The Book of Dreams
Автор:
Severin TimЖанр:
Исторические приключения;Серия:
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2013-10-31Язык книги:
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The Call of the Wild
Автор:
Jack LondonДата добавления:
2022-03-19Язык книги:
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Jack London spent nearly a year in Alaska and the Klondike, mining for gold and braving the Alaskan winter. There he was inspired to write what would become The Call of the Wild, one of his most famous novels. The Call of the Wild tells the tale of a domesticated dog stolen from his California family and sold to sledders in Alaska. As he adapts to the harsh and wild environment, he slowly sheds domestication and returns to his primal roots.
The Call of the Wild was London’s first major success, ensuring he’d have a readership for his future writing and paving the way for him to become one of the first writers to amass a fortune from just his...
The Captain`s Vengeance
Автор:
Lambdin DeweyЖанр:
Морские приключения;Серия:
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2013-11-28Язык книги:
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Sailing in the Caribbean, Captain Alan Lewrie, RN, is once again pursuing a chimera. A rich French prize ship he'd left at anchor at Dominica has gone missing, along with six of his sailors. What starts as a straightforward search for it, and them, from Hispaniola to Barbados, far down the Antilles, leads Lewrie to a gruesome discovery on the Dry Tortugas and to a vile cabal of the most pitiless and depraved pirates ever to sail under the 'Jolly Roger' . . . and the suspicion that one of his trusted hands just may be the worst of them all!Against his will---again---the usually irrepressible Lewrie is made his superiors' 'cat's-paw' once more, and his covert mission this time is to go up the Mississippi in enemy-held Spanish Louisiana to the romantic but sordid port of New Orleans in...
The Carnivorous Carnival
Автор:
Snicket LemonyЖанр:
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2013-12-01Язык книги:
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The Chemickal Marriage
Автор:
Dahlquist GordonЖанр:
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2013-12-01Язык книги:
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The final installment of Dahlquist's fantastical adventure series, following on from The Glass Book of Dream Eaters and The Dark Volume. Miss Temple, young, wealthy and far away from home, never wanted to be a heroine. Yet her fiance is dead (admittedly, by her own hand), her companions slain and her nemesis, the terrifyingly wicked Contessa Lacquer-Sforza, escaped. It falls on her tiny shoulders to destroy a deadly cabal whose alchemy threatens to enslave the world. Miss Temple plots her revenge. But Dr Svenson and Cardinal Chang are alive, barely - their bodies corrupted by the poisonous blue glass. Wounded and outnumbered, Miss Temple, Dr Svenson and Cardinal Chang pursue their enemies through city slums and glittering palaces as they fight to prevent the cabal's crushing...
The Child of the Cavern
Автор:
Jules VerneДата добавления:
2022-03-17Язык книги:
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44
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The Child of the Cavern follows engineer James Starr as he receives a letter from an old friend and co-worker, Simon Ford, requesting that he revisit a depleted coal mine in Scotland that he used to manage. Upon arriving, Starr finds the entire Ford family living in the mine, and Ford explains that a new coal vein has been located. Soon after Starr’s return, however, strange events start to occur, which seem to be supernatural. After a startling discovery, the characters continue to investigate these occurrences over the course of several...
The Cloud Maker
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Woodhead PatrickЖанр:
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2013-11-18Язык книги:
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To Luca Matthews the dangers of the high mountain peaks are the air upon which he thrives. In the ruthless pursuit of his goals he would sacrifice anything — even another climber's life. His friends and family know and fear it. So when he sights a virgin peak in the Himalayas that exists on no map, no one is surprised when he becomes obsessed with being the first to scale it. Together with his climbing partner, Bill Taylor, they set off into a region of Tibet highly restricted by the Chinese. But a freak accident puts one of their team in mortal danger and it is left to a local Tibetan girl to lead them to Geltang, a monastery that has been hidden from the outside world since the Chinese Cultural Revolution, when most of the monasteries were pillaged and burned. Soon, as the Chinese...
