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Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner’s The Case of the Murderer’s Bride and Other Stories

4 novelets and 3 short stories by the creator of PERRY MASON and the best-selling American mystery writer of all time.<

Stephen Hunter

The 47th samurai

<p>In The 47th Samurai, Bob Lee Swagger, the gritty hero of Stephen Hunter's bestselling novels Point of Impact and Time to Hunt, returns in Hunter's most intense and exotic thriller to date.</p><p>Bob Lee Swagger and Philip Yano are bound together by a single moment at Iwo Jima, 1945, when their fathers, two brave fighters on opposite sides, met in the bloody and chaotic battle for the island. Only Earl Swagger survived.</p><p>More than sixty years later, Yano comes to America to honor the legacy of his heroic father by recovering the sword he used in the battle. His search has led him to Crazy Horse, Idaho, where Bob Lee, ex-marine and Vietnam veteran, has settled into a restless retirement and immediately pledges himself to Yano's quest.</p><p>Bob Lee finds the sword and delivers it to Yano in Tokyo. On inspection, they discover that it is not a standard WWII blade, but a legendary shin-shinto katana, an artifact of the nation. It is priceless but worth killing for. Suddenly Bob is at the center of a series of terrible crimes he barely understands but vows to avenge. And to do so, he throws himself into the world of the samurai, Tokyo 's dark, criminal yakuza underworld, and the unwritten rules of Japanese culture.</p><p>Swagger's allies, hard-as-nails, American-born Susan Okada and the brave, cocaine-dealing tabloid journalist Nick Yamamoto, help him move through this strange, glittering, and ominous world from the shady bosses of the seamy Kabukicho district to officials in the highest echelons of the Japanese government, but in the end, he is on his own and will succeed only if he can learn that to survive samurai, you must become samurai.</p><p>As the plot races and the violence escalates, it becomes clear that a ruthless conspiracy is in place, and the only thing that can be taken for granted is that money, power, and sex can drive men of all nationalities to gruesome extremes. If Swagger hopes to stop them, he must be willing not only to die but also to kill.</p><

Hill- Gerri

Angel Fire

Joe Gores

Cons, Scams, and Grifts

DKA File

<p>On a Hollywood studio lot a dancing bear does a little pickpocketing on the side. In Son Francisco the repo men of Daniel Kearny Associates ore on a nonstop campaign to repossess twenty-seven classic cars from twenty-seven people who will go to classic lengths to keep them. And in a fortress in the Big Sur wilderness a rich man vows to steal an ultraprecious collectors’ item. Soon the dancing bear, DKA, and the millionaire will entangle in a twisted plot of betrayal and murder.</p><p>It all starts when the dancing bear actually a full-blooded Gypsy in o fur suit — is unceremoniously killed. Now the police are searching for the bear’s beautiful Gypsy wife, Yana. At the request of the Gypsy King, whose honorable world of thievery does not tolerate murder, the men and women of DKA also look for her. But the seductive, ever-changing Yana is eluding them all, and working on a new grift of her own.</p><p>Meanwhile, the tribe raises cosh for a moss pilgrimage to the holy city of Rome — just in time for the Jubilee celebration and a feast of tourists. And while a crime wave is erupting in California, while the cops are distracted by their hunt for Yana and every head is turned in the wrong direction, a helicopter is beating its way to Big Sur, carrying the greatest scam of all.</p><p>In this sexy hilarious tale action and seduction cops, robbers, and repo men, Joe Gores takes us into a shifting subculture of ancient rituals and cutting-edge cons. With one mystery at its core and another unfolding at its end, Joe Gores latest and most entertaining novel yet should come with a warning: Enjoy the ride, but hold on to your wallet...</p><

