This tale of an exotic adventure undertaken in the face of tragedy includes a revealing portrait of Conrad Aiken’s friend and protégé Malcolm Lowry.

Blomberg has loved Noni for what seems like his whole life. He loves her like he loves the sunset, like he loves the air he breathes. But beautiful, strange, impulsive Noni — who has spent years in a passionless marriage to one of Boston’s most notorious swindlers — has only a few months to live; her heart is about to give out.

Before she dies, Noni begs Blom to finance a trip to Mexico, where she can obtain a quick divorce and marry the man she loves. That man is not Blom, however, but Gil — an upstanding young gentleman who is to know nothing of Noni’s condition. With his own heart aching, Blom arranges the money, and the trio heads south on a journey that will bring them face to face with the mysteries of life and death.

Shadow si è fatto tre anni dentro. Sta per uscire ma proprio il giorno prima di tornare in libertà lo informano che sua moglie e il suo migliore amico sono morti in un misterioso incidente. Sull’aereo che lo riporta a casa, Shadow fa conoscenza con un enigmatico Mister Wednesday che gli offre di lavorare per lui. Shadow finisce per accettare: un lavoro gli risolve il problema di cosa fare della sua vita, anche se gli arriva da un vecchio bevitore di Jack Daniel’s dall’aria poco raccomandabile. Il contratto con il losco Mr Wednesday viene annaffiato da una bevuta di idromele, ma Shadow ci metterà ancora qualche tempo per capire chi siano in realtà il suo boss, i suoi compagni in affari, i suoi concorrenti, e ancora più tempo per capire in che gioco sia finito. Il vecchio baro corpulento, l’improbabile seduttore di ragazzine, il gran mangiatore e bevitore, l’uomo dall’eloquio torrenziale e dalla risata tonitruante è Odino, Votan, Grimnir, il Padre di ogni cosa, la somma divinità del pantheon nordico, arrivato in America secoli e secoli fa con una nave di vichinghi. Come lo slavo Chernobog, ridotto a vivere della pensione maturata negli anni di lavoro al macello di Chicago, come l’africano Anansi, come la celtica Easter e la mediterranea Bilqis che batte i marciapiedi di Hollywood, come tutte le divinità maggiori o minori, anche Odino tira a campare e conduce l’esistenza grama di un dio privo di adoratori, dimenticato, in un mondo che ne venera altri, più belli e nuovi. E’ per muovere battaglia contro i nuovi dèi americani, quelli dei mass-media, di Internet e delle carte di credito che Wednesday ha arruolato Shadow ed è per reclutare i compagni di lotta fra i colleghi del vecchio mondo che i due si metteranno ’on the road’ attraversando in lungo e in largo l’America più profonda, quella delle cittadine spopolate, dei motel persi nel nulla, delle riserve indiane degradate: un’America arciamericana ma al tempo stesso lontanissimada quella dei Nuovi Dèi. Alla fine di questo lungo vagabondaggio che ha tutte le caratteristiche di un viaggio iniziatico, ci sarà la battaglia di proporzioni epiche in cui si sfogherà un conflitto vecchio quanto l’uomo, una battaglia che ha per oggetto la conquista dell’anima stessa dell’America…

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)

Pete Caldecott is trying to survive in Black London without Jack Winter, her teacher and closest friend.

After Jack was turned into a demon, he went to live far out of reach...in hell.

But for Pete, surviving is no easy matter.

The Black is rife with turf wars between mages and necromancers, the witch-hunting Order of the Malleus has resurfaced, and the gods themselves seem to be at each other's throats.

Then Jack reappears, as the head of hell's army, and Pete has to choose between Jack, and her duties as a Weir—which demand she kill him to save the world from certain destruction...

What if life as you know it was a lie?

What if the world was not truly ours?

What if there were old gods dwelling in the earth beneath our feet?

And what if they came back?

From award-winning authors Kealan Patrick Burke and Harry Shannon comes a vision of the apocalypse that will make you question everything you thought you knew about the world in which we live.

Gedurende het Tweede Imperium van het grote Aardse ruimterijk wordt plotseling een ruimteschip van onbekende herkomst ontdekt dat, aan de koers te zien, afkomstig is uit de richting van ‘Murchisons Oog’. Dit betekent het allereerste contact met ‘buitenaardsen’. Murchisons Oog is de enige ster in de Kolenzaknevel die op grote afstand nog te zien is. Het is een grote, rode ster, met in een hoek een klein wit lichtend puntje, dat De Splinter in Gods Oog wordt genoemd.

