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The Diamond Chariot

Author: Boris Akunin

Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780297860679

The first of the interlinked plotlines is set in Russia during the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. Fandorin is charged with protecting the Trans-Siberian Railway from Japanese sabotage in a pacy adventure filled with double agents and ticking bombs. Then we travel back to the Japan of the late 1870s. This is the story of Fandorin's arrival and life in Yokohama, his first meeting with Masa and the martial arts education that came in so handy later! He investigates the death of a Russian ship-captain, fights for a woman, exposes double-agents in the Japanese police, fights against, and then with the ninjas, and becomes embroiled in a suitably shocking finale.

The Turkish Gambit

Author: Boris Akunin

Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0812968786

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In 1877, Erast Fandorin finds himself at the Bulgarian front in a war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, where he assists a Russian woman who is risking her life for her fiancé, who has been falsely accused of espionage.

The Chariot to Diamond City

Author: Susan Ashcroft

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Company

Published: 2014-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781480909281

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The Chariot to Diamond City is the remarkable and uplifting story of six children who all share the same birthday. They are each guided by a magnificent Queen hailing from a place that is very near to the "Heavenly Realm" and learn of their great mission. They were all born on Earth at precisely the time their country and the world would need them most. On the dawn of their ninth birthday the Queen embarks upon a well-orchestrated plan, hoping that together, the children will help ignite world peace by returning America to the Founding Father's original intentions . . . that their country might be the guiding light for all of humanity. The Queen invites them to join her in a leap of faith by flying toward an extraordinary journey, setting them on the path to fulfill their sacred destiny. Universal in its appeal to children and adults alike, this is a timeless tale of great importance. It encourages the reader to follow one's own heart and stand up for the dream of living in a peaceful world . . . a world based on cooperation, equality, friendship, and trust. Join these courageous children in the magic and wonder of their life-changing lessons that are at times humorous, suspenseful, heartfelt, and often challenging. They encounter a truly unique cast of unforgettable characters in one incredible experience after another and become The Guardians of Freedom! Susan Ashcroft was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, and resides in Los Angeles, California, where she continues the creative journey into her vivid imagination. The Chariot to Diamond City is her first published work.

She Lover of Death

Author: Boris Akunin

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 2020-03-03

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0802148158

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The Russian detective infiltrates a dangerous circle of suicidal poets in this “droll, incisive, and fiendishly clever” series set in nineteenth-century Moscow (The Seattle Times). Naive young Masha Mironova arrives in Moscow at the turn of the century determined to shed her provincial Siberian upbringing. Reinventing herself as the reckless and daring Columbine, she soon falls in with a subversive group of poets known as the Lovers of Death. At the home of their leader, the Doge, these seductive bohemians conduct nightly séances to determine who shall be Death’s next lover. Once named at a séance, the chosen member must await three signs from Death before taking his or her own life. The resulting string of suicides have drawn media attention and sparked widespread hysteria in Moscow. As the group’s numbers dwindle, the dashing investigator Erast Fandorin goes undercover to join their ranks. But will the gentleman-detective be able to stop Columbine from taking fatal action when she receives her three unmistakable signs? “A devastatingly attractive combination of Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey and James Bond.” —The Guardian

The Diamond Chariot

Author: Борис Акунин

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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The first of the interlinked plotlines is set in Russia during the Russo Japanese War in 1905. Fandorin is charged with protecting the Trans Siberian Railway from Japanese sabotage in a pacy adventure filled with double agents and ticking bombs. Then we travel back to the Japan of the late 1870s. This is the story of Fandorin's arrival and life in Yokohama, his first meeting with Masa and the martial arts education that came in so handy later! He investigates the death of a Russian ship captain, fights for a woman, exposes double agents in the Japanese police, fights against, and then with the ninjas, and becomes embroiled in a suitably shocking finale.

