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Winter Queen (B)
Автор: Akunin Boris Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2004 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20092007-04-27
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This is the first book featuring Erast Fandorin, a gentleman sleuth who solves murders and mysteries in Tsarist Russia. Moscow 1876. A young law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow's Alexander Gardens. But this is no ordinary death, for the young man was the son of an influential industrialist and has left a considerable fortune. Erast Fandorin, a hotheaded new recruit to the Criminal Investigation Department, is assigned to the case. Brilliant, young, and sophisticated, Fandorin embarks on an investigation that will take him from the palatial mansions of Moscow to the seedy backstreets of London in his hunt for the conspirators behind this mysterious death.
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The Affirmation
Автор: Christopher Priest Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2006 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20082010-03-28
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Peter Sinclair is tormented by bereavement and failure. In an attempt to conjure some meaning from his life, he embarks on an autobiography, but he finds himself writing the story of another man in another, imagined, world, whose insidious attraction draws him even further in... TheAffirmation is at once an original thriller and a haunting study of schizophrenia; it has a compulsive, dream-like quality.
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Avarice
Автор: Anita Burgh Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 1998 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20092002-03-29
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Three men, an international movie star, an arms dealer and a pharmacueticals giant, meet in a bar in a French Riviera Hotel. Each of them has a secret, and in walks Guthrie Everyman, who presents them with a challenge — put up a million pounds sterling to join a treasure hunt that will lead to the Elixir of Life.
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Barry Trotter And The Dead Horse
Автор: Michael Gerber Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2005 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20082006-12-10
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Barry Trotter is pretty disreputable and unpleasant. Imagine what he was like as a teenager. Here's the beginning of the whole sorry tale. Did Barry and Ermine do it? How exactly did Lon end up with a hole in his head that whistles when the wind blows? Was Lord Valumart always that crass? And where did that ridiculous German accent come from? As funny and twisted as the first two books, Barry Trotter And The Dead Horse is also as affectionate towards JK Rowling's originals. This has lead to the books gaining a devoted following amongst fans of Harry Potter as well as being a welcome antidote for the over-egging of the boy wizard. A process that we're not a part of at all. Oh no. Not even a tiny bit.
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Borderland: A Journey Through The History Of The Ukraine
Автор: Anna Reid Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2003 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 27 октрября 20092006-04-24
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The Ukraine is one of the most neglected countries in the world. It has a population of 52 million — larger than Britain's — and a land mass the size of France; it also has Chernobyl, and after Russia is the largest nuclear power. The word 'Ukraine' means 'borderland' and for most of its history the lands that make up present-day Ukraine have been a collection of other countries' border regions. Prior to Stalinism and Nazism, Ukraine was ethnically extremely diverse, including Russians, Poles, Jews, Greeks and Armenians. Their ghosts linger in language, literature, and architecture, quite distinct from Russia's.
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China Shakes The World
Автор: James Kynge Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20092010-02-29
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The new China, the nation that in 25 years has changed beyond all recognition is becoming an industrial powerhouse for the world. James Kynge shows not only the extraordinary rise of the Chinese economy, but what the future holds as China begins to influence the world. On the eve of the British industrial revolution some 230 years ago, China accounted for one third of the global economy. In 1979, after 30 years of Communism, its economy contributed only two per cent to global GDP. Now it is back up to five per cent, and rising. Although China is already a palpable force in the world, its re-emergence is only just starting to be felt. Kynge shows China's weaknesses — its environmental pollution, its crisis in social trust, its weak financial system and the faltering institutions of its governments — which are poised to have disruptive effects on the world. The fall-out from any failure in China's rush to modernity or simply from a temporary economic crash in the Chinese economy would be felt around the world.
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Convoy! Drama in Arctic Waters
Автор: Paul Kemp Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2000 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 12 апреля 20092001-06-21
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A freshly researched, exciting history of the hard fought wartime convoys to Russia, emphasising the bitter struggle to get material through and desperate attacks by German aircraft and U-boats to prevent it.
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Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Автор: Jeff Lindsay Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2005 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20092008-02-23
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Dexter Morgan isn't exactly the kind of man you'd bring home to your mum. At heart, he's the perfect gentleman: he has a shy girlfriend, and seems to lead a quiet, normal life bordering on the mundane. Despite the fact that he can't stand the sight of blood, he works as a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami police. But Dexter also has a secret hobby: he is an accomplished serial killer. So far, he's killed 36 people and has never been caught because he knows exactly how to hide the evidence. And while that may lead some people to assume he's not such a nice guy, he tempers his insatiable hunger for brutality by only killing the bad guys. However, Dexter's well-organised life is suddenly disrupted when a second, much more visible serial killer appears in Miami. Intrigued that the other killer favours a style similar to his own, Dexter soon realises that the mysterious new arrival is not simply invading his turf but offering him a direct invitation to “come out and play”...
