книги о войне (страница 48)

Автор: Michael Bond

Sealed with a sticky paw! First class correspondence from the nation's favourite bear, Paddington – now a major movie star!Dear Aunt Lucy,I expect this will come as a great surprise to you, but not only have I arrived in England, but I have an address! I’m staying at number 32 Windsor Gardens and it isn’t at all like the Home for Retired Bears…This delightfully engaging series of letters from Paddington to his Aunt Lucy in Peru, follows his new experiences in London while showcasing his uniquely charming and hilarious take on the world. From stowing away on a ship, to working as a barber, there is certainly never a dull moment!

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Автор: Massimo Longo

Series: I’m writing this for you Massimo and Maria Grazia are a couple both in real and literary life, and they love writing fiction for everyone, regardless of their age. This idea was born with the idea of turning the tales they had made up for their children into books.

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Автор: Megan Lindholm

A reissue of classic backlist titles from the author of the best selling Farseer Trilogy and The Liveship Traders books. LUCK OF THE WHEELS is the fourth and final book in THE WINDSINGERS series, which introduced her popular gypsy characters, Ki and Vandien.Gypsy traders Ki and Vandien should have realised the money was too good to be true. Three georns and a full orn to be paid on arrival – and all they had to do was transport the cargo to Villena! The cargo, however, turned out to be human; a boy called Goat, and his family seemed just a little bit too anxious to be rid of him.The arrangement smelled like trouble. And it was; especially when faced with a few other unexpected problems… like a lovesick stowaway, an army of rebels and road bandits and a magical detour with death itself…

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Автор: Paul Strathern

Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of Machiavelli in just one hour.Niccol? Machiavelli’s work remains misunderstood – synonymous with wicked scheming and underhand politics – nearly 350 years after his death. His philosophy of statecraft was scientific and highly rational, leaving sentiment, and ultimately morality, to one side. His advice is as relevant to modern politics as it was during the Renaissance – and reflects many profound and disturbing truths about the human condition.Here is a concise, expert account of Machiavelli’s life and philosophical ideas – entertainingly written and easy to understand. Also included are selections from Machiavelli’s work, suggested further reading, and chronologies that place Machiavelli in the context of the broader scheme of philosophy.

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Автор: Alger Horatio Jr

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Автор: Jos? Habber Rodr?guez S?nchez

El presente Manual de Gesti?n y Administraci?n Educativa, tiene como prop?sito servir de gu?a a directivos-docentes (rectores, vicerrectores, coordinadores, jefes de ?rea y/o departamento), docentes, personas naturales o jur?dicas interesadas en fundar instituciones educativas formales y/o no formales, comunidad educativa en general, y quienes se encuentren consultando y recogiendo informaci?n sobre los procedimientos y requisitos para la creaci?n y puesta en marcha de un proyecto educativo. Contiene los elementos suficientes y necesarios para crear, gestionar, legalizar, liderar y administrar con calidad una instituci?n de educaci?n de car?cter oficial o privado en el territorio colombiano.

Исполнители: Павел Ломакин

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Автор: Дорис Лессинг

A visionary novel from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.It is sooner than you might think. And the Earth’s climate is much changed – it’s colder than ever before in the north, and unbearably dry and hot in the south. Mara, who is seven, and her four-year-old brother Dann find themselves somewhere very strange, not home …They are taken in by a kindly, grandmotherly woman, but this new life is hard: hunger, dirt, thirst and danger are the children’s constant companions. Drought and fire carry off their adoptive home and force them to set off northward into the unknown, to experience a series of adventures that bring them to an altogether altered world, where they can start to learn and build anew.Doris Lessing has written a compelling, troubling and entertaining novel that, through the remarkable odyssey of a brother and sister living in the imagined future, manages to tell us a great deal about the present we perceive only dimly and scarcely know how to value.

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Автор: Олег Кот

История великой ненависти последнего из живущих внука Николая II. 2022 год. Мариуполь разрушен.Сотни тысяч беженцев, погибших и пропавших без вести. Но война бастарда против того, кто узнал его тайну, продолжается. Чужими руками он пытается забрать уцелевшую квартиру, осмелившегося рассказать его историю людям. Первая книга о войне за истину о последних днях императорской семьи уже несуществующей Российской Империи. Мариуполь 1994—2014. Все персонажи книги являются плодом вымысла автора. Любое совпадение героев книги с реальными людьми случайно и непреднамеренно.

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Автор: Anne O'Brien

‘Anne O’Brien has joined the exclusive club of excellent historical novelists.’ – Sunday Express ‘Will you hold the castle for me, lady, in my name?’ He does not know me. He does not trust me. ‘Do you have to ask?’ With staunchly opposed political views, the new Lord and Lady Mansell are not seeking love during a time of civil war. Francis offered Honoria his name in response to his cousin’s will and the promise of ?4000 a year. When their castle is held by Royalist forces Honoria must appear loyal to Francis’s Parliamentarian cause.Working together to protect their lands, the vows made politically become something more. But where does her loyalty lie? Soon scandalous whispers of betrayal and double dealings land at Honoria’s door. And when the prison keys of London start rattling, Francis must question whether the wife he saved has dealt him the ultimate betrayal?Praise for Anne O’Brien:‘One of the best writers around…she outdoes even Philippa Gregory’ The Sun‘Her writing is highly evocative of the time period… O’Brien has produced an epic tale’ Historical Novel Society‘Anne O’Brien’s novels give a voice to the “silent” women of history’ Yorkshire Post‘Once again O’Brien proves herself a medieval history magician, conjuring up a sizzling, sweeping story’ Lancashire Evening Post‘An exciting and intriguing story of love and historical politics. If you enjoy Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir you will love Anne O'Brien’ We Love This Book‘A brilliantly researched and well-told story; you won’t be able to put this book down’ Candis‘A fast paced historical drama that is full of suspense.’ Essentials

