"A brilliantly inventive writer… he understands the nature of storytelling and is at once terribly moving and wildy funny." — A.S. Byatt Obabakoak is a shimmering, mercurial collection about life in Obaba, a remote, exotic Basque village. A schoolboy’s miningengineer father tricks him into growing up, an unfortunate environmentalist rescues deceptively harmless lizards, and a rescue mission on a Swiss mountain-climbing expedition in Nepal turns into murder. Obaba is peopled with innocents and intellectuals, shepherds and schoolchildren, while everyone from a lovelorn schoolmistress to a cultured but self-hating dwarf wanders across the page. Hints of darker undercurrents mingle with moments of wry humor in this dazzling collage of stories, town gossip, diary excerpts, and literary theory, all held together by Bernardo Atxaga’s distinctive and tenderly ironic voice. An unforgettable work from an international literary giant, whom The Observer (London) listed among the top twenty-one writers of the twenty-first century

"A taut and timely thriller that explores the dark side of academia." – Karin Slaughter *** A complex conspiracy involving the writing of a book drives Lavender's compelling debut, a thriller that will strike some as a mix of John Fowles's The Magus and Stephen King's The Shining. At Indiana's Winchester University, three students-Brian House, Dennis Flaherty and Mary Butler-are taking Logic and Reasoning 204, taught by enigmatic Professor Williams. They quickly learn this is a course like no other. Their single assignment is to find a missing 18-year-old girl, Polly, in six weeks time-or else, Williams asserts, she will be murdered. Is this merely an academic exercise? As Williams produces clues, including photographs of Polly and her associates, the students begin to wonder where homework ends and actual homicide begins. Together with Brian and Dennis, Mary ventures off campus in search of Polly into a world of crumbling towns, decrepit trailers and hints at crimes old and new. A rapid-fire plot offsets thin characterization, though the conspiracy becomes so all-encompassing, so elaborate, that readers may feel a bit like Mary when baffled by her quest: This is what she felt like: led, played, not in control of anything she did

Obfitymi piersiami i pełnymi biodrami natura obdarza kobiety z rodziny Shangguan, mieszkającej w małej chińskiej wiosce, w prowincji Shandong. Od obfitych piersi i matczynego mleka uzależniony jest narrator powieści, długo wyczekiwany syn, brat ośmiu starszych sióstr. Losy rodziny ukazane są na tle wydarzeń historycznych, począwszy od Powstania Bokserów w 1900 roku, poprzez upadek dynastii Qing, inwazję japońską, walki Kuomintangu z komunistami, „rewolucję kulturalną”, aż do reform gospodarczych. Na prowincji życie toczy się jednak obok wielkich przemian, rządzą tam najprostsze instynkty, a podstawową wartością jest przetrwanie. W powieści Obfite piersi, pełne biodra wszystko jest trochę oderwane od rzeczywistości, pełne makabrycznych zdarzeń i wynaturzonych postaci, ocierające się o magię – a jednocześnie opisane prostym, niezwykle obrazowym językiem, przesycone ironią i czarnym humorem. Zręczność stylistyczna i wybujała fantazja Mo Yana powodują, że lektura wciąga na długo – jest to jedna z tych książek, które czyta się zachłannie, mimo że ogłuszają, wyprowadzają z równowagi

Minęło sześć lat od czasu, kiedy Myron po raz ostatni bawił się w detektywa. U boku nowej dziewczyny – Ali Wilder – prowadzi spokojne i uporządkowane życie, zaś jego psychopatyczny przyjaciel Win, nie musi, jak dawniej, nieustannie ratować mu życia. Ale to, co dobre, dobiega właśnie końca… Jakiś czasu temu Myron wymógł na dwóch nastoletnich dziewczynach, Aimee i Erin, wiążącą obietnicę – w razie jakichkolwiek kłopotów, zwrócą się do niego o pomoc. Kilka dni później telefon dzwoni – o drugiej w nocy! Spełniając swoje przyrzeczenie, Myron zabiera nastolatkę z Manhattanu i odwozi do domu jej przyjaciółki w New Jersey. Następnego dnia rodzice Aimee odkrywaj ą zniknięcie córki. Morderstwo, czy ucieczka z domu? Myron był ostatnią osobą, która ją widziała? automatycznie staje się głównym podejrzanym…

