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Klasyczna opowieść SF, jeden z najczęściej filmowanych w Hollywood utworów SF (4 ekranizacje). Historia żony profesora uniwersyteckiego, która praktykuje magię voodoo, aby dopomóc mężowi w karierze naukowej. Niestety, okazuje się, że żony konkurentów męża do stanowisk na uczelni, to także czarownice. Konflikt jest nieunikniony.

From Publishers Weekly

Approaching middle age warily, PI Kinsey Millhone of the Southern California coast is mildly depressed, romantically vulnerable and in the process of reassessing her family ties. Yet, when it comes to her professional abilities, she's at the top of her form, as this deftly plotted and absorbing novel (her 13th appearance, after L Is for Lawless) proves. Bader Malek, a local industrial tycoon, has died, and his four sons now stand to inherit a substantial fortune. But one of them, Guy, has been missing since 1968. A drug addict, ne'er-do-well and all-around miscreant, Guy had been disinherited by his exasperated father shortly before he vanished. But that particular will has disappeared, and Kinsey has been hired by the family to find out if Guy is still alive and thus in line to collect his original portion of the estate. She quickly succeeds in locating him and brings back a sweet, guileless and totally reformed man. But is he? The three other brothers?a truly devious, arrogant and greedy lot?are deeply ambivalent about Guy's return. A murder in the family leaves the surviving Malek kin as prime suspects. This is a subtle and swiftly moving novel, pleasantly unpredictable, with an agreeable overlay of smoldering romance, as fellow PI and former lover Robert Dietz reenters Kinsey's life. Grafton's heroine?more introspective, yet still feisty and surefooted?leads this finely tuned and at times electrifying tale to a thoroughly satisfying conclusion. 1,000,000 first printing.

Nowy zbiór opowiadań przeznaczony jest nie tylko dla dorosłych ale również dla młodszych czytelników.

Neil Gaiman tak mówi o swojej nowej książce: W zebranych tu opowiadaniach spotkacie twardego detektywa ze świata dziecięcych bajek i grupę ludzi, którzy lubią jadać najróżniejsze rzeczy, znajdziecie też wiersz o tym, jak się zachować, gdy traficie do magicznego świata, i historię o chłopcu, który spotyka pod mostem trolla i dobija z nim targu. Jest tu też opowieść, która stanie się częścią mojej następnej książki dla dzieci, “Księgi cmentarnej” o chłopcu, który mieszka na cmentarzu, wychowywany przez umarłych, a także opowiadanie, które napisałem w młodości, zatytułowane “Jak sprzedać Most Pontyjski”, historia fantasy zainspirowana przez autentycznego człowieka, “Hrabiego” Victora Lustiga, który naprawdę sprzedał wieżę Eiffla, mniej więcej w taki właśnie sposób (po czym w kilka lat później zmarł w więzieniu Alcatraz). Jest tu kilka nieco strasznych historii, kilka innych raczej zabawnych, a także parę nie należących do żadnej z tych kategorii. Mam jednak nadzieję, że i tak się wam spodobają.

Gdy byłem chłopcem, Ray Bradbury wybrał ze swoich wcześniejszych zbiorów opowiadania, które, jak uznał, przypadną do gustu młodszym czytelnikom i wydał je w książkach “R jak rakieta” i “K jak kosmos”. Skoro zdecydowałem się na to samo, spytałem Raya, czy miałby coś przeciw temu, gdybym zatytułował ten zbiór “M jak magia”. (Nie miał.)

M naprawdę jest jak magia, podobnie jak wszystkie litery, jeśli złoży się je razem jak należy. Można z nich tworzyć magię i sny. A także, mam nadzieję, kilka niespodzianek.

Ma belle это бегство от любви. Это попытки найти что-то новое и свежее. По-новому рассказать о чём-то избитом, истоптанном предыдущими поколениями. И мне всё ещё есть что сказать! Ma belle это иной взгляд на моё творчество. На мою поэзию. Это что-то новое. Неизведанное.

