The stage is set for murder, mayhem and deafening music. But the music isn't loud enough to drown out the shots aimed at the gorgeous redhead on stage. Not that anybody is paying much attention, not in the screaming chaos of the world's biggest rock festival ever. The girl likes to be near singers, the freakier and more spaced-out the better. Some of them get too close and wind up permanently spaced out. Why? Someone wants to kill the beautiful girl with the long auburn hair. She is under contract for one million dollars. A big bounty is on her beautiful head. She has to be killed, and quick. But Remo and Chiun have other ideas. Their assignment from CURE says protect her at any costs - and that means someone is going to have to pay a very high price.

The stage is set for murder, mayhem and deafening music. But the music isn't loud enough to drown out the shots aimed at the gorgeous redhead on stage. Not that anybody is paying much attention, not in the screaming chaos of the world's biggest rock festival ever. The girl likes to be near singers, the freakier and more spaced-out the better. Some of them get too close and wind up permanently spaced out. Why? Someone wants to kill the beautiful girl with the long auburn hair. She is under contract for one million dollars. A big bounty is on her beautiful head. She has to be killed, and quick. But Remo and Chiun have other ideas. Their assignment from CURE says protect her at any costs - and that means someone is going to have to pay a very high price.

It started out as a simple hike in the Utah canyonlands on a warm Saturday afternoon. For Aron Ralston, a twenty-seven-year-old mountaineer and outdoorsman, a walk into the remote Blue John Canyon was a chance to get a break from a winter of solo climbing Colorado's highest and toughest peaks. He'd earned this weekend vacation, and though he met two charming women along the way, by early afternoon he finally found himself in his element: alone, with just the beauty of the natural world all around him. It was 2:41 P.M. Eight miles from his truck, in a deep and narrow slot canyon, Aron was climbing down off a wedged boulder when the rock suddenly, and terrifyingly, came loose. Before he could get out of the way, the falling stone pinned his right hand and wrist against the canyon wall.

And so began six days of hell for Aron Ralston.

Fast music, powerful beats and wild reputations on stage and off have made Slurry the band of the year--and the media's newest bad boys. Described as temperamental by their kindest critics, they've just lost their latest opening act and their red-hot summer tour is on the fast track to disaster.

Fitzwilliam Darcy, Slurry's tall, dark, and enigmatic virtuoso guitarist, knows that this is no time to be picky, but he never expected what was waiting when he, Charles Bingley and Richard Fitzwilliam crashed the Meryton Public House. 

Elizabeth Bennet, the fiercely independent and talented lead singer of Long Borne Suffering has serious reservations about joining such a trouble laden tour with the bad boys of Rock and Roll, but the opportunity is just too good to pass up!

On the Slurry tour, the music's hot, but backstage is an inferno.

Известная рок-журналистка Сьюзан Масино представляет эксклюзивное жизнеописание одной из ключевых групп планеты, своего рода «динозавров» от рок-н-ролла.

T. C. Boyle's seventh novel transforms two characters straight out of history into rich mythic figures whose tortured love story is as heartbreaking as it is hilarious. It is the dawn of the twentieth century when the beautiful, budding feminist Katherine Dexter falls in love with Stanley McCormick, son of a millionaire inventor. The two wed, but before the marriage is consummated, Stanley experiences a nervous breakdown and is diagnosed as a schizophrenic sex maniac. Locked up for the rest of his life at Riven Rock, the family's California mansion, Stanley is treated by a series of confident doctors determined to cure him. But his true salvation lies with Katherine who, throughout her career as a scientist and suffragette, continues a patient vigil from beyond the walls of Riven Rock, never losing hope that one day Stanley will be healed.Blending social history with some of the most deliciously dark humor ever written, Boyle employs his hallmark virtuoso prose to tell the story of America's age of innocence-and of a love affair that is as extraordinary as it is unforgettable.

A trio of uncollected stories from early in T. C. Boyle’s career, Rock and Roll Heaven shows all of the qualities that had people excited about Boyle from the beginning — great ideas, dazzling writing full of wit, black humor, and wisdom. These three stories were published in journals but have not been included as of yet in any of Boyle’s short story collections. Combined here, all Boyle fans have easy access to reading them now.

