The year is 1878, peak of the Texas cattle trade. The place is Dodge City, Kansas, a saloon-filled cow town jammed with liquored-up adolescent cowboys and young Irish hookers. Violence is random and routine, but when the burned body of a mixed-blood boy named Johnnie Sanders is discovered, his death shocks a part-time policeman named Wyatt Earp. And it is a matter of strangely personal importance to Doc Holliday, the frail twenty-six-year-old dentist who has just opened an office at No. 24, Dodge House. Beautifully educated, born to the life of a Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday is given an awful choice at the age of twenty-two: die within months in Atlanta or leave everyone and everything he loves in the hope that the dry air and sunshine of the West will restore him to health. Young, scared, lonely, and sick, he arrives on the rawest edge of the Texas frontier just as an economic crash wrecks the dreams of a nation. Soon, with few alternatives open to him, Doc Holliday is gambling professionally; he is also living with Mária Katarina Harony, a high-strung Hungarian whore with dazzling turquoise eyes, who can quote Latin classics right back at him. Kate makes it her business to find Doc the high-stakes poker games that will support them both in high style. It is Kate who insists that the couple travel to Dodge City, because 'that's where the money is.' And that is where the unlikely friendship of Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp really begins — before Wyatt Earp is the prototype of the square-jawed, fearless lawman; before Doc Holliday is the quintessential frontier gambler; before the gunfight at the O.K. Corral links their names forever in American frontier mythology — when neither man wanted fame or deserved notoriety. Authentic, moving, and witty, Mary Doria Russell's fifth novel redefines these two towering figures of the American West and brings to life an extraordinary cast of historical characters, including Holliday's unforgettable companion, Kate. First and last, however, Doc is John Henry Holliday's story, written with compassion, humor, and respect by one of our greatest contemporary storytellers

В основі «Doc 1» — реалії сьогодення, притомна історія з життя представників різних поколінь і продуманий сюжет. Молодий хлопець заходить у безвихідь — приходить до такої нестерпної самотності, позбавитися від якого можна, тільки виливши свій біль на папір. Трагедія Дюши полягає в тому, що він з дитинства вважав свої типові підліткові проблеми нетиповими, а себе — унікальними. Хлопчик виріс, комплекси залишилися. Це не киберпанк-литература і не книга про хакерів і програмістів, як може здатися на перший погляд. І навіть не історія любові — це історія самотності типової людини, яка закрилася від усіх, вважаючи себе унікальним без особливих на те причин

"El esfuerzo de escribir un cuento corto es tan intenso como empezar una novela. Pues en el primer párrafo de una novela hay que definir todo: estructura, tono, estilo, ritmo, longitud, y a veces hasta el carácter de algún personaje. Lo demás es el placer de escribir, el más íntimo y solitario que pueda imaginarse, y si uno no se queda corrigiendo el libro por el resto de la vida es porque el mismo rigor de fierro que hace falta para empezarlo se impone para terminarlo. El cuento, en cambio, no tiene principio ni fin: fragua o no fragua. Y si no fragua, la experiencia propia y la ajena enseñan que en la mayoría de las veces es más saludable empezarlo de nuevo por otro camino, o tirarlo a la basura". "Reescribí todos los cuentos otra vez desde el principio en ocho meses febriles en los que no necesité preguntarme dónde terminaba la vida y dónde empezaba la imaginación, porque me ayudaba la sospecha de que quizás no fuera cierto nada de lo vivido veinte años antes en Europa. La escritura se me hizo entonces tan fluida que a ratos me sentía escribiendo por el puro placer de narrar, que es quizás el estado humano que más se parece a la levitación. Además, trabajando todos los cuentos a la vez y saltando de uno a otro con plena libertad, conseguí una visión panorámica que me salvó del cansancio de los comienzos sucesivos, y me ayudó a cazar redundancias ociosas y contradicciones mortales. Creo haber logrado así el libro de cuentos más próximo al que siempre quise escribir."