J'aime mieux prévenir.

Celui qui entreprend la lecture de « Ma cavale au Canada » doit avoir le cœur et les roustons bien accrochés, car il y a davantage d'épisodes dramatiques dans cette œuvre magistrale qu'il n'y en a eu pendant toute la dernière guerre et plus de scènes de baise que n'en comptent les règnes d'Henri VIII et d'Elisabeth II réunis.

Prière d'éteindre sa cigarette avant de pénétrer dans ces pages. A l'intérieur, y a déjà plein de gonzesses qui ont le feu aux miches : inutile d'aggraver les risques.

Vive le Québec Livres !

Pour tout vous dire, je rêvais depuis longtemps d'aller en Iran… Mais pas dans ces conditions !

Au XX^e siècle, être obligé de se battre au sabre, c'est surprenant, non ? Mais, croyez-moi, votre San-Antonio se révèle vite un as de cette discipline et les sbires qui se sont frottés à lui, s'ils n'étaient pas déjà des eunuques, ne sont pas près de mettre Casanova en péril.

Quant à Bérurier au pays des mille et une nuits (des mille et un z'ennuis, plutôt), c'est pas racontable en page 4 de couverture.

Sachez qu'il y a plusieurs façons de donner sa langue au chat… La donner au Chah n'est pas la plus facile, vous allez voir !

La misteriosa muerte de Harry Stanford, uno de los hombres más ricos del mundo, tiene múltiples repercusiones. La familia se reúne para el funeral, en Boston. Y, de pronto, aparece una hermosa mujer que dice ser hija de Harry Stanford y heredera, por tanto, de una parte de su cuantiosa fortuna. ¿Se trata acaso de una impostora? Los Stanford son gente respetuosa y con poder, pero detrás de la impecable fachada se oculta una madeja de extorsiones, drogas y muerte. Con la habilidad que lo distingue, Sidney Sheldon delinea una historia intrincada y ágil donde el final es verdaderamente sorprendente.

Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil that good may come of it. Offering the first brief introduction to Machiavelli's thought to appear in twenty-five years, Skinner focuses on his three major works, The Prince, Discourses, and The History of Florence. He discusses the influence of Roman moral thought on Machiavelli, concentrating on the extent to which Machiavelli's teachings represent a reaction against this tradition. Placing Machiavelli in the proper social and intellectual context, Skinner reveals the extraordinary originality of his attack on the prevailing moral and political assumptions of his age.

Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding.

Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda’s assistance, he co-designs Adam’s personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever – a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma.

Ian McEwan’s subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: what makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns of the power to invent things beyond our control.

De magisch begaafde jonge Sperwer laat zich in met duistere machten. Zijn jacht op het schaduwbeest voert hem door onbekende streken van Aardzee.

Highland Pleasures 4.5

The Mackenzies gather for a clan Christmas and New Year's in Scotland. In the chaos of preparations for the celebration--the first of Hart and Eleanor's married life--one of Ian's Ming bowls gets broken, and the family scrambles to save the day. Daniel busily runs a betting ring for everything from the time Eleanor's baby will arrive to whether Mac's former-pugilist valet can win a boxing match to who will be the first of the many guests to be caught under the mistletoe. Ian begins a new obsession, and Beth fears the loss of one of his precious bowls has made him withdraw once more into his private world.

A Mackenzie Family Christmas will be released in print as well as on Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Smashwords, Apple, and at other e-vendors.