Seemingly the simplest of stories — a passing anecdote of village life — Rock Crystal opens up into a tale of almost unendurable suspense. This jewel-like novella by the writer that Thomas Mann praised as "one of the most extraordinary, the most enigmatic, the most secretly daring and the most strangely gripping narrators in world literature" is among the most unusual, moving, and memorable of Christmas stories. Two children — Conrad and his little sister, Sanna — set out from their village high up in the Alps to visit their grandparents in the neighboring valley. It is the day before Christmas but the weather is mild, though of course night falls early in December and the children are warned not to linger. The grandparents welcome the children with presents and pack them off with kisses. Then snow begins to fall, ever more thickly and steadily. Undaunted, the children press on, only to take a wrong turn. The snow rises higher and higher, time passes: it is deep night when the sky clears and Conrad and Sanna discover themselves out on a glacier, terrifying and beautiful, the heart of the void. Adalbert Stifter's rapt and enigmatic tale, beautifully translated by Elizabeth Mayer and Marianne Moore, explores what can be found between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day — or on any night of the year.

"Lisa Brackmann's Rock Paper Tiger is a compelling debut that takes you deep into the dangerous, complicated heart of modern China, with a tough and appealing heroine in Ellie." – Jeff Abbott

"A terrifying odyssey in present-day China… with the protagonist pursued by the Chinese and American governments alike in a global panorama. A totally captivating page-turner with vivid, first-hand details and nuanced multi-cultural facets." – Qiu Xiaolong

American Iraq War veteran Ellie Cooper is down and out in Beijing when a chance encounter with a Uighur – a member of a Chinese Muslim minority – at the home of her sort-of boyfriend Lao Zhang turns her life upside down. Lao Zhang disappears, and suddenly multiple security organizations are hounding her for information. They say the Uighur is a terrorist. Ellie doesn't know what's going on, but she must decide whom to trust among the artists, dealers, collectors, and operatives claiming to be on her side – in particular, a mysterious organization operating within a popular online role-playing game. As she tries to elude her pursuers, she's haunted by memories of Iraq. Is what she did and saw there at the root of the mess she's in now?

Mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West — and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there. This is a story collection about ordinary women, men and children.

Twenty-year-old Holly Pearson never dreamed that while working at her father’s motocross track she’d run into the walking, talking definition of trouble in a sexy, tattooed package—Trip Douglas, the man sent to evaluate the track for a possible investment opportunity. Holly makes no attempt to hide the fact she despises Trip, but she learns to be civil toward him when he offers to help her land the man of her dreams.

Trip needs a break from the crazy rock-and-roll lifestyle he’s been living for the past few years. With his Black Falcon band mates settling down with marriage and babies, Trip peruses an investment opportunity in motocross, something he’s always been passionate about. Hiding his celebrity status, Trip infiltrates the new business posing as a dirt bike rider training for the X-Games. The only obstacle is the owner’s daughter, Holly. She’s a real ball bustin' Ice Queen, and she’ll do whatever it takes to make the deal fall through. Trip soon discovers that winning over his new enemy is the key to gaining a partnership in Mountain Time Speed Track.

Knowing he’s the expert on getting laid, Trip ropes Holly into becoming his ally by helping her score a date with the man she’s crushing on. The problem is, the more time Trip and Holly spend together, the more they uncover the undeniable attraction between them. Soon they both realize that even the best laid plans go to hell when you find you’re falling in love with the enemy.

Создатель и бессменный гитарист легендарной рок-группы «Scorpions» вспоминает о начале своего пути, о том, как «Скорпы» пробивались к вершине музыкального Олимпа, откровенно рассказывает о своей личной жизни, о встречах с самыми разными людьми — как известными всему миру: Михаил Горбачев, Пауло Коэльо, так и самыми обычными, но оставившими свой след в его судьбе. В этой книге любители рока найдут множество интересных фактов и уникальных подробностей, знакомых имен… Но книга адресована гораздо более широкому кругу читателей. На ее страницах Руди Шенкер увлекательно излагает свою жизненную философию, благодаря которой он и добился столь головокружительного успеха. Занятия йогой, упорные медитации, чтение книг восточных мудрецов позволили ему заглянуть в глубины человеческого Эго, увидеть путь к истинным ценностям, познать, из чего складывается человеческое счастье и как его добиться. Это раздумья о сути нашего бытия немало повидавшего и передумавшего человека, испытавшего множество самых разнообразных трудностей и соблазнов и все же оставшегося верным самому себе. Он убежден, что любому человеку независимо от его возраста и положения никогда не поздно сломать господствующие в современном обществе стереотипы, вырваться из осточертевшей колеи, сделать решительный шаг к новой жизни. Его девиз — жить здесь и сейчас! Не надо бояться встряхнуть свою жизнь, и тогда твои мечты, далее самые смелые, непременно сбудутся.

An anthology of stories edited by Todd Robinson

My fingers can't find the bullet holes. They're there, because they brought me down.

