His name is John James—at least, that’s the name he gives to anyone asking. He’s a former pirate just back in Port Royal from the sack of Panama, and he has every intention of settling down and leading a respectable life. First, though, he must honor a promise and deliver a letter to the mistress of one of his dead comrades. But the lady is much more than she seems, and the letter turns out to contain detailed instructions for recovering a hidden fortune. It’s one thing to know where treasure may be found; finding it, and keeping it, is quite another. On his quest for a prince’s ransom John is joined by two unlikely allies: a black freedman named Sejanus Walker and a humble clerk named Winthrop Tudeley. Pirate attacks, hurricanes, shipwrecks, sharks, unearthly visitations and double-crosses follow. Especially double-crosses… Dustjacket Illustration © 2008 Edward Miller

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He will watch over her... In the latest Novel of the Elder Races, an untested young woman must claim her place as the Oracle—and contend with a powerful Djinn who has decided to become a part of her life... As a second daughter, Grace Andreas never had to worry about the intrigues of the Elder Races. But when her sister, Petra, and Petra's husband are both killed, Grace inherits the Power and responsibilities of the Oracle of Louisville, as well as her sister's two young children—neither of which she is prepared for. Yet, she is not alone. Khalil, Demonkind and Djinn prince of House Marid—driven by his genuine caring for the children—has decided to make himself a part of the household both as their guardian and as an exasperating counterpoint to Grace's impudence toward the Elder Races. But when an attempt is made on Grace's life, she realizes that Khalil is the only one who can protect her—and offer her more than a mortal man

You may be disturbed — or possibly titillated — to discover what can happen once you cross the Orange Curtain

When federal agents knocked on her door with an indictment in hand, Piper Kerman barely resembled the reckless young woman she was shortly after graduating Smith College. Happily ensconced in a New York City apartment, with a promising career and an attentive boyfriend, Piper was forced to reckon with the consequences of her very brief, very careless dalliance in the world of drug trafficking. Following a plea deal for her 10-year-old crime, Piper spent a year in the infamous women’s correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, which she found to be no “Club Fed.” In Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison , Piper takes readers into B-Dorm, a community of colorful, eccentric, vividly drawn women. Their stories raise issues of friendship and family, mental illness, the odd cliques and codes of behavior, the role of religion, the uneasy relationship between prisoner and jailor, and the almost complete lack of guidance for life after prison. Compelling, moving, and often hilarious, Orange is the New Black sheds a unique light on life inside a women’s prison, by a Smith College graduate who did the crime and did the time

Alaturi de Isaac Asimov sau Stanislaw Lem, Arkadi si Boris Strugatki fac parte dintre prozatorii care au asigurat genului science fiction un loc legitim in cadrul literaturii de cea mai buna calitate. Orasul damnat prezinta o lume sfasiata intre supunere si evaziune, proiectata pe fundalul unei utopii sustinute de sensurile unei misterioase parabole, cu tot decorul pe care il presupune Orasul ca spatiu inchis al controlului totalitar. Un dictator descins din imaginarul negru al nebuniei puterii manevreaza cu cinism o suita de destine prin care se recompune o umanitate strivita sub stigmatul unei culpabilitati intretinute metodic

Orașul stătea precum un giuvaer strălucitor pe pieptul deșertului. Cîndva cunoscuse tot felul de schimbări și transformări, însă acum Timpul trecea pe lîngă el fără să-l atingă. Nopţile și zilele goneau peste chipul pustiului, dar pe străzile Diasparului era veșnic după-amiază, iar seara nu pogora nicicînd. Nopţile lungi ale iernii puteau bruma nisipul, îngheţînd ultimele picături din aerul rarefiat al Pămîntului —totuși orașul nu cunoștea nici arșiţa, nici gerul. Nu avea nici un contact cu lumea din exteriorul lui; era un univers închis în sine. Oamenii clădiseră și pînă atunci orașe, dar niciodată unul ca acesta. Unele duraseră veacuri, altele milenii, înainte ca timpul să le șteargă pînă și numele. Singur Diaspar sfidase Eternitatea, apărîndu-se împotriva eroziunii lente a epocilor, împotriva năruirii și a ruginei…

Надоели сопливые ласковые вампирчики, блестящие на солнце? Сил нет смотреть на чопорные рожи аристократов? Хотите настоящей крови, расчлененки и монстров в стиле Носферату? Вы готовы спуститься в виртуальные канализации, полные боли и крови? Увидеть мир глазами офисного клерка, обретшего власть над сумерками? Того, кто дружит с мертвыми и русалками? Того, кто не знает жалости, того, кто готов встать против всех вампирских родов? Тогда эта книга для вас! Встречайте — «ОРБИС», книга первая!