Een kleine expiditie van twee schepen wordt derwaarts gestuurd en men maakt al snel contact met de vreemde Splinterbeschaving. Door gesprekken en bezichtigingen probeert de expeditie zich een betrouwbaar beeld te vormen van dit volk. maar waarom houden de vreemdelingen een aantal zaken uit alle macht verborgen? En wat is de betekenis van de vreemde Fyunch(klik)s, die de expiditieleden overal volgen? Eén ding is overduidelijk: de Splinters hopen binnenkort de mogelijkheid tot emigratie te verwerven. En dat is voor het Imperium onder deze omstandigheden een bijzonder moeilijke beslissing…

The human Imperium stands at its height of glory - thousands of worlds have been brought to heel by the conquering armies of mankind. At the peak of his powers, Warmaster Horus wields absolute control - but can even he resist the corrupting whispers of Chaos?

Andrews McMeel Publishing and Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strips and #1 best-selling author of Dilbert humor books, have agreed to publish Mr. Adams' new project called God's Debris: A Thought Experiment. God's Debris is Scott's first non-Dilbert, non-humor effort. The author describes the book as "a thought experiment wrapped in a story. It's designed to make your brain spin around inside your skull." Some content of the book is nonfiction because the opinions and philosophies of the characters might have lasting impact on the reader. Others believe it is fiction because the characters don't exist.

Imagine that you meet a very old man who - you eventually realize - knows literally everything. Imagine that he explains for you the great mysteries of life: quantum physics, evolution, God, gravity, light, psychic phenomenon, and probability -- in a way so simple, so novel and so compelling that it all fits together and makes perfect sense. What does it feel like to suddenly understand everything? God's Debris isn't the final answer to the Big Questions. But it might be the most compelling vision of reality you will ever read. The thought experiment is this: Try to figure out what's wrong with the old man's explanation of reality. Share the book with your smart friends then discuss it later while enjoying a beverage.

The book was initially offered to the public as an e-book, and the book has since become the #1 best-selling e-book on the planet. Because of the e-book offering, the Internet is buzzing with comments from the book's fans.

-- Amazon.com

Lucifer’s War, which damned legions of angels to Hell, is an ancient and bitter memory shrouded in the smoke and ash of the Inferno. The Fallen, those banished demons who escaped the full wrath of Heaven, have established a limitless and oppressive kingdom within the fiery confines of Hell. Lucifer has not been seen since the Fall and the mantle of rulership has been passed to the horrific Prince Beelzebub, the Lord of the Flies.

The Demons Major, Heaven’s former warriors, have become the ruling class. They are the equivalent to landed lords, each owing allegiance to the de facto ruler of Hell. They reign over their fiefdoms, tormenting the damned souls and adding to their wealth.

One Demon Major, however, who has not forgotten his former life in Heaven. The powerful Lord Sargatanas is restless. For millennia Sargatanas has ruled dutifully but unenthusiastically, building his city, Adamantinarx, into the model of an Infernal metropolis. But he has never forgotten what he lost in the Fall—proximity to God. He is sickened by what he has become.

Now, with a small event—a confrontation with one of the damned souls—he makes a decision that will reverberate through every being in Hell. Sargatanas decides to attempt the impossible, to rebel, to endeavor to go Home and bring with him anyone who chooses to follow… be they demon or soul. He will stake everything on this chance for redemption.

Set in a not-too-distant future, and moving between Rome and Amsterdam, God's Dog is a detective novel unlike any you have read before.

It is the eve of Pope Benedict XVIII's canonisation and Domingo Salazar, a Haitian orphan and now a Vatican secret agent, is hellbent on defeating the Angels of Death, pro-abortion and pro-euthanasia dissidents who are undermining the Pope's authority.

But as Salazar closes in on the cell he finds his life turned upside down. Suddenly it is Salazar and his closest friend Guntur who are under suspicion of sabotaging the administration. Their concept for a globalised religion called Bible-Koranism has upset the Church and they are in grave danger, as is Guntur's infamous Swahili-speaking chimpanzee Django.

God's Dog is a spoof on the absurdities of institutionalised religion that will delight aficionados of thrillers and detective novels as well as fans of Diego Marani

An enthralling tale, divided between China and America, of two friends inspired by radically opposed ideals.

This deeply felt novel tells the story of William Lane and Clem Miller, Americans who meet in China as youths at the end of the nineteenth century. Separated by the Boxer Rebellion, they’re destined to travel wildly different courses in life. From a background of wealth and privilege, William becomes a power-hungry and controlling media magnate. By contrast, Clem, whose family survived on charity growing up, is engrossed by a project — which he works on ceaselessly, perhaps naively, together with his chemist wife — to eliminate world poverty. The two wind up in America and meet again, each successful in his own area, and as similar in their intensity as they are different in their values. God’s Men is a rich and layered portrayal of lives set alight by ambition.

