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Robbins Harold

The Carpetbaggers

… And behind the Northern Armies came another army of men. They came by the hundreds, yet each traveled alone. They came on foot, by mule, on horseback, on creaking wagons or riding in handsome chaises. They were of all shapes and sizes and descended from many nationalities. They wore dark suits, usually covered with the gray dust of travel, and dark, broad-brimmed hats to shield their white faces from the hot, unfamiliar sun. And on their back, or across their saddle, or on top of their wagon was the inevitable faded multicolored bag made of worn and ragged remnants of carpet into which they had crammed all their worldly possessions. It was from these bags that they got their name. The Carpetbaggers. … And they strode the dusty roads and streets of the exhausted Southlands, their mouths tightening greedily, their eyes everywhere, searching, calculating, appraising the values that were left behind in the holocaust of war. … Yet not all of them were bad, just as not all men are bad. Some of them even learned to love the land they came to plunder and stayed and became respected citizens.<

Peter Geye

Safe from the Sea

<p>Set against the powerful lakeshore landscape of northern Minnesota, is a heartfelt novel in which a son returns home to reconnect with his estranged and dying father thirty-five years after the tragic wreck of a Great Lakes ore boat that the father only partially survived and that has divided them emotionally ever since. When his father for the first time finally tells the story of the horrific disaster he has carried with him so long, it leads the two men to reconsider each other.</p><p>Meanwhile, Noah's own struggle to make a life with an absent father has found its real reward in his relationship with his sagacious wife, Natalie, whose complications with infertility issues have marked her husband's life in ways he only fully realizes as the reconciliation with his father takes shape.</p><p>Peter Geye has delivered an archetypal story of a father and son, of the tug and pull of family bonds, of Norwegian immigrant culture, of dramatic shipwrecks and the business and adventure of Great Lakes shipping in a setting that simply casts a spell over the characters as well as the reader.</p><

Thomas Harris

Red Dragon

<p>Amazon.com Review</p><p>Lying on a cot in his cell with Alexandre Dumas's Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine open on his chest, Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter makes his debut in this legendary horror novel, which is even better than its sequel, The Silence of the Lambs. As in Silence, the pulse-pounding suspense plot involves a hypersensitive FBI sleuth who consults psycho psychiatrist Lecter for clues to catching a killer on the loose.</p><p>The sleuth, Will Graham, actually quit the FBI after nearly getting killed by Lecter while nabbing him, but fear isn't what bugs him about crime busting. It's just too creepy to get inside a killer's twisted mind. But he comes back to stop a madman who's been butchering entire families. The FBI needs Graham's insight, and Graham needs Lecter's genius. But Lecter is a clever fiend, and he manipulates both Graham and the killer at large from his cell.</p><p>That killer, Francis Dolarhyde, works in a film lab, where he picks his victims by studying their home movies. He's obsessed with William Blake's bizarre painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, believing there's a red dragon within him, the personification of his demonic drives. Flashbacks to Dolarhyde's terrifying childhood and superb stream-of-consciousness prose get us right there inside his head. When Dolarhyde does weird things, we understand why. We sympathize when the voice of the cruel dead grandma who raised and crazed him urges him to mayhem-she's way scarier than that old bat in Psycho. When he falls in love with a blind girl at the lab, we hope he doesn't give in to Grandma's violent advice.</p><p>This book is awesomely detailed, ingeniously plotted, judiciously gory, and fantastically imagined. If you haven't read it, you've never had the creeps.</p><

Juan Gómez-Bárcena

The Sky Over Lima

<p>José Gálvez and Carlos Rodríguez are poets. Or, at least, they’d like to be. Sons of Lima’s elite in the early twentieth century, they scribble bad verses and read the greats: Rilke, Rimbaud, and, above all others, Juan Ramón Jímenez, the Spanish Maestro. Desperate for Jímenez’s latest work, unavailable in Lima, they decide to ask him for a copy. They’re sure Jímenez won’t send two dilettantes his book, but he might favor a beautiful woman. They write to him as the lovely, imaginary Georgina Hübner. Jímenez responds with a letter and a book. Elated, José and Carlos write back. Their correspondence continues, as the Maestro falls in love with Georgina, and the boys abandon poetry for the pages of Jímenez’s life.</p><

