**Jack Ryan, Jr is out to avenge the murder of an old friend, but the vein of evil he's tapped into may run too deep for him to handle in the latest electric entry in the #1** New York Times  **bestselling series.** While on vacation in Barcelona, Jack Ryan, Jr. is surprised to run into an old friend at a small café. A first, Renee Moore seems surprised to see Jack, but then she just seems irritated and distracted. After making plans to meet later, Jack leaves only to miss the opportunity to ever speak to Renee again as the café is destroyed minutes later by a suicide bomber. A desperate Jack plunges back into the ruins to save his friend, but it's too late. As she dies in his arms, she utters one word, "Sammler." When the police show up they are initially suspicious of Jack until they are called off by a member of the Spanish Intelligence Service. This mysterious sequence of events sends the young Campus operative on an unrelenting search to find out the reason behind Renee's death. Along the way, he discovers that his old friend had secrets of her own--and some of them may have gotten her killed. Jack has never backed down from a challenge, but some prey may be too big for one man

****A missing Chinese scientist, unexplained noises emanating from under the Arctic ice, and a possible mole in American intelligence are just some of the problems that plague President Jack Ryan in the latest entry in Tom Clancy's #1* New York Times* bestselling series.**** Aboard an icebreaker in the Arctic Ocean a sonar operator hears an unusual noise coming from the ocean floor. She can't isolate it and chalks the event up to an anomaly in a newly installed system. Meanwhile, operatives with the Chinese Ministry of State Security are dealing with their own mystery--the disappearance of brilliant but eccentric scientist, Liu Wangshu. They're desperate to keep his crucial knowledge of aerospace and naval technology out of their rivals' hands. Finding Liu is too great an opportunity for any intelligence service to pass up, but there's one more problem. A high-level Chinese mole, codenamed Surveyor, has managed to infiltrate American Intelligence. President Jack Ryan has only one choice: send John Clark and his Campus team deep into China to find an old graduate student of the professor's who may hold the key to his whereabouts. It's a dangerous gamble, but with John Clark holding the cards, Jack Ryan is all in. **

Минуло несколько месяцев после того, как по миру пронеслась смертоносная пандемия, вспыхнувшая в Нью-Йорке в «черную пятницу». Правительство уничтожено, инфраструктура разрушена, цивилизация угасает. Только Спецотряд, автономное подразделение тайных агентов, начинающих действовать, лишь когда все прочие меры не помогли, защищает людей от бандитов, мародеров и угнетателей. Агент Аурелио Диас, разыскивающий одного из коллег, чьи действия привели к жертвам среди населения, и Эйприл Келлехер, стремящаяся найти убийц своего мужа и узнать, действительно ли существует лекарство от смертельной болезни, обнаруживают новую опасность, нависшую над страной. Теперь они – последняя надежда человечества на спасение от нового вируса и окончательного коллапса

Robert Silverberg, znakomity twórca ściance fiction, znany jest polskiemu czytelnikowi z wielu powieści, z których najbardziej cenione to „Człowiek z labiryntu” i „Rodząc się umieramy”. Jego kolejna książka opowiada o chylącej się ku upadkowi cywilizacji Ziemi początku XXII wieku. Przemoc i gwałt stały się codziennością. Rozkwitają fanatyczne sekty, świat został pozbawiony nadziei. I wtedy pojawia się tytułowy bohater — zdolny do nawiązania telepatycznego kontaktu z obcymi cywilizacjami. Czy jego dar jest wybawieniem dla ludzkości, czy też narzędziem jej ostatecznej zagłady?

