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Anne Tyler

A Spool of Blue Thread

<p>"It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon."</p><

Clifford D Simak

Un anillo alrededor del Sol

<p>“Un anillo alrededor del sol” ha sido descrita en alguna ocasión como la maravillosa historia de un juguete infantil que abre las puertas de infinitos universos probables. La historia protagonizada por el escritor Jay Vickers, que se ve inmerso en un conflicto de consecuencias impredecibles y que afecta por igual a los dos lados del telón de acero, constituye, además de una intensa historia de intriga, la explicación más clara y divertida que se ha escrito jamás de la teoría de la relatividad. </p><p>Aunando una estructura que le permite administrar hábilmente la información que va suministrando al lector con unos personajes muy bien construidos y un agudo sentido del humor, Clifford D. Simak logró en “Una anillo alrededor del sol” la que sin duda es su novela más inteligente y efectiva.</p><

Anne Tyler

A Patchwork Planet

For the first time in mass market paperback, this novel introduces 30-year-old misfit Barnaby Gaitlin, a renegade who is actually a kind-hearted man struggling to turn his life around. A New York Times Notable Book.<

Michael K Smith

Siblings

Cj Sansom

Revelation

Matthew Shardlake

<p>It is spring, 1543 and King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife — but this time the object of his affections is resisting. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly, for Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies.</p><p>Matthew Shardlake, meanwhile, is working on the case of a teenage boy, a religious maniac who has been placed by the King's council in the Bedlam hospital for the insane. Should he be released as his parents want, when his terrifying actions could lead to him being burned as a heretic?</p><p>Then, when an old friend is horrifically murdered, Shardlake promises his widow — for whom he has long had complicated feelings — to bring the killer to justice. His search leads him to connections not only with the boy in Bedlam, but with Archbishop Cranmer and Catherine Parr, and with the dark prophecies of the Book of Revelation.</p><p>As London's Bishop Bonner prepares a purge of Protestants, Shardlake, together with his assistant Jack Barak and his friend Guy Malton, follow the trail of a series of horrific murders that shake them to the core. Murders which are already bringing about frenzied talk of witchcraft and a demonic possession, for what else would the Tudor mind make of a serial killer?</p><

Anne Tyler

A Slipping-Down Life

<p>BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Anne Tyler's </p><p>"Without Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably bleaker place."</p><p>— NEWSDAY</p><p>Evie Decker is a shy, slightly plump teenager, lonely and silent. But her quiet life is shattered when she hears the voice of Drumstrings Casey on the radio and becomes instantly attracted to him. She manages to meet him, bursting out of her lonely shell-and into the attentive gaze of the intangible man who becomes all too real….</p><

Anne Tyler

Back When We Were Grownups

<p>"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." So Anne Tyler opens this irresistible new novel.</p><p>The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. Is she an impostor in her own life? she asks herself. Is it indeed her own life? Or is it someone else's?</p><p>On the surface, Beck, as she is known to the Davitch clan, is outgoing, joyous, a natural celebrator. Giving parties is, after all, her vocation-something she slipped into even before finishing college, when Joe Davitch spotted her at an engagement party in his family's crumbling nineteenth-century Baltimore row house, where giving parties was the family business. What caught his fancy was that she seemed to be having such a wonderful time. Soon this large-spirited older man, divorced with three little girls, swept her into his orbit, and before she knew it she was embracing his extended family plus a child of their own, and hosting endless parties in the ornate, high-ceilinged rooms of The Open Arms.</p><p>Now, some thirty years later, after presiding over a disastrous family picnic, Rebecca is caught un-awares by the question of who she really is. How she answers it-how she tries to recover her girlhood self, that dignified grownup she had once been-is the story told in this beguiling, funny, and deeply moving novel.</p><p>As always with Anne Tyler's novels, once we enter her world it is hard to leave. But in she so sharpens our perceptions and awakens so many untapped feelings that we come away not only refreshed and delighted, but also infinitely wiser.</p><

