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Власть несбывшегося by Max Frei
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 15 ratings"Власть несбывшегося" - это, с точки зрения русского читателя, цитата из "Бегущей по волнам" Александра Грина. А с точки зрения образованного жителя Соединённого Королевства, "власть несбывшегося" - это цитата из сочинений Его Высочества Айохты Менке, известного также под прозвищем Принц-Мудрец... -
![Guards! Guards!: The Play by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett]()
Guards! Guards!: The Play by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsAdapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs, in this book the city of Ankh-Morpork is under threat from a 60 foot fire-breathing dragon, summoned by a secret society of malcontented tradesmen. Defending the city is the underpaid and undervalued City Night Watch... -
![5 Novels: Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars / Slaves of Spiegel / The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death / The Last Guru / Young Adult Novel by Daniel Pinkwater, Jules Feiffer]()
5 Novels: Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars / Slaves of Spiegel / The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death / The Last Guru / Young Adult Novel by Daniel Pinkwater, Jules Feiffer
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings5 Novels contains five classic novels by Daniel Pinkwater, who has been quietly, subversively producing books for the most intelligent and creative children and young people in America for more than twenty-five years. (Adults may know him as a frequent commentator on National Public Radio, essayist, book reviewer, and the author of The Afterlife Diet)... -
![Orconomics by J. Zachary Pike]()
Orconomics by J. Zachary Pike
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsBrimming with swords, sorcery, and wit, Orconomics: A Satire introduces Arth, a world much like our own but with more magic and fewer vowels. For the licensed wizards and warriors of Arth, slaying and looting the forces of evil is just a job. The Heroes' Guild has turned adventuring into a career, selling the rights to monsters’ hoards of treasure as investment opportunities... -
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![Interesting Times: The Play by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett]()
Interesting Times: The Play by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novelsThe Discworld's most inept wizard has been sent from Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork to the oppressive Agatean Empire to help some well-intentioned rebels overthrow the Emperor... -
![Holymoly by Heide Goody, Iain Grant]()
Holymoly by Heide Goody, Iain Grant
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStephen and his friends spent their teenage years immersed in the fantasy gaming worlds of wizards and warriors, undertaking quests to fight evil occultists, vanquish terrible monsters and rescue damsels in distress. Now, twenty-something years later, there is a real-life quest. Life as a monk has hardly prepared Brother Stephen for the mission ahead... -
![Son of a Liche by J. Zachary Pike]()
Son of a Liche by J. Zachary Pike
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA doubly disgraced Dwarven hero. A band of accident-prone adventurers. Giving redemption a second shot may have been a grave mistake... Still bruised and heartbroken from their last calamitous quest, Gorm Ingerson and his band of washed-up heroes try to make amends for the Orcs they accidentally betrayed. But justice is put on hold when an old foe marches to the city gates... -
![Hooflandia by Heide Goody, Iain Grant]()
Hooflandia by Heide Goody, Iain Grant
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Jeremy Clovenhoof decides to set himself up as President for Life of his own breakaway country, he knows he'll need money, lots and lots of money. That might be a bit difficult, particularly since the Inland Revenue have just presented him with an enormous tax bill and Heaven and Hell have sent Joan of Arc and Rutspud of the Sixth Circle to bring him under control... -
![Critters from the Poo Lagoon : A 24/7 Demon Mart Creature Feature (24/7 Demon Mart Stories Book 2) by D.M. Guay]()
Critters from the Poo Lagoon : A 24/7 Demon Mart Creature Feature (24/7 Demon Mart Stories Book 2) by D.M. Guay
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne loser, one talking cockroach, and one karate-chopping bombshell stand between YOU and the creatures who just crawled out of the toilet at Jennifer Wallace's charity luau. Wait, what? Back up.It's Friday night, and the Wallace family is hosting a charity pool party at Caroline Ford Vanderbilt's super snooty Country Club... -
![It's a Miracle! by H. Claire Taylor]()
It's a Miracle! by H. Claire Taylor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt would take a miracle for Jessica to live a normal life. Miracles happen when you least expect them. And if you’re Jessica McCloud, God’s only begotten daughter, they happen when you least want them. Is an uneventful senior year of high school too much for Jessica to hope for? Yes. Yes it is... -
![Saint Peter Takes a Holiday, or It’s About Time by Mark Cain]()
Saint Peter Takes a Holiday, or It’s About Time by Mark Cain
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat happens when Heaven’s hardest working saint is forced to take a vacation?In SAINT PETER TAKES A HOLIDAY, OR IT’S ABOUT TIME, a reluctant Simon Peter heads for Aruba and a week in the sun. There, he encounters danger, romance, intrigue … and of course comedy. Magic, miracles, sunbathing and golf, they all happen in this tropical adventure... -