Thomas Harris

The Silence of the Lambs

<p>Amazon.com Review</p><p>The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris, is even better than the successful movie. Like his earlier Red Dragon, the book takes us inside the world of professional criminal investigation. All the elements of a well-executed thriller are working here-driving suspense, compelling characters, inside information, publicity-hungry bureaucrats thwarting the search, and the clock ticking relentlessly down toward the death of another young woman. What enriches this well-told tale is the opportunity to live inside the minds of both the crime fighters and the criminals as each struggles in a prison of pain and seeks, sometimes violently, relief.</p><p>Clarice Starling, a precociously self-disciplined FBI trainee, is dispatched by her boss, Section Chief Jack Crawford, the FBI's most successful tracker of serial killers, to see whether she can learn anything useful from Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Lecter's a gifted psychopath whose nickname is "The Cannibal" because he likes to eat parts of his victims. Isolated by his crimes from all physical contact with the human race, he plays an enigmatic game of "Clue" with Starling, providing her with snippets of data that, if she is smart enough, will lead her to the criminal. Undaunted, she goes where the data takes her. As the tension mounts and the bureaucracy thwarts Starling at every turn, Crawford tells her, "Keep the information and freeze the feelings." Insulted, betrayed, and humiliated, Starling struggles to focus. If she can understand Lecter's final, ambiguous scrawl, she can find the killer. But can she figure it out in time?</p><

Roland Green

Knights of the Sword

Warriors

Thomas Harris

Czerwony Smok

<p>Były pracownik FBI Will Graham, znany ze swoich sukcesów w tropieniu seryjnych morderców, powraca do czynnej służby, aby dopomóc policji schwytać maniakalnego zabójcę kilku rodzin. Tymczasem tajemniczy zbrodniarz, pewny swojej bezkarności, wysyła prowadzącym śledztwo listy podpisane "Czerwony smok"…</p><p>Książka jest napisana bardzo ciekawie, gdyż Harris nie dąży do opisywania krwawych scen tylko zagłębia się nad psychiką ludzką, nad tym co nami kieruje, jaki wpływ na nasze życie ma dzieciństwo. Jak bardzo ludzie mogą być pozbawieni wyrzutów sumienia, skrupułów. Czy jeśli ktoś wyciągnie do nas pomocną dłoń to się opanujemy? nawrócimy? a może już jest za późno. Dzięki tej książce możemy poznać zło: wyrafinowane, brutalne, piekielnie inteligentne i okrutne. A postać Doktora smakuje wybitnie – fascynuje, zadziwia.</p><

Roland Green

Knights of the Rose

Warriors

Roland Green

The Wayward Knights

Warriors

Robert Anson Heinlein

Double Star

<p>One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars.</p><p>Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Peace with the Martians was at stake -- failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war. And Smythe's own life was on the line -- for if he wasn't assassinated, there was always the possibility that he might be trapped in his new role forever!</p><

Jeff Grubb

Der letzte Wächter

Warcraft

<p>In den dunstverhangenen Nebeln der Vergangenheit war die Welt Azeroth von wundersamen Wesen aller Art erfüllt. Geheimnisvolle Elfen und kühne Zwerge wandelten unter den Menschen – bis die Ankunft der dämonischen Armee, die man die Brennende Legion nannte, den Frieden für immer aus der Welt verbannte.</p><p>Jetzt kämpfen Orks, Drachen, Kobolde und Trolle um die Herrschaft über die zerschmetterten Königreiche; und ein unheilvoller Plan bestimmt das Schicksal der Welt von WARCRAFT. Die Wächter von Tirisfal – eine legendäre Bruderschaft von mächtigen Kriegern mit gottgleichen Kräften – führen schon seit jeher einen einsamen Kampf im Verborgenen gegen die Brennende Legion. Medivh war von Geburt an zum Größten und Mächtigsten dieses edlen Ordens auserwählt. Doch von Anfang an lag ein dunkler Schatten auf seiner Seele, der ihn dazu verführte, seine Kräfte in den Dienst des Bösen zu stellen. Medivhs Kampf gegen sein dunkles Selbst sollte das Schicksal von ganz Azeroth bestimmen und es für immer verändern.</p><

Christopher Hallinan

Embedded Linux Primer: A Practical, Real-World Approach

<p>Comprehensive Real-World Guidance for Every Embedded Developer and Engineer </p><p>This book brings together indispensable knowledge for building efficient, high-value, Linux-based embedded products: information that has never been assembled in one place before. Drawing on years of experience as an embedded Linux consultant and field application engineer, Christopher Hallinan offers solutions for the specific technical issues you're most likely to face, demonstrates how to build an effective embedded Linux environment, and shows how to use it as productively as possible. </p><p>Hallinan begins by touring a typical Linux-based embedded system, introducing key concepts and components, and calling attention to differences between Linux and traditional embedded environments. Writing from the embedded developer's viewpoint, he thoroughly addresses issues ranging from kernel building and initialization to bootloaders, device drivers to file systems. </p><p>Hallinan thoroughly covers the increasingly popular BusyBox utilities; presents a step-by-step walkthrough of porting Linux to custom boards; and introduces real-time configuration via CONFIG_RT--one of today's most exciting developments in embedded Linux. You'll find especially detailed coverage of using development tools to analyze and debug embedded systems--including the art of kernel debugging. </p><p>• Compare leading embedded Linux processors </p><p>• Understand the details of the Linux kernel initialization process </p><p>• Learn about the special role of bootloaders in embedded Linux systems, with specific emphasis on U-Boot </p><p>• Use embedded Linux file systems, including JFFS2--with detailed guidelines for building Flash-resident file system images </p><p>• Understand the Memory Technology Devices subsystem for flash (and other) memory devices </p><p>• Master gdb, KGDB, and hardware JTAG debugging </p><p>• Learn many tips and techniques for debugging within the Linux kernel </p><p>• Maximize your productivity in cross-development environments </p><p>• Prepare your entire development environment, including TFTP, DHCP, and NFS target servers </p><p>• Configure, build, and initialize BusyBox to support your unique requirements </p><

