Безумная звезда = The Light Fantastic

Читателям предлагаются неадаптированный оригинальный текст и классический перевод второй книги Терри Пратчетта из цикла о Плоском мире. Волшебнику-недоучке Ринсвинду и его наивному другу Двацветку предстоит спасать мир, который вот-вот погубит огромная звезда. И хотя за это же дело берутся лучшие маги, Ринсвинду все равно не избежать приключений, опасностей и необходимости быть героем • Чтение произведения в оригинале позволит значительно усовершенствовать знание английского, а перевод на русский язык поможет разрешить возникающие по ходу чтения вопросы и трудности. Для углубления знаний английского и облегчения понимания текста в конце книги предлагаются упражнения • Книга будет интересна и полезна всем, кто знает и изучает английский язык с преподавателем или самостоятельно

«Что будем делать? – осведомился Двацветок • – Паниковать? – с надеждой предложил Ринсвинд • Он всегда утверждал, что паника – лучшее средство выживания» • Он висел над пропастями, бежал от злобных богов и падал с Края Плоского мира. Но ничто не в силах погубить славного Ринсвинда, самого неумелого и трусливого волшебника на Плоском мире. Также в ролях: Двацветок (турист), Октаво (волшебная книга заклинаний), Сундук (сундук), Коэн (варвар), друиды, герои и прочие обитатели Плоского мира • «Безумная звезда», роман из цикла «Плоский мир» одного из самых ярких писателей жанра фэнтези, Терри Пратчетта, станет великолепным подарком для поклонников творчества автора • Роман продолжает серию книг о Ринсвинде • Книга на английском языке • The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is

In this bold and brilliant work from the award-winning author of The Nine-Chambered Heart, journeys across continents and centuries intertwine in a multi-layered saga that unfolds through the lives of four unique characters • For Shai, lost and drifting, a visit to her hometown in India’s Northeast offers the possibility of new ways of living • For Evelyn, a Cambridge student, scientific inspiration guides her to the forests of the lower Himalayas and a world she has only read about • For Johann, a German writer, travelling through Italy inspires him to develop ground-breaking ideas that will cement his place in history • And for a young Swede, an unwavering curiosity for earth’s natural wonders takes him on an expedition that will forever alter the way we understand the world around us

Он висел над пропастями, бежал от злобных богов и падал с Края Плоского мира. Но ничто не в силах погубить славного Ринсвинда, самого неумелого и трусливого волшебника Диска. Также в ролях: Двацветок (турист), Октаво(волшебная книга Заклинаний), Сундук(сундук), Коэн(варвар), друиды, герои и прочие обитатели Плоского мира

The Light Seer`s Tarot («Таро Светлого провидца») — супербестселлер среди современных колод Таро, завоевавший сердца тысяч людей по всему миру. Эта яркая позитивная колода художницы и дизайнера Крис-Энн сочетает в себе традиционные архетипы и символизм Таро с современным интуитивным подходом к работе с картами и рассказывает о светлых и темных сторонах нашей натуры и жизненных уроках, которые нам предстоят • Компактное, но емкое руководство к колоде включает в себя правила работы с колодой, основные расклады, а также значения всех 78 карт в прямых и перевернутых положениях и авторские аффирмации к каждой карте • Крис-Энн — создательница колод, дизайнер и волшебница, а также автор маркетинговых стратегий и владелица Pixelbrand, компании, занимающейся разработкой брендов и дизайном

Her life. Her learnings. Her toolkit to live boldly • How do we build enduring and honest relationships? • How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? • What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much? • Michelle Obama believes that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress • In The Light We Carry, the former First Lady shares her practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world. A mother, daughter, spouse and friend, she shares fresh stories, her insightful reflections on change and the earned wisdom that helps her continue to "become." With her trademark humour, candour, and compassion, she also explores issues connected to race, gender, and visibility, encouraging readers to work through fear, find strength in community, and live with boldness

