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Russia’s relationship with its neighbours and with the West has worsened dramatically in recent years. Under Vladimir Putin’s leadership, the country has annexed Crimea, begun a war in Eastern Ukraine, used chemical weapons on the streets of the UK and created an army of Internet trolls to meddle in the US presidential elections. How should we understand this apparent relapse into aggressive imperialism and militarism? In this book, Sergei Medvedev argues that this new wave of Russian nationalism is the result of mentalities that have long been embedded within the Russian psyche. Whereas in the West, the turbulent social changes of the 1960s and a rising awareness of the legacy of colonialism have modernized attitudes, Russia has been stymied by an enduring sense of superiority over its neighbours alongside a painful nostalgia for empire. It is this infantilized and irrational worldview that Putin and others have exploited, as seen most clearly in Russia’s recent foreign policy decisions, including the annexation of Crimea. This sharp and insightful book, full of irony and humour, shows how the archaic forces of imperial revanchism have been brought back to life, shaking Russian society and threatening the outside world. It will be of great interest to anyone trying to understand the forces shaping Russian politics and society today.<

A convention-defying novel by bestselling writer Walter Mosley, John Woman recounts the transformation of an unassuming boy named Cornelius Jones into John Woman, an unconventional history professor — while the legacy of a hideous crime lurks in the shadows. At twelve years old, Cornelius, the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi named Herman, secretly takes over his father’s job at a silent film theater in New York’s East Village. Five years later, as Herman lives out his last days, he shares his wisdom with his son, explaining that the person who controls the narrative of history controls their own fate. After his father dies and his mother disappears, Cornelius sets about reinventing himself — as Professor John Woman, a man who will spread Herman’s teachings into the classrooms of his unorthodox southwestern university and beyond. But there are other individuals who are attempting to influence the narrative of John Woman, and who might know something about the facts of his hidden past. Engaging with some of the most provocative ideas of recent intellectual history, John Woman is a compulsively readable, deliciously unexpected novel about the way we tell stories, and whether the stories we tell have the power to change the world.<

From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events—a massive Ponzi scheme collapse and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea. Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby’s glass wall: “Why don’t you swallow broken glass.” High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis is running an international Ponzi scheme, moving imaginary sums of money through clients’ accounts. When the financial empire collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. Vincent, who had been posing as Jonathan’s wife, walks away into the night. Years later, a victim of the fraud is hired to investigate a strange occurrence: a woman has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between ports of call. In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, the business of international shipping, service in luxury hotels, and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives.<

It’s supposed to be a routine job, walking a pair of stranded archaeologists out of the Gobi Desert. But when the rains come unexpectedly, S-Squad’s troubles are only starting. There is something in the sand, something red and wriggling. Thirsty for water. Hungry for flesh.<

A mission to the Congo starts badly for S-Squad and gets worse fast as they trace a team of captured WHO medics to a lost world in the interior. The Squad are isolated, split up, and face terrors long since thought extinct. Mokele-mbembe walks this jungle. And he is not alone.<

В опит да се възстанови от тежък нервен срив, бившата английска следователка Маделин Грийн наема квартира в Париж — студиото на известния художник Шон Лоренц, който е починал година преди това, съкрушен от смъртта на сина си Джулиан. По някакво недоразумение същата квартира е наета и от американския драматург Гаспар Кутанс — мизантроп, който може да работи само в уединение. Очаровани от творбите на Лоренц и заинтригувани от трагичната му съдба, Маделин и Гаспар загърбват противоречията си и се впускат заедно в издирването на трите изчезнали картини, които художникът е нарисувал през последните месеци от живота си. Търсенето обаче ги отвежда до неподозирани тайни и до загадъчен сериен убиец — едно сложно и драматично разследване, което ще промени живота им завинаги. Завладяващ, пълен с изненадващи обрати трилър, който потапя читателя в мистериозния свят на човешката психика и на живописта.<

Всички сме смъртни. Но някои са „Завърналите се“. Романът „Завърналите се“ е в основата на успешния сериал на телевизия Ей Би Си „Възкресение“. Животът на Люсил и Харолд Харгрейв досега е минавал под знака на трагедията с техния син Джейкъб, загинал на осмия си рожден ден през 1966-та. Десетилетия по-късно тяхното тихо съществуване е преобърнато с главата надолу за втори път, когато Джейкъб се появява мистериозно на прага на дома им. Такъв, какъвто са го запомнили, все още осемгодишен. Джейкъб обаче не е единственият Завърнал се. Не е дори първият. Навсякъде по света отдавна починали хора се завръщат от отвъдното. Никой не знае как и защо това се случва, дали е божествено чудо, или знак за идване на края на дните. Човечеството е изправено пред хаос, посрещайки завърналите се. В малкият град, в който живеят семейство Харгрейв никой не може да предположи дали завърналото се момче е истинско, или е чудотворна имитация, но за неговите родители е повече от ясно — Джейкъб е техният син. „В своя изключителен дебютен роман Мот съчетава драма, патос, радост, ужас и изкупление в завладяващ разказ.“ Пъблишърс Уикли<