Sylvie Lightner is no ordinary P.I. She specializes in cases involving the unusual and unbelievable. When she finds the bodies of five women in the Florida Everglades, Sylvie believes them to be the work of a serial killer and passes the buck. But when the bodies wake and shift shape, killing the police, Sylvie finds herself at the head of a potentially lethal investigation.

This is a story told by a boy in his thirteenth year, recorded in his secret diary. His life is about to change; his world, about to open.

He lives in Montedidio — God’s Mountain — a cluster of alleys in the heart of Naples. He brings a paycheck home every Saturday from Mast’Errico’s carpentry workshop where he sweeps the floor. He is on his way to becoming a man — his boy’s voice is abandoning him. His wooden boomerang is neither toy nor tool, but something in between. Then there is Maria, the thirteen-year-old girl who lives above him and, like so many girls, is wiser than he. She carries the burden of a secret life herself. She’ll speak to him for the first time this summer. There is also his friendship with a cobbler named Rafaniello, a Jewish refugee who has escaped the horrors of the Holocaust, who has no idea how long he’s been on this earth, and who is said to sprout wings for a blessed few.

It is 1963, a young man’s summer of discovery. A time for a boy with innocent hands and a pure heart to look beyond the ordinary in everyday things to see the far-reaching landscape, and all of its possibilities, from a rooftop terrace on God’s Mountain.

[The Expanse #2.5]: The story takes place between Caliban's War and Abaddon's Gate.

Set in the hard-scrabble solar system of Leviathan Wakes and Caliban's War, Gods of Risk deepens James S. A. Corey's acclaimed Expanse series.

As tension between Mars and Earth mounts, and terrorism plagues the Martian city of Londres Nova, sixteen-year-old David Draper is fighting his own lonely war. A gifted chemist vying for a place at the university, David leads a secret life as a manufacturer for a ruthless drug dealer. When his friend Leelee goes missing, leaving signs of the dealer's involvement, David takes it upon himself to save her. But first he must shake his aunt Bobbie Draper, an ex-marine who has been set adrift in her own life after a mysterious series of events nobody is talking about.

Granta Best Young British Novelist.In Waterline, one of the most celebrated debut novels of recent years, Ross Raisin tells the story of solitary young farmer, Sam Marsdyke, and his extraordinary battle with the world.

Expelled from school and cut off from the town, mistrusted by his parents and avoided by city incomers, Marsdyke is a loner until he meets rebellious new neighbour Josephine. But what begins as a friendship and leads to thoughts of escape across the moors turns to something much, much darker with every step.

'Powerful, engrossing, extraordinary, sinister, comic. A masterful debut' Observer

'Astonishing, funny, unsettling… An unforgettable creation [whose] literary forebears include Huckleberry Finn, Holden Caulfield and Alex from A Clockwork Orange' The Times

'Remarkable, compelling, very funny and very disturbing. . like no other character in contemporary fiction' Sunday Times

Ross Raisin was born in 1979 in West Yorkshire. His first novel, God's Own Country was published in 2008 and was shortlisted for nine literary awards including the Guardian First Book Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. In 2009 Ross Raisin was named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. He lives in London.

What are the roots of today’s militant fundamentalism in the Muslim world? In this insightful and wide-ranging history, Charles Allen finds an answer in an eighteenth-century reform movement of Muhammed ibn Abd al-Wahhab and his followers—the Wahhabi—who sought the restoration of Islamic purity and declared violent jihad on all who opposed them. The Wahhabi teaching spread rapidly—first throughout the Arabian Peninsula, then to the Indian subcontinent, where a more militant expression of Wahhabism flourished. The ranks of today’s Taliban and al-Qaeda are filled with young men trained in Wahhabi theology.

God’s Terrorists sheds much-needed light on the origins of modern terrorism and shows how this dangerous ideology lives on today.

Nyx had already been to hell. One prayer more or less wouldn't make any difference...

On a ravaged, contaminated world, a centuries-old holy war rages, fought by a bloody mix of mercenaries, magicians, and conscripted soldiers. Though the origins of the war are shady and complex, there's one thing everybody agrees on--

There's not a chance in hell of ending it.

Nyx is a former government assassin who makes a living cutting off heads for cash. But when a dubious deal between her government and an alien gene pirate goes bad, Nyx's ugly past makes her the top pick for a covert recovery. The head they want her to bring home could end the war--but at what price?

The world is about to find out.

The Jedi Temple is under attack. An attempt has been made to kill Yoda. A dangerous intruder has infiltrated the Jedi.

Everybody is under suspicion, and no one is safe from harm. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn must get to the heart of the conspiracy… or watch the Temple be destroyed — from the inside.

After the devastating loss of Danny Devlin, the ECHO team regroup in Greece and prepare for the most important mission of their lives, but within minutes of their first briefing their world is once again shattered by the sniper fire of an unknown assassin who is hunting them one by one.

