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Над вымыслом. Правдивый рассказ про конец света

«Над вымыслом. Правдивый рассказ про конец света» – матросские байки из цикла «Суши заказывали? Вот вам!», написанные уже после конца света, – с элементами ненормативной лексики в речах некоторых несдержанных персонажей; автор, конечно, приносит свои извинения читателю, но, как говорится, из песни слова не выкинешь. Просьба не искать сравнений с реальными событиями и людьми, потому что всё здесь – от начала до конца! – выдумка, обман и сочинительство. Но… как говорил бессмертный Порфирий Лавров Неунывающий, «когда я заявляю, что обманываю вас, я вас обманываю!» Итак, вперед, читатель! «Ах, обмануть меня не трудно!.. Я сам обманываться рад!» (А. С. Пушкин, «Признание») Содержит нецензурную брань.

The Dead Go to Seattle

Vivian Faith Prescott

Red Hen's promotional efforts for this title will include:
• Packaged ARC mailing 4-6 months pre pub date to a core list of 30+ reviewers, booksellers, media contacts, professors, and librarians (package includes 2-7 other titles from the C list in the same season that fit together in some way), with a focus on Alaskan, indigenous, and Pacific Northwest publications.
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Bigfoots in Paradise

Doug Lawson

Beauty and terror collide in Doug Lawson’s Bigfoots in Paradise, a wild new collection of stories set largely in and around Santa Cruz, California and the surrounding mountains. It’s a land tucked between Silicon Valley and the Pacific Ocean, one that’s populated by aging hippies and venture capitalist sharks, pot farmers and surfers, child prodigies and roaming herds of wild boar. Earthquakes rumble, meth labs explode, helicopters search overhead for drug farms while wildfires ravage the hillsides. Blimps crash, mushrooms dream, dogfights erupt, trustafarians pontificate while pneumatic ostriches walk the streets and sons and fathers and lovers try desperately to find some way to connect with the past, with themselves, before it’s too late. Doug’s prize-winning prose is as nimble and touching as it is lyric, and he plunges headlong into this astonishing country at a fine-tuned, white-knuckled pace that will leave you both gasping for breath and holding your heart in your hands. His characters are awkward, ungainly, and great at hiding and they shamble through the beautiful wilderness of their lives, searching for meaning, searching for themselves. 
• In The Mushroom Hunter, a young man goes to live with his once-violent childhood friend, the man’s girlfriend and her son, just before the massive Loma Prieta earthquake strikes. They hunt mushrooms up and down the mountains as the mountains build up to the great quake, not realizing the danger they’re all in from the quake, and from each other. • In Catch the Air, a blimp crashes into the ocean as a start-up company fails and a father and son struggle with the father’s famous, failing mind. • In The Night Witches, a face out of her counter-cultural past causes a Santa Cruz mother to re-evaluate everything she’s come to call her life. • In House on Bear Mountain, a woman inherits a vacation house in the Sierras from her dead husband, only to find her husband’s family isn’t quite ready to let it go yet. • In a modern take on Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, The Beekeeper of Rio Momon sends a group of urban farmers on a misguided quest for one of their own, deep into the South American wilderness. • In Bigfoots in Paradise, a group of friends set out to film bigfoot in the Santa Cruz Mountains, only to discover there’s a lot more bigfoot inside of each of them.
 
Doug’s stories stand out today for their verbal pyrotechnics, their dark humor and their emotional impact. His Santa Cruz stories tackle themes of parenthood, memory, class divide, self-indulgence, and adulthood in a way that leaves his characters’ hearts bare, and their minds spinning, while as readers we can’t imagine what could possibly happen next.

Hornblower and the Hotspur

C S. Forester

Hornblower and the Hotspur (1962) is the third book in the series chronologically, but the tenth by order of publication, and serves as the basis for one of the episodes of the Hornblower series of television films. With the Peace of Amiens under strain and war with France under Napoleon Bonaparte imminent in May 1803, Hornblower is promoted from Lieutenant to Commander and appointed to command the sloop HMS Hotspur. While readying for sea, he hastily marries Maria, the daughter of his landlady, at the Garrison Church, Portsmouth. However, Hornblower marries her not out of love but out of pity, and is forced to exercise his acting ability to make her believe that he genuinely loves her. Hotspur reconnoiters the approaches to the French naval base of Brest, and narrowly avoids capture when war is declared. Once the British fleet blockades Brest, Hornblower's restlessness and perfectionism prompts him to lead attacks and landing parties.

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

C S. Forester

Horatio Hornblower commences his career in the Royal Navy as an inexperienced midshipman in January 1794. Through a series of challenges and adventures both in and out of combat, Hornblower discovers he is actually talented in both seamanship and leadership. People initially thought Hornblower a dullard but later grew to respect him.

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

"Robinson Crusoe" relates the story of a man's shipwreck on a desert island for 28 years and his subsequent adventures. Throughout its episodic narrative, Crusoe's struggles with faith are apparent as he bargains with God in times of life-threatening crises, but time and again he turns his back after his deliverances. He is finally content with his lot in life, separated from society, following a more genuine conversion experience.

