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Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers
ISBN: 9780547628349 Год издания: 2012 Издательство: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Язык: Английский РазвернутьSeventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts—and a violent destiny. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassin and serve as a handmaiden to Death. To claim her new life, she must destroy the lives of others. Ismae’s most important assignment takes her straight into the high court of Brittany—where she finds herself woefully under prepared—not only for the deadly games of intrigue and treason, but for…
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Throne of Glass Sarah J. Maas
ISBN: 978-1599906959 Год издания: 2012 Издательство: Bloomsbury USA Childrens Язык: Английский РазвернутьAfter serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king's council. If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she'll serve the kingdom for three years and then be granted her freedom. Celaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging…
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Daughter of Smoke and Bone Laini Taylor
ISBN: 0316134023 Год издания: 2011 Издательство: Little, Brown & Company Язык: Английский Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she's prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages—not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out.
When one of the strangers—beautiful, haunted Akiva—fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself? -
Snuff Terry Pratchett
ISBN: 038561926X, 9780385619264 Год издания: 2011 Издательство: Doubleday Язык: Английский РазвернутьAccording to the writer of the best-selling crime novel ever to have been published in the city of Ankh-Morpork, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse. And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe, but many, many bodies and an ancient crime more terrible than murder. He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, occasionally snookered and occasionally out of his mind, but not out of guile.…
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Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett
ISBN: 0-575-04606-6 Год издания: 1989 Издательство: Gollancz Язык: Английский This is where the dragons went.
They lie ... not dead, not asleep, but ... dormant. And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly. And presumably, somewhere, there's a key ...
Guards! Guards! is the eighth Discworld novel - and after this, dragons will never be the same again! -
Feet of Clay Terry Pratchett
ISBN: 9781407035024 Год издания: 1997 Издательство: Transworld Digital Язык: Английский РазвернутьSorry?' said Carrot. If it's just a thing, how can it commit murder? A sword is a thing' - he drew his own sword; it made an almost silken sound - 'and of course you can't blame a sword if someone thrust it at you, sir.' For Commander Vimes, Head of Ankh-Morpork City Watch, life consists of troubling times, linked together by...well, more troubling times. Right now, it's the latter. There's a werewolf with pre-lunar tension in the city, and a dwarf with attitude and a golem who's begun to think for itself, but that's just ordinary trouble. The real problem is more puzzling - people are being murdered, but there's no trace of anything alive…
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Thud! Terry Pratchett
ISBN: 0552152676, 9780552152679 Год издания: 2006 Издательство: Corgi Books Язык: Английский РазвернутьKoom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago. But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office. With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution. And darkness is following him. Oh . . . and at six o'clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, he must go home to read 'Where's My Cow?', with all the right farmyard noises,…
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Hogfather Terry Pratchett
ISBN: 9780552145428 Год издания: 2006 Издательство: Corgi Books Язык: Английский ITS THE NIGHT BEFORE HOGSWATCH. AND IT'S TOO QUIET.
Where is the big jolly fat man? Why is Death creeping down chimneys and trying to say Ho Ho Ho? The darkest night of the year is getting a lot darker...
Susan the gothic governess has got to sort it out by morning, otherwise there won't be a morning. Ever again...
The 20th Discworld novel is a festive feast of darkness and Death (but with jolly robins and tinsel too).
