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454 tulosta hakusanalla Arkady Povzikov
The Spectrum of Pride and Glory
Jacob Povzikov; Arkady Povzikov
Independently Published
2018
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Josh Green, a 21- year- old American, is a God of video games. Born with Asperger's Syndrome, his journey through life in the world of "normal" people was never easy. He found his salvation in competitive gaming, which brought him fame and independence. But with his success came the envy and the jealousy of his rival, Ryan, who has made it his mission to bring him down.Alexandra is a beautiful 42 year old woman, who married the much older and wealthy Robert Blake and is the estranged mother of Josh. After 20 years of believing that her son was dead, Alexandra discovers that Josh is still alive and stops at nothing to reunite with him, even if it costs her marriage.After meeting Josh, Alexandra is too terrified to confess to him that she is his mother, out of fear that he will reject her. She takes an interest in Josh's competitive gaming career which becomes the avenue in which their relationship blossoms. Meanwhile, Josh falls in love with a beautiful girl named Ava, who is part of Ryan's plot against Josh. Out of desperation, Alex decides to confess to Josh through Ava that she is his mother. But Ava betrays her by purposely poisoning and severing her relationship with Josh.In the midst of the greatest love affair of Josh's life, Ava disappears to Florida, leaving Josh heartbroken, inconsolable, desperate... and on the run. Fearing her son's vulnerability and capability for self harm, Alexandra desperately tries to track Josh down and stop him from making the biggest mistake of his life.
Brothers Jackson and Frank live on the margins of a big urban sprawl. From abandoned tower blocks to gleaming skyscrapers, their city is brutal, beautiful and divided. As anti-government protests erupt across the teeming metropolis, the brothers sail in search of the Red Citadel and its promise of a radical new way of life. A striking portrait of the precarity of modern urban living, and of the fierce bonds that grow between brothers, Patrick Langley's debut Arkady is a brilliant coming-of-age novel, as brimming with vitality as the city itself.
Auf dem Grundst ck einer norddeutschen Seniorenresidenz werden drei bel zugerichtete Leichen gefunden. Dazwischen ein blutverschmierter Junge, der l chelt und schweigt: ohne Namen, Daten, Ausk nfte. Die ratlosen Kripobeamten, die sich zun chst um die Toten k mmern m ssen, bergeben ihn der Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie. Bereits seit einiger Zeit wird in Wien der Sohn einer renommierten Familie gesucht. Er hat das Elternhaus unter Mitnahme seiner wertvollen Geige und eines gr eren Geldbetrages aus dem Safe seines Vaters ohne Abschied verlassen. Im Safe befanden sich Informationen, von denen der Sohn nichts erfahren sollte. Als die Kripo - mit mehr Daten ausgestattet - den Jungen einvernehmen will, ist er verschwunden. Alle paar Tage wird er Geige spielend in einer anderen Stadt gesehen, offensichtlich wandert er Richtung Norden. Er ist Peregrino, der Wanderer. Die Fahndung nach ihm gestaltet sich nahezu unm glich. Es gibt kein aussagef higes Foto, und die Beamten wissen nicht, als was sie ihn suchen lassen sollen: T ter, Opfer, Zeuge. Nach vielen Wochen, als alle schon aufgegeben haben, nach diesem Phantom zu suchen, geht ein Bekennerschreiben ein. Und Jahre sp ter gibt es ein Lebenszeichen ...
When the corpse of a Russian is hauled from the oily waters of Havana Bay, Arkady Renko comes to Cuba to identify the body. Looking for the killer, he discovers a city of faded loneliness, unexpected danger, and bewildering contradictions. His investigation introduces him to a beautiful Cuban policewoman; to the rituals of Santeria; to an American fugitive and a group of ruthless mercenaries. In this place where all things Russian are despised, where Hemingway fished and the KGB flourished, where the hint of music is always in the air, Arkady finds a trail of deceit that reaches halfway around the world-and a reason to relish his own life again.
