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Жанры
- Военное дело
- Деловая литература
- Детективы и Триллеры
- Детское
- Документальная литература
- Домоводство (Дом и семья)
- Драматургия
- Зарубежная литература
- Классика
- Книги по психологии
- Компьютеры и Интернет
- Любовные романы
- Наука, Образование
- Неотсортированное
- Поэзия
- Приключения
- Проза
- Прочее
- Религия и духовность
- Справочная литература
- Старинное
- Техника
- Фантастика
- Фольклор
- Юмор
- Серии
- Подборки
- Рецензии
- Авторы
- Читатели
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Жанры
Назад
- Военное дело
- Деловая литература
- Детективы и Триллеры
- Детское
- Документальная литература
- Домоводство (Дом и семья)
- Драматургия
- Зарубежная литература
- Классика
- Книги по психологии
- Компьютеры и Интернет
- Любовные романы
- Наука, Образование
- Неотсортированное
- Поэзия
- Приключения
- Проза
- Прочее
- Религия и духовность
- Справочная литература
- Старинное
- Техника
- Фантастика
- Фольклор
- Юмор
- Серии
- Подборки
- Рецензии
- Авторы
- Читатели
Фильтр
Жанр:Наука, Образование
After Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) is the man most associated with communism and its influence and reach around the world. Lenin was the leader of the communist Bolshevik party during the October 1917 revolution in Russia, and he subsequently headed the Soviet state until 1924, bringing stability to the region and establishing a socialist economic and political system.
Жанр:Детективы и Триллеры
The clone assassin has been played long enough—now it’s more than a game.Bred to kill, Agent 47 is The Agency’s most valuable assassin. So when a competing murder-for-hire organization decides to destroy The Agency, the first person they target for elimination is Agent 47. Tasking someone to off the best hitman in the business is one thing; getting the job done is another. When the attempt falls short, Agent 47 is ordered to track down and kill the culprit who is feeding vital information about The Agency to its enemies.Agent 47 must follow a bloody trail halfway around the world, fight his way through the streets of Fez, Morocco, and battle slavers deep inside Chad. Then he will discover a shattering truth: If he fails at his mission, the price he’ll pay will be far greater than his own life…
Жанр:Детективы и Триллеры
When a group of scientists at the bottom of the world uncover a hidden tropical world within a vast snow-covered mountain range, they think they’ve found a secret repository of unknown botanical species. But when several of the team go missing during the nights, they realize they’ve uncovered something far more sinister. And with an agenda far more horrifying than any of them could ever have imagined. Now, stalked through the darkness and the frozen landscape, the remaining scientists must band together or risk becoming the latest in a series of nightmarish experiments whose goal is too terrible to imagine… and possibly the destruction of Earth itself.
Jon F. Merz is a writer with over two dozen published bestselling novels, a producer for New Ronin Entertainment and a trained black belt ninja. He has taught defensive tactics to civilian crime watch groups, police, military units, and agencies like the US Department of State, the Department of Justice, and the Bureau of Prisons. In his past, Jon served with the United States Air Force, worked for the US government, and handled executive protection for Fortune 500 clients. He lives with his wife and two sons in suburban Boston.
Жанр:Любовные романы
Rebecca Mandeville
The story of The Changeling is told by Angelet's daughter, Rebecca, who was born in Benedict Lansdon's house in an Australian gold-mining township. Before Rebecca was born, her father had died saving another man's life. She had always looked up to him as a great hero and when she heard that her mother was to marry Benedict Lansdon, she was deeply shocked.
The prolific British author of historical romances (The Pool of St. Branok) continues her lavishly entwined narrative of the families connected to Benedict Lansdon, now a recently bereaved widower, absentee father and wealthy seeker of a Parliament seat. Narrated by Benedict's aggrieved stepdaughter, Rebecca, this complex tale of love and betrayal concerns a three-cornered sibling relationship involving Rebecca, her half-sister, Belinda and Lucie, a country waif informally adopted by Benedict. Aware that her father blames her for her mother's death in childbirth, Belinda takes refuge in michievous behavior. Placid Lucie, however, fits in well with the family, though her lineage is suspect and clouded with mysterious events at St. Branok's pool. Although Belinda seems the most obvious "changeling," Carr sustains an air of doubt and intrigue. The ambience of the Cornish countryside and of Victorian London permeate this piquantly Gothic family saga.
Жанр:Детское
William Goldman's modern fantasy classic is a simple, exceptional story about quests—for riches, revenge, power, and, of course, true love—that's thrilling and timeless.
