Je n'ai, jusqu'à ce jour, reçu que deux lettres de Sa Majesté britannique Elisabeth II. La première date de plusieurs années et concerne mon livre « BAISE-BALL À LA BAULE ». La chère souveraine m'y faisait quelques remontrances parce que j'y avais assez lourdement brocardé un membre de sa royale family. L'envoi de deux douzaines de roses rouges (nous n'étions pas encore en régime socialiste), accompagnant un billet d'excuses, me valut son absolution. Mais voici que la cousine récidive, ayant entendu parler du présent ouvrage. Grâce à une indiscrétion de ma femme de ménage, elle me pria, par l'intermédiaire de l'ambassadeur de Grande-Bretagne à Berne, de lui adresser une copie de mon manuscrit. Je le fis. Ce qui motiva la seconde lettre royale. Madame Deux s'y déclare indignée de la manière dont je traite l'Intelligence Service dans ces pages et me somme de ne pas publier cette œuvrette. Passant outre cet interdit, mon éditeur et moi avons décidé de la faire paraître tout de même. Nous verrons bien

Pasar el Año Nuevo juntos era una tradición sagrada para las tres parejas de amigos compuestas por Diana y Eric, Pascale y John, y Anne y Robert. Durante la fiesta los seis amigos tuvieron la idea de alquilar todos juntos una mansión en el sur de Francia el verano siguiente. Pero la vida tenía otros planes: apenas dos semanas después de año nuevo, Robert se queda inesperdamente viudo; sus amigos no dudan un instante apoyarle en ese duro trance, al tiempo que lo alietan a ir con ellos a Saint-Tropez en verano. Pero, al llegar finalmente el mes de agosto, descubre que la mansión de ensueño en los folletos turísticos no es más que una vieja casona destruida, a cargo de una extravagante mujer que se pasea por todos lados con un bikini de leopardo, acompañada de un trío de horrendos perritos

Una semana de vacaciones en una lujosa residencia de propiedad compartida, situada en un tranquilo paraje de Yorkshire, es justo lo que le conviene al comisario de Scotland Yard, Duncan Kincaid, agotado por una sobrecarga de trabajo. No obstante, en vez de las actividades relajantes, como excursiones y lectura, que ha programado, justo al día siguiente de haber conocido a todos los huéspedes en un cóctel de presentación encuentra el, cadáver del subdirector del establecimiento flotando en la piscina. No será el único. ¿Qué relación pueden tener con las víctimas del crimen la provocativa directora del centro; o las hermanas solteronas escocesas, o la bella científica, o el diputado dé éxito? A pesar de la antipatía que le demuestra el ineficaz jefe de policía del lugar, que no soporta la injerencia de Kincaid, éste, con la ayuda de su subordinada, la joven y brillante Gemma James, irá desentrañando las escondidas conexiones entre las víctimas y los sospechosos hasta colocar la última pieza del puzzle en un final sobrecogedor

Una superstrada. Una macchina. E dollari per le vacanze. Quattro studenti universitari attraversano diagonalmente l’America, fino al deserto dell’Arizona. La scarrozzata è anche una fuga dal rock, dalla droga, dall’astrologia... Qualcosa di molto più eccitante aspetta i quattro boys: un miraggio di immortalità che il Libro dei Teschi, un antico manoscritto casualmente ritrovato, offre a chi accetta i Diciotto Misteri dell’Iniziazione. Purtroppo, la vita eterna non sarà elargita a tutti: due ragazzi dovranno morire affinche gli altri vivano. I primi dubbi: esiste davvero, laggiù nel deserto, la casa dell’eterna giovinezza?... All’avventura esoterica, oggi molto attuale nei "colleges", si ispira «Vacanze nel deserto», un eccezionale romanzo "fantastico" che appaga il nostro bisogno di mistero: con questo libro Silverberg dà una risposta nuova, abbagliante e terribile

In the near future after a global crisis causes crops to fail and species to disappear… something even more deadly happens. Groups of humans around the world suddenly become predators, feeding off their own kind. These “Can Heads” grow to such a threat that fences, gated compounds, and SWAT-style police protection become absolutely necessary in order to live. After one Can Head attack leaves NYPD cop Jack Murphy wounded, Jack takes his wife and kids on a much-needed vacation. Far up north, to a camp where families can still swim and take boats out on a lake, and pretend that the world isn’t going to hell. But the Can Heads are never far away, and nothing is quite what it seems in Paterville…

