Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers...
The only daughter of a European banking dynasty, Raphaella had always been sheltered from the world. Married to a much older American, she was kept in the privacy of great luxury, tended to by servants, watched over...
Examines the notorious Russian ruler`s background and accomplishments, details the armed conflicts during his reign, and scrutinizes his transformation of medieval Russia into modern Russia
Photographers Life: 1990-2005 PB
I don`t have two lives, Annie Leibovitz writes in the Introduction to this collection of her work from 1990-2005. This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it. Portraits of...
Spanning the vast diversity of Earth`s oceans, these fascinating ocean worlds occupy more than three quarters of our planet, and their natural richness is the source of life, yet they are still poorly understood. With...
Vonnegut`s spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines.
Pnin is a professor of Russian at an American college who takes the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he cannot master. Pnin is a tireless lover who writes to his treacherous Liza: "A genius needs to keep...
This volume in the exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare features: vivid, readable introduction for each poem by noted scholar David Bevington, modern spelling and punctuation, comprehensive text...
Point of Impact - Shooter (film tie-in)
Twenty years after he earned a reputation for killing eighty-seven men during the Vietnam War, Bob Lee Swagger finds that his skills are in demand when an organization with ties to the CIA hires him for a particularly...
All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire’s richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of summer. The world’s largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The...
This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth. A timeless novel as urgently compelling as War Day or Alas, Babylon, David Brin`s The Postman is the dramatically moving saga of a man who...
Exposing high-level governmental corruption, conspiracy, and murder has garnered plenty of attention for Christian Gillette, the young dynamo chairman of the famous New York private equity firm Everest Capital. Now...
It is the year 12,020 G. E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here is the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of...
This story set during the infamous McCarthy era revolves around the son of an American government official who is discovered to be a Russian spy. Readers follow the father and son over 20 years in an ordeal that...
Young architect Michael Hillyard and artist Nancy McAllister are determined to get married despite his wealthy mother`s disapproval. Then, minutes before their wedding, a terrifying accident and a cruel deception...
Provence A-Z: Francophiles Essential Handbook TPB
The ultimate dictionary for lovers of Provence: Peter Mayle`s personal selection of the foods, customs and words he finds most fascinating, curious, delicious, or just plain fun. Though organized from A to Z, this is...
Putin`s Labyrinth: Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia
In Putin’s Labyrinth, acclaimed journalist Steve LeVine, who lived in and reported from the former Soviet Union for more than a decade, provides a gripping account of modern Russia. President Dmitri Medvedev and...
George Bernard Shaw was the greatest British dramatist after Shakespeare, a satirist equal to Jonathan Swift and a playwright whose most profound gift was his ability to make audiences think by provoking them to...
Queens Man: Medieval Mystery (MM)
Epiphany, 1193. Eleanor of Aquitaine sits upon England`s throne. Her beloved son Richard Lionheart is missing, presumed dead - and the court whispers that her younger son, John, is plotting to seize the crown....
Middle-aged Harry Angstrom, chief sales representative of a Toyota dealership, copes with inflation, governmental ineffectiveness, the return of his prodigal son, and a chance encounter with an old girlfriend, in...
The first and second novels in John Updike`s acclaimed quartet of Rabbit books-now in one marvelous volume. RABBIT, RUN Brilliant and By his compassion, clarity of insight, and crystal-bright prose, [Updike] makes...
HE'S A YOUNG LAWYER WHO DOES YARD WORK IN EXCHANGE FOR RENT. THEN ONE LITTLE CASE BEGINS TO It's summer in Memphis. The sweat is sticking to Rudy Baylor's shirt and creditors are nipping at his heels....
Во время мистического путешествия по далекому космосу массивный немецкий звездолет несет своих пассажиров к концу одиссеи длиной в несколько поколений. Великий эксперимент провалился, Рама III стал межпространственной...
