Автор роману «Живі зустрінуться» сам учасник подій, про які пише. Кузьма Катаєнко народився на Кубані в бідній селянській родині. Змалку наймитував, а в роки громадянської війни вступив до комсомолу, став бійцем ЧОНу, а згодом командиром ескадрону кінноти. Роман «Живі зустрінуться» про громадянську війну на Кубані. У критичному становищі опинилося революційне, козацтво в серпні 1920 р. У цей час збройні сили Радянської республіки були кинуті проти білополяків. Чорний барон Врангель скористався цим і висадив на Кубані експедиційні корпуси генерала Улагая. Складність подій зумовила і складність людських доль. Роман знайомить читача з маловідомою сторінкою в історії Кубані, з самобутніми характерами.

Less complex than such recent novels as Manta's Gift and Angelmass, this start to a new SF adventure series from Hugo Award-winner Zahn will appeal largely to younger readers. Fourteen-year-old orphan Jack Morgan, former small-time thief, is on the run, framed for theft from megacorporation Braxton Universis. Hiding out on an unoccupied planet, his only companion an artificial intelligence programmed with the personality of his con man uncle Virge, Jack witnesses a battle between incoming spaceships. While looking over the wreckage, he meets Draycos, a dragon-like K'da, sole survivor of an advance team of K'da and their Shontine allies-murdered by their enemies, the Valahgua, with a terrible energy weapon called "the Death." With Valahgua-backed mercenaries searching the planet for survivors, Jack and Draycos work together to escape. Despite Virge's continuing doubts, Jack agrees to help Draycos find out who betrayed his people; but first they must prove Jack's innocence and get the police off his back. Along the way, each will earn the other's trust as they learn to work together as a team. Zahn keeps the story moving at a breakneck pace, maintaining excitement even when the plot becomes cliched. –From Publishers Weekly

Mark Easton’s Britain Etc. looks at the UK through its relationship to 26 subjects — one for each letter of the alphabet. From Alcohol, Beat Bobbies, Cheese and Dogs through Immigration, Justice, Knives and Murder to the Queen, Umbrellas, Vegetables and the Zzzz of a well-deserved rest, the book's meticulously researched but accessible essays map the back-story of contemporary Britain. With each lettered chapter, the reader is invited to look at the United Kingdom in a new way: standing back to see our small islands in a global or historical context, and then diving down to scrutinise vital details that may be overlooked. Taken together, the essays reveal a Britain that cannot be seen through the prism of daily news or current affairs. A park, a wedding, a beggar and a carrot all take on new significance once you have read Britain Etc. As the UK welcomes millions of visitors to its shores for the Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, this is a book that offers insight into the psyche of Britain; a nation's obsessions, prejudices, values and idiosyncrasies. What sort of place is it, what are the natives like, and how did we get to where we are?

The trouble with the Mulholland family, Prudence decided, was that they were all in love with the wrong people. She'd been overjoyed when Pendle, her super-cool barrister boyfriend, invited her home for the weekend to meet his family. At least she might get some reaction out of him - so far he hadn't so much as made a pass at her, after the first night when he'd nearly raped her. But home turned out to be a decaying mansion in the Lake District, and family were his glamorous, scatty mother who forgot the mounting bills by throwing wild parties, and brothers, Ace, dark and forbidding, and Jack, handsome, married and only too ready to take over with Pru if Pendle didn't get a move on. It was only when she noticed the way Pendle looked at Jack's wife Maggie that it began to dawn on Pru that there was more to this weekend than met the eye. It looked like a non-stop game of changing partners...

Tylko cud albo szerokoekranowa superprodukcja może ocalić wytwórnię filmową Climatic Studios przed bankructwem. Ratunkiem okazuje się jednak Vremiatron — maszyna czasu profesora Hewetta. Przedsiębiorczy menadżer, Barney Hendrickson, przenosi się z całą ekipą w jedenastowieczny świat Wikingów, by tam, bez kosztownych wydatków i kłopotów z dekoracjami, statystami i związkami zawodowymi nakręcić przygodową sagę z życia krwiożerczych barbarzyńców. Pomysł jest znakomity, ale średniowieczna Europa szykuje Amerykanom wiele niespodzianek… Jedna z najlepszych powieści o podróżach w czasie, dowcipna, wciągajaca, znakomicie napisana.

When Minneapolis homicide cops Rolseth and Magozzi are called to a derelict stretch of the Mississippi River, they see a bride, facedown, dead in the water. And when the Monkeewrench crew – computer geeks who made a fortune on games, now assisting the cops with special anticrime software – are invited by the FBI to investigate a series of murder videos posted to the Web, it's not long before the group discovers the frightening link between the unlucky bride and the latest, most horrific use of the Internet yet. Using their skills to scour the Net to prevent more killings, the team must race against the clock.before it's too late.

