Gollancz An American Story Прист Кристофер

Гильдия Берущих научила Кинча На Шаннака вскрывать замки, биться на ножах, лазать по стенам, грациозно падать, убедительно врать, ставить ловушки… даже паре волшебных фокусов! Словом, всему, что должен знать уважающий себя вор. И за это он остался должен им кругленькую сумму. Чтобы собрать деньги, он решил грабить путников на большой дороге • Но сегодня Кинч На Шаннак выбрал не ту мишень • Ведь Гальва – рыцарь, ветеран кровопролитных гоблинских войн и служанка богини смерти. И она путешествует по важному поручению: она ищет королеву, пропавшую с тех пор, как гиганты захватили отдалённый город на севере • «Вор с чёрным языком» – первая книга из цикла Кристофера Бьюлмана «Черноязыкий» • Книга на английском языке • Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which includes (but is not limited to) lock-picking, knife-fighting, wall-scaling, fall-breaking, lie-weaving, trap-making, plus a few small magics

Harper Connelly was struck by lightning as a teenager - now she can find dead people and uses her special talent to make a living. Hired to locate a missing boy, Harper and her stepbrother Tolliver head to Doraville, North Carolina. But the truth is far worse than they feared. Numerous teenaged boys have disappeared from Doraville over the years. All unlikely runaways. All calling for Harper • She soon finds them - eight bodies, buried in the half-frozen ground. All Harper wants is to collect her fee and leave town before she's caught in the media storm. But then she's attacked, and learns far more than she cares to about the long-hidden secrets of Doraville • Knowledge that makes her next in line to end up in an ice-cold grave

A collection of the best of Christopher Priest's short fiction, spanning four decades of eerie, affecting, emotional work • Christopher Priest is one of the most acclaimed writers of both SF and literary fiction at work today. Here, for the first time in almost twenty years, is a collection of his short work. Largely previously uncollected, ranging from the horrific to the touching, the science fictional to the realist, these stories are a perfect demonstration of the breadth and power of Priest's writing • Eleven stories are included, along with commentary and reflection from the author

Riverman: An American Odyssey uncovers the story of an extraordinary man and his puzzling disappearance, and paints a picture of the singular spirit of America’s riverbank towns • On his forty-third birthday, Dick Conant, a golden boy who never quite grew up as those around him expected, stepped into a homemade boat to embark on a journey despite a gathering snowstorm. Among his possessions was a Gideon Bible and biographies of Einstein and Bismark. It was the beginning of an all-consuming odyssey by an unconventional man into the watery arteries of America, a journey to the unreported margins of society. He was to spend the next twenty years canoeing thousands of miles of rivers and their innumerable smaller tributaries, from one end of the country to the other

A classic story of trying circumstances and enduring hope, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is an eloquentaccount of the young man's life under slavery and his eventual escape. Written as an attempt to enhance his abolitionist credentials, it became the best-selling fugitive slave narrative of the era. This autobiography is a powerful reminder of the brutality of slavery and the terrors African-Americans were forced to endure

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of the American Dream. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. Until one day they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Devastated and unmoored, Celestial finds herself struggling to hold on to the love that has been her centre, taking comfort in Andre, their closest friend. When Roy's conviction is suddenly overturned, he returns home ready to resume their life together. A masterpiece of storytelling, An American Marriage offers a profoundly insightful look into the hearts and minds of three unforgettable characters who are at once bound together and separated by forces beyond their control

As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. One part Nietzsche, one part de Sade, and one part Charlie Parker, An American Dream grabs the reader by the throat and refuses to let go

Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape — монография американского живописца Эдварда Хоппера, охватывающая годы, проведённые им в окрестностях Глостера, штат Массачусетс. Начиная с 1923 года Хоппер проводит здесь лето, посещает полуос

Действие романа происходит в Англии во второй половине XIX века. В центре повествования - соперничество двух успешных иллюзионистов. Профессиональная ревность вынуждает мастеров поступиться моралью, а одержимость сценическим искусством подводит их к гибельной черте:Роман Престиж был написан известным английским прозаиком Кристофером Пристом в 1995 году и удостоился Всемирной премии фэнтези и британской литературной награды - Мемориальной премии Джеймса Тейта Блэка. В 2006 году Кристофер Нолан снял одноимённый фильм, и эта блестящая экранизация вызвала неподдельный интерес зрителей к захватывающему интеллектуальному детективу и фантастической драме Приста. Текст сокращён и адаптирован. Уровень Upper-Intermediate

"This is a story of light and dark." • Against a lush backdrop of lichen-covered trees, the peppered moth lies hidden. Until the world begins to change • A clever picture book text about the extraordinary way in which animals have evolved, intertwined with the complication of human intervention. This remarkable paperback edition of the amazing story of the peppered moth is the perfect introduction to natural selection and evolution for children • Along come people with their magnificent machines which stain the land with soot. In a beautiful landscape changed by humans how will one little moth survive? • Powerful and visually spectacular, Moth is the remarkable evolution story that captures the struggle of animal survival against the background of an evolving human world in a unique and atmospheric introduction to Darwin's theory of Natural Selection

In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued—through the tenure of ten American presidents and the fifty-year rule of Fidel Castro. His death in 2016, and the retirement of his brother and successor Raul Castro in 2021, have spurred questions about the country’s future. Meanwhile, politics in Washington—Barack Obama’s opening to the island, Donald Trump’s reversal of that policy, and the election of Joe Biden—have made the relationship between the two nations a subject of debate once more. Now, award-winning historian Ada Ferrer delivers an “important” (The Guardian) and moving chronicle that demands a new reckoning with both the island’s past and its relationship with the United States

A new edition of the classic African American autobiography, now with with the inclusion of Douglass's other works • The pre-eminent American slave narrative published in 1845, the Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838: how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man who could only live free or die • Also included in this edition are Douglass's famous oration The Meaning of the Fourth of July to the Negro and his only known work of fiction, the novella The Heroic Slave • Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in 1818 in Tuckahoe, Maryland