Forrest Gander

As a Friend

"Heroism is a secondary virtue," Albert Camus noted, "but friendship is primary." In his gem-like first novel, Forrest Gander writes of friendship, envy, and eros as a harmonic of charged overtones. Set in a rural southern landscape as vivid as its indelible characters, tells the story of Les, a gifted man and land surveyor, whose impact on those around him (his friend Clay, his girlfriend Sarah) provokes intense self-examination and an atmosphere of dangerous eroticism. With poetic insight, Gander explores the nature of attraction, betrayal, and loyalty. What he achieves is brilliant in style and powerfully unsettling.<

Victor Hugo

Les Contemplations

Les 11 000 vers des Contemplations furent écrits dès 1834, mais surtout pendant l'exil à Jersey, puis à Guernesey, en particulier à partir de 1853 alors que Hugo composait les Châtiments. Mettant fin au silence lyrique qu'il observait depuis les Rayons et les Ombres (1840), le recueil, sommet de sa production poétique, somme de sa vie, de sa sensibilité et de sa pensée, se présente comme «les Mémoires d'une âme» (Préface). Si «une destinée est écrite là jour à jour», le recueil s'érige aussi en expression d'une expérience, celle d'un homme qui se veut comme les autres: «Quand je vous parle de moi, je vous parle de vous.»<

Robin Hobb

Assassin's Apprentice

The Farseer Trilogy

Young Fitz is a bastard son of the noble Prince Chivalry, raised in the court of the Six Duchies by his father’s gruff stableman. He is ignored by all the royalty except the devious King Shrewd, who has him secretly tutored in the arts of the assassin. For in Fitz’s blood runs the magic Skill — and the darker knowledge of a child raised with the stable hounds and rejected by his family. For longer than anyone remembers, the Farseers have ruled the storm swept kingdoms of the Six Duchies — using the wild and perilous magic of the Skill. But now, as the barbarous Red Ship Raiders ravage the coasts and sleepwalkers prowl the heartland, Fitz is growing to manhood. Soon he will face his first dangerous, soul-shattering mission. For Fitz is a threat to the throne…but he may also be the key to the survival of the kingdom.<

Jean Giono

The Serpent of Stars

The Serpent of Stars (Le serpent d'étoiles, 1993; reprinted 1999 Grasset) takes place in rural southern France in the early part of the century. The novel’s elusive narrative thread ties landscape to character to an expanse just beyond our grasp. The narrator encounters a shepherding family and glimpse by glimpse, each family member and the shepherding way of life is revealed to us. The novel culminates in a large shepherds’ gathering where a traditional Shepherd’s Play — a kind of creation myth that includes in its cast The River, The Sea, The Man, and The Mountain — is enacted. The work’s proto-environmental world view as well as its hybrid form — part play, part novel — makes The Serpent of Stars astonishingly contemporary. W.S. Merwin’s "Green Fields" begins, "By this part of the century few are left who believe/in the animals for they are not there in the carved parts/of them served on plates and the pleas from slatted trucks…" This novel leaves the reader believing not only in the animals, but the terrain they are part of, the people who tend them, and the life all these elements together compose.<

Robin Hobb

Royal Assassin

The Farseer Trilogy

Continuing in the tradition of her first book (Assassin's Apprentice) Hobb propels the Farseer saga into its second installment with irresistible plotting and memorable characters. Fitz is a trained assassin in the service of King Shrewd and also the king's illegitimate grandson. He is sworn to protect heir to the throne Prince Verity and Verity's new bride, but his task is complicated by an invasion of vicious barbarians who turn helpless captives into zombie-like Forged Ones. The home front is no safer, with an ailing King and usurpers to the throne waiting in the wings. Romance, sibling rivalry, battlefield exploits, betrayal, political intrigue and telepathic magic insure that there's never a dull moment in the Kingdom of the Six Duchies. Through deft description and characterizations, Hobb manages to create a kingdom that looks like a fairy tale but feels like the real world?which makes it almost impossible not to become immersed in Hobb's fantasy epic. The ending clamors for a sequel-and hopefully sooner, than later.<

