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Лето 1138 года, разгар войны между королем Стефаном и императрицей Матильдой. Брат Кадфаэль вынужден оставить свой сад и отправиться на поле битвы • Оборона замка Шрусбери пала, а его защитники, верные Матильде, были повешены за предательство. Кадфаэль соглашается предать их тела земле, но замечает, что среди них есть один лишний труп…Монах понимает, что было совершено хладнокровное убийство • Однако до лишнего трупа нет дела никому, кроме доброго бенедиктинца. Раскрыть преступление ему поможет девочка, одетая в мальчишечью одежду, потерянный артефакт и обломанный цветок • «Один лишний труп» – это детективный роман Эллис Питерс, вторая книга из серии «Хроники монаха Кадфаэля». Произведение станет прекрасным подарком для поклонников жанра • По мотивам цикла был снят сериал «Брат Кадфаэль»

На ярмарку Святого Петра съезжаются торговцы со всей Англии и из-за ее пределов. В 1139 году гражданская война несколько утихла, и ярмарка несколько оживила Шрусбери. Однако вскоре в реке находят тело богатого торговца. Стал ли покойник жертвой разбойников? Тогда почему его все его вещи лежали неподалеку от трупа? Брат Кадфаэль предлагает свою помощь Эмме, племяннице убитого. Однако пока бенедиктинец ищет улики, происходит еще два убийства. Эмма явно что-то не договаривает, и остальные очень скоро это поймут. Кадфаэль пытается спасти ее, ведь в стране, которая находится в состоянии войны с самой собой, даже самые добрые намерения могут быть убийственными… • «Ярмарка Святого Петра» – это детективный роман Эллис Питерс, четвертая книга из серии «Хроники монаха Кадфаэля»

A rich collection of classic Christmas mysteries • Christmas is a season of overindulgence. For most of us, that means an extra mince pie, a second helping of turkey, or perhaps a third glass of mulled wine. But for some, the festive season is a time to settle old scores, dispatch new enemies and indulge ... in murder • Here, ten masters of the genre serve up mystery and mayhem aplenty. From a dowager's missing jewels to a festive dinner gone horribly wrong, these classic crime stories will delight, puzzle and satisfy long after the last strands of tinsel have been cleared away

AD 1215: The year of Magna Carta - and Robin Hood's greatest battle • The yoke of tyranny • King John is scheming to reclaim his ancestral lands in Europe, raising the money for new armies by bleeding dry peasants and nobles alike, not least the Earl of Locksley - the former outlaw Robin Hood - and his loyal man Sir Alan Dale • The call to arms • As rebellion brews across the country and Robin Hood and his men are dragged into the war against the French in Flanders, a plan is hatched that will bring the former outlaws and their families to the brink of catastrophe - a plan to kill the King • The roar of revolution • England explodes into bloody civil war and Alan and Robin must decide who to trust - and who to slaughter. And while Magna Carta might be the answer their prayers for peace, first they will have to force the King to submit to the will of his people

When he's caught stealing, young Alan Dale is forced to leave his family and go to live with a notorious band of outlaws in Sherwood Forest. Their leader is the infamous Robin Hood. A tough, bloodthirsty warrior, Robin is more feared than any man in the county. And he becomes a mentor for Alan; with his fellow outlaws, Robin teaches Alan how to fight - and how to win. But Robin is a ruthless man - and although he is Alan's protector, if Alan displeases him, he could also just as easily become his murderer • From bloody battles to riotous feast days to marauding packs of wolves, Outlaw is a gripping, action-packed historical thriller that delves deep into the fascinating legend of Robin Hood

To save his soul William Marshal takes the perilous road to Jerusalem, but the greatest danger he faces there is losing his heart • England, 1219 • Lying on his deathbed, William Marshal, England's greatest knight, sends a trusted servant to bring to him the silk Templar burial shrouds that returned with him from the Holy Land thirty years ago. It is time to fulfil his vow to the Templars and become a monk of their order for eternity • As he waits for the shrouds' return, he looks back upon his long-ago pilgrimage with his brother Ancel, and the sacred mission entrusted to them - to bear the cloak of their dead young lord to Jerusalem and lay it on Christ's tomb in the church of the Holy Sepulchre • Jerusalem, 1183 • In the holiest of all cities, the brothers become embroiled in the deadly politics, devious scheming and lusts of the powerful men and women who rule the kingdom

The winter of 1353 has been appallingly wet, there is a fever outbreak amongst the poorer townspeople and the country is not yet fully recovered from the aftermath of the plague. The increasing reputation and wealth of the Cambridge colleges are causing dangerous tensions between the town, Church and University • Matthew Bartholomew is called to look into the deaths of three members of the University of who died from drinking poisoned wine, and soon he stumbles upon criminal activities that implicate his relatives, friends and colleagues - so he must solve the case before matters in the town get out of hand • It's August, 1354, and physician-monk Matthew Bartholomew jumps at the chance to travel to Ely with his friend and colleague Brother Michael, as it will give him a unique opportunity to study in the richly stocked library of the Benedictine priory

An epic new adventure for the heroes of Outlaw and Holy Warrior • The third crusade is over. Richard the Lionheart is bound for England. But with all the princes of Europe united against him can the greatest warrior in Christendom make it safely home? • The Lion is chained. Captured. Bound. Imprisoned. King Richard's slim hope of salvation rests on one man - a former outlaw, a vengeful earl, a man who scoffs at Holy Mother Church Robin Hood • For King and country Robin and his loyal lieutenant Alan Dale will risk all - from blood-soaked battlefields to deadly assassins - to see the Lionheart restored to his rightful throne

The Excellence Dividend is a critical new book from one of today's leading visionaries in business. This year's winner of the Thinkers50 Lifetime Achievement Award and the CEO Reads Lifetime Contribution to the Business Book Industry Award, Tom Peters is one of the world's most revered management gurus and global business thinkers. For decades, he has been preaching the gospel of putting people first, and in today's rapidly changing business environment, this message is more important than ever. Studies show that fewer than one-third of employees feel engaged with their work and that half of all jobs are at risk due to technology. But Peters has a solution: a sustained commitment to excellence combined with a commitment to people. These are, he argues, the only tools for coping with and thriving amidst the tsunami of change facing business today

White is Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction. Already the bad boy of American literature, from Less Than Zero to American Psycho, Ellis has also earned the wrath of right-thinking people everywhere with his provocations on social media, and here he escalates his admonishment of received truths as expressed by today's version of "the left." Eschewing convention, he embraces views that will make many in literary and media communities cringe, as he takes aim at the relentless anti-Trump fixation, coastal elites, corporate censorship, Hollywood, identity politics, Generation Wuss, "woke" cultural watchdogs, the obfuscation of ideals once both cherished and clear, and the fugue state of American democracy. In a young century marked by hysterical correctness and obsessive fervency on both sides of an aisle that's taken on the scale of the Grand Canyon, White is a clarion call for freedom of speech and artistic freedom