Stephen Hunter

Night of Thunder

New York Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter returns with his most riveting Bob Lee Swagger volume to date. The stakes are high – and personal because this time, Swagger's daughter's life is at stake. Forced off the road and into a crash that leaves her clinging to life in a coma, Nikki Swagger had begun to peel back the onion of a Southern Fried scandal. Corrupt constabulary, meth lab crackers, and deranged evangelicals rear their ugly heads and when Swagger picks up where Nikki left off, his swift sword of justice is let loose. All of it is set against the backdrop of the excitement and insanity that only a weeklong NASCAR event can bring to the backwoods of a town as seemingly sleepy as Bristol, VA. A master at the top of his game, Hunter provides a host of riveting new reasons to read as fast as we can. Stephen Hunter is the bestselling author of THE 47TH SAMURAI, HAVANA and PALE HORSE COMING, among other titles.<

Erle Stanley Gardner

The Case of the Rolling Bones

Perry Mason

<p>Here’s a PERRY MASON story, with a murder hinging on as ingenious a trick as has appeared in a mystery in a long time, and containing some of the most exiting courtroom scenes Erle Stanley Gardner has even written.</p><p>It’s about:</p><p>Alden E. Leeds, millionaire and black sheep of the family, about to the torn limb from limb by a pack of gold-greedy relatives; Phyllis, old man Leeds’s niece and business manager; Ned Barkler, once his partner in Klondike days; L. C. Conway, who sold dice almost anyone could roll; blonde, hard Marcia Whittaker, who seemed to have said that all she wanted was a cozy little home; and, of course, wily Perry Mason, Della Street, his secretary, and lanky Paul Drake, the detective.</p><p>Readers will find here the usual swift pace and ingenuity, the unexpected twists and surprises that have made Erle Stanley Gardner the most popular detective-store writer in America.</p><

Stephen Hunter

Dirty White Boys

Three convicts on the run with an arsenal of weaponry and only one rogue cop can stop them. Lamar Pye has escaped from Oklahoma State Penitentiary, accompanied by his idiot cousin and a vicious, but cowardly artist. To have stayed in prison was certain death, but his chances on the outside are not much greater: his excesses know no bounds—one killing follows another. But one murder brings his nemesis upon him: Bud Pewtie of the Highway of the Highway Patrol loses his partner in a blood-soaked shoot-out with Lamar, and from that moment on, nothing will stop him from getting even.<

Maggie Gee

Where are the Snows

<p>Christopher and Alexandra's passion for one another raises eyebrows and invites envy. This beautiful, blinkered couple do the unthinkable and run away from home, abandoning their two teenage children. Their sudden departure is an act of glorious wilfulness. Life in the countries they visit serves as nothing more than a backdrop to the vagaries of their love affair. Initially their loyal neighbour receives the odd postcard, but that soon stops.</p><p>Fifteen years later Alexandra is in remote Bolivia with a lover young enough to be her son and Christopher is in Venice, desolate and alone but for the pigeons and prostitutes. Tormented by past mistakes, neither can accept that they may never meet again.</p><p>A haunting story of obsessive love and a moving testimony to the bonds that tie us to our past, regardless of distance or time traveled.</p><p>Maggie was the first female Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, 2004–2008, and is now one of its Vice-Presidents. She lives in London.</p><

Stephen Hunter

Black Light

Bob Lee Swagger

Maggie Gee

The White Family

The Whites are an ordinary British family: love, hatred, sex and death hold them together, and tear them apart. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Alfred White, a London park keeper, still rules his home with fierce conviction and inarticulate tenderness. May, his clever, passive wife, loves Alfred but conspires against him. Their three children are no longer close; the successful elder son, Darren, has escaped to the USA. When Alfred collapses on duty, his beautiful, childless daughter Shirley, who lives with Elroy, a black social worker, is brought face to face with Alfred's younger son Dirk, who hates and fears all black people. The scene is set for violence. In the end Alfred and May are forced to make a climatic decision: does justice matter more than kinship?<