Erle Stanley Gardner

Turn on the Heat

Cool and Lam

<p>The day she told her husband he could go his own way, were it blonde or brunette, she became a happy woman. Freed from the duty of preserving a contour that would keep Mr. Cool home nights, she gave up dieting, and serenely watched her figure expand to balloon-like proportions.</p><p>Inside, she was hard as nails, shrewd and unscrupulous, stingy, avaricious. She handled cases no decent agency would touch. She hired Donald Lam for two reasons he hod brains, and she knew he needed a job so badly that she could get him for practically nothing. She watched his expense account like a vulture and did her best to deduct legitimate expenses from his already meager salary.</p><p>But deep inside that mountain of flesh must have been a heart, for in spite of these instincts she developed an affectionate, almost solicitous, loyalty for Donald.</p><p>You’ll like Bertha Cool. She is lusty and gusty and has personality.</p><p>Every runt gets pushed around Donald Lam was no exception. The difference between him and most runts was that the harder you pushed the faster Donald came back. He discovered early in life that his hands weren’t much use to him in a fight, so he used his head. And there was nothing soft about Donald’s head. He used his mind and trained it mercilessly. Sometimes it got him into trouble because he was just a little too far ahead of the other fellow.</p><p>Nor was Donald too ethical. He’d learned that if nature had made you pint size, it was easier to trip a man up than knock him down. Some people called Donald “poison.”</p><p>There was only one thing about him that worried Bertha Cool. She thought he was too susceptible to women. Maybe he was. There was no doubt that women made fools of themselves over Donald. Bertha didn’t understand why but she didn’t mind. Donald’s girlfriends were pretty useful.</p><

Robin Hobb

Assassin's Quest

The Farseer Trilogy

In this conclusion to the Farseer saga, Fitz Chivalry's quest for revenge on the usurping Regal requires him to journey to the Elderlings (wise old mages in the classic mold) and afterwards to realize the emergence of his own magical gifts, at which point the quest comes to an end after a mere 688 pages. Like much high fantasy these days, the book could have been pruned more than a trifle; on the other hand, along with the extra wordage come extra measures of characterization, world building, and emotionally compelling scenes of both magic and battle. And this is definitely the end of one story, although the world Hobb has created is now sufficiently developed (even why the characters have such archetypical names is explained) to be the scene of future books. In all, this is an improvement over its predecessors that will please their readers and probably whet their appetites for more from Hobb.<

Bear Grylls

Ghost Flight

Ghost Flight

<p>A mother and child savagely abducted from a snow-swept mountainside.</p><p>A loyal soldier tortured and executed on a remote Scottish moor.</p><p>A lost warplane discovered in the heart of the Amazon jungle, harbouring a secret of earth-shattering evil.</p><p>A desperate race to defeat a terrifying conspiracy emanating from the darkest days of Nazi Germany.</p><p>GHOST FLIGHT, the explosive debut from TV presenter and survival expert Bear Grylls, was inspired by the experiences of Bear’s grandfather, Brigadier Ted Grylls, and his role in a secret task force during World War II.</p><

Joseph Heller

Teraz i Wtedy. Od Coney Island do „Paragrafu 22”

Autobiograficzne dzieło ukazujące życie autora od dzieciństwa spędzonego na Coney Island, poprzez służbę w lotnictwie, studia, pracę i małżeństwo aż do wielkiej kariery literackiej zapoczątkowanej spektakularnym sukcesem ''Paragrafu 22''.<

Christie Golden

Jaina Proudmoore: Tides of War

World of Warcraft

<p>The ashes of the Cataclysm have settled across Azeroth’s disparate kingdoms. As the broken world recovers from the disaster, the renowned sorceress Lady Jaina Proudmoore continues her long struggle to mend relations between the Horde and the Alliance. Yet of late, escalating tensions have pushed the two factions closer to open war, threatening to destroy what little stability remains in the . . .</p><p>Dark news arrives in Jaina’s beloved city, Theramore. One of the blue dragonflight’s most powerful artifacts—the Focusing Iris—has been stolen. To unravel the item’s mysterious whereabouts, Jaina works with the former blue Dragon Aspect Kalecgos. The two brilliant heroes forge an unlikely bond during their investigation, but another disastrous turn of events looms on the horizon. . . .</p><p>Garrosh Hellscream is mustering the Horde’s armies for an all-out invasion of Theramore. Despite mounting dissent within his faction, the brazen warchief aims to usher in a new era of Horde domination. His thirst for conquest leads him to take brutal measures against anyone who dares question his leadership.</p><p>Alliance forces converge on Theramore to repel the Horde onslaught, but the brave defenders are unprepared for the true scope of Garrosh’s cunning and deceptive strategy. His attack will irrevocably transform Jaina, engulfing the ardent peacekeeper in the chaotic and all-consuming . . .</p><

Christie Golden

Warcraft

The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people and their home. So begins a spectacular saga of power and sacrifice in which war has many faces, and everyone fights for something.<