В виртуальном мире «Orbis Terrarum» все ваши мечты могут быть исполнены, а любые ваши задумки воплощены в жизнь! Однако помните, что на пути к вашей мечте много препятствий и соперников, сложностей и условностей. Будьте умнее и помните — мир на вашей стороне, Орбис щедро одаривает тех, кто желает в нем жить, а не играть. Орбис не любит игр, он новый и живой мир, желающий помочь вам в ваших желаниях. Вы хотите воплотить свою мечту в реальности? Или же вам хватит и виртуальности? Решайте сами, все в ваших руках. Содержит нецензурную брань

Минул год с того дня, как жители Орбиса получили право на продолжение жизни и рода. Ровно год с момента, как в мир пришла Угроза в виде Некроманта древности. Не успевший опомниться от утраты бессмертия, мир вновь вздрогнул, когда мертвые восстали против живых. Но бессмертные первыми встали против тьмы, позабыв междоусобицы и раздоры. Но войны по прежнему продолжают терзать земли Орбиса, даже сквозь время. Игра изменилась, это заметили многие, она уже никогда не будет прежней, ибо она приоткрывает свои двери для тех, кто желает оставить прошлую жизнь позади. Цена этого решения высока — надо отказаться от жизни… Содержит нецензурную брань

The year is 2009. For Kip Dawson, winning a passenger seat on American Space Adventure’s spacecraft is a dream come true. One grand shot of insanity and he can return to earth fulfilled. But the thrill of the successful launch turns to terror when a micrometeorite penetrates the capsule, leaving the radios as dead as the pilot. Reality hits: Kip isn’t going home. With nothing to do but wait for his doomed fate, Kip writes his epitaph on the ship’s laptop computer, unaware that an audience of millions has discovered it and is tracking his every word on the Internet. As a massive struggle gets under way to rescue him, Kip has no idea that the world can hear his cries — or that his heroism in the face of death may sabotage his best chance of survival

ORBIT 2 is the paperback edition of the second in G. P. Putnam’s annual series of SF anthologies, that keeps ahead of this exciting field by publishing the best new science fiction stories before they have appeared anywhere else in the world. For each new volume, editor Damon Knight invites contributions from established SF authors as well as from new writers, and selects the best of the hundreds of submitted manuscripts. Damon Knight is founder and first president of Science Fiction Writers of America, author of five SF novels, four collections of short stories and has edited fourteen SF anthologies

“This, the third edition of Mr. Knight’s Orbit series, features original science fiction stories which have not appeared previously anywhere. The material has been chosen with an eye to both variety and originality. A novelette by John Jakes, ‘Here Is Thy Sting,’ manages to make death both rousing and quite amusing—a tour de force indeed. The lead story, ‘Mother to the World,’ by Richard Wilson, is a moving variation on the Last Man theme. The late Richard McKenna, author of ‘The Sand Pebbles,’ has a story, ‘Bramble Bush,’ which is good enough to indicate he could have been a top s-f writer had he lived to write more of the same. Perhaps the strongest story is Kate Wilhelm’s ‘The Planners’ in which science fiction remains in its own metier, yet becomes disturbingly real. “A must for discerning science fiction buffs, this is possibly the best of the Orbit series yet, a high rating indeed.” —Publishers’ Weekly

“This is a choice collection of haunting tales collected by the founder of the Science Fiction Writers of America. Most of the stories typify the emerging new domain of science fiction, with its emphasis less on the ‘out-there’ than on the ‘right-here, right-now.’ Harlan Ellison, for example, in ‘Shattered Like a Glass Goblin,’ paints a picture of a houseful of hippies in the thrall of drugs and bestiality that is much too believable for comfort. In ‘Probable Cause,’ Charles Harness cites the use of clairvoyance in a case before the Supreme Court; and Kate Wilhelm portrays the agonizing problems of a computer analyst working on a robot weapon which requires the minds of dead geniuses to operate effectively. These are only a few of the many celebrated science fiction writers whose stories are included in the anthology, ‘Orbit 4.’ ”