One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they discover a savagely murdered man lying in the snow. As they begin their investigation they notice that the village seems eerily quiet and deserted. Going from house to house, looking for witnesses, they uncover a crime unprecedented in Swedish history. When Judge Birgitta Roslin reads about the massacre, she realises that she has a family connection to one of the couples involved and decides to investigate. A nineteenth-century diary and a red silk ribbon found in the forest nearby are the only clues. What Birgitta eventually uncovers leads her into an international web of corruption and a story of vengeance that stretches back over a hundred years, linking China and the USA of the 1860s with modern-day Beijing, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and coming to a shocking climax in London’s Chinatown.<

Самоубийство с класически веществени доказателства: празна ампула от цианид, предсмъртно писмо с неясни самопризнания за вина. Вина, идваща от безкрайността. И карта на Москва с нарисувани елипси на знака за безкрайност, които се пресичат в точка, с която е означен голям научноизследователски институт. Има ли връзка това със смъртта на човек от института? А с трите покушения срещу майор Каменская? Загадката е ново предизвикателство за крехката Анастасия, решила най-сетне да сложи ред в живота си…<

Убит е известен писател. Млад бизнесмен влиза в затвора по обвинение в убийството на свой приятел. От санаториум, след продължително лечение, излиза съпругата на кандидат-депутат за руската Дума. Случайност ли е, че съпругите на писателя, бизнесмена и политика имат тайнствен общ приятел? Каква роля играе в тези събития пенсионираният хирург, работил в болницата, където е роден убитият писател?<

Virginia Barkeley spoiled child of a wealthy family, sat it a Michigan jail cell and refused to answer even her lawyer’s questions. Her husband knew that she had been intimate with Claude Margolis. Her mother knew that Virginia was capable of killing a man with a knife. Even Meecham, her lawyer, believed that she was guilty, so far as he believed anything at all. Then Meecham was approached by a young man with a weirdly distorted body and death in his face. His name was Earl Duane Loftus. and he brought with him a signed confession which the police were unable to pick to pieces. If Loftus was lying, his lie seemed as unshakable as truth itself. But if Loftus was telling the truth, he had killed on impulse a man he had never seen before. Meecham, a doubter by nature, doubted this. He resolved to probe the lives beneath the obvious police case: the ingrown hatreds which flourished subtly behind the social facade which Virginia Barkeley’s family tried to maintain; the side streets and dark alleys of frustration where Earl Loftus had developed his twisted idealism. Somewhere, he suspected. he would find a link between these two lives and the death of Margolis. But the truth he found was unexpected and shocking. In the climax of his search, Meecham caught a flashing glimpse of a tragic reality, redeemed by a love which was literally stronger than death. Here is a mystery novel in the great tradition. Its author, Margaret Millar, has forged two reputations in the past ten years, one as a brilliant writer of mystery stories, one as a serious novelist. In this book her diverse talents have merged completely to produce a baffling mystery which is also a first-rate novel.<

 Годината е 1972, Студената война е в разгара си. Серина Фрум, студентка по математика, но и страстна читателка, е завербувана от МИ-5, британското контраразузнаване. Първата й голяма задача е участие в операция с кодово име „Сладкоугодник“. Целта на операцията е да се подпомагат финансово, чрез фасадна фондация, писатели и журналисти от т.нар. антикомунистическа левица, чиито идеи съвпадат с правителствената политика. На Серина се пада младият обещаващ писател и университетски преподавател Том Хейли. Девойката харесва разказите му, след това харесва и автора им. Започналият като шпионско четиво роман постепенно се превръща в любовен, любовният роман се превръща в изследване върху начина, по който функционира писателското въображение – всичко това на фона на един кризисен период от историята на Великобритания, изпълнен със социални конфликти, икономически трудности и ирландски тероризъм. Трите елемента на повествованието се преплитат, историята се развива, усложнява се… докато не се обърква окончателно. Том не знае какво знае Серина, но и Серина не знае какво знае Том. В един момент нещата се изясняват… докато в неочаквания край не се разбира, че съвсем не са такива, каквито изглеждат. Поредното произведение на големия Иън Макюън е едновременно шпионски роман, любовен роман, роман за литературата, роман за британското общество от едно емблематично време от световната история и най-вече роман мистификация.<