Ironically, you’ll probably appreciate Vacuum Diagrams most after you’ve put it down. The prolific and acclaimed Stephen Baxter has always been praised for his imaginative and conscientious use of science, and Vacuum Diagrams is no exception. This collection of short stories will leave you ruminating for days over the sprawl of ideas, worlds, and life forms Baxter has woven together. Filling in the gaps on Baxter’s ambitious, almost audacious, 10-million-year timeline called the “Xeelee Sequence,” Vacuum Diagrams is a collection of revised, previously published short stories that bridges together his popular novels set in this same “future history” — Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux, and Ring. Baxter’s universe is rotten with life, from strange tree-stump-like creatures with superfluid ice skeletons to dark matter “birds” to sentient beings composed of pure mathematics. And Baxter’s reverence for life’s beauty, for its voracious robustness, is hard to resist — especially when it comes to humanity and its tentative, eager rise. The cycling timeline follows humans as they come into their own as a star-faring race, from their first sporadic steps to their near dominance of the universe and beyond. Vacuum Diagrams is a great introduction to Baxter for those unfamiliar with him and a good primer for the other “Xeelee Sequence” novels. If you already love Baxter or the other novels in the sequence, Vacuum Diagrams is certainly a safe bet. Besides, any book that sends you scurrying quizzically after your college physics text deserves a closer look. Check it out. —Paul Hughes (from amazon.com)

Майна аль Ре мечтает улететь с бедной планеты, где родилась, на Землю. И судьба неожиданно даёт ей шанс, и даёт даже куда больше, чем девушка осмеливалась мечтать… а потом всё отнимает

As treachery and betrayal become the prime weapons in the war between Ar and Cos, Tarl Cabot is trapped in the siege of Ar’s Station. And when Ar’s Station falls to the warriors of Cos, it is only with the aid of the loyal Vosk League, that Tarl and other survivors make their escape from the defeated port. But with the forces of Cos now readying to continue on their devastating march of conquest, Tarl must go undercover as a spy within the enemy camp, hoping to discover their plans and send word to Ar’s army before it is too late... In VAGABONDS OF GOR, Tarl Cabot faces perhaps his greatest challenge of all, as he is caught up in the myriad dangers and intrigue of two mighty powers at war!

Перед вами увлекательное научное путешествие по самым таинственным местам женского тела. Исторически женщины привыкли стыдиться своих половых органов. Даже латинский термин, введенный для их обозначения, переводится как «непристойность». Но сегодня новое поколение женщин-ученых меняет устоявшиеся представления. Через призму их профессионального опыта и личных историй журналистка Рэйчел Гросс показывает читателям недра этого нового мира. «Vagina Obscura» — это яркое свидетельство того, как меняется наше отношение к телу от брезгливого игнорирования к принятию и гордости. Книга подойдет всем, кто интересуется, как устроен человеческий организм и на что он способен благодаря развитию науки

P.Gurevičs VAI MISTICISMA ATDZIMŠANA? Kritiski apcerējumi RĪGA «AVOTS» 1988 П. С. Гуревич ВОЗРОЖДЕН ЛИ МИСТИЦИЗМ? Москва. Издательство политической литературы. 1984 No krievu valodas tulkojis U. KRASTIŅS tulkojums latviešu valodā, «avots», 1988 Mākslinieks J. PUTRĀMS Grāmatā analizētas dažādas mistiskas parādības — cilvēka eksistence pēc ķermeņa nāves, «lidojošie šķī­vīši», sakari ar mirušo gariem u. c. Autors kritizē mūsdienu misticismu un dažādos okultisma virzienus Rietumos kā buržuāziskās pasaules krīzes produktus. Saistoši uzrakstītā grāmata domāta masu lasītājam

„Vaikas 44" - daugiau nei sukrečiantis romanas. Knyga nukelia į tamsiausią Rusijos istorijos laikotarpį. 1953-ieji. Ant geležinkelio bėgių randamas sužalotas berniuko lavonas. Stalininėje Tarybų Sąjungoje oficialiai jokių nusikaltimų nėra ir negali būti. Tačiau milijonai žmonių gyvena bijodami... valstybės. Mažiausias įtarimas, kad esi ideologiškai nepatikimas - ir tavęs nebėra

