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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
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Жанр:Наука, Образование
Вниманию читателей предлагается книга Инид Блайтон «Новые приключения Великолепной Пятерки».
Каждый абзац текста, на английском языке, снабжен ссылкой на литературный перевод.
Книга предназначена для учащихся старший классов школ, лицеев и гимназий, а также для широкого круга лиц, интересующихся английской литературой и совершенствующих свою языковую подготовку.
Жанр:Детское
They say if you stare at him long enough, you can see what’s written on the wall behind him. They say a lot of things about the Schwa, but one thing’s for sure: no one ever noticed him. Except me. My name is Antsy Bonano—and I can tall you what’s true and what’s not. ’Cause I was there. I was the one who realized the Schwa was “functionally invisible” and used it to make some big bucks. But I was also the one who caused him more grief than a friend should. So if you all just shut up and listen, I’ll spill everything. Unless, of course, “the Schwa Effect” wiped him out of my brain before I’m done...
Жанр:Детективы и Триллеры
В канадской провинции разворачивается трагедия: подростки на автомобиле срываются в реку, на поверхность которой «всплывает» слишком много вопросов ещё до того, как новость о случившемся обретает серьёзные масштабы. Власти поручают расследование всего одному агенту CSIS – Дэшиэл Нэш. CSIS настаивает на закрытии дела, требуя от агента оформить его под грифом несчастного случая. Нэш скоро понимает, что её намеренно подставляют этим делом и что сухой из воды ей уже не выйти, потому принимает решение продолжать расследование тайно. Когда же Дэшиэл слишком близко приближается к ответу на главный вопрос, она начинает осознавать, что некоторые вопросы, заданные недостаточно тихо, могут стоить ей жизни… Содержит нецензурную брань.
Жанр:Фантастика
Possessed by the demon of Defeat, Strider cannot lose a challenge without suffering unimaginable pain.
For him, nothing stands in the way of victory. Until Kaia, an enchanting Harpy, tempts him to the razor’s edge of surrender.
Known among her people as The Disappointment, Kaia must bring home the gold in the Harpy Games or die.
Strider is a distraction she can’t afford because he has an agenda of his own—steal first prize, an ancient godly artifact, before the winner can be named. But as the competition heats up, only one prize will matter—the love neither had thought possible.…
Жанр:Проза
In the eighth in the series Donald Howard, a young science Fellow is charged with scientific fraud and dismissed from his college. This novel, which became a successful West End play, describes a miscarriage of justice in the same Cambridge college which served as a setting for . In the eighth in the Strangers and Brothers series Donald Howard, a young science Fellow is charged with scientific fraud and dismissed from his college. This novel, which became a successful West End play, describes a miscarriage of justice in the same Cambridge college which served as a setting for The Masters.
Жанр:Детективы и Триллеры
A series of seemingly random murders along a fifty-mile stretch of the rugged northern California coast, committed by an unknown dubbed by the media the Coastline Killer. A young couple with marital problems, Shelby and Jay Macklin, who decide to spend the week between Christmas and New Year's at a friend's remote coastal cottage. Two couples in a neighboring home whose relationships are thick with festering menace. A fierce winter storm that leads to a night of unrelenting terror. These are the main ingredients in Bill Pronzini's chilling and twist-filled tale about the hidden nature of crime and its motives.
Жанр:Проза
When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night — dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge — he follows her. Margo's always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she's always planned solo. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q. . until day breaks and she has vanished. Always an enigma, Margo has now become a mystery. But there are clues. And they're for Q. Printz Medalist John Green returns with the trademark brilliant wit and heart-stopping emotional honesty that have inspired a new generation of readers.
Жанр:Проза
Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.
Жанр:Фантастика
Проза Лидии Чуковской – зеркало ее жизни. Зеркало эпохи, преломленной сквозь призму взгляда русского интеллигента. Дочь Корнея Ивановича Чуковского, она выросла в семье, где чтили традиции русской словесности с ее верой в человека и в его право на свободу. Лидия Корнеевна не боялась больших и сильных чувств. Она обладала очень редким даром – мужественного слова. Точность, безукоризненность слова – ее оружие в борьбе за справедливость. Писала она без перевода на язык другого поколения. Чувство гражданской и моральной сопричастности охватывает и сейчас от любой из ее страниц. Лидия Чуковская недаром всю жизнь занималась Герценом. В ее открытых письмах и статьях чувствуются его уроки. В них та же сродненность с Россией и русской культурой, тот же пламенный темперамент, та же четкость и бескомпромиссность гражданской позиции. Однако в каждой своей статье, в каждой книге для Лидии Чуковской главное – не обличение палачей и приспособленцев, а возрождение нравственности, критерии которой, к несчастью, нами во многом утеряны. Лидия Чуковская все еще далеко впереди, она дожидается нас в иной, человечной и умной России.