With time against them, they must retrieve Alexander the Great’s Codex from the Oracle’s inner sanctum and only then will they have a chance of locating the ancient Citadel and discovering its many secrets. Meanwhile, the traitors in the heart of Washington DC work ceaselessly to get what they want and depose the US President from power in the most shocking takeover in American history.

From warships in the Aegean Sea to warfare in the Malaysian jungle, and from Tokyo’s neon-lit underbelly to the casinos of Las Vegas and beyond, the team are engaged in their toughest and most challenging mission. Tested almost beyond their endurance, their struggles culminate in a savage endgame in the ancient Citadel and the arrival of a force of mysterious new warriors known only as the Guardians.

As more members of the team fall victim to the Pentagon’s hidden assassin, new faces arrive just in time to fight alongside Joe Hawke and the rest of the team in this most epic of ECHO adventures.

Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, sacrifice and revelation…

This incendiary collection of stories from acclaimed bestselling international writer Christos Tsiolkas takes you deep into worlds both strange and familiar, and characters that will never let you go.

'…there is not a more important writer working in Australia today.' AB&P

'Tsiolkas has become that rarest kind of writer in Australia, a serious literary writer who is also unputdownable, a mesmerising master of how to tell a story. He has this ability more than any other writer in the country….' Peter Craven, The Sun Herald

'The sheer energy of Tsiolkas' writing — its urgency and passion and sudden jags of tenderness — is often an end in itself: a thrilling, galvanising reminder of the capacity of fiction to speak to the world it inhabits.' James Bradley, The Monthly

A modern girl's comedic odyssey in a school filled with the descendants of Greek gods.

When Phoebe's mom returns from Greece with a new husband and moves them to an island in the Aegean, Phoebe's plans for her senior year and track season are ancient history. Now she must attend the uberexclusive academy, where admission depends on pedigree, namely, ancestry from Zeus, Hera, and other Greek gods. That's right, they're real, not myth, and their teen descendants are like the classical heroes - supersmart and superbeautiful with a few superpowers. And now they're on her track team! Armed only with her Nikes and the will to win, Phoebe races to find her place among the gods.

On the forbidding planet of Falsafah, archaeologists are on the verge of a discovery that will shake the five systems to the core. Ravana O’Brien, snatched from her friends for reasons unknown, finds herself on another wild adventure, this time in the company of two alien greys, a cake-obsessed secret agent and a mysterious little orphan boy at the centre of something very big indeed. Their journey across the deadly dry deserts of Falsafah soon becomes a struggle against homicidal giant spiders, hostile machines and a psychotic nurse, not to mention an omniscient god-like watcher who is maybe also a cat. The disturbing new leaders of the Dhusarian Church and their cyberclone monks are preparing to meet their masters and saviours. But nobody believes in prophecies anymore, do they?

Cover artwork copyright (c) Victor Habbick 2013

MWA Grandmaster Burke spins a tale replete with colorful prose and epic confrontations in his second novel to feature smalltown Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland (after Lay Down My Sword and Shield). An anonymous phone call leads Holland, a Korean vet who survived a POW camp, to the massacre and burial site of nine Thai women, a crime that brings FBI and ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) officials running. As a slew of bad guys relocated from New Orleans after Katrina grapple for advantage in new territory, mercurial killer Preacher Jack Collins finds plenty of work. Pete Flores, a possible witness to the massacre, and his girlfriend are targeted by Collins for elimination, and by the FBI for bait. Holland must protect the hapless Flores and his girl from both. Three strong female characters complement the full roster of sharply drawn lowlifes. The battle of wills and wits between Holland and Collins delivers everything Burke's fans expect.

NOMINATED FOR BOTH THE HUGO AND THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDS

WINNER OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL

“…a major achievement from a writer who is becoming one of the best sf novelists of our time.”

WASHINGTON POST

"[A] literary masterpiece… I can’t think of a better science fiction novel I’ve read in years… This novel is a masterpiece of science fiction by any meaningful standard… McDonald takes the reader to a level of immersion in the fine detail, texture, consciousness, pop culture, very being, of an extrapolated non-Western culture that is utterly awesome.”

ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION

“McDonald’s latest ranks as one of the best science fiction novels published in the United States this year.”

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

“Ian McDonald has been one of my favorite writers for some fifteen years now, and the amazing thing is, he’s getting even better.”

CORY DOCTOROW, author of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town; coeditor of boingboing.net

AUGUST 15, 2047—HAPPY HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY, INDIA

As Mother India approaches her centenary, nine people are going about their business—a gangster, a cop, his wife, a politician, a stand-up comic, a set designer, a journalist, a scientist, and a dropout. And so is Aj—the waif, the mind reader, the prophet—when she one day finds a man who wants to stay hidden.

In the next few weeks, they will all be swept together to decide the fate of the nation.