Tom, like the medieval Tom O’Bedlam, can’t decipher the meaning of the images plaguing his mind. Much like the wondering and mad Tom of the medieval ballad, the Tom O’Bedlam of 2103 doesn’t know what to make of the images that keep cluttering his mind. To preserve the last shred of his sanity and keep these never-ending wonders a secret, he feigns insanity. But then a probe that has traveled over four light years away transmits the very pictures that have been haunting Tom’s dreams. In this post-industrial world on the verge of a total collapse, Tom has become humanity’s spokesperson to the distant planet that may be his world’s salvation

En el año 2103, Tom O’Bedlam, una especie de anormal que constantemente tiene visiones de otros mundos de belleza y exotismo sin límite, sobrevive junto a una banda de merodeadores en un mundo post industrial y tecnológico. Nadie sabe que la «locura» de Tom es el método para hacer frente a los extraordinarios poderes que posee, poderes que le permiten enviar su mente a través de los inimaginables caminos del espacio, visitar otros mundos y retenerlos en su subconsciente. Cuando una sonda estelar lanzada a Próxima Centauri, a cuatro añoz-luz de la Tierra, transmite imágenes de vida, se descubre el mismo mundo verde de la imaginación de Tom, las mismas imágenes que ha estado transmitiendo telepáticamente a los otros. A veces amenazantes, a veces increíbles, los mundos distantes que se comunican con Tom son revelados finalmente, y Tom O’Bedlam se convierte en su instrumento y su representante en la Tierra

1450s France. A young Englishman, Tom Swan, is kneeling in the dirt, waiting to be killed by the French who've taken him captive. He's not a professional soldier. He's really a merchant and a scholar looking for remnants of Ancient Greece and Rome - temples, graves, pottery, fabulous animals, unicorn horns. But he also has a real talent for ending up in the midst of violence when he didn't mean to. Having used his wits to escape execution, he begins a series of adventures that take him to street duels in Italy, meetings with remarkable men - from Leonardo Da Vinci to Vlad Dracula - and from the intrigues of the War of the Roses to the fall of Constantinople

MARKS TVENS TOMA SOJERA PIEDZĪVOJUMI HAKLBERI JA FINA PIEDZĪVOJUMI THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER by Mark Twain Foreign Languages Publishing House Moscow 1948 THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Tvvain Foreign Languages Publishing House Moscow 1948 Grafiskas apdares autors ANDRIS LAMSTERS © Jolanta Mackova, pēcvārds, komentāri, 1993 Arvīds Bumanis, ilustrācijās, 1993 Andris Lamsters, grafiskā apdare, 1993 TOMA SOJERA PIEDZĪVOJUMI

 Solomons Apts Tomass Manns Ievērojamu cilvēku dzīve. S. Apts raksta par Ievērojamā vācu rakstnieka Tomasa Manna dzīvi, sākot no agrīnās bērnības līdz mūža beigām. Viņš sniedzis plašu rakstnieka literārās darbības attēlojumu, sīki analizējot viņa darbus, Ap 900 Tomass Manns / No krievu vai. tulk. R. Pur-viņa. — R.: Liesma, 1978. — 333 lpp. 12 lp. il. — (Ievērojamu cilvēku dzīve). No krievu valodas tulkojusi Ruta Purviņa Mākslinieks Jānis Jansons © Tulkojums latviešu valodā, «Liesma», 1978

