The time is 1964. The place is the Cabinet Room of the Where House. An unexpected accident and the law of succession have just made Douglass Dilman the first black President of the United States. This is the theme of what was surely one of the most provocative novels of the 1960s. It takes the reader into the storm center of the presidency, where Dilman, until now an almost unknown senator, must bear the weight of three burdens: his office, his race, and his private life. From beginning to end, The Man is a novel of swift and tremendous drama, as President Dilman attempts to uphold his oath in the face of international crises, domestic dissension, violence, scandal, and ferocious hostility. Push comes to shove in a breathtaking climax, played out in the full glare of publicity, when the Senate of the United States meets for the first time in one hundred years to impeach the President.

Arthur Raffles is a prominent member of London society, and a national sporting hero. As a cricketer he regularly represents England in Test matches. He uses this as a chance to commit a number of burglaries, primarily stealing valuable jewellery from his hosts. In this, he is assisted by his friend, the younger, idealistic Bunny Manders. Both men are constantly under the surveillance of Inspector Mackenzie of Scotland Yard who is always thwarted in his attempts to pin the crimes on Raffles...

Автор вважає за потрібне нагадати особливо прискіпливим читачам, що книжка ця — роман, причому не документальний. Тому тут, як і в будь-якому романі, вигадка тісно переплетена з фактами. Автор малював “Летючого Голландця”, вигаданий ним підводний човен “для таємних доручень”, як певне узагальнення тієї різнобічної, хитромудро замаскованої диверсійної діяльності, що її провадили і далі провадять проти миру мого вороги, організатори воєн.

Stop the Assassination! The directive came from the White House, and the target was less than twenty miles away in an affluent Maryland suburb. For Mack Bolan it was a very strange assignment: tooprotect a high-level Iranian exile, General Eshan Nazarour, from imminent assassination. It became stranger still when the generals beautiful American wife was kidnapped. Immediately the intrigue, violence — and murder — began to form a familiar pattern. Organized crime was getting involved with foreign subversion. The maze of treachery and terrorism could lead to only one conclusion — the deadly presence of the Executioner: Mack Bolan!

Derek Mason arrives in Charlotte, North Carolina for the funeral of his Aunt Walterene. He encounters the family who sent him away because he revealed he was gay. His mother and Uncle Vernon want him out of town because of Vernon’s senate campaign. His sister and Aunt Ruby urge him to stay. His cousin Mark denies their past relationship. Derek uncovers mysteries in the death of a family gardener, possibly at the hands of a young Vernon. Secrets and lies unravel as Derek digs into the family history with the help of hunky reporter Daniel.

YOU SANK THE WRONG BATTLESHIPDuring a routine naval drill at Pearl Harbor, American forces detect a ship of unknown origins that’s crashed in the Pacific Ocean. Lieutenant Alex Hopper, an officer aboard the USS John Paul Jones, is ordered to investigate the ominous-looking vessel—which turns out to be part of an armada of ships that are stronger and faster than any on Earth. And that’s when the Navy’s radar goes down. Ambushed by a ravenous enemy they cannot see, a small U.S. fleet makes their last stand on the open ocean, armed with little more than their instincts, to defend their lives—and the world as we know it.

Гостросюжетна науково-фантастична повість. За публікацією у журналі "Дніпро" (номери 10-11 за 1985 р.) Малюнки В. Псарьова. Російською мовою повість виходила під назвою "Особый контроль" в зовсім іншій редакції.

VIIe VIe siècles avant J.-C. On le considère comme le père de la fable. Mais a-t-il vraiment existé ? Rien n'est sûr, il est convenu désormais de parler plutôt de textes ésopiques que de fables d'Ésope. Ces fables constituent une somme de la sagesse populaire des Grecs. Elles inspireront ensuite Phèdre à Rome, puis les conteurs arabes. Les fables d'Ésope ont été compilées et publiées au XIVe siècle, par Planude, un moine byzantin. Isaac Nicolas de Nivelet avait publié en 1610 une version d'Ésope en latin, et cette traduction avait été rééditée en 1660. La Fontaine l'a probablement lue…