Traquée par les Syndics, la flotte de l’Alliance poursuit son repli à travers l’espace ennemi. Le capitaine « Black Jack » Geary tente désespérément de la ramener au bercail avec son trophée, la clef de l’hypernet du Syndic, qui est aussi celle de la victoire… Jamais Geary n’avait pris décision aussi risquée, au point que ses officiers s’interrogent sur sa santé mentale : retourner dans le système de Lakota, où ses vaisseaux ont failli connaître la destruction. Mais tandis qu’il s’efforce de garder une longueur d’avance sur l’ennemi, il lui faut encore affronter une conspiration au sein même de sa flotte, dont les instigateurs restent dans l’ombre… Alors que le rideau se lève sur la menace effroyable qu’une civilisation extraterrestre inconnue fait peser sur l’humanité. Que les vivantes étoiles lui viennent en aide !

La ville grésillait sous le soleil blanc, comme du lard rance dans une poêle. Les flics de la criminelle « B » glandaient. Ils attendaient les vacances. Au téléphone, l’homme avait adopté un ton étrange, monocorde et pénible. Il avait dit d’une seule traite : « Prévenez l’inspecteur Schneider. Je vais tuer une femme. Une femme, n’importe laquelle pour commencer. Je vais utiliser une carabine US M1 en calibre 30 x 30. Je vais la tuer maintenant, dans dix minutes… J’en tuerai d’autres, certainement. Avec la même arme. Prévenez Schneider, voulez-vous ? » Le gardien de permanence prévint Schneider. Qui cessa d’attendre les vacances

NIKOLAJS GOGOLIS IZLASE VAKARI CIEMATA DIKAŅKAS TUVUMĀ STĀSTI, KO IZDEVIS DRAVNIEKS RUDAIS PAŅKO LATVIJAS VALSTS IZDEVNIECĪBA  1948  Tulk. J. Plaudis Tulk. M. Mencendorfa Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

Sur Majipoor, la planète géante, règne Lord Valentin le Coronal, qui, naguère jongleur, a retrouvé son trône, mais conservé un corps d’emprunt. Ces faits de haute chronique ont été relatés dans Le château de Lord Valentin. Mais il n’est pas dit que le règne de Valentin restera serein. Tandis que le Coronal entreprend son Périple à travers les immensités de Majipoor, afin de se faire voir de ses peuples, accompagné de Carabella, son épouse bien aimée, de ses amis des jours d’infortune devenus grands seigneurs et d’une armée de courtisans, les nuages s’amoncellent, les maladies frappent les récoltes, s’étendent comme feu de forêt. Des monstres surgissent des forêts d’habitude paisibles de Majipoor. La famine survient, et la rébellion. Faudra-t-il faire la guerre aux Changeformes ? Car ce sont eux, premiers occupants de la planète, jadis massacrés et refoulés par les humains venus de l’espace, qui tentent une nouvelle révolte. Valentin, qui est épris de paix et d’amour, ne parvient pas à s’y résoudre. Majipoor va-t-elle sombrer ?

A quirk of fate has made Sylvester Gilbraith the heir of his sworn enemy, the earl of Stoneridge. But there's a catch: to claim his inheritance he has to marry one of the earl's four granddaughters. The magically handsome nobleman has no choice but to comply with the terms of the will, yet when he descends on Stoneridge Manor prepared to charm his way into a fortune, he finds that the lady who intrigues him most has no intention of becoming his bride. Maddeningly beautiful and utterly impossible, Theodora Belmont refuses to admit to the chemistry between them, even when she's passionately locked in his embrace. Yet soon the day will come when the raven-haired vixen will give anything to be Slyvester's bride - and risk everything to defend his honor...and his life

*Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s*. Mercy is hard in a place like this … It’s February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town’s men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. In the early hours of the morning after Valentine’s Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead’s ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field—an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive, the stage is set for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences. *Valentine*  is a haunting exploration of the intersections of violence and race, class and region in a story that plumbs the depths of darkness and fear, yet offers a window into beauty and hope. Told through the alternating points of view of indelible characters who burrow deep in the reader’s heart, this fierce, unflinching, and surprisingly tender novel illuminates women’s strength and vulnerability, and reminds us that it is the stories we tell ourselves that keep us alive. ( *From the publisher*.)This is the story of… [life] in a backwater oil town in the mid-1970s, which Wetmore seems to know with empathy so deep it aches…. Several of these chapters are masterful short stories in their own right, but Wetmore knits them together with increasing intensity…. Wetmore has written something thrilling and thoughtful. Don’t let the launch of this novelist’s career be drowned out. Someday book clubs will meet again, and this would be a rousing choice. Ron Charles - Washington Post

Majipoor is a magical planet that has existed pretty much unchanged for fourteen thousand years. Eight thousand years ago, Lord Staimont and his army defeated the shapeshifters in a bloody war and penned them in the area of Piurifayne on the continent of Zimroel. Now with a Coronal in charge who speaks of love, the shapeshifters again make war on Majipoor. This story is about that war and how Valentine Pontifex and Lord Hissune win over the shapeshifters with the power of thought and the help of the sea dragons

Lord Valentine, antes de asumir el cargo de Pontífice, debe afrontar las tareas de gobierno en una época de rebelión y enfrentarse al duro y pragmático Hissune, a fin de regir un planeta bruscamente turbulento. El conflicto de los dos hombres y su resolución constituye la esencia de este mosaico poblado de personajes, como los esquivos metamorfos de forma humanoide, que ponen a prueba al futuro Pontífice. “Valentine Pontífice” es el remate incitante y conmovedor de una fantasía brillantemente ejecutada

Valentine, la segunda de las tres hermanas de una familia de origen italiano afincada en Nueva York, nunca ha sido considerada ni la más guapa, ni tampoco la más lista. Ella es, simplemente, lagraciosa. A sus treinta y tres años todos la presionan para que se case y funde una familia tradicional, pero Valentine se siente realizada con su vida, en la que la pasión que comparte con su fascinante abuela por la confección de zapatos de novia ocupa el primer lugar

Australijos magnatas Aleksas Valentis yra priverstas vesti, antraip praras savo verslą. Tačiau paprasta moteris netinka. Įtakingasis vyras siekia išvengti jausmų painiavos, svarbiausia jam – fizinis potraukis. Kylanti drabužių modeliuotoja Olivija Kenington atitinka Alekso reikalavimus. Gražuolei beviltiškai reikia pinigų, todėl ji sutiks net su antrąja šios santuokos sąlyga: padovanoti Valenčiams įpėdinį… per metus

Kas priverstų milijonierių mergišių Niką Valentį susituokti su moterimi, kurios nematė metų metus? Žinoma, šantažas. Kad išlaikytų namus šeimos rankose jis privalo vesti tėvo išrinktą moterį Sašą Bleik, kuriai kadaise jautė aistrą. Tačiau jo galvoje kirba klausimas… Kokių motyvų vedama Saša sutiko už jo tekėti?

Tėvystė Metui Valenčiui užgožia viską. Nesvarbu, kad buvusi darbuotoja Lana ištisus metus slėpė susilaukusi kūdikio. Jo vaikas nešios Valenčių pavardę… taip pat ir jo motina. Kad ir kokia melagė ir vagilė ji būtų. Ar Metas Valentis jausis auka, kai supras, kad iš jo pavogė patį svarbiausią – širdį?

The official novelization of the blockbuster movie, written and directed by visionary Luc Besson (Lucy, The Fifth Element). In the 28th century, Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) are a team of special operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the human territories. Under assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two embark on a mission to the astonishing city of Alpha—an ever-expanding metropolis where species from all over the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence and cultures with each other. There is a mystery at the center of Alpha, a dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe

VALGUSA ODISEJA V.MIHAILOVS

Tammy has always tried to be prepared for any calamity life might send her way but she never imagined a sexy, lion man-beast in her future. He’s huge, got the most exotic, golden cat-eyes she’s ever seen, and she’s so terrified she’s speechless for the first time in her life. He’s stalking closer, growling at her, and she’s too terrified to even flee. Valiant hates humans. But when he gets a whiff of the adorable human female who has invaded his territory, he starts rethinking. Her fear scents of pure, sweet temptation and the closer he gets, the more appealing she becomes. Once he’s got his hands on her, he isn’t about to let her go. One thought will change his life. MINE!