Ray Strong

Hot daughter

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Anne Tyler

Celestial Navigation

Thirty-eight-year-old Jeremy Pauling has never left home. He lives on the top floor of a Baltimore row house where he creates collages of little people snipped from wrapping paper. His elderly mother putters in the rooms below, until her death. And it is then that Jeremy is forced to take in Mary Tell and her child as boarders. Mary is unaware of how much courage it takes Jaremy to look her in the eye. For Jeremy, like one of his paper creations, is fragile and easily torn-especially when he's falling in love….<

Michael A Stackpole

Wolf and Raven

Shadowrun

Anne Tyler

Digging to America

<p>Anne Tyler's richest, most deeply searching novel-a story about what it is to be an American, and about Iranian-born Maryam Yazdan, who, after 35 years in this country, must finally come to terms with her "outsiderness."</p><p>Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport — the Donaldsons, a very American couple, and the Yazdans, Maryam's fully assimilated son and his attractive Iranian wife. Each couple is awaiting the arrival of an adopted infant daughter from Korea. After the instant babies from distant Asia are delivered, Bitsy Donaldson impulsively invites the Yazdans to celebrate: an "arrival party" that from then on is repeated every year as the two families become more and more deeply intertwined. Even Maryam is drawn in — up to a point. When she finds herself being courted by Bitsy Donaldson's recently widowed father, all the values she cherishes — her traditions, her privacy, her otherness-are suddenly threatened.</p><p>A luminous novel brimming with subtle, funny, and tender observations that immerse us in the challenges of both sides of the American story.</p><

Robert Salvatore

Passage to Dawn

The Legacy of the Drow

Anne Tyler

Earthly Possessions

<p>"To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love."</p><p>PEOPLE</p><p>Charlotte Emory has always lived a quiet, conventional life in Clarion, Maryland. She lives as simply as possible, and one day decides to simplify everything and leave her husband. Her last trip to the bank throws Charlotte's life into an entirely different direction when a restless young man in a nylon jacket takes her hostage during the robbery-and soon the two are heading south into an unknown future, and a most unexpected fate….</p><

Clifford Simak

Czas jest najprostszą rzeczą

Najpierw w świetle reflektorów spostrzegli tuż nad szosą niezwykły ruch. Po chwili, na tle rozjaśnionego blaskiem księżyca nieba rozpoznali lecące postacie ludzkie. Właściwie nie leciały, bo nie miały skrzydeł, lecz unosiły się w powietrzu, poruszając z lekkością i gracją, jaką mają tylko ptaki. Na pierwszy rzut oka sprawiały wrażenie stada ciem ciągnących do światła lub jakichś drapieżnych nocnych ptaków, które nagle spadają z nieba na ziemię. Po chwili jednak, gdy minęło osłupienie i górę wziął rozsądek, Blaine domyślił się, kim są owe postacie. Byli to lewitujący ludzie.<

Anne Tyler

If Morning Ever Comes

<p>"A triumph."</p><p>HARPERS</p><p>Ben Joe Hawkes is a worrier. Raised by his mother, grandmother, and a flock of busy sisters, he's always felt the outsider. When he learns that one of his sisters has left her husband, he heads for home and back into the confusion of childhood memories and unforseen love….</p><

Clifford Simak

Pierścień wokół Słońca

<p>Tajemnicza podziemna organizacja o zasięgu światowym, dysponująca zaawansowanymi technologiami nieznanymi na Ziemi, uknuła spisek przeciwko ludzkości mający na celu zrujnowanie naszej cywilizacji. </p><p>Zaczęło się niewinnie: od powszechnej sprzedaży bajecznie tanich i niezużywających się maszynek do golenia, żarówek, samochodoów, domów,... a wkrótce na całym świecie zapanował strach i terror. Masowo zaczęli znikać ludzie, całymi rodzinami. Czy gatunkowi Homo sapiens grozi zagłada? Kim jest wróg?</p><p>Bohater powieści, pisarz Jay Vickers, zostaje oskarżony o zamordowanie jedynego przyjaciela i musi uciekać przed żądną linczu zgrają rozwścieczonych sąsiadów. Czy ocalenie przyniosą mu... wspomnienia z wczesnej młodości? Ostatnia z wielkich powieści Simaka.</p><

