Showing results for "The Branch" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

In The Salem Branch, Barnabas Collins, the vampire hero of the series, has recently become a human again through the efforts of his devoted descendent, Dr. Julia Hoffman, and is living in current day Collinsport, Maine, trying to adjust to normal life. Although engaged to marry Dr. Hoffman, he falls in love with a mysterious woman named Antoinette who has bought the ruins of "the old house" on the Collins estate and is restoring it while living with a band of hippies in the woods.

In this volume we meet the novelist, Felix Kennaston, who lives in parallel worlds. One of these is with his wife in their suburban Virginia home and genteel society. The other is with the beautiful Lady Ettarre, who shares his travels through space and time to meet, among many others, Oliver Cromwell, Napoleon, and the Emperor Tiberius. Lusty and magical, romantic and rueful, subtly erotic and laced with sardonic humor, this absorbing book is highly regarded as a masterwork of Fantasy literature.

A classic tale featuring two of the most-memorable characters in sword and sorcery, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Over a span of 50 years, the late Fritz Leiber wrote dozens of adventures, set in the fictional city of Lankhmar, featuring the seven-foot-tall barbarian and the diminuitive thief. The stories were recognized with both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Моя жизнь похожа на историю Золушки. Когда-то я была гадким утёнком, вынужденным работать официанткой в две смены, а все деньги забирала мачеха. Всё изменилось, когда я поступила в Академию Космического Флота, где я обрела семью и встретила своего принца. Правда, он об этом так и не узнал…

"Уже несколько лет я работаю официанткой в две смены, чтобы скопить на свою мечту, но вынуждена отдавать всю зарплату мачехе. В один прекрасный день всё меняется, когда на планету прилетает делегация от Космического Флота для набора абитуриентов.