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Пако Аррайя. В Париж на выходные.

Пако Аррайя. В Париж на выходные.

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    Его зовут Пако Аррайя. Он - российский агент-нелегал, внедренный в США еще во времена Советского Союза. Страны, которой он присягал в юности, давно уже нет на карте, но тайная война продолжается. Этот сюжет круче любого западного боевика. Этот герой даст сто очков вперед всем прежним разведчикам и шпионам. Том Круз, удавись от зависти - отныне твоя миссия невыполнима! Джеймс Бонд отдыхает! Джейсон Борн кусает локти с досады. Незабвенный Штирлиц одобрительно похлопывает преемника по плечу. Шпионский роман возрождается. Настало время новых героев.       далее
Принц хаоса

Принц хаоса

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Писатель: Стэкпол Майкл А.
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Серия: BattleTech #43
Объединенная Внутренняя Сфера столкнулась с совокупной мощью кланов – но выживут ли они в итоге? К ПОБЕДЕ ВЕДУТ ОСТАНКИ… Оперативная группа «Змея» празднует победу, и клан Дымчатого Ягуара разбит во имя спасения. Но последняя битва ещё грядет, когда принц Виктор Штайнер-Дэвион, не испугавшись неизвестности, отправляется в самое сердце кланов: Страну Мечты. Там, с элитными подразделениями со всей Внутренней Сферы, он должен сразиться в последней битве, чтобы уничтожить дело крестоносцев и навсегда исключить возможность нового вторжения кланов. Оттесненные на грань выживания, они не могут договориться, кланы принимают вызов – и последняя битва началась.Но даже если Внутренняя Сфера окажется победителем, будет ли их возвращение таким, которое они ожидают? Принц Виктор оставил Внутреннюю Сферу объединенной под новой Звёздной Лигой, чтобы сражаться с наиболее опасным врагом, с которым сталкивалась Внутренняя Сфера: кланы. Но он также оставил позади свою сестру Катрину Штайнер, чьи амбиции не знают границ. Оперативная группа «Змея» и принц Виктор верят что, встретившись с кланами в их домашних мирах, оказались перед самой трудной битвой в их жизни. Они скоро узнают, что их битва только начинается. далее
Магия рун

Магия рун

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Писатель: Медоуз Кеннет
Жанр: Эзотерика
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Символов: 309574
Книга рассказывает о самом загадочном средстве влияния на судьбу — рунах. К ним можно относиться по-разному: как к средству достижения богатства и власти или использовать для предсказания судьбы.Мы узнаем, как наш выбор и действия создают энергетический рисунок, определяющий реальность, формирующий наше будущее и судьбу. далее
Beloved

Beloved

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Писатель: Morrison Toni (EN)
Страниц: 66
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Язык книги: Английский
"DAZZLING… MAGICAL… AN EXTRAORDINARY WORK!" -New York Times "BRILLIANT… RESONATES FROM PAST TO PRESENT." – San Francisco Chronicle "A MAGNIFICENT HEROINE… A GLORIOUS BOOK!" – Baltimore Sun "BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN… POWERFUL… TONI MORRISON HAS BECOME ONE OF AMERICA 'S FINEST NOVELISTS." -Cleveland Plain Dealer "THERE IS SOMETHING GREAT IN BELOVED: A PLAY OF HUMAN VOICES, CONSCIOUSLY EXALTED, PERVERSELY STRESSED, YET HOLDING TRUE. IT GETS YOU." – The New Yorker "A STUNNING BOOK… A LASTING ACHIEVEMENT!" -Christian Science Monitor "Magical… rich, provocative, extremely satisfying!" – Milwaukee Journal "Superb… a profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history… exquisitely told." -Cosmopolitan "Compelling… Morrison shakes that brilliant kaleidoscope of hers again, and the story of pain, endurance, poetry, and power she is born to tell comes out right." -Village Voice "In her most probing novel, Toni Morrison has demonstrated once again the stunning powers that place her in the first ranks of our living novelists." – St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Shattering emotional power and impact!" -New York Daily News "A book worth many rereadings." – Glamour "Astonishing… a triumph!"-New Woman "A work of genuine force… beautifully written." -Washington Post "Written with a force rarely seen in contemporary fiction… One feels deep admiration." -USA Today "Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure of our national literature."-New York Review of Books "Heart-wrenching… mesmerizing!" – Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Powerful is too tame a word to describe Toni Morrison's searing new novel." -Library Journal "Shatteringly eloquent."-Booklist "A rich, mythical novel… a triumph!"- St. Petersburg Times "Powerful… voluptuous!" – New York Magazine далее
Пески Титана

