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Asterix in Switzerland
Автор: Goscinny Rene Жанр: 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 16 Quaestor Vexatius Sinusitus turns up in Gaul to investigate the creative accountancy of Governor Varius Flavus. When the quaestor is poisoned, he turns to Getafix the druid and the other Gauls for help.
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Shadows of the Workhouse: The Drama of Life in Postwar London
Автор: Worth Jennifer Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2013 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20182015-07-14
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In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the people she encountered. There's Jane, who cleaned and generally helped out at Nonnatus House — she was taken to the workhouse as a baby and was allegedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat. Peggy and Frank's parents both died within six months of one another and the children were left destitute. At the time, there was no other option for them but the workhouse. The Reverend Thornton-Appleby-Thorton, a missionary in Africa, visits the Nonnatus nuns and Sister Julienne acts as matchmaker. And Sister Monica Joan, the eccentric ninety-year-old nun, is accused of shoplifting some small items from the local market. She is let off with a warning, but then Jennifer finds stolen jewels from Hatton Garden in the nun's room. These stories give a fascinating insight into the resilience and spirit that enabled ordinary people to overcome their difficulties.
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Horrid Henry's Nightmare
Автор: Simon Francesca Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2013 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20162014-06-23
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Four hilarious new Horrid Henry stories — HORRID HENRY'S MOTHER'S DAY, probably not the day his mum looks forward to most in the year, HORRID HENRY'S NIGHTMARE where Henry's chased by a ghost bunny with huge teeth, a wailing graveyard ghost and, for good measure, a slimy zombie, then a new story about one of his greatest enemies in THE RETURN OF THE DEMON DINNER LADY and last but not least FLUFFY STRUTS HER STUFF. Horrid Henry is illustrated by Tony Ross, who also illustrates David Walliams' children's books, as well as his own picture books.
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Interesting Times
Автор: Pratchett Terry Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2013 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20162016-04-19
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MIGHTY BATTLES! REVOLUTION! DEATH! WAR! (AND HIS SONS TERROR AND PANIC, AND DAUGHTER CLANCY). The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise What I did on My Holidays. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. Warlords are struggling for power. War (and Clancy) are spreading throughout the ancient cities. And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is: Rincewind the Wizard, who can't even spell the word 'wizard'... Cohen the barbarian hero, five foot tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime's experience of not dying... and a very special butterfly.
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Jingo
Автор: Pratchett Terry Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2014 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 августа 20162017-02-24
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DISCWORLD GOES TO WAR, WITH ARMIES OF SARDINES, WARRIORS, FISHERMEN, SQUID AND AT LEAST ONE VERY CAMP FOLLOWER. As two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch faces unpleasant foes who are out to get him... and that's just the people on his side. The enemy might be even worse. JINGO, the 21st in Terry Pratchett's phenomenally successful Discworld series, makes the World Cup look like a friendly five-a-side.
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Lords and Ladies
Автор: Pratchett Terry Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2014 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20162017-04-29
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The fairies are back — but this time they don't just want your teeth. It's Midsummer Night — no time for dreaming. Because sometimes, when there's more than one reality at play, too much dreaming can make the walls between them come tumbling down. And there's usually a damned good reason for there being walls between them in the first place — to keep things out. Things who want to make mischief and play havoc with the natural order. Granny Weatherwax and her tiny coven are up against real elves. And even in a world of dwarfs, wizards, trolls, Morris dancers and the odd orang-utan, this is going to cause real trouble. With lots of hey-nonny-nonny and blood all over the place.
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Maskerade
Автор: Pratchett Terry Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2014 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 20 октрября 20172016-05-16
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THE SHOW MUST GO ON, AS MURDER, MUSIC AND MAYHEM RUN RIOT IN THE NIGHT... The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork... A huge, rambling building, where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by a strangely familiar evil mastermind in a hideously deformed evening dress... At least, he hopes so. But Granny Weatherwax, Discworld's most famous witch, is in the audience. And she doesn't hold with that sort of thing. So there's going to be trouble (but nevertheless a good evenin's entertainment with murders you can really hum...).