Christie Golden

Warcraft: Official Movie Novelization

The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people and their home. So begins a spectacular saga of power and sacrifice in which war has many faces, and everyone fights for something.<

Christie Golden

Warcraft: Durotan

In einer Welt die Draenor genannt wird, sieht sich der so stolze wie unbeugsame Orc-Clan der Frostwölfe zunehmend mit extrem harten Wintern und schwindenden Viehbeständen konfrontiert. Als der geheimnisvolle Gul'dan im Hauptlager der Orcs auftaucht und von neuen Jagdgründen und reicher Beute berichtet, sieht sich Durotan, der Anführer der Frostwölfe, mit einer schicksalhaften Frage konfrontiert. Stellt er sich dem drohenden Untergang oder ist nun die Zeit gekommen, das Land seiner Vorväter zu verlassen und sein Volk ins Ungewisse zu führen? Die offizielle Vorgeschichte zum Kinofilm WARCRAFT.<

Charlaine Harris

Martwy Aż Do Zmroku

<p>Czytając Martwego aż do zmroku zaczynasz wyobrażać sobie autorkę powieści, Charlaine Harris, jako ukochane dziecko Laurell K. Hamilton i Joego R. Lansdale'a – może z Tanyą Huff i P. N. Elrodem jako rodzicami chrzestnymi. A jednak "humorystyczny wampirzy kryminał z elementem romantycznym" Harris jest nie tylko kolejną mroczną igraszką z naszym ulubionym motywem nieumarłych. Otrzymujemy również opowieść o parze odmieńców próbujących znaleźć sobie miejsce w świecie, i o ich związku, który nie jest łatwy ani dla niej, ani dla niego.</p><p>W świecie Harris wampiry stanowią mniejszość społeczną, która niedawno otrzymała prawa obywatelskie. Ich nierozcieńczona krew stała się niezwykle poszukiwanym lekarstwem. Na czarnym rynku fiolka wampirzego płynu życiowego – który podobno "tymczasowo łagodzi symptomy pewnych chorób i zwiększa potencję seksualną, będąc czymś w rodzaju skrzyżowania prednizonu z viagrą" – kosztuje dwieście dolarów. Odkąd prawnie uznano nieumarłych, kelnerka Sookie Stackhouse wyraźnie miała nadzieję, że ktoś taki zjawi się w małym północnoluizjańskim miasteczku Bon Temps. Jest więc po prostu zachwycona, kiedy wysoki, ciemnowłosy, przystojny, blady wampir siada przy jednym z jej stolików. Jednak dziewczyny nie pociąga wcale nieśmiertelność wampira ani nawet jego zmysłowa atrakcyjność. Wydaje się za to urzeczona faktem, że nie potrafi czytać mu w myślach. Sookie bowiem, wyobraźcie sobie, jest telepatką. Dar, który sama nazywa upośledzeniem, utrudnia jej życie, a zwłaszcza spotkania z mężczyznami (mimo iż jest atrakcyjną dwudziestopięcioletnią blondynką). Właściwie wszyscy w mieście nazywają ją stukniętą. Czasami, atakowana przez setki natrętnych, cudzych myśli, sama się uważa wariatkę.</p><p>Sookie jest bohaterką zupełnie niepodobną do Buffy, więc ratuje świeżo poznanego wampira – wampira Billa, tak, naprawdę! – przed parą ludzi chcących osuszyć go z cennej krwi. Właśnie wtedy odkrywa, że nie "słyszy" ani jednej myśli Billa. Fakt ten wystarczy, by Sookie poczuła do wampira sympatię. Cóż, niektórym związkom trzeba było na początek nawet mniej.</p><p>Okazuje się, że korzenie Billa sięgają Bon Temps, że wrócił tu i zamierza się osiedlić w rodzinnej posiadłości, którą właśnie odziedziczył. W dodatku, walczył w wojnie domowej, a wampirem został w roku 1870. Fakty te zachwycają babcię Sookie, oddaną członkinię lokalnego klubu Potomków Wybitnych Poległych. Bill może dostarczyć klubowi szczegółów, dzięki którym babcia i inni członkowie znajdą się w "genealogicznym siódmym niebie".</p><p>Jednak szczęście nie tak prosto osiągnąć. Gdy zamordowano dwie młode kobiety, a na ich udach koroner znajduje ślady kłów, podejrzenie pada na wampiry, czyli także (a może przede wszystkim) na Billa. Mordercą mógłby też być Jason, seksowny brat Sookie, który uwielbia kobiety, choć lubi także lekką perwersję. Bill i Sookie (z niejaką pomocą pewnego wampira imieniem Bubba) muszą się zmienić w detektywów, rozwiązać zbrodnie i znaleźć prawdziwego przestępcę. Tak się to zaczyna…</p><p>"Pierwszorzędny kryminał… Przekonujący i zadziwiający". "The Washington Post Book World"</p><p>"Dobrze napisany i niezwykle interesujący… Wielka rzecz". "The Boston Glob"</p><p>"Atmosfera książek Harris nawiązuje do czarnego kryminału oraz powieści detektywistycznej… Fabułę stanowi świetnie skonstruowana historia, która sięga pod powierzchnię małomiasteczkowego życia". "Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel"</p><p>"Frapująca". "Minneapolis Star Tribune"</p><p>"Opowieści Harris na przemian czarują i mrożą czytelnikowi krew w żyłach. Z tą trudną kombinacją autorka radzi sobie bez problemów, wręcz doskonale". Carolyn G. Hart</p><p>"Styl Harris ma urok i lekkość, które przypominają styl powieści Anne Tyler… Jest oryginalny i zadziwiający. Niezwykłego smaku tej książce dodają nawiązania do powieści gotyckiej". "The Christian Science Monitor"</p><p>"Nadzwyczajna". "Library Journal"</p><p>"Styl Harris jest gawędziarski, zawsze przymilny, "tylko między nami dziewczynami". "Kirkus Reviews"</p><p>"Charlaine Harris to imię i nazwisko, które trzeba zapamiętać". "Macon Telegraph and News"</p><p>"Doskonałe powieści… Harris inaczej opowiada o morderstwach". "Mystery News"</p><