Пески Титана

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Писатель: Ловетт Ричард
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Эта долгая дорога в дюнах Титана, похоже, окончится за горизонтом…
The Big Four

The Big Four 16+

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Писатель: Christie Agatha (EN)
Страниц: 40
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Серия: Hercule Poirot #5
Язык книги: Английский
A ruthless international cartel seeks world domination! Framed in the doorway of Poirot's bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man's gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what was the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life to uncover the truth about 'Number Four'.    далее
Sleeping Murder

Sleeping Murder

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Писатель: Christie Agatha (EN)
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Серия: Miss Marple #14
Язык книги: Английский
Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs... In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them, they were to solve a 'perfect' crime committed many years before.  далее
The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd

The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd

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Писатель: Christie Agatha (EN)
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Серия: Hercule Poirot #4
Язык книги: Английский
In the quiet village of King's Abbot a widow's suicide has stirred suspicion - and dreadful gossip. There are rumours she murdered her first husband, rumours that she was blackmailed, and rumours that her secret lover was Roger Ackroyd. When Ackroyd is fund murdered it is unlucky for the killer that Hercule Poirot is close by. Setting up the traditional rules of mystery only to shatter them, this ingeniously tricky masterpiece startied fans, polarised critics, and stunned the Detection Club, the highly eteemed literary organisation, of which Christie herself was a member. One of the most famous detective novels ever written, and certainly one of the most controversial, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was championed by Dorothy L Sayers who said, "Christie fooed you (all)... It's the readers business to suspect everyone." And you will.    далее
Желтые листья