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Автор: Adams Douglas Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2012 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20152015-02-16
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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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Horrid Henry's Krazy Ketchup
Автор: Simon Francesca Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2014 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20172016-07-24
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The 23rd Horrid Henry storybook containing four brand new stories — including Horrid Henry's Ketchup, Horrid Henry's Chicken, The Revenge of the Bogey Babysitter and Horrid Henry Tells It Like It Is. Discover the one thing Horrid Henry is scared of, watch out for the return of Rabid Rebecca, find out what happens when Henry makes a film about his family and lots more in the more hilarious and horrid storybook yet. Horrid Henry is illustrated by Tony Ross, who also illustrates David Walliams' children's books, as well as his own picture books.
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Horrid Henry's Monster Movie
Автор: Simon Francesca Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2012 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20152013-06-23
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Four brand new stories in which Horrid Henry makes his own scary movie, The Undead Demon Monster Who Would Not Die, persuades Peter to hand over his stash of Grump Cards (as a brilliant scheme to get him out of the punishments his parents give him) and spends a weekend at Aunt Ruby's where he has to share a bedroom with his two arch-enemies, Stuck-Up Steve and Bossy Bill. Then when Henry's school decides to have a mini-Olympics, he sets up his own Holympics, with medals for crisp-eating, TV watching, and Burping to the Beat.
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Ruin and Rising
Автор: Bardugo Leigh Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2014 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 июня 20162018-03-28
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SHADOW AND BONE. SIEGE AND STORM. Now Alina's story reaches its incredible conclusion in RUIN AND RISING. The capital has fallen. The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne. Alina will have to forge new alliances and put aside old rivalries as she and Mal race to find the last of Morozova's amplifiers. But as Alina begins to unravel the Darkling's secrets, she reveals a past that will forever alter her understanding of the bond they share and the power she wields. The firebird is the one thing that stands between Ravka and destruction — but claiming it could cost Alina the very future she is fighting for. Glorious. Epic. Irresistible. Romance.
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Guards! Guards!
Автор: Pratchett Terry Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2014 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20182018-03-19
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This is where the dragons went. They lie... not dead, not asleep, but... dormant. And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly. And presumably, somewhere, there's a key... GUARDS! GUARDS! is the eighth Discworld novel — and after this, dragons will never be the same again!
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Feet of Clay
Автор: Pratchett Terry Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2014 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 20182018-03-19
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THERE'S A WEREWOLF WITH PRE-LUNAR TENSION IN ANKH-MORPORK. AND A DWARF WITH ATTITUDE AND A GOLEM WHO'S BEGUN TO THINK FOR ITSELF. But for Commander Vimes, Head of Ankh-Morpork City Watch, that's only the start... There's treason in the air. A crime has happened. He's not only got to find out whodunit, but howdunit too. He's not even sure what they dun. But soon as he knows what the questions are, he's going to want some answers.
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Siege and Storm
Автор: Bardugo Leigh Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2014 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 20162016-10-13
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'THE HUNGER GAMES meets Potter meets Twilight meets LORD OF THE RINGS meets Game of Thrones; basically epic magical fantasy but completely for grown-ups.' STYLIST MAGAZINE The first book was SHADOW AND BONE. Now Alina's story continues. Darkness never dies. Alina and Mal are on the run — but they can't run for ever... The Darkling has emerged from the Shadow Fold with a terrifying new power and he needs Alina to realise his dangerous plan. Somehow, she must choose between her country, her power, and her love — or risk losing everything to the oncoming storm. Glorious. Epic. Irresistible. Romance.
