Либба Брэй

When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.Written by Libba Bray, the hilarious, sensational, Printz Award-winning author of A Great and Terrible Beauty and Goi...

Добро пожаловать на страницы антологии, в которой собрано четырнадцать рассказов в жанре стимпанк - четырнадцать причудливых картин прошлого, будущего и не-вполне-настоящего! Поклонники стимпанка найдут в этой книге всё, чего ожидают: здесь будут и переулки, смутно освещенные газовыми фонарями, и бесстрашные беспризорники, и паровые машины, и небывалые изобретения. Писатели и художники, чьи произв...

Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and re-craft a world of automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, Utopian revolutionaries, and intrepid orphans solve crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, an...

A Victorian boarding school story, a Gothic mansion mystery, a gossipy romp about a clique of girlfriends, and a dark other-worldly fantasy--jumble them all together and you have this complicated and unusual first novel. Gemma, 16, has had an unconventional upbringing in India, until the day she foresees her mother?s death in a black, swirling vision that turns out to be true. Sent back to Eng...

Джемма Дойл не похожа на других английских девушек. Безупречные манеры, скромность, умение молчать, когда не спрашивают, осознание своего положения в викторианском обществе — не для нее. Увы, Джемма загадка для себя самой. После трагедии, постигшей ее семью, юная мисс Дойл поступает в престижную лондонскую школу Спенс. Одинокая, измученная чувством вины, преследующим ее, одержимая видениями близко...

In this sequel to the Victorian fantasy A Great and Terrible Beauty, Gemma continues to pursue her role as the one destined to bind the magic of the Realms and restore it to the Order--a mysterious group who have been overthrown by a rebellion. Gemma, Felicity and Ann, (her girlfriends at Spence Academy for Young Ladies), use magical power to transport themselves on visits from their corseted worl...

Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City - and she is pos-i-toot-ly thrilled. New York is the city of speakeasies, shopping, and movie palaces! Soon enough, Evie is running with glamorous Ziegfield girls and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is Evie has to live with her Uncle Will, curator of The Museum of American Fol...

When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.Written by Libba Bray, the hilarious, sensational, Printz Award-winning author of A Great and Terrible Beauty and Going Bo...

When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.Written by Libba Bray, the hilarious, sensational, Printz Award-winning author of A Great and Terrible Beauty and Goi...

Добро пожаловать на страницы антологии, в которой собрано четырнадцать рассказов в жанре стимпанк - четырнадцать причудливых картин прошлого, будущего и не-вполне-настоящего! Поклонники стимпанка найдут в этой книге всё, чего ожидают: здесь будут и переулки, смутно освещенные газовыми фонарями, и бесстрашные беспризорники, и паровые машины, и небывалые изобретения. Писатели и художники, чьи произв...

Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and re-craft a world of automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, Utopian revolutionaries, and intrepid orphans solve crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, an...

A Victorian boarding school story, a Gothic mansion mystery, a gossipy romp about a clique of girlfriends, and a dark other-worldly fantasy--jumble them all together and you have this complicated and unusual first novel. Gemma, 16, has had an unconventional upbringing in India, until the day she foresees her mother?s death in a black, swirling vision that turns out to be true. Sent back to Eng...

Джемма Дойл не похожа на других английских девушек. Безупречные манеры, скромность, умение молчать, когда не спрашивают, осознание своего положения в викторианском обществе — не для нее. Увы, Джемма загадка для себя самой. После трагедии, постигшей ее семью, юная мисс Дойл поступает в престижную лондонскую школу Спенс. Одинокая, измученная чувством вины, преследующим ее, одержимая видениями близко...