Tarzan and the Golden Lion

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Flora Hawkes, a previous housemaid of the Claytons', overheard the story of Tarzan's discovery of the treasure chamber in the lost city of Opar (from The Return of Tarzan and Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar). Managing to copy his map to the city, she concocts a plan to lead an expedition to collect the gold. To discourage any local denizens from questioning them, she has found a Tarzan look-alike to accompany them… Originally published as a serial in Argosy All-Story Weekly between December 9, 1922 and January 20, 1923.

The Second Adventure MEGAPACK®

Frank Belknap Long

The Second Adventure MEGAPACK® assembles 23 tales (and a poem) of grand adventure. We’ve plundered a wide variety of sources to bring you an assortment of rip-roaring action tales, exotic locales, and even a little romance—spanning many continents and time periods. So hold onto your hat (if you’re wearing one) and get ready for a thrilling read! Included are:> THE REBEL, by Frank Belknap Long (poem) PEARL OF GREAT PRICE, by Joseph J. Millard WOLF, by Ernest Haycox THE EMERGENCY MEN, by George H. Jessop IN AN OUTPOST OF EMPIRE, by Jacob Hay AN ORIGINAL REVOLUTION, by Johnston McCulley THE TWO-LEGGED ONE, by Talmage Powell SHIMA MARU, by James Holding THE CLOUDBURSTERS, by Francis Lynde THE OCEAN LEECH, by Frank Belknap Long FOR WOUNDING—RETALIATION, by Nictzin Dyalhis QUEST OF THE SPLIT MAP, by Chester S. Geier DEAD HEROES DON’T COUNT, by Donald Barr Chidsey HOT BLOOD, by Arthur Wallace QUEEN OF THE FLAMING ARROWS, by Frank E. Marks THE HONOR OF THE LEGION, by John D. Newsom INCIDENT OFF LAND’S-END, by Jacob Hay ON A DARK NIGHT, by Donald Barr Chidsey AN INSTRUMENT OF THE GODS, by Lincoln Colcord THE HOUNDS OF KALIMAR, by P. Schuyler Miller THE LIZARD GOD, by Charles J. Finger THE KING OF THE JERAWAHS, by S. B. H. HURST THE MERCHANT OF BASRA, by Dudley Hoys THE BALL OF FIRE, by S. B. H. Hurst A note for the sensitive: as with many works that appeared in the early part of the 20th century, some of the fiction contained here may contain «yellow peril,» racism, or other elements which are politically incorrect by modern standards. Please keep in mind the context of their original appearances. If you enjoy this ebook, check out the more than 350 other volumes in the MEGAPACK® series, which include classic and modern tales of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, adventure, and much, much more! Search for «Wildside Megapack» in your favorite ebook store to see the complete list of available titles.

Kidnapped

Роберт Льюис Стивенсон

Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886. The novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel. A sequel, Catriona, was published in 1893.

The Spicy-Adventure MEGAPACK ®: 25 Tales from the "Spicy" Pulps

Robert Leslie Bellem

The pulp magazines of the early to mid 20th Century are often «politically incorrect» by modern standards. However, the «Spicy» magazines – Spicy-Adventure Stories , Spicy Mystery , Spicy Western , etc. – were politically incorrect by their own contemporary standards as well. With the occasional passing glimpse of a creamy-smooth thigh (or other womanly part!), and often filled with sexism, racism, and over-the-top plots and language, they nevertheless manage to titillate with more innuendo than anything else. If you find such things offensive, this is definitely not the right MEGAPACK™ for you. But if you enjoy the occasional stroll down the back alleys of pulp publishing, here's a walk on the seamy side of the 1930s! Included are: THE SHANGHAI JESTER, by Robert Leslie Bellem BLACK MURDER, by Carl Moore  SUEZ SOUVENIR, by Jerome Hyams THE HOUSE OF WEIRD SLEEP, by Charles R. Allen  CAVE OF THE CRISS-CROSS KNIVES, by C.C. Spruce HOT BLOOD, by Arthur Wallace THE MOON GOD TAKES, by Robert Leslie Bellem SMUGGLER’S ISLAND, by Atwater Culpepper TALISMAN OF DOOM, by James W. Marvin TATTOOED BLONDE, by Ellery Watson Calder WHITE MEAT, by Don King RED BAMBOO, by Jason Lyttell THE BLACK , by Ellery Watson Calder THE ISLE OF MONSTERS, by Jane Thomas  TUFFY AND HIS HAREM, by Nick Anderson  QUEEN OF THE FLAMING ARROWS, by Frank E. Marks VALLEY OF BLOOD, by Victor Rousseau LUST TO KILL, by Jose Vaca MARRIAGE FOR MURDER, by C.A.M. Donne MESSAGE TO MORGAN, by Guy Russell  RIVER OF FIRE, by Ken Cooper SKY GODDESS, by Clive Trent LEAF OF THE LOTUS, by Guy Russell  THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTER, by Clark Nelson  ADVENTURE'S END, by Robert Leslie Bellem If you enjoy this volume of classic stories, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see the 230+ other entries in this series, including mysteries, adventure, science fiction, fantasy, horror, westerns – and much, much more!