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Автор: Victor Lodato

A fiercely funny and touching debut novel about a girl with a sharp and mischievous voice of her own – and her quest to discover the truth about her sister’s death‘I want to be awful. I want to do awful things and why not? Dull is dull is dull is my life. Like now, it’s night, not yet time for bed but too late to be outside, and the two of them reading reading reading with their eyes moving like the lights inside a copy machine. When I was helping put the dishes in the washer tonight, I broke a plate. I said sorry Ma it slipped. But it didn’t slip, that’s how I am sometimes, and I want to be worse. Awful is easy if you make it your one and only.’Fear doesn't come naturally to Mathilda Savitch. She prefers to look right at the things nobody else can bring themselves to mention: for example, the fact that her beloved older sister is dead, pushed in front of a train by a man who is still on the loose. Still, after a year of spying and provocations, she's no closer to the truth about her sister's death than the day it happened. When Mathilda finally cracks her email password, a secret life opens up, one that swiftly draws her into a world of clouded motives and strange emotion. Somewhere in it lies the key to waking her family up from their dream of grief. To cross into that underworld and see what her sister saw, she has to risk everything that matters to her.Mathilda Savitch is furiously funny, awkward and tender; a compelling page-turner, and the debut of an extraordinary novelistic talent.

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Автор: Peter V. Brett

A thrilling novella set in the world of The Demon Cycle from bestselling fantasy author Peter V. Brett.Humanity has been brought to the brink of extinction. Each night, the world is overrun by demons. Bloodthirsty creatures of nightmare that have been hunting the surface for over 300 years. A scant few hamlets and half-starved city-states are all that remain of a once proud civilization, and it is only by hiding behind wards, ancient symbols with the power to repel the demons, that they survive. A handful of Messengers brave the night to keep the lines of communication open between the increasingly isolated populace.Briar Damaj is a boy of six in the small village of Bogton. Half-Krasian, the village children call him Mudboy for his dark skin. When tragedy strikes, Briar decides the town is better off without him, fleeing into the bog with nothing but his wits and a bit of herb lore to protect him.After twenty years, Ragen Messenger has agreed to retire and pass on his route to his prot?g?, Arlen Bales. But for all that he's earned the rest, he has no idea what to do with the rest of his life. When he learns Briar, the son of an old friend, is missing, Ragen is willing to risk any danger to bring him safely home.

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Автор: Virginie T

Hist?ria de amor paranormal com lenda nativa americana Isabelle ? uma parisiense solit?ria que vem ao Canad? para trabalhar. Achak ? um amer?ndio pertencente ? tribo de Ottawa. Ela tem medo dele, ele ? irreparavelmente atra?do por ela. A reuni?o deles vai brilhar. Especialmente porque a tribo tem um poder extraordin?rio. Se voc? gosta de hist?rias de amor sexy e reformas, este ? o livro para voc?.

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Автор: Julieta Valero

La naturaleza de la vida es la impermanencia, y con la vida, el ser humano est? siempre en proceso de cambio. Pero algo en estas transformaciones permanece inalterable. ?Qu? var?a y qu? es lo queda en ese tr?nsito? ?C?mo se revela lo que somos y nunca dejamos de ser? Vivir es sin duda un riesgo que asumimos a pesar de que esa aceptaci?n entra?e siempre una p?rdida. Mitad, de Julieta Valero, es una honda y po?tica refl exi?n en torno a los temas m?s vigentes en tiempos que exigen sumergirnos en cuestionamientos que no acaban nunca de agotarse. Lo que se rompe y lo que brota cohabitan en un lenguaje que se tensa al situar al lector ante sus l?mites y ante su relaci?n consigo mismo, con la Naturaleza, con los otros. Se oponen y a la vez conviven en una morada desde la que reconstituirnos, ubicarnos en relaci?n con los dem?s y volver a significar –o intentarlo, al menos– el suceso fr?gil y vibrante que somos.
"Julieta Valero parece entender la poes?a como funci?n esencial de la vida. Elaboraci?n de una lengua propia, hecha de lo que vamos pasando, de lo que se querr?a que fuera, del mundo. Los materiales de la vida y un exigente trabajo de la lengua. Auto-reflexiva y esc?ptica, c?lida y descre?da, plantea y deja abiertas sus cuestiones. […] El lugar de habla es l?rico y de revuelta. Hay aspereza, ilusi?n, preguntas. Una dulzura m?s all? de lo pr?ximo".
OLVIDO GARC?A VALD?S, ABC Cultural

Серия: Poesia

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Автор: Группа авторов

Das Coronavirus stellt uns alle auf die Probe. Wir m?chten euch helfen, dennoch ein wenig Normalit?t zu bewahren, indem wir euch in dieser mixtipp-Spezialausgabe f?r den neuen Alltag passende Thermomix®-Rezepte und Zubereitungsanweisungen f?r Dinge des t?glichen Gebrauchs an die Hand geben. Mit diesem Buch bringt ihr Freude und Abwechslung ins allt?gliche Spiel mit euren Kleinen, mit tollen Spielzeugideen aus eigener Herstellung!

