The Chatham School Affair
Автор:
Cook ThomasЖанр:
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The Checklist
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Addie WoolridgeЖанр:
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2022-02-02Язык книги:
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The Chemickal Marriage
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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 Chemistry of Tears
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Carey PeterЖанр:
Современная проза;Серия:
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An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, two stories of love—all are brought to incandescent life in this hauntingly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time. London 2010: Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the sudden death of her colleague and lover of thirteen years. As the mistress of a married man, she must struggle to keep the depth of her anguish to herself. The one other person who knows Catherine’s secret—her boss—arranges for her to be given a special project away from prying eyes in the museum’s Annexe. Usually controlled and rational, but now mad with grief, Catherine reluctantly unpacks an extraordinary, eerie automaton that she has been charged with bringing back to life. As she begins to piece...
The Chernagor Pirates
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Chernenko DanЖанр:
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2013-09-27Язык книги:
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While young King Lanius dreams of being more than a mere figurehead, his fellow sovereign, the usurper King Grus, is defending Avornis against the shadowy plots of the Banished One—the dark god cast from heaven, who seeks now to dominate the mortal world.
With the barbarous, nomadic Menteshe in the south holding the Scepter of Mercy—and civil war raging among the Chernagor city-states in the north—Avornis finds itself threatened on two fronts. King Grus and his army are in the land of the Chernagors, hoping to quell the trouble—without becoming bogged down in a protracted war. Grus may be able to form an alliance against the Menteshe…Then again, it could be an inescapable trap.
But the longer the kings go without acting on their dream of retaking the Scepter of Mercy,...
The Cherry Orchard
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Anton ChekhovЖанр:
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The Cherry Orchard is Chekhov’s final play. The plot revolves around a heavily indebted landowner, Madame Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevsky, and her brother, Leonid Andreyevitch Gaev, as they attempt to save their estate, and its large cherry orchard, from being auctioned off to pay the mortgage. Lopahin, a wealthy merchant who’s uncomfortable with his lower-class background, accompanies them, suggesting grand business plans to revive the estate. Lyubov Andreyevna’s daughters, Anya and Varya, work to keep things stable, while Lyubov Andreyevna’s oddball employees and other locals are caught up in their own personal concerns.
The Cherry Orchard was written in 1903...
The Chessmen
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May PeterЖанр:
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The Chessmen of Mars
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Edgar Rice BurroughsЖанр:
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2022-03-17Язык книги:
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90
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The Chessmen of Mars, the fifth installment in the Martian series, was originally serialized in six parts in Argosy All-Story Weekly before being published as a novel in 1922. It introduces Tara, Princess of Helium, the headstrong daughter of John Carter, the Warlord of Mars. Just like the rest of the novels in the series, this one is packed with imaginative characters and locations. In true Barsoomian fashion, Burroughs regales us with an action-packed adventure: planet-shaking storms, daring swordfights, horrific dungeons, complex alien cultures, and wild escapes. While the story may be considered a standard...
The Cheyne Mystery
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Freeman Wills CroftsЖанр:
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After lunch at a hotel in Plymouth, Maxwell Cheyne, a young and well-off country gentleman, is approached by a gentleman with a proposition. The meeting, however, is cut short after Cheyne passes out. On waking, he finds not only his pockets rifled but a message alerting him that his house has been burgled. The strange thing is that nothing of his seems to be missing; no jewelry or valuables have been taken, and all of his papers remain in place. The private detective hired to investigate is also stumped. It’s only when another attempt is made by the perpetrators that a trail is established—a trail that leads Cheyne to eventually seek the help of Scotland Yard and Inspector...
The Chicago Way
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Harvey MichaelЖанр:
Полицейские детективы;Серия:
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2013-11-16Язык книги:
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The Chick Is In The Mail
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Freisner EstherЖанр:
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An anthology of stories edited by Esther M. Freisner and Martin Harry GreenbergIn a collection of fantasy stories, warrior women take on pirates invading a charity ball, bring an obnoxious loremaster to justice, protect children from magically-summoned barbarian hordes, and rescue Tokyo from destructive...
