The powerful and bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. Made into a Bafta and Oscar-winning film.
‘You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival of one man throughout the war years in the devastated city of Warsaw than from several volumes of the average encyclopaedia’ Independent on Sunday
‘We are drawn in to share his surprise and then disbelief at the horrifying progress of events, all conveyed with an understated intimacy and dailiness that render them painfully close – riveting’ Observer
‘A book so fresh and vivid, so heartbreaking, and so simply and beautifully written, that it manages to tell us the story of horrendous events as if for the first time’ Daily Telegraph
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Even though she's not one of them, Brynn has spent her life among the Alaha - a community exiled to live at sea - training to be a guard and waiting for the chance to attend the annual market hosted by the Kenta - the very same people who exiled her adopted community. Going to the market is a rite of passage eagerly anticipated by all young guards, but Brynn does not anticipate breaking a century-long peace treaty while there... Or for an intense encounter with an enemy soldier to threaten the fragile peace between their people and everything Brynn once believed to be true.
Soon, Brynn's loyalty to the Alaha is tested when an unexpected visitor tracks her down - none other than said enemy soldier - sworn under oath to awaken Brynn to her true identity. Sent to sea and feeling more alone than ever, there a world of denied magic is unveiled. With rumours of a growing rebellion, Brynn's future has never looked so unsure. She was once certain of her fate and where she belonged, but the dark, knowing eyes of this stranger have her questioning everything, including her heart...
Niezwykła historia nawrócenia Rogera Morneau, autora książki ""Niesamowita moc modlitwy"". Doświadczenia i pytania stawiane w dzieciństwie i podczas wojny sprawiły, że Roger Morneau odwrócił się od Boga, a nawet zaczął Go nienawidzić. Po wojnie przyjaciel Rogera wprowadził go do tajnego zgromadzenia czcicieli demonów. Jest to niezwykła opowieść o zetknięciu się z nadziemskimi mocami i ratunku zesłanym przez Boga, którego Morneau nie znał. Oto własna opowieść Rogera Morneau o Bożym ocaleniu z przerażającego świata satanizmu. - Spójrz prawdzie w oczy, Morneau, nie jesteś panem samego siebie. Życzyłbym ci, żebyś był, ale tak nie jest. Duchy sprawują nad tobą całkowitą władzę , im szybciej to sobie uświadomisz, tym lepiej na tym wyjdziesz. Roland zaczął nerwowo chodzić po pokoju, załamując ręce. - Mam do wykonania najtrudniejsze zadanie w swoim życiu. To, co muszę ci przekazać, wolałbym powiedzieć wrogowi, a nie staremu przyjacielowi. W tym momencie Roland zaczął się obficie pocić, chociaż w pokoju wcale nie było gorąco. - Morneau, twoje dni są policzone. Długo nie pożyje też ta młoda para, która odwiodła cię od naszego pana. Jednak muszę ci powiedzieć, że możesz zapobiec planowi zniszczenia zainicjowanemu przez duchy, jeśli zgodzisz się w tej chwili pójść ze mną do najwyższego kapłana. On sprawi, że odzyskasz względy u duchów i wszystko dobrze się skończy. W ten sposób nic nikomu się nie stanie. Musiał przerwać na kilka sekund. Z czoła spływały mu wielkie krople potu, więc wytarł twarz chusteczką. -Najwyższy kapłan pragnie, żebyś jasno zdał sobie sprawę szczególnie z jednej rzeczy. Otóż nikomu nie udało się opuścić tajnego zgromadzenia czcicieli duchów i ujść z życiem. Duchy przyprowadziły nas do tego zgromadzenia i musimy im teraz być posłuszni.
Ian Watson's brilliant debut novel was one of the most significant publications in British SF in the 1970s. Intellectually bracing and grippingly written, it is the story of three experiments in linguistics, and is driven by a searching analysis of the nature of communication. Deep in the Brazilian jungle, an isolated tribe face eviction from their ancestral lands - and the psychedelic fungus that makes their religious language possible.In a British laboratory, a brilliant linguist conducts cutting-edge experiments - but does his search for answers come at too high a cost?And in the ultimate test of linguistics, First Contact presents a challenge unlike any humanity has faced before . . .Fiercely intelligent, energetic and challenging, The Embedding immediately established Watson as a writer of rare power and vision, and is now recognized as a modern classic of SF.