Серия: mixtipp Spezial: Kochen mit dem Thermomix

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Автор: Cameron Haley

If street magic was easy, everyone would be doing it.I’m Domino Riley, an enforcer for Shanar Rashan. Like most mob bosses in L.A., he’s a powerful sorcerer, battling for control of the city, gathering up the magic of violent and powerful emotions and storing it for his own use. Rashan saved me from the streets and made me his lieutenant. You could say I’m his go-to girl.Recently, a fellow gangster was ritually executed, and now I have to find out which of Rashan’s enemies was behind it—and why. The cryptic messages I’m getting from the Beyond tell me it wasn’t a simple hit.With the bodies piling up, I need to win an occult gang war, take out the supernatural traitor within our outfit, and, oh yeah, deal with the mixed messages I’m getting from the boss’s son… MOB RULES

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Автор: Debbie Macomber

Home really is where the heart is…When Molly receives a call telling her that her grandfather is ill, she hurries home to Sweetgrass, Montana. She doesn’t give the stranger on the phone a second thought…until she arrives at her grandfather’s ranch to find that Sam Dakota is virtually impossible to avoid.Molly isn’t the only one with questions about Sam’s presence in Sweetgrass, where strangers are few and far between. Yet, despite the warning signs, Molly can’t deny her attraction to her grandfather’s enigmatic ranch hand. That is, until her grandfather announces that Molly must marry Sam!Moving home was one thing…matrimony is quite another! But Molly’s grandfather has always known what’s best for her…hasn’t he?Make time for friends. Make time for Debbie Macomber.‘Just what the doctor ordered for the feel-good factor’ – Sunday Express

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Автор: Roma Tearne

A lyrical and profoundly moving story of love, loss and civil war, set in Sri Lanka, London and Venice.When author Theo Samarajeeva returns to his native Sri Lanka after his wife’s death, he hopes to escape his gnawing loss amid the lush landscape of his increasingly war-torn country. But as he sinks into life in this beautiful, tortured land, he also finds himself slipping into friendship with an artistic young girl, Nulani, whose family is caught up in the growing turmoil. Soon friendship blossoms into love. Under the threat of civil war, their affair offers a glimmer of hope to a country on the brink of destruction…But all too soon, the violence which has cast an ominous shadow over their love story explodes, tearing them apart. Betrayed, imprisoned and tortured, Theo is gradually stripped of everything he once held dear – his writing, his humanity and, eventually, his love. Broken by the belief her lover is dead, Nulani flees Sri Lanka to a cold and lonely life of exile. As the years pass and the country descends into a morass of violence and hatred, the tragedy of Theo and Nulani's failed love spreads like a poison among friends sickened by the face of civil war, and the lovers must struggle to recover some of what they have lost and to resurrect, from the wreckage of their lives, a fragile belief in the possibility of redemption.Beautifully written, by turns heartbreaking and uplifting, `Mosquito’ is a first novel of remarkable and compelling power.

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Автор: C.E. Murphy

Joanne Walker has survived an encounter with the Master at great personal cost, but now her father is missing – stolen from the timeline. She must finally return to North Carolina to find him – and to meet Aidan, the son she left behind long ago.That would be enough for any shaman to face, but Joanne's beloved Appalachians are being torn apart by an evil reaching forward from the distant past. Anything that gets in its way becomes tainted – or worse.And Aidan has gotten in the way.Only by calling on every aspect of her shamanic powers can Joanne pull the past apart and weave a better future.It will take everything she has – and more. Unless she can turn back time…

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Автор: Michael Corrigan

Can a person born into a nomadic culture find a home? When Michael Mulligan and Maria Burke flee Ireland during the famine, she leaves her tyrannical husband, Nathaniel Burke, and Mulligan abandons a secret society of Irish freedom fighters.

Исполнители: Alex Hyde-White

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Автор: Sommer Marsden

Life as a nude model wasn’t what Dani Young expected. It was all Chris’s idea. His art class was minus one model and her life needed a change—a big one. An emotional shake up, he said. Something to make her feel wild and brave and free.She’s learning a lot about herself – her wants, her desires, her unexpected fantasies. But her biggest lesson may be that she deserves so much more than she’s always settled for in the past. Something like a courageous, blazing shot at real love.

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Автор: Shari Low

Want what she's got? Think again…A high-concept and heartfelt romantic comedy for everyone who’s ever fancied swapping lives.A more unlikely pairing you'd struggle to find, but Roxy Galloway and Ginny Wallis have been there for each other ever since they were five years old and Roxy beat up Kevin Smith for putting gum in Ginny's hair. Even though Roxy is now living the high life in London and Ginny is still at home in sleepy Farnham Hills, the bond is as deep as it ever was.But after her latest romantic disaster, Roxy decides she needs a city de-tox – no more London, no more reception work at high-class brothel The Seismic Lounge (guaranteed to make the earth move) and definitely no more men.Ginny's so far in a rut she needs a pair of Roxy's thigh-high boots to clamber out. Dating Andrew for 12 long years and stamping books at the local library, she's craving a walk on the wild side.So they swap lives.For Ginny, it's a whirl of champagne and parties in the lap of luxury. For Roxy, it's a case of terminal boredom in the local pub. But the strangest things can happen in the most unlikely of places…The perfect summer read to take with you on holiday or out into the sunshine. For fans of Debbie Johnson, Katie Fforde and The Note.

