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Зимнее серебро

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Зима в Литвасе давно затянулась и, кажется, не собирается уходить, сея повсюду болезни и голод. И только сильные и храбрые могут противостоять жестокому холоду и злу, которое принесла с собой стужа. Но ни Ирина, ни Мирьем, ни Ванда никогда себя такими не считали. Три девушки с разными судьбами, из разных сословий – но всех их объединяет одно: в их дом пришла беда. Мирьем и ее семье грозит жестокий король Зимояров, владыка загадочного опасного народа. Ванду хочет погубить ее же отец. А Ирине прочат выйти замуж за огненного демона, который пожирает всех и вся на своем пути. Но когда опасность нависает над теми, кого они любят, все трое принимают вызов. Невидимые нити свяжут три судьбы – и так у девушек появится шанс спасти друг друга.

Наоми Новик – лауреат Мифопоэтической премии и Британской премии фэнтези, обладатель премий Nebula и Locus. Роман «Зимнее серебро» стал бестселлером New York Times и заслужил восторженные отзывы критиков и читателей в разных странах.

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Драконът на Негово Величество
Новик Наоми
Драконът на Негово Величество

Наполеоновите войни са в разгара си и Англия е впрегнала всичките си сили срещу френската заплаха. Нови доблестни воини са мобилизирани да защитават Острова не по суша и не по вода… а по въздух, на гърбовете на своите могъщи бойни дракони.

Когато корабът на Негово Величество "Дръзки" залавя френска фрегата и скъпоценния й товар, неизлюпено драконово яйце, съдбата поднася на капитан Уил Лорънс неочаквано приключение. Животът му по море внезапно трябва да бъде заменен от далеч по-несигурното бъдеще като партньор на най-необикновеното създание на земята. Озовал се в редиците на Въздушните сили, той ще премине ускорен курс по тактика на въздушния бой. И докато драконовите дивизии на Франция се подготвят да нахлуят в английска територия, Лорънс и Темерер ще трябва да оцелеят през своето собствено огнено кръщение.

Наоми Новик е американска писателка от смесен произход. Носител е на наградите John W. Cambpell Award за най-добър нов научнофантастичен автор на 2006 г., както и Compton Crook Award за 2007 г. До момента серията от романи за Темерер включва пет книги, по които предстои да се заснеме сериал от режисьора на „Властелина на пръстените“, Питър Джаксън.

The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Хэмбли Барбара
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

An anthology of stories

Sherlock Holmes is back!

Sherlock Holmes, the world’s first-and most famous-consulting detective, came to the world’s attention more than 120 years ago through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novels and stories. But Conan Doyle didn’t reveal all of the Great Detective’s adventures…

Here are some of the best Holmes pastiches of the last 30 years, twenty-eight tales of mystery and the imagination detailing Holmes’s further exploits, as told by many of today’s greatest storytellers, including Stephen King, Anne Perry, Anthony Burgess, Neil Gaiman, Naomi Novik, Stephen Baxter, Tanith Lee, Michael Moorcock, and many more.

These are the improbable adventures of Sherlock Holmes, where nothing is impossible, and nothing can be ruled out. In these cases, Holmes investigates ghosts, curses, aliens, dinosaurs, shapeshifters, and evil gods. But is it the supernatural, or is there a perfectly rational explanation?

You won’t be sure, and neither will Holmes and Watson as they match wits with pirates, assassins, con artists, and criminal masterminds of all stripes, including some familiar foes, such as their old nemesis, Professor Moriarty.

In these pages you’ll also find our heroes crossing paths with H. G. Wells, Lewis Carroll, and even Arthur Conan Doyle himself, and you’ll be astounded to learn the truth behind cases previously alluded to by Watson but never before documented until now. These are tales that take us from the familiar quarters at 221B Baker Street to alternate realities, from the gaslit streets of London to the far future and beyond.

Whether it’s mystery, fantasy, horror, or science fiction, no puzzle is too challenging for the Great Detective. The game is afoot!

Tongues of Serpents
Новик Наоми
Tongues of Serpents

A dazzling blend of military history, high-flying fantasy, and edge-of-your-seat adventure, Naomi Novik's Temeraire novels, set in an alternate Napoleonic era in which intelligent dragons have been harnessed as weapons of war, are more than just perennial bestsellers — they are a worldwide phenomenon. Now, in Tongues of Serpents Naomi Novik is back, along with the dragon Temeraire and his rider and friend, Capt. Will Laurence.

Convicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleon's invasion of England, Temeraire and Laurence — stripped of rank and standing — have been transported to the prison colony at New South Wales in distant Australia, where, it is hoped, they cannot further corrupt the British Aerial Corps with their dangerous notions of liberty for dragons. Temeraire and Laurence carry with them three dragon eggs intended to help establish a covert in the colony and destined to be handed over to such second-rate, undesirable officers as have been willing to accept so remote an assignment — including one former acquaintance, Captain Rankin, whose cruelty once cost a dragon its life.

Nor is this the greatest difficulty that confronts the exiled dragon and rider: Instead of leaving behind all the political entanglements and corruptions of the war, Laurence and Temeraire have instead sailed into a hornet's nest of fresh complications. For the colony at New South Wales has been thrown into turmoil after the overthrow of the military governor, one William Bligh — better known as Captain Bligh, late of HMS Bounty. Bligh wastes no time in attempting to enlist Temeraire and Laurence to restore him to office, while the upstart masters of the colony are equally determined that the new arrivals should not upset a balance of power precariously tipped in their favor.

Eager to escape this political quagmire, Laurence and Temeraire take on a mission to find a way through the forbidding Blue Mountains and into the interior of Australia. But when one of the dragon eggs is stolen from Temeraire, the surveying expedition becomes a desperate race to recover it in time — a race that leads to a shocking discovery and a dangerous new obstacle in the global war between Britain and Napoleon.