ORBIT 5 is the latest in the unique semi-annual series of SF anthologies which publishes the best new stories before they have appeared anywhere else. Editor Damon Knight works with both established writers and new talent, demanding the best and freshest of their work, and offering freedom from the taboos and conventions of magazine writing. Mr. Knight is the director of the annual Milford Science Fiction Writers’ Conference, founder and first president of Science Fiction Writers of America, and a Hugo winner for his book of critical essays, In Search of Wonder. His thirty books include novels, collections of short stories, translations, and anthologies

ORBIT 8 is the latest in this unique series of anthologies of the best new SF: fourteen stories written especially for this collection by some of the top names in the field. —Harlan Ellison in “One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty” tells a moving story of a man who goes back in time to help his youthful self. —Avram Davidson finds a new and sinister significance in the first robin of Spring. —R. A. Lafferty reveals a monstrous microfilm record of the past —Kate Wilhelm finds real horror in a story of boy-meets-girl. —and ten other tales by some of the most original minds now writing in this most exciting area of today’s fiction are calculated to blow the mind

ORBIT 9 is the latest in this unique up-to-the-minute series of SF anthologies which present the best and most lively new of the new and established writers in the field, at the top of their form. The fourteen stories written especially for this collection include; “What We Have Here is Too Much Communication” by Leon E. Stover, a fascinating glimpse into the secret lives of the Japanese. “The Infinity Box” by Kate Wilhelm, which explores a new and frightening aspect of the corruption of power. “Gleepsite” by Joanna Russ, which tells how to live with pollution and learn to love it. And eleven other tales by other masters of today’s most exciting fiction

When the young son of Elizabeth Lindstrom, the autocratic president of Starflight, falls to his death, Vance Garamond, a flickerwing commander, is the obvious target for Elizabeth’s grief and anger. She is not a forgiving employer and Garamond has no choice but to flee. But fleeing Elizabeth’s wrath means leaving the Solar System behind for ever and hiding somewhere in deep space. Pursued remorselessly by Earth’s space fleet, the ‘somewhere’ that Garamond discovers in an unimaginably vast, alien-built, spherical structure which could just change the destiny of the human race. Orbitsville ranks alongside Larry Niven’s Ringworld and Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama as one of the great imaginative constructs of SF. Deftly written, it powerfully conveys the immensity of space and the infinite possibilities it offers

A sequel to Orbitsville. Alien beings, Ultrans, built an enormous sphere, millions of times the size of Earth, which contains its own sun as a trap for sentient beings of the universe. The artificial world attracts the world’s population to such an extent that soon Earth is a half-deserted historical curiosity. Scientist Garry Dallen learns of the Ultrans’ plans second before Orbitsville and its population are whisked millions of light years into outer space

Orbitsville—scene of two of Bob Shaw’s novels—is a vast hollow world completely enclosing its sun and habitable across its entire inner surface. At the end of “Orbitsville Departure”, the whole world was shifted to an alternate universe and this book tells what happens next

Это руководство по работе в программе OrCAD Pspice предназначено для всех, кто знаком с основными разделами электротехники. При постепенном усложнении задач объясняются все необходимые аспекты работы в OrCAD Pspice, что позволяет творчески применять их при дальнейшем анализе электрических и электронных схем и устройств. Рассмотрение материала начинается с анализа цепей постоянного тока, продолжается анализом цепей переменного тока, затем переходит к различным разделам полупроводниковой электроники. Информация изложена таким образом, чтобы каждый, кто изучал или изучает определенный раздел электротехники, мог сразу же использовать OrCAD Pspice на практике. Больше внимания, чем в других книгах по этой теме, уделяется созданию собственных моделей и использованию встроенных моделей схем в OrCAD Pspice. На прилагаемом к книге DVD вы найдете демонстрационную версию программы OrCAD PSpice Student Edition 9, которой можно пользоваться свободно. Кроме того, на диске размещена версия OrCAD 10.5 Demo Release, с которой можно работать в течение 30 дней после установки на компьютер

Psychic romance novelist Orchid Adams has yet to meet her match on the space colony of St. Helen's--until an assignment with a lone-wolf private investigator puts her mind and her heart on a collision course