River of Gods teems with the life of a country choked with peoples, cultures, and technologies—one and a half billion people, twelve semi-independent nations, nine million gods. Ian McDonald has written the great Indian novel of the new millennium in which a war is fought, a love betrayed, and a message from a different world decoded, as the great river Ganges flows on.

RIVER OF GODS is an epic SF novel as sprawling, vibrant and colourful as the sub-continent it describes. This is an SF novel that blew apart the narrow anglo- and US-centric concerns of the genre and ushered in a new global consciousness for the genre.

By NASA’s best guess, the crew of Apollo 8 are an even money chance of dying.

A long list of things could go catastrophically wrong as they attempt to park their supersonic spacecraft into stable lunar orbit.

But they get it done, paving the way for one giant leap toward the surface.

They are the first men alive to see the far side of the Moon — the lunar face permanently turned away from Earth.

Inside the tiny capsule, astronaut Bill Anders points his camera at the lunar horizon and captures one of the most famous photographs of all time.

Our planet, lonely and fragile in the eternal darkness of space.

Lonely, but perhaps not alone.

Another photo is taken that day… one so sensitive even the NASA chiefs don’t know about it.

Sleeping Gods puts you right there on the first manned mission to the Moon.

You’ll be surprised and amazed by this alternate view of space history, a prelude to Matt Eaton’s acclaimed novel, Blank.

If you’ve pondered flying to the Moon, climb inside the capsule with the men who did it.

Then join astronaut Frank Borman on a journey even more incredible that begins shortly after splashdown.

Coming soon… Apollo 8.1 — go one step beyond Sleeping Gods on a space trip no-one was ever told about.

“Matt Eaton does not let you down with his smooth writing style.”

— Amazon reviewer

‘Just because you can’t explain it, doesn’t mean it’s a miracle.’

Religion is a controversial business in the Discworld^®. Everyone has their own opinion, and indeed their own gods. Who come in all shapes and sizes. In such a competitive environment, there is a pressing need to make one’s presence felt. And it’s certainly not remotely helpful to be reduced to be appearing in the form of a tortoise, a manifestation far below god-like status in anyone’s book. In such instances, you need an acolyte, and fast. Preferably one who won’t ask too many questions…

Annotations collected and edited by Leo Breebaart. http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/small-gods.html

The evil Dark Baron has escaped and joined forces in the far North with the Master of the Dead to theaten all of Husaquahr with enslavement. Only Joe can stop them—but Joe is no longer quite himself. In fact, he’s not sure who he is!

America's top agent, on a bizarre assassination assignment

LOST…

America's top agent, on a bizarre assassination assignment

FOUND…

Fragments of an incredible espionage plot; targets — the U.S. and Red China

REWARD…

The world in flames, or peace — depending on who won

Somewhere in Tokyo's espionage jungle, a shocking double cross warned that the plot was under way. America's supersecret espionage network, AXE, moved frantically to assign its top operative — Nick Carter — to Japan.

But agent N3 had disappeared; drugged and kidnapped through the oldest ploy of all — a beautiful woman with a body built for betrayal. And for the first time in his life, Nick Carter found himself helpless, weaponless, alone — and trapped into helping the enemy!

Archaeologist Nina Wilde's life has fallen apart. Her husband, ex-SAS soldier Eddie Chase is on the run, falsely accused of murder, and her only distraction has been investigating the origin of three strange statues stolen from her just before Eddie's disappearance. When Nina discovers they may be relics from the lost civilisation of Atlantis, it's clear that she has to get her head back in the game, and fast. Eddie, meanwhile, tries to stay ahead of the authorities as he hunts the man responsible for his fugitive status across the globe. A mysterious benefactor offers the information he needs - but the price will put him in direct conflict with his wife. When Nina learns that a Japanese industrialist has obtained the statues on the black market she immediately heads to Tokyo meet him, unaware that Eddie is already on his way. Their arrival unleashes a chain of events that could have devastating consequences for the world, setting Nina and Eddie on their most dangerous quest ever - with the future of humanity itself at stake...

On the red moon will come the firestorm . . .

Wielding the Sword of Truth, Richard Rahl has battled death itself and come to the defense of the D’Haran people. But now the power-mad Emperor Jagang confronts Richard with a swift and inexorable foe: a mystical plague cutting a deadly swath across the land and slaying thousands of innocent victims.

To quench the inferno, he must seek remedy in the wind . . .

To fight it Richard and his beloved Kahlan Amnell will risk everything to uncover the source of the terrible plague—the magic sealed away for three millennia in the Temple of the Winds.

Lightning will find him on that path . . .

But when prophecy throws the shadow of betrayal across their mission and threatens to destroy them, Richard must accept the Truth and find a way to pay the price the winds demand . . . or he and his world will perish.