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To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History
Автор: Edmund Wilson Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2004 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20092005-06-23
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From the ideas of the early nineteenth-century socialists to the thoughts of Marx and Engels, Lenin and Trotsky, Edmund Wilson traces the development of the political and intellectual movements that culminated in the Russian Revolution. To The Finland Station is a work of history on a grand scale, at once sweeping and detailed, closely reasoned and passionately argued, that succeeds in painting an unforgettable picture — alive with conspirators and philosophers, utopians and nihilists — of the making of the modern world.
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AD 500: A Journey Through the Dark Isles of Britain and Ireland
Автор: Simon Young Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2006 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20102010-03-19
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AD 500 is written as a practical survival guide for the use of civilised visitors to the barbaric islands of Britain and Ireland. It describes a journey which begins in Cornwall and continues through Wales and Ireland, then across to Scotland and eventually down to London and southern Britain. The Romans have left, and the islands are now fought over by Irish, British Celts, Picts and Saxons. It is a dangerous world, full of tribal war. The British Celts are enthusiastic head-hunters, while the Saxon gods require regular blood sacrifices, animal and sometimes human. There are social pitfals too (`Do not make fun of the Celts' beliefs about Arthur'...'Don't refuse a place in a Welsh collective bed.') Cheviot bandits, bizarre forms of Christianity, boat burials, peculiar haircuts, human sacrifice, poetry competitions, slave markets, the legend of King Arthur — these are the realities of life in the sixth century AD.
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The Anubis Gates
Автор: Tim Powers Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2005 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20082007-07-14
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Brendan Doyle is a twentieth-century English professor who travels back to 1810 London to attend a lecture given by English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This is a London filled with deformed clowns, organised beggar societies, insane homunculi and magic. When he is kidnapped by gypsies and consequently misses his return trip to 1983, the mild-mannered Doyle is forced to become a street-smart con man, escape artist, and swordsman in order to survive in the dark and treacherous London underworld. He defies bullets, black magic, murderous beggars, freezing waters, imprisonment in mutant-infested dungeons, poisoning, and even a plunge back to 1684. Coleridge himself and poet Lord Byron make appearances in the novel, which also features a poor tinkerer who creates genetic monsters and a werewolf that inhabits others' bodies when his latest becomes too hairy.
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Asterix and the Goths
Автор: Rene Goscinny Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2004 Страниц: 48 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20092006-10-11
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Gaul was divided into three parts. No, four parts — for one small village of indomitable Gauls still held out against the Roman invaders. BOOK 3 Again Getafix is kidnapped, this time by a raiding band of Goths. Asterix and Obelix follow them into Germania and, in the process of rescuing their druid, set off a whole series of tribal wars.
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Blood Red, Snow White — A Novel of the Russian Revolution
Автор: Marcus Sedgwick Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20102010-10-13
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Set at the time of the Russian Revolution, the end of a centuries old dynasty, the rise of the Bolsheviks sent shockwaves around the world. This is the story of one man who was there. It's real history — about the riches and excesses, the glory of the Russian nobility, Nicholas and Alexandra, their haemophiliac son, Alexei, notorious Rasputin, Lenin and Trotsky who ruled from palaces where the Czars had once danced till dawn. The man was real too, his name was Arthur Ransome. He was a writer, accused of being a spy, perhaps even a double agent, and he left his wife and beloved daughter and fell in love with Russia and a Russian woman, Evgenia. Fictionalising history and blending it with real life, part i is told as a fairy tale. Wise and foolish kings, princesses, enchantresses (characters more suited to fairy tale than reality), wishes and magic, Russia with its vast cold plains and mighty cities, its riches and poverty, all play a part in the downfall of the Czars and rise of the new order. Part ii is about betrayal — Ransome the spy, bleak and threatening. Part iii is a love story, a fairy tale, ending — of Ransome's love for his daughter, Tabitha, and for Evgenia.