“Black Jack” Geary has ordered his fleet back to the Lakota Star System where the Syndics nearly destroyed them, a desperate gamble that may give them a fighting chance of survival — or tear them apart

When seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system. But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. Impulsive Lolli talks of monsters in the subway tunnels they call home and shoots up a shimmery amber-colored powder that makes the shadows around her dance. Severe Luis claims he can make deals with creatures that no one else can see. And then there's Luis's brother, timid and sensitive Dave, who makes the mistake of letting Val tag along as he makes a delivery to a woman who turns out to have goat hooves instead of feet. When a bewildered Val allows Lolli to talk her into tracking down the hidden lair of the creature for whom Luis and Dave have been dealing, Val finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus. He is as hideous as he is honorable. And as Val grows to know him, she finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming. Bestselling author Holly Black follows her breakout debut, Tithe, with a rich, harrowing, and compulsively readable parable of betrayal, abuse, friendship, and love

Valiant picks up right where the third book, Courageous, left off, with the Alliance fleet leaving through the Ixion Star System's worm hole to return back to the Lakota Star System

Vlad Taltos is an Easterner an underprivileged human in an Empire of tall, powerful, long-lived Dragaerans. He made a career for himself in House Jhereg, the Dragaeran clan in charge of the Empire s organized crime. But the day came when the Jhereg wanted Vlad dead, and he s been on the run ever since. He has plenty of friends among the Dragaeran highborn, including an undead wizard and a god or two. But as long as the Jhereg have a price on his head, Vlad s life is messy. Meanwhile, for years, Vlad s path has been repeatedly crossed by Devera, a small Dragaeran girl of indeterminate powers who turns up at the oddest moments in his life. Now Devera has appeared again to lead Vlad into a mysterious, seemingly empty manor overlooking the Great Sea. Inside this structure are corridors that double back on themselves, rooms that look out over other worlds, and just maybe answers to some of Vlad s long-asked questions about his world and his place in it. If only Devera can be persuaded to stop disappearing in the middle of his conversations with her

La investigadora privada V. I. Warshawski, experta en kárate y tiradora mortal, es contratada por el vicepresidente de un importante banco de Chicago para que encuentre a la novia de su hijo Peter, misteriosamente desaparecida. Cuando Warshawski encuentra el cadáver de Peter, su cliente se esfuma. Sin embargo, la detective se niega a abandonar la investigación, y halla una pista que la convierte en la principal enemiga de una peligrosa organización integrada por asesinos a sueldo y pistoleros sin escrúpulos

Le monde à l'envers. Tête-bêche comme pour un 69 grand style. D'ordinaire, dans une affaire criminelle, les perdreaux cherchent un criminel. Dans celle-ci, ce serait plutôt un honnête homme qu'ils aimeraient découvrir. Si j'étais un écrivain, j'aurais intitulé ce book « Sang et Nuit ». Mais heureusement pour toi, je suis juste un San-Tantonio. Ce qui va te permettre, au milieu du camage, d'assister à des scènes de baise de force 5 sur l'échelle de Richter. Car elles déferlent, les pouffiasses dans ces pages admirables. Avec ou sans culotte ! Quand t'auras fini cet ouvrage édifiant, regarde sous la table, des fois qu'il en serait resté une pour te bricoler une bonne manière. Heureusement que Béru est là pour battre la mesure. Avec quoi ? Je te dis pas. C'est zob secret !

„Valstybė“— vienas iš stambiausių ir reikšmingiausių Platono kūrinių. Pagrindinė jo tema — teisingumas, tačiau, analizuodamas šią sąvoką, Platonas paliečia beveik visas svarbiausias filosofines problemas

В этой книге Крис Скиннер проводит глубокий анализ обмена ценностями в развивающемся цифровом мире. На основе примеров из практики, интервью и личных наблюдений автор объясняет, как мир переходит от традиционных валют к ValueWeb, интернету ценностей, и описывает, как технологии подрывают традиционную отрасль финансовых услуг, делая транзакции проще и дешевле, а также как банки должны в упреждающем режиме использовать эти тенденции, чтобы быть готовыми к будущему. Книга будет полезна руководителям и специалистам банковской сферы, а также всем, кто интересуется новыми финансовыми технологиями