Alfrēds Šteklijs Tomass Mincers Sērija Ievērojamu cilvēku dzīve. XVI gadsimta pirmais ceturksnis ir viena no visspraigākajām un dramatisma piesātinātākajām lappusēm Vācijas vēsturē. Lutera uzstāšanās pret katolisko Romu bija kā zibens spēriens pulvera mucā. Sakustējās visa Vācija. Neskaitāmajiem pārmērīgi lielajiem nodokļiem apspiestie vācu zemnieki cēlās cīņai pret saviem laicīgajiem un garīgajiem kungiem. Reformācija un Zemnieku karš Vācijā, pēc Engelsa domām, izvērtās par pirmo, kaut arī neveiksmīgo buržuāziskās revolūcijas mēģinājumu Eiropā. Izšķirošo pasākumu sagatavošanā sevišķi nozīmīga loma bija Tomasam Minceram. Viņš aicināja iznīcināt apspiedējus un nodibināt tautas varu. Sī grāmata stāsta par Mincera — vīrišķīga un nelokāma cilvēka — varonīgo dzīvi. Grāmatas autors A. Šteklijs dzimis Maskavā 1924. gadā. Beidzis vēstures fakultāti un aspirantūru Maskavas Valsts universitātē. Publicējis virkni rakstu un apcerējumu par viduslaiku vēsturi. Krievu valodā tulkojis H. Ilbergas grāmatu «Klāra Cetkina» (1958) un uzrakstījis itāļu izcilā brīvdomātāja — populārās sociālās utopijas «Saules pilsēta» autora Tomazo Kampanellas biogrāfiju (krievu valodā divi izdevumi — 1959. un 1960. g.). Tulkojis Vitolds Zībelis Apvāku, vāku un titulu zīmējusi Gaisma Ģīga Ilustrējis S. Brodskis Izd «Liesma» Rīga 1970

Composed of seven dark tales, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich presents variations on the theme of political and social self-destruction throughout Eastern Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. The characters in these stories are caught in a world of political hypocrisy, which ultimately leads to death, their common fate. Although the stories Kis tells are based on historical events, the beauty and precision of his prose elevates these ostensibly true stories into works of literary art that transcend the politics of their time

Matthew Shardlake series #7 Spring, 1549. Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos. The nominal king, Edward VI, is eleven years old. His uncle, Edward Seymour, Lord Hertford, rules as Edward's regent and Protector. In the kingdom, radical Protestants are driving the old religion into extinction, while the Protector's prolonged war with Scotland has led to hyperinflation and economic collapse. Rebellion is stirring among the peasantry. Matthew Shardlake has been working as a lawyer in the service of Henry's younger daughter, the lady Elizabeth. The gruesome murder of one of Elizabeth's distant relations, rumored to be politically murdered, draws Shardlake and his companion Nicholas to the lady's summer estate, where a second murder is committed. As the kingdom explodes into rebellion, Nicholas is imprisoned for his loyalty, and Shardlake must decide where his loyalties lie – with his kingdom, or with his lady?

Spring, 1549. Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos... The nominal king, Edward VI, is eleven years old. His uncle Edward Seymour, Lord Hertford, rules as Protector. The extirpation of the old religion by radical Protestants is stirring discontent among the populace while the Protector's prolonged war with Scotland is proving a disastrous failure and threatens to involve France. Worst of all, the economy is in collapse, inflation rages and rebellion is stirring among the peasantry. Since the old King's death, Matthew Shardlake has been working as a lawyer in the service of Henry's younger daughter, the Lady Elizabeth. The gruesome murder of the wife of a distant Norfolk relation of Elizabeth's mother, John Boleyn - which could have political implications for Elizabeth - brings Shardlake and his assistant Nicholas Overton to the summer assizes at Norwich. There they are reunited with Shardlake's former assistant Jack Barak. The three find layers of mystery and danger surrounding the death of Edith Boleyn, as a second murder is committed. And then East Anglia explodes, as peasant rebellion breaks out across the country. The yeoman Robert Kett leads a force of thousands in overthrowing the landlords and establishing a vast camp outside Norwich. Soon the rebels have taken over the city, England's second largest. Barak throws in his lot with the rebels; Nicholas, opposed to them, becomes a prisoner in Norwich Castle; while Shardlake has to decide where his ultimate loyalties lie, as government forces in London prepare to march north and destroy the rebels. Meanwhile he discovers that the murder of Edith Boleyn may have connections reaching into both the heart of the rebel camp and of the Norfolk gentry

