A Geography of Secrets
Автор: Frederick Reuss
Год издания: 0000
Two men: One discovers the cost of keeping secrets, of building a career within a government agency where secrets are the operational basis. Noel Leonard works for the Defense Intelligence Agency, mapping coordinates for military actions halfway around the world. One morning he learns that an error in his office is responsible for the bombing of a school in Pakistan. And he knows suddenly that he is as alone as he is wrong. From his windowless office in DC to an intelligence conference in Switzerland, and back to his daughter’s college in Virginia, Noel claws his way toward a more personally honest life in which he can tell his family everything every day.Another man learns that family secrets have kept him from who he is and from the ineluctable ways he is attached to a world he has always disdained. This unnamed narrator, a cartographer, is the son of a career diplomat whose activities in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War and then in Europe during the Cold War may not have been what they were said to be. He, too, travels to Switzerland, but his quest is not to release himself from secrecy—it is to learn how deep the secrets in his own life go.With a voice like John le Carré’s and the international sensibility of Graham Greene, Frederick Reuss examines the unavoidably covert nature of lives that make their circles through Washington, DC. A Geography of Secrets is a novel of the time from an acclaimed author who knows the lay of the land.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Автор: Дж. К. Роулинг
Год издания:
"'There is a plot, Harry Potter. A plot to make most terrible things happen at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year.'"
Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby, and rescue from the Dursleys by his friend Ron Weasley in a magical flying car! Back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his second year, Harry hears strange whispers echo through empty corridors – and then the attacks start. Students are found as though turned to stone… Dobby's sinister predictions seem to be coming true.
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Memoires secrets sur la Russie. T. 1
Автор: Charles Philibert
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «Memoires secrets sur la Russie : Tome 1 : et particulierement sur la fin du regne de Catherine II et le commencement de celui du Paul I : formant un tableau des moeurs de St. Petersbourg, a la fin du XVIII siecle».
Memoires secrets sur la Russie. T. 2
Автор: Charles Philibert
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «Memoires secrets sur la Russie. Tome 2 / et particulierement sur la fin du regne de Catherine II et le commencement de celui du Paul I : formant un tableau des moeurs de St. Petersbourg, a la fin du XVIII siecle».
Memoires secrets sur la Russie. T. 3
Автор: Charles Philibert
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «Memoires secrets sur la Russie : Tome 3 : et particulierement sur la fin de regne de Catherine II, et sur celui de Paul I».
Memoires secrets sur la vie privee, politique et litteraire de Lucien Buonaparte. T. 2
Автор: Группа авторов
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «Memoires secrets sur la vie privee, politique et litteraire de Lucien Buonaparte, prince de Canino : Tome 2 : rediges sur sa correspondance et sur des pieces authentiques et inedites / imprime et supprime en 1815 ; reimprime a Londres et publies par Henri Colburn (Leipsic, Brockhaus)».