Robert Holdstock

The Dark Wheel

Новелизация игры Elite<

Sylvie Germain

Magnus

A moving and enigmatic novel which deals with the Holocaust and a man's search for his own identity. Magnus pieces together the complex puzzle of his life, which turns out to be closer to a painting by Edward Munch than the romantic tale of family heroism and self-sacrifice on which he was nurtured by the woman he believed was his mother.<

Robert Harris

The Fear Index

Leonard Gardner

Fat City

New York Review Books Classics

<p>Fat City</p><

Rachel B Glaser

Pee On Water

Fiction. "Rachel Glaser has written a game-changer. I have a couple of rules about things I allow myself to like. Rachel breaks all of them and her stories leave me hunting for my rule book. Where is my rule book? Damn her. Bless her. Say what you will. PEE ON WATER is a new way to breathe"-Giancarlo DiTrapano.<

Reginald Hill

Deadheads

Dalziel and Pascoe

Robert Galbraith

Career of Evil

Cormoran Strike

Robert A Heinlein

Freitag

<p>Freitag ist ihr Name. Sie ist ein Retortenbaby, und man hat dies und das an ihr verbessert. Sie ist normalen Menschen überlegen: im Erdulden von Schmerzen, in ihren Reflexen, in ihrer Ausdauer — und in ihrer Schönheit.</p><p>Das macht sie zu einer begehrten Sexpartnerin ebenso wie zu einer tödlichen Waffe. Den normalen Menschen ist sie unheimlich. Sie lehnen sie ab, haben Angst vor ihr — weil sie ein Kunstprodukt ist, ein „Ding“. Und sie wird auch von ihren Auftraggebern skrupellos als „Ding“ benutzt, vom Geheimdienst in Situationen gehetzt, die für andere Agenten absolut tödlich wären.</p><

John Gardner

Freddy's Book

<p>A visiting lecturer is lured to the remote, gothic mansion of an estranged professor and his only son, who is described as a monster. But soon, the visitor enters an enchanting new world when he begins reading the son’s hidden manuscript. Part history, part myth, the story conjures a sixteenth-century Sweden in which good and evil clash for the ultimate prize. To attain the throne, the protagonist, Gustav Vasa, accepts the Devil’s counsel, but to remain in power and rule justly, he must drive the Devil underground. This sweeping, masterful tale transports us from the wasted mining hills of Dalarna to the frozen northern country of the Lapps — and into the very heart of the struggle over what it means to be human.</p><p>This ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives.</p><

Freds Hoils

ANDROMĒDAS IZLAUŠANĀS

<p>Freds Hoils, Džons Eljots</p><p>ANDROMĒDAS IZLAUŠANĀS </p><

John Champlin Gardner

In the Suicide Mountains

<p>In this wonderful fantasy, John Gardner weaves tales within tales to bring a magical world to vivid life. When three travelers on their way to the Suicide Mountains meet an enigmatic man, the Abbot of the Ancient Monastery, they begin a series of wild adventures in which they must confront mystical creatures — and come to terms with the roles fate has determined for each of them.</p><p>Superbly imagined and brimming with philosophical insight, is a tribute to Gardner’s passion for medieval storytelling, and an unforgettable novel in its own right.</p><

Robert A Heinlein

Durys į vasarą

Amerikiečių rašytojo fantasto romanas apie inžinierių išradėją, kuris savo priešų užmigdomas šaltuoju miegu. Pabudęs po trisdešimties metų, jis randa būdą grįžti atgal, tačiau praeityje nepasilieka, nes ateitis visada gražesnė.<

John Champlin Gardner

Jason and Medeia

<p>In this magnificent epic poem, John Gardner renders his interpretation of the ancient story of Jason and Medeia. Confined in the palace of King Creon, and longing to return to his rightful kingdom Iolcus, Jason asks his wife, the sorceress Medeia, to use her powers of enchantment to destroy the tryrant King Pelias. Out of love she acquiesces, only to find that upon her return Jason has replaced her with King Creon’s beautiful daughter, Glauce. An ancient myth fraught with devotion and betrayal, deception and ambition, is one of the greatest classical legends, and Gardner’s masterful retelling is yet another achievement for this highly acclaimed author.</p><