A family scattered • Lovers torn apart • A painting that unites them all • When Jozef is commissioned to paint a portrait of the younger daughter of Krakow’s grand Oderfeldt family, it is only his desperate need for money that drives him to accept. He has no wish to indulge a pampered child-princess or her haughty, condescending parents – and almost doesn’t notice Alicia’s bookish older sister, Karolina • But when he is ushered by a servant into their house on Krakow’s fashionable Bernadynska street in the winter of 1937, he has no inkling of the way his life will become entangled with the Oderfeldts'. Or of the impact that the German invasion will have upon them all • As Poland is engulfed by war, and Jozef’s painting is caught up in the tides of history, Alicia, Karolina and their parents are forced to flee – their Jewish identity transformed into something dangerous, and their comfortable lives overturned … • Spanning countries and decades The Light at the End of the Day is a heart-breaking novel of exile, survival and how we remember what is lost

One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unravelling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London home. He struggles to place the dishevelled figure carrying a backpack, until he recognizes a friend from his student days, a brilliant man who disappeared years earlier under mysterious circumstances. The friend has resurfaced to make a confession of unsettling power • Theirs is the age-old story of the bond between two men and the betrayal of one by the other. As the friends begin to talk, and as their room becomes a world, a journey begins that is by turns exhilarating, shocking, intimate and strange. Set against the breaking of nations and beneath the clouds of economic crisis, and moving between Kabul, New York, Oxford, London and Islamabad, In the Light of What We Know tells the story of people wrestling with unshakeable legacies of class and culture, and pushes at the great questions of love, origins, science, faith and war

From the award-winning author of The Apothecary's Daughter comes The Fading of the Light, the next book in the Spindrift Trilogy - a beautifully evocative, family drama, perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore, Lucinda Riley and Elizabeth Jane Howard's Cazalet Chronicles • 1902. Spindrift House, Cornwall • Edith Fairchild, deserted by her feckless husband Benedict eight years before, has established the thriving Spindrift artists' community by the sea and found deep and lasting love with Pascal. They have accepted that they cannot marry, but when Benedict returns unexpectedly to Spindrift House, all Edith and Pascal's secret hopes and dreams of a joyous life together are overturned • Benedict's arrival shatters the peaceful and creative atmosphere of the close-knit community

1914 Spindrift House, Cornwall • Edith Fairchild's good-for-nothing husband, Benedict, deserted her when their children were babies. Now the children are almost adult, Edith and Pascal, her faithful lover of two decades, are planning to leave their beloved Spindrift artists' community and finally be together • But an explosive encounter between Benedict and Pascal forces old secrets into the light, causing rifts in the happiness and security of the community. Then an assassin's bullet fired in faraway Sarajevo sets in motion a chain of events that changes everything • Under the shadow of war, the community struggles to eke out a living. The younger generation enlist or volunteer to support the war effort, facing dangers that seemed unimaginable in the golden summer of 1914

Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, having lost his job after corporate downsizing and on the cusp of sixty, he finds himself scrambling to somehow stay afloat in the only Los Angeles work on offer to a man his age - driving for Uber • When one of his rides, a retired professor named Elise, asks to be dropped off outside an abortion clinic where she now volunteers, Brendan finds himself driving right into the virulent epicentre of one of the major issues of our time, engulfing his life in the process • A novel of high suspense and considerable moral complexity, Afraid of the Light is a tough, affecting social thriller that speaks volumes about the corrosive divisions of our troubled times

On a cold but dazzling November morning George Webb, a former policeman turned private detective, prepares to visit Sarah, a prisoner and the woman he loves. As he goes about the business of the day he relives the catastrophic events of two years ago that have both bound them together and kept them apart • Making atmospheric use of its suburban setting and shot through with a plain man’s unwitting poetry and rueful humour, The Light of Day is a powerful and moving tale of murder, redemption and of the discovery, for better or worse, of the hidden forces inside us