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The Seeing Stone
Автор: Crossley-Holland Kevin Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2006 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20112008-10-17
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The year is 1199, the place the Welsh Marches. Young Arthur de Caldicot is given a shining stone in which his legendary namesake is revealed. In 100 short chapters that brilliantly evoke life in a medieval manor, stories of the boy King Arthur begin to echo and anticipate the secrets and mysteries that emerge in his own life.
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At the Crossing-places
Автор: Crossley-Holland Kevin Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2006 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20102009-09-30
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Arthur de Caldicot arrives at Holt to be squire to Lord Stephen and accompany him on crusade. It is an exciting and bewildering time for him as he finds a warhorse, is fitted with armour, and improves his fighting skills. He dreads a confrontation with his blood-father, the violent Sir William, and dreams of finding his true mother; he discovers girls — including the vivacious Winnie de Verdon whom he rescues from burning to death; he has to deal with the aftermath of a murder; he sees the sea for the first time, sails to France and finally takes the Cross. And meanwhile these events are reflected in his seeing stone, in stories of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Packed with incident, wonderful characters, and fascinating historical detail, and interwoven with brilliant retellings of Arthurian legends, this is a glorious follow-up to THE SEEING STONE.
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Black Man
Автор: Morgan Richard Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 640 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20102010-07-24
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One hundred years from now, and against all the odds, Earth has found a new stability; the political order has reached some sort of balance, and the new colony on Mars is growing. But the fraught years of the 21st century have left an uneasy legacy... Genetically engineered alpha males, designed to fight the century's wars have no wars to fight and are surplus to requirements. And a man bred and designed to fight is a dangerous man to have around in peacetime. Many of them have left for Mars but now one has come back and killed everyone else on the shuttle he returned in. Only one man, a genengineered ex-soldier himself, can hunt him down and so begins a frenetic man-hunt and a battle survival. And a search for the truth about what was really done with the world's last soldiers. BLACK MAN is an unstoppable SF thriller but it is also a novel about prejudice, about the ramifications of playing with our genetic blue-print. It is about our capacity for violence but more worrying, our capacity for deceit and corruption. This is another landmark of modern SF from one of its most exciting and commercial authors.
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Robert Ludlum's: The Bourne Betrayal
Автор: Lustbader Eric Van Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2011 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20152012-06-15
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Jason Bourne takes a mission to rescue his only friend in the CIA, Martin Lindros, who disappeared in Africa while tracking nuclear material. Bourne agrees to help track the money trail of the terrorists, but soon suffers from confusing flashbacks of unfamiliar places and events. Is someone brainwashing him in order to throw him off the trail? Worse still, is the man he saved really Martin Lindros? Now Bourne is on his own — gathering evidence, while trying to stay one step ahead of the terrorists who are determined to destroy the USA...
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Horrid Henry's Revenge
Автор: Simon Francesca Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20122013-08-23
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A brilliant new collection of four stories about this favourite character — one of the few new characters to have emerged in recent years for this age group. Wickedly subversive, hilariously funny and bang up to date, Horrid Henry's fame is spreading. In this collection, Henry accompanies his father to the office, hacks into his parents' computer, meets the Demon Dinner Lady and plan the ultimate revenge on Perfect Peter.
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Horrid Henry's Stinkbomb
Автор: Simon Francesca Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2002 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20092005-09-22
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A stinkbomb becomes a deadly weapon in Horrid Henry's longrunning war with Moody Margaret; he uses all his guile to win the school reading competition, only to find the longed-for prize is not what he expected; he goes for a sleepover and retreats in horror when he finds that other people's houses aren't always as nice as his own; and he has the joy of seeing Miss Battle-Axe ticked off by the Head when he knows it was all his fault. In short, another vintage Horrid Henry title!
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Horrid Henry's Thank You Letter
Автор: Simon Francesca Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2011 Страниц: 80 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20132016-08-17
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Horrid Henry hates writing thank you letters. Why should he waste his precious time thanking people for terrible presents? In fact, why should anyone? Then he has a wonderful, spectacular idea... one that's guaranteed to make him rich, rich rich!