През 1992 година Александра Маринина, кандидат на юридическите науки и водещ специалист по анализиране и прогнозиране на престъпността написва първия си роман. След пенсионирането си като подполковник от милицията се отдава изцяло на литературната си кариера. Досега е продала над 37 милиона екземпляра от книгите си, което я превърна в най-продавания руски автор днес. Романът „Седмата жертва“ е 21-а книга с главна героиня подполковник Анастасия Каменская. Действието се развива в Москва в края на 90-те години. Нито старши пълномощникът от криминалния отдел на милицията Настя Каменская, нито следователят Татяна Образцова биха могли да предположат, че участието им в телемоста „Жени с необичайни професии“ ще доведе до трагедия. След предаването тайнствен убиец започва методично да убива самотни бедни хора, а около труповете оставя непонятни послания. За кого са предназначени те — за Настя или за Татяна? И кой ще бъде следващата жертва?<

Пьесы Александра Молчанова «Убийца» и «Фолкнер» в переводе Юрия Каляды. Пьеса «Убийца» была поставлена более чем в 30 театрах в России и Европе.<

XIII amžiaus Venecija. Jūrų uostas ir prekybos centras, vienas galingiausių ir turtingiausių mietų Europoje. Jo pirkliai nuolat ieško naujų rinkų ir prekybinių ryšių. 1271 metais septyniolikmetis Markas Polas su savo tėvu ir dėde patraukia į nutrūktgalvišką ekspediciją – į Kiniją, į galingojo mongolų valdovo Chano Chubilajaus, baisingojo Čingischano vaikaičio, šalį. Patirdami begales nuotykių, jie keliauja karavanų keliais, kuriais dar niekada nėra keliavęs joks europietis.<

Why would a mathematics professor from Cambridge University, renting a holiday home outside Cape Town, require a false identity and three bodyguards? And where is he, now that they are dead? The only clue to the bodyguards' murder is the snake engraved on the shell casings of the bullets that killed them. Investigating the massacre, Benny Griessel and his team find themselves being drawn into an international conspiracy with shocking implications. It seems it is not just the terrorists and criminals of Britain and South Africa who may fear the Professor's work, but the politicians too. As the body count begins to spiral viciously, Benny must put his new-found love life aside and focus on finding the one person who could give him a break in the case: a teenage pickpocket on the run in the city. But Benny is not the only person hunting for Tyrone Kleinbooi . . . Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger, COBRA is a relentlessly suspenseful, topical and richly rewarding novel from an author who is acclaimed around the world as a brilliant voice in crime fiction.<

An epic stand-alone adventure in Erin Hunter’s #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series! Also includes an exclusive ten-page Warriors manga adventure.

In this Super Edition, set just after the events of A Vision of Shadows, ThunderClan deputy Squirrelflight is caught between her conscience and her Clan.

Though all five Clans have settled into equally divided territories around the lake, tensions are rising over the new borders. And when a group of rogue cats move in just beyond Clan boundaries, drawing the Clans’ frustration, Squirrelflight must choose between her duty as ThunderClan’s deputy and her desire to do what’s right.

Join the legion of fans who have discovered the epic adventures, fierce warrior cats, and thrilling fantasy world of the mega-bestselling Warriors series. This stand-alone entry is perfect for new readers and dedicated fans alike.

It is not often that an author spices a story with two heroes. One was George Cooper doing a quiet job in a quiet way. The other was Allan Farat, a sleek debonair hood who killed for pleasure. Around this dichotomy, John D. MacDonald has woven an exotic tale of deception that challenges the memories of a woman in love.<

In this swift and striking novel, John D. MacDonald examines the ferment of a big-time convention — the plots, the savage maneuverings, the dreadful ease with which a man or a dream can be destroyed.<

She is a Broadway dancer, exquisite and mercurial. He is a dedicated psychiatrist, happily married to a beautiful woman, the father of two lovely children vacationing with their mother on Martha’s Vineyard. “Good morning, sir”, she said, as she passed David Chapman on a sunny June day in Central Park. Moments later, she was locked in mortal combat with a mugger, and David came to her rescue... They tell each other some truths, but only some. They know each other’s mysteries, but only some. They slip into a realm of sensual deception and imminent danger... For who is Kate Duggan really, the woman who makes sexual fantasies come true? And who is David Chapman, the doctor who spends his day with other people’s neuroses, guilt, and lies? Now, in the heat of a New York City summer, they will learn everything — when a stalker turns their mad lust into a murderous affair.<