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Asterix and Caesar's Gift
Автор: 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 21 On being demobilised from the Roman army Legionary Tremensdelirius gets the title deeds to the little Gaulish village. Soon, however, he swaps them for a drink in a tavern and the landlord Orthopaedix, his wife Angina and their daughter Influenza set off to claim their rights. Strange to say, Asterix and his friends don't see it quite the same way.
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Horrid Henry and the Football Fiend
Автор: Francesca Simon Жанр: Литература на иностранных языках Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20122012-07-23
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Horrid Henry reads Perfect Peter's diary and improves it; goes clothes shopping with Mum and tries to make her buy him some Rootatoot trainers; is horrified when his old enemy Bossy Bill turns up at school; and tries by any means, fair or foul, to win the class football match and defeat Moody Margaret.
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The Winter Ghosts
Автор: Kate Mosse Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20122013-09-14
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The Great War took much more than lives. It robbed a generation of friends, lovers and futures. In Freddie Watson's case, it took his beloved brother and, at times, his peace of mind. Unable to cope with his grief, Freddie has spent much of the time since in a sanatorium. In the winter of 1928, still seeking resolution, Freddie is travelling through the French Pyrenees — another region that has seen too much bloodshed over the years. During a snowstorm, his car spins off the mountain road. Shaken, he stumbles into the woods, emerging by a tiny village. There he meets Fabrissa, a beautiful local woman, also mourning a lost generation. Over the course of one night, Fabrissa and Freddie share their stories of remembrance and loss. By the time dawn breaks, he will have stumbled across a tragic mystery that goes back through the centuries. By turns thrilling, poignant and haunting, this is a story of two lives touched by war and transformed by courage.
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The Other Wind: An Earthsea Novel
Автор: Ursula Le Guin Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2003 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20092005-05-26
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The wizard Alder comes from Roke to the island of Gont in search of the Archmage, Lord Sparrowhawk, once known as Ged. The man who was once the most powerful wizard in the Islands now lives with his wife Tenar and their adopted daughter Tehanu. Alder needs help: his beloved wife died and in his dreams she calls him to the land of the dead — and now the dead are haunting him, begging for release. He can no longer sleep, and the Wizards of Earthsea are worried. But there is more at stake than the unquiet rest of one minor wizard: for the dragons of Earthsea have arisen, to reclaim the lands that were once theirs. Only Tehanu, herself daughter of a dragon, can talk to them; it may be that Alder's dreams hold the key to the salvation of Earthsea and all the peoples who live there.
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City
Автор: Clifford D.Simak Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2011 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20152013-10-31
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On a far future Earth, mankind's achievements are immense: artificially intelligent robots, genetically uplifted animals, interplanetary travel, genetic modification of the human form itself. But nothing comes without a cost. Humanity is tired, its vigour all but gone. Society is breaking down into smaller communities, dispersing into the countryside and abandoning the great cities of the world. As the human race dwindles and declines, which of its great creations will inherit the Earth? And which will claim the stars?
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Enigma: The Battle for the Code
Автор: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2004 Страниц: 592 Дата загрузки: 12 апреля 20082007-04-07
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Breaking the German Enigma codes was not only about brilliant mathematicians and professors at Bletchley Park. There is another aspect of the story which it is only now possible to tell. It takes in the exploits of spies, naval officers and ordinary British seamen who risked, and in some cases lost, their lives snatching the vital Enigma codebooks from under the noses of Nazi officials and from sinking German ships and submarines. This book tells the whole Enigma story: its original invention and use by German forces and how it was the Poles who first cracked — and passed on to the British — the key to the German airforce Enigma. The more complicated German Navy Enigma appeared to them to be unbreakable.
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The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Автор: Douglas Adams Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2005 Страниц: 178 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20092007-07-28
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One Thursday lunchtime Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this is already more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun. And the Galaxy is a very, very large and startling place indeed... THE HITCH HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY became a massive cult success when it was first published and continues to sell all over the world. It introduced such memorable characters as Arthur Dent, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Zaphod Beeblebrox and, of course, the Vogons, and remains one of the funniest, most irreverent and entertaining novels ever.
