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The Talismans of Shannara
ISBN: 9780345386748 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1994 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Although some of the goals to keep Shannara safe had been met, the work of Walker Boh, Wren, and Par was not yet done. For The Shadowmen still swarmed over the Four Lands, poisoning all with their dark magic. Each Shannaran had a special death waiting for him- at the hands of The Shadowmen-unless Par could find a way to free them all with the Sword of Shannara.
Although some of the goals to keep Shannara safe had been met, the work of Walker Boh, Wren, and Par was not yet done. For The Shadowmen still swarmed...
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Powers That Be
ISBN: 9780345387790 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1994 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Major Yanaba Maddock wasn't much good to the company anymore. With lungs practically destroyed by poison gas in a military debacle, she could barely breathe without coughing, much less do anything the least bit strenuous. But it wasn't the company's way to discard those they might still find some use for...and so they retired Yana to the icy planet Petaybee to do their spying. Strange things were happening on Petaybee, it seemed. Unauthorized genetically engineered species had been spotted. Geologic survey teams sent to locate newly detected mineral deposits were either coming up empty - or...
Major Yanaba Maddock wasn't much good to the company anymore. With lungs practically destroyed by poison gas in a military debacle, she could barely b...
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Power Lines
ISBN: 9780345387806 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1995 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A felicitous combination of authors."
--Kirkus Reviews Yanaba Maddock's short-lived career as a company spy had ended the moment the planet Petaybee and its people had adopted her as one of their own. Now she was dedicated to keeping Intergal from exploiting and wounding--or even killing--the world she had come to love. For Intergal persisted in denying that Petaybee was sentient, and nothing would stop it from stripping the ore-rich planet--sentient or not. Only solid evidence would convince the company to leave the planet alone, and for all its sentience, Petaybee's... "A felicitous combination of authors."
--Kirkus Reviews Yanaba Maddock's short-lived career as a company spy had ended the moment the planet Pet... |
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The Lays of Beleriand
ISBN: 9780345388186 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1994 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "The power of Tolkien's central characters . . . shines through." Library Journal.
A treasure trove of lore for old and new friends of Middle-earth. Enter now, reader, and learn of the hero of the Lay of Leithian. Hear as well of the early years of Turin the Tall, as he journeys through darkness on his quest to find his father. Read of his rescue by Beleg the Brave, and of the dark destiny that haunts their friendship Only the genius of Tolkien could create a fantasy more real than reality, a reality more fantastic than fantasy "The power of Tolkien's central characters . . . shines through." Library Journal.
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Worldwar: in the Balance: In the Balance
ISBN: 9780345388520 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1994 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From Pearl Harbor to panzers rolling through Paris to the Siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Midway, war seethed across the planet as the flames of destruction rose higher and hotter.
And then, suddenly, the real enemy came. The invaders seemed unstoppable, their technology far beyond human reach. And never before had men been more divided. For Jew to unite with Nazi, American with Japanese, and Russian with German was unthinkable. But the alternative was even worse. As the fate of the world hung in the balance, slowly, painfully, humankind took up the shocking challenge . . . From Pearl Harbor to panzers rolling through Paris to the Siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Midway, war seethed across the planet as the flames of ...
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Memnoch the Devil
ISBN: 9780345389404 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "STARTLING. . . FIENDISH. . . MEMNOCH'S TALE IS COMPELLING."
--New York Daily News Like Interview With the Vampire, Memnoch has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity. . . Narrated by Rice's most cherished character, the vampire Lestat, Memnoch tells a tale as old as Scripture's legends and as modern as today's religious strife. --Rolling Stone "SHOCKING. . . A BRILLIANT BOOK." --St. Louis Post Dispatch "Rice has penned an ambitious close to this long-running series, as well as a classy exit for a classic horror character. . Fans will no doubt devour this last visit with... "STARTLING. . . FIENDISH. . . MEMNOCH'S TALE IS COMPELLING."