From Robert Silverberg’s, “Earthmen and Strangers” anthology, 1966: Earthly life has developed many methods of reproducing itself. The amoeba is content to split in half; the hydra produces a bud that develops into a new hydra; the small crustacean known as daphnia lays eggs that do not need to be fertilized in order to bring forth young daphnias. Most animals, though, rely on two sexes, female and male, one to produce eggs and the other to fertilize them. The variations within this scheme are great—take, for example, the case of the oyster, which is male at one time of the year and female at another. Given such biological variations, it was inevitable that science-fiction writers would begin to speculate about the unearthly aspects reproduction might take among alien beings. Poul Anderson, a lanky chap of Viking descent who lives in California, is better qualified to make scientific speculations than most of his colleagues. He took a degree in physics at the University of Minnesota before turning to science fiction, and keeps abreast of the latest technical developments in a way that gives his stories the solid ring of authenticity. In this example, he provides a convincing blend of science and imagination that yields insight into a wholly alien race. But because recent scientific research has given us a view of conditions on Mercury different from the one that was accepted in 1957, when this story was written, Anderson has added his own introduction to the story in the interest of maintaining accuracy.

Novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, published in Greek in 1946 as Vios kai politia tou Alexi Zormpa. The unnamed narrator is a scholarly, introspective writer who opens a coal mine on the fertile island of Crete. He is gradually drawn out of his ascetic shell by an elderly employee named Zorba, an ebullient man who revels in the social pleasures of eating, drinking, and dancing. The narrator's reentry into a life of experience is completed when his newfound lover, the village widow, is ritually murdered by a jealous mob.

Повість Наталки Сняданко “Колекція пристрастей” без сумніву лише з великою натяжкою можна віднести до так званої “жіночої еротичної прози”, хоча вона, повість, має всі ознаки бестселера, яким свого часу стали “Польові дослідження українського сексу”. Однак характер цієї прози можна охарактеризувати радше як анти-Забужко. Це стосується як стилістики та засобів вираження, так і, — умовно кажучи, — “соціально-психологічного” портрету протагоніста (чи то пак — протагоністки). Можна говорити також про особливості природи комплексів, сублімація яких призвела до появи обидвох творів, про зміни у хронографії , але найважніше мабуть — полярність сугестивних реакцій: аґресивно-екстравертні спроби трансформувати реальність, виходячи з власних вагінально-рецепторних потреб в одному випадку, й інтравертивний, рефлексійно-рефлекторний скепсис як форма самозахисту — в іншому. Втім, усе це — лише недолугі чоловічі спроби класифікувати незбагненну жіночу природу, котра, як відомо, класифікації не підлягає. Читаймо.

Nancy Harmon had fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, the hostile front-page newspaper stories and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her red hair sable brown, and left California for the wind-swept peace of Cape Cod. Now she was married again, had two more beautiful children, and the terrible pain had begun to heal…until the morning when she looked in the back yard for her little boy and girl, found only one red mitten, and knew that the nightmare was beginning again…

ŽILS VERNS KAPTEIŅA GRANTA BĒRNI Plaši pazīstamais franču rakstnieka romāns par ceļojumu apkārt zemeslodei. Grāmata saista nevien ar aizraujošiem piedzīvojumiem, bagātīgo floras un faunas attēlojumu, bet arī spilgtiem varoņiem, kurus vada cēlas jūtas. Jules Verne LES ENFANTS DU CAPITAINE GRANT Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1923 3. izdevums No franču valodas tulkojis Ēvalds Juhņēvičs 81.4 Fr Ve 650 4803020000-248 M801 (11)—86 Riū ilustrācijas Arvīda Būmaņa mākslinieciskais noformējums

The new Goddess Summoning novel from the author of the multimillion- selling House of Night phenomenon. After her car plummets off a bridge, Isabel, a world-weary photojournalist, struggles between life and death when she's saved by the Water Goddess-with one tiny caveat: Isabel must travel to another time to seduce the legendary Lancelot du Lac away from Queen Guinevere. The handsome knight is a dream for any woman in any century. But Isabel is the one who's seduced by King Arthur. For Isabel, a deal is a deal. Now, the King watches as fate takes from him the mysterious beauty he has come to worship, knowing all too well that any interference on his part could destroy the kingdom he loves.

Эта книга наряду с "Повелителем мух" У.Голдинга - эталонный образец британского психологического реализма XX века.

Роман, тонко, точно и беспощадно исследующий детскую душу. Война двух мальчишек - Чарльза и Эдмунда - за право "единоличного владения" руинами средневекового замка.

Начинается она почти как игра. Но постепенно эта полудетская игра становится все более жестокой, превращается в настоящую феодальную распрю двух маленьких "властителей"...