Detective Arkady Renko returns to Moscow in the internationally bestselling series about Russian crimes, broken hearts, and the mysteries of the soul. Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon: late-night subway riders report seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin on the platform of the Chistye Prudy Metro station. The illusion seems part political hocus-pocus and also part wishful thinking, for among many Russians Stalin is again popular; the bloody dictator can boast a two-to-one approval rating. Decidedly better than that of Renko, whose lover, Eva, has left him for Detective Nikolai Isakov, a charismatic veteran of the civil war in Chechnya, a hero of the far right and, Renko suspects, a killer for hire. The cases entwine, and Renko's quests become a personal inquiry fueled by jealousy. The investigation leads to the fields of Tver outside of Moscow, where once a million soldiers fought. There, amidst the detritus, Renko must confront the ghost of his own father, a favorite general of Stalin's. In these barren fields, patriots and shady entrepreneurs -- the Red Diggers and Black Diggers -- collect the bones, weapons and personal effects of slain World War II soldiers, and find that even among the dead there are surprises.
A passenger train hurtling through the night. An unwed teenage mother headed to Moscow to seek a new life. A cruel-hearted soldier looking furtively, forcibly, for sex. An infant disappearing without a trace. So begins Martin Cruz Smith's masterful Three Stations, a suspenseful, intricately constructed novel featuring Investigator Arkady Renko. For the last three decades, beginning with the trailblazing Gorky Park, Renko (and Smith) have captivated readers with detective tales set in Russia. Renko is the ironic, brilliantly observant cop who finds solutions to heinous crimes when other lawmen refuse to even acknowledge that crimes have occurred. He uses his biting humor and intuitive leaps to fight not only wrongdoers but the corrupt state apparatus as well. In Three Stations, Renko's skills are put to their most severe test. Though he has been technically suspended from the prosecutor's office for once again turning up unpleasant truths, he strives to solve a last case: the death of an elegant young woman whose body is found in a construction trailer on the perimeter of Moscow's main rail hub. It looks like a simple drug overdose to everyone--except to Renko, whose examination of the crime scene turns up some inexplicable clues, most notably an invitation to Russia's premier charity ball, the billionaires' Nijinksy Fair. Thus a sordid death becomes interwoven with the lifestyles of Moscow's rich and famous, many of whom are clinging to their cash in the face of Putin's crackdown on the very oligarchs who placed him in power. Renko uncovers a web of death, money, madness and a kidnapping that threatens the woman he is coming to love and the lives of children he is desperate to protect. In Three Stations, Smith produces a complex and haunting vision of an emergent Russia's secret underclass of street urchins, greedy thugs and a bureaucracy still paralyzed by power and fear.
Martin Cruz Smith's "masterful" (USA TODAY) and "irresistible" (People) New York Times bestseller and Washington Post notable book of the year: Arkady Renko must connect the dots among a Russian journalist's mysterious death, corrupt politicians, murderous gangsters, and brazen bureaucrats. Arkady Renko, one of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, has survived the cultural journey from the Soviet Union to the New Russia, only to find the nation as obsessed with secrecy and brutality as was the old Communist dictatorship. In Tatiana, the melancholy hero unravels a mystery as complex and dangerous as modern Russia itself. The reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow the same week that a mob billionaire is shot and buried with the trappings due a lord. The trail leads to Kaliningrad, a Cold War "secret city" that is separated by hundreds of miles from the rest of Russia. The more Arkady delves into Tatiana's past, the more she leads him into a surreal world of wandering sand dunes, abandoned children, and a notebook written in the personal code of a dead translator. Finally, in a lethal race to uncover what the translator knew, Renko makes a startling discovery that draws him still deeper into Tatiana's past--and, paradoxically, into Russia's future, where bulletproof cars, poets, corruption of the Baltic Fleet, and a butcher for hire combine to give Kaliningrad the "distinction" of having the highest crime rate in Russia. More than a mystery, Tatiana is Martin Cruz Smith's most ambitious and politically daring novel since Gorky Park. It is a story rich in character, black humor, and romance, with an insight that is the hallmark of a writer The New York Times has called "endlessly entertaining and deeply serious... not merely] our best writer of suspense, but of one of our best writers, period."
