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A Civil Campaign
Автор: Bujold Lois McMaster Серия: Barrayar |
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A Crown of Swords
Автор: Jordan Robert Серия: The Wheel of Time Elayne, Aviendha and Mat come ever closer to the bowl ter'angreal that may reverse the world's endless heatwave and restore natural weather. Egwene begins to gather all manner of women who can channel — Sea Folk, Windfinders, Wise Ones, and some surprising others. And, above all, Rand faces the dread forsaken Sammael, in the shadows of Shadar Logoth, where the blood-hungry mist, Mashadar, waits for prey… Читать или скачать книгу «A Crown of Swords» |
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A Cursed Embrace
Автор: Robson Cecy Серия: Weird Girls Celia Wird and her three sisters are just like other twenty-something girls—with one tiny exception: They are the products of a curse that backfired and gave each of them unique powers that made them, well, a little weird… After Celia Wird and her sisters help master vampire Misha save his family, their powers are exposed to the supernatural community of the Lake Tahoe region. But fame comes at a price, and being “weird” isn’t always welcome. To make matters worse, Celia desires the love of Alpha werewolf Aric, but his pack is bent on destroying their relationship to preserve his pureblood status. And once weres start turning up dead—with evidence pointing to the vampires—she must face the prospect of losing Aric forever. But the chaos only masks a new threat. An evil known as the Tribe has risen—and their sights are set on Celia and her sisters. Читать или скачать книгу «A Cursed Embrace» |
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A Dark-Hunter Christmas
Автор: Kenyon Sherrilyn Серия: Dark Hunter |
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A Dawn Most Wicked
Автор: Dennard Susan Daniel Sheridan is an engineer’s apprentice on a haunted Mississippi steamer known as the Sadie Queen. His best friend–the apprentice pilot, Cassidy Cochran–also happens to be the girl he’s pining for … and the captain’s daughter. But when it looks like the Sadie Queen might get taken off the river, Daniel and Cassidy have to do whatever they can to stop the ghosts that plague the ship. Fortunately, there happens to be a Creole gentleman on board by the name of Joseph Boyer–and he just might be able to help them … Читать или скачать книгу «A Dawn Most Wicked» |
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A Desire So Deadly
Автор: Young Suzanne In this digital original novella set in the thrilling world of Suzanne Young’s A Need So Beautiful and A Want So Wicked, eighteen-year-old Claire Becks is forced to choose between a life of darkness and light. Eighteen-year-old Claire Becks leads a charmed life surrounded by her loving family, great friends, and doting boyfriend, Ezra. Claire’s known for her great advice—and how easily she puts others at ease. And although she feels occasional bouts of sadness she can’t quite place, she is otherwise happy. Then, one day, a mysterious stranger walks into her family’s bakery. Claire immediately senses something about Harlin—something tortured and dark. Even after he leaves, she can’t stop thinking about him, inexplicably feeling like there is unfinished business between them. When Lucy, the new girl in town, starts to draw Claire into her world of darkness, Harlin realizes who Claire really is. But Claire will have to realize it too if she hopes to escape the fate of the Shadows. Читать или скачать книгу « A Desire So Deadly » |
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A Girl's Guide to Vampires
Автор: Макалистер Кейти Серия: Dark Ones Joy Randall's Top 5 Tips for Vampire Hunters 1. Location, location, location. Remember, if you wouldn't be there, neither would a bloodsucker. They won't be found dead (ha!) in places like discos, ten-minute lube shops, or Switzerland. Check the Czech Republic. 2. Trust your eyes. You know the handsome, annoyingly arrogant, self-assured man in the shadows with long hair and a cleft in his chin? He's your vampire. 3. No matter how tempting it might be, DO NOT "ACCIDENTALLY" ACQUIRE A PAPER CUT AND SUGGEST YOUR VAMPIRE KISS YOUR FINGER TO MAKE IT BETTER. What you offer as a snack, he might take for a four-course meal. 4. From here on out, play it cool. Don't offer to accompany your prince of the night on the talk show circuit and WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T OFFER HIM YOUR HEART. 5. And most of all, remember—being a vampire is nothing to laugh about. Читать или скачать книгу «A Girl's Guide to Vampires» |
