Para Mick, era perfecta: inteligente, atractiva, apasionada. Desde el momento en que entró en su vida, sólo tuvo ojos para ella. Kat era un mujer preparada para el amor, pero había una parte de ella que no podía alcanzar… El conocer a Mick era lo más maravillosos que le hubiera sucedido. Pero comprendía que las mujeres como ella no podían pensar en el matrimonio. Y a pesar de que lo amaba, Kat sabía que cuando le dijera la verdad, lo perdería para siempre

Un magnate inmobiliario del estado de Nueva York se desploma y muere en una de las aceras de la ciudad. Una esposa florero con un sombrío pasado sobrevive tras escapar de milagro a un descarado ataque. Gánsteres y hombres con poder con motivos de sobra para asesinar recitan de memoria sus coartadas. Es entonces, en medio de una sofocante ola de calor, cuando otro homicidio tiene lugar y comienza un tenso viaje por los pequeños y oscuros secretos de los ricos. Unos secretos que resultan ser fatídicos. Secretos que permanecen ocultos en la sombra hasta que una detective del Departamento de Policía de Nueva York arroja un poco de luz sobre ellos

At the time when southern Italy was an isolated and underdeveloped region, Douglas wrote this 1914 travel guide to bring the beauty that he found in Calabria to the reading public. Inspired by the landscape, unique cultural traditions, and proximity to history, he found even traveling on long mule trails to be an enjoyable part of the journey rather than an inconvenience. Written in a chatty, conversational tone, ‘Old Calabria’ will be of interest to armchair travelers and to anyone who enjoys stories of everyday adventure. In 1911 Norman Douglas traveled through Calabria in Southern Italy with Eric Wolton, a 12 year old boy he met in London in 1910. British writer NORMAN DOUGLAS (1868–1952) wrote a number of books, including his best known novel, ‘South Wind’ (1917)

Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at the English bar. Yet through it all he has carried with him the wounds of a difficult and emotionally hollow childhood. Now an eighty-year-old widower living in comfortable seclusion in Dorset, Feathers is finally free from the regimen of work and the sentimental scaffolding that has sustained him throughout his life. He slips back into the past with ever mounting frequency and intensity, and on the tide of these vivid, lyrical musings, Feathers approaches a reckoning with his own history. Not all the old filth, it seems, can be cleaned away. Borrowing from biography and history, Jane Gardam has written a literary masterpiece reminiscent of Rudyard Kipling's Baa Baa, Black Sheep that retraces much of the twentieth century's torrid and momentous history. Feathers' childhood in Malaya during the British Empire's heyday, his schooling in pre-war England, his professional success in Southeast Asia and his return to England toward the end of the millennium, are vantage points from which the reader can observe the march forward of an eventful era and the steady progress of that man, Sir Edward Feathers, Old Filth himself, who embodies the century's fate

John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce—and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding. Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don't want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You'll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You'll serve two years at the front. And if you survive, you'll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets. John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine—and what he will become is far stranger

Fifteen all-new stories by science fiction's top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multiple-award winning editor Gardner Dozois Burroughs's A Princess of Mars. Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. Heinlein's Red Planet. These and so many more inspired generations of readers with a sense that science fiction's greatest wonders did not necessarily lie far in the future or light-years across the galaxy but were to be found right now on a nearby world tantalizingly similar to our own - a red planet that burned like an ember in our night sky …and in our imaginations. This new anthology of fifteen all-original science fiction stories, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, celebrates the Golden Age of Science Fiction, an era filled with tales of interplanetary colonization and derring-do. Before the advent of powerful telescopes and space probes, our solar system could be imagined as teeming with strange life-forms and ancient civilizations - by no means always friendly to the dominant species of Earth. And of all the planets orbiting that G-class star we call the Sun, none was so steeped in an aura of romantic decadence, thrilling mystery, and gung-ho adventure as Mars. Join such seminal contributors as Michael Moorcock, Mike Resnick, Joe R. Lansdale, S. M. Stirling, Mary Rosenblum, Ian McDonald, Liz Williams, James S. A. Corey, and others in this brilliant retro anthology that turns its back on the cold, all-but-airless Mars of the Mariner probes and instead embraces an older, more welcoming, more exotic Mars: a planet of ancient canals cutting through red deserts studded with the ruined cities of dying races