--New York Daily News Like Interview With the Vampire, Memnoch has a half-maddened,... |
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The Adventures of Lando Calrissian: Star Wars Legends
ISBN: 9780345391100 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1994 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For the price of one, you get three Lando Calrissian novels: LANDO CALRISSSIAN AND THE MINDHARP OF SHARU, LANDO CLARISSIAN AND THE FLAMEWIND OF OSEON, and LANDO CALRISSIAN AND THE STARCAVE OF THONBOKA. You know him as a gambler, rogue, and con-artist; Lando's always on the frontier scanning his sensors for easy credits and looking for action in galaxies near and far.
For the price of one, you get three Lando Calrissian novels: LANDO CALRISSSIAN AND THE MINDHARP OF SHARU, LANDO CLARISSIAN AND THE FLAMEWIND OF OSEON,...
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
ISBN: 9780345391803 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1995 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . and] over much too soon."--The Washington Post Book World Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor. Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar...
"Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . and] over much too soon."--The Washington Post Book World Seconds before the Earth is ...
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
ISBN: 9780345391810 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1995 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "DOUGLAS ADAMS IS A TERRIFIC SATIRIST."
--The Washington Post Book World Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability--and desperately in search of a place to eat. Among Arthur's motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a longtime friend and expert contributor to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia... "DOUGLAS ADAMS IS A TERRIFIC SATIRIST."
--The Washington Post Book World Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious tim... |
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Life, the Universe and Everything
ISBN: 9780345391827 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1995 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "HYSTERICAL "
--The Philadelphia Inquirer The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vicepresident of the Campaign for... "HYSTERICAL "
--The Philadelphia Inquirer The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so t... |
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
ISBN: 9780345391834 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1999 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth's dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on. . . .
God only knows what it all means. And fortunately, He... Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent i...
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Flatlander: The Collected Tales of Gil the Arm Hamilton
ISBN: 9780345394804 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1995 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Gil "The Arm" Hamilton was one of the top operatives of ARM, the elite UN plice force. His intuition was unfailingly accurate, his detective skills second to none, and his psychic powers -- esper sense and telekinesis -- were awesome. Now you can read all the classic stories of the legendary ARM operative, collected in one volume for the first time -- plus, an all-new, never-before-published Gil Hamilton adventure!
Gil "The Arm" Hamilton was one of the top operatives of ARM, the elite UN plice force. His intuition was unfailingly accurate, his detective skills se...
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Slow River
ISBN: 9780345395375 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. She awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. She was naked, a foot-long gash in her back was still bleeding, and her identity implant was gone. Lore Van Oesterling had been the daughter of one of the world's most powerful families...and now she was nobody, and she had to hide. Then out of the rain walked Spanner, predator and thief, who took her in, cared for her wound, and taught her how to reinvent herself again and again. No one could find Lore now: not the police, not her family, and not the kidnappers who had left her in that alley to die. She had escaped...but the cost of her...
She awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. She was naked, a foot-long gash in her back was still bleeding, and her identity implant was gone. Lore V...
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First King of Shannara
ISBN: 9780345396532 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1997 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Horrified by the misuse of magic they had witnessed during the First War of the Races, the Druids at Paranor devoted themselves to the study of the old sciences, from the period before the collapse of civilization a thousand years before. Only the Bremen and a few trusted associates still studied the arcane arts. And for his persistence, Bremen found himself outcast, avoided by all but the few free-thinkers among the Druids.
But his removal from Paranor was not altogether a terrible thing, for Bremen learned that dark forces were on the move from the Northlands. That seemingly invincible... Horrified by the misuse of magic they had witnessed during the First War of the Races, the Druids at Paranor devoted themselves to the study of the ol...
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Mother of Winter
ISBN: 9780345397232 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1997 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Five years after defeating the Dark Ones, the embattled inhabitants of the once-great Keep of Dare face a yet more deadly foe. An icy-cold force was spreading across the northlands, spawning strange creatures that killed everything in their grisly path . . . Archmage Ingold Inglorion believed the source of this monstrous evil lay in the decadent lands to the south. With him traveled Gil Patterson, the scholar-warrior from Earth who had forsaken her own universe for love of the mage. Determined to aid him in his quest, she was cursed to become the instrument of his death. Ingold's...