Kate Starr nie chce pogodzić się z myślą, że jej mąż zaginął w Wietnamie. Postanawia odnaleźć go za wszelką cenę. Wytrwale walczy z obojętnością amerykańskich władz, dzielnie pokonując trudności codziennego życia. Wreszcie wygrywa. Po dwudziestu latach mężczyzna powraca. Wówczas okazuje się jednak, że oboje muszą podjąć decyzje całkowicie zmieniające ich życie…

L'agente Flinx e il fedele minidrago Pip, chissà come, hanno la strana abitudine di trovarsi in mezzo a pericoli di ogni tipo, situazioni disperate o colossali intrighi da un angolo all'altro del Commonwealth Galattico; così, quando s'imbattono in una giovane donna che giace priva di sensi sulla riva di un fiume nella fitta giungla di Alaspin, Flinx non è molto sorpreso. E non si stupisce neppure di apprendere che la donna, Clarity Held, è in realtà una brillante scienziata, rapita chissà per quali motivi da un remoto avamposto sull'inospitale pianeta Longtunnel. Non c'è nulla di male nel prestare qualche attenzione a Clarity, anche se stavolta Flinx non ha nessuna intenzione di occuparsi del caso, perché ha finalmente deciso di pensare un po' a se stesso ed alla propria vita… ma Clarity è davvero attraente e poi il mistero che la circonda presenta dei lati interessanti... Tuttavia, mentre Flinx è alle prese con questo dilemma imprevisto, i rapitori di Clarity si rivelano per quello che in realtà sono: un gruppo di fanatici assassini che tramano in segreto e sarebbero disposti a tutto pur di arrestare le avanzate ricerche in corso sul remoto Longtunnel. Già, perché è questo pianeta, singolare e misterioso per più di una ragione, il vero cuore dell'enigma… Flinx a questo punto conosce benissimo i rischi che dovrà affrontare, ma ancora una volta è deciso ad andare fino in fondo. L'ultima travolgente avventura di Flinx e del minidrago Pip nel fantastico universo del Commonwealth Galattico

Planeta Hydros jest w całości pokryta wodą. Można na niej zamieszkać, ale nie da się jej już potem opuścić, bowiem nie ma lądu, na którym mógłby lądować statek kosmiczny. Na sztucznej wyspie schronienie znalazła niewielka kolonia Ziemian, oraz osiedle rodzimych mieszkańców Hydros. Niesprzyjąjący zbieg okoliczności zmusza ludzi do wyprawy na fllotylli statków w poszukiwaniu półlegendarnnego lądu

Nareszcie Tiril ma szansę na spotkanie ze swą nieznaną matką. Ale czy księżna zaakceptuje islandzkiego czarnoksiężnika? Móri pragnie pojąć Tiril za żonę, czuje jednak, że nie ma do tego prawa. Tylko jego niewidzialni towarzysze z krainy zimnych cieni mogą mu pomóc w podjęciu decyzji. Jednocześnie obojgu zagraża nieznana moc. Oblicze zła powoli wyłania się z mroku…

In one of the first twenty-first century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system, a young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbor who saved his life, and whom he knows only as Grandfather II. What he finds, among the forgotten mines and decrepit barracks of former gulags, is a world relegated to oblivion, where it is easier to ignore both the victims and the executioners than to come to terms with a terrible past. This disturbing tale evokes the great and ruined beauty of a land where man and machine worked in tandem with nature to destroy millions of lives during the Soviet century. Emerging from today’s Russia, where the ills of the past are being forcefully erased from public memory, this masterful novel represents an epic literary attempt to rescue history from the brink of oblivion. Sergei Lebedev was born in Moscow in 1981 and worked for seven years on geological expeditions in northern Russia and Central Asia. His first novel, Oblivion, has been translated into many languages