Anne Tyler

Morgan's Passing

Morgan Gower has an outsize hairy beard, an array of peculiar costumes and fantastic headwear, and a serious smoking habit. He likes to pretend to be other people — a jockey, a shipping magnate, a foreign art dealer — and he likes to do this more and more since his massive brood of daughters are all growing up, getting married and finding him embarrassing. Then comes his first dramatic encounter with Emily and Leon Meredith, and the start of an extraordinary obsession.<

Robert Sheckley

Nieśmiertelność na zamówienie

Młody Amerykanin, Thomas Blaine, ginie w wypadku samochodowym. Ku swemu zdziwieniu budzi się w nowym ciele sto pięćdziesiąt lat później. Został porwany przez jedną z największych korporacji XXII, która chce go wykorzystaćdo celów reklamowych. Świat XXII wieku jest światem budek ulicznych dla samobójców, rozmów telefonicznych z duchami, urzędowych polowań na ludzkie ciała i system — ale tylko dla bogatych — zaprogramowanej reinkarnacji. Blaine musi wybrać swój sposób na życie, pamiętając, iż przez cały czas prześladuje go tajemnicze zombi…<

Anne Tyler

Saint Maybe

In 1965, the happy Bedloe family is living an ideal, apple-pie existence in Baltimore. Then, in the blink of an eye, a single tragic event occurs that will transform their lives forever-particularly that of 17-year-old Ian Bedloe, the youngest son, who blames himself for the sudden "accidental" death of his older brother.Depressed and depleted, Ian is almost crushed under the weight of an unbearable, secret guilt. Then one crisp January evening, he catches sight of a window with glowing yellow neon, the CHURCH OF THE SECOND CHANCE. He enters and soon discovers that forgiveness must be earned, through a bit of sacrifice and a lot of love…A New York Times Notable Book.<

Robert Silverberg

Tom O'Bedlam

<p>Robert Silverberg, znakomity twórca ściance fiction, znany jest polskiemu czytelnikowi z wielu powieści, z których najbardziej cenione to „Człowiek z labiryntu” i „Rodząc się umieramy”.</p><p>Jego kolejna książka opowiada o chylącej się ku upadkowi cywilizacji Ziemi początku XXII wieku. Przemoc i gwałt stały się codziennością. Rozkwitają fanatyczne sekty, świat został pozbawiony nadziei. I wtedy pojawia się tytułowy bohater — zdolny do nawiązania telepatycznego kontaktu z obcymi cywilizacjami.</p><p>Czy jego dar jest wybawieniem dla ludzkości, czy też narzędziem jej ostatecznej zagłady?</p><

Anne Tyler

The Amateur Marriage

From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a rich and compelling novel, spanning three generations, about a mismatched marriage — and its consequences. Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple — young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in Baltimore, he was smitten, and in the heat of World War II fervour, they marry in haste. From the sound of the cash register in the old grocery to the counter-culture jargon of the sixties, from the miniskirts to the multilayers of later years, Anne Tyler captures the nuances of everyday life with telling precision and sly humour.<

Anne Tyler

The Beginner's Goodbye

<p>Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances — in their house, on the roadway, in the market.</p><p>Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, a plain, outspoken, self-dependent young woman, she is like a breath of fresh air. Unhesitatingly he marries her, and they have a relatively happy, unremarkable marriage. But when a tree crashes into their house and Dorothy is killed, Aaron feels as though he has been erased forever. Only Dorothy’s unexpected appearances from the dead help him to live in the moment and to find some peace.</p><p>Gradually he discovers, as he works in the family’s vanity-publishing business, turning out titles that presume to guide beginners through the trials of life, that maybe for this beginner there is a way of saying goodbye.</p><p>A beautiful, subtle exploration of loss and recovery, pierced throughout with Anne Tyler’s humor, wisdom, and always penetrating look at human foibles.</p><

Robert Salvatore

The Silent Blade

Path Of Darkness

Anne Tyler

The Clock Winder

An easygoing young girl becomes inextricably involved with the Emerson family when she takes a job as their handyman.<

Antonio Tabucchi

Letter from Casablanca

Each story can be seen from at least two perspectives, and each protagonist can be seen as experiencing an objective 'reality' or having his own imagined and quite possibly distorted view of events.<