He Lover of Death

Author: Boris Akunin

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 9780297860655

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Senka Skorikov, orphan and urchin, has been abandoned to the murky world of Moscow's gangster district. While picking a pocket or two, he glimpses the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and joins the gang of her overlord lover, The Prince, so desperate he is to meet her. Senka climbs the criminal ranks, uncovering a stash of precious metal, and gradually capturing the heart of his beloved Death - so named for the life expectancy of her lovers. But as the bandit community balks at his success on both fronts, threats on his life begin to pour in . A dandy and his 'Chinese' sidekick seem to be taking an inordinate interest in Senka's welfare, and it becomes clear that those threatening Senka are linked to a spate of murders, grizzly even by underworld standards. Fandorin must unweave a tangled web of narcotics, false identities and organised crime - but can he survive an encounter with the ever-alluring Death unscathed?... Find out in the darkest Fandorin to date!

The March Fallen

Author: Volker Kutscher

Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd

Published: 2020-09-10

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 1913207056

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1933: A homeless veteran is found dead under railway arches in Berlin, apparently killed by an army dagger. Gereon Rath is brought onto the case just as the Reichstag mysteriously burns down. Unsettled by the Nazis’ tightening grip, he and Charlotte Ritter must also contend with their political colleagues. The new Germany is frightening, but police work must go on even among book-burning and marching, rising paranoia and fear.

The Night of Shooting Stars

Author: Ben Pastor

Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press

Published: 2020-07-02

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 191224229X

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Bora is ordered to investigate the murder of Walter Niemeyer, a dazzling clairvoyant, a star since the days of the Weimar Republic. For years he has mystified Germany with his astounding prophecies. Bora’s inquiry, supported by former S.A member Florian Grimm, resurrects memories of the excessive and brilliant world of Jazz Age cabarets and locales. Around them, in the oppressive summer heat, constant allied bombing, war-weary Berlin teems with refugees and nearly a million foreign laborers. Soon Bora realizes that there is much more at stake than murder in a paranoid city where everyone suspects everyone, and where persistent rumors whisper about a conspiracy aimed at the very heart of the Nazi hierarchy. Could the charming Emmy Pletsch, who works for Claus von Stauffenberg, be a key to understanding what is going on? Bora eventually meets with Stauffenberg, facing an anguishing moral dilemma, as a German soldier and as a man. The 20 July plot and its dramatic implications as never told before.

The State Counsellor

Author: Boris Akunin

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2010-08-12

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0297864157

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Dashing hero Erast Fandorin returns for another intriguing Russian crime caper, from the bestselling author of THE WINTER QUEEN. General Khrapov, newly appointed Governor-General of Siberia and soon-to-be Minister of the Interior, is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St Petersburg to Moscow. The killer, disguised as Fandorin, leaves a knife thrust up to the hilt in his victim's chest and escapes through the window of the carriage. Can Fandorin escape suspicion? A battle of wills and ideals, revolutionaries and traditionalists and good versus evil.

The Engagements

Author: J. Courtney Sullivan

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2013-06-11

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0307958728

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A People Magazine Top 10 Best Books of the Year • The New York Times best-selling author of Maine returns with an exhilarating novel about Frances Gerety, the real pioneering ad woman who coined the famous slogan “A Diamond is Forever,” and four unique marriages that will test how true—or not—those words might be. "Sullivan is a born storyteller. Like its mineral muse, Engagements shines."—Entertainment Weekly Evelyn has been married to her husband for forty years, but their son’s messy divorce has put them at rare odds; James, a beleaguered paramedic, has spent most of his marriage haunted by his wife’s family’s expectations; Delphine has thrown caution to the wind and left a peaceful French life for an exciting but rocky romance in America; and Kate, partnered with Dan for a decade, has seen every kind of wedding and has vowed never, ever, to have one of her own. As the stories connect to each other and to Frances’s legacy in surprising ways, The Engagements explores the complicated ins and outs of relationships, then, now, and forever.