Жанр:Фантастика
Once again Master Li and Number Ten Ox, the most incongruous and eccentric pair of sleuths in the realms of fantasy, take on another case. It begins with a vampire ghoul interrupting an execution and leads to a murdered mandarin and the sightings of some very terrible creatures.
Жанр:Фантастика
Zinzi has a talent for finding lost things.
To save herself, she’s got to find the hardest thing of all: the truth.
Жанр:Фантастика
In this third of an exciting series of riotous adventure fantasies, Toby Longdirk, bastard son of a Scottish lass and English invaders, must battle everything from kings possessed by demons to the attentions of seductive locals.Second in Command to the Flamboyant, Autocratic, and more-than-slightly-mad Don Ramon, the swash-buckling Toby Longdirk has — by luck and fate — been successful in defeating the forces of King Nevil of England at the Battle of Trent. Since this is the first military defeat of the demon king's forces, Toby's reputation is made as a commander.
Reputation means nothing, however, when local politics rears its ugly head. King Nevil (a.k.a. "The Fiend" because his body is possessed by a demon) soon recovers from this loss and begins an invasion of Italy, but when Toby is engaged to handle the defense of Florence, protracted negotiations over the terms of service cause massive delays in his preparations. As if that weren't enough, Toby's trusted aide is off mooning after an English princess, his wizard is killed in an ill-fated adventure, and the seductive sister of a local power is after Toby, and she just won't take no for an answer. With The Fiend bearing down on the city gates with vengeance on his mind and a horde of fearsome soldiers at his command, can Toby pluck victory out of certain defeat?
Жанр:Фантастика
In the lands of a fanciful Renaissance Europe, the king is a hunted outlaw. Meanwhile, a young man with dreams of becoming a prizefighter has his plans waylaid when he's placed under a spell giving him demonic powers-or are they the powers of the king? An exciting heroic fantasy in the spirit of Robin Hood.
Жанр:Фантастика
Mind Changer is a 1998 science fiction book by author James White and is part of the Sector General series.
Жанр:Фантастика
Double Contact is a 1999 science fiction book by author James White and is the last in the Sector General series.
Clinton Lawrence described as “in a very positive way, a throwback to an earlier era in science fiction” since it is optimistic and depicts several advanced species working harmoniously. The struggle to build trust and produce a successful first contact is, he thought, as exciting and suspenseful as one could wish for. However Lawrence also noted that the level of characterization was the minimum required to support the plot.
This book has an unusual feature in personal pronoun usage: in most Sector General stories, one human is “he” or “she” (or other grammatical case forms) and one alien is “it”. But, in , often in the text the character Prilicla is “he” and a human or a member of any other species is “it”.
Жанр:Фантастика
The Galactic Gourmet is a 1996 science fiction book by author James White and is part of the Sector General series.
Todd Richmond wrote that the Sector General series declined after (1985), hitting a low point with , and that the later books tended to stretch a short story’s worth of content to the length of a novel. However he thought that (1998) represented an improvement.
A famous chef wangles an appointment to Sector General for the challenge of creating food for so many different species. Like the Sommaradvan healer Cha Thrat (Code Blue — Emergency), he creates chaos everywhere he goes.
He first meets the swimming "crocodile-like" Chaldars, who complain that their food is unsatisfying. Realising that they are accustomed to capturing their food live, he develops motile food for them. They are delighted, but they completely destroy their hospital ward charging around chasing it.
Next, he learns that the spray-on food used to nourish the Hudlar is uninteresting. His investigations show that it needs small toxins to "flavor" it, which would be found naturally on their home planet. He visits a Hudlar ship, but causes a huge cargo bay accident expelling him into space. He rescues himself by riding some sprayers back to the station, but is in everyone’s bad books.
Sympathetic staffers hide him on the ambulance ship Rhabwar for an upcoming assignment. In the meantime, an epidemic at the hospital turns out to be a major nutmeg overdose caused by a sous-chef foolishly using ten times the required amount in a recipe.
The Rhabwar is sent to a starving planet, whose people think their dwindling meat supply is the only desirable food and are shamed by its lack. He is able to commune with their first Cook better than the diplomats are doing. He finds ways to improve their sad vegetarian diet, and helps to set more positive attitudes toward it. The Cook’s son is wounded on a game-hunting expedition, and the medical ship takes him on board for healing. The populace grows very angry, mystifying the team. They finally recall the aliens’ cannibal tradition and produce him alive.
Жанр:Фантастика
Code Blue — Emergency is a 1987 science fiction novel written by author James White and is part of the Sector General series.
White said in an interview that originally he intended to end the series with (1985), by which time the central characters had reached the top levels in their careers. However Ballantine Books persuaded him to continue, and he extended the stories’ range by introducing new central characters beginning with .
The protagonist of the story is Sommaradvan healer Cha Thrat. She bravely saved a human pilot who crashlanded on her planet, despite a complete lack of knowledge about his physiology. Contact with her species was established by the accident, so knowledge of their social customs is still virtually non-existent. However, she is invited to join the Sector General staff.