Mars is a desolate world. Largely forgotten by Earth, the planet remains helpless in the stranglehold of Arnie Kott, who as boss of the plumber's union has a monopoly over the vital water supply. Arnie Kott is obsessed by the past; the native Bleekmen, poverty-stricken wanderers, can see into the future; while to Manfred, an autistic boy, time apparently stops.When one of the colonists, Norbert Steiner, commits suicide, the repercussions are startling and bizarre.
A prescient tale of political satire set in a near future America by a master of the genreA few years from now the President of the USA will be an android and his entire government a fraud. Everyone in the country is maladjusted. Doesn't seem possible, does it? Welcome to the world of Dr.Superb, the sole remaining psychotherapist. Philip K. Dick tells a story of desperate love, lethal body odour and an attempted fascistic takeover of the USA and shows that there is always another layer of conspiracy beneath the one we see.
Secrets.
Chocolate.
A touch of magic…
On a warm July evening, Sylviane Rochas scatters her mother’s ashes in New York and lets the changing wind blow her to the French seaside town of Marseille.
For the first time in her life, Vianne holds the future in her own hands. Charming her way into a job as a waitress in a local bistrot, she knows that she is not here to stay – when her child is born in a few months, she must be gone.
As she discovers the joy of cooking, making recipes her own with the addition of bittersweet chocolate spices, she realises that it possesses its own magic in this town full of secrets.
Yet Vianne will never forget her mother’s warning: that there is danger in revealing the true desires of those around her – and she must flee these cobbled streets before it’s too late…
Million-copy bestselling author Joanne Harris returns to the world of Chocolat with the long-awaited story of Vianne, which begins six years before she opens her scandalous chocolaterie in the small French village of Lansquenet.
Merlin is a Prince of Chaos and Amber, Corwin's son and heir. He has grown up knowing that his legacy is to one day follow in his father's footsteps, live up to his father's legend. When Corwin goes missing, that day comes far sooner than he could ever have expected.Merlin must find his own identity as the ruler of the worlds, and discover what kind of King he wants to be. Will he be a warrior like his father, or embrace his own path as a hacker-magician?A generation after Corwin's rise to the throne, Merlin is aided by powers beyond anything Corwin could have imagined. The epic magic from The Chronicles of Amber is wielded alongside sentient computers, a vorpal sword, and the ghosts of those who came before.Featuring the Locus award-winning Trumps of Doom, the Locus nominated Blood of Amber and Sign of Chaos, and the final two novels Knight of Shadows and Prince of Chaos, the Second Chronicles of Amber continues the epic story of Amber and the Shadow worlds.
Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth ... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for Neville's blood.By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilisation. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn. How long can one man survive like this?Winner of the Bram Stoker Prize for Vampire Novel of the Century, I Am Legend is a stunning blend of science fiction and horror.'The most clever and riveting vampire novel since Dracula' - Dean Koontz'Books like I Am Legend were an inspiration to me' - Stephen King'It is, by turns, scary, thrilling, tragic, witty and - ultimately - uplifting' - James LovegroveWelcome to The Best Of The Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction
Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction-What does it mean to be human when you're part of the machine? Synners are synthesizers - not machines, but people. They take images from the brains of performers, and turn them into a form which can be packaged, sold and consumed. They don't use the net, they are the net.Everything is automated. Everything is synthetic. But when the technology starts to fail, the terrifying question remains: what is a human? Winner of the 1992 Arthur C.Clarke Award, Synners was Pat Cadigan's early stories, and cemented her place in the core of the cyberpunk movement, and has even inspired academic works. Lauded for her complex characters and plots, and seen as a stalwart of feminist SF, Cadigan has gone on to win another Clarke and a Hugo for subsequent works. -'Racingly told, linguistically acute, simultaneously pell-mell and precise in its detailing' - The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'Ambitious, brilliantly executed .. . Cadigan is a major talent' - William Gibson'Pat Cadigan is the undisputed Queen of Cyberpunk' - The Fantasy Hive
Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. But his greatest test will be when he returns home. Relativity means that for every few months' tour of duty centuries have passed on Earth, isolating the combatants ever more from the world for whose future they are fighting.The Earth he knew is dead. The one he returns to . .. unrecognisable. Winner of the Nebula, Locus and Hugo awards, The Forever War was the first title selected for the SF Masterworks series when it launched in 1999.Inspired by Haldeman's experience in the Vietnam War, it has been seen as a critical work of anti-war SF. 'This is an enraged and enraging classic that deserves a place alongside Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter as an expression of the pain caused by Vietnam'- Guardian'The book is near perfect'- infinity plus'This book is not only one of the best military science fiction books ever written, but is one of the finest works of modern American literature' - TordotcomWelcome to The Best Of The Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction
Only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of the total annihilation of the universe. They are Arthur Dent, homeless Englishman currently marooned in the deep past; his friend Ford Prefect, temporarily insane to see if he likes it, also marooned; Slartibartfast, once of the planet builders of Magrathea; Zaphod Beeblebrox, ex-confidence trickster and part-time galactic president; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox. In other words: we're doomed.
