<p>Royal Savage sprawiał wrażenie groźnego i nieprzystępnego. Była w nim jakaś dzikość. I gniew. Prowadził salon tatuażu i był w tym najlepszy, ale zmagał się z traumą. Jakiś czas temu w dramatycznych okolicznościach stracił narzeczoną. Nie potrafił się z tego otrząsnąć i wrócić do normalnego życia. Przez jakiś czas wydawało mu się, że znajdzie ukojenie w robieniu skrajnie niebezpiecznych rzeczy. Niestety, to nie działało. Mrok, ból i tajemnica przepełniały życie Royala bez reszty.</p> <p>Avalon Knight była ślicznotką o delikatnej twarzy, a przy tym kobietą silną i niezależną. Jej związek z Coltonem właśnie się wypalił i rozstanie było kwestią czasu. Nie chciała już znosić jego kaprysów i manipulacji. Postanowiła iść własną drogą. Tymczasem na tej drodze pojawił się Royal z jego mrocznym, hipnotyzującym spojrzeniem.</p> <p>Oboje powinni siebie unikać ze wszystkich sił. Jednak Avalon wywróciła życie Royala do góry nogami. Dzień wcześniej pragnął tylko zniknąć i przestać czuć bolesny żal. Kiedy ją zobaczył, wszystko się zmieniło. Od tej pory całym światem była tylko ona. A Avalon nie mogła się oprzeć dzikości w oczach Royala. I chociaż był niebezpieczny ? zarówno dla jej duszy, jak i ciała - nigdy niczego ani nikogo nie pragnęła bardziej. Oboje wkrótce zrozumieli, że nie mogą bez siebie żyć, choć wiedzieli, że decydując się na bycie razem, podejmują wielkie ryzyko...</p> <h2>Czy masz dość odwagi, by całkowicie się zatracić?</h2>
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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the brutal oppression of the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding savage brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events, most notably Charles Darnay, a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Sydney Carton, a dissipated English barrister who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of love for Darnay's wife, Lucie Manette.
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In post-Cold War Moscow, business is booming and crime pays. Capitalism has come to Russia, and money is raining from the sky. As the trickle of cash turns to a torrent, bureaucrats become oligarchs, and the brutal Russian mafia consolidates its power. In the center of this madness is police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov, a thoughtful detective who is struggling to adjust to life in these turbulent times. A prominent businessman is kidnapped in broad daylight, minutes after finishing the paperwork to start his latest business venture. Three children, as innocent-looking as they are savage, terrorize a slum. And tax collectors discover a cache of historic Russian treasures dating to before the Revolution, but the trove vanishes overnight. As his country races into the future, the limping policeman will have to run to keep up. About the Author. Stuart M. Kaminsky (1934-2009) was one of the most prolific crime fiction authors of the last four decades. Born in Chicago, he spent his youth immersed in pulp fiction and classic cinema - two forms of popular entertainment which he would make his life's work. After college and a stint in the army, Kaminsky wrote film criticism and biographies of the great actors and directors of Hollywood's Golden Age. In 1977, when a planned biography of Charlton Heston fell through, Kaminsky wrote Bullet for a Star, his first Toby Peters novel, beginning a fiction career that would last the rest of his life. Kaminsky penned twenty-four novels starring the detective, whom he described as "the anti-Philip Marlowe." In 1981's Death of a Dissident, Kaminsky debuted Moscow police detective Porfiry Rostnikov, whose stories were praised for their accurate depiction of Soviet life. His other two series starred Abe Lieberman, a hardened Chicago cop, and Lew Fonseca, a process server. In all, Kaminsky wrote more than sixty novels. He died in St. Louis in 2009. Review quote. "Impressive. . . . Kaminsky has staked a claim to a piece of the Russian turf. . . . He captures the Russian scene and characters in rich detail." - The Washington Post Book World. "Quite simply the best cop to come out of the Soviet Union since Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko in Gorky Park." - The San Francisco Examiner. "Stuart Kaminsky's Rostnikov novels are among the best mysteries being written." - The San Diego Union-Tribune. "For anyone with a taste for old Hollywood B-movie mysteries, Edgar winner Kaminsky offers plenty of nostalgic fun . . . The tone is light, the pace brisk, the tongue firmly in cheek." - Publishers Weekly. "Marvelously entertaining." - Newsday. "Makes the totally wacky possible . . . Peters [is] an unblemished delight." - Washington Post. "The Ed McBain of Mother Russia." - Kirkus Reviews.
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From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The story begins: In the early sixties a trail led from the broad Missouri, swirling yellow and turgid between its green-groved borders, for miles and miles out upon the grassy Nebraska plains, turning westward over the undulating prairie, with its swales and billows and long, winding lines of cottonwoods, to a slow, vast heave of rising ground-Wyoming-where the herds of buffalo grazed and the wolf was lord and the campfire of the trapper sent up its curling blue smoke from beside some lonely stream; on and on over the barren lands of eternal monotony, all so gray and wide and solemn and silent under the endless sky; on, ever on, up to the bleak, black hills and into the waterless gullies and through the rocky gorges where the deer browsed and the savage lurked; then slowly rising to the pass between the great bold peaks, and across the windy uplands into Utah, with its verdant valleys, green as emeralds, and its haze-filled canons and wonderful wind-worn cliffs and walls, and its pale salt lakes, veiled in the shadows of stark and lofty rocks, dim, lilac-colored, austere, and isolated.
