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Ноябрь 1940 года. И.А. Серебин – писатель из Одессы и герой Советского Союза. Получив загадочное письмо от бывшей возлюбленной, он отправляется в Стамбул, якобы по делам организации русских эмигрантов из Парижа. В Стамбуле перед ним открывается тайный мир международных шпионов и крупных политических игроков • Война в Европе неизбежна. Серебина нанимает секретная британская служба. Его цель – остановить экспорт румынской нефти в Германию • Судьба заведет Серебина в роскошные салоны Парижа, темные аллеи Бухареста и порты на Черном море. Время на исходе… • Blood Victory – это исторический роман американского писателя Алана Ферста, седьмая часть цикла Night Soldiers. Роман станет прекрасным подарком для поклонников исторической прозы • Книга на английском языке

Голливудский актер Фредерик Стал приезжает в Париж. В Европе настали трудные времена: нависает угроза новой войны, а парижане каждый вечер проводят так, будто завтра уже не наступит. Перед Фредериком открывается новый мир – мир послов, шпионов и тайных переписок. Судьба заносит его в Марокко, в венгерский замок, в самое сердце Третьего рейха…Сможет ли он выжить, когда по всему Парижу за ним следуют сотрудники немецких спецслужб? • Mission to Paris – это исторический роман американского писателя Алана Ферста, двенадцатая часть цикла Night Soldiers • Книга на английском языке • Frederic Stahl, a Hollywood film star, travels from Beverly Hills to the boulevards of Paris. It is a dangerous, difficult, seductive time: Europe is about to explode, and the Parisians are living every night as though it were their last

A portrait painted in blood. A valley shrouded in secrecy. A woman fighting for her life • 'The Sleeping Nymph': a work of art of magnetic beauty, painted by a young partisan fighter during the last days of the Second World War. A painting carrying a shocking secret hidden in the red pigment on the canvas, made with the blood of a human heart • But whose heart? • There is no body, no confession. Only that faint trace of blood. And that's what leads commissioner Teresa Battaglia - herself hiding an unspeakable truth - to the Resia Valley, in the north eastern part of Italy: a perfect genetic enclave protected for centuries from the outside world • The valley and the portrait are the only clues for a murder that occurred more than 70 years before. A red thread leading to the shadow of someone hell-bent on protecting a sacred secret

In 2011, the peace of the Syrian city of Homs is disturbed by protests and shelling. A young girl, Nour, is forced to flee across the Levant and North Africa in search of safety • 800 years before, Rawiya, disguised as a boy and apprenticed to a famous map maker, set out on an epic quest to chart the globe, following the very same route • In The Map of Salt & Stars, the tales of these two heroines coming of age in perilous times interweave, and shine a light on a country in turmoil, human resilience and the power of stories

In a sleepy English village in 1944, Annabel and her son Daniel live in the shadow of war. With her husband away, an increasingly isolated Annabel begins to lose her grip on reality • When mother and son befriend Hans, a German PoW consigned to a nearby farm, their lives are suddenly filled with thrilling secrets • To Annabel, Hans is an awakening from the darkness that has engulfed her since Daniel's birth. To her son, a solitary boy caught up in the magical world of fairy tales, he is perhaps a prince in disguise. But Hans has plans of his own and will soon set them into motion with devastating consequences

In Victorian London, poor women are vanishing, and rumours abound of a shadowy gang known as the Spiriters • In the unfamiliar streets of Soho, Gideon Bliss sets out in search of his lost love. From a ledge above Mayfair a seamstress jumps to her death, a mysterious message stitched into her own skin. Nearby, her aristocratic employer makes an abrupt exit from a gala ball, with society columnist Octavia Hillingdon in pursuit • And on the sullen Kent shore, as the darkness gathers, secrets lie hidden at the house on Vesper Sands

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 6 months of each other 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

In the streets of Rome, Vicki Wilson's lovers keep turning up dead • Vittoria, as she's known in Italy, is a small-time actress who left behind a dark past in her native Texas and followed her fading writer husband to the Eternal City • Guided by her controlling brother Johnny, Vittoria soon enters the upper circles of Roman society, mingling with shady cardinals and corrupt senators. Among them is Paolo Orsini, who quickly falls prey to Vittoria's charms. Too bad he's married; too bad his wife, an aging film icon, is murdered • From the ravishing beauty of Rome to the pristine beaches of Malibu, Vittoria finds herself at the heart of a lethal chase, spiralling dangerously out of control

In Last Stand at Saber River, a Civil War veteran returns home to find a Yankee's private army living on his land, while another enemy waits to strike • Paul Cable has fought - and lost - for the Confederacy but when he returns home he finds that his own war is far from over. The Union Army and two brothers--and a beautiful woman-- have taken over Cable's spread and are refusing to give it back. But Cable is determined that no one is going to take his future away--not with words, not with treachery, and not with guns

Париж. 1941 год • Жан Кассон возвращается в оккупированный Париж под новым именем • До войны он был продюсером, но теперь, когда его разыскивает гестапо, ему лучше держаться подальше от своих старых знакомых. Его новая жизнь разворачивается в темных парижских закоулках и дешевых отелях квартала красных фонарей • Но война продолжается, и Жан становится частью Французского сопротивления… • Red Gold – это роман американского писателя Алана Фюрста, входящий в цикл Night Soldiers • Книга на английском языке • Set in the underworld of Paris in 1941 • Reluctant spy Jean Casson returns to occupied Paris under a new identity • He is wanted by the Gestapo therefore must stay away from the civilised circles he knew as a film producer and learn to survive in the shadowy backstreets and cheap hotels of Pigalle

1942 год. Париж находится в оккупации. Подпольное французское сопротивление пытается свергнуть установленный Гитлером режим • Мужчина, преследуемый гестапо, умирает на руках у Поля Рикара, но перед смертью успевает отдать ему рисунок, на котором изображена деталь оружия. Рикар понимает, что этот ценный документ может помочь французскому сопротивлению • Мужчина начинает тесно сотрудничать с подпольем и отправляется на опасное задание в Германию, где его ждет встреча с профессиональной шпионкой, загадочной и прекрасной Лейлой… • Under Occupation – это роман американского писателя Алана Фюрста, входящий в цикл Night Soldiers • Книга на английском языке • Occupied Paris in 1942, a dark, treacherous city now ruled by the German security services, where French resistance networks are working secretly to defeat Hitler

A dark and addictive story of betrayal and desire • Nineteenth-century rural France • Before he is called to bless the body of a woman at the nearby asylum, Father Gabriel receives a strange, troubling confession: hidden under the woman's dress he will find the notebooks in which she confided the abuses she suffered and the twisted motivations behind them • And so Rose's terrible story comes to light: sold as a teenage girl to a rich man, hidden away in an old manor house deep in the woods and caught in a perverse web, manipulated by those society considers her betters. A girl whose only escape is to capture her life - in all its devastation and hope - in the pages of her diary • The English-language debut of critically acclaimed author Franck Bouysse, this exquisitely written novel is both a keen social commentary and a chilling horror story