Night Wing-the revolutionary test plane with a top-secret weapons system-was Colonel Joe "Breed" Mackenzie's number-one priority. And weapons expert Caroline Evans was his number-one distraction. True, the stubborn blonde was giving him the cold shoulder, but Joe hadn't become the best of the best by giving up. Then he discovered someone on the inside was sabotaging Night Wing, and with her late hours and specialized expertise, Caroline seemed the obvious choice. Now Joe had to choose between allegiance to his country and love for his prime suspect…

Throughout history, man has been searching for better ways to gather information about his universe. But although they may have longed for it, not even the most brilliant minds could conceive of a device as infinitely powerful or as immeasurably precise as the macroscope, until the twenty-first century. By analyzing information carried on macrons, this unbelievable tool brought the whole universe of wonders to man’s doorstep. The macroscope was seen by many as the salvation of the human race. But in the hands of the wrong man, the macroscope could be immensely destructive — infinitely more dangerous than the nuclear bomb. By searching to know too much, man could destroy the very essence of his mind. This is the powerful story of man’s struggle with technology, and also the story of his human struggle with himself. This novel takes us across the breathtaking ranges of space as well as through the most touching places in the human heart. It is a story of coming of age, of sacrifice, and of love. It is the story of man’s desperate search for a compromise between his mind and his heart, between knowledge and humanity.

Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1970.

Mad, Bad Dangerous is a stand-alone sequel to Almost Human.Baelvar is gorgeous, charming, insane, childish and mildly psychotic. He-s also mated to Kett, who-s brilliant, bitchy, violent and more than a little psychotic herself. It-s a match made in heaven, except for one tiny detail-Kett doesn-t want to be mated to anyone.The Curse of Kett has befallen everyone she-s ever cared about, but impressing this fact upon Bael is a little difficult, what with all the terrifically explosive sex getting in the way. Oh, and the repeated attempts on Kett-s life from persons unknown are a bit distracting too.Still, if they can just stop shagging and fighting for their lives for two seconds, surely she can convince Bael they-re actually a match made in hell. Can-t she?

2017 FOREWORD REVIEWS INDIE GOLD MEDAL WINNER FOR HUMOR NOVEL OF THE YEAR!

A Southern librarian fights back when the city cuts off funding for her library in this funny, angry book from award-winning author Michael Guillebeau.

Publishers Weekly said, “Guillebeau blends humor and mystery perfectly in this comic thriller… Guillebeau keeps things light with frequent laugh-out-loud lines.”

They weren’t alone. Other reviewers said:

“One of the most enjoyable books I have read this year…”

“…quirky characters and lots of laughs.”

“A madcap adventure of a book where librarians have all the answers.”

“A wonderfully entertaining book! Every library should have this book on the shelf.”

“…jumps off the shelf and begs to be read… I would give it 7 or 8 on a 5* scale.”

“This book will make you angry while making you laugh out loud.”

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The magic and mayhem continue in this thrilling second instalment of Hobb's new series.

Althea Vestrit has found a new home aboard the liveship Ophelia, but she lives only to reclaim the Vivacia as her rightful inheritance. However, the Vivacia has been captured by the pirate, 'King' Kennit, and is acquiring a keen bloodlust. Meanwhile in Bingtown, the fading fortunes of the Vestrit family lead Malta deeper into the magical secrets of the mysterious Rain Wilds Traders. And just outside Bingtown, Amber dreams of relaunching the Paragon, The Mad Ship…

The second volume in this superb trilogy from the author of THE FARSEER TRILOGY continues the dramatic tale of piracy, serpents, love and magic.

Powieść jest ironicznym portretem artysty z czasów młodości, dojrzewającego w peerelowskiej rzeczywistości schyłku lat sześćdziesiątych. Narrator opowiada o swoich latach nauki i o fascynacji starszą od niego, piękną, tajemniczą kobietą, która uczyła go francuskiego i dała mu lekcję wolności. Jest to zarazem opowieść o potrzebie marzenia, a także rozrachunek z epoką peerelu. Tradycyjna narracja, nie pozbawiona wątku sensacyjnego, skrzy się humorem, oczarowuje i wzrusza.

Après les maternités, les paternités difficiles, les révoltes adolescentes, les embarras conjugaux, voici le roman d’un divorce.