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Автор: Jay Crownover

The fourth book in the scorching hot NEW YORK TIMES bestselling MARKED MEN New Adult seriesNash Donovan, tattooist and good-time guy, never knew his father. Instead, he was brought up by his Uncle Phil, the best role model and mentor a guy could have. But when Phil is rushed to hospital and reveals he’s at the end stages of lung cancer, he wants Nash to know the truth. Reeling from the family secret Phil has let slip, Nash needs something to hold on to – and the nurse with the beautiful grey eyes taking care of Phil seems remarkably familiar…Saint Ford doesn’t know what to think when Nash crashes back into her life. They went to school together what feels like a million years ago and although she feels – and looks – very different, she can’t tell if Nash is still the same guy: the guy who teased and bullied her way back when and who she vowed never to forgive.But Nash is impossible to stay away from. From his flame-tattooed head to his multiple piercings, and his all-round good guy attitude, he’s unlike anyone Saint has ever known – does she still carry a flame for the first guy to steal her heart? And can she forgive him – and herself – for the mistakes of the past?

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Автор: Paddy Ashdown

From the bestselling and prize-winning author Paddy Ashdown, a revelatory new history of German opposition to Hitler from 1935 – 1944In his last days, Adolf Hitler raged in his bunker that he had been betrayed by his own people, defeated from the inside. In part, he was right. By 1945, his armies were being crushed on all fronts, his regime collapsing with many fleeing retribution for their crimes. Yet, even before the war started, there were Germans very high in Hitler’s command committed to bringing about his death and defeat.Paddy Ashdown tells, for the first time, the story of those at the very top of Hitler’s Germany who tried first to prevent the Second World War and then to deny Hitler victory. Based on newly released files, the repeated attempts of the plotters to warn the Allies about Hitler’s plans are revealed. Key strands to the book’s narrative lie with the actions of Abwehr head Admiral Wilhelm Canaris to frustrate Hitler’s policies once the war had started; the plots to kill Hitler and, finally the systematic passage of key German military secrets to London, Washington and Moscow through MI6, the OSS (fore-runner to the CIA) and the “Lucy Ring” Russian spy network based in Switzerland. From 1943 onwards, concerted efforts were made to strike a separate peace with the West to shorten the war and prevent eastern Europe falling under the Soviet yoke.What is revealed is that the anti-Hitler bomb plots, which have received so much attention are, in fact only a small part of a much wider story; one in which those at the highest levels of the German state used every means possible – conspiracy, assassination, espionage – to ensure that, for the sake of the long-term reputation of their country and the survival of liberal and democratic values, Hitler could not be allowed to win the war. It is a matter of record that the European Union we have today and the nature and central position of Germany within it, is, in very large measure, the future envisaged by the plotters and for which they gave their lives.

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Автор: Gordon Kent

This exhilarating tale of modern espionage and breathtaking flying action introduces a major new thriller-writing talent. With its striking authenticity and remarkable psychological depth, NIGHT TRAP is sure to appeal to fans of Tom Clancy, Stephen Coonts and Dale Brown. Night Trap follows the career of Alan Craik, a young Intelligence officer in the US Navy, whose relentless investigation into the unexpected death of his own father, a legendary naval pilot, sets him on the trail of a father-and-son team of spies within his own ranks – serving members of the US Navy who have been betraying their country for years, and will risk everything not to be discovered.

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Автор: Флоренс Долорет

Небольшое послание от лица маленького мальчика из того кусочка планеты, где в данный момент больше всего боятся войны.

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Автор: Jack Benton

O segundo mist?rio emocionante da s?rie de mist?rios Slim Hardy. Um rel?gio enterrado ? a chave para um mist?rio de d?cadas atr?s. De f?rias para fugir dos pesadelos de seu ?ltimo caso, o ex-soldado e agora detetive particular John ”Slim” Hardy encontra algo enterrado no mato em Bodmin Moor. Incompleto e danificado pela ?gua, mas ainda funcionando, o velho rel?gio fornece uma pista vital para um caso de pessoa desaparecida. Quando Slim come?a a fazer perguntas na pequena vila de Penleven, ele encontra um mundo de mentiras, rumores, e segredos, alguns dos quais os residentes preferem manter enterrados. Vinte e tr?s anos atr?s, um relojoeiro recluso deixou sua oficina e andou at? Bodmin Moor, levando consigo seu ?ltimo rel?gio incompleto. Ele desapareceu. Slim est? determinado a descobrir o porqu?. O segredo do relojoeiro ? a assombrosa continua??o do romance de estr?ia de Jack Benton, ”O Homem ? Beira Mar”.