Robert Silverberg

Espinas

<p>Minner Burris: un maduro astronauta convertido por los cirujanos alienígenas en un ser que ya no es completamente humano. </p><p>Lona Kelvin: cobaya de un experimento genético la madre virgen de un centenar de hijos a los que nunca llegará a ver.</p><p>Duncan Chalk: un vampiro psíquico que alimenta a través de su imperio del espectáculo a millones de mirones, al tiempo que se alimenta a sí mismo con el dolor y la desesperación de los demás. </p><p>Tres personajes, un amor, un odio, un ansia. Y, por encima de todo, una maravillosa historia de amor en los límites de lo concebible.</p><

Harry Turtledove

Bombs Away

The Hot war

Sam Shepard

The god of hell: a play

Bob Shaw

Cicha inwazja

Overland (pl)

<p>Toller Maraquine, bohater zostaje dowódcą obrony Overlandu przed inwazją zdegenerowanych mieszkańców Królestwa Landu. Wygrywa, ale to zwycięstwo przynosi mu równocześnie osobistą klęskę. </p><p>Zdesperowany, rusza z przyjaciółmi na poszukiwania Farlandu, planety z wizji jednego z uczestników wyprawy. Ekspedycja kończy się powodzeniem, lecz odkrycie nieznanego świata przynosi tylko walkę i śmierć...</p><p>Druga powieść z cyklu , po , a przed „.</p><

Piers Torday

The Last Wild

<p>This is a story about a boy named Kester. He is extraordinary, but he doesn’t know that yet. All he knows, at this very moment, is this:</p><p>1. There is a flock of excited pigeons in his bedroom.</p><p>2. They are talking to him.</p><p>3. His life will never be quite the same again…</p><p>A captivating animal adventure destined to be loved by readers of all ages.</p><p>‘Splendid stuff’ .</p><p>‘A darkly comic and hugely inventive adventure… it could be the next big thing’ .</p><p>‘The sequel had better come soon’ .</p><p>‘Thrilling… Written in a vivid, urgent style, its sense of loss at all the creatures we have lost or are losing may be as critical to the new generation as Tarka the Otter’ .</p><p>‘I haven’t read a book this good and interesting since The Hunger Games… an edge-of-your-seat fast-paced read’ .</p><p>‘Inventive, with laughs, tears and cliffhangers’ .</p><p>‘An action-packed, dystopian eco-thriller with memorable characters, both animal and human, and a powerful message about the interdependence of man and nature. A promising debut’ .</p><p>‘It’s a grim but in no way depressing read, preaching hope amid dystopia’ .</p><p>In a world where animals no longer exist, twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes sometimes feels like he hardly exists either. Locked away in a home for troubled children, he’s told there’s something wrong with him. So when he meets a flock of talking pigeons and a bossy cockroach, Kester thinks he’s finally gone a bit mad. But the animals have something to say… The pigeons fly Kester to a wild place where the last creatures in the land have survived. A wise stag needs Kester’s help, and together they must embark on a great journey, joined along the way by an over-enthusiastic wolf-cub, a spoilt show-cat, a dancing harvest mouse and a determined girl named Polly. The animals saved Kester Jaynes. Can Kester save the animals?</p><

Bob Shaw

Los mundos fugitivos

Los astronautas harapientos

Al inicio de , Toller Maraquine II, nieto del protagonista de y , lamenta el hecho de que la vida en los gemelos Land y Overland es demasiado tediosa y plácida comparada con los acontecimientos excitantes de la época en que vivió su ilustre antepasado. Entonces, mientras volaba en globo entre mundos, hizo su asombroso descubrimiento: un disco de cristal enorme, con miles de millas de extensión, crecía rápidamente, creando una barrera entre ellos. Impulsado por razones personales a investigar el enigmático fenómeno, Toller, sin más armas que su espada y su valor ilimitado, llegó a ser una figura destacada en los sucesos que decidirían el futuro de los planetas y sus civilizaciones.<