Gully Foyle, Mechanic’s Mate 3rd Class.
EDUCATION: none
SKILLS: none
MERITS: none
RECOMMENDATIONS: none
That’s the official verdict on Gully Foyle, unskilled space crewman.
But right now he is the only survivor on his drifting, wrecked spaceship, and when another space vessel – the Vorga – ignores his distress flares and sails by, Gully becomes obsessed with revenge. He endures 170 days alone in deep space before finding refuge on the Sargasso Asteroid and returning to Earth to track down the crew and owners of the Vorga. But, as he works out his murderous grudge, Gully Foyle also uncovers a secret of momentous proportions …
Imagine a distant world where gods walk as men, but wield vast and hidden powers. Here they have made the stage on which they build a subtle pattern of alliance, love, and deadly enmity. Are they truly immortal? Who are these gods who rule the destiny of a teeming world?
Their names include Brahma, Kali, Krishna and also he who was called Buddha, the Lord of Light, but who now prefers to be known simply as Sam. The gradual unfolding of the story – how the colonization of another planet became a re-enactment of Eastern mythology – is one of the great imaginative feats of modern science fiction.
Seven years after the day of the bombs, Point Reyes was luckier than most places. Its people were reasonably normal – except for the girl with her twin brother growing inside her, and talking to her. Their barter economy was working. Their resident genius could fix almost anything that broke down. But they didn’t know they were harbouring the one man who almost everyone left alive wanted killed…
Ta niewielka książeczka przetłumaczona na 120 języków świata, zawdzięcza swoją poczytność temu, ze prowadzi do osobistego kontaktu z Bogiem, a przez to do wewnętrznego pokoju. W sposób przystępny wyjaśnia najpiękniejszą i najważniejszą dla zbawienia człowieka naukę Pisma Świętego - o zbawieniu z łaski przez wiarę, która jest konieczna dla prawdziwego poczucia szczęścia.
Wścibski komentarz sąsiadki na temat ułomności twojego dziecka; porażka, która pojawiła się zamiast oczekiwanego sukcesu; proste życzliwe słowo, które było jak światło zapalone w ciemnym, nieznanym korytarzu; wieloletni powrót do normalności po wypadku i bitwa z własnym zniechęceniem; kłamstwo, które zniszczyło życie W życiu każdego z nas są takie chwile, które choć trwają kilka minut, a może sekund decydują o naszym być albo nie być i zmieniają nasze życie i nas samych na zawsze. Właśnie o takich doświadczeniach i przeżyciach opowiadają relacje zebrane w drugiej części serii ""Niesamowite historie"". Autorzy oraz bohaterowie opowiadań zamieszczonych w tym tomie mówią o momentach, które na zawsze odcisnęły swój ślad w ich życiu. Mówi się, że uczymy się na błędach. Niewielu osobom jednak udaje się uczyć nie na swoich błędach, ale na cudzych. Mając tę publikację w dłoniach, możesz wykorzystać doświadczenia i błędy innych, by wyciągnąć z nich wnioski i zmienić siebie oraz swoje życie na lepsze albo możesz żałować, że nigdy tego nie zrobiłeś.Nikt nie wie, dokąd zawiodą go nieznane drogi. Rzadko dostrzegamy moment, w którym wybór drogi będzie miał duże znaczenie, i ten, który będzie tylko punkcikiem w naszym życiu.Joe L. Wheeler
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