As they say: You'd better watch out... -
Fire Study Maria V. Snyder
ISBN: 0778325342, 9780778325345 Год издания: 2008 Издательство: Mira Язык: Английский РазвернутьWhen word that Yelena is a Soulfinder—able to capture and release souls—spreads like wildfire, people grow uneasy. Already Yelena's unusual abilities and past have set her apart. As the Council debates Yelena's fate, she receives a disturbing message: a plot is rising against her homeland, led by a murderous sorcerer she has defeated before.... Honor sets Yelena on a path that will test the limits of her skills, and the hope of reuniting with her beloved spurs her onward. Her journey is fraught with allies, enemies, lovers and would-be assassins, each of questionable loyalty. Yelena will have but one chance to prove herself—and save the…
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Magic Study Maria V. Snyder
ISBN: 0373802498, 9780373802494 Год издания: 2006 Издательство: Luna Язык: Английский РазвернутьYOU KNOW YOUR LIFE IS BAD WHEN YOU MISS YOUR DAYS AS A POISON TASTER... With her greatest enemy dead, and on her way to be reunited with the family she'd been stolen from long ago, Yelena should be pleased. But though she has gained her freedom, she can't help feeling isolated in Sitia. Her Ixian background has changed her in many ways—and her newfound friends and relatives don't think it's for the better.... Despite the turmoil, she's eager to start her magic training—especially as she's been given one year to harness her power or be put to death. But her plans take a radical turn when she becomes involved with a plot to reclaim…
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Poison Study Maria V. Snyder
ISBN: 0778324338, 9780778324331 Год издания: 2004 Издательство: Luna Язык: Английский РазвернутьAbout to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace—and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia. And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Dust—and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonizing death from the poison. As Yelena tries to escape her new dilemma, disasters keep mounting. Rebels plot to seize Ixia and Yelena develops magical powers she can't control. Her life is threatened again and choices must be made.…
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Fire Kristin Cashore
ISBN: 9780575085114 Год издания: 2009 Издательство: Gollancz Язык: Английский РазвернутьIt is not a peaceful time in the Dells. In King City, the young King Nash is clinging to the throne, while rebel lords in the north and south build armies to unseat him. War is coming. And the mountains and forest are filled with spies and thieves. This is where Fire lives, a girl whose beauty is impossibly irresistible and who can control the minds of everyone around her. Exquisitely romantic, this companion to the highly praised Graceling has an entirely new cast of characters, save for one person who plays a pivotal role in both books. You don't need to have read "Graceling" to love "Fire". But if you haven't, you'll be dying to read it…
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Graceling Kristin Cashore
ISBN: 9780152063962 Год издания: 2008 Издательство: Harcourt Children's Books Язык: Английский РазвернутьIn a world where people born with an exceptional skill, know as a Grace, are both feared and exploited, Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises: the Grace of killing. As a Graced killer who has been able to kill a man with her bare hands from the age of eight, she is forced to work as the king’s thug. Feared be the court and shunned by those of her own age, the darkness of her Grace casts a heavy shadow over Katsa’s life. Yet Katsa remains defiant, and when the King of Lenid’s father is kidnapped she investigates, and stumbles across a mystery. Who would want to kidnap the old man, and why? And who was the…
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Night Watch Terry Pratchett
ISBN: 9780552148993 Год издания: 2003 Издательство: Corgi Books Язык: Английский РазвернутьTruth! Justice! Freedom! And a hard-boiled egg! Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he's back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck. Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive, because he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his younger self how to be a good copper and change the outcome of a bloody rebellion. There's a problem: if he wins, he's got no wife, no child, no future. A Discworld Tale of One City, with a full chorus of street urchins, ladies of negotiable affection,…
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Men at arms Terry Pratchett
ISBN: 0061092193 Год издания: 1997 Издательство: HarperTouch Язык: Английский -
The Fifth Elephant Terry Pratchett
ISBN: 0061020400, 978-0-06-102040-7 Год издания: 2000 Издательство: HarperTorch, Harper Язык: Английский РазвернутьEveryone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren't there supposed to be five? Indeed there were. So where is it?... When duty calls. Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary answers. Even when he doesn't want to. He's been "invited" to attend a royal function as both detective and diplomat. The one role he relishes; the other requires, well, ruby tights. Of course where cops (even those clad in tights) go, alas, crime follows. An attempted assassination and a theft soon lead to a desperate chase from the low halls of Discworld royalty to the legendary fat mines of Uberwald, where lard…
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Jingo (play)
ISBN: 0413774465 Год издания: 2005 Издательство: Methuen Drama Язык: Английский Terry Pratchett is a phenomenon unto himself. Never read a Discworld book? The closest comparison might be Monty Python and the Holy Grail , with its uniquely British sense of the absurd, and side-splitting, smart humor. Jingo is the
