange whispers echo through empty corridors – and then the attacks start. Students are found as though turned to stone… Dobby's sinister predictions seem to be coming true.
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Memoires secrets sur la Russie. T. 1
Автор: Charles Philibert
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «Memoires secrets sur la Russie : Tome 1 : et particulierement sur la fin du regne de Catherine II et le commencement de celui du Paul I : formant un tableau des moeurs de St. Petersbourg, a la fin du XVIII siecle».
Memoires secrets sur la Russie. T. 2
Автор: Charles Philibert
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «Memoires secrets sur la Russie. Tome 2 / et particulierement sur la fin du regne de Catherine II et le commencement de celui du Paul I : formant un tableau des moeurs de St. Petersbourg, a la fin du XVIII siecle».