Anyone who lived through the 1980s may find it impossible—inconceivable, even—to equate with anything other than the sweet, celluloid romance of Westley and Buttercup, but the film is only a fraction of the ingenious storytelling you'll find in these pages. Rich in character and satire, the novel is set in 1941 and framed cleverly as an “abridged” retelling of a centuries-old tale set in the fabled country of Florin that's home to “Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passions.”
Жанр:Фантастика
A faerie princess turned private investigator in a world where faeries are not only known to the general public, but are also fashionable, the title heroine is Princess Meredith NicEssus, also known as Merry Gentry. As niece to Andais, The Queen of Air and Darkness, she is a royal of the Unseelie Court. While her aunt tried to kill her as a child, she has since offered her the title as crown princess as the Court needs more heirs.Введите сюда краткую аннотацию
Жанр:Фантастика
The time has come for Meredith Gentry to put aside her detective work and fulfill her ultimate obligation to the world of Faerie — where her efforts to conceive an heir to the throne of the Unseelie Court are crucial to restoring magic, and life itself, to the Fey kingdom.
Жанр:Фантастика
Welcome back to the world of Meredith Gentry, a twilight world of gods, shapeshifters and immortal souls, a world full of sensuality, wild magic, treacherous deceits and the delicious anticipation of latent powers unleashed…
Жанр:Фантастика
Private Investigator, Princess Meredith, is heir to a throne, if she can live long enough to claim it. For a deadly game is being played in the Faerie court and whoever produces an heir first wins the crown. Then, in her adoptive home, in the City of Angels, people start dying in mysterious ways.
Жанр:Фантастика
Meredith, a runaway Elven princess posing as a human private detective with a specialty in supernatural crime, is confronted by a dangerous new adversary, Doyle, the chief bodyguard and assassin of Meredith's aunt, the Queen of Air and Darkness, as Meredith becomes caught up in one of her dreaded aunt's evil schemes.
Жанр:Фантастика
“They mustn’t harm a human being, they must obey human orders, and they must protect their own existence… but only so long as that doesn’t violate rules one and two. With these Three Laws of Robotics, humanity embarked on perhaps its greatest adventure: the invention of the first positronic man. It was a bold new era of evolution that would open up enormous possibilities—and unforeseen risks. For the scientists who invented the earliest robots weren’t content that their creations should remain programmed helpers, companions, and semisentient worker-machines. And soon the robots themselves, aware of their own intelligence, power, and humanity, aren’t either.” As humans and robots struggle to survive together—and sometimes against each other—on earth and in space, the future of both hangs in the balance. Human men and women confront robots gone mad, telepathic robots, robot politicians, and vast robotic intelligences that may already secretly control the world. And both are asking the same questions: What is human? And is humanity obsolete?
Жанр:Детективы и Триллеры
"You can"t trust anyone who sleeps with monsters."
That"s what I"ve always said. That"s what I"ve always believed. But now I"m the one sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the City.
Me, Anita Blake. The woman the vampires call the Executioner. From part of the solution, I"ve become part of the problem. So it hits close to home when an arsonist begins to target vampire-owned businesses all over town – and arsonist who seems to want to destroy more than just property. It"s the monsters who are in danger now.
And it"s up to the Executioner to save them from the inferno...
Pete, on the other end of the phone, sounded frantic. "The city is going nuts. So far we"ve managed to contain the fires to just a few buildings, but if the crazies keep it up, it"s going to get out of hand. There"s no telling how much of the city would go up.
"We need to know who"s behind this," I said.
"Yes, we do," Pete Said. "Get here as soon as you can." He sounded so sure I could help. I wished I was as certain. I sure I could do much in broad daylight. I"d been told once that the only reason I couldn"t raise the dead at high noon was that I thought I couldn"t. I was about to put it to the test.
Жанр:Детективы и Триллеры
"These days my life is a cross between preternatural soap opera and an action-adventure movie. Sort of As The Casket Turns meets Rambo."
The first hit man came after me at home, which should be against the rules. Then there was a second, and a third. Eventually, I found out that the word on the street was that Anita Blake, preternatural expert and vampire killer extraordinaire, was worth half a million dollars. Dead, not alive. So what"s a girl to do but turn to the men in her life for help? Which in my case, means an alpha werewolf and a master vampire. With professional killers on your trail, it"s not a bad idea to have as much protection as possible, human or otherwise.
