Книги издательства Daedalus Books
Название: The Return of the Dancing Master
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2004
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This is the new thriller from the internationally bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries.
Название: River of No Reprieve
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2006
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One of today's most intrepid writers chronicles a deadly trek through the legendary region that gave birth to the gulag and gave Siberia its outsize reputation for perilous isolation. In a custom-built boat, Jeffrey Tayler travels some 2,400 miles down the Lena River from near Lake Baikal to high above the Arctic Circle, recreating a journey first made by Cossack forces more than three hundred years ago. He is searching for primeval beauty and a respite from the corruption, violence, and self-destructive urges that typify modern Russian culture, but instead he finds the roots of that culture — in Cossack villages unchanged for centuries, in Soviet outposts full of listless drunks, in stark ruins of the gulag, and in grand forests hundreds of miles from the nearest hamlet. That' s how far Tayler is from help when he realizes that his guide, Vadim, a burly Soviet army veteran embittered by his experiences in Afghanistan, detests all humanity, including Tayler. Yet he needs Vadim's superb skills if he is to survive a voyage that quickly turns hellish. They must navigate roiling whitewater in howling storms, but they eschew life jackets because, as Vadim explains, the frigid water would kill them before they could swim to shore. Though Tayler has trekked by camel through the Sahara and canoed down the Congo during the revolt against Mobutu, he has never felt so threatened as he does now.
Название: Russia's Heroes 1941-1945
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2002
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With Hitler's invasion of Russia on Sunday 22 June 1941, the Eastern Front opened in World War II and politicians and generals around the world predicted the swift destruction of the Soviet armies. Nazi Germany threw men and equipment against Russia in unprecedented numbers: a total of five million men took part in the Blitz attack along the entire Russian frontier. Using interviews and primary evidence collected in Russia, Albert Axell tells the story of the Eastern Front as it unfolded, interweaving his accounts of the ordinary and extraordinary men and women soldiers of Russia with the progress of the war itself. The volume is both a history and a tale of courage and endurance; unbelievable heroism combined with an implacable refusal to admit defeat — whatever the odds.
Название: The Secret History of World War II
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2008
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These are the complete wartime correspondence between the leaders of the Allied Forces. Released with the cooperation of the Russian government, these revealing and often starkly frank communiques between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin add to our understanding of the course of World War II an indispensable horde of information. Through them, the reader is afforded a wonderfully intimate insight into the thinking of the three men who led the Allies to victory.
Название: Silly 123s
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2002
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This wonderfully engaging book asks young children to locate and count an assortment of objects placed in scenes with silly animals. It presents reproductions of eleven spectacular double-spread oil paintings framed with Joan Gallup's unique sculpted clay borders, along with plenty of her charming characters and creations. This beautiful gift edition is designed to become a childhood favorite!
Название: Sovereign
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2007
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This third Shardlake novel is set in the autumn of 1541, during the reign of Henry VIII. This time Matthew Shardlake is faced with the most terrifying fate of the age: imprisonment in the Tower of London.
Название: The Steep Approach to Garbadale
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2007
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Dark family secrets, a long-lost love affair, and a multimillion-pound gaming business lie at the heart of this intriguing new novel by the author of «The Player of Games» and «Consider Phlebas.»
Название: Strawberry Fields
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2007
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From the author of the bestseller «A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian» comes a tender and hilarious novel about a crew of migrant workers from three continents who are forced to flee their English strawberry field for a journey across England in pursuit of a better future.
Название: Ten Second Staircase
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2006
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A bizarre killer nicknamed «The Highwayman» has turned London's blazing-hot summer into a ticking time bomb, but never fear, detectives John May and Arthur Bryant are on the case! « is a new master of the classical detective story.»
Название: They Fought for the Motherland
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2006
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Women have participated in war throughout history, but their experience in Russia during the First World War was truly exceptional. Between the war's beginning and the October Revolution of 1917, approximately 6,000 women answered their country's call. These courageous women became media stars throughout Europe and America, but were brushed aside by Soviet chroniclers and until now have been largely neglected by history. Laurie Stoff draws on deep archival research into previously unplumbed material, including many first-person accounts, to examine the roots, motivations, and legacy of these women. She reveals that Russia was the only nation in World War I that systematically employed women in the military, marking the first time that a government run by men had organized women for combat. And although they were originally envisioned as propaganda — promoting patriotism and citizenship to inspire the thousands of males who had been deserting or refusing to fight — Russian women also proved themselves more than capable in combat. Describing the formation, provisioning, and training of the units, Stoff sheds light on their social and educational backgrounds, while recounting a number of amazing individual stories. She tells how Maria Bochkareva, commander of the First Russian Women's Battalion of Death, and her unit met its baptism of fire in combat and how Bochkareva later traveled to the U.S. and met President Wilson. We also meet Maria Bocharnikova, who served with the First Petrograd Women's Battalion that defended the Winter Palace during the Bolshevik Revolution. Stoff also chronicles the exploits of the Second Moscow Women's Battalion of Death, Third Kuban Women's Shock Battalion, and the First Women's Naval Detachment. Stoff's remarkable account rescues from oblivion an important but still little-known aspect of Russia's experience in World War I. It also provides new insights into gender roles during a pivotal period of Russia's development and resonates with the current debates over the role of women in warfare.