In the 23rd Century, the Superpowers of Earth vie for control of occupied space and the vast resources of the colony worlds. Darius Jax is a senior officer and hero of the Marine Corps, veteran of countless battles fought throughout occupied space. But once he was a raw private fighting his first battle on a planet so deadly, so hellish, its own occupants called it Tombstone. This is his story, before fame, before glory. The fighting on Tombstone is brutal and deadly, and Jax must find his inner strength if he is to survive. As he struggles through an unwinnable war he learns to rely on himself as he never has before, and he begins to understand just what he is - and is not - fighting for. Tombstone is a novella of approximately 24,000 words, and prequel to the best-selling Crimson Worlds series, set in the years just before the Third Frontier War and the events described in Crimson Worlds Book I: Marines

The fabulous Shirley Rousseau Murphy—whose “Joe Grey” mysteries are the cat’s meow—enchants once again, as a delightful duo of feline mamas sinks their claws into a murder investigation

Seria powieści Alfreda Szklarskiego o przygodach Tomka Wilmowskiego na różnych kontynentach. Między innymi chłopiec bierze udział w wyprawie łowieckiej na kangury w Australii i przeżywa niebezpieczne przygody w Afryce, żyje wśród czerwonoskórych Nawajów i Apaczów. W te niezwykłe przygody wpleciona jest historia odkryć dokonywanych przez polskich podróżników. Książki są lekturą łatwą i atrakcyjną dla chłopców od wielu pokoleń

Cykl powieści Alfreda Szklarskiego o przygodach Tomka Wilmowskiego obejmuje kilkanaście pozycji przedstawiających barwne przygody głównego bohatera w różnych miejscach świata. Niniejsza pozycja jest jedną z nich. Akcja powieści rozgrywa się północnej Ameryce u źródeł Amazonki. Książka jest niepowtarzalna okazją dla czytelnika, aby móc na kartach powieści znależć się w tym niesamowitym krajobrazie i wraz z bohaterami przeżyć coś niezapomnianego

Seria powieści Alfreda Szklarskiego o przygodach Tomka Wilmowskiego na różnych kontynentach. Między innymi chłopiec bierze udział w wyprawie łowieckiej na kangury w Australii i przeżywa niebezpieczne przygody w Afryce, żyje wśród czerwonoskórych Nawajów i Apaczów. W te niezwykłe przygody wpleciona jest historia odkryć dokonywanych przez polskich podróżników. Od wielu pokoleń te książki są lekturą łatwą i atrakcyjną nie tylko dla chłopców

On a midsummer's night Paula Hook lies awake; Mike, her husband of twenty-five years, asleep beside her; her teenage twins, Nick and Kate, sleeping in nearby rooms. The next day, she knows, will redefine all of their lives. Recalling the years before and after her children were born, Paula begins a story that is both a glowing celebration of love possessed and a moving acknowledgment of the secrets on which our very identities rest. Brilliantly distilling half a century into one suspenseful night, Tomorrow is an eloquent meditation on the mystery of happiness

Прошло 2 года. Долгие 2 года Алиса сходила с ума от неизвестности. Но он пришел и все вроде бы вошло в норму. Ночная Леди открыла свой бизнес. Стала любящей женой и матерью. Но в один прекрасный день все обрывается — Алиса попадает в автокатастрофу и её… принимают за другую. В это же время, поп-звезда Японии, который влюбился в Алису с первого взгляда решает воспользоваться потерей её памяти и представить её как невесту

In The Billion Dollar Boy, rich, spoiled, overweight 15-year-old Shelby Cheever is bored, so he convinces his mother to take him on a space cruise. Without proper preparation, and drunk besides, he accesses the node network alone to visit the Kuiper asteroid belt and finds himself hurtled 27 light years out to the Messina Dust Cloud, where he is rescued by a mining family. On the three-month journey home, Shelby must learn how to do for himself in an environment where his wealth and pampered status mean nothing. Another well-written coming-of-age adventure story in the new Jupiter series. For large sf collections. In the hard-science Tomorrow & Tomorrow, Sheffield explores changes in the solar system and the theory of a closed vs. open system wrapped around a tale of a musician’s fanatical love for his wife. Drake Merlin has his dying wife Ana and himself cryonically frozen so they can be together once a cure for her disease is found. Several times over 15 billion years he is awakened only to find no cure and, one time, he accidentally causes Ana’s death. But if the theory of a closed system is true and the universe shrinks, he and Ana can return to a point when she is alive