Publié par hasard au moment où s’amorce une révision de la loi, ce livre peut accessoirement lui fournir des arguments. Mais son thème n’est pas là. La procédure est une chose. L’état de divorcé(e) en est une autre qui — l’union par l’enfant restant indissoluble — dramatise souvent toute une vie. Aline, devenue Madame Ex, Louis remarié à Odile, leurs enfants divisés en Papiens et Mamiens, leurs parents, leurs amis, leurs avocats — intervenant sans cesse dans une guérilla où la rancune, l’intérêt, l’orgueil, le remords, le souvenir se mélangent — en fournissent ici un exemple tour à tour passionné et douloureux.

Madame Ex, par le ton, le trait, le mouvement, la précision du détail, est un roman typique d’Hervé Bazin et sans doute l’un des plus émouvants dans l’évocation de ce tragique quotidien où se meuvent comme nous ses personnages.

Meet Madame Koska—a fabulous haute couture designer and the owner of a new atelier in 1920s London who has a knack at solving crimes that baffle the police.

When a priceless brooch disappears from a museum in Russia, Madame Koska is suddenly drawn into the mystery. But who is Madame Koska? And what does the missing jewel have to do with her?

Era todavía una niña cuando decidió desobedecer a su madre y liberarse de las vendas que iban a convertir sus pies en muñones, haciendo de ella una mujer deseable. Éste fue el primer acto de rebelión de la hija de una concubina, que acabaría siendo la última esposa de Mao Zedong.

Todos recuerdan a Madame Mao como la tirana cruel y ambiciosa que gobernó China después de la muerte de su marido, pero pocos saben qué tuvo que hacer para escalar los peldaños del poder y cuáles fueron sus armas de seducción. Actriz experta y siempre en busca del éxito, la mujer que encandiló a Mao y se encerró con él en la cueva de las colinas de Yenan se había propuesto desde muy joven entender la vida como una gran obra de teatro, donde ella estaba destinada a brillar como prima donna hasta el final del espectáculo. Cuando en mayo de 1991 Madame Mao decidió ella misma bajar el telón, quizá no hubo aplauso, pero una sensación extraña de reverencia y miedo recorrió el escenario…

Después de tres años de búsqueda y recopilación de datos, Anchee Min ha sido capaz de atar los cabos sueltos de este drama fascinante, y nos propone la biografía novelada de una de las mucheres más temidas y admiradas de la historia del siglo XX.

In 2001, a woman’s skeleton was found in the woods overlooking Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital. Despite an audit of the hospital’s patient records, a forensic reconstruction of the woman’s face, missing-person appeals, and DNA tests that revealed not only where she had lived, but how she ate, the woman was never identified. Assigned the name Madame Victoria, her remains were placed in a box in an evidence room and, eventually, forgotten.

But not by Catherine Leroux, who constructs in her form-bending Madame Victoria twelve different histories for the unknown woman. Like musical variations repeating a theme, each Victoria meets her end only after Leroux resurrects her, replacing the anonymous circumstances of her death with a vivid re-imagining of her possible lives. And in doing so, Madame Victoria becomes much more than the story of one unknown and unnamed woman: it becomes a celebration of the lives and legacies of unknown women everywhere.

By turns elegiac, playful, poignant, and tragic, Madame Victoria is an unforgettable book about the complexities of individual lives and the familiar ways in which they overlap.

A man-made plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives, along with the green-eyed Crakers — a gentle species bio-engineered to replace humans. Toby, onetime member of the Gods Gardeners and expert in mushrooms and bees, is still in love with street-smart Zeb, who has an interesting past. The Crakers’ reluctant prophet, Snowman-the-Jimmy, is hallucinating; Amanda is in shock from a Painballer attack; and Ivory Bill yearns for the provocative Swift Fox, who is flirting with Zeb. Meanwhile, giant Pigoons and malevolent Painballers threaten to attack.

Told with wit, dizzying imagination, and dark humour, Booker Prize-winning Margaret Atwood’s unpredictable, chilling and hilarious MaddAddam takes us further into a challenging dystopian world and holds up a skewed mirror to our own possible future.

