Interweaving the real and the surreal, Charles Johnson spins eight fantastic tales of transformations and metamorphoses. An Illinois farmer teaches a young slave everything he knows — yielding fatal consequences. A young boy growing to manhood as a country sorcerer’s apprentice learns the difference between power and strength. These stories capture human experiences in a new and startling light

A thousand years before Lord Valentine, the destiny of kinds is hostage to sorcery and deceit. On the planet Majipoor, it is a time of great change. The aged Ponitfex Prankipin, who brought sorcery (and prosperity) to the Fifty Cities of Castle Mount, is dying. The Coronal Lord Confalume, who will become Pontifex, begins the Funeral Games before his own replacement is chosen. It is no secret that the next Coronal will be Prince Prestimion. By law and custom, the blood son of the present Coronal—Korsibar, an avid hunter—cannot rule. But Korsibar has a secret quarry—the Starburst Crown. Visited by an oracle, Korsibar has heard a prophecy that will plunge the planet into a fearsome conflagration and alter destiny itself: “You will shake the world!”

Kaththea the Sorceress called forth a power such as no longer existed on the distant planet known as the Witch World. It was a power so great that it could destroy all that she loved best - and might even prove to be a greater evil than the shadow itself. Yet there could be no other choice for Kaththea than to call on Hilarion in the death-naming. For she was a witch deprived of power and she needed a guide to regain her lost skills and her lost world. There was only this ancient one, the opener of gates, with force mighty enough

 Vingt ans après Titan : Gaïa, l’univers-roue intelligent est devenu pour les Terriens un lieu de pèlerinage. Mettant à leur service ses immenses pouvoirs, elle opère des miracles. Mais encore faut-il les mériter en faisant la preuve de son héroïsme… rude épreuve pour Chris, l’adolescent timide, et Robin, l’intraitable et fougueuse amazone, qui se voient embarqués, bien malgré eux, dans un tour de roue fertile en péripéties, en compagnie de Gaby et Cirocco, promue « Sorcière » et chargée par Gaïa de mater ses régions rebelles. Mais qui sont les vrais ennemis ? Et qui sont les vrais héros ? Les surprises seront nombreuses au long du second volet de cette Divine Comédie (musicale) alliant la verve homérique au délire d’un Tex Avery

Небольшая стихотворная подборка шведского поэта, лауреата Нобелевской премии в области литературы (2011 год) Тумаса Транстрёмера. Tomas Tranströmer is the author of nineteen collections of poetry in his native country of Sweden and is widely recognized as one of the country’s leading poets. Tranströmer is the recipient of many awards and honors in Sweden and worldwide, including the Swedish Award of the International Poetry Forum, the Bonnier Award for Poetry, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the Petrarch Prize in Germany, the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings and a Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award in 2007. Many of his collections have been translated into English, including The Sorrow Gondola (Green Integer, 2010), The Great Enigma: Collected Poems (New Directions, 2006), and The Half-Finished Heaven: The Best Poems of Tomas Tranströmer (Graywolf Press, 2001)

Nikolajs Gogolis Izlase  Latvijas Valsts Izdevniecība  Soročinas gada tirgus Tulk. J. Plaudis Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

NIKOLAJS GOGOLIS IZLASE SOROČlNAS GADA TIRGUS LATVIJAS VALSTS IZDEVNIECĪBA  1948 Tulk. J. Plaudis Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

Стихи шведского поэта, лауреата Нобелевской премии в области литературы (2011 год) Тумаса Транстрёмера в английском переводе. Tomas Tranströmer is the author of nineteen collections of poetry in his native country of Sweden and is widely recognized as one of the country’s leading poets. Tranströmer is the recipient of many awards and honors in Sweden and worldwide, including the Swedish Award of the International Poetry Forum, the Bonnier Award for Poetry, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the Petrarch Prize in Germany, the Golden Wreath of the Struga Poetry Evenings and a Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award in 2007. Many of his collections have been translated into English, including The Sorrow Gondola (Green Integer, 2010), The Great Enigma: Collected Poems (New Directions, 2006), and The Half-Finished Heaven: The Best Poems of Tomas Tranströmer (Graywolf Press, 2001)

Kurzbeschreibung Im Emmental gibt es jede Menge Emmentaler, in Dijon reichlich Senf und in jeder guten New Yorker Bar einen Manhattan. Aber versuchen sie einmal, in Bologna Spaghetti Bolognese zu essen, im omanischen Muskat eine Muskatnuss zu kaufen oder in Shiraz im Iran ein Glas des gleichnamigen Weins zu bekommen. Es wird kaum gelingen, weil es diese Dinge an den Orten, deren Namen sie tragen, gar nicht gibt. Spürt man ihnen jedoch nach, so gibt es viel über unsere Welt und die Menschen zu lernen: Überraschendes, Amüsantes, Spannendes. Es geht um das Reisen an sich, um Erwartungen und Enttäuschungen, Vorurteile und Identität, Neugier und Fremdsein, immer gewürzt mit einer guten Prise Humor und Selbstironie. Über den Autor Dr. Felicia Englmann liebt ihre Heimat München, verreist aber dennoch, so oft sie kann. 40 Länder hat sie bereits besucht und sieben Fremdsprachen gelernt. Sie fuhr mit einem Scheich im Rennwagen durch Dubai, aß in Japan einen Seeigel und trainierte in den USA, wie man ein Space Shuttle landet. Die promovierte Politologin und diplomierte Journalistin findet den Alltag und seine Geschichten genau so spannend wie Politik, Kultur und Historie. Seit 1992 arbeitet sie für Tageszeitungen und Magazine