The crime is inhumanly cruel with horrific consequences both unthinkable and inevitable. During a service at a cathedral in Cologne, Germany, a band of armed intruders dressed in monks' robes unleash a nightmare of blood and terror, ruthlessly gunning down worshippers and clergy alike. The killers haven't come for the church's gold and valuable artwork, but for a priceless treasure secreted within; the preserved bones of the Three Magi who once came to pay homage to a newborn savior. As they flee the carnage they have wrought, they carry a prize that could reshape the world'. 'The Vatican is in turmoil, and Lieutenant Rachel Verona of Rome's carabinieri is assigned to lead the investigation. But no ordinary police organization alone can deal with the bizarre theft and massacre, and SIGMA Force - an elite covert arm of the U.S. Defense Department - is called in under the command of Grayson Pierce. New to Sigma, Pierce assembles a crack team of scientific and Special Forces operatives to unravel the mystery of the stolen bones, and together they set out on a twisting trail through a labyrinth of clues and dark revelations that carry them to the sites of the Seven Wonders of the World - and to the doorstep of the mystical and terrifying Dragon Court'. An ancient, secret fraternity of alchemists and assassins, the master-adepts of the Dragon Court have plans for the sacred remains that will alter the future of humankind in devastating ways that only the maddest of zealots could desire - and they will let nothing and no one stand in their way. Suddenly Pierce, Verona, and the Sigma team are the hunted as well as the hunters, forced to use every skill they possess to survive as they follow the bones to the ultimate confrontation between darkness and light - in a lost place of history where science and religion will unite to unleash a horror not seen since the beginning of time.

In the declining Weimar Republic, Egon Loeser works as a stage designer for New Expressionist theatre. His hero is the greatest set designer of the 17th century, Adriano Lavicini, who devised the so-called Teleportation Device for the whisking of actors from one scene to another — a miracle, until the thing malfunctioned, causing numerous deaths and perhaps summoning the devil himself. Apolitical in a dangerous time, sex-driven in a dry spell, Loeser leaves the tired scene in Berlin in pursuit of the lubricious Adele Hitler (no relation), who couldn’t care less about him, heading first to Paris and then to Los Angeles, where he finds his entire tired Berlin social circle reconstituted in exile, under the patronage of a hack writer and his possibly philandering wife. He also finds himself uncomfortably close to a string of murders at CalTech, where a physicist, assisted by Adele herself, is trying to develop a device for honest-to-God teleportation. Following his breathtaking debut, Boxer, Beetle, Ned Beauman raises the stakes, creating in The Teleportation Accident a marvelous mash-up of historical fiction, LA noir, science fiction, and satire. Here are sluts and scam artists, ghosts and ancient dinosaur-men, all wrapped up in one page-turning plot. Beauman is a writer of audacity and style; his second novel proves him a star on the rise.

20.04.2009 Книга, подаренная лидером Венесуэлы Уго Чавесом президенту США Бараку Обаме, стала бестселлером, сообщает AFP. Чавес преподнес Обаме книгу уругвайского писателя Эдуардо Галеано "Вскрытые вены Латинской Америки" (Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina) 18 апреля на саммите стран Америки, проходившем в Тринидаде и Тобаго. Уже 19 апреля, книга Галеано, переведенная на английский язык, поднялась в списке лидеров продаж интернет-магазина Amazon.com с 734-го на 2-е место. "Открытые вены Латинской Америки" на языке оригинала продемонстрировали еще более впечатляющий рост популярности, переместившись в течение суток с 47468-го месте на 283-е. Книга известного публициста Эдуардо Галеано, рассказывающая об истории разграбления Латинской Америки от конкистадоров до глобальных корпораций, впервые вышла в свет в 1971 году. На русском языке произведение Галеано было опубликовано в 1986 году. На книге Галеано, преподнесенной Чавесом Обаме, президент Венесуэлы оставил дарственную надпись: "Обаме, с любовью" (For Obama, with affection). Президент США назвал подарок Чавеса "приятным жестом". На саммите стран Америки Чавес также пообещал восстановить дипломатические отношения между Венесуэлой и США, прерванные в сентябре 2008 года по инициативе Каракаса. На пост посла Венесуэлы в США Чавес предложил кандидатуру Роя Чэйдертона – представителя Венесуэлы в Организации американских государств. Госсекретарь США Хиллари Клинтон поддержала идею восстановления двусторонних дипломатических отношений, однако пока не сообщила, кто займет пост посла США в Венесуэле. *** Escrita en 1970, y revisada en 1978, `Las Venas…` no ha perdido la más mínima actualidad. Se trata de un libro de Historia Contemporánea, en el que se relata el devenir del subcontinente latinoamericano, desde su conquista por los europeos, hasta la actualidad. Y no es una historia fáctica, es decir, de hechos y batallitas. Todo lo contrario, es la historia del expolio, la injusticia y la destrucción y sometimiento que este continente ha sufrido desde el siglo XVI hasta el XX a manos de los `civilizadores` occidentales. La atención principal se dedica a los hechos económicos, y se estudia desde el comercio del oro y el azúcar de los primeros tiempos de la conquista, hasta las modernas formas de despojo de las materias primas como café, petróleo, cacao, etc. Ello haciendo un brillante estudio de cómo actualmente las economías de los países emancipados pertenecen del todo (y no ha podido ser de otra manera) a sus antiguos colonizadores. Por supuesto se estudian concienzudamente las causas y el desarrollo histórico de estos hechos (el libro cuenta con un amplio índice analítico). Y si a todo ello sumamos que está escrito con un estilo made in Galeano, rápido, directo, agudo, sin artificios, lleno de ejemplos ilustrativos, podremos concluir que estamos ante una obra maestra, que se lee con vivo interés y sin caer en el menor sopor o aburrimiento.

Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. But during the night, when he is awakened by noises in his apartment, he goes into the living room to find that the VCR is replaying the video. He watches in astonishment as a man who looks exactly like him-or, more specifically, exactly like he did five years before, mustachioed and fuller in the face-appears on the screen. He sleeps badly. Against his better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. As he roots out the man's identity, what begins as a whimsical story becomes a "wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and individuality" (The Boston Globe). Saramago displays his remarkable talent in this haunting tale of appearance versus reality.

A stirring page-turner from the bestselling author of the Mitford Series. Jan Karon's new series, launched with her New York Times bestselling Home to Holly Springs, thrilled legions of Mitford devotees, and also attracted a whole new set of readers. "Lovely," said USA Today. "Rejoice!" said The Washington Post. In this second novel, Father Tim and Cynthia arrive in the west of Ireland, intent on researching his Kavanagh ancestry from the comfort of a charming fishing lodge. The charm, however, is broken entirely when Cynthia startles a burglar and sprains her already-injured ankle. Then a cherished and valuable painting is stolen from the lodge owners, and Cynthia's pain pales in comparison to the wound at the center of this bitterly estranged Irish family. In the Company of Others is a moving testament to the desperate struggle to hide the truth at any cost and the powerful need to confess. Of all her winning novels, Jan Karon says this "dark-haired child" is her favorite-a sentiment readers everywhere are certain to share.

Joy Randall's Top 5 Tips for Vampire Hunters 1. Location, location, location. Remember, if you wouldn't be there, neither would a bloodsucker. They won't be found dead (ha!) in places like discos, ten-minute lube shops, or Switzerland. Check the Czech Republic. 2. Trust your eyes. You know the handsome, annoyingly arrogant, self-assured man in the shadows with long hair and a cleft in his chin? He's your vampire. 3. No matter how tempting it might be, DO NOT "ACCIDENTALLY" ACQUIRE A PAPER CUT AND SUGGEST YOUR VAMPIRE KISS YOUR FINGER TO MAKE IT BETTER. What you offer as a snack, he might take for a four-course meal. 4. From here on out, play it cool. Don't offer to accompany your prince of the night on the talk show circuit and WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T OFFER HIM YOUR HEART. 5. And most of all, remember—being a vampire is nothing to laugh about.

Jelena has found acceptance and love amongst the elves, but war, a sweeping pestilence, and the death of her beloved leave her desolate. Unaware Ashinji still lives, she seeks comfort in the arms of a young soldier determined to marry her. Knowing Jelena's life is in peril, Ashinji continues his desperate trek homeward. Racing against time, and chased by murderous slave hunters, he and his companions are out-matched until Ashinji breaks the bonds preventing him from tapping his own extraordinary magical power. The award winning Griffin's Daughter Trilogy concludes this epic tale of love's triumph over evil. As the world teeters on the brink of destruction, Jelena and Ashinji face their fates and discover Griffin's Destiny.

Капитан Иван Ворпатрил харесва своя сравнително скучен ергенски живот като адютант на бараярски адмирал. Иван е братовчед на имперския ревизор Майлс Воркосиган и е на едно от челните места в списъка с евентуални кандидати за императорския трон. За щастие появата на нови наследници му е спестила поне това главоболие и той си живее живота на Комар, далече от подводните течения на бараярската дворцова политика. Но когато стар приятел от разузнаването го моли да защити привлекателна млада жена от ударите на престъпен синдикат, кавалерската природа на Иван взема връх. По всичко личи, че опасността и приключенията отново са намерили капитан Ворпатрил…

When a storm blows Dorothy to the land of Ev where lunches grow on trees, she meets the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion, and Princess Ozma, and together they set out to free the Queen of Ev and her ten children.

Historia żołnierskiego losu młodego Niemca, który nieoczekiwanie, w czasie klęski armii niemieckiej, dostaje urlop. Przepełniony nadzieją udaje się do kraju, do rodzinnego miasta, by szukać wytchnienia od nędzy, głodu, zimna i wszechobecnej śmierci frontu rosyjskiego. Czeka go z jednej strony ogromne rozczarowanie – jest bowiem świadkiem upadku swojej ojczyzny, a z drugiej niespodziewane szczęście – przeżywa wielką miłość. Pełen wątpliwości wraca na front, gdzie rozstrzygnie się konflikt między winą a poświeceniem.