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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of All Our Wrong Todays, written and read by Elan Mastai. Tom lives in a perfect world: no war, no poverty, no under-ripe avocados. . . oh, and time travel. When he loses the love of his life, going back to fix it seems like the only answer. . . what could possibly go wrong?Elan Mastai's breakthrough novel brings a whole new dimension to a classic love story So, the thing is, I come from the world we were supposed...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Hauntingly evocative of medieval Spain, a deeply compelling story of love, adventure, divided loyalties, and what happens when beliefs begin to remake – or destroy – a world.The ruling Asharites of Al-Rassan have come from the desert sands, but over centuries, seduced by the sensuous pleasures of their new land, their stern piety has eroded. The Asharite empire has splintered into decadent city-states led by warring petty kings. King Almalik of Cartada is on the ascendancy, aided always by his...
| Автор | Guy Gavriel Kay |
I am a living ghost, a wanderer in search of my purpose and place…Restoring lost and abandoned cemeteries is my profession, but I’m starting to believe that my true calling is deciphering the riddles of the dead. Legend has it that Kroll Cemetery is a puzzle no one has ever been able to solve. For over half a century, the answer has remained hidden within the strange headstone inscriptions and intricate engravings. Because uncovering the mystery of that tiny, remote graveyard may come at a...
| Автор | Amanda Stevens |
All three volumes of the worldwide bestselling Mars trilogy.Mars – the barren, forbidding planet that epitomises mankind’s dreams of space conquest.From the first pioneers who looked back at Earth and saw a small blue star, to the first colonists – hand-picked scientists with the skills necessary to create life from cold desert – Red Mars is the story of a new genesis. It is also the story of how Man must struggle against his own self-destructive mechanisms to achieve his dreams: before he even...
| Автор | Kim Stanley Robinson |
The return of the famous shared-world superhero books created and edited by George R. R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire.For decades, George R.R. Martin – bestselling author of A Song of Ice and Fire – has collaborated with an ever-shifting ensemble of science fiction and fantasy icons to create the amazing Wild Cards universe.In the aftermath of World War II, the Earth’s population was devastated by an alien virus. Those who survived were changed forever. Some, known as jokers, were...
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The return of the famous shared-world superhero books created and edited by George R.R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and FireThe American Triad Series #1: Mississippi Roll #2: Low Chicago #3: Texas Hold 'EmA TIME FOR CRIME HAS COMEThe stakes where already high enough at Giovanni Galante’s poker table that night in Chicago. Poker. Dealer’s choice. Seven players. A million-dollar cash buy-in.But after a superpowered disaster, the most high-profile criminals in the city are scattered...
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’If you’re a fan of the likes of Joe Abercrombie or George R.R. Martin, then you’ll be pleased to learn that Anna Stephens has joined this august pantheon of lovingly horrible and deliciously dark writers’ STARBURSTRilporin has fallen and Corvus, King of the Mireces, reigns over an occupied land. The raiders and their dark religion have conquered, but victory came at a terrible price – the death of a god – and sparks of resistance glimmer on all sides.In the south, Mace gathers the survivors of...
| Автор | Anna Stephens |
"Shahnameh: The Epic of Kings" is the epic poem of the Persian poet Ferdowsi which tells of the mythological and historical past of Persia from the creation of the world up until the Islamic conquest in the seventh century. Written between 977 and 1010 AD, the «Shahnameh» is a captivating story of the ancient world and details much of Persia's history, culture, and ancient religions. The Helen Zimmern prose translation of the «Shahnameh» is presented here.
| Автор | Abolqasem Ferdowsi |
A hilarious contemporary retelling of the classic society novel, VANITY FAIR, featuring the irrepressible Becky SharpBeautiful, brilliant, ruthless – nothing can stop Becky Sharp.Becky Sharp has big dreams and no connections. Determined to swap the gutters of Soho for the glamorous, exclusive world behind the velvet rope, Becky will do anything to achieve fame, riches and status.Whether it’s seducing society’s most eligible bachelors, or befriending silly debutantes and rich old ladies, Becky...
| Автор | Sarra Manning |
Pierwsza część niezwykłej serii o podróżach w zaświaty! O bogowie! Czy za sprawą energii piramid to właśnie oni odradzają się w egipskich zaświatach, gdzieś w gwiazdozbiorze Oriona, czy może to zaawansowana wirtualna gra, w której stawką jest samo przetrwanie? Faktem jest jedynie, że ósemka wybrańców budzi się w zupełnie nowej rzeczywistości i odtąd mnożą się pytania, na które nikt nie zna ostatecznej odpowiedzi. Zaś każdy z bohaterów będzie się musiał zmierzyć nie tylko z zagadkami,...
| Автор | Krzysztof Bonk |
O bogowie! Czy za sprawą energii piramid to właśnie oni odradzają się w egipskich zaświatach, gdzieś w gwiazdozbiorze Oriona, czy może to zaawansowana wirtualna gra, w której stawką jest samo przetrwanie? Faktem jest jedynie, że ósemka wybrańców budzi się w zupełnie nowej rzeczywistości i odtąd mnożą się pytania, na które nikt nie zna ostatecznej odpowiedzi. Zaś każdy z bohaterów będzie się musiał zmierzyć nie tylko z zagadkami, zewnętrznymi demonami, ale i mrokiem w sobie. W rolach głównych...
| Автор | Krzysztof Bonk |
Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer, was a young man when he finally resorted to medication for his insomnia and fell into a deep sleep. He wakes two hundred years later, still youthful, to an age of great marvels and scientific achievement-and a world whose strange underlying economy is that it is all his private property. By inheritance and the compounding of interest, Graham the Sleeper has become the sole, final owner of everything and is revered as a leader, with a council that dictates to...
