"A fast-moving, fairytale set on Halloween night. Eight costumed boys running to meet their friend Pipkin at the haunted house outside town encounter instead the huge and cadaverous Mr. Moundshroud. As Pipkin scrambles to join them, he is swept away by a dark Something, and Moundshroud leads the boys on the tail of a kite through time and space to search the past for their friend and the meaning of Halloween. After witnessing a funeral procession in ancient Egypt, cavemen discovering fire, Druid rites, the persecution of witches in the Dark Ages, and the gargoyles of Notre Dame, they catch up with the elusive Pipkin in the catacombs of Mexico, where each boy gives one year from the end of his life to save Pipkin`s. Enhanced by...
Роман о расследовании отставным бельгийским полицейским Эркюлем Пуаро еще одного преступления. В роли его помощника выступает писательница Ариадна Оливер, которая в отличие от привычного для читателей Гастингса, обладает очень богатым воображением, да и сама пишет детективные романы. Издание на английском языке.
ISBN: 9785949621042
Издательство:
Антология
Дата выхода: январь 2008
This is how it began... It is the year 2524. Harvest is a peaceful, prosperous farming colony on the very edge of human-controlled space. But we have trespassed on holy ground - strayed into the path of an aggressive alien empire known as the Covenant. What begins as a chance encounter between an alien privateer and a human freighter catapults mankind into a struggle for its very existence. But humanity is also locked in a bitter civil war known as the Insurrection. So the survival of Harvest's citizens falls to a squad of battle-weary UNSC Marines and their inexperienced colonial militia trainees. In this unlikely group of heroes, one stands above the rest... a young Marine staff sergeant named Avery Johnson.
ISBN: 978-0-7653-5471-6
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: август 2011
As the bloody Human-Covenant War rages on Halo, the fate of humankind may rest with one warrior, the lone SPARTAN survivor of another legendary the desperate, take-no-prisoners struggle that led humanity to Halo - the fall of the planet Reach. Now, brought to life for the first time, here is the full story of that glorious, doomed conflict. While the brutal Covenant juggernaut sweeps inexorably through space, intent on wiping out humankind, only one stronghold remains - the planet Reach. Practically on Earth`s doorstep, it is the last military fortress to defy the onslaught. But the personnel here have another, higher priority: to prevent the Covenant from discovering the location of Earth. Outnumbered and outgunned, the soldiers seem to...
ISBN: 978-0-345-45132-3
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Continuing the saga of the award-winning Xbox game! The Spartan-II program has gone public. Tales of super-soldiers fending off thousands of Covenant attacks have become the stuff of legend. But just how many Spartans are left? While the Master Chief defends a besieged Earth, and the myriad factions of the Covenant continue their crusade to eliminate humanity, an ultrasecret cell of the Office of Naval Intelligence known as "Section Three" devises a plan to buy the UNSC vital time. They`re going to need hundreds of willing soldiers, and one more Spartan to get the job planet Onyx is virtually abandoned and the perfect place to set this new plan in motion. But when the Master Chief destroys Halo, something is triggered deep within Onyx:...
ISBN: 978-0-7653-5470-9
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: август 2011
Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Bear goes deep into the time of the ancient engineering race of the Forerunners in this new entry into the "New York Times"-bestselling Halo] series. Fans will discover who the race is, how it harnessed technology and engineering, and what caused them to disappear.
Legendary barfly Charles Bukowski`s fourth novel, first published in 1982, is probably the most autobiographical and moving of all his books, dealing in particular with his difficult relationship with his father and his early childhood in LA. Ham on Rye follows the path of Bukowski`s alter-ego Henry Chinaski through the high school years of acne and rejection and into the beginning of a long and successful career in alcoholism. The novel begins against the backdrop of an America devastated by the Depression and takes the Chinaski legend up to the bombing of Pearl Harbour. Arguably Bukowski`s finest novel.
ISBN: 978-1-84195-163-8
Издательство:
Ред Фиш
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
n what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, women, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D. H. Lawrence, Ham on Rye offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.