In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese museum. While Reger gazes at a Tintoretto portrait, Atzbacher — who fears Reger's plans to kill himself — gives us a portrait of the musicologist: his wisdom, his devotion to his wife, and his love-hate relationship with art. With characteristically acerbic wit, Bernhard exposes the pretensions and aspirations of humanity in a novel at once pessimistic and strangely exhilarating

Annalee Newitz’s Old Media: A Tor.com Original, tells the story of a freed slave and a robot professor, trying to figure out what it means to be in love while they watch old anime from the 21st century. At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied

"Beautiful, inventive, ambitious and nuts."-"The Times" (London) "Our nearest contemporary equivalent to Blake, our sweetest-natured screwed-up visionary."-"London Evening Standard" Alasdair Gray's unique melding of humor and metafiction at once hearken back to Laurence Sterne and sit beside today's literary mash-ups with equal comfort. "Old Men in Love" is smart, down-to-earth, funny, bawdy, politically inspired, dark, multi-layered, and filled with the kind of intertextual play that Gray delights in. As with Gray's previous novel "Poor Things," several partial narratives are presented together. Here the conceit is that they were all discovered in the papers of the late John Tunnock, a retired Glasgow teacher who started a number of novels in settings as varied as Periclean Athens, Renaissance Florence, Victorian Somerset, and Britain under New Labour. This is the first US edition (updated with the author's corrections from the UK edition) of a novel that British critics lauded as one of the best of Gray's long career. Beautifully printed in two colors throughout and featuring Gray's trademark strong design, "Old Men in Love" will stand out from everything else on the shelf. Fifty percent is fact and the rest is possible, but it must be read to be believed. Alasdair Gray is one of Scotland's most well-known and acclaimed artists. He is the author of nine novels, including "Lanark," "1982 Janine," and the Whitbread and Guardian Prize-winning "Poor Things," as well as four collections of stories, two collections of poetry, and three books of nonfiction, including "The Book of Prefaces." He lives in Glasgow, Scotland

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“Old Rambling House” is a short story by science fiction author Frank Herbert which first appeared in Galaxy magazine in 1958 and later in Herbert’s 1985 short story collection The Worlds of Frank Herbert. It is notable for its atmosphere and the dystopian multiverse in which no hope of freedom is left, which is atypical for Herbert’s works

У вас было такое — вы прикладываете кучу усилий, жертвуете самым дорогим, а у самого финиша узнаёте, что «ваша принцесса в другом замке»? Может, у кого другого опустились бы руки, но Клима Денисова не смогла остановить даже собственная смерть. Он из тех, кто не боится трудностей, пусть это нынче и старомодно. Гибель заказчика для него уже ничего не меняет. Задание нужно завершить, ведь геймеры продолжают умирать в реальности, где у них всего одна-единственная жизнь. И кто-то обрывает её с пугающей лёгкостью. Но сможет ли Клим стать тем самым камешком, что намертво застопорит работу отлаженного преступного механизма?

Эксперт по живописи попадает на выставку памяти гениального мексиканского художника Себастьяна Родригеса, наследника искусства Сикейроса и Ороско, но выставка оказывается поминками

Andrē Moruā Olimpio jeb Viktora Igo dzīve Kāpēc lgo? Tāpēc, ka viņš ir vislielākais franču dzejnieks, un tāpēc, ka viņa dzīves pazīšana nepieciešama, lai saprastu šo pretrunu pilno ģēniju. Kā šis piesardzīgais un taupīgais vīrs tai pašā laikā bija devigs; kā šis šķīstais jauneklis, šis priekšzīmīgais ģimenes tēvs vecumā kļuva par faunu; kā šis leģitīraists pārvērtās par bonapartistu, bet pēc tam par republikas patriarhu; kā šis pacifists labāk par visiem citiem apdziedājis Vagrāmas karogus; kā, pēc buržuā ieskatiem, šis buržuā tika dēvēts par dumpinieku — to visu paskaidrot ir ikviena Viktora Igo biogrāfa uzdevums. Ievērojamu cilvēku dzīve Izdevniecība «Liesma» Rīga 1974 Андре Mopya ОЛИМПИО ИЛИ ЖИЗНЬ ВИКТОРА ГЮГО Серия «Жизнь замечательных людей» Издательство «Лиесма» Рига 1974 На латышском языке Перевод с французского М. Грннфелд Художник А, Меркман No franču valodas tulkojusi Milda Grīnfelde Mākslinieks Andris Merkmanis ©Tulkojums latviešu valodā, «Liesma», 1974

