Having recently accepted a new job and rejected a marriage proposal, Dr. Erin Carmody was already reeling. So, after crashing her car and staggering to the door of Dr. Dom Spencer, she barely knew which way was up. At least that was how she rationalized the crazy, wonderful attraction she felt for this man she'd only just met.

But as Erin healed, she began to believe in the unbelievable. Perhaps she was meant to be here-helping Dom care for the people of Bombadeen, being a mother to his foster sons. Dom had shown her what true love was-if only he'd let her prove to him that what they had was real…

Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a mysterious stranger offers him a job. But Mr. Wednesday, who knows more about Shadow than is possible, warns that a storm is coming —a battle for the very soul of America … and they are in its direct path.

One of the most talked-about books of the new millennium, American Gods is a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an American landscape at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. It is, quite simply, a contemporary masterpiece.

First published in 2001.

Awards:

– Hugo Award for Best SF/Fantasy Novel (2002)

– Bram Stoker Award for Best Horror Novel (2001)

– Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2002)

– Nebula Award for Best Novel (2003)

Bookstore owner Tricia Miles has put up – and put up with – her uninvited college roommate for weeks. In return, Pammy has stolen $100. But the day she's kicked out, Pammy's found dead in a Dumpster, leaving loads of questions unanswered.

Die Perle

(The House of Mapuhi)

Aus dem Englischen von Peter Friedrich

The DEA has a problem. Luis Mendoza, one of the leaders of a notorious Colombian drug cartel, uses a small island in the middle of nowhere as a staging post in his supply route bringing cocaine out of South America and into the United States.

The island is impenetrable, several experienced agents have already died trying.

With state-of the art defences and a small army on the island, paid informers within many law enforcement agencies and police departments, and an exceptionally sharp lawyer, there does not appear to be a chink in Luis' armour.

Except perhaps one.

Luis has a girlfriend, a German girl called Nadia. She is allowed to leave the island whenever she wants to, often taking the plane to Florida to visit friends. Strangely, she holds a legal Guatemalan passport, as no passport was ever issued to her by the German authorities.

However, Nadia likes the fast life, and one day it catches up with her. She dies at the wheel of a sports car in Florida, and guess what?

Nadia isn't a girl at all.

Meet Michelle, a girl with a special quality. Apart from being a professional stage performer, she is also illegally in the USA. the authorities recognise her for what she is and offer her a proposition that she can't refuse.

The question is, will the cost be too great for her?

Quick Glance Guide

Finding information you need is not always easy. This short index provides a list of common tasks discussed inside this book. Browse the table of contents or index for detailed listings and consult the specified chapter for in-depth discussions about each subject.

Эта книга — двуязычное издание недавно опубликованной русской книги и её перевода на английский язык с комментариями издателя для американского читателя. Книга представляет собой сборник коротких детских рассказов o событиях, происходивших в Москве в середине пятидесятых годов прошлого века, через десять лет после окончания второй мировой войны.

Рассказы могут быть интересны как детям, так и взрослым. Дети найдут в книге много по-настоящему смешных эпизодов и смогут посмотреть на столицу России середины двадцатого века глазами двенадцатилетнего мальчика. Взрослые будут иметь возможность посмотреть на те же события своими глазами и тоже посмеяться, а может быть, и погрустить.

This is a bilingual edition of a recently published Russian book and its English translation, together with publisher’s comments for the American public. The book is a collection of short children's stories about the events that took place in Moscow (Russia) in the mid-fifties of the last century, a decade after the end of World War II.

These stories may be of interest to both children and adults. Children will find many truly funny episodes in the book and will be able to look at the capital of Russia in the middle of the twentieth century through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy. Adults will be able to look at the same events through their own eyes. They also will laugh or perhaps be a bit sad.

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude, Hamlet's mother. The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness—from overwhelming grief to seething rage—and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.

The editors of the New York Times bestselling Death's Excellent Vacation bring home a new collection...with a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story!

 There's nothing like home renovation for finding skeletons in the closet or otherwordly portals in the attic. Now, for any homeowner who's ever wondered, "What's that creaking sound?" or fans of "how to" television who'd like a little unreality mixed in with their reality shows, editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner return with an all-new collection of the paranormal perils of Do-It-Yourself.

 Sookie Stackhouse resides in these pages, in a never-before-published story by #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris. And New York Times bestselling authors Patricia Briggs, James Grady, Heather Graham, Melissa Marr, and nine other outstanding writers have constructed more frightening and funny fixer-upper tales guaranteed to shake foundations and rattle readers' pipes.

