Dante Valentine, the necromancing, half-demon bounty hunter, returns for a third installment in this entertaining series from Saintcrow. This time out Dante is summoned, along with her demon lover Japhrimel, by Lucifer himself, who makes her an offer she can`t refuse: it seems that four demons have escaped from hell, and Lucifer wants Dante to track them down and return them to his dark domain. Though there isn`t much negotiating room when dealing with the Devil, Dante strikes a bargain and accepts the assignment. With the help of Japhrimel, she recruits a posse of supernatural beings and sets out to accomplish the Devil`s dangerous mission. Of course, not all is what it seems-the Devil isn`t called the Prince of Lies for nothing-and...
The long-awaited and highly anticipated final volume in Penman`s trilogy of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine offers a tumultuous conclusion to this timeless story of love, power, ambition, and betrayal.
ISBN: 978-0-345-39673-0
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
A community devoured by greed, cowardice and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each of them will face questions of life, death and power, and each of them will have to choose their own path. Will they choose good or evil? In this stunning novel, Paulo Coelho, the author of "The Alchemist", dramatises the struggle within every soul between light and darkness, and its relevance to our everyday struggles. Can we dare to follow our dreams, to have the courage to be different and to master the fear that prevents us from truly living? "The Devil and Miss Prym" is a story charged with emotion, in which the integrity of being human meets a terrifying test.
ISBN: 978-0-00-713286-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
An underground chamber is exposed in a seedy, dilapidated house with sagging trim and peeling paint… In the dark cellar, a ritualistic display is revealed. A human skull rests on a cauldron, surrounded by slain chickens and bizarre figurines. Beads and antlers dangle overhead. Called to the scene is forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan. Bony architecture suggests that the skull is that of a young, black female. But how did she die? And when? Then, just as Tempe is working to determine post-mortem interval, another body is discovered: a headless corpse carved with Satanic symbols. As citizen vigilantes, blaming Devil-worshippers, begin a witch-hunt, intent on revenge, Tempe struggles to keep her emotions in check. But the truth...
ISBN: 978-0-09-953364-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy`s creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group they are representative of his style, and touch on the central themes that surface in "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina". Stories as different as `The Snowstorm`, `Lucerne`, `The Diary of a Madman`, and `The Devil` are grounded in autobiographical experience. They deal with journeys of self-discovery and the moral and religious questioning that characterizes Tolstoy`s works of criticism and philosophy. `Strider` and `Father Sergy`, as well as reflecting Tolstoy`s own experiences, also reveal profound psychological insights. These stories range over much of the Russian world of the nineteenth century, from the...
ISBN: 978-0-19-955399-0
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011
Everything`s changing for our friendly neighbourhood serial killer. As if getting married wasn`t enough to complete his nice-guy persona, Dexter is now the proud father of a baby girl. And disconcertingly, he actually seems to care. But even if fatherhood is distracting Dexter from his midnight excursions to rid Miami of a few more lowlifes, there`s no let-up at work. Two young girls are missing - and it`s not long before one of the bodies turns up, partially eaten. But as Dexter and Miami PD`s finest investigate, Dexter can`t shake the feeling that somebody`s watching
ISBN: 978-1-4091-1786-5
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Dexter Morgan is busy planning his wedding to Rita to complete his nice-guy disguise. But when a student is found burnt, molested and headless - seemingly sacrificed to an ancient god - and Dex is brought in as forensic analyst to help investigate, he realises he could be dealing with someone a whole lot more sinister than he is. Soon it seems the dark passenger in Dexter`s head has gone into hiding. And when something creeps out your friendly neighbourhood serial killer, you know it`s serious ... As Halpern and Dexter are stalked by death, it looks like it`s getting personal - especially as Dex now has a family to protect. Gradually, Dexter realises his stepchildren might share his extracurricular interest in death. Could he help them...
ISBN: 978-0-7528-8160-7
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
DARKLY DREAMING DEXTER: Dexter Morgan can`t stand the sight of blood. Which makes his job as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami PD a little tricky. But it means that he`s very tidy when it comes to his hobby: murder. After all, even though Dexter only ever kills bad people, he doesn`t want to draw attention to it. But now there`s another killer out there who`s being a whole lot less subtle¿ DEARLY DEVOTED DEXTER: Miami`s best-dressed serial killer is getting twitchy - he hasn`t killed for months. Ever since their paths first crossed, Sergeant Doakes hasn`t let Dexter Morgan out of his sight. Then a body turns up, mutilated and barely alive. To trap the torturer, Doakes and Dexter will have to work together, if they can trust each...