The long-awaited follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning, No.1 New York Times bestselling Olive Kitteridge Olive, Again will pick up where Olive Kitteridge left off, following the next decade of Olive's life - through a second marriage, an evolving relationship with her son, and encounters with a cast of memorable characters in the seaside town of Crosby, Maine

A friend who brings light at the darkest of times... Oliver the cat is a timid little thing, and rarely ventures from his home in the Foresters’ Arms. Then his life changes dramatically when a fire breaks out in the pub kitchen and he is left homeless and afraid. But, with the kindness of the humans around him, he soon learns to trust again. And, in his own special way, he helps to heal those around him. However, it isn’t until he meets a little girl in desperate need of a friend that he realises this village needs a Christmas miracle... A warm and uplifting novel, this is the tale of a little cat with a big heart. Perfect for fans of A Streetcat Named Bob and Alfie the Doorstep Cat

Oliver And Charlie - 1, 2

One of Dickens’ most enduringly popular stories is Oliver Twist, an early work published 1837-8. Like many of his later novels, its central theme is the hardship faced by the dispossessed and those of the outside of ‘polite’ society. Oliver himself is born in a workhouse and treated cruelly there as was the norm at the time for pauper children, in particular by Bumble, a parish council official or ‘beadle’. The story follows Oliver as he escapes the workhouse and runs away to London. Here he receives an education in villainy from the criminal gang of Fagin that includes the brutal thief Bill Sikes, the famous ‘Artful Dodger’ and Nancy, Bill’s whore. Oliver is rescued by the intervention of a benefactor — Mr Brownlow — but the mysterious Monks gets the gang to kidnap the boy again. Nancy intervenes but is murdered viciously by Sikes after she has showed some redeeming qualities and has discovered Monk’s sinister intention. The story closes happily and with justice for Bumble and the cruel Monks who has hidden the truth of Oliver’s parentage out of malice. Accusations were made that the book glamorised crime (like the ‘Newgate Group’ of the period) but Dickens wisely disassociated himself from criminal romances. His achievement was in fact in presenting the underworld and problems of poverty to the well-off in a way rarely attempted previously

The restless King Oliver VII of Alturia, an obscure Central European state whose only notable exports are wine and sardines, wants nothing more than an easy life: so, plotting a coup against himself, King Oliver VII escapes to Venice in search of real experience. There he falls in with a team of con-men and ends up, to his own surprise, impersonating himself. His journey through successive levels of illusion and reality teaches him much about the world, about his own nature and the paradoxes of the human condition. Szerb offered Oliver VII as a translation from a non-existent English writer, A H Redcliff typical Szerb humor, or a reflection of the fact that as a rootless cosmopolitan his own work was banned by the Nazi regime?"

ČARLZS DIKENSS OLIVERA TVISTA PIEDZĪVOJUMI

Best friends Jess and Lily visit Friendship Forest, where animals can talk and magic exists! When Jess and Lily return to Friendship Forest, Grizelda casts a spell to make little Olivia Nibblesqueak the hamster think she’s a messy creature, just like Grizelda’s new helpers! Can Jess and Lily find a way to make Olivia herself again?

