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One day Danny McCoyne’s life tends toward the humdrum: job, family, the usual. The next day, suddenly, without warning or explanation, people are turning into killers, murdering their loved ones, attacking perfect strangers. Soon Danny is trying desperately to keep his family safe, while all around him society seems to be self-destructing, as ordinary men and women turn into animals, filled with hate and violence. This is a truly frightening book because, like Danny, we’re constantly scrambling to process what’s going on. Moody, who self-published the novel in 2006, writes as though his novel were a zombie movie, and readers familiar with the genre will have no difficulty seeing, in their mind’s eye, the rapid dissolution of society played out in front of them.
У аповесці "Сарочае радыё. Лісты падзякі" апісваюцца будні маладой журналісткі, якая працуе на адным з беларускіх незалежных радыё. Месца дзеяння пазнавальнае — гэта Мінск. Настолькі ж пазнавальнымі многім чытачам могуць падацца і сённяшнія беларускія рэаліі, і тыповыя сацыяльныя характары, і першы журналісцкі досвед студэнта-пачаткоўца.
Першая кніга Кацярыны Оаро — маладой беларускай аўтаркі, якая цяпер жыве і працуе ў Францыі — сталася дзясятым выпускам серыі "Пункт адліку" Бібліятэкі Саюза беларускіх пісьменнікаў. Аповесць выйшла напрыканцы мінулага года ў выдавецтве "Кнігазбор".
Увазе чытачоў — "свежая" проза і ў простым, і ў пераносным сэнсах. Кнігу, юбілейную для серыі "Пункт адліку", прыемна патрымаць у руках не толькі таму, што яна яшчэ пахне друкарскай фарбай. Перад намі — прыклад гарадской моладзевай прозы на вострасацыяльную тэматыку.
Кніга будзе цікавай не толькі равеснікам аўтаркі, пакаленню дваццаці- або трыццацігадовых, але і старэйшай чытацкай аўдыторыі.
The Crofts live with their blond, teenage daughter, Lissie, in a converted sawmill in Rutledge, Connecticut, an exclusive community of achievers. Lissie’s mother, Connie, is a Vassar graduate; her father, Jamie, a successful photographer. But these were the sixties — the time of Nixon and moon walks, prosperity and war, Woodstock and Chappaquiddick — and the Crofts are caught in a time slot that not only caused alienation but in fact encouraged it.
Lissie, in her rush to independence and self-identity, along with others of her generation, goes her own way. She leaves school, skips to London and begins a journey across Europe to India. Breaking all the rules, flouting her parents’ values, she causes in Jamie a deep concern that frequently turns to impotent rage.
When Lissie returns, she is surprised and angry to find that things are not the same. While she was out living her own life, her dad was falling in love with the woman he would eventually marry. Hurt and confused over her parents’ divorce, Lissie is not ready to accept for them what she sees as clear-cut rights for herself. And try as he will, her father cannot comprehend the new Lissie.
More than a novel about the dissolution of a family in a turbulent decade, Love, Dad is an incredibly perceptive story of father and daughter and their special love — a love that endures even though understanding has been swept away in the whirlwind of change.
With all the fire and fury fans have come to expect from internationally
bestselling author George R. R. Martin, this is the first volume of the
definitive two-part history of the Targaryens in Westeros.
Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen—the only
family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria—took up residence on
Dragonstone. Fire and Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the
Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations
of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil
war that nearly tore their dynasty apart.
What really happened during the Dance of the Dragons? Why did it become so
deadly to visit Valyria after the Doom? What is the origin of Daenerys’s three
dragon eggs? These are but a few of the questions answered in this essential
chronicle, as related by a learned maester of the Citadel and featuring more
than eighty all-new black-and-white illustrations by artist Doug Wheatley.
Readers have glimpsed small parts of this narrative in such volumes as The
World of Ice & Fire, but now, for the first time, the full tapestry of
Targaryen history is revealed.
With all the scope and grandeur of Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire, Fire and Blood is the ultimate game of thrones,
giving readers a whole new appreciation for the dynamic, often bloody, and
always fascinating history of Westeros.
Matthew Hope spotted her on North Sabal Beach, one of those fabulous Gulf Coast keys that yearly draw ever more people to condo life in the Sunshine State. She was spectacular, “carved of alabaster, pale white exquisite face framed by ebony cascades of hair, the flesh of her naked breasts almost translucent, lustrous in the hot rays of the sun. wide hips flaring above the restraining strings of the bikini patch, a shimmering mirage in black and white that came closer and closer, pale gray eyes in that incredibly lovely face, the scent of mimosa as she passed and was gone.” That was on Saturday.
On Monday, Michelle Harper came to Hope as a client. Below the short sleeves of her T-shirt, ugly bruises obliterated the whiteness of her arms. Adhesive was taped across the bridge of her nose and both her eyes were discolored, one puffed almost entirely shut. She wanted Hope’s help in filing a complaint with the police. She wanted her husband arrested and put away.
