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The Company of Cats
Год выхода: 1999
When millionaire Arthur Arbuthnot mistakes gossip maven Annabel Hinchby-Smythe for a decorator—and hires her to redecorate his apartment—the fiscally challenged Annabel can't refuse. When she sees Arbuthnot's tatty London flat, she knows anything will be an improvement. And any gossip she can dig up will be pure gold for the tabloids. But when Arthur is found dead, his frisky relatives begin to lick their chops. Arbuthnot's beloved tabby, Sally, was the only witness to the homicide—and the sole...
Green Eyes
Год выхода: 1998
Life the second time around is short, strange and terrifying to the awakened. One "zombie", victim of a bizarre scientific obsession, breaks away, leaving a trail of muder and miracle as he flees the Project and the horror his "life" hasbecome. Green Eyes is a book that has no respect for genre. Throughout its course, the novel spans the whole of the nebulous speculative fiction genre, taking on the appearance of science fiction, fantasy and horror all in turn. Perhaps the best way to describe...
Круглы год. Хоку беларускiх паэтаў
Год выхода: 1996
Існуе безліч паэтычных формаў, і кожным разам паэт выбірае адну-адзіную, каб менавіта ў яе пераліць уласныя пачуцьці. І можна ўявіць, як нячаста некалькі розных паэтаў абіраюць падобную форму і працуюць у ёй. Для эўрапейцаў традыцыйна абранымі былі трыялеты, актавы, санэты, але ў дадзеным выпадку мы прадстаўляем зборнік хоку. Хоку — трохрадкоўе, якое бярэ выток у японскім вершаскладаньні. Разам з рубаі і танка хоку — гэта прыклад усходняй вершаванай мініятуры. Хоку пісалі вялікія старажытныя...
Canapés for the Kitties
Год выхода: 1996
Серия: Brimful Coffers (#1)
The cat's out of the bag: dead bodies are piling up in Brimful Coffers, a picturesque English village. Among the deceased is Boswell, a pet white rat. His killers were caught: Had-I and But-Known, two mischievous felines belonging to Lorinda Lucas, mystery writer. Unfortunately, the other victims were all too human--and their killer remains at large... The danger in Brimful Coffers was unforeseen when several authors created an informal writers' colony in this lovely town outside of London. In...
X-COM: UFO Defense
Год выхода: 1995
Commander Jonelle Barrett is determined to win. Having moved from Morocco to a new base in Switzerland, she is well-placed to build a fortified base and defend Europe from the marauding aliens who harvest humans as lab animals for breeding stock… and for their dinner tables! Barrett soon finds that her new territory is already riddled with alien invaders. Her handpicked garrison is all she has—until she learns that one of her most trusted people may be a traitor. Her task is twofold: keep the...
The Diamond Cat
Год выхода: 1995
A lifetime of craving more cuddly companionship than her hectoring mother has led fortyish Bettina Bilby to board her neighbors' felines for a long holiday weekend: an expectant tabby, a pampered blue-eyed Balinese, a depressed ginger Persian with a cod-liver-oil addiction, and Adolf, an imperious mouser with a patchwork face. But a freak storm sets the pigeon among the cats—a carrier bird downed on the doorstep with a tiny load of large flawless diamonds. And Bettina's dilemma escalates, as...
Nine Lives to Murder
Год выхода: 1994
Someone is trying to kill leading British Shakespearean actor, husband, father, ladies man, and soon-to-be Knight of the Realm Winstanley Fortescue. The actor, rehearsing his starring role in the forthcoming play *Serpent in the Heather* , is conked on the head backstage. He falls off a ladder and lands on the resident Pest Control Officer, Montmorency D. Mousa (otherwise known as Monty), the company cat. When Fortescue comes to, he finds to his horror that he has been switched into Monty's...
Summer of Night
Год выхода: 1992
SUMMARY: In the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, five 12-year-old boys forge the powerful bonds that a lifetime of change will not break. An ancient, sinister evil lurks in the dark, and when a long-silent bell peals in the middle of the deepest night, the people know it marks the beginning of terror. Now Mike, Duane, Dale, Harlen, and Kevin must wage a fraternal war of blood against an arcane abomination.
Halo
Год выхода: 1991
The resources of Aleph, the artificial intelligence that operates the high-orbital space station Halo, are being diverted to its experimental sections. And when the corporation that owns Halo hires freelance data auditor Mikhail Gonzales to observe the problem, Aleph starts spinning out of control. "A clear and well-conceived plot . . . Maddox is a name to watch".--SF Chronicle.
Copernick's Rebellion
Год выхода: 1987
Heinrich Copernick and Martin Guibedo came to the States as penniless refugees after World War II. By 1999 they had made huge fortunes in the field of medical instrumentation. But Heiny and his Uncle Martin weren’t just filthy rich, they were also the world’s best gene engineers. And their latest inventions could free Humanity from want and oppressive governments forever. At least, that was the plan. Imagine: Free homes with all the furnishings and utilities! Free food! Even free babysitters!...
Норвежские народные сказки
Год выхода: 1986
Серия: Казки народів світу
В сборник входят самые популярные сказки, в которых отражается ум, самобытность характера и суровые условия жизни норвежского народа.
Для младшего школьного возраста.
Рисунки Екатерины Владимировны Штанко
Survey Ship
Год выхода: 1986
Sometime in the future, the human race realizes how much the population is outgrowing the planet and decides to train people to go explore the galaxy to look for other inhabitable planets. The trainees are chosen for their intelligence at a very young age, then spend their entire childhood learning a skill such as medicine, engineering, physics, etc. When they reach adulthood, the best six of them are sent off to other star systems to spend the rest of their lives searching for a place that may...