John Champlin Gardner

Nickel Mountain

<p>At the heart of John Gardner's is an uncommon love story: when at 42, the obese, anxious and gentle Henry Soames marries seventeen-year-old Callie Wells — who is pregnant with the child of a local boy — it is much more than years which define the gulf between them. But the beauty of this novel is the gradual revelation of the bond that develops as this unlikely couple experiences courtship and marriage, the birth of a son, isolation, forgiveness, work, and death in a small Catskill community in the 1950s. The plot turns on tragic events — they might be accidents or they might be acts of will — involving a cast of rural eccentrics that includes a lonely amputee veteran, a religious hysteric (thought by some to be the devil himself) and an itinerant "Goat Lady." Questions of guilt, innocence, and even murder are eclipsed by deeds of compassion, humility, and redemption, and ultimately by Henry Soames' quiet discovery of grace.</p><p>Novelist William H. Gass, a friend and colleague of the author, has written an introduction that shines new light on the work and career of the much praised but often misunderstood John Gardner.</p><

Raiders Hegards

Daiļā Margareta

<p>DAIĻĀ MARGARETA </p><p>Raiders Hegards</p><p>no angļu valodas tulkojusi R. Koka</p><p>«Daiļā Margareta»,  ir viens no  labākajiem šā žanra darbiem. Par romāna darbības fonu rakstnieks izvēlējies 15. gs. pēdējo ceturksni, kad Anglijā un Spānijā norisinājās sīva cīņa starp absolūto monarhiju un feodālo sadrum­stalotību. </p><p>Anglijā, ko bija galīgi novājinājusi divu feodāļu dzimtu — Lankasteras un Jorkas — ilgstoša un asiņaina cīņa, kura iegājusi vēsturē kā Sarkanās un Baltās Rozes karš, pie varas nāca jauna karaļu dinastija — Tjūdori. Jaunās dinastijas nodibinātājam Henrijam VII, kura valdīšanas sestajā gadā norisinās romāna darbība, izdevās nostiprināties uz troņa un sekmīgi cīnīties pret feodāļiem. Kaut gan romāna darbība norit galvenokārt Spānijā, Hegards veiksmīgi attēlojis arī vēsturisko situāciju tālaika Anglijā. Galvenais varonis — Pīters Broums — ir nabadzīgs tāpēc, ka viņa tēvs, būdams karaļa Ričarda III piekritējs, kritis kaujā pie Bosvortas, kurā uzvarēja Henrijs Tjūdors. Hegards ļoti īsi, bet precīzi rak­sturo Henriju VII — viņa nedrošo stāvokli tronī, cenšanos uzturēt draudzīgas attiecības ar Spāniju.</p><

Shoji Gatoh

Fighting Boy Meets Girl

Full Metal Panic!

Jindai High School was a relatively safe place, right up until Sousuke Sagaka transferred there. A total nut, he wreaks havoc on the school's student body and gets into a world of trouble with the teachers! But there's more to Sousuke than meets the eye--not just a hell-raising student, he's actually a member of an elite military unit, on an undercover mission to protect the beautiful schoolgirl Kaname Chidori from the KGB.<

Alice Hoffman

The Dovekeepers

John Gardner

October Light

The setting is a farm on Prospect Mountain in Vermont. The central characters are an old man and an old woman, brother and sister, living together in profound conflict.<

