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The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories

A treasured source for Lovecraft, Howard, and others, this collection endures as a work of remarkable power. Includes all the stories from The King in Yellow—“Yellow Sign,” “Repairer of Reputations,” “Demoiselle d’Ys,” and others—plus stories from other sources, including three early sci-fi fantasies from In Search of the Unknown. 10 total. Editor’s Note:<

Нил Шустерман

The Shadow Club

The Shadow Club

<p>What would you do to be Number One?</p><p>The Number Ones always get the glory. They win the races and take the gold medals, leaving the second-place kids in the dust. For Jared and Cheryl, nothing is worse than being second best, hidden in someone else’s shadow. Their idea to form a club of second-best kids seems harmless enough at first—they just want to air their bad feelings about their archrivals. But when that isn’t enough to keep everyone interested, Jared suggests that the Shadow Club members play anonymous practical jokes on each other’s enemies. What they don’t know is that Tyson McGaw, the school reject, is eavesdropping—and that he has a few ideas of his own.</p><p>“This is a provocative novel. . . . The plot is ingeni­ously simple and the course of events compelling. It will leave readers thinking.” — starred review</p><p>“The mystery is well-constructed, with a logical yet unexpected finale that provides moral weight as well as plot satisfaction.” —BCCB</p><p>“This engrossing book portrays how easily ‘good’ kids can lose control. Shusterman vividly conveys the over­whelming qualities of violent emotions and chillingly shows how a group of nice people can become a vengeful mob.” —</p><p>“Powerfull. Every reader who has felt resentment will identify with these young people, their anger, and their terror.” —Kirkus Reviews</p><

Джеймс Хэдли Чейз

Not Safe to Be Free [= The Case of the Strangled Starlet]

Who murdered Lucille Balu, a rising young film star, found strangled to death in a hotel elevator? Set against the background of the fabulous Cote d’Azur and the Cannes Film Festival, James Hadley Chase’s new thriller tells the story of a young degenerate with an inner compulsion to kill. Written with the speed, force and economy of style we have come to expect from the man who has been described as “the most remarkable among British and American thriller writers” this tense new novel throws a noose round the reader which will not be snakes off until long after the last page has been turned.<

Акмурат Широв

Шаль с кистями

Елена Петровна Чудинова

The Mosque of Notre Dame

The Mosque of Notre Dame is a resistance-movement thriller set in a Sharia dystopia. It is at the same time an inspiring tale of surviving the strange situations in which God sometimes puts his people. The world turned its back on Him, and so He allowed the world to carry on without Him. The God-less created their own chastisement—the chastisement that is life without God. In Paris, an alliance of Traditionalist Catholics and a small contingent of secularized Frenchmen, blessed with native Gallic cussedness, are the only opposition left in this fast-paced adventure of physical war, culture war, strategy, revenge, sacrifice, love, reconciliation, and the relentless consequences of ideas. Those who will not fight for their faith will lose it, and everything else. But those who fight and forgive, will gain everything.<

Джордж-Бернард Шоу

Пігмаліон

Переклад Олександра Мокровольського<

Ерік-Еммануель Шмітт

Дитя Ноя

Цикл Невидимого

<p>Після того, як Жозефу довелося розлучитися з батьками, він потрапив до отця Понса, простого і справедливого чоловіка, якому не досить просто рятувати людей. Але що намагається він, як той Ной, врятувати у світі, якому загрожує потоп жорстокості?..</p><p>Як завжди, Ерік-Еммануель Шмітт із властивою йому віртуозністю балансує на самій межі: ще трохи — й можна скотитись у сентиментальність. Але рятує інтонація, чутливість, а ще гумор.</p><p>У фільмах, знятих за його книжками та сценаріями, грають такі зірки, як Катрін Деньов, Жерар Депардьє, Венсан Перес, Жозіан Баласко, Фанні Ардан, Омар Шаріф… П'єси Шмітта йдуть на багатьох театральних сценах світувід Нью-Йорка до Шанхая.</p><p>Переклад з французької Зої Борисюк</p><