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Horrid Henry's Underpants
Автор: Simon Francesca Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20122013-08-23
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Four hilarious new stories, in which Horrid Henry hits on a brilliant way to write thank you letters, negotiates over vegetables, competes with Perfect Peter over which of them is sickest, and finds himself wearing the wrong underpants, with dreadful consequences.
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The Prisoner of Heaven
Автор: Ruiz Zafon Carlos Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2012 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20132017-08-24
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The third in the cycle of novels that began with THE SHADOW OF THE WIND and THE ANGEL'S GAME. THE PRISONER OF HEAVEN returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one year after Daniel and Bea from THE SHADOW OF THE WIND have married. They now have a son, Julian, and are living with Daniel's father at Sempere & Sons. Fermin still works with them and is busy preparing for his wedding to Bernarda in the New Year. However something appears to be bothering him. Daniel is alone in the shop one morning when a mysterious figure with a pronounced limp enters. He spots one of their most precious volumes that is kept locked in a glass cabinet, a beautiful and unique illustrated edition of The Count of Monte Cristo. Despite the fact that the stranger seems to care little for books, he wants to buy this expensive edition. Then, to Daniel's surprise, the man inscribes the book with the words 'To Fermin Romero de Torres, who came back from the dead and who holds the key to the future'. This visit leads back to a story of imprisonment, betrayal and the return of a deadly rival.
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The Real Katie Lavender
Автор: James Erica Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2005 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20092006-06-15
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Katie Lavender has always thought she was pretty unshockable, until a year after her mother's death she receives a letter from a solicitor telling her that the man she thought was her father, in fact wasn't. Her real father, a man named Stirling Nightingale, has for years been building a trust fund for her. And now she's of an age to collect it. But Katie's not interested in the money. She wants to know about the man instead. So decides to do some snooping. She tracks him down to a beautiful riverside home in Surrey on the night he's hosting a birthday party for his 90-year-old mother. And as she's hovering outside, Katie is mistaken for a replacement waitress — an opportunity just too good to miss. And so Katie discovers that the Nightingales are far from your normal family... But what makes a normal family anyway?
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Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves
Автор: Reilly Matthew Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2012 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20142015-09-22
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At an abandoned Soviet base in the Arctic, a battle to save all life on Earth is about to begin... THE SECRET BASE It is a top-secret base known only as Dragon Island. A long-forgotten relic of the Cold War, it houses a weapon of terrible destructive force, a weapon that has just been re-activated... AN ARMY OF MURDERERS When Dragon Island is seized by a brutal terrorist force calling itself the Army of Thieves, the fate of the world suddenly hangs in the balance. But there are no crack units close enough to get to Dragon in time to stop the Army setting off the weapon. ONE SMALL TEAM Except, that is, for a small equipment-testing team up in the Arctic led by a Marine captain named Schofield, call-sign SCARECROW. It's not a strike team; just a handful of Marines and civilians. It's not equipped to attack a fortified island held by a small army. But it will go in anyway, because someone has to. THE ULTIMATE HERO IS BACK, FACING THE ULTIMATE ARMY OF VILLAINS.
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Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
Автор: Gaarder Jostein Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 1999 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20092002-02-26
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When 14-year-old Sophie encounters a mysterious mentor who introduces her to philosophy, mysteries deepen in her own life. Why does she keep getting postcards addressed to another girl? Who is the other girl? And who, for that matter, is Sophie herself? To solve the riddle, she uses her new knowledge of philosophy, but the truth is far stranger than she could have imagined. A phenomenal worldwide bestseller, SOPHIE'S WORLD sets out to draw teenagers into the world of Socrates, Descartes, Spinoza, Hegel and all the great philosophers. A brilliantly original and fascinating story with many twists and turns, it raises profound questions about the meaning of life and the origin of the universe.
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The Long Weekend
Автор: Henry Veronica Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2012 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20172016-03-24
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The warm and witty new novel from acclaimed author Veronica Henry will be her best yet. Expect affairs of the heart, lies, scandal and humour — all wrapped up in one perfectly presented Veronica Henry-sized package! This will be a lovely women's fiction read that Ronnie's fans will not want to miss.
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The Green Mile
Автор: King Stephen Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 1999 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20092003-03-08
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At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers await death, whilst their guards watch over them. Good or evil, innocent or guilty, none of them have ever seen the likes of brutal new prisoner John Coffey, seemingly a devil in human form.