Terry Goodkind, author of the brilliant bestsellers Wizard’s First Rule and Stone of Tears, has created his most masterful epic yet, a sumptuous feast of magic and excitement replete with the wonders of his unique fantasy vision.

The Jedi Temple is under attack. An attempt has been made to kill Yoda. A dangerous intruder has infiltrated the Jedi.

Everybody is under suspicion, and no one is safe from harm. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn must get to the heart of the conspiracy… or watch the Temple be destroyed—from the inside.

NSA director Theodore Anders has a simple goal: collect every phone call, email, and keystroke tapped on the Internet. He knows unlimited surveillance is the only way to keep America safe.

Evelyn Gallagher doesn’t care much about any of that. She just wants to keep her head down and manage the NSA’s camera network and facial recognition program so she can afford private school for her deaf son, Dash.

But when Evelyn discovers the existence of a program code-named God’s Eye and connects it with the mysterious deaths of a string of journalists and whistle-blowers, her doubts put her and Dash in the crosshairs of a pair of government assassins: Delgado, a sadistic bomb maker and hacker, and Manus, a damaged giant of a man who until now has cared for nothing beyond protecting the director.

Within an elaborate game of political blackmail, terrorist provocations, and White House scheming, a global war is being fought — a war between those desperate to keep the state’s darkest secrets and those intent on revealing them. A war that Evelyn will need all her espionage training and savvy to survive, because the director has the ultimate advantage: The God’s Eye View.

Beginning with John Carter's return to Barsoom (Mars) after a ten year hiatus — separated from his wife Dejah Thoris, his unborn child, and the Red Martian people of the nation of Helium, whom he has adopted as his own — John Carter materializes in the one place on Barsoom from which nobody is allowed to depart: the Valley Dor, the Barsoomian heaven.

Only a few know the terrifying truth—an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun. They know the truth—but who will listen? They have foreseen the cost of abundant energy—but who will believe? These few beings, human and alien, hold the key to the Earth’s survival.

Это первая полная история корпорации Intel, рассказанная через описание жизненных путей трех самых важных для нее фигур.

Это человеческая история о том, как каждый из этой троицы привнес в компанию то, без чего Intel никогда не стала бы самой влиятельной в мире компанией и не сделала бы возможными такие привычные вещи вроде персонального компьютера, Интернета и телекоммуникаций.

Нойс дал компании деньги и надежность, Мур сделал ее технологическим лидером, а Гроув привел на вершину успеха.

Книга уникальна тем, что построена на документах из корпоративного архива компании.

The incredible conclusion to the Inheritance Trilogy, from one of fantasy’s most acclaimed stars.

For two thousand years the Arameri family has ruled the world by enslaving the very gods that created mortalkind. Now the gods are free, and the Arameri’s ruthless grip is slipping. Yet they are all that stands between peace and world-spanning, unending war.

Shahar, last scion of the family, must choose her loyalties. She yearns to trust Sieh, the godling she loves. Yet her duty as Arameri heir is to uphold the family’s interests, even if that means using and destroying everyone she cares for.

As long-suppressed rage and terrible new magics consume the world, the Maelstrom—which even gods fear—is summoned forth. Shahar and Sieh: mortal and god, lovers and enemies. Can they stand together against the chaos that threatens?

The bodies of two murdered Israelis have turned up, hacked to bits and the pieces arranged in a bloody swastika - and Remo and Chiun are on their way to meet the leaders of an Israeli doomsday group, Zeher Lahurban. In the event of Israel losing the war with the Arabs, secretly stored atom bombs will drop on Arab territory. But a group of ex-Nazis discover the plan, and see a way to destroy the Jewish nation once and for all - without any help from the Arabs. Remo and Chiun are up against fanatics with long memories, who are keeping Hitler's schemes alive in their twisted minds.

In the year 3016, the Second Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to the faster-than-light Alderson Drive. No other intelligent beings have ever been encountered, not until a light sail probe enters a human system carrying a dead alien. The probe is traced to the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud, and an expedition is dispatched.

In the Mote the humans find an ancient civilization—at least one million years old—that has always been bottled up in their cloistered solar system for lack of a star drive. The Moties are welcoming and kind, yet rather evasive about certain aspects of their society. It seems the Moties have a dark problem, one they’ve been unable to solve in over a million years.

This is the first collaboration between Niven and Pournelle, two masters of hard science fiction, and it combines Pournelle’s interest in the military and sociology with Niven’s talent for creating interesting, believable aliens. The novel meticulously examines every aspect of First Contact, from the Moties’ biology, society, and art, to the effects of the meeting on humanity’s economics, politics, and religions. And all the while suspense builds as we watch the humans struggle toward the truth.