As an apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi is blamed for the death of another Jedi student. With the help of his Master, Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan must fight to clear his name. But even if he is found not guilty, he has gained an enemy for life — the dead boy's vindictive father.

Twelve years later, Obi-Wan is a Jedi Knight, with his own young apprentice, Anakin Skywalker. Anakin doesn't know about the secrets Obi-Wan is hiding. But as the past comes back to attack them, Obi-Wan and Anakin must fight deception with truth — and face off against enemies both new and old.

Who are the followers of the Sith? Devoted to the study of the dark side of the Force, they live an underground existence…but their threat is growing. Although they do not have Sith power, they are on a constant search for it. Nothing — not even the Jedi Knights — will get in their way.

Dr. Lundi is the leader of the Sith followers. As he gets closer to attaining a Sith Holocron, he comes face-to-face with Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan.

Ten years later, when the Sith followers reappear, Obi-Wan and his own apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, must rely on Lundi to help them. But he is to be feared, not trusted.

The Sith are on the rise. The Jedi must stop them.

GNU Emacs is the most popular and widespread of the Emacs family of editors. It is also the most powerful and flexible. Unlike all other text editors, GNU Emacs is a complete working environment—you can stay within Emacs all day without leaving. Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition tells readers how to get started with the GNU Emacs editor. It is a thorough guide that will also "grow" with you: as you become more proficient, this book will help you learn how to use Emacs more effectively. It takes you from basic Emacs usage (simple text editing) to moderately complicated customization and programming.The third edition of Learning GNU Emacs describes Emacs 21.3 from the ground up, including new user interface features such as an icon-based toolbar and an interactive interface to Emacs customization. A new chapter details how to install and run Emacs on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, including tips for using Emacs effectively on those platforms.Learning GNU Emacs, third edition, covers:

• How to edit files with Emacs

• Using the operating system shell through Emacs

• How to use multiple buffers, windows, and frames

• Customizing Emacs interactively and through startup files

• Writing macros to circumvent repetitious tasks

• Emacs as a programming environment for Java, C++, and Perl, among others

• Using Emacs as an integrated development environment (IDE)

• Integrating Emacs with CVS, Subversion and other change control systems for projects with multiple developers

• Writing HTML, XHTML, and XML with Emacs

• The basics of Emacs Lisp

The book is aimed at new Emacs users, whether or not they are programmers. Also useful for readers switching from other Emacs implementations to GNU Emacs.

This book was written to provide a single reference for network administration in a Linux environment. Beginners and experienced users alike should find the information they need to cover nearly all important administration activities required to manage a Linux network configuration. The possible range of topics to cover is nearly limitless, so of course it has been impossible to include everything there is to say on all subjects. We've tried to cover the most important and common ones. We've found that beginners to Linux networking, even those with no prior exposure to Unix-like operating systems, have found this book good enough to help them successfully get their Linux network configurations up and running and get them ready to learn more.

There are many books and other sources of information from which you can learn any of the topics covered in this book (with the possible exception of some of the truly Linux-specific features, such as the new Linux firewall interface, which is not well documented elsewhere) in greater depth. We've provided a bibliography for you to use when you are ready to explore more.

A gorgeous illustrated edition of a classic novella from the #1 bestselling author of A Game of Thrones—a chilling mystery set on a seemingly haunted spaceship, soon to be an original series on SYFY.

Featuring fifteen original illustrations, this is the definitive edition of an electrifying tale that combines the deep-space thrills of Alien, the psychological horror of The Shining, and, of course, the inimitable vision of George R. R. Martin.

When a scientific expedition is launched to study a mysterious alien race, the only ship available is the Nightflyer, a fully autonomous vessel manned by a single human. But Captain Royd Eris remains locked away, interacting with his passengers only as a disembodied voice—or a projected hologram no more substantial than a ghost.

Yet that’s not the only reason the ship seems haunted. The team’s telepath, Thale Lasamer, senses another presence aboard the Nightflyer—something dangerous, volatile, and alien. Captain Eris claims to know nothing about the elusive intruder, and when someone, or something, begins killing off the expedition’s members, he’s unable—or unwilling—to stem the bloody tide.

Only Melantha Jhirl, a genetically enhanced outcast with greater strength, stamina, and intelligence than other humans, has a chance of solving the mystery—and stopping the malevolent being that’s wiping out her shipmates.

But first she has to keep herself alive.

A collection of 23 big, fierce stories by xTx.