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A Hard Day's Night-Searcher
Автор: Kenyon Sherrilyn Серия: Dark-Hunter Presented in My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding anthology Читать или скачать книгу «A Hard Day's Night-Searcher » |
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A Hunger Like No Other
Автор: Cole Kresley Серия: Immortals After Dark Acclaimed author Kresley Cole introduces a sizzling new series with this tale of a fierce werewolf and a bewitching vampire -- unlikely soul mates whose passion will test the boundaries of life and death. A mythic warrior who'll stop at nothing to possess her . . . After enduring years of torture from the vampire horde, Lachlain MacRieve, leader of the Lykae Clan, is enraged to find the predestined mate he's waited millennia for is a vampire. Or partly one. This Emmaline is a small, ethereal half Valkyrie/half vampire, who somehow begins to soothe the fury burning within him. A vampire captured by her wildest fantasy . . . Sheltered Emmaline Troy finally sets out to uncover the truth about her deceased parents -- until a powerful Lykae claims her as his mate and forces her back to his ancestral Scottish castle. There, her fear of the Lykae -- and their notorious dark desires -- ebbs as he begins a slow, wicked seduction to sate her own dark cravings. An all-consuming desire . . . Yet when an ancient evil from her past resurfaces, will their desire deepen into a love that can bring a proud warrior to his knees and turn a gentle beauty into the fighter she was born to be? Читать или скачать книгу «A Hunger Like No Other» |
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A Matter of Pride
Автор: Harte Marie Dean Chastell has a reputation for being a troublemaker and something of a lady's man. It's not his fault he's attractive, funny and hell on wheels between the sheets...or that his pranks often leave his victims smarting. But not even he deserves to get saddled with Stacey Bermin for his sins. There's no denying the woman is gorgeous. She's sexy as hell and aggravating in the extreme. She's also prideful, pampered, calls him "hillbilly" and needs a swift kiss...err, "kick," in the pants. And she's in grave danger. He never thought they'd manage to spend a few hours, much less a few days, alone without going for each other's throats, but when trouble comes calling, Dean finds he'll do anything to keep her safe. She's not nearly as cold as she seems. In fact, the princess brings out the prince in him he never knew existed. And he'll move heaven and earth to keep her safe, out of danger...and in his arms, no matter the cost. Warning: A trickster cat finally meets his match in a proud feline used to getting her way. Hunters, hijinks and danger abound as the pride comes together for one heck of a battle. Читать или скачать книгу « A Matter of Pride» |
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A Peyton Family Christmas
Автор: Rogers Moira Holiday Cheer, Southern Arcana Style A free short story set after Crossroads and before Deadlock. This story contains major spoilers for Crossroads. Read with caution! Life has settled down for Nicole Peyton and Derek Gabriel. They've fought battles and won, but friends and family still struggle with the scars. During their first Christmas together, surrounded by the people they love most, Derek and Nick give each other the less tangible gifts that matter most--and the too tangible gifts that mean forever. Читать или скачать книгу «A Peyton Family Christmas » |
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A SEAL Wolf Christmas
Автор: Spear Terry Серия: Heart of the Wolf Navy SEAL Bjornolf Jorgenson and undercover operative Anna Johnson have a rocky beginning at their first meeting all to do with pantyhose and tying her to a bed after some heavy-duty sparring, and him declaring she has mighty fine killer knees. Christmas is coming but thoughts of sugar plum fairies and kissing under the mistletoe isn’t something these two gray werewolves have in mind when they're tasked to be the newlyweds preparing for Christmas while investigating a SEAL’s murder at a Christmas Tree farm. Neither care about Christmas, sharing gifts, and all the traditions that go along with the season since neither enjoyed the holiday while growing up. But as they battle each other as to what makes for the perfect newly married couple’s first Christmas, they learn that a little Christmas cheer can become so much more, especially if they can take down a SEAL’s killer before they become his next target. Читать или скачать книгу «A SEAL Wolf Christmas» |
