For millions of readers the world over, the name Pern is magical, conjuring up grand vistas of a distant planet whose blue skies are patrolled by brave dragons and their noble riders, a paradise threatened by the periodic fall of deadly Thread. But not all dangers descend from the skies. Now, in their third collaboration, Anne McCaffrey and her son, Todd McCaffrey, spin a tale of a mysterious illness that may succeed in doing what centuries of Threadfall could not: kill every last human on Pern. Life in the Harper Hall is busy for best friends Kindan, Nonala, and Kelsa. As the only female apprentices, Nonala and Kelsa are the butt of jokes and easy targets for the bully Vaxoram and his cronies. But when Kindan springs to Kelsa’s...
ISBN: 978-0-345-48031-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Award-winning fantasy author Anne McCaffrey returns with her bestselling Harper Hall Trilogy, wonder-filled imaginative classics now available in digest format.
ISBN: 978-0-689-86008-9
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
Pern AL 50: the geneticist Wind Blossom is nearing the end of her long life and is painfully aware that the colonists are running out of the modern technology the settlers brought with them to Pern and that they are forgetting how to use what they do have. Society is beginning to revert to a feudal system.
ISBN: 978-0-552-15208-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
Harry Lyon was a rational man, a cop who refused to let his job harden his soul. Then one fateful day, he was forced to shoot a man--and a homeless stranger with bloodshot eyes uttered the haunting words that challenged Harry Lyon's sanity: "Ticktock, ticktock. You'll be dead in sixteen by by by ;
ISBN: 978-0-425-20843-4
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Dracula (a Gothic horror novel, first published in 1897) tells the story of the vampire Count Dracula`s attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.
ISBN: 978-5-521-00197-2
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: январь 2017
In this blistering and soulful novel of the underworld, an ex-con finds himself caught between the light and the dark sides of the street after a malevolent young killer spoils his chances to stay straight.
ISBN: 978-0-446-61144-2
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Jane Boyers, sleek, gorgeous and highly successful TV executive, barely has time to eat and sleep, let alone keep up with old friends. Especially ones like Miranda, who has rejected glamorous New York in favour of settling with the love of her life in rural Ireland. But when Jane`s career comes crashing down, her panicked response is to jump straight on a plane to Dublin and throw herself on Miranda`s mercy. Life there is definitely not what Jane is used to, and the culture shock goes both ways. When she gets herself mixed up with an independent theatre company, her no nonsense American approach gets right up the natives` noses – particularly the rather attractive nose of Shay Gallagher, the enthusiastic, if hopelessly disorganised...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-4572-4
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
