The awakening
Автор:
Meczes StuartЖанр:
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2013-11-25Язык книги:
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The Awakening
Автор:
Kate ChopinЖанр:
Научная фантастика;Дата добавления:
2022-03-18Язык книги:
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Description
The Awakening charts Edna Pontellier’s journey of self-discovery. The time spent with a younger friend on a summer holiday on Grand Isle in Lousiana unlocks a feeling in her that she can’t close away again. On returning to her family home in New Orleans, she starts to transition from unthinking housewife and mother into something freer and more confident, although this doesn’t meet with the full approval of the society she’s a part of.
Kate Chopin had written a novel previously, but she was mostly known as a writer of Louisiana-set short stories. The Awakening, while keeping the setting,...
The Back Door of Midnight
Автор:
Чандлер ЭлизабетЖанр:
Любовная фантастика;Серия:
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2013-11-18Язык книги:
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Psychic…or psychotic? Anna knows her family is crazy. But when she goes to visit her aunt and uncle for the summer and learns that her uncle’s charred body has been found, her life reaches a new level of insanity. Her erratic aunt’s “psychic” abilities are exaggerated by her grief, and have become borderline violent. Alone in an unfamiliar town, Anna struggles to pick up the pieces and establish any sense of normalcy. She desperately wants to trust Zack, the cute boy next door, but even he might know more about the incident than he is letting on. But when Anna starts feeling an inexplicable pull to the site of her uncle’s murder, she begins to believe that her family’s supernatural gifts are real after all. Torn between loyalty and suspicion, Anna is certain of only one...
The Bandit King
Автор:
Saintcrow LilithЖанр:
Фэнтези;Серия:
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2013-12-02Язык книги:
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Tristan d'Arcenne is what he always wished to be—Vianne di Rocancheil's Consort. But Vianne is no more a noblewoman, she is the Queen of Arquitaine, faced with treachery, invasion, war, and a Consort whose secrets may well shatter their marriage. For before Tristan was hers, he belonged to a King...and that King died by Tristan's hand. Arquitaine needs them both. The country is locked in a deadly game whose rules change by the moment. The Queen is an adept player, but hardly ruthless enough. The contest requires a man who has nothing to lose, a man who has already done the worst and will continue to do so for his wife, his country, and his own salvation. The Bandit King...
The Banshee's walk
Автор:
Tuttle FrankЖанр:
Детективная фантастика;Серия:
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2013-11-17Язык книги:
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The Barbarian
Автор:
Sadler BarryЖанр:
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The Barbary Plague
Автор:
Chase MarilynЖанр:
Альтернативная история;Серия:
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2013-11-16Язык книги:
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“San Francisco in 1900 was a Gold Rush boomtown settling into a gaudy middle age…. It had a pompous new skyline with skyscrapers nearly twenty stories tall, grand hotels, and Victorian mansions on Nob Hill…. The wharf bristled with masts and smokestacks from as many as a thousand sailing ships and steamers arriving each year…. But the harbor would not be safe for long. Across the Pacific came an unexpected import, bubonic plague. Sailing from China and Hawaii into the unbridged arms of the Golden Gate, it arrived aboard vessels bearing rich cargoes, hopeful immigrants, and infected vermin. The rats slipped out of their shadowy holds, scuttled down the rigging, and alighted on the wharf. Uphill they scurried, insinuating themselves into the heart of the city.” The plague first...
The Bards of Bone Plain
Автор:
McKillip PatriciaЖанр:
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2013-12-02Язык книги:
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Eager to graduate from the school on the hill, Phelan Cle chose Bone Plain for his final paper because he thought it would be an easy topic. Immortalized by poets and debated by scholars, it was commonly accepted-even at a school steeped in bardic tradition-that Bone Plain, with its three trials, three terrors, and three treasures, was nothing more than a legend, a metaphor. But as his research leads him to the life of Nairn, the Wandering Bard, the Unforgiven, Phelan starts to wonder if there are any easy...