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A Stranger in a Strange Land
Автор: Heinlein Robert A Reviews If any work of fiction will earn Robert Heinlein a permanent place on the collective bookshelf, it is going to be Stranger in a Strange Land, for the impact it has made on American society. If a person has not managed to read Strangerby now, then he has at least absorbed a bit of it osmotically, for it flows throughout our cultural consciousness. Perhaps least of all, it anticipated Nancy Reagan's reliance on astrology and spawned the water bed and the neologism "grok," (Heinlein's Martian verb for a thorough understanding), though "grok" would never have taken hold, had the young rebels of the 1960s not discovered Stranger as their counterculture bible. Some went even further and formed "nests" and churches based on what they found in Stranger; perhaps the most famous instance of that is the Church of All Worlds, a pagan group who lifted its name and logo intact from the book. Stranger has also begun to be included in many canonical college reading lists, and Billy Joel saw fit to mention the title in his 1989 Top-40 hit about history, "We Didn't Start the Fire." Stranger's fire was kindled in 1948 in a brainstorming session between Robert Heinlein and his wife, Virginia. While looking for material to fit John Campbell's title, "Gulf," Mrs. Heinlein thought it would be interesting to explore the case of a human raised by Martians. Heinlein thought that the idea would make a pretty good Lettres Perses–type novel, took some notes and filed it away for later use, finally placing the completed but abridged version with Putnam's in 1961 (an uncut edition was released in 1991). Stranger in a Strange Land tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, orphaned progeny of the first manned expedition to Mars, who has been raised by Martians and brought back to Earth by a second human expedition. Though he is a man in his twenties, Smith looks at absolutely everything on this new planet through the ignorant eyes of a baby, and faces the job of learning how to be a human being. If the world government of Earth will let him, that is, for Smith, through a legal fluke, not only has sole survivor rights to the space drive that his mother invented, but also to the surface of Mars. In a Byzantine maneuver that makes Watergate seem minor, the government holds Smith hostage while it tries to figure out how to seize his assets. Ben Caxton, a muckraking reporter, suspects the worst and attempts to rescue Smith. The problem is, if you can't fight City Hall, how can you even begin to fight a world government? Enter Caxton's friend, Jubal Harshaw, attorney, physician, hack writer, bon vivant, curmudgeon, anarchist. He caches Smith in Freedom Hall, his Poconos enclave, and takes on the dual chore of fighting the world federation for Smith's liberty and of educating Smith in the ways of his biological race. The youth is an apt student, a strange admixture of human infant and Martian superman, and as time goes on, he manages to win more and more people over to his own alien viewpoint. He becomes a kind of messiah–with explosive results. Given that, I leave it to the reader to pick up Stranger in a Strange Land and revel in it. In spite of the movements and religions it has birthed, Stranger is no bible; it is a sprawling satire of human conceits, including marriage, love, sex and–most importantly–religion. Satire usually aims to inform, so if one is looking for any message in Stranger, then one take a good, long look at Heinlein's targets and think. As Heinlein himself said in a letter to an avid fan, ". . .I would never undertake to be a `Prophet,' handing out neatly packaged answers to lazy minds. [. . .] anyone who takes that book as answers is cheating himself. It is an invitation to think–not to believe." What an invitation. ~~Beth Ager 1: "Gulf" got written as a different sort of superman story and can be found in Assignment in Eternity. 2: Letter found in Grumbles from the Grave. Читать или скачать книгу «A Stranger in a Strange Land» |