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The House of Silk
Автор: Horowitz Anthony Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2005 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20082008-02-13
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THE GAME'S AFOOT... It is November 1890 and London is gripped by a merciless winter. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are enjoying tea by the fire when an agitated gentleman arrives unannounced at 221b Baker Street. He begs Holmes for help, telling the unnerving story of a scar-faced man with piercing eyes who has stalked him in recent weeks. Intrigued by the man's tale, Holmes and Watson find themselves swiftly drawn into a series of puzzling and sinister events, stretching from the gas-lit streets of London to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston. As the pair delve deeper into the case, they stumble across a whispered phrase «the House of Silk»: a mysterious entity and foe more deadly than any Holmes has encountered, and a conspiracy that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of society itself...
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Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Objective
Автор: Lustbader Eric Van Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2011 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 октрября 20142012-12-16
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Readers were first introduced to Jason Bourne's nemesis Leonid Arkadin, a brilliant Russian assassin and fearless international mercenary, in THE BOURNE SANCTION. His girlfriend was killed during a fight for which an enraged Arkadin blames Bourne. In The BOURNE DECEPTION, Arkadin hunted Bourne to take revenge and kill him. Bourne, in a fight for his life, learned that Arkadin's skills mirror Jason's because he received the same original CIA Treadstone training. Now, in THE BOURNE OBJECTIVE, Jason will turn the tables and target Arkadin. Hunter will become hunted. But revenge can cause great psychological devastation. Has this become too personal for Bourne? Will this hunt be Bourne's downfall?
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The Rhinemann Exchange
Автор: Ludlum Robert Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2011 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20152014-09-30
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David Spaulding is the most feared and efficient Allied agent in wartime Europe. Expert, deadly and professional, he is also high on the Gestapo's 'most wanted' list. Now Spaulding has been selected by the Allied Command to transact an undercover deal in Argentina involving top secret Nazi scientific plans. The dealer is Erich Rhinemann, an exiled German Jew who is awaiting the end of the war with his millions in an impenetrable retreat near Buenos Aires. But there's something Spaulding doesn't know. The other side of the deal. And it involves the most bizarre, horrific intrigue of the Second World War...
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Robert Ludlum's the Bourne Legacy
Автор: Lustbader Eric Van Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2011 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 23 октрября 20142013-07-04
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Jason Bourne has gradually come to realise who and what he really is — a strange amalgam of a man named David Webb, and a deadly killer. Now David Webb is living a peaceful life as a university professor in the backwoods of America with his wife and children. But someone is reaching out to take him out of the game forever. A deadly assassin is on his trail and his former handler has been brutally murdered already. It seems that David Webb must once again turn to Bourne to save his life and family.
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The House of Silk: The New Sherlock Holmes Novel
Автор: Horowitz Anthony Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2011 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20142016-08-14
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Bestselling novelist and Holmes expert Anthony Horowitz will bring the great man to life again for a new generation of readers. As the creator of Foyle, recently voted the nation's favourite TV detective at the ITV Crime Thriller Awards 2010, Anthony has already displayed his talent for plotting and characterisation. Having been a lifelong fan of Conan Doyle's novels, he was the perfect choice to return to the original stories and create a new mystery for Holmes and Watson. Interest in Holmes has never been higher than right now. A blockbusting movie adaptation has coincided with the BBC's intriguing modern update and both successes are to be repeated this autumn. Horowitz says: I fell in love with the Sherlock Holmes stories when I was 16 and I've read them many times since. My aim is to produce a first-rate mystery for a modern audience while remaining absolutely true to the spirit of the original.
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Cemetery Dance
Автор: Preston Douglas Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20112012-10-20
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FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast — recently returned to New York — and Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta find themselves investigating the murder of a friend when reporter William Smithback and his wife Nora are brutally attacked in their apartment. The assailant is identified by eyewitnesses as their strange, sinister neighbour — a man who, by all accounts, died ten days earlier. Shunning the official inquiry, Pendergast and D'Agosta undertake their own private — and unorthodox — quest for the truth. Their journey takes them deep into the dark and mysterious underbelly of Manhattan, to a secretive, reclusive cult of Obeah and voodoo which no outsiders have ever survived...
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