Like a guitar riff sharp enough to slit a throat or the devil's amplifiers shrieking through the lonely night, this bonanza of blood and brawn rings with the vibe of the best new noir suspense. Culled from the net's most hardcore, award-winning site, these fresh, raw, and uncut stories pack a stiff punch…

"As long as she keeps calling me, there's hope. Hope is a dangerous thing."

No matter where you turn-a pair of bisexual, ass-kicking Vikings on a slaughter trip; a sexy forty-something thief with angles as lethal as her curves; a porn-comic artist up against one deadly last laugh; a city's most savage gang under the gun and way out of time; or a south-of-the-borderland sleaze pit where everyone's a winner-no one gets out alive…

"Escape is a bitch. A man alone and on foot would have to be crazy to try. Apparently he was."

Rev up for a speed-fueled hell-trip through the dark side, where a backbeat can kill, no scene falls short of badass, and the hooligans bay at the moon…

"This book is dripping so much blood and guts and marrow, it's impossible to read it in more than a single sitting. Be prepared to be shattered, shell-shocked and bruised, as Thuglit's emissaries continue to write wrongs that are very, very right." -Sarah Weinman

Big Daddy Thug/Todd Robinson's writing has appeared in Plots With Guns, Danger City, Demolition, Out Of The Gutter, Pulp Pusher, Crimespree and Writers Digest's The Year's Best Writing 2003. He was nominated for a 2006 Derringer Award from the Short Mystery Fiction Society, and is the creator and chief editor of Thuglit.com.

The stories he's edited for Thuglit.com have been nominated for several awards, including The Derringer and The Million Writer's Award, and been have been selected for The Best American Mystery Stories and Best Noir 2006.

He lives and works in New York with his wife (Lady Detroit), a ferret named Matilda, and three freakin' cats.

Parental Discretion is Advised. Annie Logan and her band, White Rush, have been waiting years for their big break. Taking a last chance at stardom, Annie enters them into a 'battle of the bands contest' and wins an opportunity to perform with the legendary rock band, Thrust. This twist of fate puts Annie on a collision course with her larger-than-life rock hero, the infamous guitar God, Michael Wade. Annie's model good looks and Michael's dangerously raw rock 'n' roll swagger are like a burning fuse on a stick of dynamite. Would she be the woman to finally tame Michael's wild ways and show him the true meaning of love or would the gritty reality of the music industry prove to be more than she could handle? Sheet Music will give you a backstage pass into the rock 'n' roll lifestyle full of egos, excess and extremes; where sometimes even true soul mates aren't strong enough to survive the heat of the spotlight.

John Dortmunder left prison with the warm words of the warden ringing in his ears and not one chance of going straight. Soon Dortmunder was riding in a stolen Cadillac with venetian blinds, reuniting with old friends and scheming to heist a large emerald belonging to a small African nation. As always, his planning is meticulous. As always, the execution is not. Undaunted, Dortmunder is now chasing the gem by plane, train and automobile. Because this hot rock has a way of getting stolen — not just once, but again and again and again…

Brimming with memorable characters and human conflict, rugged high-tech prospectors and boardroom betrayals, The Rock Rats continues the tale of our near-future struggle over the incalculable wealth of the Asteroid Belt. Before it ends, many will die—and many will achieve more than they ever dreamed was possible.

A powerful new collection from one of our most beloved, admired, and honored writers.

In stories that are more personal than any that she's written before, Alice Munro pieces her family's history into gloriously imagined fiction. A young boy is taken to Edinburgh's Castle Rock, where his father assures him that on a clear day he can see America, and he catches a glimpse of his father's dream. In stories that follow, as the dream becomes a reality, two sisters-in-law experience very different kinds of passion on the long voyage to the New World; a baby is lost and magically reappears on a journey from an Illinois homestead to the Canadian border.

Other stories take place in more familiar Munro territory, the towns and countryside around Lake Huron, where the past shows through the present like the traces of a glacier on the landscape and strong emotions stir just beneath the surface of ordinary comings and goings. First love flowers under the apple tree, while a stronger emotion presents itself in the barn. A girl hired as summer help, and uneasy about her “place” in the fancy resort world she's come to, is transformed by her employer's perceptive parting gift. A father whose early expectations of success at fox farming have been dashed finds strange comfort in a routine night job at an iron foundry. A clever girl escapes to college and marriage.

Building inspectors have long plagued builders and homeowners. In space, of course, things will be different…

Книга представляет собой 413-страниц дневниковых записей, написанных между Рождеством 1986 года и Рождеством 1987 года. Довольно подробно описана запись альбома Motley Crue's Girls, Girls, Girls и последующего турне Girls Girls Girls, заканчивая передозировками героина Sixx в конце 1987 года, которые вдохновляют группу, чтобы бросить героин в целом.