Twenty-four stories from one of speculative fiction’s up-and-coming stars, Pushcart and Journey Prize-nominated author Rich Larson. Welcome to the Tomorrow Factory. On your left, post-human hedonists on a distant space station bring diseases back in fashion, two scavengers find a super-powered parasite under the waves of Sunk Seattle, and a terminally-ill chemist orchestrates an asteroid prison break. On your right, an alien optometrist spins illusions for irradiated survivors of the apocalypse, a high-tech grifter meets his match in near-future Thailand, and two teens use a blackmarket personality mod to get into the year’s wickedest, wildest party. This collection of published and original fiction by award-winning writer Rich Larson will bring you from a Bujumbura cyberpunk junkyard to the icy depths of Europa, from the slick streets of future-noir Chicago to a tropical island of sapient robots. You’ll explore a mysterious ghost ship in deep space, meet an android learning to dream, and fend off predatory alien fungi on a combat mission gone wrong. Twenty-four futures, ranging from grimy cyberpunk to far-flung space opera, are waiting to blow you away. So step inside the Tomorrow Factory, and mind your head

Michel is ten years old, living in Pointe Noire, Congo, in the 1970s. His mother sells peanuts at the market, his father works at the Victory Palace Hotel, and brings home books left behind by the white guests. Planes cross the sky overhead, and Michel and his friend Loun's dream about the countries where they'll land. While news comes over the radio of the American hostage crisis in Tehran, the death of the Shah, the scandal of the Boukassa diamonds, Michel struggles with the demands of his twelve year old girlfriend Caroline, who threatens to leave him for a bully in the football team. But most worrying for Michel, the witch doctor has told his mother that he has hidden the key to her womb, and must return it before she can have another child. Somehow he must find it. Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty is a humorous and poignant account of an African childhood, drawn from Alain Mabanckou's life

National bestselling author Lesley Kagen makes her hardcover debut with an extraordinary literary thriller, rendered through the eyes of an unforgettable eleven-year-old girl. During the summer of 1968, Shenandoah Carmody's mother disappeared. Her twin sister, Woody, stopped speaking, and her once-loving father slipped into a mean drunkenness unbefitting a superior court judge. Since then, Shenny-named for the Shenandoah valley-has struggled to hold her world together, taking care of herself and her sister the best she can. Shenny feels certain that Woody knows something about the night their mother vanished, but her attempts to communicate with her mute twin leave her as confused as their father's efforts to confine the girls to the family's renowned virginia estate. As the first anniversary of their mother's disappearance nears, her father's threat to send Woody away and his hints at an impending remarriage spur a desperate Shenny to find her mother before it's too late. She is ultimately swept up in a series of heartbreaking events that force her to come to terms with the painful truth about herself and her family. Told with the wisdom, sensitivity, and humor for which Lesley Kagen has become known, Tomorrow River is a stellar hardcover debut

TOMORROW! is a powerful novel of average Americans at work, at play and in love in two neighboring cities. It is — until the savage strike of catastrophe — the story of the girl next door and her boy friend; of a man who saw what was coming and a woman who didn’t; of reckless youngsters and tough hoods. Then, suddenly, atomic destruction hurtled down out of the sky and America was threatened with annihilation… If you are interested in the TOMORROW of America—in learning about our dangerous vulnerability to attack, to panic and chaos—don’t miss this book. IT MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE!