Название: The Vampire Armand
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 1998
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In her latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice brings readers the story of Armand — eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel — who first appeared in his dark glory in «Interview with the Vampire». Moving through scenes of luxury, of ambush, fire, and devil worship to 19th-century Paris and toady's New Orleans, this romantic hero is forced to choose between his twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal soul.
Название: The Victoria Vanishes
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2008
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Murder doesn't get more peculiar than this. A lonely hearts killer is targeting middle-aged women at some of England's most well-known pubs. What's even more peculiar, Arthur Bryant happened to see the latest victim only moments before her death — at a pub torn down eighty years ago! It's only the beginning of a case littered with clues that defy everything the veteran detectives know about the profiles of serial killers and the methodology of crime. What do the Knights Templars, the secret history of English pubs, and the discovery of an astounding religious relic have to do with this recent crime spree? More important, do the Peculiar Crimes Units two living legends have enough life left in them to stop a murderous conspiracy...and a deadly cupid targeting one of their own?
Название: Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2006
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If he's in the right mood, divine Angus might grant you sight of your true love in a dream; you might even fall in love with him — but he'll never love you back. This book retells the «Myth of Dream Angus» as part of the «Canongate Myths» series.
Название: Before The Frost
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2005
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Taking a position with the Ystad police force shortly after graduating, Linda Wallander, the daughter of veteran inspector Kurt Wallender, struggles with their contentious relationship before becoming embroiled in the case of a childhood friend, who has inexplicably disappeared. By the author of The Return of the Dancing Master. 25,000 first printing.
Название: The Eye of the Leopard
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 1990
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Interweaving past and present, Sweden and Zambia, «The Eye of the Leopard» draws on bestselling author Mankell's deep understanding of the two worlds he has inhabited for more than 20 years.
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2005
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The Christmas story, told and retold in many formats, never loses its meaning or magic. Aimed at children ages 4-8, this book weaves the story of Jesus' birth into a rhyming, alphabetical journey. At the back of the book, author Debbie Trafton O'neal provides instructions for making four crafts inspired by the beautiful modern folk-art illustrations from Jan Bryan-Hunt.
Название: The Best American Mystery Stories 2008
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2008
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This year's collection promises to deliver the same stellar caliber of mystery stories that readers have come to expect from this series. Contributors include James Lee Burke, Michael Connelly, Joyce Carol Oates, and Alice Munro.
Название: Beyond Black
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2008
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An hilarious and sinister tale of dark secrets and secret forces in suburban England from the critically-acclaimed author of 'Giving Up the Ghost'. Alison Hart is a medium by trade: dead people talk to her, and she talks back. With her flat-eyed, flint-hearted sidekick, Colette, she tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital road, passing on messages from dead ancestors: 'Granny says she likes your new kitchen units.' Alison's ability to communicate with spirits is a torment rather than a gift. Behind her plump, smiling and bland public persona is a desperate woman. She knows that the next life holds terrors that she must conceal from her clients. Her days and nights are haunted by the men she knew in her childhood, the thugs and petty criminals who preyed upon her hopeless, addled mother, Emmie. They infiltrate her house, her body and her soul; the more she tries to be rid of them, the stronger and nastier they become. This tenth novel by Hilary Mantel is a witty and deeply sinister story of dark secrets and forces, set in an England that jumps at its own shadow, a country whose banal self-absorption is shot through by fear of the engulfing dark.
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2008
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In this delightful excursion through the English language, Crystal combines personal reflections, historical allusions, and a traveler's observations to create a mesmerizing and entertaining narrative account with the language and its speakers.
Название: Capote: A Biography
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Год: 2005
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Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the man who authored In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's, as well as with nearly everyone who knew him, this absorbing, definitive biography follows Truman Capote from his eccentric childhood in Alabama to the heights of New York society. Featuring many photographs, this book also candidly recounts a gifted and celebrated writer's descent into the life of alcohol and drugs that would ultimately consume his bulldog spirit and staggering talent — but not before he'd hobnob with the likes of Grace Paley and Lee Radziwill, feud outrageously with Gore Vidal and Jacqueline Susann, and stage at New York's Plaza Hotel the sensational Black and White Ball.