Deena Goldstone

Surprise Me

<p>The fragile dream of becoming a writer takes hold of Isabelle Rothman during her senior year of college. Feeling brave, she begins a one-on-one tutorial with a once highly praised novelist, Daniel Jablonski, who is known on campus as eccentric, difficult, and disengaged. Despite his reputation, Isabelle loves his early novels and hopes Daniel can teach her the secrets of his luminous prose. But their first meeting is a disaster. He never read the chapters she submitted and will not apologize for being unprepared. He has lived up to his reputation, and she feels dismissed, humiliated, and furious.</p><p>But slowly, over the semester, they gingerly form a bond that begins to anchor both of them. And over the next twenty years, as they live very separate lives — she in Northern California and he finally settled in a tiny New Hampshire town — they reach out to each other through e-mails, phone calls, and visits. Their continual connection helps Isabelle find the courage to take greater risks and push Daniel to work through layers of self-loathing and regret that have kept his career from flourishing. They are the single constant in each other’s life and the most profound influence.</p><p>Daniel and Isabelle recognize they are among the blessed few who meet at the exact moment they need each other the most, and that their lives are transformed by this connection. In a final collaboration, the boundaries of teacher and student give way to a work that heals something in each of them. They truly see each other as extraordinary — as people do when they love — and that belief makes all the difference.</p><

Charlaine Harris

Muerto hasta el anochecer

Sookie Stackhouse es una camarera con un inusitado poder para leer la mente. Su don es el origen de sus problemas. Siempre acaba sabiendo más de lo que le gustaría de la gente que le rodea, de todos menos de Bill Compton, porque su mente, la de un vampiro que trata de reinsertarse en la sociedad, es absolutamente impenetrable. Cuando sus vidas se cruzan descubrirá que para ella ya no hay vuelta atrás. La aparición de un asesino en serie es la prueba definitiva para su confianza… porque ni siquiera ella sabe si Bill es su protector, o si se convertirá en su fatal asesino.<

Rivka Galchen

Little Labors

<p>Sei Shonagon’s —a key inspiration for Rivka Galchen’s new book — contains a list of “Things That Make One Nervous.” And wouldn’t the blessed event top almost anyone’s list?</p><p>Little Labors — atomized and exploratory, conceptually byzantine and freshly forthright — delights.</p><

Cyril Hare

Untimely Death aka He Should Have Died Hereafter

Francis Pettigrew's holiday turns to nightmare when he stumbles across a body on Boulter's Tussock – a rather alarming body at that, given to vanishing and reappearing in unexpected places.<

Alasdair Gray

A History Maker

A tale of border warfare, military and erotic, set in the twenty-third century, where the women rule the kingdom and the men play war games. This is the fictional memoir of Wat Dryhope — edited, annotated and commented upon. History has come to an end, war is regulated as if it's all a game. But Wat, the "History Maker" himself, does not play entirely by the rules, and when a woman, Delilah Puddock, joins the fray, this 'utopian' history is further enlivened. Alasdair Gray cleverly plays with the notion and writing of history, as well as perennial modern debates on war, sexism and society — entertaining and thought-provoking, this is a delightful satire illustrated throughout by the author.<

James Herbert

Ciemność

<p>W cichej, spokojnej okolicy Willow Road odżywają wspomnienia makabrycznych wydarzeń sprzed lat, kiedy to grozę i obrzydzenie budziły dokonywane tam praktyki okultystyczne. Tak jak niegdyś zatriumfuje szaleństwo, prowadzące do nagłych aktów przemocy.</p><p>Chris Bishop, specjalista od zjawisk paranormalnych, wznawia dochodzenie w tej sprawie. Nie ma wątpliwości, że na Willow Road wciąż jest coś, co doprowadza ludzi do utraty zmysłów, wyzwala w nich najgorsze instynkty, popycha do morderstw i samounicestwień…</p><