Кое-кто из читателей нашел в романе «исторические неточности». Искренние соболезнования им. Ибо нет тут «исторических неточностей». И не может быть. Здесь все абсолютно так, как это могло бы быть на самом деле…

Pour calmer la colère jalouse de Saint Louis, Renaud des Courtilles reçoit l'ordre d'épouser Sancie de Valcroze. Malgré des débuts de vie conjugale difficiles, le couple finit par avoir un fils, Olivier. Au profond désarroi de ses parents, le jeune garçon demande à être templier. Comment le préserver de cette terrible prédiction de mort qui pèse sur l'ordre? Le Temple, déjà chassé de Terre sainte, est désormais banni de France par un édit de Philippe le Bel qui ne tolère plus la corruption de ses membres. Certains sont exécutés en place de Grève et l'assaut fomenté par quelques Templiers n'y change rien. Tous n'ont plus que la fuite pour salut. Mais peut-être cette déchéance de l'ordre n'est-elle qu'une manière de le rendre aux coeurs purs, dont Olivier serait l'emblème ?

Questo è uno dei migliori romanzi brevi apparsi sulla gloriosa e purtroppo defunta «Galaxy». Wyman Guin, che esordì nel 1951 con questo bizzarro e convincente ritratto di un mondo di schizofrenia universale, produsse, nei successivi dieci anni, soltanto cinque o sei altri racconti, scomparendo poi senza lasciare tracce nell’oblio più completo. Peccato, perché aveva davvero delle qualità, come potrete constatare leggendo questa originalissima vicenda

Olvidado rey Gudú narra el nacimiento y expansión del Reino de Olar, en una historia donde se habla de la pérdida de la inocencia, la atracción y el miedo hacia lo desconocido, el placer de la conquista, el amor, el dolor, la memoria, y sobre todo, el olvido. El universo fantástico de Matute nos introduce en una historia larguísima sobre traiciones, hijos ilegítimos, desamores y pasiones desconocidas. Un rey incapaz de amar es el centro de esta saga dramática, con pocas concesiones a la ternura o la esperanza. He ahí la mayor baza de la novela, la forma en que retrata la educación y la falta de afecto hacia los hijos. Un relato cruel con parricidios, asesinatos y huidas, todo entremezclado en una narración densa a la vez que fácil de seguir, hasta el obligado e inexorable final

В основу мистической повести OLVIDO – ЗАБВЕНИЕ легли реальные факты, произошедшие в Сибири. Сдав выпускные экзамены в школе, трое друзей решают отправиться вниз по реке, чтобы через пару дней вернуться обратно к выпускному балу, не подозревая о том, что вернуться им не суждено никогда. Каким-то непостижимым, мистическим образом ребята попадают в совсем иной сверхфизический мир и остаются в нем. Убитые горем родители пытаются найти следы своих детей. Им помогают спасатели и МЧС. Но поиски никаких результатов не дают. Тогда люди обращаются за помощью к старой ведунье, живущей отшельницей в сибирской тайге. Открывшийся портал между мирами изменяет жизни людей, приводит в действие механизм самоуничтожения реального мира…

Helen of Troy is in mourning for her dead husband, Paris. Killed in single combat with the merciless Apollo. His body a scorched and blasted thing. Hockenberry, her lover, still sneaks from her bed after their nights of lovemaking. And the Gods still strike out from the besieged Olympos. Their single-molecule bomb casings quantum phase-shifting through the moravecs' force shield and laying waste to Ilium. Or so Hockenberry and the amusing little metal creature, Mahnmut, have tried to explain to her. Helen of Troy does not give a fig about machines. She must dress for the funeral. And man and the gods and the unknown players in this tragedy must prepare for the final act. And a battle that will decide the future of the universe itself

The year is 2081. Earth is recovering from a devastating nuclear war. An age of technological advancement. A find at the bottom of the Ocean. A man driven by a dream. The time for humanity to reach to the stars is now. A find provides Tomas Klein with the tools to speed up his timetable and execute his plans. He will reach for the stars, the only question is will humanity follow? Adrian Farkas an orphan boy, is given opportunity to change his bleak future. To go to space, and shape the future of all mankind. Will he rise up to the challenge? Olympus is 73,000 word novel and the first book in the “Rise of the Empire” series, it sets the stage and introduces the characters for the books to come, the series will follow humanity as it takes its first steps into the Solar system and beyond, becoming a true galaxy spanning empire. Rise of the Empire Book 2 – Rebellion coming November 2014