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A Study in Silks
Автор: Holloway Emma Jane Серия: The Baskerville Affair Evelina Cooper, niece of Sherlock Holmes, is ready for her first London Season - except for a murderer, missing automatons, a sorcerer, and a talking mouse. In a Victorian era ruled by a ruthless steam baron council, mechanical power is the real monarch, and sorcery the demon enemy of the empire. Evelina has secretly mastered a coveted weapon - magic that can run machines. Should she trust the handsome, clever rake who speeds her breath, or the dashing trick rider who would dare anything she would ask? Читать или скачать книгу «A Study in Silks» |
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A Tale of Two Centuries
Автор: Harris Rachel Серия: My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century Alessandra D’Angeli is in need of an adventure. Tired of her sixteenth-century life in Italy and homesick for her time-traveling cousin, Cat, who visited her for a magical week and dazzled her with tales of the future, Alessandra is lost. Until the stars hear her plea. One mystical spell later, Alessandra appears on Cat’s Beverly Hills doorstep five hundred years in the future. Surrounded by confusing gadgets, scary transportation, and scandalous clothing, Less is hesitant to live the life of a twenty-first century teen…until she meets the infuriating—and infuriatingly handsome—surfer Austin Michaels. Austin challenges everything she believes in…and introduces her to a world filled with possibility. With the clock ticking, Less knows she must live every moment of her modern life while she still can. But how will she return to the drab life of her past when the future is what holds everything she’s come to love? Читать или скачать книгу «A Tale of Two Centuries » |
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A Tale Of Two Dragons
Автор: Aiken G A Braith of the Darkness likes going through life unnoticed. Not an easy task for a She-dragon of royal descent. But the evil plots of her father are turning her quiet, boring life upside down, and she has now become the enemy of the most vicious queen her kind has ever known. But for once, Braith won't have to fight alone. Not when the warrior dragon of her dreams is willing to risk everything to save her neck. Addolgar the Cheerful wishes he could say he’s helping the pretty royal strictly for honorable reasons - but he'd be lying. It’s not his fault, though! He didn't tell Braith of the Darkness to have the most delicious tail he’s ever seen! Yet before Addolgar can get his very strong claws on that tail, heads are going to roll. Just hopefully not theirs... Читать или скачать книгу «A Tale Of Two Dragons» |
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A Twist in Time
Автор: Squires Susan Серия: Da Vinci Time Travel An expert in Leonardo DaVinci's works, Lucy Rossano recognizes the centuries-old time machine the moment she sees it in a Stanford lab. Fascinated in spite of the danger, she uses her knowledge to briefly go back in time — landing in the middle of a fierce battle in ninth-century Britain. And when she returns to modern-day San Francisco, she brings something back with her: a seductive, fiercely intelligent Viking named Galen. The presence of this enigmatic, devastatingly sexy stranger is just one of the new complications in Lucy's life. There are others who want to harness the time machine's power for treacherous ends, and they need Lucy to do it. Galen becomes first her protector, then the lover she's always dreamed of. But danger is drawing closer, and time is running out. For Galen and Lucy, it's now...or forever. Читать или скачать книгу «A Twist in Time» |
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After Dark
Автор: Castle Jayne Серия: Ghost Hunters Life is tough enough these days for Lydia Smith, licensed Para-archaelogist. Seriously stressed-out from a nasty incident in an alien tomb, she is obliged to work part-time in Shrimpton's House of Ancient Horrors, a very low-budget museum. She has a plan to get her career back on track, but it isn't going well. Stuff keeps happening. Take the dead body that she discovered in one of the sarcophagus exhibits. Who needed that? Finding out that her new client, Emmett London, is one of the most dangerous men in the city isn't helping matters either. And that's just today's list of setbacks. Here in the shadows of the Dead City of Old Cadence, things don't really heat up until After Dark. Читать или скачать книгу «After Dark» |
