Мэри Д. Расселл — новинки

Двадцать первый век. Наконец доказано, что инопланетная жизнь существует. Радиотелескоп в Пуэрто-Рико поймал сигналы с планеты Ракхат — звуки дивного пения... В ООН ведутся бесконечные переговоры о возможном контакте — а орден иезуитов меж тем не медлит и спешно снаряжает собственную научную экспедицию из восьми человек. Взгляду иезуитов откроется совершенно новый мир. Непостижимый настолько, что они усомнятся: что есть "человек".

Двадцать первый век. Наконец доказано, что инопланетная жизнь существует. Радиотелескоп в Пуэрто-Рико поймал сигналы с планеты Ракхат — звуки дивного пения... В ООН ведутся бесконечные переговоры о возможном контакте — а орден иезуитов меж тем не медлит и спешно снаряжает собственную научную экспедицию из восьми человек. Взгляду иезуитов откроется совершенно новый мир. Непостижимый настолько, что они усомнятся: что есть «человек».

In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements has seen enough of the world to know that it’s unfair. She’s spent her whole life in the mining town of Calumet, Michigan, where men risk their lives for meager salaries—and have barely enough to put food on the table for their families. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day, dreading the fateful call of the company man telling them their loved ones aren’t coming home. So, when Annie decides to stand up for the entire town of Calumet, nearly everyone believes she may have taken on more than she is prepared to handle.

Yet as Annie struggles to improve the future of her town, her husband becomes increasingly frustrated with her growing independence. She faces the threat of prison while also discovering a forbidden love. On her fierce quest for justice, Annie will see just how much she is willing to sacrifice for the families of Calumet.

8 September 1943. Italy has sued for peace with the Allies and 14-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian on the run. She and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps to where they hope they will be safe at last. What they don't know is that tomorrow Italy will be under German occupation and about to become a vicious battleground between the Nazis, an increasingly confident resistance and the advancing Allies... Set against this dramatic historical backdrop, Mary Doria Russell's new novel recalls - through the lives of a handful of brilliantly-drawn characters: a mercurial Italian resistance leader, a Catholic priest, an Italian rabbi's family, a disillusioned Wehrmacht doctor - the little known conspiracy of ordinary Italians who saved the lives of thousands of Jews during the final, desperate 20 months of the war. Full of drama, warmth, nobility and, for all the darkness, hope, A THREAD OF GRACE tells a story of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary times and accomplishing remarkable things. It is a breathtaking achievement.

Планета Ракхат системы Альфа Центавра. Мир загадочной древней цивилизации. Мир, на который отправляется первая экспедиция землян, спонсируемая… Ватиканом. На борту звездолета — астроном, инженер, врач, специалист по компьютерам и четыре миссионера-иезуита. Так начинается один из самых оригинальных и увлекательных фантастических романов нашего времени, который критики сравнивают с произведениями Артура Кларка, Герберта Уэллса и Рэя Брэдбери. Из всех членов экспедиции на Землю вернулся только один — молодой иезуит Эмилио Сандос, познавший на Ракхате все ужасы и унижения плена и рабства. Отныне его единственная цель — держаться…

Mary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sparrow, makes her Ecco debut with Epitaph—an American Iliad, this richly detailed and meticulously researched historical novel continues the story she began in Doc, following Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday to Tombstone, Arizona, and to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral

A deeply divided nation. Vicious politics. A shamelessly partisan media. A president loathed by half the populace. Smuggling and gang warfare along the Mexican border. Armed citizens willing to stand their ground and take law into their own hands...

That was America in 1881.

All those forces came to bear on the afternoon of October 26th when Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers faced off against the Clantons and the McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona. It should have been a simple misdemeanor arrest. Thirty seconds and thirty bullets later, three officers were wounded and three citizens lay dead in the dirt.

Wyatt Earp was the last man standing, the only one unscathed. The lies began before the smoke cleared, but the gunfight at the O.K. Corral would soon become central to American beliefs about the Old West.

Epitaph tells Wyatt’s real story, unearthing the Homeric tragedy buried under 130 years of mythology, misrepresentation, and sheer indifference to fact. Epic and intimate, this novel gives voice to the real men and women whose lives were changed forever by those fatal 30 seconds in Tombstone. At its heart is the woman behind the myth: Josephine Sarah Marcus, who loved Wyatt Earp for forty-nine years and who carefully chipped away at the truth until she had crafted the heroic legend that would become the epitaph her husband deserved.

I am sure of this much: my little story has become your history. You won't really understand your times until you understand mine...' Reeling from the aftermath of the twin tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic, diffident schoolteacher Agnes Shanklin has taken the trip of a lifetime: to Egypt and the Holy Land. But her arrival at Cairo's Semiramis Hotel coincides with an event that will change history. For the year is 1921 and the Cairo Peace Conference is about to preside over nothing less than the creation of the modern Middle East. At first Agnes acts as a welcome sounding board for the historic players - Churchill, T. E.…

The Sparrow is a novel about a remarkable man, a living saint, a life-long celibate and Jesuit priest, who undergoes an experience so harrowing and profound that it makes him question the existence of God. This experience--the first contact between human beings and intelligent extraterrestrial life--begins with a small mistake and ends in a horrible catastrophe.

Планета Ракхат системы Альфа Центавра. Мир загадочной древней цивилизации. Мир, на который отправилась первая экспедиция землян, спонсируемая Ватиканом, причем на борту звездолета присутствовали не только врач, инженер и астроном, но и четыре миссионера-иезуита. Из всех членов экспедиции на Землю вернулся только один - молодой иезуит Эмилио Сандос, познавший на Ракхате все ужасы и унижения плена и рабства. Отныне его единственная цель - держаться как можно дальше от враждебной планеты. Однако генерал иезуитов не жалеет усилий, чтобы вернуть Эмилио на Ракхат...

Планета Ракхат системы Альфа Центавра. Мир загадочной древней цивилизации. Мир, на который отправляется первая экспедиция землян, спонсируемая… Ватиканом. На борту звездолета - астроном, инженер, врач, специалист по компьютерам и четыре миссионера-иезуита. Так начинается один из самых оригинальных и увлекательных фантастических романов нашего времени, который критики сравнивают с произведениями Артура Кларка, Герберта Уэллса и Рэя Брэдбери.

Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, this new novel is the first in seven years by the bestselling author of The Sparrow and Children of God.

It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to be safe at last, now that the Italians have broken with Germany and made a separate peace with the Allies. The Blums will soon discover that Italy is anything but peaceful, as it becomes overnight an open battleground among the Nazis, the Allies, resistance fighters, Jews in hiding, and ordinary Italian civilians trying to survive.

Mary Doria Russell sets her first historical novel against this dramatic background, tracing the lives of a handful of fascinating characters. Through them, she tells the little-known but true story of the network of Italian citizens who saved the lives of forty-three thousand Jews during the war’s final phase. The result of five years of meticulous research, A Thread of Grace is an ambitious, engrossing novel of ideas, history, and marvelous characters that will please Russell’s many fans and earn her even more.

In 2019, humanity finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post picks up exquisite singing from the planet Rakhat. While the U.N. debates possible contact missions, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an 8-person expedition of its own. What the Jesuits find is a world so beyond comprehension that it will lead them to question what it means to be human.

In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet which will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an eight-person scientific expedition of its own. What the Jesuits find is a world so beyond comprehension that it will lead them to question the meaning of being "human." When the lone survivor of the expedition, Emilio Sandoz, returns to Earth in 2059, he will try to explain what went wrong... Words like "provocative" and "compelling" will…