The battle at the Moons of Hell
Автор:
Paul GrahamЖанр:
Космическая фантастика;Серия:
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2013-11-17Язык книги:
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The battle for Commitment planet
Автор:
Paul GrahamЖанр:
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The battle of Devastation reef
Автор:
Paul GrahamЖанр:
Космическая фантастика;Серия:
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The Battle of the Hammer Worlds
Автор:
Paul GrahamЖанр:
Космическая фантастика;Серия:
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The Beachcomber
Автор:
Knight DamonЖанр:
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2013-11-28Язык книги:
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The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
Автор:
Ellison HarlanЖанр:
Научная фантастика;Серия:
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2013-11-27Язык книги:
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Won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in...
The Beasts of Tarzan
Автор:
Edgar Rice BurroughsДата добавления:
2022-03-17Язык книги:
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63
Description
The Beasts of Tarzan, the third book in the Tarzan series, was first published in All-Story Cavalier magazine in 1914. It was later published as a novel in 1916.
Tarzan’s old enemy, Nikolas Rokoff, escapes prison and plans his revenge by kidnapping the Tarzan’s son, the heir of Greystoke. He also captures Tarzan and Jane, and takes them all back to Africa, where he strands the Ape-man on an island before continuing on with his dastardly plan. On the island prison Tarzan befriends a troop of apes led by Akut and tames Sheeta the panther before escaping and setting off to rescue his wife and...
The Beasts Of Valhalla
Автор:
Chesbro GeorgeЖанр:
Детективная фантастика;Серия:
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2013-11-16Язык книги:
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The Beautiful and Damned
Автор:
F. Scott FitzgeraldЖанр:
Научная фантастика;Дата добавления:
2022-03-18Язык книги:
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121
Description
Anthony Patch, the grandson of a wealthy businessman, spends his youth in idle relaxation expecting to inherit his grandfather’s fortune. But when he meets Gloria, a vibrant young flapper, the two feel an irresistible attraction and quickly get married despite their clashing personalities.
The two embark on a lifestyle of Jazz Age living: hard partying, profligate spending, and generally living the high life. But Anthony’s prohibitionist grandfather soon finds out and disowns Anthony, sending their lifestyle crashing down from its former heights to intolerable indignity.
Like Fitzgerald’s previous novel, ...
The Beetle
Автор:
Richard MarshЖанр:
Ужасы и Мистика;Дата добавления:
2022-03-18Язык книги:
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108
Description
The Beetle was published in 1897, the same year as Dracula—and outsold it six to one that year. Like Dracula, the novel is steeped in the evil mysteries of an ancient horror: in this case, a mysterious ancient Egyptian creature bent on revenge.
The story is told through the sequential points of view of a group of middle-class Victorians who find themselves enmeshed in the creature’s plot. The creature, in the guise of an Egyptian man, appears in London seeking revenge against a popular member of Parliament. They soon find out that it can shape shift into other things, including women; that it can control minds and use hypnosis; and that it won’t...
The Bell at Sealey Head
Автор:
McKillip PatriciaЖанр:
Фэнтези;Серия:
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2013-12-02Язык книги:
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Sealey Head is a small town on the edge of the ocean, a sleepy place where everyone hears the ringing of a bell no one can see. On the outskirts of town is an impressive estate, Aislinn House, where the aged Lady Eglantyne lies dying, and where the doors sometimes open not to its own dusty rooms, but to the wild majesty of a castle full of knights and...
The Best of Gene Wolfe
Автор:
Wolfe GeneЖанр:
Научная фантастика;Серия:
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2013-11-26Язык книги:
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Thirty-one stories by the most distinguished creator of literary sf makes for a pretty indispensable volume. Of course, “The Fifth Head of Cerberus” and “The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories”—recognized as classics for many years now—are here. So are such objects of amused contemplation (on account of their titles) well before they are read (and as amusedly enjoyed) as “The Hero as Werewolf,” “The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton” (steampunk with more than one difference), “Seven American Nights” (an account of archaeology of the future), and “Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon?” written in homage to the witty Catholic sf (and historical) novelist R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002). Each of those and the rest of these stories characteristically begin at a...