Deena Goldstone

Tell Me One Thing

<p>Set in California, is an uplifting and poignant book about people finding their way toward happiness. In "Get Your Dead Man's Clothes," "Irish Twins," and "Aftermath," Jamie O'Connor finally reckons with his tumultuous childhood, which propels him to an unexpected awakening. In "Tell Me One Thing," Lucia's decision to leave her loveless marriage has unintended consequences for her young daughter. In "Sweet Peas," "What We Give," and "The Neighbor," the sudden death of librarian Trudy Dugan's beloved husband forces her out of isolation and prompts her to become more engaged with her community. And in "Wishing," Anna finds an unusual kind of love. is about the life we can create despite the grief we carry and, sometimes, even because of the grief we have experienced.</p><

Robin Hobb

Czarodziejski Statek

<p>Miasto Wolnego Handlu to centrum egzotycznego handlu, a także siedziba kupieckiej arystokracji słynącej ze swoich rzadkich i niezwykłych, wyrzeźbionych z czarodrzewu żaglowców, które w magiczny sposób, zmieniają się w żywe istoty.</p><p>Powieść Carodziejski statek jest pierwszym tomem cyklu "Kupcy i ich żywostatki" opowiadającego o rozpaczliwej walce, jaką o czarodziejską "Vivacię" stoczy jedna z rodzin należących do grupy Pierwszych Kupców z pozbawionym skrupułów pirackim kapitanem. Walka to okrutna i desperacka, ale jej zwycięzca będzie kontrolował coś więcej niż tylko los i majątek jednej rodziny.</p><p>Trylogia "Kupcy i ich żywostatki" jest trzecią trylogią cyklu po "Złotoskórym" i "Skrytobójcy". W Polsce nigdy nie została wydana w całości.</p><p>Wydawnictwo Mag wyda wszystkie trzy tomy trylogii:</p><p>"Czarodziejski statek" cz. 1 i 2</p><p>"Szalony statek" cz.1 i 2</p><p>"Statek przeznaczenia" tom 1 i 21</p><p>Robin Hobb debiutowała trylogią o uczniu skrytobójcy Uczeń skrytobójcy, Królewski skrytobójca i Wyprawa skrytobójcy, stając się od razu największym objawieniem literatury fantasy lat dziewięćdziesiątych. Szczególne uznanie krytyków i czytelników na całym świecie przyniosła jej umiejętność tworzenia autentycznych, nietuzinkowych postaci, jakże różnych od rzesz papierowych, podobnych do siebie jak krople wody bohaterów zaludniających karty wielu innych powieści z tego gatunku.</p><

Christie Golden

Warcraft: Roman zum Film

Die friedliche Welt Azeroth sieht sich plötzlich am Rande eines verheerenden Krieges, als ihre Ländereien von bislang unbekannten und furchteinflößenden Gegnern bedroht werden. Bei den Fremden handelt es sich um Orcs, die ihrer sterbenden Heimat den Rücken gekehrt haben, um neue Lebensräume zu erobern. Als sich ein Portal öffnet, das beide Welten verbindet, prallt eine Armee, die den sicheren Untergang vor Augen hat, auf ein Heer von zu allem entschlossenen Verteidigern. Das Schicksal ganzer Völker liegt nun in den Händen zweier Helden, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Der Beginn einer epischen Saga über Macht und Opferbereitschaft, in der der Krieg viele Gesichter hat und eine Niederlage keine Option ist …<

Christie Golden

Arthas: Aufstieg des Lichkönigs

<p>Seine Niedertracht ist legendär. Er ist der Herrscher der untoten Geißel, Träger der Runenklinge Frostgram und Feind der freien Völker Azeroths.</p><p>Der Lichkönig ist ein Wesen von unberechenbarer Macht und beispielloser Bosartigkeit. Seine eisige Seele lechzt nach der Vernichtung allen Lebens in der WORLD OF WARCRAFT®</p><p>Doch es war nicht immer so. Einst war der Lichkönig kein Geringerer als Arthas Menethil. Kronprinz Lordaerons und treuer Paladin der Silbernen Hand. Als eine Armee von Untoten alles bedroht, was Arthas lieb und teuer ist, macht er sich auf, nach einer legendaren Waffe zu suchen, die ihm den Sieg über seinen grausamen Feind schenken soll. Doch die Runenklinge verlangt einen fürchtelichen Preis von ihrem Träger. In den arktishen Eiswüsten erwartet Arthas ein düsteres Schicksal, das ganz Azeroth in seinem Grundfesten erschüttern wird.</p><