In Oblivion Erlendur is a recently promoted detective. His world is dominated by drug-dealers, a cold case involving a missing schoolgirl, a CIA operative and the murky history of America’s presence in Iceland. In the windswept volcanic landscape of south-west Iceland, a vast aircraft hangar rises behind the perimeter fence of the US naval air base. It is night. Inside the hangar, colossal scaffolding reaches to the roof where contractors have been working. There is a clang and a length of piping falls to the ground from a high platform, followed almost immediately by a dull thud as a man’s body falls after it. Several miles away, a woman is swimming in the milky-blue lagoon formed from waste water pumped out by a geothermal power station. It is an eerie, remote spot but the waters have healing properties. Steam rises from the blue-white lagoon and the moss-grown lava. In the background towers the floodlit bulk of the power station. The ghostly light reveals a shoe sticking out of the water, attached to a body

In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness-a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt-of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown ("The Soul Is Not a Smithy"). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way ("The Suffering Channel"). Or capture the ache of love's breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring ("Oblivion"). Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate

Popularita seriálu Nadace, galaktické kroniky obrovského Impéria, přiměla jeho tvůrce k napsání dalších třech příběhů, které jsou jeho součástí. Prvním z nich je OBLÁZEKNA OBLOZE Po letech výbojů završil Trantor svoje úsilí, když vybudoval Galaktické impérium. Ovládl všech 200 milionů obydlených planet galaxie — až na jedinou. Malou, zapadlou planetu jménem Země, na níž lidé snili mytické, trpké sny o své velké minulosti…

En un futuro no demasiado lejano, un pequeño grupo de científicos e historiadores dedican sus horas a estudiar el pasado con una nueva máquina de observación a través del tiempo, la TruSite II. Por desgracia su mundo es un lugar trágico: la especie humana ha quedado reducida a una población de menos de mil millones de personas tras un siglo de guerras y plagas, de sequía, de inundaciones y de hambrunas. Ha habido demasiadas extinciones, demasiada tierra ha quedado envenenada y baldía. La gente que sobrevive lucha por renovar el planeta, mientras los especialistas observan el pasado en busca de las causas de su terrible presente. Un día, sin embargo, al contemplar la terrible matanza de las tribus caribeñas a manos de los españoles, que conducidos por Cristóbal Colón se dirigen a La Hispaniola, la observadora Tagin descubre que la mujer a quien está estudiando también la ve a ella y, a su vez, interpreta esa imagen como un mensaje de los dioses. ¿Podría alterarse el pasado? ¿Seria correcto que un pequeño grupo de observadores actuara deforma que, de tener éxito, hiciera desaparecer una línea temporal, aunque fuera la suya propia? ¿Se justificaría su acción si, gracias a ella, se evitara la muerte de todo el planeta?

Observationes Domini Petri de Fermat. Tolosæ,1670. Комментарии Ферма к „Арифметике“ Диофанта. Тексты посвящения, предисловия и комментариев (I-XLVIII) на языке оригинала по изданию Diophanti Alexandrini Arithmeticorum et de numeris multangulus, Cum commentariis C. G. Bacheti V. C. et observationibus D. P. de Fermat Senatoris Tolosani. Tolosæ, 1670. (первая публикация). Перевод комментариев (II-XLV) на русский язык выполнен И. Н. Веселовским с критического издания Diophanti Alexandrini Opera omnia cum græcis commerntariis, Editit et latine interpretatus est Paulus Tannery, Lipsae 1893-1895, 1-2 vol. (из книги Диофант Александрийский. Арифметика и книга о многоугольных числах. М.: „Наука“, 1974.) Формулировки задач, примечания и перевод комментариев I, XLVI-XLVIII на французский язык по изданию Œuvres de Fermat. Tome I. Paris, 1891

Patty Bigelow pensaba que por fin había conseguido enderezar su vida, pero de repente, su rebelde hermana Leila abandona a su hija, Tanya, en la puerta de su casa. Tía y sobrina aprenden con dificultad a vivir juntas con la ayuda profesional del doctor Alex Delaware, psiquiatra. Ahora, quince años después, Tanya acude de nuevo a la consulta de Alex porque la única madre que ha tenido, Patty Bigelow, ha fallecido dejando a la joven un extraño legado: le confesó, en su lecho de muerte, haber matado a un hombre años atrás. Este acto de barbarie abrirá inevitablemente un túnel al pasado en el que los secretos, junto con los cadáveres, han sido profundamente enterrados

