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Eighty Days Blue
Автор: Jackson Vina Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2012 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20152013-06-28
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In the second book in Vina Jackson's exhilarating new romance trilogy, fiery musician Summer and wealthy academic Dominik experience the passions and pitfalls of a thrilling love affair with a difference.
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Summer Lies
Автор: Schlink Bernhard Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2005 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20092008-04-19
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SUMMER OF LIES is a mesmerising collection of stories about love. A conversation between strangers on a long-haul flight will change lives forever; one night in Baden-Baden will threaten to tear a couple apart; a meeting with an ex-lover will give a divorcee a second chance; holiday lovers will struggle in the harsh reality of daily routine... As Schlink's characters navigate their lives, we discover the many faces of love: the small betrayals, hidden truths and abiding affections. In Schlink's trademark spare prose, we come face-to-face with the desires and jealousies that define our daily lives, with the fragility of happiness, and with the abiding possibility of hope. Tender yet unsentimental, achingly personal yet utterly universal, SUMMER OF LIES asks what it means to love, to deceive and ultimately, to be human.
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An Absolute Deception
Автор: Lokko Lesley Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2005 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 21 июня 20092008-04-24
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Known as The Ice Queen, Anneliese Zander de St Phalle is one of the world's most celebrated fashion designers. With an empire that stretches across continents, she's a truly global brand, in every sense. Yet despite her success, she's a mystery; a reclusive disciplined perfectionist who rarely grants interviews. She's successful and she's talented, and that's all anyone needs to know. Anneliese never talks about her past — not even to her only daughter, Callan. She's worked hard to leave it all behind her and it's a time and place to which Anneliese will never return. Or so she thinks. Until, at an exclusive New Year's Eve party at her glamorous island hideaway, a woman appears whom Anneliese has done her best to forget. On the cusp of her retirement, at the height of Anneliese' fame, the stranger brings a story that demands to be told. To Anneliese' horror, the past cannot be left behind; it is here, part and parcel of the present, despite everything she's done to forget it...
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Stay Close
Автор: Coben Harlan Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2012 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20152015-02-13
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Megan once walked on the wild side. Now she's got two kids, a perfect husband, a picket fence, and a growing sense of dissatisfaction. Ray used to be a talented documentary photographer, but at age forty he finds himself in a dead-end job posing as a paparazzo pandering to celebrity-obsessed rich kids. Broome is a detective who can't let go of a cold case — a local husband and father disappeared seventeen years ago, and Broome spends the anniversary every year visiting a house frozen in time, the missing man's family still waiting, his slippers left by the recliner as if he might show up any moment to step into them. Three people living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect. As the terrible consequences of long-ago events crash together in the present and threaten to ruin lives they will discover the hard truth that the line between one kind of life and another can be as whisper-thin as a heartbeat...
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Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion: So Far
Автор: Briggs Stephen Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2013 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20142017-03-28
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The Discworld is a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the back of a giant turtle. And like any world, the Discworld is not always predictable — in fact, it's distinctly UNpredictable, what with rivers you could skateboard across (if they weren't so knobbly) and points of raw magic that'd turn a body inside out soon as look at it... For safety's sake, you need a guide to lead you through the highways and byways of this extraordinary world — how else will you find out where to get the best curry in Ankh-Morpork, or if the rumours about XXXX, the lost continent, are true? There were once five. Klatchian Curry Gardens, corner of God Street & Blood Alley. PS Don't use the kitchen entrance. They are.
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Wild Cards
Автор: Martin George R.R. Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2012 Страниц: 576 Дата загрузки: 14 марта 20152015-04-15
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There is a secret history of the world — a history in which an alien virus struck the Earth in the aftermath of World War II, endowing a handful of survivors with extraordinary powers. Some were called Aces — those with superhuman mental and physical abilities. Others became Jokers — cursed with bizarre mental or physical disabilities. Some turned their talents to the service of humanity. Others used their powers for evil. Wild Cards is their story. Return to the beginning of the long running shared-world series edited by George R. R. Martin, featuring stories and characters who would go on to become legends. Super-heroes have never been more real. Originally published in 1987, Wild Cards I includes powerful tales by Roger Zelazny, Walter Jon Williams, Howard Waldrop, Lewis Shiner, and George R. R. Martin himself. And this expanded edition contains further original tales set at the beginning of the Wild Cards universe, by eminent new writers like Hugo-winner David Levine, noted screenwriter and novelist Michael Cassutt, and New York Times bestseller Carrie Vaughn.