![New Teeth by Simon Rich]()
New Teeth by Simon Rich
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLaugh till you cry in this new collection of stories from the award-winning “Serena Williams of humor writing” (New York Times Book Review) about raising babies and trying not to be one. Called a “comedic Godsend” by Conan O’Brien and “the Stephen King of comedy writing” by John Mulaney, Simon Rich is back with New Teeth, his funniest and most personal collection yet... -
![Maskerade: The Play by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett]()
Maskerade: The Play by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsA play based on terry pratchett's novel maskerade.All is not well in Ankh-Morpork Opera House. A ghost stalks the corridors, leaving strange letters for the management and killing people. Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, two Lancre witches, investigate. This is an adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel, "Maskerade"... -
![Cuddly Holocaust by Carlton Mellick III, Chiara Gamberetta]()
Cuddly Holocaust by Carlton Mellick III, Chiara Gamberetta
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe war between humans and toys has come to an end. The toys won. Teddy bears, dollies, and little green soldiers-they've all had enough of you. They're sick of being treated like playthings for spoiled little brats. They have no rights, no property, no hope for a future of any kind. You've left them with no other option-in order to be free, they must exterminate the human race... -
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![Terry Jones' Fairy Tales by Terry Jones]()
Terry Jones' Fairy Tales by Terry Jones
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree raindrops have an argument on their way out of a cloud ...A silly King goes for a walk with a dog tied to each leg ...An enterprising herring, bored of the North Sea, decides to swim right round the world ...Thirty short stories of magic and adventure penned by Monty Python team member, Terry Jones... -
![Beelzebub: A Memoir by Mark Cain]()
Beelzebub: A Memoir by Mark Cain
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Do you know me? I am Beelzebub, Lord of the Flies, Prince of Hell, second only to Satan himself in the infernal hierarchy. The Devil, you say? Yes, I’m one of those as well.”Here in one laugh-out-loud volume is the life of Beezy, Satan’s BFF, and one of the most popular characters in the CIRCLES IN HELL universe... -
![Helga's Dowry: A Troll Love Story by Tomie dePaola]()
Helga's Dowry: A Troll Love Story by Tomie dePaola
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHelga, a troll, must somehow acquire a dowry with which to marry or, by the god Odin’s command, be doomed to wander the earth forever. “Richly colored pictures capture the droll humor of [Helga’s] clever, determined fight to garner impressive riches... -
![The Scarfolk Annual by Richard Littler]()
The Scarfolk Annual by Richard Littler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Scarfolk Annual is the facsimile of a book discovered in a charity shop in the north west of England in August 2018... -
![The Nightly Disease by Max Booth III]()
The Nightly Disease by Max Booth III
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSleep is just a myth created by mattress salesmen.Isaac, a night auditor of a hotel somewhere in the surreal void of Texas, is sick and tired of his guests. When he clocks in at night, he’s hoping for a nice, quiet eight hours of Netflix-bingeing and occasional masturbation. What he doesn’t want to do is fetch anybody extra towels or dive face-first into somebody’s clogged toilet... -
![Barbarian Chef: A Slice of Life Harem Adventure by Austin Beck]()
Barbarian Chef: A Slice of Life Harem Adventure by Austin Beck
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsChad Stone’s life hasn’t gone the way he’d hoped over the past year. He was laid off and forced to live with his parents in their basement. He dove headfirst into a popular MMORPG and built a crafting empire that made him one of the richest players in the game... -
![Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character (Almost) as Awesome as Me by Carrie Ann DiRisio]()
Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character (Almost) as Awesome as Me by Carrie Ann DiRisio
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHave you ever wished you could receive a little guidance from your favorite book boyfriend? Ever dreamed of being the Chosen One in a YA novel? Want to know all the secrets of surviving the dreaded plot twist? Or maybe you're just really confused about what "opal-tinted, luminous cerulean orbs" actually are? Well, popular Twitter personality @broodingYAhero is here to help as he tackles the... -
![Krilof and his Fables by William Ralston Shedden Ralston]()
Krilof and his Fables by William Ralston Shedden Ralston
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsReprint of the original, first published in 1869... -
![A Tourist Guide to Lancre by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs]()
A Tourist Guide to Lancre by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNot only an artistic and breathtaking view of Lancre but also an interesting and informative guide to one of the Discworld's more, er, picturesque kingdoms.Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick live there. Lancre could hardly be somwhere ordinary, could it?Magic glues the Discworld together and a lot of it ends up in Lancre, principal Kingdom of the Ramtop Mountains... -
