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Based on exclusive, personal interviews with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Pearce’s biography of the renowned Russian dissident provides profound insight into a towering literary and political figure.

From his pro-Communist youth to his imprisonment in forced labor camps, from his exile in America to his return to Russia, Solzhenitsyn struggled with the weightiest questions of human existence: When a person has suffered the most terrible physical and emotional torture, what becomes of his spirit? Can science, politics and economics truly provide all of man’s needs?

In his acclaimed literary and historical works, Solzhenitsyn exposed the brutality of the Soviet regime. Most famous for his novel and his three-volume expose of the Russian police state, , he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970.

Solzhenitsyn’s Christian faith deeply informed his response to the inhumanity of modern materialism as it took shape in twentieth-century Russia. His critique applies not only to Communism, however, but also to the post-Christian capitalism now dominant in the West. On the spiritual, cultural, and socio-political level, his writings still have much to teach the world.

Pięćdziesiąt lat temu interwencja ludzi obudziła obcą, uśpioną od wieków strukturę, stworzoną dawno temu po to, by ostrzegała o pojawieniu się istot inteligentnych w tym rejonie galaktyki. Teraz nastąpi reakcja. Kiedyś Clavain uciekł, by walczyć po stronie Hybrydowców — pewnego odłamu ludzi, uczestników zbiorowej świadomości, zbudowanej na modłę ula. Czterysta lat później, w końcowej fazie brutalnej wojny międzyplanetarnej, coś wywołało panikę wśród tajnego kierownictwa Hybrydowców. Gdy zrozumiano przyczynę nowego zagrożenia, Clavain planuje ponowną ucieczkę. Szuka dawno zaginionej infernalnej broni, która może wpłynąć na bieg wydarzeń. Wraz z grupą sprzymierzeńców Clavain leci na Resurgam — kolonię archeologiczną, która przeżywa kryzys. Dla dobra ludzkości zamierza odzyskać broń. Jego rozgoryczona rywalka Skade postawiła sobie inny cel i by go zrealizować, gotowa jest zmienić nawet samą rzeczywistość.<

Socially inept self doubter Matt has managed to etch out a regular life for himself. When he’s landed in the deep end of a situation beyond his control due to a viral outbreak in Ireland, can he not only win over the girl of his dreams but save them both in the process?<

Niewątpliwie jest to jedna z najważniejszych powieści science fiction tego roku? Książka, na która miłośnicy Reynoldsa czekali od dawna. Ostatnia powieść Alastaira Reynoldsa jest wielką epicka powieścią o wojnie, polityce, ideologii( również religii) i inwazji Obcych. Rozpoczyna się powrotem statku eksploracyjnego do bazy, po około 200 latach podróży w kosmosie. Cała załoga jest martwa. Rozpoczyna się śledztwo, a główni bohaterowie powieści, inspektorzy śledczy, starają się dociec, kto lub co zabiło załogę — ludzie czy obcy? Obca technologia czy inwazja nanotechnologiczna? W miarę postępów w śledztwie, Reynolds wprowadza do gry technologię i politykę, włączając w to frakcję Arka Odkupienia. Podobnie jak poprzednie tak i ta powieść jest thrillerem s-f rozgrywającym się w przyszłości, z poziomem technologicznym stanowiącym ekstrapolację obecnego stanu rozwoju biotechnologii i sztucznej inteligencji. Pełen niespodziewanych zwrotów akcji wątek oraz doskonale oddane postacie bohaterów sprawiają, że książkę połyka się jednym tchem.

Centuries after the disastrous War of the Necromancers, the Nabatorians, aligned with the evil necromancers of Sdis, mount an invasion of the Empire. Luk, a soldier, and Ga-Nor, a Northern barbarian, are thrown together as they attempt to escape the Nabatorian hordes and find their way back to their comrades.

Gray and Layan are a married couple, master thieves who are hiding out and trying to escape their former gang. They hope to evade the bounty hunters that hound them and retire to a faraway land in peace.

Tia is a powerful dark sorceress and one of The Damned—a group trying to take over the world and using the Nabatorian invasion as a diversion.