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About the year of our Lord 997, Adelbert, Bishop of Prague, with two companions, set out on a missionary tour to the shores of the Baltic. The savage inhabitants killed him. Still Christianity gradually gained ground. As the ages rolled on, idolatry disappeared, and nominal Christianity took its place. The people were poor, ignorant, widely dispersed, and but partially civilized. During weary centuries, as generations came and went, nothing in that region occurred of interest to the world at large. When, in the sixteenth century, Protestantism was rejected by Southern Europe, it was accepted by the inhabitants of this wild region. At the commencement of the eighteenth century, there was found upon the southern shores of the Baltic a small territory, about as large as the State of Massachusetts, called the Marquisate of Brandenburg. The marquis belonged to a very renowned family, known as the House of Hohenzollern. At the distance of some miles east of this marquisate, there was a small duchy called Prussia. The Marquis of Brandenburg, who had come into possession of the duchy, being a very ambitious man, by skilful diplomacy succeeded in having the united provinces of Prussia and Brandenburg recognized by the Emperor of Germany as the kingdom of Prussia. The sovereigns of Southern Europe looked quite contemptuously upon this newborn and petty realm, and were not at all disposed to receive the parvenu king into their society as an equal...
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Jon Savage, periodista experto en subculturas juveniles y autor del galardonado England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols y el Punk Rock, explora en Teenage. La invención de la juventud 1875-1945 la prehistoria oculta del fenómeno que transformó la sociedad contemporánea, la emergencia de la juventud como una etapa diferenciada entre la niñez y el mundo adulto. Es este un libro monumental, un trabajo titánico de investigación que arranca en 1875 y termina en 1945, en el momento en que el término teenage –o sus traducciones– se convierte en parte integral de la cultura popular, y en el que Savage ha sumado información de múltiples y muy variadas fuentes: literatura científica y popular, periódicos, publicidad, música, cine, moda, política, arte... Teenage. La invención de la juventud 1875-1945escruta durante siete décadas el devenir de la juventud y sus muchas y divergentes direcciones, y por sus páginas deambulan bandas de gamberros juveniles, boy scouts y románticos que buscaban la vuelta a la naturaleza, carne de cañón en la Gran Guerra, las flappers de los locos años veinte y su pasión por el jazz, los rebeldes del swing alemanes o la visión militarista de las Juventudes Hitlerianas. Savage hace un retrato que cruza generaciones y clases sociales, analizando sus contextos y sus experiencias, sus expectativas y sus sueños, sus éxitos y sus fracasos. Pero, además de los intensos vectores de creatividad y vitalidad, pero también de destrucción y alienación, que tensan a esta juventud, Savage no pierde de vista las presiones del mundo adulto para moldear y orientar estos vectores, sea hacia un consumismo rampante sea como soldados para nuevas guerras. Las páginas deTeenage. La invención de la juventud 1875-1945 están llenas de música, de jazz y ragtime y swing, y sus historias se suceden rápidas y llenas de pasión, cómicas o dolorosas, pero siempre conmovedoras. Las experiencias personales se anudan con el análisis global de un tiempo cuajado de conflictos, tejiendo un fresco caleidoscópico de cultura popular e historia social. Una exuberante crónica del nacimiento de la juventud.
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<p>Powieść autorki A Million Kisses in Your Lifetime!</p> <p>Summer Savage właśnie zmieniła szkołę i rozpoczęła naukę w elitarnym Lancaster Prep. Dziewczyna nie liczyła na ciepłe przyjęcie, ale nie sądziła, że będzie aż tak źle. Wszyscy patrzą na nią z niechęcią, a jeden chłopak od samego początku daje jej do zrozumienia, że właśnie wkroczyła do piekła. </p> <p>Summer już wcześniej poznała Whita Lancastera, i to w okolicznościach, o których wolałaby zapomnieć. On dobrze wie, kim jest nowa dziewczyna, i jak udało jej się dostać do szkoły mającej w nazwie jego rodowe nazwisko. </p> <p>Wkrótce Whit przyczynia się do tego, aby pobyt Summer w „jego” placówce nie należał do przyjemnych. Jednak kiedy spotykają się pewnego wieczoru, to nie ona, a on potrzebuje pomocy. Wtedy Summer się od niego odwraca.</p> <p>Wkrótce przyjdzie jej tego pożałować. Chłopak zabiera jej coś, co skrywa jej największe sekrety, i grozi, że je ujawni, chyba że Summer…</p> <p>Książka zawiera treści nieodpowiednie dla osób poniżej szesnastego roku życia. Opis pochodzi od Wydawcy.</p>
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The desire to preserve to future ages the memory of past achievements is a universal human instinct, as witness the clay tablets of old Chaldea, the hieroglyphs of the obelisks, our countless thousands of manuscripts and printed volumes, and the gossiping old story-teller of the village or the backwoods cabin. The reliability of the record depends chiefly on the truthfulness of the recorder and the adequacy of the method employed. In Asia, the cradle of civilization, authentic history goes back thousands of years; in Europe the record begins much later, while in America the aboriginal narrative, which may be considered as fairly authentic, is all comprised within a thousand years. The peculiar and elaborate systems by means of which the more cultivated ancient nations of the south recorded their histories are too well known to students to need more than a passing notice here. It was known that our own tribes had various ways of depicting their mythology, their totems, or isolated facts in the life of the individual or nation, but it is only within a few years that it was even suspected that they could have anything like continuous historical records, even in embryo. The fact is now established, however, that pictographic records covering periods of from sixty to perhaps two hundred years or more do, or did, exist among several tribes, and it is entirely probable that every leading mother tribe had such a record of its origin and wanderings, the pictured narrative being compiled by the priests and preserved with sacred care through all the shifting vicissitudes of savage life until lost or destroyed in the ruin that overwhelmed the native governments at the coming of the white man. Several such histories are now known, and as the aboriginal field is still but partially explored, others may yet come to light.
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