Желтые листья

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High Rise

High Rise

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Писатель: Ballard James Graham (EN)
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Язык книги: Английский
J.G. Ballard's 1975 novel "High Rise" contains all of the qualities we have come to expect from this author: alarming psychological insights, a study of the profoundly disturbing connections between technology and the human condition, and an intriguing plot masterfully executed. Ballard, who wrote the tremendously troubling "Crash," really knows how to dig deep into our troubling times in order to expose our tentative grasp of modernity. Some compare this book to William Golding's "Lord of the Flies," and there are definite characteristics the two novels share. I would argue, however, that "High Rise" is more eloquent and more relevant than Golding's book. Unfortunately, this Ballard novel is out of print. Try and locate a copy at your local library because the payoff is well worth the effort."High Rise" centers around four major characters: Dr. Robert Laing, an instructor at a local medical school, Richard Wilder, a television documentary producer, Anthony Royal, an architect, and the high rise building all three live in with 2,000 other people. Throughout the story, Ballard switches back and forth between these three people, recording their thoughts and actions as they live their lives in the new high-rise apartment building. Ballard made sure to pick three separate people living on different floors of the forty floor building: Laing lives on the twenty fifth floor, Wilder lives on the second floor, and Royal lives in a penthouse on the fortieth floor (befitting his status as the designer of the building). Where you live in this structure will soon take on an importance beyond life itself.At the beginning of the story, most of the people living in the building get along quite well. There are the usual nitpicky problems one would expect when 2,000 people are jammed together, but overall people move freely from the top to the bottom floors. A person living on the bottom floors can easily go to the observation deck on the top of the building to enjoy the view, or shop at the two banks of stores on the tenth and thirty-fifth floors. Children swim and play in the pools and playgrounds throughout the high rise without any interference. Despite the fact that well to do people live in the building, with celebrities and executives on the top floors, middle-class people on the middle floors, and airline pilots and the like on the bottom ten floors, everyone gets along reasonably well-at first.Then things change. The gossip level increases among the residents, and parties held on different floors start to exclude people from other areas. In quick succession, objects start to land on balconies, dropped by residents on higher levels. Equipment failures, such as electrical outages, lead to mild assaults between residents. Cars parked close to the building are vandalized, and a jeweler living on the fortieth floor does a swan dive out of the window. Every incident leads to further acts of violence and increasing chaos in the lives of those in the building. People begin to take a greater interest in what's going on where they live than in outside activities and jobs. As the violence escalates, elevators and lobbies on each floor turn into armed camps as the residents attempt to block any encroachments on their territory. What starts out as a book about living in a technological marvel quickly morphs into a study of how technology can cause human beings to regress back into primitivism. Moreover, Ballard tries to draw a correlation between the technology of the building and this descent into a Stone Age mentality. He shows in detail how the residents of the apartments sink back into the morass, passing through a classical Marxist structure of bourgeoisie-proletariat, moving on to a clan/tribal system, to a system of stark individuality. In short, Ballard tries to equate our striving towards individuality through technology with how we started out in our evolution as hunter-gatherers, as individuals seeking individual gains. The promise that technology will liberate the individual is not the highest form of evolution, argues Ballard, but is actually a return to the lowest forms of human expression.Within a few pages of the story, I thought this might turn out to be very similar to a Bentley Little book. Little, nominally a horror writer but often a social satirist, often takes a situation like this and shows how people collapse under the pressures of modern life. My belief was not born out, however, not because Ballard doesn't take certain situations over the top but because he imbues his work with a significant philosophical subtext that Little would never write about. Bentley Little is all about focusing on the over the top, outrageous incidents of humanity's decline, whereas Ballard is more interested in serving as a preacher on anti-humanistic technology, thundering out a jeremiad concerning where we might go if we do not take the time to think very carefully about the society we wish to create."High Rise" is a dark, forbidding tale of woe that is sure to get a reaction from anyone who reads it. There seem to be few out there who can deliver such devastating blows to our love of technology as Ballard does in his works. This author is often referred to as a science fiction writer, but "High Rise" works just as well on a horror level. So does "Crash," when I think about it, although the cold, detached prose of that book is not present in "High Rise." Whatever genre Ballard falls into, this book delivers on every level. далее
Волевой поступок

Волевой поступок 16+

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Серия: Афродита
Одра Краудер, одаренная ярким художественным талантом, достигает главной цели своей жизни и обеспечивает блестящее будущее своей дочери Кристине. Дочь, унаследовавшая талант матери, создает собственную «империю» высокой моды. Внучка Одры, Кайл, представительница третьего поколения Краудеров, внезапно отказывается продолжать дело Кристины. Роман полон драматических поворотов и неожиданных развязок, в центре которых, как всегда у Барбары Тейлор Брэдфорд, очаровательные и талантливые, волевые и изысканные героини. далее
Крысы

Крысы

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Писатель: Макоули Пол Дж.
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Символов: 33145
Им суждено погибнуть в этом звездном сражении, но пилот и женщина-ученый принимают бой.
Путь подонка

Путь подонка

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Писатель: Черепах Олег
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Символов: 67135
Записки наемника

Записки наемника

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Писатель: Гончаров Виктор
Жанр: Боевики
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Остросюжетная книга «Записки наемника» рассказывает о трагическом жизненном пути нашего современника – Юрия Язубца, который стал наемником и в результате превратился в беспощадного убийцу. Книга написана на основе документального материала. далее
At Bertram's Hotel

At Bertram's Hotel

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Писатель: Christie Agatha (EN)
Страниц: 46
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Серия: Miss Marple #12
Язык книги: Английский
An old-fashioned London Hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out! When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer. Yet, not even Miss Marple can foresee the violent chain of events set in motion when an eccentric guest makes his way to the airport on the wrong day!  далее
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