Lost in the vast Scorpion Desert of Venus, he needed all the courage a man could own—and every bit of credit he could raise!

At the height of the Cold War, a Russian special forces team target New York with a horrifying new virus.

Vadim Scorlenski is the sergeant in charge of an elite Spetznaz squad at the height of the Cold War. Sent by the Politburo on a training exercise to the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, Scorlenski and his men discover too late that the practice ‘weapon’ they’re carrying—an exotic chemical agent—is all too real. Betrayed by their allies and cut down by the American police, they go to their deaths…

…and awaken to a scene of turmoil. New York City has been overwhelmed by a horde of the walking dead, a plague that even now is spreading across the globe. Somehow holding onto their identities where all others have become mindless monsters, Scorlenski and his squad set out to return to Russia, to take revenge for what has been done to them.

Marisha Pessl’s dazzling debut sparked raves from critics and heralded the arrival of a vibrant new voice in American fiction. At the center of Special Topics in Calamity Physics is clever, deadpan Blue van Meer, who has a head full of literary, philosophical, scientific, and cinematic knowledge, but she could use some friends. Upon entering the elite St. Gallway School, she finds some-a clique of eccentrics known as the Bluebloods. One drowning and one hanging later, Blue finds herself puzzling out a byzantine murder mystery. Nabokov meets Donna Tartt (then invites the rest of the Western Canon to the party) in this novel-with visual aids drawn by the author-that has won over readers of all ages.

This revised and updated edition of the classic Cold War novel Team Yankee reminds us once again might have occurred had the United States and its Allies taken on the Russians in Europe, had cooler geopolitical heads not prevailed. For 45 years after World War II, East and West stood on the brink of war. When Nazi Germany was destroyed, it was evident that Russian tank armies had become supreme in Europe, but only in counterpart to US air power. In 1945 US and UK bombers sent a signal to the advancing Russians at Dresden to beware of what the Allies could do. Likewise when the Russians overran Berlin they sent a signal to the Allies what their land armies could accomplish. Thankfully the tense standoff continued on either side of the Iron Curtain for nearly half a century. During those years, however, the Allies beefed up their ground capability, while the Soviets increased their air capability, even as the new jet and missile age began (thanks much to captured German scientists on both sides). The focal point of conflict remained central Germany — specifically the flat plains of the Fulda Gap — through which the Russians could pour all the way to the Channel if the Allies proved unprepared (or unable) to stop them.

Team Yankee posits a conflict that never happened, but which very well might have, and for which both sides prepared for decades. This former New York Times bestseller by Harold Coyle, now revised and expanded, presents a glimpse of what it would have been like for the Allied soldiers who would have had to meet a relentless onslaught of Soviet and Warsaw Pact divisions. It takes the view of a US tank commander, who is vastly outnumbered during the initial onslaught, as the Russians pull out all the cards learned in their successful war against Germany. Meantime Western Europe has to speculate behind its thin screen of armor whether the New World can once again assemble its main forces — or willpower — to rescue the bastions of democracy in time.

The British Study Edition of The Urantia Papers is a translation of the Fifth Epochal Revelation (also known as “The Urantia Book”) from American to British English as defined by the Oxford Dictionary of English. It has the following main features:

1. The Standard Reference Text (SRT) has been used as a base of this work.

2. All significant changes to the text (present also in SRT) are documented in the critical apparatus, together with a brief explanation of the reason for the change.

3. Study notes have been added.

4. The symbol ¶ marks the first paragraph in the group as in the 1955 first printing, where such groups were delimited by blank lines.

5. All distance and temperature measures have been converted to metric units, except where there was even the slightest potential for error, such as in the use of “Jerusem miles”, which was left intact. The idiomatic expressions like “carry his pack for a mile” were also left intact, obviously.

6. Long and hard to memorise phrases like “three hundred and forty-five thousand” have been converted to a more compact form “345,000”. Likewise, for phrases like “seventy-five per cent”, a more compact form of “75%” was chosen. Likewise, the time designations like “fifteen minutes past four o’clock” now read “16:15”.

7. The designation of the author of each paper (and Foreword) is printed in italics on a line by itself just before the text.

8. SRT paragraph numbering is used both in the superscript and in the paragraph ranges printed in the header of every page.

9. Possible textual corruptions are indicated in the footnotes.

For deriving etymology of the words coined by the revelators, I acknowledge the use of the notes by Dr Chris Halvorson. Many thanks to my friend Mitch Austin for helpful suggestions and comments, some of which have been incorporated into the study notes of the present edition.