Тед Чан

Exhalation: Stories

From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others—the basis for the Academy Award–nominated film Arrival—comes a groundbreaking new collection of short fiction: nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories. These are tales that tackle some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only Ted Chiang could imagine. In “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,” a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and second chances. In “Exhalation,” an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications that are literally universal. In “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom,” the ability to glimpse into alternate universes necessitates a radically new examination of the concepts of choice and free will. Including stories being published for the first time as well as some of his rare and classic uncollected work, Exhalation is Ted Chiang at his best: profound, sympathetic—revelatory.<

Тарас Шевченко

Кобзар

З-поміж безлічі книг, з якими має справу історія світової літератури, поодиноко виділяються ті, що ввібрали в себе науку віків і мають для народу значення заповітне. До таких належить «Кобзар», книга, яку народ український поставив на перше місце серед успадкованих з минулого національних духовних скарбів. Дивовижна доля цієї книги. Поезії, що входять до неї, складались на тернистих дорогах поетового життя, писались то в мандрах, то в казематах, мережились при світлі білих ночей Півночі і в пісках закаспійських пустель, під самотнім сонцем вигнання. Книга формувалася поступово, рік за роком, формувало її саме поетове життя, і все найістотніше із цього життя, з великого життя українського кріпака Тараса Шевченка - від його юності й до останнього подиху,- ввібрав у себе цей класичних розмірів томик, збірник поезій, що його в хвилину творчого осяяння було найменовано «Кобзарем».<

Валерій Шевчук

П’ятий номер

Адриан Чайковский

Walking to Aldebaran

I’m lost. I’m scared. And there’s something horrible in here. My name is Gary Rendell. I’m an astronaut. When they asked me as a kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said, “astronaut, please!” I dreamed astronaut, I worked astronaut, I studied astronaut. I got lucky; when a probe exploring the Oort Cloud found a strange alien rock and an international team of scientists was put together to go and look at it, I made the draw. I got even luckier. When disaster hit and our team was split up, scattered through the endless cold tunnels, I somehow survived. Now I’m lost, and alone, and scared, and there’s something horrible in here. Lucky me. Lucky, lucky, lucky. A new standalone novella by the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time.<

Лесли Чартерис

The Saint and the Templar Treasure

Saint

Simon Templar is driving leisurely through the French countryside on his way from Avignon to the Riviera. He picks up to hitch-hikers, students who are going to work at Château Ingare, a small vineyard on the site of a former stronghold of the Knights Templar, a society of medieval adventurers who began by protecting pilgrims to the Holy Land and were later believed to have become corrupt and immensely wealthy in the process, although their reputed treasure has never been found. The coincidence of this association with his own name intrigues Simon enough for him to take his passengers all the way to the château. They arrive on the estate to find a fire in the barn, apparently the work of arsonists. Simon’s hand is slightly injured, and Mimette, the attractive young daughter of the owner, insist on taking him to the château to have it dressed. He learns that the burning of the barn is only the latest of many misfortunes that have afflicted the vineyard since a cryptic ancient tombstone was discovered on the property: These have revived all the old legends about the curse of the Templars and their treasure. When Simon attempts to leave, another apparent accident obliges Mimette and her father to invite him to stay a few days as their guest. It is not long before a real and indisputable murder proves that he has involved himself in something very sinister but certainly not supernatural.<

Кэролайн Дж Черри

Inheritor

Foreigner

Six months have passed since the reappearance of the starship Phoenix-six months during which the alien atevi have striven to reconfigure their fledgling space program in a breakneck bid to take their place in the heavens alongside humans. But the return of the Phoenix has added a frighteningly powerful third party to an already volatile situation, polarizing political factions in both human and atevi societies, and making the possibility of all-out planetary war an ever more likely threat. On the atevi mainland, human ambassador Bren Cameron, in a desperate attempt to maintain the peace, has arranged for one human representative from the Phoenix to take up residence with him in his apartments, while another is stationed on Mosphiera, humanity’s island enclave. Bren himself is unable to return home for fear of being arrested or assassinated by the powerful arch conservative element who wish to bar the atevi from space. Responsible for a terrified, overwhelmed young man, and desperately trying to keep abreast of the political maneuverings of the atevi associations, how can Bren Cameron possibly find a way to save two species from a three-sided conflict that no one can win?<

