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An island of secrets. A runaway. And a promise… • A rebellious daughter • 1925. Among the ancient honey-coloured walls of the tiny island of Malta, strangers slip into the shadows and anyone can buy a new name. Rosalie Delacroix flees Paris for a dancer's job in the bohemian clubs deep in its winding streets • A sister with a secret • 1944. Running from the brutality of war in France, Florence Baudin faces a new life. But her estranged mother makes a desperate request: to find her vanished sister, who went missing years before • A rift over generations • Betrayals and secrets, lies and silence hang between the sisters. A faded last letter from Rosalie is Florence's only clue, the war an immovable barrier - and time is running out…

Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover an old Nazi medal among her late mother's belongings. Inspired to dig deep into her past, she visits a retired history teacher for answers. Two days later, he’s dead • Detective Patrik Hedstrom is on paternity leave. But his wife’s enquiries appear to have set off a chain of murders and he’s finding it hard to keep out of the investigation • A terrible secret from the darkest days of World War II is coming to light – and their families’ histories are right at the heart of it

Мы все видели лису • Мелькание ее пушистого хвоста, исчезающего в проеме забора, оранжевое сияние в свете фар, когда она перебегает дорогу. Мы тоже слышали ее, ее странный лай эхом отдавался в ночном городе. Возможно, мы даже столкнулись с ней лицом к лицу, встретившись взглядами на несколько мгновений, прежде чем он снова исчез в темноте. Но куда она направляется и каков ее мир на самом деле? • В книге "Скрытый мир лис" эколог Адель Бранд проливает свет на одно из самых знакомых и в то же время загадочных животных Британии, показывая нам, как удивительные чувства, интеллект и поведение, которые позволяли лисам процветать в древнем диком лесу, теперь помогают им выживать на бетонных автостоянках и грохочущих железнодорожных линиях наших городов и города

"Интерпретация голландской культуры золотого века" - книга, которая создала репутацию Саймону Шаме, когда была впервые опубликована в 1987 году. Исторический шедевр, это эпическое повествование о голландской культуре Золотого века Рембрандта и ван Димена • В этой блестящей работе, которая выходит далеко за рамки социальной или культурной истории, Саймон Шама исследует удивительный случай самопроизвольного изобретения народа • Он показывает, как в 17 веке скромные фермерские, рыболовецкие и судоходные общины, не имевшие общего языка, религии или правительства, превратились в грозную мировую империю - Голландскую республику • Книга на английском языке • This is the book that made Simon Schama’s reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic account of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen

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The electrifying new thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author, Simon Toyne • Only one boy can see the darkness. Only one man can save him from it • A Murder • An elderly tailor is found tortured and murdered in the ancient town of Cordes. Written in blood beside the body are the words: Finishing What Was Begun • A Secret • But the dead man has left a cryptic message for his granddaughter and her son, Leo - one that puts them in immediate danger • A Race • They are forced to go on the run, accompanied by the enigmatic Solomon Creed. What began as small-town murder becomes a race to uncover a devastating secret dating from World War II. The few men who know the truth are being killed by a powerful organization, and only one man stands in its way • Only Solomon Creed can stop the murders

THE END OF THE WORLD IS COMING. PLAY NOW. OR WE ALL LOSE • After centuries waiting in secret, twelve unbroken bloodlines, armed with hidden knowledge and lethal training, are called to take humanity’s fate into their hands… • The first book in a game-changing new series by bestselling author, James Frey • Bryan High School, Omaha, Nebraska: Sarah stands at her graduation ceremony – perfect SATs, a star athlete, her life ahead of her. Then a meteor wipes out half her school. But Sarah is not hurt and not surprised. Because she is the Player of the 233rd line – the Cahokian. And she knows what this means • Endgame is here • Juliaca, Puno, Peru: Jago walks the streets after the meteor hits. There’s looting and violence but he’s not scared. He is the Player of the 21st line – the Olmec

The true story of one of Scotland’s most notorious and romantic heroes • He was a spy, a clan-chief, a traitor. A polyglot, a deserter and a man of philosophy • Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, was the last of the great Scottish chiefs – and the last nobleman executed for treason. In life, his wit, ambition and dubious sense of morality kept him in the thick of political intrigue. With a taste for risk and determined to make his fortune, Lovat made pacts with Catholics and Protestants, Scots and Englishmen • Lovat found his famous end a turncoat and a martyr: he threw himself in with the ‘45 rebellion and fought for Prince Charles against the crown. His execution in Tower Hill, at the age of 80, was the last of its kind • Lovat was one of Scotland’s most notorious and romantic figures: a man whose loyalty had no home, whose sword had a price

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The movements of his mind seemed to tend to the thought that some power was working against him.' When Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser gets drunk and sells his wife at a country fair, his life will never be the same. Eighteen years later, his wife and daughter return to Casterbridge to find that Henchard has become Mayor. Although he's spent most of his life attempting to repent for his actions, he remains a rash and impetuous man. Hardy portrays Henchard as a tragic hero, searching for love and acceptance from the community around him, posing the overarching question of whether we shape our own fate, or whether life deals us an inevitable hand

HarperCollins с гордостью представляет свой невероятный ассортимент самой любимой и незаменимой классики • "Исповедь" описывает обращение святого Августина в христианство и является основой его репутации одного из самых влиятельных мыслителей христианства • Книга на английском языке • HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics • Confessions describes Saint Augustine's conversion to Christianity and is the basis for his reputation as one of Christianity's most influential thinkers

The first novel by one of the legends of the Harlem Renaissance, a classic in the annals of Black fiction • When Black lawyer Fred Merrit purchases a house in the most exclusive white neighbourhood bordering Harlem, he has to hire the toughest removal firm in the area to help him get his belongings past the hostile neighbours. The removal men are Jinx Jenkins and Bubber Brown, who make the move anything but straightforward • This hilarious satire of jazz-age Harlem derides the walls people build around themselves—colour and class being chief among them. In their reactions to Merrit and to one another, the characters provide an invaluable view of the social and philosophical scene of the times • First published in 1928, The Walls of Jericho is the first novel by Rudolph Fisher, author of The Conjure-Man Dies, whom Langston Hughes called ‘the wittiest of the Harlem Renaissance writers, whose tongue was flavoured with the sharpest and saltiest humour’

The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family’s fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to Britain • In November 1941, Peter Bradley's grandparents, Sally and Bertha Brandes, were deported from their home in Bamberg to their deaths in Latvia • The Last Train is a profound and moving homage to Peter’s lost family and to his father who rarely spoke of the traumas through which he lived • It is also his attempt to understand, through the prism of his family’s story, how the Nazis came to conceive and implement the Final Solution • Why did Sally and Bertha’s fellow citizens put them on the train that carried them to the killing fields? • Why did the democracies which so loudly condemned Hitler’s persecution of the Jews deny them sanctuary? • And why, when Peter's father finally reached Britain after five terrible months in a Nazi concentration camp, was he arrested as an 'enemy alien'? • The quest for answers led Peter to explore the origins and evolution of an ancient hatred and the struggles against it of each generation of his family, from the Reformation, through the Enlightenment and the Age of Reform, to the catastrophe of the Holocaust