“Priceless”
Charlie Daniels started her career as a streetwalker when she was a seventeen-year-old single mother. Since she had virtually no qualifications, the streets seemed to offer the best way to get a comfortable and exciting life. Eventually she was forced to hand her over daughter to her own foster mother, just as she herself was […]
“Labyrinth”
In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth. Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade that will rip apart southern France, a young woman […]
“Digital Fortress”
Digital Fortress is a techno-thriller novel written by American author Dan Brown and published in 1998 by St. Martin’s Press. The book explores the theme of government surveillance of electronically stored information on the private lives of citizens, and the possible civil liberties and ethical implications of using such technology.
“City of Stairs: The Divine Cities Book 1”
You´ve got to be careful when you´re chasing a murderer through Bulikov, for the world is not as it should be in that city. When the gods were destroyed and all worship of them banned by the Polis, reality folded; now stairs lead to nowhere, alleyways have become portals to the past and criminals disappear […]
“One Night in Winter”
What would you do if your children were forced to testify against you? Moscow, 1945. As Stalin and his courtiers celebrate victory, a teenage boy and girl lie dead nearby. But these are no ordinary teenagers; they are the children of Russia´s highest leaders. Is it murder, suicide or conspiracy? So begins a terrifying witch-hunt […]
“Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)”
Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork – not the old-fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go gloing. And now the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match without using magic, so they´re going to try everything else. The […]
“Undead and Unwed”
It´s been a helluva week for Betsy Taylor. First, she loses her job. Then, to top things off. she´s killed in a car accident. But what really bites (besides waking up in the morgue dressed in a pink suit and cheap shoes courtesy of her stepmother) is that she can´t seem to stay dead. Every […]
“The End of Mr. Y”
A cursed book. A missing professor. Some nefarious men in gray suits. And a dreamworld called the Troposphere? Ariel Manto has a fascination with nineteenth-century scientists—especially Thomas Lumas and The End of Mr. Y, a book no one alive has read. When she mysteriously uncovers a copy at a used bookstore, Ariel is launched into […]
“The Monk”
“He now saw himself stained with the most loathed and monstrous sins, the object of universal execration… doomed to perish in tortures the most severe” Shocking, erotic and violent, The Monk is the story of Ambrosio, torn between his spiritual vows and the temptations of physical pleasure. His internal battle leads to sexual obsession, rape […]
“Let the Right One In”
It is autumn 1981 when inconceivable horror comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenager is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumoured to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last – revenge for the bullying he endures at school, […]
“Destiny and Desire”
Carlos Fuentes, one of the world’s most acclaimed authors, is at the height of his powers in this stunning new novel—a magnificent epic of passion, magic, and desire in modern Mexico, a rich and remarkable tapestry set in a world where free will fights with the wishes of the gods. Josué Nadal has lost more […]
“The End of Days”
Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five “books,” each leading to a different death of the same unnamed female protagonist. How could it all have gone differently?―the narrator asks in the intermezzos. The first chapter […]
“Change”
In Change, Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, personalizes the political and social changes in his country over the past few decades in this novella disguised as autobiography—or vice-versa. Unlike most historical narratives from China, which are pegged to political events, Change is a representative of “people’s history,” a bottom-up rather than top-down […]
“Четыре мифа о Первой мировой”
В книгу вошли работы, посвященные загадочным страницам Первой мировой войны: мобилизации 1914 года, делам Мясоедова, Сухомлинова, Протопопова. Автор, привлекая новые источники, подвергает сомнению устоявшиеся мнения историков на эти события, сыгравшие в какой-то мере роковую роль в истории России начала ХХ века.
“Странник”
Роман “Странник” выдающегося мастера американской фантастики Ф. Лейбера повествует о всепланетной катастрофе обрушившейся на Землю, о Галактической федерации, о любви и ненависти, о жизни и смерти… В 1965 году роман был награжден премией Хьюго, как лучший научно-фантастический роман года.
“Дверь в лето”
В книгу вошли произведения прославленного американского фантаста Роберта Энсона Хайлайна (1907-1988) – роман “Дверь в лето” и ряд рассказов из сборников “История будущего” и “Угроза с Земли”.
“Маркиз де Вильмер. Повести и рассказы”
В книгу включены роман известной французской писательницы XIX века Жорж Санд (1804-1876) “Маркиз де Вильмер”, повести и рассказы.
“Лао-Цзы”
Образованию в воспитанию неизбежно предшествует позиция отношений. Именно с этой точки зрения вглядеться в уникальность философии и практики Даосизма позволяют собранные в настоящей книге труд Лао-Цзы, выдержки из важнейших текстов его последователей и художественные зарисовки современности. Человеческий путь от созерцания, отношения к выбору, действию и обратно неизбежный спутник метофизического даоского Пути небытия и недеяния. Проникнуть […]
“Ленька Пантелеев”
Одно его имя повергало в ужас нэпманов всех мастей. Он был везуч, нагл и талантлив. Он очаровывал женщин, даря им шубы и золотые кольца, и те в ответ поставляли ему информацию о богатых клиентов. Ленька Пантелеев являлся королем налетчиков и самой колоритной фигурой среди лихих людей Питера. Для него не существовало невозможного. Он мог убежать […]
“Холокост. Неизвестные страницы истории”
Подборка документов Гвидо Кноппа (до сих пор самая полная) о геноциде европейских евреев нацистами, построенная на новейших данных, многолетних исследованиях, а также до этого времени не опубликованных архивных материалах, дает точную картину холокоста. Автор описывает путь от Нюрнбергских расовых законов до Ванзейской конференции с ее постановлением об “окончательном решении”, от депортаций еврейского населения до освобождения […]