Es ist Ende April. Durch das wechselhafte Frühlingswetter wandert ein Mann die Küste Cornwalls entlang. Seit Wochen hat er nicht mehr in einem Bett geschlafen, sich gewaschen, sich rasiert. Als er über der Klippe bei Polcare Cove innehält, bleibt sein Blick an etwas Rotem hängen. In der Tiefe liegt ein zerschmetterter Körper. Was zunächst wie ein Unfall aussieht entpuppt sich als Sabotageakt und Mord, und die örtliche Ermittlerin Bea Hannaford steht schon bald einem ganzen Dutzend Verdächtigen gegenüber. Darunter auch der Wanderer, der von sich behauptet, Thomas Lynley zu heißen doch ausweisen kann er sich nicht. Als Hannaford bei New Scotland Yard Informationen einfordert, bekommt sie seine Dienstmarke übermittelt, die keineswegs vernichtet wurde, als Lynley nach dem tragischen Tod seiner Frau den Dienst quittiert hatte. Hannaford bezieht den Detective Superintendent, der er nicht mehr zu sein behauptet, in ihre Ermittlungen ein. Und tatsächlich hat Lynley bereits einen ersten Verdacht. Nur einePerson, weiß er, kann ihm auf unbürokratischem Weg mehr Informationen beschaffen.Und er ruft Barbara Havers an…

Danny Torrance a grandi. Ses démons aussi… La suite tant attendue du cultissime Shining. Stephen King renoue avec l'histoire et le personnage de l'un de ses plus grands succès: Shining. Le petit Dany Torrance est désormais adulte. Il a échappé au sort de son père alcoolique et travaille en tant qu'aide-soignant dans un hospice où il utilise ses pouvoirs surnaturels pour apaiser la souffrance des mourants. D'où son surnom: Docteur Sleep. Il rencontre Abra, fillette de 12 ans, pourchassée par un étrange groupe de voyageurs qui traversent les Etats-Unis en se nourrissant de la lumière des enfants télépathes. Commence alors une guerre épique entre le bien et le mal… King signe un livre magistral, d'une richesse inouïe: à la fois conte fantastique, roman d'aventure, thriller et allégorie de l'Amérique contemporaine — et nous prouve qu'il est bel et bien « The King » ! Stephen King a écrit plus de 50 romans, tous best-sellers, et plus de 200 nouvelles. Il est devenu un mythe vivant de la littérature américaine (National Book Foundation Medal en 2003 pour sa contribution aux lettres américaines, Grand Master du Prix Edgar Allan Poe en 2007, etc.)

“The customer is always right” can lead to some very awkward situations if you’re not really clear on who the customer is, what he wants, and why

Banville is superb…there are not many historical novels of which it can be said that they illuminate both the time that forms their subject matter and the time in which they are read: Doctor Copernicus is among the very best of them' — "The Economist". The work of Nicholas Koppernigk, better known as Copernicus, shattered the medieval view of the universe and led to the formulation of the image of the solar system we know today. Here his life is powerfully evoked in a novel that offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence, haunted by a malevolent brother and baffled by the conspiracies that rage around him and his ideas while he searches for the secret of life. 'Banville writes novels of complex patterning, with grace, precision and timing' — "Guardian". 'With his fastidious wit and exquisite style, John Banville is the heir to Nabokov' — "Daily Telegraph". 'A tour de force: a fictional evocation of the great astronomer which is exciting, beautifully written and astonishingly redolent of the late medieval world' — "The Times"

The charming story of Pippinella, the green canary, as told by Pip herself to the Doctor. Although much of the material had been printed originally in 1924 for the Herald Tribune Syndicate, Lofting planned to complete the story in book form but never finished before he died. Lofting’s wife’s sister, Olga Michael, completed the book and it was published posthumously in 1950. Everything except the first and last chapter are by Lofting. Much of the material in this book is repeated from the earlier novel Doctor Dolittle’s Caravan and tells the story of the Doctor’s friend Pippinella the Green Canary, in slightly greater depth

The doctor needs money to pay off a voyage to Africa, so he joins the circus with the pushmi-pullyu as his attraction. He enlightens a circus owner who cares little for animals, fights against the practice of fox hunting and helps other creatures such as a circus seal and cart horses too old to work