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The Bourne Ultimatum (Film tie-in)
Автор: Robert Ludlum Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 736 Дата загрузки: 20 октрября 20102009-05-15
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It all starts with a cat-and-mouse chase to the death in a Baltimore funfair: the Jackal, Bourne's age-old antagonist, is back and Bourne is forced from his idyllic retirement with his wife and children to confront his enemy. In Europe, Russia and America there are men and women whose lust for power is disguised by their positions and respectability. Their aim: to gain control at the highest level, to avenge, to destroy. Jason Bourne has been the assassin before: now he longs for peace with his family, but the threat of the Jackal puts in jeopardy all possibility of peace...
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Brandenburg
Автор: Henry Porter Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2006 Страниц: 592 Дата загрузки: 13 февраля 20082007-12-10
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The Stasi was among the most sophisticated intelligence organisations in the world, but by the end of the 1980s the Orwellian state of East Germany was collapsing around it. The special squads of armed officers, the torture chambers in the Stasi jail, the hundreds of thousands of informers could do nothing to prevent the rebellion that saw the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is in the context of these last few paranoid weeks of the Communist world, when a population that had been oppressed for nearly sixty years found the will to rise up, that this outstanding thriller is set. Its hero is Dr Rudolf Rosenharte, an academic from Dresden and agent for MI6; his controller is Robert Harland, from A SPY'S LIFE and EMPIRE STATE. When Rosenharte's security is compromised he is faced with a stark choice: to defect to the West, leaving his beloved family to the mercies of the Stasi, or return to East Germany to carry out a dangerous assignment under the Stasi's suspicious eye... When Rosenharte's security is compromised he is faced with a stark choice: to defect to the West, leaving his beloved family to the mercies of the Stasi, or return to East Germany to carry out a dangerous assignment under the Stasi's suspicious eye...
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A Certain Chemistry
Автор: Mil Millington Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2006 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20102010-03-19
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Tom Cartwright is a ghost-writer: eking out a living in Edinburgh, he is always ready to assumethe persona of a struggling working mother-of-four, or a round-the-world yachtsman, or a 'sensual' aromatherapist — indeed anyone his agent asks him to be, so long as it brings in money. When he is offered the highly lucrative task of ghosting the autobiography of glamorous young soap star Georgina Nye, he and his girlfriend Sara are thrilled: Sara is a big fan of George's and Tom will finally be able to afford some new carpets for their house. But soon things go awry when Tom finds himself drawn to George by forces outside his control (even though they are inside his own body). Does his relationship with Sara stand a chance in the face of this explosion of chemistry? Is this love or just oxytocin — and is there a difference?
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Dexter in the Dark
Автор: Jeff Lindsay Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20102010-07-23
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Dexter Morgan is busy planning his wedding to Rita to complete his nice-guy disguise. But when a student is found burnt, molested and headless — seemingly sacrificed to an ancient god — and Dex is brought in as forensic analyst to help investigate, he realises he could be dealing with someone a whole lot more sinister than he is. Soon it seems the dark passenger in Dexter's head has gone into hiding. And when something creeps out your friendly neighbourhood serial killer, you know it's serious ... As Halpern and Dexter are stalked by death, it looks like it's getting personal — especially as Dex now has a family to protect. Gradually, Dexter realises his stepchildren might share his extracurricular interest in death. Could he help them target their bloodlust, just as he steers his own? But to do that, Dex must cope with a certain mutilated sergeant from his past, and more importantly ...stay alive ...
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The Extremes
Автор: Christopher Priest Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2005 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20082006-12-10
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British-born Teresa Simons returns to England after the death of her husband, an FBI agent, who was killed by an out-of-control gunman while on assignment in Texas. A shocking coincidence has drawn her to the run-down south coast town of Bulverton, where a gunman's massacre has haunting similarities to the murders in Texas. Desperate to unravel the mystery, Teresa turns to the virtual reality world of Extreme Experience, ExEx, now commercially available since she trained on it in the US. The best and worst of human experience can be found in ExEx, and in the extremes of violence Teresa finds that past and present combine...
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Flowers For Algernon
Автор: Daniel Keyes Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2000 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20092002-07-28
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Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper, and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes, until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental tranformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary.
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The Glamour
Автор: Christopher Priest Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20102010-10-13
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Cameraman Richard Grey's memory has blanked out the few weeks before he was injured in a car bomb explosion. When he is visited by a girl who seems to have been his lover, his attempts to recall the forgotten period produce an odyssey through France and conflicting accounts of what happened. When Susan Kewley speaks to him of that time, he finds himself glimpsing a terrible twilight world — the world of «the glamour».
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