A causa de la Contracción de Fitzgerald, el viajero del espacio no podía volver a vivir normalmente en la Tierra. Sus viajes duraban años terrestre pero, para los tripulantes de las naves sólo significaban semanas. Cuando regresaban a la Tierra, todo era diferente. Tuvieron que fundar una comunidad de hombres del espacio y convertir sus naves en su único hogar. Sin embargo, no todos los astronautas estaban satisfechos de su existencia. A Allan Donell le gustaba el espacio y era feliz en su nave, pero su hermano gemelo, Steve, había desertado. El hecho había ocurrido pocas semanas antes, pero ahora Steve, ya tendría veintiséis años y Allan sólo diecisiete. Eso preocupó a Allan. Quería recuperar a su hermano y encontrar el secreto de la Hiperpropulsi6n de Cavour que, sin duda, estaba escondido en alguna parte de la Tierra y que permitiría al hombre llegar a las estrellas en poquísimo tiempo y eliminaría las diferencias entre el hombre del espacio y el de la Tierra. Por eso también abandonó la nave. Su hermano y la Hiperpropulsión de Cavour se convirtieron en una obsesión y su búsqueda se convirtió en una terrible aventura en lo que para él, era hostil escenario: la Tierra

This is a stand alone novel that is an adult spin-off of the Lux Series You do not need to read a Lux book to read Obsession and vice versa. He’s arrogant, domineering, and... To. Die. For. Hunter is a ruthless killer. And the Department of Defense has him firmly in their grasp, which usually doesn’t chafe too badly because he gets to kill bad guys. Most of the time he enjoys his job. That is, until he’s saddled with something he’s never had to do before: protect a human from his mortal enemy. Serena Cross didn’t believe her best friend when she claimed to have seen the son of a powerful senator turn into something... unnatural. Who would? But then she witnesses her friend’s murder at the hands of what can only be an alien, thrusting her into a world that will kill to protect their secret. Hunter stirs Serena’s temper and her lust despite their differences. Soon he’s doing the unthinkable—breaking the rules he’s lived by, going against the government to keep Serena safe. But are the aliens and the government the biggest threats to Serena’s life… or is it Hunter?

The French Quarter: where seduction is a game…and the rules are meant to be broken The Game: Obsession The Players: Josie Villefranche, notorious hotel owner, Drew Morrison, business shark Object of the Game: Have a Cajun-hot love affair, without getting burned Bordello-turned-hotel-owner Josie has a hands-off rule when it comes to men. Too many have wanted her only for her talents in bed. But when too-sexy-to-resist Drew checks in, she decides to make an exception: use him, then lose him – no regrets. Ruthless businessman Drew has a hidden agenda: to buy the cash-strapped hotel. But he's been bedding its bewitching proprietor instead. When a murder puts Josie in both financial and legal trouble, Drew must make a choice: grab the hotel and run – or sacrifice everything for another night in her bed…

What would you do for your kids? Emma Toussaint would do anything – or so she's always thought. She needs money – lots of it – to regain custody, and then one day, opportunity comes knocking. All she has to do is break the law. What would you do to get even with the man who stole your life? Raul Santos would do anything – or so he's always thought. He was framed and sent to prison by a corrupt DEA agent. Now he wants revenge, and he doesn't care who gets hurt along the way – until he meets Emma. What would you do if the person you love is caught between you and your worst enemy? That's the question Raul has to answer

Where there is life there is devotion. Where there is death there is obsession. Patty Bigelow thought she’d finally figured life out. Then her wayward sister Leila abandons her child, Tanya, on her doorstep. The aunt and troubled niece slowly learn to live together, with the help of Dr Alex Delaware’s counselling. Now, fifteen years later, Tanya is back in Alex’s office, a self-possessed Harvard student, about to enter graduate school in clinical psychology. Patty – the only real mother she's ever known – has died and left Tanya with a chilling legacy: a deathbed confession that her aunt murdered a man years earlier. Tanya has tried to let go of the confession. But it soon becomes clear that nothing short of finding out the truth will do. And she needs Alex’s help…