On Tuesday. Michelle Harper was found dead on Whisper Key Beach. Her hands and legs were bound with wire hangers and she had been burned to death. An empty five-gallon gasoline can lay some ten feet from the body.
By four that afternoon. George Harper had been charged with the brutal murder of his wife.
Big, black, and monstrously ugly, George Harper vociferously denied the charge. And somehow, Hope believed him. But in committing himself to help Harper, Matthew Hope is drawn into a hall of mirrors filled with lies, sexual perversity, and thrill- seeking corruption. The result, says The Sunday Times (London), is “a strictly X- rated fairy tale” and a thoroughly good read.
Mike Beecher was afraid of too many things to be dangerous any more. He had stayed for two years in the Spanish village because problems could be passed off with a shrug, another drink. To the ruthless conspirators, however, Mike’s skills made him a useful pawn, a practical one because he was expendable. By the time Mike found out how he had been betrayed, he had lost his chance to retreat to safety.
This absorbing suspense story is written on two levels.There is the life-and-death drama of a man fighting minute by minute for survival in the trackless wastes of the African desert, trying to outwit the law and the lawless, knowing that if he is caught a girl will be destroyed with him. Seven Lies South is also a novel of character: a penetrating study of a drifter who at last has to stop running and come face to face with himself.
The four books that make up this novel — Amanda, Gillian, Julia and Kate — span three generations and nearly thirty years of time. Except that Kate is Amanda’s niece, none of these women is related, but their lives cross and recross, linked by Julia’s son David.
Julia Regan belongs to the “older” generation in the sense that her son David was old enough to fight in the war. That he ended the war in the stockade was due more to his mother than to himself, and the book devoted to Julia shows what sort of woman she was — why, having gone to Italy before the war with an ailing sister, she constantly put off her return to her family — and why, therefore, David is the man he is.
Unsure of himself and bitter (for good reason) David finds solace in Gillian, who had been Amanda’s room-mate in college during the war. He loses her because he does not know what he wants from life. Gillian is an enchanting character who knows very well what she wants: she is determined to become an actress. In spite of the extreme tenderness and beauty of her love affair with David (and Evan Hunter has caught exactly the gaieties and misunderstandings of two young people very much in love, when a heightened awareness lifts the ordinary into the extraordinary and the beautiful into the sublime) she is not prepared to continue indefinitely an unmarried liaison, and she leaves him. When, eleven years later and still unmarried, she finally tastes success, the taste is of ashes, and she wonders whether the price has not been too high.
Amanda is considerably less sure of herself than Gillian, though foe a time it looks as if her music will bring her achievement. But she has in her too much of her sexually cold mother to be passionate in love or in her music. She marries Matthew who is a lawyer, and, without children of their own, they bring up her sister’s child, Kate, who, in the last book, is growing up out of childhood into womanhood — with a crop of difficulties of her own.
Unlike all his earlies novels (except in extreme readability) Mothers and Daughters is not an exposure of social evils, but a searching and sympathetic study of people.
There was the heat of money.
There w as the heat of wanting.
There was the heat of the Bahamas and Golden Coast of Florida after the season had ended.
Texas money had gone to the Bahamas by pleasure boat for a dirty purpose. Enough unrecorded cash to change a dozen lives, or end them, and the scent of it was carried on the hot tropic winds.
This is a novel about the half- people, the twisted ones who caught that scent and devised a merciless plan, and it is about the whole people, the compassionate ones who find themselves in the way of the brutal mechanisms of greed and are either destroyed by it, or become stronger than before.
Here are the boat people, the land-grabbers, the displaced Cubans, the swingers, the fun people, the con artists, the shrewd, the silly, the romantic, the idealistic, all of them caught up into an inevitable pattern of violence, suspicion, fear and despair that reaches from Nassau to Brownsville, Texas, from Havana to Dinner Key, from Miami to the empty silence of the Great Bahama Bank.
It all hinged on the survival of the broken girl, adrift and unconscious in a tiny boat on the giant blue river of the Gulf Stream.
Many will read this novel as a very solid and persuasive story of suspense and adventure. But it has in addition, that distinctive power and style, that hidden resonance and purpose which the legions of MacDonald readers have come to except from him.
To his new readers we can only say: this is a Book.
It will stay with you a long, long time.
ОТ АВТОРКАТА НА БЕСТСЕЛЪРА „ДЕЛИРИУМ“
По една тръпка всяка минута
Е. Локхарт, автор на „Ние, лъжците“
Колко далеч си готов да стигнеш, за да избягаш от живота, който водиш?
ХЕДЪР никога не си е помисляла, че един ден може да се състезава в „Паника“ — легендарна игра за току-що завършили гимназисти, в която залогът е висок, а наградата — още по висока. Никога не се е смятала за безстрашна, за човек, готов да се състезава, за да изпъкне сред другите. Но когато открива нещо и някого, заради които да се бори, Хедър разбира, че е по смела, отколкото си е представяла.