Raiders Hegards

ĶĒNIŅA ZĀLAMANA RAKTUVES

<p>ĶĒNIŅA ZĀLAMANA RAKTUVES</p><p>Raiders Hegards </p><p>Pagājušā gadsimta populārais rakstnieks Raiders Hegards latviešu lasītājam nav svešs — 1967. gadā izdevniecība «Zinātne» laida klajā viņa spraigiem notikumiem bagāto vēsturisko romānu «Montesumas meita».</p><p>Sajā izdevumā apvienotos darbus — «Ķēniņa Zālamana raktuves» un «Daiļā Margareta» — ari raksturo veiksmīgi sa­mezglots sižets, negaidīti notikumu pavērsieni.</p><p>Pirmā romāna darbība notiek Dienvidāfrikā. Rakstnieka iztēli rosinājis un romānam vielu devis neprātīgais dimantu un zelta drudzis, ko bija izraisījusi dimantu lauku atklāšana Dienvid­āfrikā. «Ķēniņa Zālamana raktuvēs» R. Hegards arī ievijis paša vērojumus Dienvidāfrikā, kur rakstnieks dzīvojis vairākus gadus un iepazinies ar vietējo cilšu paražām un ticējumiem.</p><p>romānā — «Daiļā Margareta» — attēlota vēsturiskā situācija Anglijā un Spānijā 15. gs. beigās, kad notika izšķirošā cīņa starp absolūto monarhiju un feodāļu varu, kad Spānijā Ferdi­nanda un Isabellas valdīšanas laikā «neticīgos» un «ķecerus» ne­žēlīgi vajāja inkvizīcija. Autors nosoda tolaik izplatītos rasu un reliģiskos aizspriedumus. </p><p>Iepazīstoties ar romāna spilgti ieskicēto varoņu aizraujoša­jiem piedzīvojumiem, lasītājs izjūt tēlotā laikmeta atmosfēru, gūst priekšstatu par sadzīvi un tikumiem viduslaiku Anglijā un Spānijā.</p><p>I. Kuskova ilustrācijas</p><p>H. P urviņa mākslinieciskā apdare</p><

John Champlin Gardner

Stillness & Shadows

<p>Martin and Joan Orrick — distant cousins who have known each other since early childhood — are in the final throes of a failing marriage. Martin is a compulsive drinker who obsesses about his writing, and Joan is struggling with a debilitating physical condition. Together they search for some type of collective identity, and identify where the dissolution of their love began.</p><p>Inspired by therapy sessions Gardner experienced with his first wife, Stillness is an insightful portrait of one couple’s struggle for fulfillment in a tumultuous world.</p><p>Private detective Gerald Craine is pursuing an unknown murderer. At the same time, he himself is the target of an unknown person’s pursuit. Stumbling through an alcohol-soaked haze, Craine desperately seeks meaning and understanding in a world fraught with fragmented narratives.</p><p>John Gardner’s friend Nicholas Delbanco has supplemented this unfinished novel with seven sections from Gardner’s original manuscript that provide critical insight into Gardner’s approach to developing the novel and its characters, giving a rare glimpse inside the creative process of one of the twentieth century’s most inventive writers.</p><p>This ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives.</p><

Kevin Hearne

Hammered

The Iron Druid Chronicles

<p>Thor, the Norse god of thunder, is worse than a blowhard and a bully — he's ruined countless lives and killed scores of innocents. After centuries, Viking vampire Leif Helgarson is ready to get his vengeance, and he's asked his friend Atticus O'Sullivan, the last of the Druids, to help take down this Norse nightmare.</p><p>One survival strategy has worked for Atticus for more than two thousand years: stay away from the guy with the lightning bolts. But things are heating up in Atticus's home base of Tempe, Arizona. There's a vampire turf war brewing, and Russian demon hunters who call themselves the Hammers of God are running rampant. Despite multiple warnings and portents of dire consequences, Atticus and Leif journey to the Norse plain of Asgard, where they team up with a werewolf, a sorcerer, and an army of frost giants for an epic showdown against vicious Valkyries, angry gods, and the hammer-wielding Thunder Thug himself.</p><

John Champlin Gardner

The Art of Living: And Other Stories

The first collection in seven years from one of America's most celebrated and admired writers-ten wonderful short (and long) stories that allow us to explore and enjoy once again the many facets of John Gardner's unique fictional world. Here are enchanting tales about queens and kings and princesses in magical, timeless lands; marvelously warm and funny stories that move, amuse, and enlighten us as they probe the mysterious and profound relation between art and life.<