Five years after defeating the Dark Ones, the embattled inhabitants of the once-great Keep of Dare face a yet more deadly foe. An icy-cold force was s...
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Lasher
ISBN: 9780345397812 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1995 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "SEDUCTIVE MAGIC...SPELLBINDING...Rice stages her scenes in a wide variety of times and locales, tapping deeply into the richest veins of mythology and history."
--San Francisco Chronicle "STEAMY...FAST-PACED AND HUGELY ENGROSSING...Rice's title character--a seductive, evil, highly sexual and ultimately tragic creature--is fascinating." --The Miami Herald "BEHIND ALL THE VELVET DRAPES AND GOSSAMER WINDING SHEETS, THIS IS AN OLD-FASHIONED FAMILY SAGA....Rice's descriptive writing is so opulent it almost begs to be read by candlelight." --The Washington Post Book World "RICE... "SEDUCTIVE MAGIC...SPELLBINDING...Rice stages her scenes in a wide variety of times and locales, tapping deeply into the richest veins of mythology an...
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The Shaping of Middle-Earth
ISBN: 9780345400437 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1995 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH
Poems and prose, maps and chronologies, detours and diversions along the road to Middle-earth . . . Christopher Tolkien has gathered archival materials that his late father, J. R. R. Tolkien, used to create the world and the history behind his classic stories. THE EVOLUTION OF A WORLD This fourth volume of The History of Middle-earth presents early versions of those first tales, from the creation myth to the fall of Morgoth. Writings include a chronology of the events in Beleriand, the first Silmarillion map, and the only known description of the physical... THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH
Poems and prose, maps and chronologies, detours and diversions along the road to Middle-earth . . . Christopher Tolkien... |
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Upsetting the Balance (Worldwar, Book Three)
ISBN: 9780345402400 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1996 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Communist China, Japan, Nazi Germany, the United States: they began World War II as mortal enemies. But suddenly their only hope for survival--never mind victory--was to unite to stop a mighty foe--one whose frightening technology appeared invincible.
Far worse beings than the Nazis were loose. From Warsaw to Moscow to China's enemy-occupied Forbidden City, the nations of the world had been forced into an uneasy alliance since humanity began its struggle against overwhelming odds. In Britain and Germany, where the banshee wail of hostile jets screamed across the land, caches of... Communist China, Japan, Nazi Germany, the United States: they began World War II as mortal enemies. But suddenly their only hope for survival--never m...
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Belgarath the Sorcerer
ISBN: 9780345403957 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1996 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Bestselling authors David and Leigh Eddings welcome readers back to the time before The Belgariad and The Malloreon series. Join them as they chronicle that fateful conflict between two mortally opposed Destinies, in a monumental war of men and kings and Gods.
When the world was young and Gods still walked among their mortal children, a headstrong orphan boy set out to explore the world. Thus began the extraordinary adventures that would mold that youthful vagabond into a man, and the man into the finely honed instrument of Prophecy known to all the world as Belgarath the... Bestselling authors David and Leigh Eddings welcome readers back to the time before The Belgariad and The Malloreon series. Join them as they chronicl...
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Taltos
ISBN: 9780345404312 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1996 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "ANNE RICE WILL LIVE ON THROUGH THE AGES OF LITERATURE."
--San Francisco Chronicle "TALTOS IS THE THIRD BOOK IN A SERIES KNOWN AS THE LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES . . . Their haunted heritage has brought the family great wealth, which is exercised from a New Orleans manse with Southern gentility; but of course such power cannot escape notice . . . or challenge. . . Rice is a formidable talent. . . Taltos] is a curious amalgam of gothic, glamour fiction, alternate history, and high soap opera." --The Washington Post Book World "AN INTRICATE, STUNNING IMAGINATION." --Los... "ANNE RICE WILL LIVE ON THROUGH THE AGES OF LITERATURE."
--San Francisco Chronicle "TALTOS IS THE THIRD BOOK IN A SERIES KNOWN AS THE LIVES OF T... |
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