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The Concrete Blonde
Автор: Connelly Michael Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20122013-03-26
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When LAPD detective Harry Bosch shot and killed Norman Church, the 'Dollmaker', the police were convinced it marked the end of the search for one of the city's most bizarre serial killers. But four years later, Norman Church's widow is taking Bosch to court, accusing him of killing the wrong man. To make matters worse, Bosch has just received a note, eerily reminiscent of the ones the Dollmaker used to taunt him with, giving him a location where a body can be found. Is the Dollmaker still alive? Or is this the work of a vicious copycat killer, determined to repeat the Dollmaker's grisly feats and destroy Bosch's career in the process?
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Fatal Rivalry, Flodden 1513: Henry VIII, James IV and the Battle for Renaissance Britain
Автор: Goodwin George Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2014 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20162016-07-24
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On the back of historian George Goodwin's critically accalimed debut, FATAL COLOURS, comes FATAL RIVALRY providing the first in-depth examination of the Battle of Flodden, the biggest and bloodiest in British history. James IV came to the Scottish throne as a fifteen-year-old widely suspected of ordering the murder of his own father. Chronicling James's curbing of a nobility to whom regicide was second nature, FATAL RIVALRY charts his ascent to the first ruler of a unified Scotland. It shows how he was able to outfox Henry VII, and how the two countries later signed a Treaty of Perpetual Peace, cemented by James's marriage to Henry VII's eldest daughter, Margaret Tudor. Following five centuries of fluctuating relations with England, peace between the two countries was never guaranteed for long. After the death of Henry VII, James's ambition to become a great Renaissance prince quickly clashed with the new teenage king, his brother-in-law Henry VIII of England. The ensuing rivalry was a full-scale political, ceremonial and even cultural competition at a time of rapid technological, economical and geopolitical change, fuelled by shifting alliances with France and Spain, Popes and Emperors. This book captures the importance of the key players in the story — the kings and their respective queens, their nobles, diplomats and generals — as the rivalry brought the two countries inexorably to war. Fatefully, it would be an error by James, that most charismatic of commanders, and in the thick of engagement, that would make him the last British king to fall in battle, would condemn the bulk of his nobility to a similarly violent death and settle his country's fate.
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Witches Abroad
Автор: Pratchett Terry Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2014 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20162015-06-15
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It seemed an easy job... After all, how difficult could it be to make sure that a servant girl doesn't marry a prince? But for the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick, travelling to the distant city of Genua, things are never that simple... Servant girls have to marry the prince. That's what life is all about. You can't fight a Happy Ending. At least — up until now...
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Wyrd Sisters
Автор: Pratchett Terry Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2014 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20162015-06-15
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Witches are not by nature gregarious, and they certainly don't have leaders. Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have. But even she found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more difficult than certain playwrights would have you believe...
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
Автор: James M. Cain Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2005 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20102007-07-21
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First published in 1934, THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE caused a scandal with its explosive mix of violence and sex, and immediately became a bestseller. The torrid story of Frank Chambers, the amoral drifter, Cora, the sullen and brooding wife, and Nick Papadakis, the amiable but inconvenient husband, has become a classic of its kind, and established Cain as a major novelist with a spare and vital prose style and a bleak vision of America. THE AUTHOR James M. Cain was born in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1892. Having served in the US Army in World War 1, he became a journalist in Baltimore and New York in the 1920s. He later worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Cain died in 1977.
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Summer at the Lake
Автор: James Erica Жанр: Orion Books Год: 2014 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20172016-07-24
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Lake Como — beautiful, enchanting, romantic... For Floriana, it is the place where the love of her life is getting married to another woman. And she's been invited to the wedding. For Esme, it is where, over 60 years ago, she fell in love for the first time. So often she's wondered what happened to the man who stole her heart — and changed the course of her life. Adam is in danger of burying himself entirely in his work after his girlfriend left him. Could a trip to Lake Como be the distraction he needs? Now it's time for each of them to understand that the past is not only another country, it can also cast haunting shadows over everyone's lives...
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