Chief of Police Holly Barker-the heroine introduced in the New York Times bestselling Orchid Beach-returns with her trusty Doberman, Daisy, to track an unusual band of thieves in this second thriller in Stuart Woods's newest and most captivating series. "Holly Barker-tough and tight-lipped-is fun to watch as she maneuvers among city politicians and wary colleagues, one of whom may be a murderer." (Entertainment Weekly review of Orchid Beach) Holly is on her way to be married to Jackson Oxenhandler, her steady beau, when her wedding day is shattered by a serious crime that takes place very close to home. A highly disciplined team of men hit a bank in Orchid Beach, Florida, and the waves from this robbery nearly capsize Holly's life. She vows to find these men-who have been careful enough to leave nothing behind except the corpse of a bank customer-and quickly, she discovers evidence that leads her into the midst of what appears to be a politically motivated clan. Her father, Ham, a retired army chief master sergeant, is her ticket into this strange world, and what Ham inds there stuns both Holly and her FBI contact, Harry Crisp. Holly and Ham find themselves sucked into a whirlpool of crazed criminality and, in the end, the FBI can do little to help them. This time, Holly, Ham, and Daisy are on their own, and they wouldn't have it any other way

Des siècles se sont écoulés depuis que les cinq cents survivants de l'Estérion se sont posés sur le nouveau monde. Un ensemble de communautés sont nées sur le continent du Triangle, autour de grands domaines agricoles matriarcaux gérés par les mathelles : les chasseurs lakchas qui traquent les troupeaux de yonks ; les djemales, disciples de Qval Djema, à la recherche de l' « éternel présent » ; les ventresecs, nomades des plaines jaunes. Fragile équilibre que celui de cette colonie entre tradition et ignorance. Les umbres, mystérieux et terribles prédateurs volants, font peser une menace permanente sur sa survie. Des hommes masqués, les protecteurs des sentiers, ont entrepris d'instaurer la terreur au nom d'un dieu oublié de l'arche des origines ; ils ont juré d'éteindre les « lignées maudites ». Orchéron, fils adoptif d'une mathelle, devenu leur proie désignée, se lance dans une fuite éperdue au bout de laquelle le rejoindront Alma, la jeune djemale boiteuse, et Ankrel l'apprenti chasseur. Orchéron fait suite au roman Abzalon

«Ordeal in Space» by Robert A. Heinlein is a short story about the aftermath of a space accident. The story is an exploration on how the main character overcomes his fear

The third novel in the thrilling historical trilogy about the rise and fall of the powerful and mysterious Templars, from the author of the immensely popular Camulod Chronicles.Order in Chaos begins just prior to Friday the thirteenth of October 1307, the original Day of Infamy that marked the abrupt end of the Order of the Templars. On that day, without warning, King Philip IV sent his armies to arrest every Templar in France in a single morning. Then, with the aid of Pope Clement V, he seized all the Temple assets and set the Holy Inquisition against the Order. Forewarned at the last minute by the Grand Master himself, who has discovered the king's plot too late to thwart it, Sir William St. Clair flees France with the Temple's legendary treasure, taking with him several hundred knights, along with the Scots-born widow of a French Baron, the Lady Jessica Randolph. As time passes and the evidence of the French King's treachery becomes incontestable, St. Clair finds himself increasingly disillusioned and decides, on behalf of his Order, to abandon the past. He releases his men from their "sacred" vows of papal obedience and leads them into battle as Temple Knights one last time, in support of King Robert Bruce at the battle of Bannockburn. And in the aftermath of victory, he takes his surviving men away in search of another legend: the fabled land, mentioned in Templar lore, that lies beyond the Western Ocean and is known as Merica

In the thrilling new novel from the No.1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series, Rapp heads to Pakistan to confront a mortal threat he may not be prepared for. In fact, this time he might have met his match. Mitch Rapp is used to winning. But now the CIA operative finds himself chasing false leads from continent to continent in an effort to keep nukes from falling into the hands of terrorists. Together with friend and colleague Scott Coleman, Rapp struggles to prevent the loss of these lethal weapons, and soon it becomes alarmingly clear that forces in Moscow are hell-bent on fomenting even more chaos and turmoil in the Middle East. Rapp must go deep into Russian territory, posing as an American ISIS recruit, to stop a plan much more dangerous and insidious than he ever expected. Written with breathless tension and heart-pounding action, Mitch Rapp's latest adventure is as timely and provocative as ever