But, I"m beginning to wonder if two monsters are better than one...
Жанр:Детективы и Триллеры
"When the monsters are involved, it"s never just one dead body.
One way or another the dead multiply."
First ,there was the dead in the graveyard, two-hundred years dead. I"d been hired to raise them to settle a dispute over who owned the land they were buried in. Then there were the three dead teenagers in the woods, slaughtered in a way I had never seen before. And then they found the dead girl, drained of blood and left in her bed. I knew what that meant, all right. It didn"t take a degree in preternatural studies to figure out that something was very wrong in and around Branson, Missouri. And I was right in the middle of it. May name is Anita Blake. Welcome to my life...
We"d awakened something old and long dormant. It made me hesitate. Made me not want to finish the circle. Stubbornness, and fear. i didn"t completely understand what I was feeling. It was someone else"s magic, someone"s spell. We"d triggered it, but I didn"t know what it would do.
We could raise our dead but it would be like walking a tightrope between the other spell and ... something.
Жанр:Детективы и Триллеры
"You don"t volunteer for slugfests with vampires.
It shortens your life expectancy."
And you don"t fall in love with a werewolf. It interferes with your work. Especially when you"re a preternatural expert like me. My business brings me up close and personal with all shapes and sizes of monsters. And not all of them want to kill me.
Take, for instance, the local pack of lycanthropes – that"s werewolves to you. A number of them are missing, and they"ve come to me for help. I"ve survived a lot – from jealous vampires to killer zombies – but this love thing may kill me yet...
It was barely dark, and I was tired. Tired enough to go home and crawl into bed and hide. Instead, I was on my way to the Lunatic Cafe. I was going to try and convince Marcus to let me talk to the police. Eight missing, one dead human. It didn"t have to be connected. But if it was a werewolf, Then Marcus would know who did the killing, or not, but I had to ask. They"d come closer to telling me the truth than they would the police. Funny how all the monsters talked to me and not the police. You had to begin to wonder why the monsters were so damn comfortable around me.
I raised zombies and slew vampires. Who was I to throw stones?
Жанр:Фантастика
Anita Blake is an expert on creatures of the night. She has dined with shapeshifters, danced with werewolves, and been wooed, but not won, by Jean-Claude, the Master Vampire of the city. Now there’s a new vampire in town named Alejandro and he wants Anita for his servant. His attempts to win her lead to a war of the undead. Original.
Жанр:Фантастика
The novels of “New York Times” bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton take readers into the dangerous life of Anita Blake, animator and vampire hunter—a woman as good at raising the dead as she is at slaying the undead. Now, a creature from beyond the grave is tearing a swath of murder through St. Louis. And Anita will learn that there are some secrets better left buried—and some people better off dead…
Жанр:Фантастика
Introducing Anita Blake, vampire hunter extraordinaire. Most people don’t even bat an eye at vampires since they’ve been given equal rights by the Supreme Court. But Anita knows better—she’s seen their victims… A serial killer is murdering vampires, however, and now the most powerful vampire in town wants Anita to find the killer.
Жанр:Детективы и Триллеры
During the grand opening celebration of the new American headquarters of an immense Japanese conglomerate, the dead body of a beautiful woman is found. The investigation begins, and immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue and a violent business battle that takes no prisoners.
Жанр:Фантастика
Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the finest contemporary fantasy writers, winner of many awards (the Hugo, the Nebula, the National Book Award among others) and author of many popular books, including the contemporary classic, the Earthsea trilogy, second only to Tolkien's famous «Ring» trilogy in renown. Here is a less familiar piece, a fantasy story about light and dark, life and war and magic, filled with omens of impending doom. It is sharply and cleanly written, like a fine blade honed and polished, cold steel. It's a story about death.
Жанр:Фантастика
«Павлыш проверил анабиозный отсек, там все было в порядке. Странно, еще недавно он спорил с Бауэром, доказывал ему, что этот отсек – анахронизм, и если уж переоборудовать корабль на гравитационный двигатель, то можно заодно и ликвидировать отсек – лишнее место, лишний вес… И Бауэр сказал тогда: «Но может же так случиться…» Хотя оба понимали, что случиться так не может. И случилось.
Уже месяц, как «Компас» падал. Он падал, и неизвестно было, чем кончится это падение. «Компас» проваливался в пространство, в бесконечность. Уже месяц, как он был объявлен пропавшим без вести, его разыскивали все станции и корабли сектора и не могли найти…»