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Red Herring Without Mustard
Автор: Alan Bradley Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2011 Страниц: 397 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20142013-07-18
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'You frighten me', the Gypsy said. 'Never have I seen my crystal ball so filled with darkness'. So begins 11-year-old Flavia de Luce's third adventure through the charming but deceptively dark byways of the village of Bishop's Lacey.
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Asterix and Cleopatra
Автор: Goscinny Rene 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 6 Getafix, Obelix, Dogmatix and Asterix visit Egypt to help an architect build a palace for Caesar. There they are entranced by the Sphinx, the pyramids and Cleopatra's nose.
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The Green Mile
Автор: King Stephen Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20122013-03-26
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The Green Mile: those who walk it do not return, because at the end of that walk is the room in which sits Cold Mountain Penitentiary's electric chair. In 1932 the newest resident on death row is John Coffey, a giant black man convicted of the brutal murder of two little girls. But nothing is as it seems with John Coffey, and around him unfolds a bizarre and horrifying story. Evil murderer or holy innocent — whichever he is — Coffey has strange powers which may yet offer salvation to others, even if they can do nothing to save him.
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Asterix and the Goths
Автор: Goscinny Rene Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 48 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20112011-10-11
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The relaunch of the re-inked, re-coloured and re-designed Asterix series, now published in the correct order for the first time. 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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True Blood Omnibus III
Автор: Charlaine Harris Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2011 Страниц: 768 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20162013-07-23
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Blonde, bubbly Sookie Stackhouse loves her job as a cocktail waitress in Merlotte's, in her home town of Bon Temps. Sookie's cute, but it takes her a long time to make friends; perhaps that's not so surprising when you consider how few people appreciate her telepathic ability. Whichever species you are, life is never boring in Bon Temps, Louisiana!
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Three Great Novels — The Bourne Trilogy: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum
Автор: Robert Ludlum Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2003 Страниц: 1408 Дата загрузки: 27 октрября 20092007-03-24
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THE BOURNE IDENTITY: He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was fished out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues: evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face, a Swiss bank account containing four million dollars, and a name: Jason Bourne. But he is marked for death, racing for survival through the layers of his buried past into a world of murderous conspirators — led by the world's most dangerous assassin, Carlos. And no one can help Bourne but the woman who once wanted to escape him. THE BOURNE SUPREMACY: In a Kowloon Cabaret, scrawled in a pool of blood, is a name the world wanted to forget: Jason Bourne. The Chinese vice-premier has been slain by a legendary assassin. World leaders ask the same fearful questions: Why has Jason Bourne come back? Who is the next to die? But US officials know the truth: there is no Jason Bourne. The name was created as cover for David Webb on his search for the notorious killer Carlos. Someone else has taken the Bourne identity and unless he is stopped, the world will pay a devastating price. So Jason Bourne must live again. THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM: The world's two deadliest spies in the ultimate showdown.Two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed Jason Bourne. Only they know Bourne's true identity and understand the telegram is really a message from Bourne's mortal enemy, Carlos, the world's deadliest and most elusive terrorist. And they also know that he wants a final confrontation with Bourne. Now David Webb must do what he hoped he would never have to do again — assume the terrible identity of Jason Bourne.
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The Judas Strain
Автор: James Rollins Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20132011-06-28
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From the high seas of the Indian Ocean to the dark jungles of Southeast Asia, from the canals of Venice to the crypts of ancient kings, SIGMA FORCE must piece together a mystery that, unless solved, will end all life on our planet... But even this challenge may prove too large for SIGMA FORCE alone. With a worldwide pandemic growing, Painter Crowe and Commander Gray Pierce turn to their deadliest adversaries for help, teaming up with a diabolical foe who thwarted them in the past. But can the enemy be trusted even now? Or will they prove to be another Judas...?
