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The Birthday Party
Автор: Veronica Henry Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2011 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20152015-03-12
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Secrets, rivalry, glamour — it's time for the party of the year... Delilah has lived out her tempestuous marriage to hell-raiser Raf in the glare of the media spotlight. Now planning a milestone birthday, she has more on her mind than invitations. Raf has been offered a part in a movie he can't refuse. But will he succumb to the temptations he's struggled to resist for the last ten years? Delilah's three daughters are building careers of their own, only too aware that the press are waiting for them to slip up. For the Rafferty girls might look like angels, but they are only human. It's the perfect recipe for a party like no other...
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Battlefield 3: The Russian
Автор: Peter Grimsdale Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2011 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20132012-12-07
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In the game, the single-player storyline is revealed through a series of flashbacks as Marine Staff Sergeant Henry Blackburn races to prevent an attack on New York City by a deadly force known as the PLR. As Blackburn recalls key events leading up to the attack, players take control of several characters in heart-pounding missions across land, sea and air. One of these characters is Dmitri Dima Mayakovsky, a legendary and pragmatic GRU operator in the twilight of his Special Forces career. Known as a cleaner, Dima is the sort of person that does whatever it takes to get the job done. The book picks up where the game leaves off, allowing McNab and Grimsdale to give a thrilling new perspective into Dimas own personal quest as well as the events of Battlefield 3.
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Asterix and the Class Act: Fourteen All-new Asterix Stories
Автор: Goscinny Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2004 Страниц: 56 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20092006-05-15
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For the millions of Asterix fans old and young alike the wait is over. ASTERIX RETURNS sees our favourite hero on fine form in this superb collection of short stories. ASTERIX RETURNS includes 10 short stories by Goscinny and Uderzo (many unpublished in the UK) and a further 2 brand-new short stories created by Albert Uderzo. The initial print-run in French is a cool million and Asterix and his chums once again look set to take the UK by storm.
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The Winter Ghosts
Автор: Kate Mosse Жанр: 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 Green Mile
Автор: King Stephen Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20102011-04-25
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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 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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Afterlight
Автор: Alex Scarrow Жанр: 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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Pelagia and the Black Monk
Автор: Akunin Boris Жанр: 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 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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Behold the Man
Автор: Moorcock Michael Жанр: Orion Books Год: 1999 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 20 октрября 20092002-09-20
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Meet Karl Glogauer, time traveller and unlikely Messiah. When he finds himself in Palestine in the year 29AD he is shocked to meet the man known as Jesus Christ — a drooling idiot, hiding in the shadows of the carpenter's shop in Nazareth. But if he is not capable of fulfilling his historical role, then who will take his place?
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Amy's Diary
Автор: Lee Maureen Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2012 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20152013-06-23
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On 3rd September 1939, Amy Browning decided to start writing a diary. It was a momentous day for so many reasons: it was Amy's 18th birthday; her sister had just given birth to a baby boy; and on the radio it was announced that Great Britain was now at war with Germany. For a while, life didn't change very much for Amy. Living with her family in Opal Street, Liverpool, Amy and her friend both got jobs at a factory, and spent their free time looking round the shops, or watching the ships being loaded at the docks. But as the months went by, things began to change. The bombing started, and Amy's fears grew for her brother, fighting in France, and her boyfriend Ian, in the RAF...
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Maya
Автор: Gaarder Jostein Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2001 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092004-02-29
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A chance meeting on the Fijian island of Taveuni is the trigger for a fascinating and mysterious novel that intertwines the stories of John Spooke, an English author who is grieving for his dead wife; Frank Andersen, a Norwegian evolutionary biologist estranged from his wife Vera; and an enigmatic Spanish couple, Ana and Jose, who are absorbed in their love for each other. Why does Ana bear such a close resemblance to the model for Goya's famous Maja paintings? What is the significance of the Joker as he steps out of his pack of cards? As the action moves from Fiji to Spain, from the present to the past, unfolding further stories within the stories, the novel reveals an astonishing richness and complexity. As bold and imaginative in its sweep as Sophie's World, it shows again that Jostein Gaarder's unique and special gift is to make us wonder at the awe-inspiring mystery of the universe.
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More Like Wrestling Than Dancing
Автор: Craig Robert Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2005 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20082006-12-10
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Anna and Natasha are two friends in their 20s sharing a tired flat in Bradford. Sick of the local grotty club Apollo they decide to go uptown in the search for a better class of man. They begin to frequent the Bartok where they meet Richard and Geoffrey and love blossoms. But Richard is already married and Geoffrey isn't all he seems... Sharp and acerbic, this is a refreshing take on the single life and the hunt for men whose idea of romance goes beyond a curry and a sixpack!