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After Daybreak
Автор: London J A Серия: Darkness Before Dawn Trilogy Our last hope lies with our oldest enemies. When we lost the war with the vampires, our world changed. The Old Family overlords trapped us in a few scattered cities and demanded our blood. Then Victor- the first vampire I've ever trusted, ever loved- came to power, and I hoped for peace between our kinds. Only now a new type of monster, Day Walkers, has emerged, and their maniacal leader is threatening to destroy us all, human and vampire alike. The Old Family Council is stubborn and proud, unwilling to acknowledge the danger. But once I claim my birthright as the last living member of the Montgomery line, they will have to listen to me. Neither fully human nor vampire, I am the bridge between both. Even if I'm not sure where I belong anymore, I know that the only way any of us will survive is if we stand together. Читать или скачать книгу «After Daybreak» |
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After Eden
Автор: Douglas Helen Серия: After Eden Eden Anfield loves puzzles, so when mysterious new boy Ryan Westland shows up at her school she's hooked. On the face of it, he's a typical American teenager. So why doesn't he recognise pizza? And how come he hasn't heard of Hitler? What puzzles Eden the most, however, is the interest he's taking in her. As Eden starts to fall in love with Ryan, she begins to unravel his secret. Her breakthrough comes one rainy afternoon when she stumbles across a book in Ryan's bedroom - a biography of her best friend - written over fifty years in the future. Confronting Ryan, she discovers that he is there with one unbelievably important purpose ... and she might just have destroyed his only chance of success. Читать или скачать книгу «After Eden» |
Лидия думала, что у нее в жизни все замечательно, за исключением активной свекрови, влезающей туда, куда ее не просят. Однако оказалось, что у нее только видимость отношений с мужем в семье. Накрутив себя мыслями до предела, девушка попадает в мир-изнанку, где жители имеют вторую ипостась или являются эльфанами. Лидия пытается найти свое место в Иномирье, однако на ее пути встречаются наглые мужчины, пытающие привязать ее к себе.
Семнадцать лет назад безжалостная раса айэров вторглась в наш мир и навсегда изменила нашу жизнь. Они взяли под контроль все сферы жизни, навели порядок во всех государствах, они стали нашими опасными непредсказуемыми богами. А богам нужны дары.
В первую весеннюю ночь айэр Оркоми назвал имя своей очередной избранницы. И теперь моей лучшей подруге Элизабет Райви предстоит стать его восемнадцатой невестой. Но сможет ли юная принцесса стать первой женой этого опасного мужчины и не разделить незавидную участь своих предшественниц? Нас с ней ждёт путешествие в другой мир — родину айэров, множество врагов и опасностей, древние тайны, старые конфликты и… двое мужчин, не принимающих отказов.
Ким Син – великий генерал и полководец времен Корё. Он храбро служил своей родине, но взамен его ждала не слава, а страшное проклятье, из-за которого он вынужден веками скитаться по земле. Павший от собственного меча, он получает вечную жизнь в виде Гоблина – духа. И лишь невеста Гоблина – девушка из смертных с особым даром – способна снять эти ужасные чары.
Однажды Ким Син меняет ход судьбы и спасает беременную женщину от смерти в аварии. Благодаря этому на свет появляется малышка Ынтхак, которая видит призраков. Так начинается путь к спасению Гоблина…
Смерть для жизни не помеха! Ты знала, что у тебя есть ангел-хранитель? Теперь знаешь! И я, твой ангел, намерена любым способом защитить сорванную курсовую работу, даже если для этого твою душу придётся переселить в другой мир! В качестве компенсации за оборванную жизнь выдам бонусы и исполню заветную мечту. Правда, не совсем так, как тебе бы того хотелось. Ты же мечтала о детях? Ну, так нужно было уточнять их количество!
Уважаемые читатели!
Пожалуйста, не ищите в этой книге стопроцентной достоверности — это очередная сказка. Жизненная, добрая сказка, о любви к детям, родителям и окружающему миру.