Ли Чайлд

Smile

Jack Reacher

Ли Чайлд

The Fourth Man

Jack Reacher

The brand new Jack Reacher stand-alone short story that sees Reacher going down under for the first time — but possibly not the last. It's a short read, but perfect for a coffee break. Jack Reacher, ex-military drifter of no fixed abode, is stalked and tracked down by an FBI agent. She tells him that in a house raid in Sydney, Australian law enforcement found a list. There were four people on it, including him. The other three are dead. Hours later, Reacher is in the air, on his way to Sydney. What was the evil buried twenty-five years ago, that has now resurfaced? Will Reacher be able to find the killers, before they find him?<

Джеймс Хэдли Чейз

Goldfish Have No Hiding Place

Eastlake is the kind of place where ‘nice’ people live — nice, well-off, civilised people. People who know all about each other and where everyone knows everyone else’s business — rather like living in a goldfish bowl. So when scanners are set up in the self-service shop in an attempt to catch petty shoplifters, it comes as rather a surprise when some dark secrets begin to emerge. A perfect opportunity for blackmailers...<

Шолам-Алейхем

Песня песняў

Юнацкі раман.<

О Шаповалова

Лучшие расследования Шерлока Холмса / The Best of Sherlock Holmes

Иностранный язык: учимся у классиков

<p>Вашему вниманию предлагается книга "Лучшие расследования Шерлока Холмса" на английском языке из серии «Иностранный язык: учимся у классиков».</p><p>«Иностранный язык: учимся у классиков» – это только оригинальные тексты лучших произведений мировой литературы. Эти книги станут эффективным и увлекательным пособием для изучающих иностранный язык на хорошем «продолжающем» и «продвинутом» уровне. Они помогут эффективно расширить словарный запас, подскажут, где и как правильно употреблять устойчивые выражения и грамматические конструкции, просто подарят радость от чтения. В конце книги дана краткая информация о культуроведческих, страноведческих, исторических и географических реалиях описываемого периода, которая поможет лучше ориентироваться в тексте произведения.</p><p>Серия «Иностранный язык: учимся у классиков» адресована широкому кругу читателей, хорошо владеющих английским языком и стремящихся к его совершенствованию.</p><

Іван Шамякін

Сэрца на далоні

<p>За раман «Сэрца на далоні» і за кнігу аповесцей «Трывожнае шчасце» Шамякіну Івану Пятровічу прысуджана Дзяржаўная прэмія БССР імя Якуба Коласа за 1967 год.</p><p>Раман I. Шамякіна «Сэрца на далоні» аб чэсці чалавека — працоўнай і прафесійнай, аб духоўна багатых і прыгожых людзях і аб тых, хто маладушны і подлы. Гэта шматпланавы, шматпраблемны твор, з мноствам сюжэтных ліній, з разнастайнасцю людскіх лёсаў і характараў. Два галоўныя факты — «асэнсаванне чалавечага падзення» мужных людзей і гісторыя кіраўніка падполля, які быў аб'яўлены здраднікам — асноўныя сюжэтныя лініі твора. Дзеянне твора размеркавана па двух планах часу — ваенным і сучасным, а ідэя выяўлена ўжо ў самой назве твора, як бы падкрэсліваючы думку пра неабходнасць гуманнага стаўлення да чалавека. Цяперашняе і мінулае як бы сплятаюцца ў рамане, вырашаючы самыя важныя праблемы жыцця ўсяго грамадства ў пачатку 60-х гадоў: праўда мінулага і сучаснага, адносіны паміж пакаленнямі, чалавек як асоба і іншыя.</p><

Павло Штепа

Українець і Москвин: дві протилежності

<p>У цій книзі Павла Штепи — автора широко відомих в українському світі праць «Московство» та «Мафія і Україна» — подано широкоформатний зіставний аналіз характерологічних рис українців і росіян, показані взаємини між цими народами в політичному, економічному, культурному, релігійно–конфесійному та ін. аспектах.</p><p>Видання вирізняється величезним масивом залученої інформації, однозначністю інтерпретацій історичних та ін. фактів, безкомпромісністю авторської позиції. Тому — залежно від ставлення до української ідеї — воно викличе гарячий схвальний відгук в одних читачів і обурення в інших.</p><p>Видання книги «Українець і москвин» є відповіддю на нескінченний потік антиукраїнських публікацій у Росії й Україні та на такі ж висловлювання багатьох російських політиків і московських п’ятиколонників на українській землі.</p><