Tigran Aivazian, London.

Sponsored by a Uversa Corps of Superuniverse Personalities acting by authority of the Orvonton Ancients of Days.

Sponsored by a Nebadon Corps of Local Universe Personalities acting by authority of Gabriel of Salvington.

These papers were sponsored by a Corps of Local Universe Personalities acting by authority of Gabriel of Salvington.

This group of papers was sponsored by a commission of twelve Urantia midwayers acting under the supervision of a Melchizedek revelatory director.

The basis of this narrative was supplied by a secondary midwayer who was onetime assigned to the superhuman watchcare of the Apostle Andrew.

Dr Darcy Rochester is horrified when 'doctor' Ally Westruther sets up her massage business next door. But why does such a talented doctor refuse to practise medicine as well as massage? Why doesn't such a skilled worker have enough money to eat? And why does such a beautiful, caring, passionate woman want nothing to do with love?

A Nebula Award-winning author presents a powerful novel of intergalatic travel, allies from another world, and a mad scientist that follows Allen Meisner, a member of INSANE (International Network of Scientists Against Nuclear Extermination) who develops a powerful hyperdrive engine that is used to save humanity.

The beginning of this books was written as a short story and published in Analog Science Fiction and Facts magazine in April 1985. The complete book was first published in 2001.

A slyly profound and startlingly original novel about the psyche of the American male, The Throwback Special marks the return of one of the most acclaimed literary voices of his generation.

Here is the absorbing story of twenty-two men who gather every fall to painstakingly reenact what ESPN called “the most shocking play in NFL history” and the Washington Redskins dubbed the “Throwback Special”: the November 1985 play in which the Redskins’ Joe Theismann had his leg horribly broken by Lawrence Taylor of the New York Giants live on Monday Night Football.

With wit and great empathy, Chris Bachelder introduces us to Charles, a psychologist whose expertise is in high demand; George, a garrulous public librarian; Fat Michael, envied and despised by the others for being exquisitely fit; Jeff, a recently divorced man who has become a theorist of marriage; and many more. Over the course of a weekend, the men reveal their secret hopes, fears, and passions as they choose roles, spend a long night of the soul preparing for the play, and finally enact their bizarre ritual for what may be the last time. Along the way, mishaps, misunderstandings, and grievances pile up, and the comforting traditions holding the group together threaten to give way.

The Throwback Special is a moving and comic tale filled with pitch-perfect observations about manhood, marriage, middle age, and the rituals we all enact as part of being alive.

There is evidence in the news almost every day. Territorial disputes in the South China Sea. China's ongoing military buildup. Cyber attacks on the US government. It's this century's cold war… until it turns hot.

A CIA operative in Shanghai sends a message to Langley, and then goes missing. An inner-circle of Chinese government officials has set in motion plans to do the unthinkable — to invade the United States of America.

Lena Chou is one of the few US officials who knows the truth. Now, in order to covertly plan the US defense, Lena must put together a Red Cell, a group of experts who will plan how China could best attack it.

David Manning is one of those experts. But as the group creates a blueprint for war with China, he suspects that not every person among them is planning for America to win…

Compared by Time Out magazine to a contemporary Catcher in the Rye, Alexander Stuart’s The War Zone was chosen as Best Novel of the Year for Britain’s prestigious Whitbread Prize when it was first published, but was instantly stripped of the award amid controversy among the judges, due to the novel’s stark and uncompromising portrayal of incest and adolescent fury, when its teenage narrator, Tom, stumbles upon a complex and intensely abusive relationship between his older sister, Jessie, and their father.

The novel has been published in eight languages and was turned into a searingly emotional film directed by Oscar-nominated actor/director, Tim Roth, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to win international critical acclaim and many awards.

This newly revised 20^th Anniversary Edition includes an Afterword by Tim Roth, explaining what drew him to this controversial and painful subject matter for his directorial debut, together with both the original British and American opening chapters of the book, and Alexander Stuart’s diary of the making of the film.

The supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real… tales of the dark. Such stories have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while inventing imaginative new ways to unsettle us. Chosen from a wide variety of venues, these stories are as eclectic and varied as shadows. This volume of 2017’s best dark fantasy and horror offers more than five hundred pages of tales from some of today’s finest writers of the fantastique—sure to delight as well as disturb…

This Omnibus Edition collects the five Wool books into a single volume. It is for those who arrived late to the party and who wish to save a dollar or two while picking up the same stories in a single package.