John Champlin Gardner

The King's Indian: Stories and Tales

<p>In this exceptional book, author John Gardner explores the literary form as a vehicle of vision, and creates heroes that personify his tremendous artistic ideals: A Boston schoolmaster abandons his dreams of owning a farmhouse in rural Illinois only to be taken on a voyage across the seas and into self-discovery, faith, and love; an artist’s rapturous enthusiasm inspires an aging university professor to approach life’s chaotic moments as opportunities for creation. Each of these stories is wonderful in its own right, and provides valuable insight into the author’s literary beliefs.</p><p>Written just prior to his critical masterwork, is a must-read for those interested in learning more about Gardner’s highly controversial artistic philosophies.</p><p>This ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives.</p><

Amanda Hocking

My Blood Approves

My Blood Approves

Seventeen-year-old Alice Bonham's life feels out of control after she meets Jack. With his fondness for pink Chuck Taylors and New Wave hits aside, Jack's unlike anyone she's ever met. Then she meets his brother, Peter. His eyes pierce through her, and she can barely breathe when he's around. Even though he can't stand the sight of her, she's drawn to him. But falling for two very different guys isn't even the worst of her problems. Jack and Peter are vampires, and Alice finds herself caught between love and her own blood…<

David Handler

The Blood Red Indian Summer

Berger and Mitry

John Champlin Gardner

The Sunlight Dialogues

<p>One summer day, a countercultural drifter known only as the Sunlight Man appears in Batavia, New York. Jailed for painting the word “LOVE” across two lanes of traffic, the Sunlight Man encounters Fred Clumly, a sixty-four-year-old town sheriff. Throughout the course of this impressive narrative, the dialogue between these two men becomes a microcosm of the social unrest that epitomized America during this significant historical period — and culminates in an unforgettable ending.</p><p>Beautifully expansive and imbued with exceptional social insight, is John Gardner’s most ambitious work andestablished him as one of the most important fiction writers in post — World War II America.</p><

Sara J Henry

A Cold and Lonely Place

Freelance writer Troy Chance is snapping photos of the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival ice palace when the ice-cutting machine falls silent. Encased in the ice is the shadowy outline of a body. Troy's assigned to write an in-depth feature on the dead man, who was the privileged son of a wealthy Connecticut family who had been playing at a blue collar life in this Adirondack village. And the deeper Troy digs into his life and mysterious death, the murkier things become. After the victim's sister comes to town and a string of disturbing incidents unfold, it's clear someone doesn't want the investigation to continue. Troy doesn't know who to trust, and what she ultimately finds out threatens to shatter the serenity of these mountain towns.<

John Champlin Gardner

The Wreckage of Agathon

Laid to waste by drink, Agathon, a seer, is a shell of a man. He sits imprisoned with his apprentice, Peeker, for his presumed involvement in a rebellion against the Spartan tyrant Lykourgos. Confined to a cell, the men produce extraordinary writings that illustrate the stories of their lives and give witness to Agathon’s deterioration and the growth of Peeker from a bashful young apprentice to a self-assured and passionate seer. Captivating and imaginative, is a tribute to author John Gardner’s passion for ancient storytelling and those universal themes that span the course of all human civilization.<

John Hands

Darkness at Dawn

Mary Gaitskill

The Mare

<p>Velveteen Vargas is eleven years old, a Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn. Her host family is a couple in upstate New York: Ginger, a failed artist on the fringe of Alcoholics Anonymous, and Paul, an academic who wonders what it will mean to “make a difference” in such a contrived situation. illuminates the couple’s changing relationship with Velvet over the course of several years, as well as Velvet’s powerful encounter with the horses at the stable down the road, as Gaitskill weaves together Velvet’s vital inner-city community and the privileged country world of Ginger and Paul.</p><

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