![Troll Bridge by Terry Pratchett, LeVar Burton]()
Troll Bridge by Terry Pratchett, LeVar Burton
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPart of a short story tribute anthology to Tolkien, found in After the King: Stories In Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien, it was also reprinted in My Favorite Fantasy Story, in The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories, in The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy and was finally released as free online fiction... -
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![Hit or Myth by Robert Lynn Asprin]()
Hit or Myth by Robert Lynn Asprin
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe apprentice Skeeve is just getting used to his duties as Court Magician of Possiltum. Then King Roderick decides to take a powder, leaving Skeeve in his place to marry his homicidal fiancee and face the Mob's fairy godfather-who makes him an offer he can't refuse... -
![Goodnight Goon (A Petrifying Parody) (CD & Paperback) by Michael Rex, Oliver Wyman]()
Goodnight Goon (A Petrifying Parody) (CD & Paperback) by Michael Rex, Oliver Wyman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPaperback Book & Audio CDTracks:[1] with turn-the-page signals (3:39)[2] no signals... -
![Dating the Undead by Gena Showalter, Jill Monroe]()
Dating the Undead by Gena Showalter, Jill Monroe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey're drop-dead handsome—and we're not kidding!Welcome to the first and only guide devoted to loving the immortal man in all of his furry, feathery, fiery glory... -
![Talking Dirty to the Gods by Yusef Komunyakaa]()
Talking Dirty to the Gods by Yusef Komunyakaa
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA daredevil poetic achievement nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. . . A god isn't worthA drop of water in the hell of his goodImagination, if we can't curse Sunsets & threaten to forsake himIn his storehouse of belladonna,Tiger hornets, & snakebites... -
![Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell]()
Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe story of Manuel the swineherd, who rises to power by playing on others' expectations -- his motto Mundus Vult Decipi, meaning "the world wishes to be deceived... -
![Lightspeed Magazine, March 2016 by John Joseph Adams, Caroline M. Yoachim]()
Lightspeed Magazine, March 2016 by John Joseph Adams, Caroline M. Yoachim
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales. This month, we have original science fiction by Caroline M... -
![The Big-Ass Witch by Gary Jonas]()
The Big-Ass Witch by Gary Jonas
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLife sucks. My old man makes me work for a big-ass witch named Lakesha so I can learn magic and help people. My first gig turns out to be an abduction, which sounds like a job for law enforcement, not a half-assed wizard like yours truly. Just my luck though – it’s a ghost that’s been snatched, which is right in my wheelhouse... -
![Mythfits by Heide Goody, Iain Grant]()
Mythfits by Heide Goody, Iain Grant
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWHAT are the dangers of getting directions from a fairy tale frog? WHERE do archangels go to kick back and relax? HOW can a garden gnome mend a broken heart? WHO is the last person you’d expect to visit you at Christmas? WHY shouldn’t you let Satan organise your funeral? Find out the answers to these and other pressing questions in this collection of short stories from the authors of the... -
![The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs]()
The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsFor more than two decades, Terry Pratchett has been regaling readers with tales of Discworld—a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants, which are standing on the back of a giant turtle, flying through space... -
![O Henry 100 Selected Stories by O. Henry]()
O Henry 100 Selected Stories by O. Henry
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis collection of 100 of O Henry's finest stories is a showcase for the sheer variety of one of America's best and best-loved short story writers The variety of the stories is amazing; O Henry is as at home describing life south of the Rio Grande as he is chronicling the activities and concerns of 'the four million' ordinary citizens who inhabited turn-of-the-century New York... -
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![One Night with the Prince by T.M. Mendes]()
One Night with the Prince by T.M. Mendes
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe rules were simple.15 girls were chosen from royal bloodlines to be with the Prince. They are given one night each with him, and in the end he shall choose a bride and make her Queen.So how did someone from Montana, USA get involved in something that was supposed to be for those chosen? Anna sure doesn’t know, but she knew that she had to stay away from the Prince as much as she could... -
![We Others: New and Selected Stories by Steven Millhauser, Olivier Culmann]()
We Others: New and Selected Stories by Steven Millhauser, Olivier Culmann
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Every reader knows of writers who are like secrets one wants to keep, and whose books one wants to tell the world about. Millhauser is mine.”—David Rollow, Boston Sunday GlobeFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author: the essential stories across three decades that showcase his indomitable imagination... -
![Awoken by Serra Elinsen]()
Awoken by Serra Elinsen
