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Игры Проклятых

Ветер магии гуляет над Плато, на котором поселились жалкие остатки некогда могущественной цивилизации людей. Проклятые вновь просыпаются и создают новые витки своих ужасных игр. А в великой пустыне, покинутой человечеством многие столетия назад, из небытия восстают миньоны павших архи демонов. Смогут ли остатки человечества устоять перед новой угрозой или их обратит в прах новый виток истории?
Игры Проклятых

Faith, Hope and Mischief. Tiny acts of rebellion by an everyday activist

Faith, Hope and Mischief tells funny, prophetic and powerful stories of tiny acts of rebellion Andrew has carried out, with arresting reflections on what it means to live in faith and hope. His stories delight and challenge in equal measure, showing how the kingdom of God turns up in all kinds of ways and how small things make a big difference.
Faith, Hope and Mischief. Tiny acts of rebellion by an everyday activist

Great Stories from the German Romantics. Ludwig Tieck and Jean Paul Richter

This outstanding compilation presents stories by two of the writers who helped launch the early nineteenth-century German Romanticism movement: Ludwig Tieck and Jean Paul Richter. Translated by the great British historian Thomas Carlyle, it features seven highly influential tales that range in mood from fantasy and fairy tale lightness to witty satire. Shemlzie's Journey to Fletz and Life of Quintus Fixlien, a story and a novella by Richter, the least translated of the major German Romantics,
Great Stories from the German Romantics. Ludwig Tieck and Jean Paul Richter

The Landlord

"An elaborate spoof that somehow manages to combine touches of the absurd and intimations of the surreal, strokes of caricature, slapstick, and the grotesque, with an inherent down-to-earth sanity and realism." — Saturday Review A wealthy white man and earnest do-gooder buys a building in a ghetto neighborhood in this warmly comic novel. Elgar Enders, having been expelled from eight Ivy League schools, is eager to make something of himself. He begins by attempting to improve his new
The Landlord

Many Mansions

A finalist for the National Book Award, Many Mansions was originally published in 1952 and received raves upon its debut. Now available for the first time in a paperback edition, the novel recounts an elderly woman's difficult decision to reread an unpublished memoir. Her poignant story of forbidden love and sacrifice, which begins during the Victorian era and concludes in the years following World War II, recalls the aristocratic elegance and psychological insights of works by Edith Wharton
Many Mansions

Message to the People. The Course of African Philosophy

In 1937, Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and one of the most controversial figures in the history of race relations, assembled his most trusted organizers to impart his life's lessons. For one month he instructed this elite student body — at its peak the largest international mass movement of African peoples — on topics ranging from universal knowledge and how to attain it to leadership, character, God, and the social system. A crucial guide to the
Message to the People. The Course of African Philosophy

The Castle of Otranto

The Castle of Otranto is a book by Horace Walpole first published in 1764 and generally regarded as the first gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitle – «A Gothic Story». The novel merged medievalism and terror in a style that has endured ever since. The aesthetic of the book has shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music and the goth subculture. The novel initiated a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the
The Castle of Otranto

Kiss Me Hard

They hopped a boxcar and made a run for it. He was a wanted man – she was a woman who thought she's found her man. It was an outlawed passion, and it was doomed from the start…for crime always has a cost, and a life on the run is no life at all – unless you're willing to risk everything!
Kiss Me Hard

Weirdbook #43

The 43rd issue of Weirdbook, under the editorship of Doug Draa, presents new tales of fantasy and horror in the grand Weird Tales tradition. Included this time are: Short Stories An American Story, by Darrell Schweitzer Impervious to Reason, Oblivious to Fate, by John R. Fultz The River, by Sharon Cullars Taking Out the Trash, by by D.C. Lozar Arthur Wardrobe And Asia Anastacia: A Love Story, by Andrew Darlington Snack Time, by Franklyn Searight Godlike, by By Edward Morris and Konstantine
Weirdbook #43