Chitra Divakaruni3.6 Tilo, an immigrant from India, runs an Indian spice shop in Oakland, California. While she dispenses the classic ingredients for curries and kormas, she also helps her customers to gain a more precious commodity: whatever they most desire. For Tilo is a Mistress of Spices, a priestess of the secret, magical powers of spices. Through those who visit and revisit her shop - Ahuja's wife, caught in an unhappy, abusive marriage; Jagjit, the victim of racist attacks at school; the noisy bougainvillaea girls, rejecting the strict upbringing of their tradition-bound Indian parents; Haroun who drives a taxi and dreams the American dream - we get a glimpse into the life of the local Indian expatriate community. To each Tilo dispenses wisdom and the appropriate spice: coriander for sight; turmeric to erase wrinkles; cinnamon for finding friends; fenugreek to make a rejected wife desirable again; chillies for the cleansing of evil. But when a lonely American comes into the store, a troubled Tilo cannot find the right spice, for he arouses in her a forbidden desire, and following her own desires will destroy her magical powers. Compelling and lyrical, full of heady scents and with more than a touch of humour, this novel explores the clash between East and West even as it unveils the universal mysteries of the human heart.
Джин Хегланд3.0 Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home.
Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. No single event precedes society's fall. There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found. The sisters consume the resources left in the house, waiting for the power to return. Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other.
Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale, Into the Forest is a mesmerizing and thought-provoking novel of hope and despair set in a frighteningly plausible near-future America.
Marella Sands0.0 Sky Knife is a young man cursed with an unlucky name - a name his mother saw in a vision and pledged that her son would bear, to honor whatever destiny the gods had decreed. He hasn't the luck to take one of the usual paths charted for his people: farmer, soldier, merchant - all these roads are closed to him. The only hope for him lies in service at the King's Temple, where - he hopes - the gods will make clear his purpose in the world. But as a novice priest he has little hope of fulfilling his destiny. That is, until a human sacrifice goes horribly wrong, priests begin to die, and the skies fill with dangerous portents and visions. Magic of all sorts seems to cling to Sky Knife like a shroud, but if he is daring (and lucky) enough, he may just find out the answer - and, in doing so, win a place among his people. Sky Knife is a compelling and evocative portrait of ancient Mayan culture.
Стивен Дэдмен3.4 Искусство Ловли Стрел. Древняя, высокая, жестокая магия Востока. Магия общения с демонами, пришедшими из Мира Мрака - и пожирающими души людские в мире нашем...
Искусство Ловли Стрел. Страшное, тайное искусство, которым ДОЛЖЕН овладеть молодой бродяга, даже не понимающий, откуда взялось его прозвище - `Маг`.
Искусство Ловли Стрел. Искусство вечной войны между Светом и Тьмой, между защитниками Добра - и адептами Зла...
Какой будет НОВАЯ ВОЙНА между СВЕТОМ и ТЬМОЙ?! !
Now he's just another fallen star, earning his keep as a low-rent private eye. But everything Marty has ever believed in is about to be shattered when the hunt for a missing hooker draws him into an epic struggle between age-old foes.
Two ancient cults have brought their eternal battle from the mystic mountains of Japan to the seedy streets of Los Angeles. Marty must confront vicious pimps, suspicious cops, Hollywood mega-moguls and all-powerful demons from the pages of myth as his life is turned inside-out. He is forced to confront that most difficult, but fundamental of questions: What do you believe in?
Awesome supernatural powers have renewed their endless fight, with the soul of humanity hanging in the balance.
Only this time, there's Marty Burns. Who's about to become famous...
Дэвид Коу3.9 Тысячу лет назад Амарид и Терон нашли в Тобин-Сере кристаллы, дарующие их владельцам магическую силу. Вместе они основали Орден, призванный служить благу народа. Но Терон не смог устоять перед соблазнами власти и был изгнан из Ордена. С тех пор Сыны
Matthew Woodring Stover0.0 Ten years after the fall of Troy, an evil necromancer threatens to take complete control of the thriving city of Tyre. An axe-wielding mercenary and her two partners find themselves unlikely heroes as they stand against him. But these three hardened soldiers are realizing that this war goes far beyond a struggle for supremacy
Ian McDowell0.0 It is the glory days of Camelot, as King Arthur begins a campaign to conquer all of Europe. But his unhappy bastard son Mordred foresees only doom, and the downfall of Arthur and Britain. And so Mordred and Queen Guinevere plot to overthrow Arthur, sparking a civil war, and setting the stage for the return of the wizard Merlin, exiled years earlier by the king.