ДОДЖ никога не се е боял от „Паника“. Неговата тайна ще му вдъхва сили и ще го тласка да продължи напред до края на играта — сигурен е в това. Но има нещо, което не знае: не само той си има тайна. Всеки има причина, заради която да играе.
Detective Steve Carella thought it was be an easy day — and an enjoyable one. It was his day off and it was his sister’s wedding day. But it began much too ominously. Tommy Giordano, the groom, found a wedding present on his doorstep in the morning — a small box, neatly gift-wrapped. Its contents were deadly.
Weddings-Fetes, Incorporated decorated the Carella back yard; there was a band and plenty of champagne. On the surface it was everything a wedding should be. But Steve wasn’t at all sure that Tommy would live long enough to become Angela’s husband. Meyer Meyer, Cotton Hawes and the rest of the 87th Precinct detectives begin a dogged race against time to trace down one small and possibly fruitless lead. It might mean nothing at all. The man they were trying to find wasn’t even at the wedding — or was he?
There is a second attempt on Tommy’s life, then a third, this time on that Steve doesn’t even know about. Will there be more — and when will they come and from what direction? Is the killer a guest at the wedding — at least one man there carries a gun — or is he watching Tommy from a distance through the cross-sight of a sniper’s rifle?
Until death us do part... or will death arrive before the ceremony has even began? Even if the bride and groom are joined in holy matrimony, one murder device in timed to strike during the honeymoon — after Carella thinks the case is finished.
There never was a gayer wedding or one with such an undercurrent of driving suspense. And Steve Carella gets his biggest shock of the day on the very last page — a surprise supplied by Mrs. Carella!
Висококачествени фалшиви долари заливат българското черноморие. Гравьор на такова равнище не се е появявал от времето на легендарния Тодор Кривналиев, подправял щатската валута още преди Втората световна война. Заподозрени са всички участници в една българо-американска филмова копродукция, която се снима край Варна. Никой от кинаджиите обаче няма нито познанията, нито таланта, които се изискват за произвеждането на такова автентично менте.
How much of an impact can an
animal have? How many lives
can one cat touch? How is it
possible for an abandoned
kitten to transform a small
library, save a classic American town, and eventually become
famous around the world? You
can't even begin to answer
those questions until you hear
the charming story of Dewey
Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer, Iowa.
Dewey's story starts in the
worst possible way. Only a few
weeks old, on the coldest night
of the year, he was stuffed into
the returned book slot at the Spencer Public Library. He was
found the next working by
library director Vicki Myron, a
single mother who had survived
the loss of her family farm, a
breast cancer scare, and an alcoholic husband. Dewey won
her heart, and the hearts of the
staff, by pulling himself up and
hobbling on frostbitten feet to
nudge each of hem in a gesture
of thanks and love. For the next nineteen years, he never
stopped charming the people of
Spencer with this enthusiasm,
warmth, humility (for a cat),
and, above all, his sixth sense
about who needed him most. As his fame grew from town to
town, then state to state, and
finally, amazingly, worldwide,
Dewey became more than just a
friend; he became a source of
pride for an extraordinary Heartland farming town pulling
its way slowly back from the
greatest crisis in its long history.
Dewey: The Small-Town Library
Cat Who Touched the World was
a blockbuster bestseller and a
publishing phenomenon. It has
sold nearly a million copies,
spawned three children's books, and will be the basis for an
upcoming movie. No doubt
about it, Dewey has created a
community. Dewey touched
readers everywhere, who
realized that no matter how difficult their lives might seem,
or how ordinary their talents,
they can-and should- make a
positive difference to those
around them. Now, Dewey is
back, with even more heartwarming moments and
life lessons to share. Dewey's Nine Lives offers nine
funny, inspiring, and
heartwarming stories about
cats--all told from the
perspective of "Dewey's Mom,"
librarian Vicki Myron. The amazing felines in this book
include Dewey, of course,
whose further never-before-told
adventures are shared, and
several others who Vicki found
out about when their owners reached out to her. Vicki
learned, through extensive
interviews and story sharing,
what made these cats special,
and how they fit into Dewey's
community of perseverance and love. From a divorced mother in
Alaska who saved a drowning
kitten on Christmas Eve to a
troubled Vietnam veteran
whose heart was opened by his
long relationship with a rescued cat, these Dewey-style stories
will inspire readers to laugh, cry,
care, and, most importantly,
believe in the magic of animals
to touch individual lives.
An airborne operation of German, American, and British paratroopers drop on Berlin in this exciting new episode in the WW2 zombie series, THE FRONT!
While the Battle of the Bulge turns into a bloodbath due to the introduction of a serum designed to create super soldiers but creating flesh-eating zombies, a German paratrooper unit rests in Genoa, Italy after years of hard warfare. They celebrate an announced armistice hours before flying to England to learn the truth: Germany has collapsed due to the spread of these monsters, and they must work with their former enemies to drop on Berlin and recover a pure sample of the Overman serum.
What follows is an inside look at how the elite German paratroopers fought and their bloody homeward mission to recover the Overman serum before all Europe falls.
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