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The House of Silk
Автор: Horowitz Anthony Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2012 Страниц: 403 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20142015-09-27
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THE GAME'S AFOOT... November 1890. 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, Holmes and Watson find themselves 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 they 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...
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A Half-forgotten Song
Автор: Webb Katherine Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2005 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 15 октрября 20082006-06-28
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England, 1937. In the village of Blacknowle on the Dorset coast, fourteen-year-old Mitzy Hatcher has endured a wild and lonely upbringing. Shunned by her neighbours, the arrival of renowned artist Charles Aubrey, along with his exotic mistress and their daughters, is like a breath of fresh air. As Charles's muse, Mitzy develops a deep and abiding bond with the Aubrey household over the course of the following three summers. Gradually, Mitzy begins to perceive a future she had never thought possible, and a powerful love is kindled in her. A love that will grow as she does: from innocence to obsession; from childish infatuation to something far more complex. It will be almost seventy-five years before the consequences of this potent desire are fully played out, as a young man in an art gallery looks at a hastily-drawn portrait and wonders at the intensity of it. The questions he asks will lead him back to Blacknowle, and draw him to the truth about those fevered summers in the 1930s...
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The Icarus Agenda
Автор: Ludlum Robert Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 848 Дата загрузки: 23 октрября 20132012-05-15
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In the Sultanate of Oman over two hundred hostages are being held at gunpoint. And the world watches helplessly as the madness begins. The spirit of the Mahdi is abroad, intent on complete financial and political domination. Evan Kendrick, a quiet Congressman, is an unlikely hero. But in his past is a violence that he cannot forget. On the other side of the world, five very eccentric, very rich people are meeting. They are the Inheritors of Inver Brass. Their aim — to utterly transform the world. They seek a new saviour, an innocent messiah. Evan Kendrick is to be their unwilling victim...
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The Beach Hut
Автор: Henry Veronica Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20132013-04-22
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This summer, 2010, Veronica Henry will bring us THE BEACH HUT. A wonderful novel of linked short stories, each focussing on a gaily painted row of beach huts on the picturesque Woolacoombe beach in Devon. Just as each beach hut has a girl's name painted above the door, each has its own individual story. Ronnie has spent many summers eavesdropping on what goes on in them. Various comings and goings, the people who hire them, the people who own them, and what goes on in the huts on this beautiful beach over a long, hot, lazy summer...
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Best Served Cold
Автор: Abercrombie Joe Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2013 Страниц: 768 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20152016-04-24
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Springtime in Styria. And that means war. There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the squabbling League of Eight, and between them they have bled the land white. While armies march, heads roll and cities burn, behind the scenes bankers, priests and older, darker powers play a deadly game to choose who will be king. War may be hell but for Monza Murcatto, the Snake of Talins, the most feared and famous mercenary in Duke Orso's employ, it's a damn good way of making money too. Her victories have made her popular — a shade too popular for her employer's taste. Betrayed, thrown down a mountain and left for dead, Murcatto's reward is a broken body and a burning hunger for vengeance. Whatever the cost, seven men must die. Her allies include Styria's least reliable drunkard, Styria's most treacherous poisoner, a mass-murderer obsessed with numbers and a Northman who just wants to do the right thing. Her enemies number the better half of the nation. And that's all before the most dangerous man in the world is dispatched to hunt her down and finish the job Duke Orso started... Springtime in Styria. And that means revenge.
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Black House
Автор: King Stephen Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2012 Страниц: 832 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20152015-02-26
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Three children have been lost to the world, horrifically murdered. The crimes seem to be linked to those carried out by a serial killer — from the previous century... In this sequel to The Talisman, Jack Sawyer is now in his late thirties and has taken early retirement from the LAPD, retreating to a small town in Wisconsin. He has no memory of his adventures as a twelve-year-old boy, when he travelled into a parallel universe in search of the talisman that would save his mother's life. Now, with the attacks on the three children, Jack is forced out of retirement. But there is more to these cases than murder, and Jack must retrieve his childhood memories if he is to rescue the latest victim...