One of the world's holiest sites hides a secret worth killing for…

Thomas Lourds, the world's foremost scholar of ancient languages, is contacted by an old friend, Dr Lev Strauss. A long lost ancient scripture has been discovered which holds the key to one of the world's greatest treasures, hidden under the legendary Temple Mount. Lourds rushes to Jerusalem to inspect Strauss's find.

But on arrival, he learns his friend has been murdered. The book has vanished. Lourds knows he must uncover the murderer and track down the missing manuscript. Because this ancient artefact contains a hidden code. A code that will give its solver access to a formidable and frightening power.

The fate of humankind rests in Lourds hands. But time is not on his side…

A sinister force, long thought destroyed, stirs in the land. As a she-demon bent on wreaking worldwide havoc struggles to escape her prison and a foul demigod plots to bend her to his will, a band of desperate heroes must infiltrate the very heart of darkness in a daring attempt to stop them both.

A mystery wrapped in a myth about the origins of humanity.

A race to find an ancient pyramid hidden in plain sight.

A secret so dangerous its guardians will kill to protect it.

And an ancient covenant that might save the world, or destroy it completely.

In 1655 a group of explorers from the Emerald Star entered the Namibian Desert in search of an ancient relic rumored to be hidden in a secret temple. None of the crew ever returned — but stories of their mysterious demise continued to be told.

In the present-day Turkish subterranean city of Derinkuyu, a strange wooden placard is discovered floating in an old well. It’s covered in the script of a language long forgotten, but Sam Reilly has seen the text before. The words suggest an ancient race might still exist, and are in the process of building a new temple.

The question is — is it the same temple where Dr. Billie Swan is being held prisoner?

Book 4 in the Matt Drake series. These books should be read in order.

'Either heroes will rise to save the world or villains will end it…'

In the epic conclusion of the initial 4 part series Matt Drake races against time to prevent Odin's horrifying doomsday device from being unleashed upon the world, igniting a blazing trail of destruction as he chases madmen and traitors across the globe.

The Weapons of the Gods were stolen from the countless tombs that Drake and his team uncovered; then sold on, coveted and killed for. Now, the new promise of their combined power has unleashed a formidable force who will stop at nothing to own them all.

Thrown into the new quest against their will, Team Spear face incredible odds — they are being hunted by their own government whilst trying to weed out highly placed traitors, and stop global mercenary and terrorist forces from causing worldwide mayhem.

The team battle from Texas to Greece, from deserted islands to London, from Syria to Washington DC, as they identify the traitors that disavowed them and join an incredible, once-in-a-lifetime battle where a force made up of hundreds of elite Special Forces soldiers takes on a vast army of terrorists in Syria.

While the Gods Were Sleeping is a novel about the magnitude and impact of the First World War, the recollections of which are recorded in the notebooks of the elderly Helena. The young Helena is sent to her uncle’s country house before the war, and from here she witnesses scenes of indescribable horror. But it is also where she meets Matthew again, a British Army photographer who she goes on to marry. This is a story not about spectacular events; rather, Mortier is concerned with writing about war, history and the past with great empathy and engagement, and with a mixture of melancholy, qualification and resignation.

For fans of Alexander McCall Smith, a debut mystery set in West Africa that introduces a marvelous detective and a culturally rich community

Detective Inspector Darko Dawson, a good family man and a remarkably intuitive sleuth, is sent to the village of Ketanu – the site of his mother's disappearance many years ago – to solve the murder of an accomplished young AIDS worker.

While battling his own anger issues and concerns for his ailing son, Darko explores the motivations and secrets of the residents of Ketanu. It soon becomes clear that in addition to solving a recent murder, he is about to unravel the shocking truth about his mother's disappearance.

Kwei Quartey's sparkling debut novel introduces readers to a rich cast of characters, including the Trokosi – young women called Wives of the Gods – who, in order to bring good fortune to their families, are sent to live with fetish priests. Set in Ghana, with the action moving back and forth between the capital city of Accra and a small village in the Volta Region, Wife of the Gods brings the culture and beauty of its setting brilliantly to life.

Искусство сплетено из загадок, красоты и тысячелетних знаний. Карта к этим сокровищам прямо сейчас лежит у вас в руках. Книга «Влюбиться в искусство: от Рембрандта до Энди Уорхола» — это гид по миру выдающихся творцов. Как жили великие художники? Что трогало их сердца? Какие испытания оттачивали талант? Ответы есть в издании. Его автор — искусствовед, основатель Школы популярного искусства @OP_POP_ART Анастасия Постригай. На арт-вечерах, онлайн-лекциях и в соцсетях Анастасия доступным языком рассказывает об искусстве, увлекая темой десятки тысяч учеников по всему миру. Книга не утяжелена терминами и запутанными определениями. Анастасия помогает понять произведения через биографии авторов. Глава за главой вы будете чувствовать, будто шагаете рядом с именитыми художниками и видите, как рождаются легендарные произведения.