Unfortunately, for Gray and Layan, they unwittingly hold the key to a powerful magical weapon that could bring The Damned back to power.

Hounded by the killers on their trail and by the fearsome creatures sent by The Damned, Gray and Layan are aided by Luk and Ga-Nor—and Harold, the hero of The Chronicles of Siala. Realizing what’s at stake they decide that, against all odds, they must stop The Damned.

Don Francisco de Quevedo me dirigió una mirada que interpreté como era debido, pues fui detrás del capitán Alatriste. Avísame si hay problemas, habían dicho sus ojos tras los lentes quevedescos. Dos aceros hacen más papel que uno. Y así, consciente de mi responsabilidad, acomodé la daga de misericordia que llevaba atravesada al cinto y fui en pos de mi amo, discreto como un ratón, confiando en que esta vez pudiéramos terminar la comedia sin estocadas y en paz, pues habría sido bellaca afrenta estropearle el estreno a Tirso de Molina. Yo estaba lejos de imaginar hasta qué punto la bellísima actriz María de Castro iba a complicar mi vida y la del capitán, poniéndonos a ambos en gravísimo peligro, por no hablar de la corona del rey Felipe IV, que esos días anduvo literalmente al filo de una espada.<

En esta primera aventura, Diego Alatriste deberá cumplir un misterioso encargo entre conspiraciones, azares y emboscadas en estrechos callejones, entre el brillo de los aceros, en las tabernas donde Francisco de Quevedo compone sonetos entre pendencias y botellas de vino, y en los corrales de comedias donde las representaciones de Lope de Vega terminan a cuchilladas. Acción, historia y aventura se dan cita en estas páginas inolvidables.<

In Equal Rites, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late…<

In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he can't refuse – especially since being, well, dead isn't compulsory. As Death's apprentice, he'll have free board and lodging, use of the company horse, and he won't need time off for family funerals. The position is everything Mort thought he'd ever wanted, until he discovers that this perfect job can be a killer on his love life.<

A sourcerer is born - a wizard so powerful that by comparison all other magic is just mucking around in pointy hats.

And his very existence brings the Discworld, which is of course flat and rides through space on the back of an enormous turtle, to the very verge of all-out thaumaturgical war*.

All that stands in the way is Rincewind, the failed magician, who wants to save the world, or at least that part of it which contains him. More new characters join the Discworld adventure: Conina the barbarian hairdresser, Nijel the Destroyer (whose mother still makes him wear woolly underwear) and possibly the first yuppie genie, who's into lamps as a growth area.

This time the adventure goes east, or hubwards, or whatever. It doesn't simply draw heavily on "Omar Khayyam", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", the "1001 Nights" and every Arabian B-movie ever made, it scribbles on them as well. . .

Some night-time prowler is turning the citizens of Ankh-Morpork, greatest city of the fantasy Discworld, into something resembling small charcoal biscuits.

And that's a real problem for Captain Vimes of the City Watch, who must tramp the mean streets of the city searching for a seventy-foot-long fire-breathing dragon which, he believes, can help him with their enquiries.

In a city thrown into turmoil by magic, charcoal biscuits, secret societies and mad lady dragon breeders ("Just tell him 'sit' if he'sothering you"), he's just looking for the facts.

Who would want to harm Discworld's most beloved icon? Very few things are held sacred in this twisted, corrupt, heartless - and oddly familiar - universe, but the Hogfather is one of them. Yet here it is, Hogswatchnight, that most joyous and acquisitive of times, and the jolly old, red-suited gift-giver has vanished without a trace. And there's something shady going on involving an uncommonly psychotic member of the Assassins' Guild and certain representatives of Ankh-Morpork's rather extensive criminal element. Suddenly Discworld's entire myth system is unraveling at an alarming rate. Drastic measures must be taken, which is why Death himself is taking up the reins of the fat man's vacated sleigh... which, in turn, has Death's level-headed granddaughter, Susan, racing to unravel the nasty, humbuggian mess before the holiday season goes straight to hell and takes everyone along with it.<