Dr. Allison Baker is obsessed with saving the comatose New Species male. She has tried everything and there’s only one option left. Alli will break every rule and put her life in danger by tempting 880 to wake, using only her feminine scent and touch. She just has to kidnap him and crawl into bed with him to make it work. 880 wakes in a different world with a small female who’s been sleeping beside him, caressing him and wrapping her sweet body around his, teasing his senses. He lies silent and still, listening and evaluating each arousing touch, fighting his body’s reaction. Hatred flares when he discovers she’s human, but Mercile stole everything from him so he decides it’s fair to take her in return. But things quickly change and he wants her at his side and in his bed. 880 has chosen a new name—Obsidian—the personification of dark and dangerous. He’ll fight them all to keep Alli. No one will stand in his way

Starting over sucks. When we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I'd pretty much resigned myself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot of boring…. until I spotted my hot neighbor, with his looming height and eerie green eyes. Things were looking up. And then he opened his mouth. Daemon is infuriating. Arrogant. Stab-worthy. We do not get along. At all. But when a stranger attacks me and Daemon literally freezes time with a wave of his hand, well, something…unexpected happens. The hot alien living next door marks me. You heard me. Alien. Turns out Daemon and his sister have a galaxy of enemies wanting to steal their abilities, and Daemon's touch has me lit up like the Vegas Strip. The only way I'm getting out of this alive is by sticking close to Daemon until my alien mojo fades. If I don't kill him first, that is

Anita Blake, vampire hunter, has dealt with — and destroyed — a lot of monsters, but her old mentor, Edward, may be worse than any of them. Edward's got problems: a malevolent force is mutilating the citizens of Albuquerque. If he is to stop it he'll need all of Anita's firepower and cunning

Two hundred years after the closing of the energy Curtain that allowed interplanetary travel—cutting off all contact to Earth—the planet Harmony is thriving. Thanks to an abundant supply of amber, which powers not only electrical machines for everyday use but also psychic abilities in the colonists, Harmony has created a stable, progressive community. But when that stability is threatened, resolving an ancient family feud and a fresh lover's quarrel might be the planet's only hope. Three months ago, Lyra Dore suffered a heartbreak and a hostile takeover—both at the hands of the same man. A descendant of her ancestors' fierce rival. Cruz Sweetwater charmed his way into Lyra's heart and gained access to her pet project, an amethyst ruin. Then he took over the project and took off. When Cruz walks back into her life and requests a private meeting, Lyra convinces herself he's there to crawl and beg forgiveness. Wrong again—he just needs her help. With the project he stole from her. Five innocent men are trapped inside a chamber in the amethyst ruin, and Lyra is the only one who can reopen the door. Reluctantly she agrees to help. Then Cruz wants her to apply her talents to the rest of the ruin—because no one else can work it. Lyra and Cruz are both harboring psychic secrets. Unknown—and dangerous—powers pulse within the amethyst ruin, and the closer Lyra gets to them, the more at risk she becomes. And now she must decide whether to trust her guts or her heart…

Na planetě Sarakš přistane průzkumné kosmické plavidlo ze Země. Jeho posádku tvoří jediný muž, mladík jménem Maxim Kammerer. Povoláním je progresor, tedy člověk, který zkoumá vývoj jednotlivých objevených civilizací a pokud je to možné, snaží se do tohoto vývoje citlivě zasáhnout tak, aby se ona civilizace vyhnula katastrofám, jakými museli ve svých dějinách projít Pozemšťané. Jeho loď je však okamžitě po přistání zničena a on se ocitá sám na světě, který je ovládán celoplanetárním šílenstvím. Bratři Strugačtí se zkrátka také v Obydleném ostrově zabývají svou oblíbenou myšlenkou oprávněnosti vývozu revoluce či třeba jen intelektuální zkušenosti. A tak je Maxim na konci románu překvapen, že jeho počínání na Sarakši ani zdaleka nebylo tak správné a v pořádku, jak si po celou dobu sám představoval