Какие силы вытолкнули скандального миллиардера Дональда Трампа на Олимп политической жизни Америки? Почему Трамп побеждает на выборах, хотя против него ополчились все масс-медиа, спонсоры, соперники и даже собственные партийные боссы? Кто он? Честолюбивый денежный мешок? Американский Ельцин? Или всё же американский «Путин» – спаситель США от краха? Электоральный гений и стратег или политический авантюрист и провокатор? «Народный миллиардер» или очередной «кролик Дональд» из шляпы дядюшки Сэма?

В книге сделана попытка ответить на эти и другие вопросы. В ней даётся описание политических и экономических планов Дональда Трампа как президента, а также многогранной деятельности этого талантливого и противоречивого человека, его бурной личной жизни и оригинальных взглядов. Редкая возможность познакомиться с бытом и привычками совершенно незнакомого большинству россиян редчайшего представителя мировой суперэлиты – одного из 500 американских миллиардеров.

В книге приводится описание процедуры избрания президента США и оценены выгоды и опасности для России в случае избрания Д. Трампа американским президентом.

«До тех пор, пока у тебя есть возможность мыслить, мысли масштабно!» — таков девиз легендарного бизнесмена и провокатора. По мнению миллиардера, для того чтобы стать великим, нужно отделить себя от 98 % населения, рисковать и учиться у великих. Вашему вниманию предлагается уникальная биография Трампа и редкая возможность поучиться у мастера. Из книги Вы узнаете:

Как заработать первый миллион, а затем и миллиард?

Как заключать сделки и всегда выигрывать?

О чем предпочитает молчать Дональд Трамп?

«Как правило, самый простой подход оказывается самым эффективным», — говорит легендарный бизнесмен-миллиардер и провокатор Дональд Трамп. Вырос новый президент Соединенных Штатов Америки в многодетной семье эмигрантов, учился в военной школе-интернате и уже с тех пор проявлял незаурядные лидерские качества. Яркая, эпатажная личность — он с нуля построил свою бизнес-империю, стал известен во всем мире. Был женат на знаменитых и успешных женщинах, воспитал пять детей в трех браках. Но как же он всего добился? Было ли это действительно для него так уж просто? И главное — о чем, все же, предпочитает молчать Дональд Трамп?

Полная и откровенная биография 45-ого президента США написана молодым и талантливым публицистом, специалистом-аналитиком Александром Немировым. Специально для Вас автор изучил все возможные англоязычные и русские источники; просмотрел все официальные интервью и записи неофициальных встреч.

Прочтите книгу и откройте для себя всю правду о Дональде Джоне Трампе!

Президентские выборы в Соединенных Штатах Америки всегда вызывают интерес. Но никогда результат не был столь ошеломительным. И весь мир пытается понять, что за человек сорок пятый президент Дональд Трамп?

Трамп – символ перемен к лучшему для множества американцев, впавших в тоску и утративших надежду. А для всего мира его избрание – симптом кардинальных перемен в политической жизни Запада. Но чего от него ожидать? В новой книге Леонида Млечина – описание жизни и политический портрет нового хозяина Белого дома на фоне всей истории американского президентства.

У Трампа руки развязаны. Он никому ничем не обязан. Не должен следовать каким-то догмам. И ему простят любые глупости – по крайней мере, на первых порах. У него полно восторженных поклонников, которые голосовали за него не умом, а сердцем.

Его первые решения многих испугали и удивили. Но каждый шаг нового президента продуман и подготовлен, у него есть система. Дональд Трамп уверен, что его образ непредсказуемого и опасного политика позволит запутать и запугать врагов; они занервничают, не зная, чего от него ждать, и растеряются. Он не желает играть по чужим правилам. Он создает их сам. Склонен делать большие ставки. И сражается до победы.

Когда амбициозный Дональд Трамп, впрямь как черт из табакерки, выскочил на политическую сцену Америки и заявил о своих новых амбициях стать президентом США, никто всерьез не воспринял его в оном качестве – в качестве претендента на высший должностной пост на планете, а его заявку – исключительно в качестве очередной экстраваганзы миллиардера-эксцентрика.

Эта актуальная аналитическая книга от инсайдеров политической жизни США дает казус Трампа и нынешнюю борьбу за Белый дом в контексте современной американской истории, явной и тайной, с ее главными фигурантами – президентами и кандидатами в президенты.

В сборник включены психологический детектив Эллен Макклой, классический «гангстерский» детектив Дональда Уэстлейка, а также повесть Джона Д. Макдональда, в центре внимания которой — судьба девушки, попавшей в преступную шайку.