Иллюстрации удалены по требованию правообладателя.

Энди Уорхол вел эти дневники с ноября 1976 до февраля 1987 года вплоть до последней недели своей жизни, когда по неизвестным причинам он скончался в Нью-Йоркской больнице после операции. На протяжении десяти лет Уорхол делился впечатлениями о светских вечеринках и ночных походах в «Студию 54», поездках в Лондон, Париж и Лос-Анджелес, а также сообщал Дневнику обо всех своих расходах за день, начиная с оплаты такси и заканчивая стоимостью звонка из уличного телефона-автомата.

Рассказанные в неповторимой манере культового художника истории о встречах с Труменом Капоте, Лайзой Минелли, Миком Джаггером, The Velvet Underground, Жан-Мишелем Баския, Джимом Моррисоном, Мохаммедом Али, Йоко Оно, записанные и отобранные Пэт Хэкетт, превращают эти дневники в одну из самых гламурных, остроумных и откровенных книг ХХ века.

В новой антологии собраны тридцать пять классических и современных историй о вампирах, принадлежащих перу таких известных авторов, как Клайв Баркер, Роберт Блох, Нил Гейман, Тацит Ли, Ким Ньюмен, Кристофер Фаулер, Брайан Ламли и других.

Загадочные, жестокие, аристократичные, сексуальные, бесстрастные, как сама смерть, и способные па самую жгучую страсть, – вампиры уже не первое столетие остаются притягательной и модной темой мировой литературы и кинематографа.

Исторгнутые извечной тьмой или порожденные человеческими суевериями; исчадия зла или жертвы рокового недуга; звероподобные кровопийцы или утонченные ценители алого вина жизни – вампиры обязательно завладеют если не вашей кровью, то неотступным вниманием.

Эта книга не просто очередное биографическое исследование великих лидеров бизнеса. Авторы долгое время изучали и анализировали стратегические решения Гроува, Гейтса и Джобса, чтобы выделить пять стратегических правил, которые могут применяться руководителем любой компании для достижения долгосрочных целей. Их книга легко и доступно рассказывает о том, как Гейтс, Гроув и Джобс стали великими стратегами.

На русском языке публикуется впервые.

Тряпичный Энди – добрый друг Тряпичной Энн, живущий в детской девочки Марселлы. Как только Энди появился, куклы сразу полюбили его за широкую улыбку и весёлый нрав. А кто ещё мог придумать сделать конфеты для детей или кататься со свистом по водосточному жёлобу? Только замечательный тряпичный мальчишка, который всё превращает в интересную игру. И даже Пасхальный кролик пригласил Энди и кукол в гости, чтобы они увидели настоящие чудеса. А как волновались игрушки, когда Тряпичный Энди застрял в водосточной трубе!

У неё нет крыльев, но она бы очень хотела их иметь.

У него нет представления о собственном будущем, но он очень хотел бы его знать.

А третий, прибившийся к ним по пути — простой бродяжка, которому и в голову не придёт задумываться о том, «а чего же, собственно, мне не хватает?»

Весёленькая подобралась компания, ничего не скажешь… И все трое ищут очень могущественный древний артефакт…

Кто всегда готов прийти на помощь друзьям? Конечно, Тряпичный Энди – выдумщик, весельчак, добрый друг Тряпичной Энн и всех кукол в детской девочки Марселлы. Если у какой-то игрушки случилась неприятность, Энди найдёт выход. И даже потеряв половину улыбки, тряпичный мальчишка не расстроится, а останется таким же неунывающим. Поэтому у него появляются всё новые и новые друзья. И деревянная Лошадка, и поющая ракушка рассказывают Энди свои истории, и сам Санта-Клаус помогает ему.

Книга самого известного американского художника-авангардиста, суперзвезды андеграунда 60-70х годов, в которой он размышляет о себе, своем искусстве, о простых и сложных жизненных проблемах, о людях и вещах, окружавших его.

В настоящей книге собрано более тридцати интервью Энди Уорхола (1928–1987), разделенных по трем периодам: 60-е, 70-е, 80-е. Изобретательность Уорхола в интервью обычно оставалась в рамках формата «вопрос-ответ», но намекала, что это лишь формат, и давала интервьюеру право его разрушить. Своими вроде бы банальными ответами художник создавал простор для творческих способностей интервьюера, поощряя их еще больше, когда менялся с интервьюером местами или как-то иначе размывал роли интервьюера и интервьюируемого.

Можно ли считать эти интервью искусством? Если рассмотреть их в широком контексте, на фоне всего корпуса творчества Энди Уорхола во всех техниках и видах искусства, то, по мнению составителей этого сборника, придется ответить: «Можно».