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Автор: Katy Regan

A smart, punchy, poignant and achingly funny debut based on Katy Regan’s hugely popular Marie Claire column And then there were three…sort of.Tess Jarvis’ rules for life have always been somewhatrelaxed…1.Never go to bed before your last guest has leftTess and Gina's flat has a jacuzzi so it's the obvious location for a party … every night2.Make great friends and keep them closeThough not actually in your bed. Tess and Jim’s claims that they are ‘just good friends’ has everyone’s eyes rolling.3.Look on the bright side of lifeAfter all it could be so much worse. Tess’s job interviewing the nation’s catastrophes proves this every day.4.Don’t wait for the weekend to wear your fancy knickersAlthough be warned, this can lead to all manner of messes…Tess has always been one to wing it but she’s fast realizing that her bank of blag is running out of funds. At 28, is it time to grow up? Maybe having a baby with your best friend isn't the best way to start…

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Автор: Nicola Cornick

“I hired you as a novelty, an attraction, the most notorious woman in London…”London, July 1813Once the toast of the ton, Lottie Cummings is now notorious for being divorced – and without a penny. Shunned by society the destitute beauty is forced to become a Covent Garden courtesan. Refusing to oblige her customers, Lottie’s about to be turned out onto the streets. Until a dangerous rake saves her with a scandalous offer.The illegitimate son of a Duke, Ethan Ryder rose to the ranks of Napoleon’s most trusted cavalry officer – until his capture landed him in England as prisoner of war. Now on parole, Ethan is planning his most audacious coup yet. But he needs to create a spectacular diversion. And having infamous Lottie as his mistress will lull everyone into thinking he’s busily bedding her instead of plotting deadly treason…

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Автор: Annie Groves

A compelling novel about four young women in wartime London, from the best-selling author of London Belles and My Sweet Valentine.In Article Row, in London’s Holborn – four young women, Tilly, Sally, Dulcie and Agnes – have already been witnesses to the heartache and pain that Hitler’s bombs have inflicted on ordinary Londoners.Tilly is desperate to wed her beau, Drew. Terrified that something will happen to prevent them from being together, her fears seem to be coming true when he is called back home to America.For her mother, Olive, this only adds to her worries for Tilly. But she has her own hands full when her friend and neighbour, Sergeant Dawson, gets some terrible news. When Olive lends a hand, she finds herself at the sharp end of some unwelcome gossip.For Dulcie, the war has brought an old flame, David, back into her life. But his terrible injuries have changed his life forever. Can something more develop out of their friendship? And for Agnes, she is about to find out something that will change her life, too.In this seemingly endless war, the girls will learn about love, loss and heartache. But they, like thousands of other Londoners, are determined to win the battle on the home front – no matter what it takes.

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Автор: Alexander Khan

“I've told you before, and I will tell you again, if you are unable to read the Holy Book you will be punished.” The teacher’s face was a mask of anger. “Understand?”Born in 1975 in the UK to a Pakistani father and an English mother, Alexander Khan spent his early years as a Muslim in the north of England. But at the age of three his family was torn apart when his father took him to Pakistan. Despite his desperate cries, that was the last he saw of his mother – he was told she had walked out and abandoned them; many years later he learned she was told he’d died in a car crash in Pakistan.Three years on Alex is brought back to England, but kept hidden at all times. His father disappears to Pakistan again, leaving Alex in the care of a stepmother and her cruel brother. And it is then that his troubles really begin. Seen as an outsider by both the white kids and the Pakistani kids, Alex is lost and alone.When his father dies unexpectedly, Alex is sent back to Pakistan to stay with his ‘family’ and learn to behave like a ‘good Muslim’. Now alone in a strange, hostile country, with nobody to protect him, Alex realises what it is to be truly orphaned. No one would listen. No one would help. And no one cared when he was kidnapped by men from his own family and sent to a fundamentalist Madrassa on the Afghanistan border.A fascinating and compelling account of young boy caught between two cultures, this book tells the true story of a child desperately searching for his place in the world; the tale of a boy, lost and alone, trying to find a way to repair a life shattered by the shocking event he witnessed through a crack in the door of a house in an isolated village in Pakistan.

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Автор: Duff Hart-Davis

A rich account of the impact of the Second World War on the lives of people living in the farms and villages of Britain.On the outbreak of war, the countryside was invaded by service personnel and evacuee children by the thousand; land was taken arbitrarily for airfields, training grounds and firing ranges, and whole communities were evicted. Prisoner-of-war camps brought captured enemy soldiers to close quarters, and as horses gave way to tractors and combines farmers were burdened with aggressive new restrictions on what they could and could not grow. Land Girls and Lumber Jills worked in fields and forests. Food – or the lack of it – was a major preoccupation and rationing strictly enforced. And although rabbits were poached, apples scrumped and mushrooms gathered, there was still not enough to eat.Drawing from diaries, letters, books, official records and interviews, Duff Hart Davis revisits rural Britain to describe how ordinary people survived the war years. He tells of houses turned over to military use such as Bletchley and RAF Medmenham as well as those that became schools, notably Chatsworth in Derbyshire.Combining both hardship and farce, the book examines the profound changes war brought to Britain’s countryside: from the Home Guard, struggling with the provision of ludicrous equipment, to the role of the XII Corps Observation Unit. whose task was to enlarge rabbit warrens and badger setts into bunkers for harassing the enemy in the event of a German invasion; to the unexpected tenderness shown by many to German and Italian prisoners-of-war at work on the land. Fascinating, sad and at times hilarious, this warm-hearted book tells great stories – and casts new light on Britain during the war.