Сборник рассказов о жизни репатриантов в Израиле.

Семнадцатилетний Богсь Ковальски проснулся в один прекрасный момент и узнал, что сообщение, которое он хотел бы сообщить миру заключается в выражении «Fuck Off», которое татуирует себе на лбу.

Two days before New Years, a pack of five friends — three men and two women — head to a remote cabin near Lake Tahoe to celebrate the holidays. They've been buddies forever, banded together by scrapes and squalor, their relationships defined by these wild times.

After a car accident leaves one friend sick and dying, and severe weather traps them at the cabin, there is nowhere to go, forcing them to finally and ultimately take stock and confront their past transgressions, considering what they mean to one another and to themselves.

With some of the most luminous and purple prose flexed in recent memory, D. Foy is an incendiary new voice and Made to Break, a grand, episodic debut, redolent of the stark conscience of Denis Johnson and the spellbinding vision of Roberto Bolaño.

A commonplace book, arranging works of criticism looking at Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo with fragments of memoir/fiction. Presented first as random notes on watching Hitchcock, the fragments soon take up multiple narratives and threads and, like a classic Hitchcock movie, present competing realities. Fragments from a dizzying list of authors, from Truffaut to Philip K. Dick and Geoff Dyer to Bruno Schultz, are meticulously arranged in a fascinating, multilayered reading experience.

When a girl falls into a deep and impenetrable sleep, the borders between her provincial French village and the peculiar, beguiling realm of her dreams begin to disappear: A fat woman sprouts delicate wings and takes flight; a failed photographer stumbles into the role of pornographer; a beautiful young wife grows to resemble her husband's viol. And in their midst travels Madeleine, the dreamer, who is trying to make sense of her own metamorphosis as she leaves home, joins a gypsy circus, and falls into an unexpected triangle of desire and love.

La «Préface», oeuvre à part entière, fait date dans l'histoire littéraire. Sur un ton enlevé, perfide et caustique, l'auteur attaque les bien-pensants, représentants de la tartufferie et de la censure, et ceux qui voudraient voir un côté «utile» dans une oeuvre littéraire, alors que l'art, par définition non assujetti à la morale ou à l'utilité, échappe à la notion de progrès pour ne s'allier qu'à celle du plaisir.

Le roman lui-même, en grande partie épistolaire, nous parle avant tout de l'Amour, du Sexe, de la Femme, de l'Homme, éternels sujets…

La nouvelle qui donne son titre au recueil, est une des plus connues de Maupassant. Le château d'Uville est occupé par cinq officiers prussiens. Parmi eux, «un tout petit blondin fier et brutal», surnommé Mademoiselle Fifi à cause de son allure féminine. Le saccage du luxueux château ne parvenant pas à tromper l'ennui, on décide d'organiser une petite fête avec des dames de Rouen. Elles arrivent, ces cinq «filles à plaisir», dont Rachel, «une brune toute jeune, à l'œil noir comme une tache d'encre». Elle échoit en partage à Mademoiselle Fifi, qui la brutalise, «saisi d'une férocité rageuse, travaillé par son besoin de ravage». Au moment des toasts, les Allemands insultent les Français vaincus, et surtout les Françaises, qu'ils déclarent toutes leur propriété. Rachel se révolte alors…

Liberté a 18 ans. Elle refuse ce que la plupart des femmes tolèrent: un amour imparfait, sans folie. Inapte aux compromis, Mademoiselle Liberté ne conçoit pas d'être raisonnable, de se contenter d'une petite part de bonheur. L'infini est sa mesure, l'absolu son oxygène. Animée par un goût prodigieux pour le plaisir, elle bondit vers ses appétits.

Horace, le proviseur de son lycée, sait lui aussi vivre la vie: ce furieux ne se repose que dans l'hyperbole. Marié à une épouse professionnelle, il rêve de foncer dans un destin superlatif.