Alexis Konstantinovitch Tolstoï

La Famille du Vourdalak

Fragment inédit des mémoires d’un inconnu<

Alexis Konstantinovitch Tolstoï

Le Rendez-vous dans trois cents ans

Robert Salvatore

The Spine of the World

Paths of Darkness

Joanna Trollope

Sense & Sensibility

<p>From one of the most insightful chroniclers of family life working in fiction today comes a contemporary retelling of Jane Austen's classic novel of love, money, and two very different sisters.</p><p>John Dashwood promised his dying father that he would take care of his half sisters. But his wife, Fanny, has no desire to share their newly inherited estate with Belle Dashwood's daughters. When she descends upon Norland Park with her Romanian nanny and her mood boards, the three Dashwood girls - Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret - are suddenly faced with the cruelties of life without their father, their home, or their money.</p><p>As they come to terms with life without the status of their country house, the protection of the family name, or the comfort of an inheritance, Elinor and Marianne are confronted by the cold hard reality of a world where people's attitudes can change as drastically as their circumstances.</p><p>With her sparkling wit, Joanna Trollope casts a clever, satirical eye on the tales of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Reimagining Sense and Sensibility in a fresh, modern new light, she spins the novel's romance, bonnets, and betrothals into a wonderfully witty coming-of-age story about the stuff that really makes the world go around. For when it comes to money, some things never change...</p><

Bob Shaw

Los astronautas harapientos

Los astronautas harapientos

Los mundos gemelos, Land y Overland, sólo estan separados por unos miles de kilómetros; y sus órbitas son tales que Overland siempre aparece situado en el mismo lugar en el cielo, llenando gran parte de él y visible en todos sus detalles, cuando se asoma sobre Land. Los humanos que habitan Land, al carecer de metales, sólo han podido desarrollar una tecnología de bajo nivel. Durante siglos, han vivido de forma bastante estable; pero en el momento en que comienza esta historia, su existencia está amenazada. Los pterthas, una especie de burbujas llenas de humo que flotan en el aire y que siempre han sido peligrosas, parecen haber declarado la guerra a la humanidad. Ni los filósofos, que tienen a su cargo la investigación científica además de ser los elaboradores de las teorías y sustentadores de las ideas, ni los militares dirigidos por el príncipe Leddravohr, ni el Industrial supremo, príncipe Chakkell, ni aun el mismo rey Prad, comprenden la magnitud del peligro y la acuciante necesidad de encontrar una solución. Sólo Glo, el gran Filósofo, viejo, decadente, borracho y menospreciado por todos, incluidos los de su clase, propone una solución audaz y aparentemente inaceptable.<

W R Thompson

Out of the Waste Land

Some kinds of medicine can be administered in neat packages, from outside. Others…<

Arkadij Strugackij

Gyvenama Sala

Sarakšo planetą atrado Baderio ekspedicija 2148 metais. Paaiškėjus, kad joje gyvena technologinę civilizaciją sukūrę humanoidai, ekspedicijos vadas nusprendžia tučtuojau nerti hipererdvėn ir pranešti apie atradimą Galaktikos Saugumo Tarybai. Kiek vėliau paaiškėja, kad Sarakšo civilizacija pergyveno termobranduolinę katastrofą. Ir štai tuomet į Sarakšą atvyksta Maksimas Kamereris, dvidešimtmetis Laisvosios Paieškos Grupės narys, neturintis jokių progresoriškų ar paprasto kontaktavimo įgūdžių…<

X Tx

Normally Special

A collection of 23 big, fierce stories by xTx.<

Charles Sheffield

Las crónicas de McAndrew

<p>Como Newton en el siglo XVII o Eintein en el XX, McAndrew es el genio indiscutido de la física del siglo XXII. Los , minúsculos agujeros negros cargados y en rotación, no tienen secretos para quien ha descubierto la forma de usarlos como fuente de energía. Su dominio de la ciencia y un sin par sentido práctico le llevan a inventar los más sorprendentes artilugios como la primera nave interestelar sin efectos de inercia. La pilota su compañera, la capitana Jeanie Roker y juntos explorarán a fondo el sistema solar interior, el Halo de cometas que le rodea y llegarán a viajar a Alfa Centauro, en medio de las más sorprendentes situaciones.</p><p>Seguir a McAndrew en sus aventuras es adentrarse con gran amenidad en un mundo de brillante especulación y saborear las delicias de la inteligencia.</p><

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