The Chieftan
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Norman JohnЖанр:
Эпическая фантастика;Серия:
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2013-11-18Язык книги:
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This is the age of the Telnarians. Their vast, corrupt empire spans galaxies, ruling by terror, slavery, and the lash. But, their corruption and brutality could spell their downfall for, on a thousand worlds of swords and science, the savage souls of true men will not be forever chained. A heroic tide is rising-and one warrior is born to lead the barbarian horde. A peasant is sent to the arena, fodder for the carnage...but before the horrified gaze of noble ladies, the warrior named Dog slaughters headsmen, hunters, and beasts to win freedom as a full-fledged gladiator. Then, deep-space rebels attack an Empire ship where Dog performs combat killings for the amusement of the passengers-and the gladiator becomes a rebel. Now, a beautiful officer of the court finds her life depends on the...
The Child Garden
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Ryman GeoffЖанр:
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2013-11-17Язык книги:
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In a semi-tropical London, surrounded by paddy-fields, the people feed off the sun, like plants, the young are raised in Child Gardens and educated by viruses, and the Consensus oversees the country, “treating” non-conformism. Information, culture, law and politics are biological functions. But Milena is different: she is resistant to viruses and an incredible musician, one of the most extraordinary women of her age. This is her story and that of her friends, like Lucy the immortal tumour and Joseph the Postman whose mind is an information storehouse for others, and Rolfa, genetically engineered as a Polar Bear, whose beautiful singing voice first awakens Milena to the power of...
The Child of the Cavern
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Jules VerneДата добавления:
2022-03-17Язык книги:
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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 Child Thief
Автор:
BromЖанр:
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Peter is quick, daring, and full of mischief—and like all boys, he loves to play, though his games often end in blood. His eyes are sparkling gold, and when he graces you with his smile you are his friend for life, but his promised land is not Neverland. Fourteen-year-old Nick would have been murdered by the drug dealers preying on his family had Peter not saved him. Now the irresistibly charismatic wild boy wants Nick to follow him to a secret place of great adventure, where magic is alive and you never grow old. Even though he is wary of Peter's crazy talk of faeries and monsters, Nick agrees. After all, New York City is no longer safe for him, and what more could he possibly lose? There is always more to...
The Child Who
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Lelic SimonЖанр:
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2013-12-04Язык книги:
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A quiet English town is left reeling when twelve-year-old Daniel Blake is discovered to have brutally murdered his schoolmate Felicity Forbes. For provincial solicitor Leo Curtice, the case promises to be the most high profile – and morally challenging – of his career. But as he begins his defence Leo is unprepared for the impact the public fury surrounding Felicity’s death will have on his family – and his teenage daughter Ellie, above all. While Leo struggles to get Daniel to open up, hoping to unearth the reasons for the boy’s terrible crime, the build-up of pressure on Leo’s family intensifies. As the case nears its climax, events will take their darkest turn. For Leo, nothing will ever be the same...
The Child's Plan
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Audrey WalkerЖанр:
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2022-03-15Язык книги:
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The Children of Men
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James P.Жанр:
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2013-11-28Язык книги:
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In her 12th book, the British author of the two series featuring Adam Dalgleish and Cordelia Gray (Devices and Desires and An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, respectively) poses a premise that chills and darkens its setting in the year 2021. Near the end of the 20th century, for reasons beyond the grasp of modern science, human sperm count went to zero. The last birth occurred in 1995, and in the space of a generation humanity has lost its future. In England, under the rule of an increasingly despotic Warden, the infirm are encouraged to commit group suicide, criminals are exiled and abandoned and immigrants are subjected to semi-legalized slavery. Divorced, middle-aged Oxford history professor Theo Faron, an emotionally constrained man of means and intelligence who is the Warden's cousin,...
The Children of the Crèche
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Gardner JamesЖанр:
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2013-09-14Язык книги:
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First publiched in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future anthology (vol. VI) in 1990. Published in 2005 as part of Gravity Wells short stories...
The Children of the Sky
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Vinge VernorЖанр:
Космическая фантастика;Серия:
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2013-11-27Язык книги:
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After nearly twenty years, Vernor Vinge has produced an enthralling sequel to his memorable bestselling novel A Fire Upon the Deep. Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a disaster that nearly obliterated humankind throughout the galaxy. Ravna and the pack animals for which the planet is named have survived a war, and Ravna has saved more than one hundred children who were in cold-sleep aboard the vessel that brought them. While there is peace among the Tines, there are those among them—and among the humans—who seek power…and no matter the cost, these malcontents are determined to overturn the fledgling civilization that has taken root since the humans landed. On a world of fascinating wonders and...