The Commodore
Автор:
Forester CecilЖанр:
Исторические приключения;Серия:
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2013-12-02Язык книги:
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In this ninth installment in the Hornblower series, the incomparable Horatio Hornblower, recently knighted and settled in as squire of the village of Smallbridge, has been designated commodore of his own squadron of ships, led by the two-decker Nonsuch and bound for the Baltic. It is 1812, and Hornblower has been ordered to do anything and everything possible, diplomatically and militarily, to protect the Baltic trade and to stop the spread of Napoleon's empire into Sweden and Russia. Though he has set sail a hero, one misstep may ruin his chances of ever becoming an admiral. Hostile armies, seductive Russian royalty, nautical perils such as ice-bound bays, assassins in the imperial palace—Hornblower must conquer all before he can return home to his beloved new wife and son, as his...
The Corvette
Автор:
Вудмен РичардЖанр:
Морские приключения;Серия:
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2013-11-28Язык книги:
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The fifth book in the Nathaniel Drinkwater series Commander Drinkwater's experience of battle was what mattered when Earl St Vincent entrusted Drinkwater with his new command — as escort to the Arctic whaling fleet on its annual expedition to the Greenland seas. With the French established as masters of the war upon trade, violent action...
The crossroads brotherhood
Автор:
Fabbi RobertЖанр:
Исторические приключения;Серия:
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2013-11-28Язык книги:
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The Crusader's gold
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Gibbins DavidЖанр:
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2013-11-27Язык книги:
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The Cydonia Objective
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Sakmyster DavidЖанр:
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2013-12-05Язык книги:
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In this pulse-pounding, mind-expanding conclusion to the Morpheus Initiative trilogy, psychic Caleb Crowe must locate the ancient Spear of Destiny—the one item with sufficient power to destroy the Emerald Tablet—before those who stole it can unlock its power and use it eradicate all life on the planet. It’s a quest that will lead Caleb and his team through history, even viewing events beyond the Earth, where ancient enemies started a war that has yet to end. From the caverns under the Sphinx to ancient ruined cities in Pakistan, and then on to a secret government project in Alaska, the Morpheus team will ultimately track the Spear to the Statue of Liberty, along the way encountering new psychics, deadly enemies with abilities to block their visions, and mysterious ancient...
The Dark Volume
Автор:
Dahlquist GordonЖанр:
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2013-12-01Язык книги:
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The Darkening Sea
Автор:
Kent AlexanderЖанр:
Морские приключения;Серия:
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2013-11-28Язык книги:
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Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho returns to England after the capture of Martinique, and finds a brief respite from war and politics in the arms of his mistress, Lady Catherine Somervell. But the affairs of nations allow little time for personal happiness, and to his surprise and dismay Bolitho is ordered almost immediately to the Indian Ocean, where the shadow of a new conflict already darkens the horizon as the old enemy, France, forges an uneasy alliance with America and threatens British trade routes. Haunted by the deaths in their country's service of Nelson and Collingwood, and by his own vivid memories of shipwreck and tragedy, Bolitho is well aware of the price of admiralty, and for the first time considers the possibility of life not only beyond the reef but beyond the sea...
The Death Instinct
Автор:
Rubenfeld JedЖанр:
Исторические приключения;Серия:
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2013-11-25Язык книги:
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The Egyptian
Автор:
Waltari MikaЖанр:
Исторические приключения;Серия:
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2013-11-26Язык книги:
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The Elusive Pimpernel
Автор:
Baroness OrczyДата добавления:
2022-03-18Язык книги:
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83
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In the third installment of her Scarlet Pimpernel stories, Baroness Orczy brings back Chauvelin, the French official unable to catch the Pimpernel in the first novel. This time he is more determined, more ruthless, and more devious. He plans to capture both the Pimpernel and his wife, threatening an entire town in the process. He has thought of every possibility, closed every loophole, anticipated every move of his arch-rival. It appears that at last the Pimpernel might have met his...
The Emerald Storm
Автор:
Dietrich WilliamЖанр:
Исторические приключения;Серия:
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2013-12-01Язык книги:
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69
The End of Sparta
Автор:
Hanson VictorЖанр:
Исторические приключения;Серия:
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2013-11-28Язык книги:
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The Enemy
Автор:
Bagley DesmondЖанр:
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2013-11-05Язык книги:
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