Using Your Brain —for a CHANGE
Год выхода: 1985
Bandler is an innovator and an original thinker in the field of psychology. This book is a transcript of Bandler live in front of an audience, cutting up and cracking jokes as he is prone to do, talking about some of his unique and often practical views on how you can change your feelings, thoughts and behavior. Change is often easier than you think if you use the right method.
Таємничий незнайомець
Год выхода: 1985
До другого тому входять сатирико-фантастичний роман «Янкі з Коннектікуту при дворі короля Артура», повість «Таємничий незнайомець», а також кращі оповідання та памфлети Марка Твена.
Примітки І. Новиченка.
The Best of Margaret St. Clair
Год выхода: 1985
THE BEST OF This new series features work by outstanding women science fiction writers, both well-known and unfairly neglected. Many of the stories in these individual volumes have never before been collected in book form, making each of these works valuable as an overview of the author’s best work. The first two volumes are: The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Best of Margaret St. Clair. MARGARET ST. CLAIR has been writing professionally since 1945. She is best known for her shorter...
Reel Murder
Год выхода: 1985
Серия: Trixie dolan & evangeline sinclair mystery (#1)
Written by Marian Babson. When two grand dames of Hollywood, silent film star Eve Sinclair ('she put the sin in Cinema') and ex-hoofer Trixie Dolan set out for London to attend a film retrospective held in Eve's honour, they fully expect to be the centre of attention. What they don't expect is that all the lovely attention will be generated not by an appreciation of their talents but by a series of grisly murders associated with the retrospective. Even less do they expect to find themselves...
The Last Brief
Год выхода: 1982
Twenty stories from the man who created the 87th Precinct. Stories of the street and the city, stories of the cops and their prey. Life in a Chinese lobster-shop, the making of a porn queen, and the agony of being jailed with a non-stop talking cellmate. Places and people only he could describe.
Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming
Год выхода: 1979
What People are saying about this book: "A readable, practical, and entertaining book about a challenging, original, and promising new discipline. I recommend it."—Dan Goleman, Associate Editor of Psychology Today. "NLP represents a huge quantum jump in our understanding of human behavior and communication. It makes most current therapy and education totally obsolete."—John O. Stevens, author of Awareness and editor of Gestalt Therapy Verbatim and Gestalt is. "This book shows you how to do...
Béru contre San-Antonio
Год выхода: 1967
Серия: Le commissaire san-antonio (#65)
Fallait bien que ça arrive un jour ! À force de cavaler côte à côte, Béru et moi, on a fini par se retrouver face à face. Et quand le Gros se met à faire du zèle au point de nous valoir une nouvelle guerre contre l’Allemagne, croyez-moi, c’est duraille d’arranger les bidons.
Aller à l’autre bout du monde pour se tirer la bourre, c’est un comble, non ?
En tout cas, j’en connais un qui nous a bien eus, tous les deux. Je vous dis pas son blaze, il est dans le bouquin !
Марсіанська хроніка
Год выхода: 1963
Рей Бредбері — найвидатніший сучасний американський письменник-фантаст. Радянські читачі знають його по відомій книзі “451° за Фаренгейтом”. “Марсіанська хроніка” — новий фантастичний твір письменника. Що могло б статися з планетою Марс, коли б її почали “освоювати” американці? У своєму творі автор робить спробу відповісти на це запитання. Перед читачем розгортаються похмурі картини загибелі прекрасної марсіанської цивілізації, високої стародавньої культури. Поступово на планеті вимирають...
Убить пересмешника [англ. и рус. параллельные тексты]
Год выхода: 1960
Серия: Английский и русский параллельные тексты (#3)
Роман «Убить пересмешника...», впервые опубликованный в 1960 году, имел оглушительный успех и сразу же стал бестселлером. Это и неудивительно: Харпер Ли (1926–1975), усвоив уроки Марка Твена, нашла свой собственный стиль повествования, который позволил ей показать мир взрослых глазами ребёнка, не упрощая и не обедняя его. Роман был удостоен одной из самых престижных премий США по литературе — Пулитцеровской, печатался многомиллионными тиражами. Его перевели на десятки языков мира и продолжают...
Five Passengers from Lisbon
Год выхода: 1946
«NIGHT… FOG… AND MURDER!! It had begun as a voyage to freedom, a dream come true. But now every passenger on the ship was stalked by deadly fear, every shadow had become infused with dread. One man had died, a knife buried deep in his back. Another had met an even more gruesome end. That was bad, but what was worse – the murderer was readying to strike again…» Five passengers and three crewmen survive a sinking Portugese cargo ship via a lifeboat, but when they're picked up...
Middlemarch. A Study of Provincial Life
Год выхода: 1872
"Миддлмарч: Изучение жизни в провинции" – это роман английской писательницы Джордж Элиот (псевдоним Мэри Энн Эванс), впервые опубликованный в 1871-1872 годах. Это одно из самых значимых произведений викторианской литературы, отличающееся широтой охвата и глубиной психологического анализа. Действие романа разворачивается в вымышленном английском городе Миддлмарч в начале 1830-х годов, на фоне социальных и политических перемен, вызванных реформами и индустриализацией. В центре повествования –...
Bleak House
Год выхода: 1853
В этом шедевре классической английской литературы Чарльз Диккенс переносит читателя в Лондон, где судебное разбирательство по делу «Джарндисы против Джарндисов» становится эпицентром драматических событий. Запутанная тяжба, разоряющая семьи, переплетает судьбы десятков героев, каждый из которых представляет особый срез викторианского общества. Изображая правовые и социальные пороки своего времени, Диккенс создает трогательный сюжет, полный интриг, мрачных тайн и искренних человеческих эмоций....