Если бы проводился конкурс на самый необычный самолет, созданный в годы 2-й Мировой войны, Dormer Do 335 «Pfeil» имел бы все шансы занять одно из призовых мест

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Если бы проводился конкурс на са­мый необычный самолет, созданный в годы 2-й Мировой войны, Dormer Do 335 «Pfeil» имел бы все шансы занять одно из призовых мест. В отличие от своих конкурентов, которые, несмотря на пе­редовую конструкцию, не имели замет­ной боевой ценности, «Pfeil» представ­лял собой удачную боевую машину. Это был один из самых быстрых истребите­лей с поршневым двигателем в истории авиации. Если бы немцам удалось ре­шить технические проблемы, преследо­вавшие самолет на всех этапах его со­здания, и организовать его серийный вы­пуск, то в их руках оказался бы исключи­тельный по своим качествам истреби­тель, способный эффективно бороться с любым самолетом противника. Поэтому нет ничего удивительно­го в том, что после войны союзники ак­тивно испытывали попавшие им в руки Do 335. Однако стремительное разви­тие реактивной авиации вскоре сделала Do 335 неактуальным

“The most consistently brilliant science fiction writer in the world.” The Inspiration for Bladerunner… ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time. By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn’t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep… They even built humans. Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn’t want to be identified, they just blended in. Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results. “[Dick] sees all the sparkling and terrifying possibilities… that other authors shy away from.”

A sudden impulse to help a girl in trouble leads a beautiful woman doctor into the path of murder, blackmail and deadly danger

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«Отели хранят тайну как по закону, так и по своему назначению. Отель — временный дом. А дом — это прежде всего крепость. Гость доверяет отелю свое имущество, персональные данные, детали личной жизни. То есть, по сути, самого себя». Забавно и трогательно, проникновенно и с нотками грусти, но, главное, талантливо и ярко автор, отельер, владелец и генеральный менеджер гостиницы «Гельвеция» Юнис Теймурханлы, рассказывает о жизни своего бутик-отеля и его постояльцев. Здесь, как в театральном представлении, тесно переплетаются драма и трагикомедия, приключения и любовная лирика, реализм и эксцентричный фарс. Рассказы о жизни кумиров и их назойливых поклонников, популярных писателей и зарубежных туристов, бизнесменов, звезд спорта и обычных посетителей дают возможность не только как бы самому побывать в стенах элитного отеля, но и по-новому оценить вечные ценности жизни

Not to be read in one sitting... Beware of long-lost friends, sleepy cats, and Santa’s grotto. Think twice about gypsy curses, squawking parrots, and peach-coloured thermal underwear — for any one of them can confound your expectations and shatter a cosy world. In his addictive new collection. Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose, master crime writer Peter Lovesey prescribes fifteen fiendishly clever stories featuring the man in the street along with the ever-popular detectives Peter Diamond and the self-important Bertie, Prince of Wales. Here, the genteel mix easily with the sordid in a nasty but effective concoction of mayhem and suspense. It’s a mixture that heart beat taster — and there are twists that will take your breath away

An extraordinary novel set in China before, during and after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989-the breakout book we've been waiting for from a bestselling, Amazon.ca First Novel Award winner. Madeleine Thien's new novel is breathtaking in scope and ambition even as it is hauntingly intimate. With the ease and skill of a master storyteller, Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations-those who lived through Mao's Cultural Revolution in the mid-twentieth century; and the children of the survivors, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square in 1989, in one of the most important political moments of the past century. With exquisite writing sharpened by a surprising vein of wit and sly humour, Thien has crafted unforgettable characters who are by turns flinty and headstrong, dreamy and tender, foolish and wise. At the centre of this epic tale, as capacious and mysterious as life itself, are enigmatic Sparrow, a genius composer who wishes desperately to create music yet can find truth only in silence; his mother and aunt, Big Mother Knife and Swirl, survivors with captivating singing voices and an unbreakable bond; Sparrow's ethereal cousin Zhuli, daughter of Swirl and storyteller Wen the Dreamer, who as a child witnesses the denunciation of her parents and as a young woman becomes the target of denunciations herself; and headstrong, talented Kai, best friend of Sparrow and Zhuli, and a determinedly successful musician who is a virtuoso at masking his true self until the day he can hide no longer. Here, too, is Kai's daughter, the ever-questioning mathematician Marie, who pieces together the tale of her fractured family in present-day Vancouver, seeking a fragile meaning in the layers of their collective story. With maturity and sophistication, humour and beauty, a huge heart and impressive understanding, Thien has crafted a novel that is at once beautifully intimate and grandly political, rooted in the details of daily life inside China, yet transcendent in its universality

Two money hungry bounty hunters bite off more than they can chew in this Ralph Compton western...Charley Pickett was cleaning up the West—working on a farm shoveling you-know-what. Then he met Tony Fabrizio, bar sweep extraordinaire. In need of more money and more respect, they declared themselves bounty hunters—but the job is easier said than done.   Going after one of the most wanted outlaws in the West—with a dollar value on his head bigger than they’ve ever seen—they’ll have to learn the tricks of the trade in no time flat… or lose their good-for-nothing lives.More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books In Print!

From acclaimed author David Corbett, a stunning and suspenseful novel of a life without loyalties and the borders inside ourselves. Roque Montalvo is wise beyond his eighteen years. Orphaned at birth, a gifted musician, he's stuck in a California backwater, helping his Salvadoran aunt care for his damaged brother, an ex-marine badly wounded in Iraq. When immigration agents arrest his uncle, the family has nowhere else to turn. Roque, badgered by his street-hardened cousin, agrees to bring the old man back, relying on the criminal gangs that control the dangerous smuggling routes from El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, to the U.S. border. But his cousin has told Roque only so much. In reality, he will have to transport not just his uncle but two others: an Arab whose intentions are disturbingly vague and a young beauty promised to a Mexican crime lord. Roque discovers that his journey involves crossing more than one kind of border, and he will be asked time and again to choose between survival and betrayal – of his country, his family, his heart

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet meets The 100 in this unforgettable debut by a brilliant new voice. A century ago, scientists theorised that a habitable planet existed in a nearby solar system. Today, ten astronauts will leave a dying Earth to find it. Four are decorated veterans of the 20th century’s space-race. And six are teenagers, graduates of the exclusive Dalton Academy, who’ve been in training for this mission for most of their lives. It will take the team 23 years to reach Terra-Two. Twenty-three years spent in close quarters. Twenty-three years with no one to rely on but each other. Twenty-three years with no rescue possible, should something go wrong. And something always goes wrong