Charlie Huston

Caught Stealing

Hank Thompson

<p>It's three thousand miles from the green fields of glory, where Henry “call me Hank” Thompson once played California baseball, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the tenements are old, the rents are high, and the drunks are dirty. But now Hank is here, working as a bartender and taking care of a cat named Bud who is surely going to get him killed.</p><p>It begins when Hank's neighbor, Russ, has to leave town in a rush and hands over Bud in a carrier. But it isn't until two Russians in tracksuits drag Hank over the bar at the joint where he works and beat him to a pulp that he starts to get the idea: Someone wants something from him. He just doesn't know what it is, where it is, or how to make them understand he doesn't have it.</p><p>Within twenty-four hours Hank is running over rooftops, swinging his old aluminum bat for the sweet spot of a guy's head, playing hide and seek with the NYPD, riding the subway with a dead man at his side, and counting a whole lot of cash on a concrete floor.</p><p>All because of two cowboys, two Russian mafia men, and some of the weirdest goons ever assembled in one place. All because of Bud. All because once, in another life, in another world, the only thing Hank wanted was to take third base—without getting caught.</p><p>"WOW! Brutal, visceral, violent, edgy and brilliant." </p><p>2004</p><

Christie Golden

Weltenbeben: Die Vorgeschichte zu Cataclysm

<p>Thrall, weiser Schamane und Kriegshäuptling der Horde, spürt eine beunruhigende Veränderung ...</p><p>Vor langer Zeit wüteten Azeroths zerstörerische Elementare, bis die wohlwollenden Titanen sie auf die Elementarebene verbannten. Doch viele dieser Elementare sind nach Azeroth zurückgekehrt. Über Jahrhunderte haben Schamanen wie Thrall mit diesen Geistern gesprochen. Mit Geduld und Hingabe lernten sie über die Zeit, wilde Feuersbrünste zu bannen, sonnenverbranntes Land mit Regen zu versorgen und die zerstörerischen Kräfte der Elemente zu mäßigen.</p><p>Doch nun muss Thrall erkennen, dass die Elementare nicht mehr auf die Schamanen hören. Die Verbindung mit den Geistern ist schwach und brüchig geworden, als würde Azeroth selbst bedrängt. Während Thrall herauszufinden versucht, was die verwirrten Elementare krank macht, kämpft er gleichzeitig um die unsichere Zukunft der Orcs. Denn sein Volk hat mit schwindenden Vorräten zu kämpfen. Und seine Nachbarn, die Nachtelfen werden immer feindseliger. Zur gleichen Zeit überlegt König Varian Wrynn von Sturmwind, ob er auf die angespannte Lage zwischen Allianz und Horde mit einem Angriff reagieren soll. Dieses harte Vorgehen droht ihn all denjenigen zu entfremden, die ihm am nächsten stehen – darunter sein eigener Sohn Anduin. Der besorgte junge Prinz geht seinen eigenen Weg. Dabei riskiert er, sich in die politischen Ränke zu verstricken, die die Welt bedrohen.</p><p>Das Schicksal von Azeroths großen Völkern liegt im Ungewissen verborgen. Und so besorgniserregend das merkwürdige Verhalten der Elementargeister auch sein mag, ist es doch vielleicht nur das erste bedrohliche Vorzeichen eines Weltenbebens, das unmittelbar bevorsteht.</p><

Charlie Huston

Six Bad Things

Hank Thompson

<p>Hank Thompson is living off the map in Mexico with a bagful of cash that the Russian mafia wants back and many, many secrets. So when a Russian backpacker shows up in town asking questions, Hank tries to play it cool. But he knows the jig is up when the backpacker mentions the money . . . and the family Hank left behind. Suddenly Hank's in a desperate race to get to his parents in California before anyone can harm them. Along the way he'll face Federales and Border Patrol, mafiosi and vigilantes, extortionists and drug dealers, and a couple of psychotic surf bums with an ax to grind. From the golden beaches of the Yucatán to the seedy strip clubs of Vegas, Charlie Huston opens a door to the squalid underworld of crime and corruption - and invites the reader to live it in the extreme.</p><p>" rocks and rolls from the first page. This is one mean, cols, slit-eyed mother of a book."</p><p>2005</p><

Erle Stanley Gardner

Beware the Curves

Cool and Lam

<p>Unfettered, unfiltered, unorthodox Bertha Cool and Donald Lam have four of the least likely and most popular private eyes in the business — and they’ve never been in sharper focus!</p><p>It’s always exciting when Erle Stanley Gardner assumes his favorite pseudonym of A. A. Fair and lets her rip! This new mystery novel is exhibit A proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that Bertha Cool and Donald Lam are among the most ingenious and inventive characters in mystery fiction.</p><p>Here is all the old sweet-and-sour, plus the catchiest plot ever dissected by the intrepid twosome. Bertha is at her toughest and funniest, and Donald is at top form knowing and debonair.</p><

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