Doctor Dolittle’s Garden is structurally the most disorganised of Hugh Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle books. The first part would fit very well into Doctor Dolittle’s Zoo, which this book follows. The rest of the book forms a reasonably coherent narrative. Doctor Dolittle’s assistant, Tommy Stubbins, reports on Professor Quetch, curator of the Dog Museum in the Home for Crossbred Dogs. Meanwhile, the doctor has learnt insect languages and hears ancient tales of a giant race of insects. Fascinated, the doctor plans a voyage to find them — but before he does so, one arrives in his garden

When he discovers that animals from all over the world want to communicate with each other, Dr Dolittle has the wonderful idea of setting up the Swallow Mail, the fastest postal service ever. Doctor Dolittle establishes a swallow mail service for the animals when he discovers that they have their own way of writing

Doctor Dolittle’s Return is lighter and more comic than other Dolittle books. Tommy Stubbins waits for Doctor Dolittle’s return from the Moon. When the Doctor returns he is anxious to write of what he has experienced. This proves more difficult than expected. The poignancy of the doctor’s lunar experiences is juxtaposed with his hilarious attempts to be put into jail so he will be free of all responsibilities and will be able to write his book

From the 1894 Chapman and Hall "Christmas Stories"

Nur mühevoll kann Dan Torrance die Schrecken verarbeiten, die er als kleines Kind im Hotel Overlook erlitten hat. Obendrein hat er die Suchtkrankheit seines besessenen Vaters geerbt und nimmt daher fleißig an Treffen der Anonymen Alkoholiker teil. Seine paranormalen Fähigkeiten – das Shining – setzt er nun in seinem Beruf ein: In einem Hospiz spendet er Sterbenden in ihren letzten Stunden Trost. Man nennt ihn liebevoll Doctor Sleep. Währenddessen ist in ganz Amerika eine Sekte auf der Suche nach ihrem Lebenselixier unterwegs. Ihre Mitglieder sehen so unscheinbar aus wie der landläufige Tourist – Ruheständler in Polyesterkleidung, die in ihr Wohnmobil vernarrt sind. Aber sie sind nahezu unsterblich, wenn sie sich vom letzten Lebenshauch jener Menschen ernähren, die das Shining besitzen. Das Mädchen Abra Stone besitzt es im Übermaß und gerät ins Visier der mörderischen Sekte. Um sie zu retten, weckt Dan die tief in ihm schlummernden Dämonen und ruft sie in einen alles entscheidenden Kampf. Die Originalausgabe erscheint unter dem Titel DOCTOR SLEEP bei Scribner, New York. Copyright © 2013 by Stephen King

Stephen King returns to the character and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals. On highways across America, a tribe of people called the True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, the True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the steam that children with the shining produce when they are slowly tortured to death. Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel, where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant shining power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.” Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of devoted readers of The Shining and satisfy anyone new to this icon in the King canon

*Heralding the multi-platform* Time Lord Victorious *project,* The Knight, the Fool and the Dead *is a pulsating adventure that pitches the Doctor back into the Ancient Days and a deadly foe that threatens the entire universe. Packed with the excitement, adventure and wit that are the hallmark of* Doctor Who, *this is a brand new story not to be missed.* We live forever, barring accidents. Just like everyone else in the universe. The Doctor travels back to the Ancient Days, an era where life flourishes and death is barely known... Then come the Kotturuh – creatures who spread through the cosmos dispensing mortality. They judge each and every species and decree its allotted time to live. For the first time, living things know the fear of ending. And they will go to any lengths to escape this grim new spectre, death. The Doctor is an old hand at cheating death. Now, at last, he can stop it at source. He is coming for the Kotturuh, ready to change everything so that Life wins from the start. Not just the last of the Time Lords. The Time Lord Victorious

Beloved Commissario Guido Brunetti once again finds himself pursuing a puzzling case his fellow policemen would rather leave closed. What appears to be a cut-and-dried murder case pinpoints an elderly lady's maid as her killer. However, Brunetti comes to a different conclusion and decides-unofficially-to take on the case himself