Роберт Уильям Чамберс

A Young Man in a Hurry

Роберт Уильям Чамберс

Cardigan

Set during the Revolutionary War in Broadalbin; the hero is the ward of Sir William Johnson. He is sent to stop an Indian war planned by Walter Buttler who wants to turn the Indians against the rebels.<

Роберт Уильям Чамберс

The Dark Star

What if you were involved in the theft of one of the legendary jewels of all time – and you didn’t even know it? That’s exactly what happens to the innocent damsel at the center of Robert W. Chambers’ The Dark Star. She prays for a strong, silent savior to extract her from the mess she’s in – but will she recognize and call upon her own wit and spunk before it’s too late?<

Джін Шарп

Від диктатури до демократії

Книга «Від диктатури до демократії» вперше опублікована у Бангкоці 1993 р. Комітетом з відновлення демократії у Бірмі спільно з Хітом П’яінгом (Khit Pyaing, The New Era Journal). З того часу книгу було перекладено принаймні вісьмома мовами та видано, зокрема, в Сербії, Індонезії і Таїланді. У Сполучених Штатах Америки книгу видано двічі. Для української версії автор надіслав більш актуальну статистичну інформацію. Український переклад книги здійснений Мар’яною Шипош з англійської мови за другим американським виданням.<

Роберт Уильям Чамберс

The Hidden Children

Gender roles in the American Revolutionary War period were not exactly a bastion of progressiveness. However, even during a time when most women were encouraged to shrink from conflict and follow the lead of any man in the vicinity, there were a few iconoclastic females who broke this mold. The defiantly independent heroine at the center of The Hidden Children steadfastly refuses to be held down by social conventions she sees as useless.<

Роберт Уильям Чамберс

In Search of the Unknown

Our narrator is hired by the New York Zoological Society to assist a professor who is in charge of their gardens and exhibits. He embarks on his search for a Great Auk, a species that was extinct for fifty or so years.<

Роберт Уильям Чамберс

The Mystery of Choice

Роберт Уильям Чамберс

Police!!!

In this thoroughly entertaining story collection, the renowned Dr. Percy travels the world searching for unique animal specimens – and keeps an eye on attractive examples of the fairer sex, as well. Will his dedication to these dual quests ever pay the dividends he’s looking for? Equal parts romantic farce and fantastical science fiction, Police!!! is a rollicking read with something for everyone.<

Джеймс Хэдли Чейз

You’re Lonely When You’re Dead

Vic Malloy

When Vic Malloy, head of Universal Services — an organization undertaking any job that a client wants done — is hired to watch a millionaire’s wife suspected of kleptomania, it is just another routine assignment — until an operator working on the case is suddenly and brutally murdered. Then the millionaire’s wife vanishes; and the husband denies he has ever hired Malloy, and threatens to sue him if he goes to the police. Faced with this extraordinary situation, Malloy is determined to avenge the death of his operator and, playing a lone hand, sets out to find the killer. From that moment, he and his two aides, Paula Bensinger and Jack Kerman are involved in a series of ruthless murders and macabre situations. Strange people flit across the scene; any of them could be the killer. There is the ex-prize fighter, Caesar Mills; the millionaire’s crippled daughter, Natalie; the nightclub owner, Bannister; the playboy, George Barclay; the photographer and blackmailer, Louis; the cowboy sharpshooter, Thayler; and the red-haired, green-eyed Gail Bolus, a girl with a past.<

Спиридон Феодосиевич Черкасенко

Казка старого млина

Драма, що ілюструє конфлікт між патріархальним укладом українського життя і новими капіталістичними відносинами на основі відображення конфлікту нового та старого у образах Вагнера й Маряни (Казки).<

Спиридон Феодосиевич Черкасенко

Про що тирса шелестіла...

Уладзімір Мікалаевіч Шыцік

Падстаўка

<p>У аповесці «Падстаўка», якая дала назву зборніку, маёр Хрытанькоў не задавальняецца выкрыццём групы грабежнікаў, ён хоча зразумець, што прывяло нармальных падлеткаў на лаву падсудных.</p><p>Галоўны дзейны персанаж аповесці «Двайная бухгалтэрыя» оперупаўнаважаны крымінальнага вышуку Протчанка стаў ахвярай паклёпнікаў: раскрываючы прычыну гібелі маладой жанчыны, ён разварушыў злачынны мурашнік.</p><p>ПАДСТАЎКА</p><p>ДВАЙНАЯ БУХГАЛТЭРЫЯ</p><

Роберт Уильям Чамберс

Who Goes There!