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Romanitas
Автор: McDougall Sophia Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2006 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20092010-03-24
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In 2756 AC (2003 AD in Christian terms), magnetic railways span Roman territory from Persia to Terranova, and mechanised crucifixes are ranked along the banks of the Thames. As volume one of ROMANITAS opens, Marcus Novius Faustus Leo, heir apparent to the Imperial throne, is mourning the death of his parents following a tragic accident. However, as information about the last days of his father's life becomes known to him, Marcus realises that his father's death was no accident and that his own life is in danger. Meanwhile, an escaped slave girl called Una, who possesses the power to look inside others' minds, struggles to save her brother, Sulien, from a London prison ship. In a fortune teller's stall in a Gallic flea-market, Marcus, Una and Sulien's paths cross, and the fate of the Empire rests on their shoulders...
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Clea's Moon
Автор: Wright Edward Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2005 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20082006-12-10
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Once he was Sierra Lane, hero to countless youngsters in a series of B-movie westerns. Now, after two years in prison, John Ray Horn lives on the margins of post-World War II Los Angeles. His wife has left him, and, blacklisted by the studios, he makes ends meet by collecting debts for his old Indian co-star, Joseph Mad Crow. Then an old friend, Scotty, contacts Horn. He has come across some obscene photos, including one, several years old, of Horn's stepdaughter, Clea. Within days, Scotty is dead, and Clea has run away. Horn's search takes him from neon-lit ocean-front piers to wooded canyons, from rich homes in the Hollywood Hills to Central Avenue, the Harlem of LA, a street rich in jazz and corruption. But will the on-screen tough-guy hero be able to sustain his role off-screen?
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Lankhmar
Автор: Leiber Fritz Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 704 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20122010-05-06
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From the moment when they first met, in the commission of the same, audacious theft, Fafhrd, the giant barbarian warrior from the Cold Waste, and the Gray Mouser, master thief, novice wizard and expert swordsman, felt no ordinary affinity. Forged over the gleam of sharpened steel as, back to back, they faced their foes, theirs was a friendship that would take them from adventure to misadventure across all of Nehwon, from the caves of the inner earth to the waves of the outer sea. But it was in the dark alleys and noisome back streets of the great fog-shrouded city of Lankhmar that they became legends. THE FIRST BOOK OF LANKHMAR includes the first four volumes of the hugely enjoyable Swords series.
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Blood Ties
Автор: Humphreys C.C. Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2003 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20092004-12-20
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Years have gone by since the events surrounding the death of Anne Boleyn. But her missing hand and all that it represents to the dark world of 16th-century Europe still draws the powerful to seek it out. Jean Rombaud — the French executioner of the first novel — has grown old, both in age and spirit. Wearied by the betrayal of a son and the scorn of a wife, he fights in the seemingly never-ending siege of Siena. Meanwhile, Gianni Rombaud has forsaken everything his ageing father stands for and now kills heathen for the Inquisition in Rome. Then he is summoned by Cardinal Carafa himself. His masters no longer merely want his dagger in the hearts of Jews, they want the hand of the dead queen... But only three people know where it is buried, and one of them is Gianni's father...
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Dark Voyage
Автор: Furst Alan Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20122012-09-12
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May 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp freighter steams up the Tagus river to dock at the port of Lisbon. She is the Santa Rosa, flies the flag of neutral Spain, and is in Lisbon to load cork oak, tinned sardines and drums of cooking oil bound for the Baltic port of Malmo. But she is not the Santa Rosa. She is the Noordendam, a Dutch freighter under the command of Captain Eric DeHaan. She sails for the intelligence division of the British Royal Navy and is involved in a secret mission. On board are a Polish engineer and British spy, Spaniards who fought for Franco and Germans who fought against Hitler. For them, this is a last desperate flight to freedom.
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The Philosopher's Apprentice
Автор: Morrow James Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20142011-07-24
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After crashing and burning during his PhD viva, Mason Ambrose is offered a large amount of money to go to a mysterious tropical island — Isla de Sangre. His employer is wealthy recluse Edwina Sabachtani whose daughter has supposedly lost her sense of right and wrong after a diving accident. Mason is to use his knowledge as a philosopher to instil a conscience, a moral compass in the child. Mason happily instructs her in schools of thought, from the stoics to the epicureans, but it is when he introduces Londa to the Beatitudes that the seeds of a rampaging sense of justice are sown. Venturing from the confines of the island, Londa sets out to create a world that is more just. But when she takes her crusade too far, kidnapping a boat full of wealthy industrialists, Mason realises he must take desperate measures...
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Vote for Caesar
Автор: Jones Peter Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 20102010-12-07
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The expansion of the congestion charge zone, prices going up on the Underground, bendy buses — all ideas brought about to try to make the traffic situation in our capital city run more smoothly. Surely there must be a better way? In fact there is. In Roman times, when the streets were even more crowded, Caesar decreed that all vehicles (except those involved in building work) were banned from the City, while Nero took advantage of a major fire to broaden the streets to improve access. Whatever the problem, from the leader whose deputy wants to replace him to the question of how to make democracy really work, you can guarantee that our Classical forebears faced the same situation and came up with some far more effective solutions than our current politicians. In this enthralling, informative and hugely entertaining book, Peter Jones, one of the UK's leading Classicists, highlights just how much we have to learn from the past and how things really were once so much better.
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