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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

Letters to the Midwife is a wonderful collection of correspondence received by Jennifer Worth, offering a fascinating glimpse into a long-lost world • Along with readers' responses and personal histories, it is filled with all sorts of heart-warming gems. There are stories from other midwives, lorry drivers, even a seamstress, all with tales to tell • Containing previously unpublished material describing her time spent in Paris and some journal entries, this is also a portrait of Jennifer herself, complete with a moving introduction by her family about the woman they knew and loved

The Sunday Times bestselling manifesto for a twenty-first century understanding of human evolution and variation - and a weapon against scientific racism • The Sunday Times bestseller • As heard on BBC radio 4 book of the week • 'The ultimate anti-racism guide' Caroline Criado Perez • 'Seriously important' Bill Bryson • 'A fascinating debunking of racial pseudoscience' Guardian • Racist pseudoscience may be on the rise, but science is no ally to racists. Instead science and history can be powerful allies against bigotry, granting us the clearest view of how people actually are, rather than how we judge them to be. HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST dismantles outdated notions of race by illuminating what modern genetics can and can't tell us about human difference

This final book in Jennifer Worth's memories of her time as a midwife in London's East end brings her story full circle. As always there are heartbreaking stories such as the family devastated by tuberculosis and a ship's woman who 'serviced' the entire crew, as well as plenty of humour and warmth, such as the tale of two women who shared the same husband! Other stories cover backstreet abortions, the changing life of the docklands, infanticide, as well as the lives of the inhabitants of Nonnatus House • We discover what happens with the gauche debutant Chummy and her equally gauche policeman; will Sister Monica Joan continue her life of crime? Will Sister Evangelina ever crack a smile? And what of Jennifer herself? The book not only details the final years of the tenements but also of Jennifer's journey as she moves on from the close community of nuns, and her life takes a new path

Broken-hearted Joan has been searching for her missing husband, Victor, for almost a year - ever since he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument • One hung-over morning she is drawn to a revival tent in a nearby town - and there is Victor. Only he insists he is not Victor, but the Reverend Eugene Wolff, on a mission to bring his people to Jesus • With only two allies - her Johnny-Cash-loving, 12-year-old nephew Zeus, and Ajean, a foul-mouthed euchre shark with deep knowledge of the old Metis ways - Joan sets out to remind the Reverend Wolff of who he really is. If he really is Victor, his life and the life of everyone she loves, depends upon her success

Das Boot is the thrilling story of a U-boat commander and his crew during World War II. It is autumn 1941 and a German U-boat commander and his crew set out on yet another hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic. Over the coming weeks they must brave the stormy waters of the Atlantic in their mission to seek out and destroy British supply ships. But the tide is beginning to turn against the Germans in the war for the North Atlantic - their targets now travel in convoys, fiercely guarded by Royal Navy destroyers, and when contact is finally made the hunters rapidly become the hunted. As the U-boat is forced to hide beneath the surface of the sea a cat-and-mouse game begins, where the increasing claustrophobia of the submarine becomes an enemy just as frightening as the depth charges that explode around it

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

1934 год. Болгария. На глазах у Христо Стоянова до смерти избивают его родного брата. Мужчина покидает родную страну и уезжает в Москву, чтобы пройти обучение и стать агентом НКВД. Первое задание приводит его в Каталонию, где бушует гражданская война. Опасаясь репрессий, Христо вновь бежит – на этот раз в Париж. Тем временем над Европой нависает тень грядущей войны… • Night Soldiers – это один из величайших шпионских романов XX века, первая книга в одноименном цикле Алана Фюрста. Книга станет прекрасным подарком для любителей исторических романов • Книга на английском языке • Bulgaria, 1934. Khristo Stoianev sees his brother kicked to death by a gang of fascist thugs. Taking a risk on the promise of Communism, he flees to Moscow and is trained as an agent of the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service

An astronaut who will go on to be the first man to walk on the moon. A child of privilege who has run away to work in a pilots' bar in the Mojave Desert. A love affair that interacts with three of the twentieth century's most iconic moments: the race to space, the rage against the Vietnam War, and the ravages of the AIDS epidemic • Mojave Desert, 1957 • Vincent Kahn is an astronaut in training, living with his wife in the desert. He will go on to be the first man to walk on the moon • Fay Fern is 19-years-old and working in a dive bar, having rejected her parents' wealth and conservatism. She will go on to become a violent activist and one of the FBI's most wanted • The pair's brief but intense love affair will have repercussions that echo through the American century, intersecting with the race to space, the rage against the Vietnam war, and the ravages of the AIDS epidemic

There's something in the water of Con Dao • To the locals, a monster • To the corporate owners of the island, an opportunity • To the team of three sent to study and protect, a revelation • Their minds are unlike ours • Their bodies are malleable, transformable, shifting • They can communicate • And they want us to leave • When pioneering marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen is offered the chance to travel to the remote Con Dao Archipelago to investigate a highly intelligent, dangerous octopus species, she doesn't pause long enough to look at the fine print. DIANIMA- a transnational tech corporation best known for its groundbreaking work in artificial intelligence - has purchased the islands, evacuated their population and sealed the archipelago off from the world so that Nguyen can focus on her research

Kate has always been a wanderer. A well-published author, married several times, she has lived a life full of exploration. Now, as she begins to feel the first ravages of age, she wants to find a new sense of meaning. She leaves her lover Yolo on a journey down the Colorado River - a journey that will force her to re-explore her past and her future, and her connection to the real world. On her travels she meets shamans and the mysterious spiritual world of the native Indian. Yolo too begins his own journey as he travels to Hawaii and meets a former lover whose life is being destroyed by the excesses of American society. As Kate and Yolo gain shifting insights into the world around them, will their paths diverge or lead back to each other? This is a novel very much in tune with the zeitgeist - Alice Walker argues that we need to look inwards and develop a more open attitude in order to combat the pervasive climate of fear and distrust