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Автор: Maria Snyder V

There’s something Outside It wants In. And I’m supposed to stop it?I’m Trella. I used to be a scrub, cleaning the pipes and corridors of Inside. Then I found a whole world beyond the cube we live in and accidentally led a revolution against the Uppers. Now everyone is trying to figure out what happens next. Except me. The fight’s over and I want my life back.I need to explore the new world I’ve found and work out exactly what’s going on with Riley, the Upper who helped me win the war. But there’s something Outside. And I need to step up. Because once a leader, always a leader. It’s coming. Am I strong enough to stop it?Featured in Peter’s Gazette Librarian’s pick of ‘What’s Next’ FOR FANS OF THE HUNGER GAMES

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Автор: Freda Lightfoot

Sunday Times bestselling author Freda Lightfoot is back with a heartwarming story of life after the war.She must keep her family together… The war is over and Evie Talbert eagerly awaits the return of her three children from their evacuated homes. But her carefree daughters and son are barely recognisable – their education has been disrupted, the siblings split up, and the effect on them has been life-changing. Her son has developed serious behavioural problems and with her daughters, there’s jealousy and a nervous disorder that cannot be explained…Evie’s husband also has problems. Having returned from being in action, he suffers nightmares and fits of rage. He’s no longer the gentle, quiet man Evie married.Peace may finally be here, but Evie’s family is in shreds. Now she must rebuild a loving home to achieve the happiness she’s always dreamed of…

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Автор: Gordon Kent

From the acclaimed author of Night Trap, the second exhilarating tale of modern espionage and military adventure featuring US Navy intelligence officer Alan Craik.US Navy Intelligence officer Alan Craik is plunged into adventures on land, at sea and in the air in this action-packed new tale of betrayal, conspiracy and modern espionage – written with the authority that comes from personal experience.Alan Craik is back from sea duty and rapidly tiring of life behind a Pentagon desk when he learns that his best friend, a CIA agent, has been kidnapped in central Africa – just as Rwanda is about to be engulfed in violence. Before long, Alan flies out to join the US fleet off the African coast, ready to launch a bold rescue mission. But events spiral wildly out of control, and soon he and his wounded friend find themselves stranded in the middle of the continent with war raging all around.

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Автор: Piotr Liana

Rodzice Bożydara Szczocarza zostali zamordowani przez nieznanego sprawcę. Zrozpaczony mężczyzna wyjeżdża przed Niedzielą Palmową do Kłobuczki koło Dukli, gdzie ściąga go list nieznanej ciotki Wichrzysławy, będącej w tej chwili jego jedyną krewną. Jego przyjazd zbiega się z lokalną aferą – morderstwem popełnionym na miejscowej prostytutce Marynie Hurman. Piotr Liana – autor powieści Echo serca – thrillera rozpoczynającego serię powieści z komisarz Iwoną Sudą. Pochodzi z Gorlic, obecnie mieszka w Tarnowie.

Исполнители: Hubert Paszkiewicz

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Автор: Kathryn Springer

Twenty years and several pounds ago…I was Bernice Strum, hairstylist to the stars. Until I fell for–and got pregnant by–Alex Scott, a handsome actor with a career on the rise. But I gave my baby up for adoption and moved across the country to settle in Prichett, Wisconsin. I made friends, started a faith journey, and then one day I got a call from my now-adult daughter that turned my world upside down… and brought Alex back into my life. Now he's here (living in my dream house!) and he wants to pick up where we left off–but how can I trust his picket-fence promises when he's not a believer in anything but himself?

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Автор: Peter Ransley

The first instalment of a captivating trilogy set against the backdrop of the English Civil War.September 1625: Plague cart driver, Matthew Kneave, is sent to pick up the corpse of a baby. Yet, on the way to the plague pit, he hears a cry – the baby is alive. A plague child himself, and now immune from the disease, Matthew decides to raise it as his own.Fifteen years on, Matthew’s son Tom is apprenticed to a printer in the City. Somebody is interested in him and is keen to turn him into a gentleman. He is even given an education. But Tom is unaware that he has a benefactor and soon he discovers that someone else is determined to kill him.The civil war divides families, yet Tom is divided in himself. Devil or saint? Royalist or radicalist? He is at the bottom of the social ladder, yet soon finds himself within reach of a great estate – one which he must give up to be with the girl he loves.Set against the fervent political climate of the period, 'Plague Child' is a remarkable story of discovery, identity and an England of the past..

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Автор: Sharon Ashwood

Wolves mate for life… Photographer Lexi Haven has reasons for avoiding monsters, so when she discovered her boyfriend Faran Kenyon was a werewolf she knew she had to leave. But years later, Faran crashes into the exclusive royal wedding she’s covering, chased by a gunman… and Lexi has no choice but to face her ex.In the chaos, the royal wedding ring disappears – and Lexi is suspected of having stolen it. As a spy, Faran can help her find the jewel, but first Lexie will need to put her trust in the supernatural… and the werewolf she cannot resist.