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The Hedgehog and the Fox
Автор: Isaiah Berlin Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20132014-08-23
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'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.' This fragment of Archilochus, which gives this book its title, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Tolstoy. There have been various interpretations of Archilochus' fragment; Isaiah Berlin has simply used it, without implying anything about the true meaning of the words, to outline a fundamental distinction that exists in mankind, between those who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things (foxes) and those who relate everything to a central all-embracing system (hedgehogs). When applied to Tolstoy, the image illuminates a paradox of his philosophy of history, and shows why he was frequently misunderstood by his contemporaries and critics. Tolstoy was by nature a fox, but he believed in being a hedgehog.
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Afterlight
Автор: Alex Scarrow Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2011 Страниц: 592 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20132013-05-16
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The world lies devastated after the massive oil crisis that was described in LAST LIGHT. Human society has more or less entirely broken down and millions lie dead of starvation or disease. There are only one or two beacon communities that have managed to fashion a new way of living. Jenny Sutherland runs one of these groups. Based on a series of decaying offshore oil rigs — for safety — a few hundred people have rebuilt a semblance of normality in this otherwise dead world. But as Jenny and her people explore their surroundings once again, they start to realise not every survivor has the same vision of a better future than their catastrophic past. There are people out there who would take everything they have. War is coming, and the stakes are truly massive...
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Retribution Falls: Tales of the Ketty Jay
Автор: Wooding Chris Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2012 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20132014-10-27
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Frey is the captain of the Ketty Jay, leader of a small and highly dysfunctional band of layabouts. An inveterate womaniser and rogue, he and his gang make a living on the wrong side of the law, avoiding the heavily armed flying frigates of the Coalition Navy. With their trio of ragged fighter craft, they run contraband, rob airships and generally make a nuisance of themselves. So a hot tip on a cargo freighter loaded with valuables seems like a great prospect for an easy heist and a fast buck. Until the heist goes wrong, and the freighter explodes. Suddenly Frey isn't just a nuisance anymore — he's public enemy number one, with the Coalition Navy on his tail and contractors hired to take him down. But Frey knows something they don't. That freighter was rigged to blow, and Frey has been framed to take the fall. If he wants to prove it, he's going to have to catch the real culprit. He must face liars and lovers, dogfights and gunfights, Dukes and daemons. It's going to take all his criminal talents to prove he's not the criminal they think he is...
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Pelagia and the Black Monk
Автор: Akunin Boris Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20132013-04-22
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Just as the dust from the case of the White Bulldog begins to settle in the small Russian town of Zavolzhsk, its sleepy rural existence is shaken up once again by the arrival of a desperately frightened monk who seeks the help of the bishop, Mitrofanii. The monks have been troubled by visions of a dark, hooded figure that appears to walk on the waters of the vast Blue Lake surrounding their monastery. Sceptical of ghost stories, Mitrofanii sends first his clever young ward, then two of his most trusted advisors, to investigate the mystery. All meet with unexpected fates. Finally Sister Pelagia takes matters into her own hands and, adopting a number of ingenious disguises, she ventures across the Blue Lake in search of answers. As she delves deeper into the layers of secrecy that cloak the islanders, and as the body count continues to rise, Pelagia begins to realise that an encounter with a ghost may be the least of her problems...
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Full House
Автор: Binchy Maeve Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2012 Страниц: 117 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20132015-04-17
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Dee loves her children very much, but now they are all grown up, shouldn't they leave home? Rosie moved out when she got married, but it didn't work out, so now she is back with her parents. Helen is a teacher, and doesn't earn enough for a place of her own. Anthony writes songs, and is just waiting for the day when someone will pay him for them. Until then, all three are happy at home. It doesn't cost them anything, and surely their parents like having a full house? When a crisis occurs, Dee decides things have to change for the whole family... whether they like it or not.
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The Demolished Man
Автор: Bester Alfred Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 1999 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20092001-07-24
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In the year 2301, guns are only museum pieces and benign telepaths sweep the minds of the populace to detect crimes before they happen. In 2301 murder is virtually impossible, but one man is about to change that... Ben Reich, a psychopathic business magnate, has devised the ultimate scheme to eliminate the competition and destroy the order of his society. The Demolished Man is a masterpiece of imaginative suspense, set in a superbly imagined world in which everything has changed except the ancient instinct for murder.
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