The first Wool story was released as a standalone short in July of 2011. Due to reviewer demand, the rest of the story was released over the next six months. My thanks go out to those reviewers who clamored for more. Without you, none of this would exist. Your demand created this as much as I did.

This is the story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge. The world outside has grown unkind, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they profess to want: They are allowed outside.

Роман написан для взрослых людей человеком, который пытается бесхитростно поведать о муках и метаниях, насмешках и несчастьях, какие могут омрачить сильнейшее из чувств, ведомых человеку; откровенно рассказать о смертельной борьбе между плотью и духом и раскрыть трагедию неосуществленных замыслов.

Instagram на сегодняшний момент самая динамично развивающаяся социальная сеть, имеющая самый дешевый трафик. Множество людей проводят, в среднем, от 2 до 5 часов в день за просмотром Instagram. Поэтому здесь очень легко добиваться результатов. Не важно, хотите вы быть популярным блогером, вывести бизнес в Instagram, или освоить новую востребованную профессию SMM-специалиста – эта книга будет одинаково полезна всем.

Эта издание – не набор теоретических данных. Это практика. По этим технологиям прошли обучение 250 государственных организаций; около 3000 специалистов стали экспертами в области SMM.

Это не полностью журнал, а статья из него. С иллюстрациями. Взято с http://7dn.ru/article/karavan и адаптировано для прочтения на е-ридере.

Для радикальных изменений к лучшему необязательно прилагать титанические усилия. Достаточно тех сил, что у вас есть. Способны взять в руки книгу, выделить время на вдумчивое чтение и затем проанализировать текст? Значит, необходимый минимум для нужных преобразований имеется. Проблема состоит лишь в том, что нужно знать, куда именно собственные силы прикладывать. Трилогия «Книг, которых нет» отвечает на главный вопрос – «что делать?». Эти произведения уже помогли десяткам тысяч людей найти себя в жизни и решительным ударом разрубить проблемы, которые копились годами. Наконец, все три книги изданы под одной обложкой. Проработав их, вы получите план развития на ближайший год как минимум. У вас в руках есть все, что нужно для прорыва – издание, которое называется Alpha & Omega. Оно дополнено автором, который максимально подробно раскрывает смыслы своих текстов. Это поможет окончательно изменить в вашу пользу расстановку сил на шахматной доске жизни.

Эта книга – самая популярная из всех книг Константина Бакшта, который входит в тройку самых читаемых российских авторов деловой литературы. В ее основу положен колоссальный опыт Константина Бакшта и десятков экспертов его компании по построению отделов продаж. Это – сотни проектов по всей России, от Москвы и Калининграда до Владивостока. А также на Украине, в Казахстане, Беларуси, Молдове, Армении и в странах Балтии. Все самое ценное из огромного практического опыта структурировано, упорядочено и изложено в этом издании, чтобы Вы могли воспользоваться технологиями Константина Бакшта для построения и развития отдела продаж Вашей компании и роста Ваших доходов.

Принципиальное отличие нового издания от предыдущих – то, что под одной обложкой собраны ключевые разделы двух книг – «Построение отдела продаж» и «Боевые команды продаж». Все они переработаны, дополнены и актуализированы по состоянию на 2015 год.

Издание адресовано руководителям компаний, владельцам бизнеса и тем, кто только собирается создать свой бизнес. А также будет полезно всем, кто задумывается о карьерном росте и хочет стать профессиональным руководителем продаж.

Вы думаете что знаете историю Древней Руси? А вот и нет! Как насчет ОМОНовцев-богатырей, самогонщицы Шапокляк и Кощея в лабораторном халате? То есть как, не было такого? А... Ну да, не было. Перед вами Русь Сказочная. Необычная, веселая, где все с ног на голову! Не верите? А вы Джека Воробья спросите! 

Когда феи покинули этот мир, они забрали с собой свои истории. Но оставили персонажей.

Fandom: Sherlock (TV).

Статья из цикла «Гуру менеджмента», посвященного теоретикам и практикам менеджмента, в котором отражается всемирная история возникновения и развития науки управления.

Многие из тех, о ком рассказывают данные статьи, сами или вместе со своими коллегами стояли у истоков науки управления, другие развивали идеи своих В предшественников не только как экономику управления предприятием, но и как психологию управления человеческими ресурсами. В любом случае без работ этих ученых невозможно представить современный менеджмент.

В статьях акцентируется внимание на основных достижениях «Гуру менеджмента», с описанием наиболее значимых моментов и возможного применения его на современном этапе. В каждой статье содержится их биографическая справка.