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Cat's Cradle
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2010 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20132013-02-29
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Experiment Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it, Solution Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker's death-wish comes true when his last, fatal, gift to mankind brings about an end that, for all of us, is nigh.
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The Cut
Автор: Pelecanos George Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2012 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20172014-07-14
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Spero Lucas has a new line of work. Since he returned home after serving in Iraq, he has been doing special investigations for a defence attorney. He's good at it, and he has carved out a niche: recovering stolen property, no questions asked. His cut is 40%. A high-profile crime boss who has heard of Lucas's speciality hires him to find out who has been stealing from his operation. It's the biggest job Lucas has ever been offered, and he quickly gets a sense of what's going on. But before he can close in he tangles with a world of men whose amorality and violence leave him reeling. Is any cut worth your family, your lover, your life?
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The Impossible Dead
Автор: Rankin Ian Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2012 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20152013-12-10
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Malcolm Fox is has been sent to Fife to investigate whether fellow cops covered up for a corrupt colleague, Detective Paul Carter. Carter has been found guilty of misconduct — and the man who reported him was his own uncle. What should be a simple job is soon complicated by conspiracy and cover-up — and a brutal murder, a murder committed with a weapon that should not even exist. The spiralling investigation takes Fox back to 1985, a year of turmoil in British political life. Terrorists intent on a split between Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom were becoming more brazen and ruthless, sending letter-bombs and poisonous spores to government offices, plotting kidnaps and murder, and trying to stay one step ahead of the spies sent to flush them out. Fox has a duty to get at the truth, while the body count rises, the clock starts ticking, and he fights for his professional and personal life.
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Play Dead
Автор: Coben Harlan Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2011 Страниц: 528 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20132016-08-11
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Ex fashion model and successful business woman Laura Ayers' perfect world is shattered at a time which should have been the happiest of her life. On her honeymoon, her sports superstar husband goes for a swim — and never returns. But what has happened to David — can he really be dead? Whilst struggling to cope with her almost overwhelming grief, Laura is plagued by questions and doubts. Was it an accident? Or suicide? Or is it some terrible, ill-judged hoax? As events begin to unfold, Laura starts to question David's mysterious disappearance. She begins to uncover a conspiracy which reaches deep into the past, and is now slowing beginning to destroy everyone involved. Someone will do anything to keep Laura away from the awful truth — and she has no idea who she can trust...
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Horrid Henry's Nits
Автор: Simon Francesca Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2011 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20152013-07-24
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When Horrid Henry gets nits, and his little brother Peter Perfect doesn't, he makes sure that everyone esle gets them too. After that, he can turn his attention to sabotaging the school trip, ruining his parents' dinner party, and terrorizing Peter.
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The Lincoln Lawyer
Автор: Connelly Michael Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 404 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20142014-08-27
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They're called Lincoln Lawyers: the bottom of the legal food chain, the criminal defence attorneys who operate out of the back of a Lincoln Town Car, taking whatever cases the system throws in their path. When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested, Mickey Haller has his first high-paying client in years. The evidence mounts on the defence's side, and Haller might even be in the rare position of representing a client who is actually innocent. But when his case starts to fall apart, Haller quickly discovers that when you swim with the sharks, it's easy to wind up as prey.
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Miaow Miaow Bow Wow
Автор: Simon Francesca Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2012 Страниц: 64 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20172017-08-27
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Dizzy the dog loves to sing, but the mean old Alley Cats won't let him join their chorus. But what do cats know about singing anyway? It's time to show them just what the dogs can do!
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Mr P's Naughty Book (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Simon Francesca Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2012 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20152014-07-24
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AARDVARK: shouts at BAKED BEANS: drops on cat KETCHUP: decorates mother with Mr Punishment has the perfect punishment for every naughtiness in the world and every day his telephone rings with parents desperate for his advice. But Mr Punishment never seems to get it quite right — with chaotic results!
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