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Wilfred Thesiger, this century’s greatest living explorer, recalls his travels among the mountain ranges of Asia • Although Wilfred Thesiger is still largely associated with the Arabian deserts and the Marshes of Iraq, he has also travelled extensively at intervals, over the years, among mountains and mountain people in other remote areas of the Middle East and Asia • In 1987 Thesiger wrote: ‘I have always been attracted by mountains…’ And he observed more recently: ‘Had I done nothing else as a traveller except my journeys in Nuristan, these alone would have amounted to something worthwhile’ • Eventful, interesting and remarkable achievements in their own right, the Asian journeys – among the Hindu Kush, the Karakorams and the Pamirs – have inspired many of the finest photographs Thesiger has ever taken and contribute significantly to his standing as a great traveller and explorer

A beautiful, blistering life story told amid the wreckage of a car crash • I might no longer exist here at this moment • this moment might no longer exist for me • Violeta is driving along a lonely stretch of late-night motorway, caught in a tumultuous storm. When her tired eyes close for just a second, her car veers off the road, overturns, and comes to rest on an empty stretch of sodden ground • And as she lies amid the wreckage, suspended between this world and the next, Violeta's troubled life will quite literally flash before her eyes • Violeta Among the Stars weaves memories and feelings as Violeta reflects on her death and her life, the piercing highs and the seedy lows. An astonishing portrait of a seemingly insignificant life from one of Portugal's greatest living writers

В школе для девочек совершено убийство. Жертвой стала учительница физкультуры, мисс Спрингер, крайне неприятная женщина. Одна из учениц, Джулия Эпжон, начинает переживать, что может стать следующей жертвой, ведь она слишком много знает…Сможет ли Эркюль Пуаро предотвратить еще одну трагедию? • «Кошка среди голубей» – это роман Агаты Кристи из цикла произведений про Эркюля Пуаро. По мотивам детектива был снят сериал • Произведение было адаптировано для уровня владения языком B2 • Книга на английском языке • Unpleasant things are going on in an exclusive school for girls – things like murder… Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of the unpopular games mistress – shot through the heart from point blank range

Maisie Dobbs returns with her most gripping case yet • Christmas Eve, 1931. On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a man commit suicide on a busy London street. The following day, the Home Secretary receives a letter threatening a massive loss of life if certain demands are not met. Maisie is invited into Scotland Yard s elite Special Branch as a special adviser on the case and becomes involved in a race against time to find a man who soon proves he has the knowledge, and will, to murder thousands of innocent people. Before this harrowing case is over, Maisie must negotiate her way through a darkness not encountered since she was a nurse in wards filled with shell-shocked men • In Among the Mad, Jacqueline Winspear combines a heart-stopping story with a rich evocation of a fascinating period to create her most compelling and satisfying novel yet

Роман Агаты Кристи "Кошка среди голубей" можно смело отнести к жанру шпионского детектива • Шейх восточной страны Рамат взволнован: в стране грядет революция. Надо немедленно вывезти сокровища, чтобы сохранить их для потомков. Кому поручить это опасное и крайне ответственное дело? Конечно же, личному пилоту! Но пилот погибает, успев перед смертью незаметно спрятать сокровища в комнате своей племянницы Дженифер. Вот тут-то все и началось • Книга на английском языке • Unpleasant things are going on in an exclusive school for girls - things like murder • Late one night. Two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion. While the rest of the school sleeps There. Among the lacrosse sticks. They stumble upon the body of the unpopular games mistress -

From the bestselling, award-winning Swedish author Hakan Nesser, The Living and the Dead in Winsford is a gripping and deeply atmospheric psychological thriller set on Exmoor • There is nobody in the world who knows that we are here… • A woman arrives in the village of Winsford on Exmoor. She has travelled a long way and chosen her secluded cottage carefully. Maria's sole intention is to outlive her beloved dog Castor. And to survive the torrent of memories that threaten to overwhelm her • Weeks before, Maria and her husband Martin fled Stockholm under a cloud. The couple were bound for Morocco, where Martin planned to write an explosive novel; one that would reveal the truth behind dark events within his commune of writers decades before. But the couple never made it to their destination

In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape • Shepherd spent a lifetime in search of the ‘essential nature’ of the Cairngorms; her quest led her to write this classic meditation on the magnificence of mountains, and on our imaginative relationship with the wild world around us. Composed during the Second World War, the manuscript of The Living Mountain lay untouched for more than thirty years before it was finally published

Depicting the daily struggle of the individual against a tyrannical dictatorship, We the Living shows the terrible impact of a revolution on three people who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their happiness. Kira, determined to maintain her independence and courageous in the face of starvation and poverty; Leo, upper class and paralysed by state repression; and Andrei, an idealistic communist and officer in the secret police who nonetheless wants to help his friends

The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant • Cedar feels compelled to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe living on the reservation, to understand both her and her baby's origins. As Cedar goes back to her own biological beginnings, society around her begins to disintegrate, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity

The fields were eternal, our life the only way of things, and I would do whatever was required of me to protect it • The autumn of 1933 is the most beautiful Edie Mather can remember, though the Great War still casts a shadow over the cornfields of her beloved home, Wych Farm • When charismatic, outspoken Constance FitzAllen arrives from London to write about fading rural traditions, she takes an interest in fourteen-year-old Edie, showing her a kindness she has never known before. But the older woman isn't quite what she seems • As harvest time approaches and pressures mount on the whole community, Edie must find a way to trust her instincts and save herself from disaster

A work of horror genius from the Godfather of zombie film-making, George A. Romero, and celebrated writer Daniel Kraus • It begins with one body. A pair of medical examiners find themselves facing a dead man who won't stay dead • It spreads quickly. In a Midwestern trailer park, an African American teenage girl and a Muslim immigrant battle newly-risen friends and family • On a US aircraft carrier, living sailors hide from dead ones while a fanatic preaches the gospel of a new religion of death • At a cable news station, a surviving anchor keeps broadcasting, not knowing if anyone is watching, while his undead colleagues try to devour him • In DC, an autistic federal employee charts the outbreak, preserving data for a future that may never come