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Автор: Achim Frick

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Автор: Daniel Wrinn

« Des histoires stup?fiantes qui ensemble, tissent les principaux fronts de la Premi?re Guerre mondiale dans un r?cit ?pique ». ─ La Grande Guerre a entra?n? la mutilation ou la mort de millions de civils et de soldats. Suivez les traces des militaires britanniques, allemands et am?ricains qui d?taillent la vie et les combats de la guerre dans un pays ?trange et ?tranger. D?couvrez leurs histoires fascinantes et r?alistes de combat, de courage et de d?tresse dans des r?cits sensibles et ?quilibr?s racont?s depuis les lignes du front.

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Автор: Уильям Уортон

When a 10-year-old boy befriends a carnival stuntman and his lion cub, he learns the true meaning of family, loyalty, love, and survival.For Dickie Kettleson, growing up during the Depression makes even the most ordinary aspects of life a struggle. His small street and family are his whole world, but hunger and collapse are never far away.Fory-year-old Cap Modig has already experienced his fair share of troubles. A former war hero and champion race driver, Cap now works in a carnival, travelling the open road with his fellow ‘carnie s’.Then, one day in October 1938, Cap and Dickie’s worlds collide, and change forever.

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Автор: Daniel Wrinn

”Impresionantes historias que entrelazan los principales frentes de la Primera Guerra Mundial en un relato arrollador”. ─ Rese?a La Gran Guerra dej? millones de civiles y soldados mutilados o muertos. Siga los pasos de los militares brit?nicos, alemanes y estadounidenses mientras detallan la vida y las luchas de la guerra en un pa?s extranjero y extra?o. Descubra sus hipnotizantes y realistas historias de combate, valor y angustia en relatos amenos y equilibrados contados desde el frente.

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Автор: Mark Lawrence

From the publisher that brought you Game of Thrones… Prince of Thorns is the first volume in a powerful epic fantasy trilogy, original, absorbing and challenging.Before the thorns taught me their sharp lessons and bled weakness from me I had but one brother, and I loved him well. But those days are gone and what is left of them lies in my mother's tomb. Now I have many brothers, quick with knife and sword, and as evil as you please. We ride this broken empire and loot its corpse. They say these are violent times, the end of days when the dead roam and monsters haunt the night. All that's true enough, but there's something worse out there, in the dark. Much worse.From being a privileged royal child, raised by a loving mother, Jorg Ancrath has become the Prince of Thorns, a charming, immoral boy leading a grim band of outlaws in a series of raids and atrocities. The world is in chaos: violence is rife, nightmares everywhere. Jorg has the ability to master the living and the dead, but there is still one thing that puts a chill in him. Returning to his father's castle Jorg must confront horrors from his childhood and carve himself a future with all hands turned against him.Mark Lawrence's debut novel tells a tale of blood and treachery, magic and brotherhood and paints a compelling and brutal, and sometimes beautiful, picture of an exceptional boy on his journey toward manhood and the throne.

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Автор: Робин Карр

There’s an old saying: whenever one door closes, another one opens. That’s truer of Virgin River than almost anywhere else on earth.After years spent on ranches around Los Angeles, Clay Tahoma is delighted to be Virgin River’s new veterinary assistant. The secluded community’s wild beauty tugs at his Navajo roots and he’s been welcomed with open arms by everyone in town – everyone except Lilly Yazhi.Lilly has encountered her share of strong, silent, traditional men within her own aboriginal community and she’s not interested in coming back for more. In her eyes, Clay’s earthy, sexy appeal is just an act used to charm wealthy women like his ex-wife. She can’t deny his gift for gentling horses, but she’s not about to let him control her. There’s just one small problem – she can’t control her attraction to Clay.But in Virgin River faith in new beginnings and the power of love has doors opening everywhere…

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Автор: Michelle Falkoff

Kara Winters is always striving for perfection. But when her anxiety takes over, the price of perfection spirals out of control…'Perfect' Kara Winters has always hated her nickname. Especially now that she no longer lives up to it. She used to have normal friends, she used to be normal. Now all she wants is to get into Harvard and leave high school behind.So when the pressure to ace her exams finally gets to her, Kara does one tiny bad thing, just to help out, to ease the stress. If it will help Kara get a perfect exam score and one step closer to a new life, it’s a price she’s willing to pay.But she never expects to get caught out. Or that Alex, Raj and her other not-so-perfect new friends might get embroiled in a horrible mess that could ruin all of their futures.Sometimes perfection isn't what it's cracked up to be.

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Автор: Powell Michael

Quattro giovani di quattro nazionalit? si incontrano in Germania prima della guerra. Il loro destino ? di morire contemporaneamente in guerra in un isola dell'Egeo. l libro racconta le vite di quattro giovani uomini, tutti nati nel 1920, Godfrey (inglese), Rolf (tedesco), Marco (italiano) e Yiannis (greco) e delle loro famiglie. Marco eYiannis provengono dalla piccola isola di Leros, all'epoca parte delle isole del Dodecanneso governate dall'Italia. Si incontrano tutti nel 1936 al raduno della giovent? di Norimberga dove Godfrey fa visita a Rolf on nell'ambito di uno scambio studentesco e Marco ? invitato a trovare il suo secondo cugino, Rolf, insieme al suo amico Yiannis. Quando scoppia la guerra i quattro si mettono al servizio delle loro nazioni in vari campi di battaglia. Nel 1943, l'Italia passa con gli Alleati e le loro vite si riuniscono di nuovo quando Yiannis, diventato un marinaio nell'importante cacciatorpediniere greco, ‘Queen Olga’, trasporta le truppe britanniche a Leros e incontra Godfrey, ora un membro del British Long Range Desert Group, e Marco, in servizio per l'esercito italiano a Leros. Rolf, ora di base in Grecia come pilota di bombardieri ha in sorte di lanciare una delle bombe che affonda l'Olga e, come atto finale prima che il suo aereo precipiti, di mitragliare la batteria antiaerea di Marco.