Liberté décide de chercher avec la perfection: elle ne se contentera pas d'un brouillon de liaison, elle exigera la passion intégrale, portée à son comble, fignolée jusqu'au délire.

Ces deux forcenés tenteront un amour idéal. Ils désirent un chef d'œuvre sinon rien.

Eva Ibbotson’s magical novel; set in that most poignant of all times and places, Vienna before the First World War. Susanna’s dress shop stands in the delightful Madensky Square and is the very hub and heart of life. Susanna sympathizes with her neighbours, watches over Signi, the wretched, orphaned child prodigy, and with her infallible eye for dress, turns an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan. Of all the colourful characters in Madensky Square, only her dear friend Alice has the slightest inkling that Susanna hides more than one secret. This hidden life full of passion and anguish gradually unfolds in a city of romance, music and gossip. ’Sunshine and shadows, laughter and tears… the grace and gaiety of a Viennese waltz’ Sunday Telegraph

When Milo Morai’s Confederation forces defeated the army of the tyrannical King Zastros, the High Lord offered a peace settlement his defeated foes could scarce believe, welcoming them as full members of the newly formed Confederation of Eastern Peoples. Sending some of his most trusted agents before him, backed by those doughty warriors, the Horseclansmen, Milo hoped to see the decimated kingdom rapidly reorganized into a thriving realm. But neither he or any of his allies had bargained for the evil hidden within the very heart of the land’s new government—an evil fueled by Milo’s most ancient and hated enemies, an evil that might well destroy all of Southern Ehleenohee and become a dread weapon against the Confederation itself!

When someone sabotages Jim Bob's grocery store with tainted tamale sauce, resulting in 23 cases of food poisoning and a sudden death, Police Chief Arly Hanks finds that her own mother, Rudy Dee, is one of the suspects. "This may be one of the funniest mysteries written in a long time…"-Ocala Star-Banner.

Only three people can connect a present-day murderer to a serial killer who, fourteen years ago, terrorized a small Siberian town. And one of them is already dead.

As a working mother, Lena Polyanskaya has her hands full. She’s busy caring for her two-year-old daughter, editing a successful magazine, and supporting her husband, a high-ranking colonel in counterintelligence. She doesn’t have time to play amateur detective. But when a close friend’s suspicious death is labeled a suicide, she’s determined to prove he wouldn’t have taken his own life.

As Lena digs in to her investigation, all clues point to murder—and its connection to a string of grisly cold-case homicides that stretches back to the Soviet era. When another person in her circle falls victim, Lena fears she and her family may be next. She’s determined to do whatever it takes to protect them. But will learning the truth unmask a killer… or put her and her family in even more danger?

Rhys Hughes is a prolific short story writer with an eclectic mix of influences. Much of his work is of a humorously eccentric bent, often parodies and pastiches with surreal and absurdist overtones, although he is by no means limited to any of these forms and has proven to be extremely versatile.

Madonna Park is a collection of six sublime stories from a true master of words. Rhys Hughes is Wales’ best kept literary secret. Championed by the likes of Michael Moorcock, his unique fantastical fictions have already achieved the level of cult-status. His fiction is both intellectual and hilarious with plenty of puns and satirical side-swipes to keep the reader constantly amused.

Часто спрашивают: какова же истинная Мадонна? Существует расхожий стереотип, представляющий Мадонну алчной женщиной-вамп, в то время как для большинства женщин она является символом феминизма. Ее песни внятны и просты, хотя сама она личность сложная и изменчивая. Она впитала влияния тысячи различных культур, собрав их в единое целое, и стала самой продаваемой певицей за всю историю музыки. Все ее альбомы — это этапы большого путешествия. Переживая драмы и потери, она использовала музыку как способ противостоять боли, искала в ней новые источник радости. Ее стиль противоречив, тщеславие безгранично, и при этом она постоянно превращает свою жизнь в завораживающее произведение искусства. Беспристрастное исследование британского музыкального журналиста Люси О'Брайен — самая полная биография королевы поп-сцены.