ISBN: 978-1-4091-0065-2
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Following the explosive energy of On the Road comes "The Dharma Bums", in which Kerouac charts the spiritual quest of a group of friends in search of Dharma, or Truth. Ray Smith and his friend Japhy, along with Morley the yodeller, head off into the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude and experience the Zen way of life. But in wildly Bohemian San Francisco, with its poetry jam sessions, marathon drinking bouts and experiments in "yabyum", they find the ascetic route distinctly hard to follow. Формат: 13 см х 19,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118488-3
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Andrea n`en revient pas : même avec ses fringues dépareillées, elle l`a décroché, ce job de rêve. La jeune femme de vingt-trois ans va enfin intégrer la rédaction de Runway, prestigieux magazine de mode new-yorkais! Et devenir l`assistante personnelle de la rédactrice en chef, la papesse du bon goût, la dénommée Miranda Priestly. Une chance inouïe pour Andrea: des milliers d`autres filles se damneraient pour être à sa place! Mais derrière les strass et les paillettes de cette usine à rêves se cache un enfer peuplé de talons aiguilles et de langues de vipère. Leurs raisons de vivre? Répondre à TOUTES les angoisses existentielles...
ISBN: 978-2-266-15014-9
Издательство:
Pocket
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
In Bulgakov`s "Diaboliad", the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the First Central Depot for the Materials for Matches, and tries to seek out his newly assigned superior Kalsoner, responsible for his dismissal. His quest through the labyrinth of Soviet bureaucracy takes on the increasingly surreal dimensions of a nightmare. This early satirical story, reminiscent of Gogol and Dostoevsky, was first published in 1924 and incurred the wrath of pro-Soviet critics. Along with the three other stories in this volume which also feature explorations of the absurd and bizarre, it provides a fascinating glimpse into the artistic development of the author of "Master and Margarita".
ISBN: 978-1-84749-153-4
Издательство:
Alma Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
The five, irreverent, satirical and imaginative stories contained in Diaboliad caused an uproar upon the book`s first publication in 1925. Full of invention, they display Bulgakov`s breathtaking stylistic range, moving at dizzying speed from grotesque satire to science fiction, from the plainest realism to the most madcap fantasy. Diaboliad is a wonderful introduction to literature`s most uncategorisable and subversive genius.
ISBN: 978-0-09-952955-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Englishman Paul West has just received an offer he can`t refuse: two weeks in the sun, all expenses paid, with a beautiful blonde called Gloria Monday. M, as Gloria likes to be known, is down south to report on caviar trafficking but it soon becomes obvious that she s interested in something a lot more fishy than caviar. Meanwhile Paul s best friend Elodie is marrying a French aristocrat, and Paul is asked to do the catering. Cooking for the French is a risky assignment at the best of times, but Paul, who is starting to feel a bit like James Bond, assures her that nothing can go wrong. Or can it? As Paul is sexually harassed by an English hen party, picked on by French commandoes and arrested by excitable gendarmes, he realises that...
ISBN: 978-0-552-77350-8
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
New Dalziel and Pascoe novel from Britain`s finest male crime writer: `Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction` Tom Hiney, Observer In the Beginning was the Word! A man drowns. Another dies in a motorbike crash. Two accidents! yet in a pair of so-called Dialogues sent to the Mid-Yorkshire Gazette as entries in a short story competition, someone seems to be claiming responsibility for the deaths. In Mid-Yorkshire CID the word is heard but not believed. But when the story is leaked to television and a third indisputable murder takes place, Dalziel and Pascoe find themselves playing a game no-one knows the rules of against an opponent known only as the Wordman.
ISBN: 978-0-00-731319-8
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
The Spangled Mob are no ordinary American gangsters. They prey on the addictions of the wealthy and treat the poor as collateral. Their ruthless desire for power and fierce brotherly loyalty make them deadly and invincible. James Bond must go deep undercover in his urgent new assignment: to destroy their millionaire masterminds, Jack and Seraffimo Spang. But the Spangs` cruel influence is everywhere, from dusty African diamond mines to the frenzied gambling dens of Las Vegas. Can Bond find his men before his cover is blown?
