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Название: Myth-ion Improbable
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2002
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Apprentice magician Skeeve, his scaly mentor Aahz and beautiful ex-assassin Tanda are back — and this time they're treasure hunting in a dimension that combines the Wild West with the vampire-cursed hills of Transylvania — where gold is common as dirt, and danger lurks behind every sagebrush.
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2002
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Asprin's series continues with two classic Myth novels in this omnibus edition. In «M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Action, « Skeeve asks two bumbling bodyguards to join the army of Possiltum. And in «Sweet Myth-Tery of Life, « well-meaning Skeeve is drowning in a sea of romance. But only one of his nubile suitors can assure his future--and maybe keep him alive.
Название: Something M: Y. T. H. Inc
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2003
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Revolution is in the air. The king's court sorcerer is being eyed with suspicion. Not for dabbling in the black arts...not for consorting with a demon...not for having a dragon as a pet...not even for being mobbed up. But for the greatest crime of all: raising taxes. Who is this terrible tyrant? None other than Skeeve the Great. Oh, how the mighty have fallen...
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2005
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When cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse sees a naked man on the side of the road, she doesn't just drive on by. Turns out the poor thing hasn't a clue who he is, but Sookie does. It's Eric the vampire—but now he's a kinder, gentler Eric. And a scared Eric, because whoever took his memory now wants his life.
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2006
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Small-town cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has had more than her share of experience with the supernatural — but now it’s really hitting close to home. When Sookie sees her brother Jason’s eyes start to change, she knows he’s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time — a transformation he embraces more readily than most shapeshifters she knows. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population, and Jason’s new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter. Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who’s behind the attacks — unless the killer decides to find her first… I
Название: The Left Hand of Darkness
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 1996
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When «The Left Hand of Darkness» first appeared in 1969, the original jacket copy read, «Once in a long while a whole new world is created for us. Such worlds are Middle Earth, Dune — and such a world is Winter». Twenty-five years and a Hugo and Nebula Award later, these words remain true. In Winter, or Gethen, Ursula K. Le Guin has created a fully realized planet and people. But Gethen society is more than merely a fascinating creation. The concept of a society existing totally without sexual prejudices is even more relevant today than it was in 1969. This special 25th anniversary edition of «The Left Hand of Darkness» contains not only the complete, unaltered text of the landmark original but also a thought-provoking new afterword and four new appendixes by Ms. Le Guin. When the human ambassador Genly Ai is sent to Gethen, the planet known as Winter by those outsiders who have experienced its arctic climate, he thinks that his mission will be a standard one of making peace between warring factions. Instead the ambassador finds himself wildly unprepared. For Gethen is inhabited by a society with a rich, ancient culture full of strange beauty and deadly intrigue—a society of people who are both male and female in one, and neither. This lack of fixed gender, and the resulting lack of gender-based discrimination, is the very cornerstone of Gethen life. But Genly is all too human. Unless he can overcome his ingrained prejudices about the significance of «male» and «female», he may destroy both his mission and himself.
Название: Phule's Paradise
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 1996
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Be all that you can be: clumsy, inane, sloppy, reckless, idiotic. Phule's Company is the laughingstock of the military. Their latest mission: to guard an intergalactic casino from an unlikely criminal takeover... The odds are against the oddballs.
Название: The Modigliani Scandal
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2002
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A fabulous «lost masterpiece» becomes the ultimate prize for an art historian whose ambition consumes everyone around her, an angry young painter with a plan for revenge on the art establishment, and a desperate gallery owner who may have double-crossed his own life away...
Название: Cold Copper Tears
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 1994
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She was tall, blonde, and offering P.I. Garrett an irresistible fee to take a case that seemed open and shut. But in a town of elves and humans, thugs and swindlers, Garrett had learned to take a long, hard look before saying yes...
Название: Tales from Earthsea
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2003
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In this stellar collection…Ursula K. Le Guin makes a triumphant return to the magic-drenched world of Earthsea. Featuring the award-winning author’s new Earthsea novella, two original stories and two classic tales, as well as new maps and a special essay on Earthsea’s history, languages, literature and magic, “the publication of this collection is a major event in fantasy literature.
Название: The Man from St: Petersburg
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2002
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His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. A master manipulator, he had many weapons at his command, but against him were ranged the whole of the English police, a brilliant and powerful lord, and the young Winston Churchill himself...
Название: On Wings of Eagles
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 1993
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When two of his American employees were held hostage in Iran, H. Ross Perot and a select group of his employees took matters into their own hands. They faced incalculable odds on a mission only true heroes would have dared....
Название: The Pillars of the Earth
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2002
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A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, this historical epic-a twelfth-century tale of the building of a mighty Gothic cathedral-stunned readers and critics alike with its ambitious scope and gripping humanity.
Название: Paper Money
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 1996
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Crime, high finances, and journalism are interconnected in this early thriller by the author of “On Wings of Eagles” and “Lie Down With Lions”. In one suspenseful, action-packed day, fortunes change hands as an ambitious young reporter scrambles to crack the story. A suicidal Junior Minister, an avaricious tycoon, and a seasoned criminal with his team of tough guys all play their parts in a scheme that moves «paper money» around at a dizzying pace.
Название: Passport to Russian
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 1996
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A basic Russian dictionary and phrasebook for the traveler (which, just in case, includes a section entitled Point to Answer). Organized thematically, common words and expressions are shown in English and Cyrillic with easy-to-decipher phonetic pronunciation.
Название: Rosemary's Baby
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 1998
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The classic novel of spellbinding suspense only the mind of Ira Levin could have imagined. She is a housewife — young, healthy, blissfully happy. He is an actor — charismatic and ambitious. The spacious, sun-filled apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side is their dream home — a dream that turns into an unspeakable nightmare...new neighbors...and where evil wears the most innocent face of all...
Название: The Messenger
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2007
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The #1 national bestseller from the author of «Prince of Fire». On the trail of a deadly al-Qaeda operative, Gabriel Allon returns in a spellbinding story of deception, power, and revenge by the New York Times bestselling «world-class practitioner of spy fiction» (Washington Post).
Название: The Mist
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2007
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The storm rolled across Long Lake in Maine with a fury, leaving David Drayton and his family with fallen trees, downed power lines, and no electricity. At his wife’s request, David heads to the local supermarket to stock up on supplies, taking his young son and neighbor along for the ride. But the strange white mist that lingered on the lake has followed them to town, stranding them all in the store. Because something in the fog is taking people — and you can hear their screams...
Название: The Secret Servant
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2008
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terrorist plot in London leads Israeli spy Gabriel Allon on a desperate search for a kidnapped woman, in a race against time that will compromise Allon’s own conscience — and life...
Название: Visibility
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2008
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London, 1952. Only hours before he is murdered, a prominent biochemist claims to know something that could change the world. Tracing the victim's final footsteps is ex-spy-turned-Scotland Yard detective Herbert Smith. It leads straight to a secret that is coveted by both the CIA and the KGB, and threatened by the last vestige of the Third Reich.