Тебе кажется, что все проблемы позади, а жизнь в новом мире пошла на лад? Как бы не так! Тебе следует знать, что есть тайны, охраняемые лучше королевских сокровищниц, прошлое любит стучаться в дверь когда ты его не ждешь, а путь к личному счастью тернист и непрост. Защитнице детского царства покой может только сниться, ведь происшествия и опасности будут подстерегать на каждом шагу, но важно помнить: делу — время, а забавам — час.
Есть тайны, охраняемые лучше королевских сокровищниц, прошлое любит стучаться в дверь когда ты его не ждешь, а путь к личному счастью тернист и непрост.
Земля. Этот мир изменился до неузнаваемости. Зеленая растительность и вода, дороже золота и драгоценных камней. Всюду выжженные пустыни. Обычному человеку не выжить в таких условиях. Но правительство нашло выход. Нищие, бродяги, сироты. Никому ненужный сброд, их жизнь — жизнь загнанных зверей. Попасть в руки правительства, значит навсегда лишиться своей прежней жизни. Генная инженерия — нет ничего страшнее. Мне не повезло. До меня добралось правительство и я, перестала считаться человеком. Генетически модифицированный организм, это то, чем я теперь являюсь. Ни человек, ни животное. Быстрее, сильнее, выносливей. Они думали, я смирилась со своей участью расходного материала. Пока они так думали, я готовилась к побегу. Самостоятельное произведение.
Бал грядёт, король предвкушает, министр нервничает — ему не нравится мысль о том, что госпожу Призванную представят огромному количеству людей, которые могут показаться ей более интересными союзниками, чем он сам. Госпожа Вероника готовится к балу, как к войне — это может изменить её жизнь, и судьбу всего мира. Её божественная сила выходит на новый уровень, и все хотят заполучить эту силу в своё распоряжение, но между миром и Верой есть одно весьма существенное препятствие — министр внешней политики Кан Шеннон, художник, миллиардер, ниндзя и просто красавчик.
Слишком благоразумная для приключений, я не раз вытаскивала близких из неприятностей, пока однажды не влипла в них сама. Кто же знал, что от приставучего темного лорда нужно бежать, как от пьяного некроманта? Что помогая, он втянет в такое!.. Вместо привычной работы мага-бытовика – окутанный паутиной и тайнами дом, оборотни, похищения и древний кровожадный культ. Я всегда верила, что оптимизм, сдержанность и зачарованная скалка помогут решить любую проблему. А потом узнала секрет ордена воинов Кромешной Тьмы, столкнулась и с самими кромешниками. Теперь при виде одного из них я забываю все правила и даже собственное имя. И с этой проблемой поможет разве что верная скалка.
Зимним вечером в мой свадебный салон вошли двое мужчин. Странные визитеры для такого места, вряд ли им понадобилось сшить подвенечное платье… Ах не одно?!
Ваше высочество вы меня удивляете! Какая наглость! Вы только подумайте, еще и проклятье им помочь снять! Каковы наглецы! Отправиться с вами в магический мир, откуда моя семья сбежала чтобы спастись от смерти? Нет уж увольте! Никакие сокровища не заставят меня туда пойти.
Если вам понадобилась помощь госпожи Феи, то становитесь в очередь, как и все простые люди!
В некоторых главах повествование может идти от 1—го или 3—го лица.
Жизнь на Северной заставе не так легка и нетороплива, как принято считать. И волки есть, и бандиты бродят. Но отчего-то именно этой зимой и тех и других стало больше. Лейтенант Нея Харт считает, что ей просто не везет, оттого и все проблемы. Наверное, ее куцый гарнизон, где количество ружей рассчитано лишь на десять человек, со всем бы справился… если бы не приезд королевского чиновника. А еще не мешало бы строже отнестись к худенькому ведьмаку. С этим столичным шалопаем лучше держать ухо востро, даже несмотря на подкупающий взгляд зеленых глаз.