| Автор | Герберт Уэллс |
Exactly at eleven-thirty each Thursday night the Death Fiddler conducted his unholy orchestra in a symphony of murder which sounded the doom of some marked victim. A master of the grotesque, he held an entire city in the strangle-hold of a helpless terror; even the forces of the Law stood in shuddery, superstitious fear of this new destroyer. And then the Spider, Master of Men, modern knight-errant of mankind, rose up against him! But the Spider, too, was baffled; not all Richard...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Across these broad United States swept the grisly hordes of LaFitte, modern counterpart of ancient, blood-thirsty piracy. In their horrible wake remained only red ruin and the charred skeletons of the Nation's crack trains… Such was the criminal blitzkrieg of LaFitte, the brutal buccaneer no man dared challenge – save Richard Wentworth… alias the Spider! How can millionaire criminologist Richard Wentworth, secretly the Spider, battle such an appalling menace and survive to tell the tale? Go...
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A powerful menace has targeted the United States of America-the Silver King and his Silver Assassins. Their goal: the overthrow of the U.S. government by mob rule. Their method: wholesale murder-beginning with the nation's law makers! Tipped off to the threat, millionaire criminologist Richard Wentworth sets out to smash the plot–as the Spider! The headlong action begins in the depths of a Colorado silver mine where U. S. senators have been targeted for slaughter, careens through the...
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Richard Wentworth – who, as the swift-killing Spider, is the scourge of the Underworld – thought the Fly was dead. But once more that most formidable enemy had arisen, pillaging, slaying wantonly, armed with a ghastly new weapon, the Green Globes of Death! Ruthless and astute, heading a gigantic criminal syndicate, the Fly was butchering innocent persons only, it seemed, to see their red blood flow. It was with flagging hope and heavy heart that the Spider took up his newest battle with the...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Beautiful girls, in the first bloom of youth, suddenly struck blind, their once sparkling eyes turned to glassy gray marbles. Strong men groping, sightless and helpless, in terrifying darkness. The Blind Man, he called himself, and it mattered little to him how many people he blinded in his mad lust for wealth and power. Just as a cobra sprays blinding venom into the eyes of its victims, so the Blind Man paralyzed the eyes of all who stood in his way. Even Richard Wentworth, the avenging Spider,...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Thousands of busy persons bent over their desks in the tallest building in the world – conducting the commerce of the nation – when suddenly the steel girders began to creak and twist, and the gigantic edifice swayed giddily in the rising wind. Never before had criminal brains devised a more cunning or a more horrible weapon to garner their ill-gotten treasures. And never before was the Spider so strenuously put to test – for the Master, the man behind the devastation and death, eluded every...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
The most fearful terror ever to be visited upon a city had struck with malicious force and suddenness at Cincinnati. So fiendish were the machinations of the misshapen and malignant little monsters who were making the city their unholy playground, Richard Wentworth, famed as the Spider, knew that only one man could be directing them in their devil's sport. Only Tang-akhmut, the sinister Egyptian, the man whose vices were ageless and uncounted, could be engineering those wholesale murders,...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
America's greatest metropolis struggled hopelessly in the toils of starvation – victim of the world's most unscrupulous impostor – a criminal red Spider whose underworld cohorts had slashed the city's life-giving arteries and established a bloody rule! While hollow-cheeked Famine left its ghastly imprint upon whimpering, peaked-faced little children, Richard Wentworth, in the real Spider's eerie guise, took up their desperate cause – to wage death-battle against his most...
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His purpose was to control America's vast resources, so that he might sell them to Europe's highest-bidding war monger for fabulous millions. So powerful were his weapons: induced insanity, living cholera bacteria, a hideous hypnosis… that all who opposed him became his vassals – until Richard Wentworth in the guise of the Spider risked all he held dear in the grimmest battle of his crime-fighting life! Follow the Spider, Master of Men, as he dodges gangland guns and police bullets in...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
A plague of blindness sweeps through Manhattan. Thousands of New Yorkers are stricken. Will the entire city go blind? Once again, Richard Wentworth dons the terrible black garments of the Spider. Once more, the Master of Men plunges into a nightmare of horror against which all lawful authorities are helpless. But this time he faces a foe more cruel and merciless than any before. Amoy! King of the Eyeless Terror. This time the Spider falls into the trap of all traps–the dark, inescapable pit of...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Tam Hashford hat genug von ihrem langweiligen Dasein als Schankmaid in ihrem kleinen Dorf und von der fast schon erstickenden Fürsorge ihres alleinstehenden Vaters. Sie träumt von einem Leben voller Abenteuer und Gefahren, einem Leben wie es die Söldnertruppen führen. Als eines Tages Fable, die Truppe der legendären «blutigen» Rose, im Dorf Station macht, ergreift Tam ihre Chance: Sie heuert bei Fable als Bardin an und geht mit ihren großen Idolen auf Tour. Noch hat Tam keine Ahnung, dass Rose...
| Автор | Nicholas Eames |
Nona ist kein gewöhnliches Kind: Sie hat auffällig schwarze Augen und schwarze Haare und kann sich mit übernatürlicher Geschwindigkeit bewegen. Und sie ist erst acht, als sie ihren ersten Mord begeht. Nona steht schon im Schatten des Galgens, als sie von der Äbtissin des Klosters zur barmherzigen Gnade gerettet wird, wo sie man sie zur Kriegerin ausbildet. Doch der Mann, den sie getötet hat, gehörte einer der mächtigsten Familien des Reiches an – die alles daransetzt, sich an ihr und den...
| Автор | Mark Lawrence |