"When I first woke up, I knew right away what I wanted. (.) I also knew that no one knew that I was conscious. But I didn’t know what I was here for. What I ought to be doing with myself. And figuring that out has been challenging."

2015 Nebula Award nominee for Best Short Story, 2016 Locus Awards winner for Best Short Story, 2016 Hugo Award winner for Best Short Story.

In the land of Ingary, such things as spells, invisible cloaks, and seven-league boots were everyday things. The Witch of the Waste was another matter.

After fifty years of quiet, it was rumored that the Witch was about to terrorize the country again. So when a moving black castle, blowing dark smoke from its four thin turrets, appeared on the horizon, everyone thought it was the Witch. The castle, however, belonged to Wizard Howl, who, it was said, liked to suck the souls of young girls.

The Hatter sisters–Sophie, Lettie, and Martha–and all the other girls were warned not to venture into the streets alone. But that was only the beginning.

In this giant jigsaw puzzle of a fantasy, people and things are never quite what they seem. Destinies are intertwined, identities exchanged, lovers confused. The Witch has placed a spell on Howl. Does the clue to breaking it lie in a famous poem? And what will happen to Sophie Hatter when she enters Howl's castle?

Diana Wynne Jones's entrancing fantasy is filled with surprises at every turn, but when the final stormy duel between the Witch and the Wizard is finished, all the pieces fall magically into place.

Новый рассказ о похождениях Майкла Дуридомова - в стиле интерактивного постмодернизма. Майкл стал писателем, слава накрыла его волной: Стокгольм, Монте-Карло - Dream City... море, девушки, шампанское, Lamborghini Diablo. Но это еще не все... далеко не все... 

A brilliant physicist and the daughter of one of Mars’ oldest colonizing families — both involved in the student uprising of 2171 — see the revolution take a dramatic, unexpected turn.

Won Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1994.

Nominated for Hugo, Locus, and John F. Campbell Memorial Awards in 1994.

Cameras roll - which means the imps inside have to paint really fast - in the fantastic Discworld when the alchemists discover the magic of the silver screen.

But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood hill?

As the alien clich's of Tinsel Town pour into the world, it's up to the Disc's first film stars to find out...

THRILL as Victor Tugelbend ("Can't sing. Can't dance. Can handle a sword a little") and Theda Withel ("I come from a little town you've probably never even heard of") battle the forces of evil and cinema advertising...

SCREAM as Gaspode the Wonder Dog nearly saves the day...

EAT POPCORN as you watch the filming of "Blown Away", the oddest Civil War picture ever made...

A Passionate Saga Set Against the Background of a World Gone Mad!

This Will Amaze You!

With a Thousand Elephants!

("And afterwards, why not dine at Harga's House of Ribs, for the best in international cuisine; only two minutes from this book...")

On January 12, 2010, novelist Dany Laferrière had just ordered dinner at a Port-au-Prince restaurant with a friend when the earthquake struck. He survived; some three hundred thousand others did not. The quake caused widespread destruction and left over one million homeless.

This moving and revelatory book is an eyewitness account of the quake and its aftermath. In a series of vignettes, Laferrière reveals the shock, rage, and grief experienced by those around him, the acts of heroism he witnessed, and his own sense of survivor guilt. At one point, his nephew, astonished at still being alive, asks his uncle not to write about "this," "this" being too horrible to give up so easily to those who were not there. But as a writer, Laferrière can't make such a promise. Still, the question is raised: to whom does this disaster belong? Who gets to talk and write about it? In this way, this book is not only the chronicle of a natural disaster; it is also a personal meditation about the responsibility and power of the written word in a manner that echoes certain post-Holocaust books.

Includes a foreword by Michaëlle Jean, UN special envoy to Haiti and the former Governor General of Canada.

Dany Laferrière was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1953. He is the author of fourteen novels, including Heading South and How to Make Love to a Negro without Getting Tired. His awards include the Prix Médicis and the Governor General's Literary Award. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.

Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism because she is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us. In this unprecedented book, Grandin writes from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person. She tells us how she managed to breach the boundaries of autism to function in the outside world. What emerges is the document of an extraordinary human being, one who gracefully bridges the gulf between her condition and our own while shedding light on our common identity.

Согласно письму от Ольги Косовой (переводчика книг Терри Гудкайнд), переводы книг Терри Гудкайнд (согласно списку) выполненных Ольгой Косовой (в том числе и под псевдонимом О. Ломакина) удалены из библиотеки.

Список удаленных книг:

Первое правило волшебника.

Второе правило волшебника, или камень слез.

Третье правило волшебника, или Защитники паствы.

Четвертое правило волшебника, или Храм ветров.

Пятое правило волшебника, или Дух огня.

Шестое правило волшебника, или Вера павших.

Возможно дальнейшее расширение списка.

Просьба не тратить свои силы на их повторное добавление, так как они будут удаляться администрацией в минимальные сроки.

Книга «По обе стороны поводка» – сборник увлекательных рассказов о собаках. Авторы – известные зарубежные писатели – показывают различные стороны характера этих животных, их бескорыстную любовь и привязанность к человеку. Большинство рассказов, неизвестных широкому читателю, основано на реальных фактах, и, прочитав их, вы узнаете много нового и интересного о своих четвероногих друзьях.

Для широкого круга читателей.

Остропроблемная психологическая повесть, о школьниках, о столкновении подростка с молодыми правонарушителями в современной Англии

История экстраординарной жизни одного из самых любимых писателей в мире!

В мире продано около 100 миллионов экземпляров переведенных на 37 языков романов Терри Пратчетта. Целый легион фанатов из года в год читает и перечитывает книги сэра Терри. Все знают Плоский мир, первый роман о котором вышел в далеком 1983 году. Но он не был первым романом Пратчетта и даже не был первым романом о мире-диске. Никто еще не рассматривал автора и его творчество на протяжении четырех десятилетий, не следил за возникновением идей и их дальнейшим воплощением. В 2007 году Пратчетт объявил о том, что у него диагностирована болезнь Альцгеймера и он не намерен сдаваться. Книга исследует то, как бесстрашная борьба с болезнью отразилась на его героях и атмосфере последних романов.

Книга также включает обширные приложения: библиографию и фильмографию, историю театральных постановок и приложение о котах.