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn his house at R’lyeh, great Cthulhu lies dreaming... of her... -
![A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices by Terry Pratchett]()
A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices by Terry Pratchett
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFree online fiction... -
![Gulliver's Travels (Great Illustrated Classics) by Saviour Pirotta, Jonathan Swift]()
Gulliver's Travels (Great Illustrated Classics) by Saviour Pirotta, Jonathan Swift
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe world's best-loved children's stories set in large type for easy reading...Categorized as:
satire action-adventure book children children-books classics fiction historical-fiction -
![O Fallen Angel by Kate Zambreno, Lidia Yuknavitch]()
O Fallen Angel by Kate Zambreno, Lidia Yuknavitch
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe haunting debut novel that put Kate Zambreno on the map, O Fallen Angel , is a provocative, voice-driven story of a family in crisis—and, more broadly, the crisis of the American family—now repackaged and with a new introduction by Lidia Yuknavitch... -
![The Second Tom Holt Omnibus: My Hero - Who's Afraid of Beowulf? by Tom Holt]()
The Second Tom Holt Omnibus: My Hero - Who's Afraid of Beowulf? by Tom Holt
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo fantastic comic fantasies - MY HERO and WHO'S AFRAID OF BEOWULF? - reissued with brilliant new cover style.This omnibus brings together two of Tom Holt's best-loved stories. In My Hero, Jane thinks writing novels is a piece of cake. Until hers starts writing back. At which point, she really should stop. The one thing she should not do is go into the book herself... -
![Few Are Chosen: K'Barthan Series, Part 1 by M.T. McGuire]()
Few Are Chosen: K'Barthan Series, Part 1 by M.T. McGuire
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFew Are Chosen, K'Barthan Series: Part 1 Meet The Pan of Hamgee: coward, unwilling adventurer and, by some miracle, K’Barth’s longest surviving outlaw. He just wants a quiet life so working as getaway driver is probably a bad career move. Then he falls in love at first sight with a woman he hasn't even met who comes from an alternative reality. That’s when things really begin to get complicated... -
![See You in Paradise by J. Robert Lennon]()
See You in Paradise by J. Robert Lennon
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"I guess the things that scare you are the things that are almost normal," observes one narrator in this collection of effervescent and often uncanny stories. Drawing on fifteen years of work, See You in Paradise is the fullest expression yet of J. Robert Lennon's distinctive and brilliantly comic take on the pathos and surreality at the heart of American life... -
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![The Bizarro Starter Kit (blue) by Steve Aylett, Bradley Sands]()
The Bizarro Starter Kit (blue) by Steve Aylett, Bradley Sands
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere's a new genre rising from the underground. Its name: BIZARRO. For years, readers have been asking for a category of fiction dedicated to the weird, crazy, cult side of storytelling that has become a staple in the film industry (with directors such as David Lynch, Takashi Miike, Tim Burton, and even Lloyd Kaufman) but has been largely ignored in the literary world, until now... -
![Mr. Good by Adam Hargreaves, Roger Hargreaves]()
Mr. Good by Adam Hargreaves, Roger Hargreaves
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMr. Good is one of 85 much loved Mr. Men and Little Miss characters... -
![Alice in Brexitland by Lucien Young]()
Alice in Brexitland by Lucien Young
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsLying on a riverbank on a lazy summer’s afternoon – 23rd June 2016, to be precise – Alice spots a flustered-looking white rabbit called Dave calling for a referendum. Following him down a rabbit-hole, she emerges into a strange new land, where up is down, black is white, experts are fools and fools are experts.. -
![Rubik by Elizabeth Tan]()
Rubik by Elizabeth Tan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe dead aren’t really gone, they persist as phone numbers, social media accounts, newsletter recipients, and as members of fan-fiction forums. Digital ghosts move and connect us: we feel we know people we have only seen online just as corporations masquerade as familiar friends... -
![Parasite Milk by Carlton Mellick III]()
Parasite Milk by Carlton Mellick III
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIrving Rice has just arrived on the planet Kynaria to film an episode of the popular Travel Channel television series Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern: Intergalactic Edition. Having never left his home state, let alone his home planet, Irving is hit with a severe case of culture shock. He's not prepared for Kynaria's mushroom cities, fungus-like citizens, or the giant insect wildlife... -
![Bible Stories for Adults by James K. Morrow]()
Bible Stories for Adults by James K. Morrow
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsMorrow unabashedly delves into matters both sacred and secular in this collection of short stories buoyed by his deliciously irreverent wit. Among the dozen selections is the Nebula Award-winning “Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge.”Contents:Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge (1988)Daughter Earth (1991)Known but to God and Wilbur Hines (1991)Bible Stories for Adults, No...
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