The classic Hugo-nominated series! No one at Meetpoint Station had ever seen a creature like the Outsider. Naked-hided, blunt-toothed and blunt-fingered, Tully was the sole surviving member of his company-a communicative, spacefaring species hitherto unknown. He had been a prisoner of his discoverers/captors, the sadistic, treacherous kif, until he escaped to the hani ship, The Pride of Chanur. Little did Tully know when he threw himself on the mercy of the crew of The Pride that he put the entire hani species in jeopardy and imperiled the peace of the Compact itself. This seemingly defenseless fugitive held information which could prove the ruin or glory if any species at Meetpoint Station, and whomever Tully allied with would stand to...
ISBN: 0-88677-930-8
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
A secret group of Washington`s most powerful men have J. Edgar Hoover killed in order to reach his secret files only to discover there is someone else capable of using these personal dossiers for blackmail and extortion.
ISBN: 978-0-553-26094-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
There`s something rotten in the small town of Pickax - at least to the sensitive noses of newspaperman Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum. An accident has claimed the life of the local paper`s eccentric publisher, but to Qwilleran and his feline friends it smells like murder. They soon sniff out a shocking secret, but Koko`s snooping into an unusual edition of Shakespeare may prove somewhere in Pickax a lady loves not wisely but too well, a widow is scandalously merry, and a stranger has a lean and hungry look. The stage is set for Qwilleran, Koko, Yum Yum, and the second act of murder most
Jacob Grimm and his brother Wilhelm were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. Together with the well-known tales of "Rapunzel", "The Goose Girl", "Sleeping Beauty", "Hansel and Gretel" and "Snow White", there are the darker tales such as "Death`s Messengers" which deserve to be better known, and which will appeal not only to all who are interested in the history of folklore, but also to all those who simply love good story-telling.
ISBN: 978-1-85326-898-4
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Герман Мелвилл - легендарный писатель XIX века, моряк и поэт, признанный классик мировой литературы. "Искуситель" - увлекательный роман, который представляет собой, подобно "Кентерберийским рассказам" Чоссера, вереницу историй, рассказанных в группе пассажиров, плывущих на пароходе в Новый Орлеан. Мастерство повествования, неожиданные персонажи и незабываемые сюжеты оставят след в душе каждого вдумчивого...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05748-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2017
Originally written as a gift from a father to a son, the book s simple message--to be understanding, thoughtful, and appreciative--has been enjoyed by men and women of all ages. This edition with all three volumes has been redesigned for a new generation.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle`s Brigadier Gerard stories surely constitute the finest series of historical short stories in literature, mingling the comedy and the tragedy, the pathos and the irony, or, in Napoleon`s phrase, the sublime and the ridiculous. It is Napoleon and his Europe, his dedicated followers and the awakened nationalisms of the peoples they enraged, possessing our minds in savage realism and enrapturing romance. And in Brigadier Etienne Gerard, Arthur Conan Doyle created a hero worthy to take his place in the great line stretching from Homer`s Odysseus to George MacDonald Fraser`s Flashman, nearest of all perhaps to Stevenson`s Allan Breck and Wodehouse`s Bertie Wooster.
ISBN: 978-1-84767-919-2
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Dallas, November`63 - the heart of the American Dream detonated. Wayne Tedrow Jr., a young Vegas cop, arrives with a loathsome job to do. He`s got six thousand in cash and no idea he is about to plunge into the cover-up conspiracy already brewing around the assassination of JFK, no idea that this will mark the beginning of a hellish five-year ride through the private underbelly of public policy. Ellroy`s furiously paced narrative tracks Tedrow`s journey: Dallas to Vega, with the Mob and Howard Hughes, south with the Klan and J. Edgar Hoover, shipping out to Vietnam and returning home, the bearer of white powder, plotting new deaths as 1968 approaches...The Cold Six Thousand is the 1960s under Ellroy`s blistering lens, the icons of the...
ISBN: 0-09-989330-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Topping Barron`s growing series of activity-packed Creativity books for kids, "The Christmas Creativity Book "stands out as the most colorful, most fun-filled, most overflowing-with-ideas volume yet. Its lively pages sparkle with everything kids love best about Christmas - Santa and his reindeer, glittering holiday-theme decorations, games to play, puzzles to solve, songs to sing, pictures to color - and even directions for baking delicious treats from the recipe collection of Mrs. Claus. Here`s just a small sample of delights kids will find when they open this wonderful book - Two sticker sheets and a big, colorful gatefold scene where boys and girls can attach the stickers Glittering sheets of Christmas wrapping paper with templates on...
"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history", Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller`s drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town`s most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of...
Jim Qwilleran is not exactly overwhelmed by his new assignment for the Daily Fluxion. Interior design has never been one of his specialties and now he`s supposed to turn out an entire magazine on the subject every week! But the first issue of Gracious Abodes is barely off the presses when Qwilleran finds himself back on more familiar territory - the exclusive residence featured on the cover has been burglarized and the lady of the house found Qwilleran and Koko - the brilliant Siamese - have their respective moustache and whiskers twitching, and when Koko starts pawing clues in the dictionary and sniffing designer furniture, Qwilleran finds himself doing a feature on a very clever murder.
In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist and a girl in a leopard-skin hat on his arm. Why is Uncle Sandor so violently unwelcome in her parents` home? This is a novel about survival - both banal and heroic - and a young woman who discovers the complications, even betrayals, that inevitably accompany the fierce desire to live. Set against the backdrop of a London from the 1950s to the present day, The Clothes on Their Backs is a wise and tender novel about the clothes we choose to wear, the personalities we dress...
ISBN: 978-1-84408-542-2
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Welcome to the breathtaking adventures of Sexton Blake! For the greater part of the 20th century, the countless escapades of super sleuth Sexton Blake kept millions of readers on the edge of their seats. Together with his faithful sidekick, the youthful Tinker, and his intelligent bloodhound, Pedro, he stood firm against an onslaught of crime and villainy, defeating his enemies with his extraordinary powers of deduction, iron fists and unyielding determination. This thrilling collection presents seven exploits from his ‘golden age’: "The Slave Market" In the dangerous depths of Africa, Blake races to the rescue of an old school friend! "A Football Mystery" Blake and Tinker join the England team to beat the cheating opposition! "The...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-170-1
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. The Chainbearer is the second book in a trilogy starting with "Satanstoe" and ending with "The Redskins". The novel focuses mainly on issues of land ownership and the displacement of American Indians as the United States moves Westward.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07964-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