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Автор: D. Graham R

The best of the bucking bulls are rank…and so are the cowboys who ride them!Cole grabbed my arm. “You don’t need to do this. I got myself into this mess. I’ll live with the consequences.”I exhaled and slid Shae-Lynn’s pink armband over my forearm. I kissed it, then did a prayer before climbing into the chute. “This isn’t about you anymore. I got something to prove.”Rodeo is all Billy Ryan and his brother Cole have ever known – until one deadly wreck changes everything. With their mom requiring full-time care and Cole dealing with his own demons, Billy needs to step up to take care of his family. So he walks away from his future as a champion bull rider. Convincing himself he didn’t quit because he lost his nerve…Barrel racer Shae-Lynn, the sweet good-girl-next-door, grew up with the boys on the rodeo circuit. She’s the only person who knows Billy better than he knows himself. She could help him get back in the ring, but there’s a limit to how many times she’ll watch him make the same mistakes. Especially when it comes to her heart.When Cole’s gambling debts get out of control and the bills at home pile up, Billy has no choice but to enter a winner takes all bull riding event. He needs Shae-Lynn by his side, but that isn’t going to happen unless he figures out a way to cowboy up and prove he’s good enough for a woman like her.Intense, emotional and complex, this is Friday Night Lights meets Nicholas Sparks’ The Longest Ride… with edge!

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Автор: James McGee

Regency London is vividly brought to life in this extraordinary page-turner, the first in a series of historical thrillers featuring Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood – a dangerous, sexy and fascinating hero.Hunting down highwaymen was not the usual preserve of a Bow Street Runner. As the most resourceful of this elite band of investigators, Matthew Hawkwood was surprised to be assigned the case – even if it did involve the murder and mutilation of a naval courier.From the squalor of St Giles Rookery, London's notorious den of theives and cutthroats, to the palatial homes of the aristocracy where knights of the realm conduct themselves in a manner unbecoming to their rank, Hawkwood relentlessly pursues his quarry.And as the case unfolds, and another body is discovered, the true agenda behind the robbery begins to emerge: the stolen naval dispatch pouch held details of a French plot that, if successful, will send the Royal Navy's entire fleet scurrying to port in terror, leaving Napoleon to rule the waves. With no way of knowing who can be trusted, Hawkwood must engage in a desperate race against time to prevent the successful execution of the Emperor's plot.

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Автор: Bernard Cornwell

The first book in Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series on the American Civil War.It is summer 1861. The armies of North and South stand on the brink of America’s civil war.Nathanial Starbuck, jilted by his girl and estranged from his family, arrives in the capital of the Confederate South, where he enlists in an elite regiment being raised by rich, eccentric Washington Faulconer.Pledged to the Faulconer Legion, Starbuck becomes a northern boy fighting for the southern cause. But nothing can prepare him for the shocking violence to follow in the war which broke America in two.

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Автор: Tom Bower

‘The pampered, petulant, self-pitying Prince. A devastating book by Britain’s top investigative author’ Daily Mail‘Explosive new book delves inside the bizarre, ultra luxury world of Prince Charles’ The SunBest-selling author Tom Bower reveals the power, passion and defiance of Prince Charles.Few heirs to the throne have suffered as much humiliation as Prince Charles. Despite his hard work and genuine concern for the disadvantaged, he has struggled to overcome his unpopularity. After Diana’s death, his approval rating crashed to 4% and has been only rescued by his marriage to Camilla. Nevertheless, just one third of Britons now support him to be the next king.Many still fear that his accession to the throne will cause a constitutional crisis. That mistrust climaxed in the aftermath of the trial of Paul Burrell, Diana’s butler, acquitted after the Queen’s sensational ‘recollection’. In unearthing many secrets surrounding that and many other dramas, Bower’s book, relying on the testimony from over 120 people employed or welcomed into the inner sanctum of Clarence House, reveals a royal household rife with intrigue and misconduct. The result is a book which uniquely will probe into the character and court of the Charles that no one, until now, has seen.

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Автор: Джоанна Хиксон

The powerful story of Cecily Neville, torn between both sides in the War of the Roses, from the best-selling author of The Agincourt Bride.In fifteenth century England the Neville family rules the north with an iron fist. Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland, a giant of a man and a staunch Lancastrian, cunningly consolidates power by negotiating brilliant marriages for his children. The last betrothal he arranges before he dies is between his youngest daughter, nine-year-old Cicely, and his ward Richard, the thirteen-year-old Duke of York, England’s richest heir.Told through the eyes of Cicely and her half-brother Cuthbert, Red Rose, White Rose is the story of one of the most powerful women in England during one of its most turbulent periods. Born of Lancaster and married to York, the willowy and wayward Cicely treads a hazardous path through love, loss and imprisonment and between the violent factions of Lancaster and York, as the Wars of the Roses tear England’s ruling families apart.

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