Tomorrow’s Kin is the first volume in and all new hard science fiction trilogy by Nancy Kress based on the Nebula Award-winning Yesterday’s Kin. The aliens have arrived… they’ve landed their Embassy ship on a platform in New York Harbor, and will only speak with the United Nations. They say that their world is so different from Earth, in terms of gravity and atmosphere, that they cannot leave their ship. The population of Earth has erupted in fear and speculation. One day Dr. Marianne Jenner, an obscure scientist working with the human genome, receives an invitation that she cannot refuse. The Secret Service arrives at her college to escort her to New York, for she has been invited, along with the Secretary General of the UN and a few other ambassadors, to visit the alien Embassy. The truth is about to be revealed. Earth’s most elite scientists have ten months to prevent a disaster—and not everyone is willing to wait. At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied

A brutal murder draws Hannah Ives into a mystery where to understand the present, she must uncover a dark past. While at Calvert Colony, a life care community centre in Maryland, and at lunch with her friend, retired mystery author and amateur painter L.K. 'Naddie' Bromley and her neighbour Sophia Milanesi, who survived the closing years of the Second World War in a convent in Italy, Hannah meets Filomena Buccho, a personable young Argentine server. Her brother, Raniero, also works at the Colony as chef. But when Masud Abaza and his wife, Safa, move into the community and Masud is found murdered, his head bashed in by a croquet mallet, suspicion falls on Raniero, who has made no secret of his neo-Fascist sentiments. Hannah and Naddie agree to investigate, uncovering old crimes and reigniting ancient quarrels that know no boundaries of place or time

Once he was a hero of the Great War, and then a member of the dreaded Black House. Now he is the criminal linchpin of Low Town. His name is Warden. He thought he had left the war behind him, but a summons from up above brings the past sharply, uncomfortably, back into focus. General Montgomery's daughter is missing somewhere in Low Town, searching for clues about her brother's murder. The General wants her found, before the stinking streets can lay claim to her, too

Рассказ вошёл в сборники: I Sing the Body Electric (Электрическое тело пою) The Stories of Ray Bradbury (И грянул гром: 100 рассказов)

Win Brant was king of literary agents in the Vacarion Movement, the new approach to art and life which was transforming all society. The “Vikes” controlled publishing, movies, and television, and their slogan was: “The make-believe is better than the reality!” Paperback novels extolled the merits of vicarious adventure; advertising emphasized clothes, cosmetics, expensive vacations, and innumerable other luxuries that the common man could never afford. But fiction, improved three-dimensional movies, and television took him right out of the dull, real world. And Van Brant labored to create dreamworlds for everyone, while the little man began to forget the frustrations around him, and concentrate on the pure vicarious aspects of living. The Vike made his entire world a make-believe one. Narcotics, made legal under the pressure of the Vike lobby in Washington, became as common as cigarettes. All Vikes counted the hours, the minutes until Happy Time. Sex, so often disappointing in real life, was branded disgusting by the Vikes; it became entirely vicarious. Then came the greatest sensation ever, and Van Brant threw his entire holdings into the newest discovery, the Individual Sensory movie. Now every male in the audience would actually feel everything the hero felt on the screen, every female would actually experience all the sensations that the heroine knew. Vision, color, sound, smell, taste and feeling — a complete dream-world for everyone, at popular prices! But there were still the Realists, a large section of society which opposed the Vikes, who denounced their form of entertainment and their mode of living. So far, the Ree efforts had been futile sniping — blistering reviews of Vike literature, and other products they offered labeling them lewd, disgusting and degrading. Brant and his colleagues read the comments of Dino Pelazi, leader of the Realists, and laughed. They laughed too soon! Pelazi and the Ree opposition were preparing a new campaign, and suddenly Brant and the entire Vike Movement found that the life-and-death struggle for existence had begun. And out on the streets, mobs of Vike hoodlums mugged Ree kids caught alone, while hands of young Rees crashed the lush, decadent Vile Parties, where girls with painted bosoms played sexless games and reached for gleaming hypodermics, filled with the latest narcotic mixtures, when Happy Time came. Here is powerful, shocking novel of tomorrow, the story of a world on the verge of doom as its brilliant elite jest at the wrath to come, and one man realises that both the Vike and the Ree are sick