The Crown Prince is partly right; the majority in the world is against him and what he stands for; but not against Germany and the Germans.<

Антон Павлович Чехов

The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories

Ли Чайлд

Belfast Noir

Few European cities have had as disturbed and violent a history as Belfast over the last half-century. For much of that time the Troubles (1968–1998) dominated life in Ireland's second-biggest population centre, and during the darkest days of the conflict--in the 1970s and 1980s--riots, bombings, and indiscriminate shootings were tragically commonplace. The British army patrolled the streets in armoured vehicles and civilians were searched for guns and explosives before they were allowed entry into the shopping district of the city centre...Belfast is still a city divided... You can see Belfast's bloodstains up close and personal. This is the city that gave the world its worst ever maritime disaster, and turned it into a tourist attraction; similarly, we are perversely proud of our thousands of murders, our wounds constantly on display. You want noir? How about a painting the size of a house, a portrait of a man known to have murdered at least a dozen human beings in cold blood? Or a similar house-sized gable painting of a zombie marching across a post-apocalyptic wasteland with an AK-47 over the legend UVF: Prepared for Peace--Ready for War. As Lee Child has said, Belfast is still 'the most noir place on earth.'"<

Антон Павлович Чехов

The Darling

The Darling is a short story by Russian author Anton Chekhov, first published in 1899 in London, it follows the life of a woman who is referred to as darling. Olenka Plemyannikova, the daughter of a retired collegiate assessor, falls in love with the theater owner, Kukin. Olenka’s father dies and she marries Kukin, the two of them live a happy married life…until Kukin travels to Moscow and dies.<

Антон Павлович Чехов

The Duel and Other Stories

Six selections from the famed Russian showcase his natural aptitude for detail, dialogue, humor, and compassion. Includes The Darling, a poignant piece supporting the claim that life has no meaning without love; as well as The Kiss, Anna on the Neck, The Man in a Case, The Malefactor, and the title story. Chekhov’s unerring insight into the turbulent emotions that stir men and women, in The Chemist’s Wife and the others to be found within The Duel and Other Stories, instills his gemlike fiction with a still-undiminished power.<

Антон Павлович Чехов

The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories

Twenty-two lesser-known short stories from Anton Chekhov including; The Horse-Stealers, Ward No. 6, The Petchenyeg, A Dead Body, A Happy Ending, The Looking-Glass, Old Age, Darkness, The Beggar, A Story Without a Title, In Trouble, Frost, A Slander, Minds in Ferment, Gone Astray, An Avenger, The Jeune Premier, A Defenceless Creature, An Enigmatic Nature, A Happy Man, A Troublesome Visitor, An Actor’s End.<

Антон Павлович Чехов

The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories

The House with the Mezzanine features a romantic story of a young artist and Eugenia, one of the two sisters living in the house. Eugenia longs to discover the domain of the Eternal and the Beautiful though her discovery of the arts and her developing romantic relationship. Lidia, the other sister, does not care for endearments, she talks only of serious matters; she lives her life apart, and to her mother and sister is as sacred and enigmatic a person as the admiral, always sitting in his cabin, is to the sailors. Other stories in this volume include: The Darling, Polinka, Anyuta, The Two Vologyas, The Trousseau, The Helpmate, Talent, Three Years.<

Антон Павлович Чехов

The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories

During the last ten years of his life, Anton Chekhov penned his great plays, spent time treating the sick, and wrote a small number of stories that are considered his masterpieces. The eleven stories collected here-_The Lady with the Little Dog,_ The House with the Mezzanine, My Life, Peasants, A Visit to Friends, Ionych, About Love, In the Ravine, The Bishop, The Bride, and Disturbing the Balance-hail from this fertile period. They reveal a writer who, in response to the techniques of Symbolism and Impressionism, moved beyond nineteenth-century realism to become an innovator of the modern short story, influencing such key twentieth-century literary figures as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.<

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