Cha Thrat innocently wreaks havoc by following her instincts and social customs. First she befriends a hypochondriac Chalder. Next, she is invited to assist at a therapeutic surgery operation to amputate the limb of a Hudlar, which will prolong its life (see Star Healer.) When given the honor of cutting the limb, she obliges — and then deliberately cuts her own arm off as well, in accordance with the custom of her people. Next she saves the untouchable patient Khone (see Star Healer), and then finds a weird parasite species on a derelict spaceship. Due to the chaos she causes, every department in the hospital now refuses to allow her near their patients. O’Mara values her unusual approaches, and decides to add her to his staff.
Жанр:Фантастика
Star Healer is a 1985 science fiction book by author James White and is part of the Sector General series.
Conway is replaced on the ambulance ship Rhabwar by Diagnostician Prilicla. Conway visits healer Khone on the planet Goglesk, and witnesses first-hand their destructive racial mass-hysteria response to physical proximity. He inadvertently links minds with Khone and learns a great deal more. Back at Hospital Station, Conway decides to treat some Hudlar accident victims with a rear-to-front limb transplant, because stranger transplants require permanent exile. Conway also proposes staving off geriatric Hudlar problems by elective amputation. At the end, he successfully delivers a sentient telepathic Unborn (see Ambulance Ship) from its violent non-sentient Protector.
Жанр:Фантастика
I've seen him on the news. Followed the stories about what happened in Ohio. John Smith, out there, on the run. To the world, he's a mystery. But to me . . . he's one of us. Nine of us came here, but sometimes I wonder if time has changed us-if we all still believe in our mission. How can I know? There are six of us left. We're hiding, blending in, avoiding contact with one another . . . but our Legacies are developing, and soon we'll be equipped to fight. Is John Number Four, and is his appearance the sign I've been waiting for? And what about Number Five and Six? Could one of them be the raven-haired girl with the stormy eyes from my dreams? The girl with powers that are beyond anything I could ever imagine? The girl who may be strong enough to bring the six of us together? They caught Number One in Malaysia. Number Two in England. And Number Three in Kenya. They tried to catch Number Four in Ohio-and failed. I am Number Seven. One of six still alive. And I'm ready to fight.
Жанр:Фантастика
In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives “unwound” and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs—and, perhaps, save their own lives.
Жанр:Фантастика
Praise for the Garrett, P.I., Novels
"A wild science fiction mystery that never slows down for a moment."
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"Garrett, private detective, returns after too long an absence. . Cook makes this blending of fantasy with hard-boiled-detective story seem easy, which it isn't, and manages to balance the requirements of both genres superbly."
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"Cook brings a dose of gritty realism to fantasy."
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"Eminently satisfying."
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Жанр:Фантастика
“Rama Revealed” (1993) is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee. It is the last of three sequels to Clarke's “ by these authors, and as the title suggests reveals the mysteries behind the enigmatic “ spacecraft.
The book picks up the story immediately after the end of “.” The book follows the story of Nicole Wakefield and her escape from imprisonment left at the cliffhanger of the previous book.
As the human colony continues to degenerate with respect to living conditions and human rights, the members of Nicole's family escape to the region nicknamed “New York”, where they come into contact with the third alien species, known as “Octospiders” living in the Rama spacecraft. The Octospiders were a simple species until a space-faring species made contact with them and forever changed their society. Undergoing genetic enhancements, the Octospiders were eventually able to form a utopia of sorts.
Eventually, the situation becomes dire enough that Rama's controlling intelligence intervenes to end the conflict caused by the Humans onboard.
The Rama spacecraft rendezvous with an enormous “Tetrahedron” near the star Tau Ceti, at a place designed to research any intelligent life capable of spaceflight.
Жанр:Любовные романы
It's been three years since the devastating accident. . three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever. Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia's home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future — and each other. Told from Adam's point of view in the spare, lyrical prose that defined If I Stay, Where She Went explores the devastation of grief, the promise of new hope, and the flame of rekindled romance.
Жанр:Детективы и Триллеры
The job seems simple enough: retrieve the valuable painting — “The Double” — Grace Kinkaid’s ex-boyfriend stole from her. It’s the sort of thing Spero Lucas specializes in: finding what’s missing, and doing it quietly. But Grace wants more. She wants Lucas to find the man who humiliated her — a violent career criminal with a small gang of brutal thugs at his beck and call.
Lucas is a man who knows how to get what he wants, whether it’s a thief on the run — or a married woman. In the midst of a steamy, passionate love affair that he knows can’t last, in pursuit of a dangerous man who will stop at nothing to get what he wants, Lucas is forced to decide what kind of man he is — and how far he’ll go to get what he wants.
Жанр:Фантастика
Dr. Louise Banks is enlisted by the military to communicate with a race of radially-symmetrical aliens who initiated first contact with humanity. Woven through the story are remembrances of her daughter.