Detective Arkaday Renko--"one of the most compelling figures in modern fiction" (USA TODAY)--risks his life when he heads to Ukraine shortly before the Russian invasion to find an anti-Putin activist who has mysteriously disappeared. Martin Cruz Smith has written nine previous novels featuring Arkady Renko, one of modern detective fiction's most popular characters. These novels, beginning with 1981's international sensation Gorky Park, have collectively traced Russia's evolution over the last half-century. Now, with Independence Square, Smith focuses on the fraught and frenzied days leading up to Vladimir Putin's war against Ukraine. It's June 2021, and Arkady knows that Russia is preparing to invade and subsequently annex Ukraine as it did Crimea in 2014. He is, however, preoccupied with other grievances. His longtime lover, Tatiana Petrovna, has deserted him for her work as an investigative reporter. His corrupt boss has relegated him to a desk job. And he is having trouble with his dexterity and balance. A visit to his doctor reveals that these are symptoms for Parkinson's Disease. This is an ingenious autobiographical conceit, as Martin Cruz Smith has Parkinson's, and is able through Arkady to movingly describe his own experience with the disease. Parkinson's hasn't stopped Smith from his work, and neither does it stop Arkady. Rather than dwell on his diagnosis, he throws himself into another case. An acquaintance has asked him to find his daughter, Karina, an anti-Putin activist who has disappeared. In the course of the investigation, Arkady falls for Karina's roommate, Elena, a Tatar from Ukraine. The search leads them to Kyiv, where rumblings of an armed conflict grow louder. Later, in Crimea, Tatiana reemerges to complicate Arkady's new romance. And as he gets closer to locating Karina, Arkady discovers something that threatens his life as well as the lives of both Elena and Tatiana. Few fiction writers have better captured contemporary Russia with more insight or authenticity than Martin Cruz Smith. He does the same here for Ukraine and the events that preceded Russia's invasion. Independence Square is a timely and a uniquely personal mystery novel-meets-political thriller by a master of the form.
Detective Arkaday Renko--"one of the most compelling figures in modern fiction" (USA TODAY)--risks his life when he heads to Ukraine shortly before the Russian invasion to find an anti-Putin activist who has mysteriously disappeared. Martin Cruz Smith has written nine previous novels featuring Arkady Renko, one of modern detective fiction's most popular characters. These novels, beginning with 1981's international sensation Gorky Park, have collectively traced Russia's evolution over the last half-century. Now, with Independence Square, Smith focuses on the fraught and frenzied days leading up to Vladimir Putin's war against Ukraine. It's June 2021, and Arkady knows that Russia is preparing to invade and subsequently annex Ukraine as it did Crimea in 2014. He is, however, preoccupied with other grievances. His longtime lover, Tatiana Petrovna, has deserted him for her work as an investigative reporter. His corrupt boss has relegated him to a desk job. And he is having trouble with his dexterity and balance. A visit to his doctor reveals that these are symptoms for Parkinson's Disease. This is an ingenious autobiographical conceit, as Martin Cruz Smith has Parkinson's, and is able through Arkady to movingly describe his own experience with the disease. Parkinson's hasn't stopped Smith from his work, and neither does it stop Arkady. Rather than dwell on his diagnosis, he throws himself into another case. An acquaintance has asked him to find his daughter, Karina, an anti-Putin activist who has disappeared. In the course of the investigation, Arkady falls for Karina's roommate, Elena, a Tatar from Ukraine. The search leads them to Kyiv, where rumblings of an armed conflict grow louder. Later, in Crimea, Tatiana reemerges to complicate Arkady's new romance. And as he gets closer to locating Karina, Arkady discovers something that threatens his life as well as the lives of both Elena and Tatiana. Few fiction writers have better captured contemporary Russia with more insight or authenticity than Martin Cruz Smith. He does the same here for Ukraine and the events that preceded Russia's invasion. Independence Square is a timely and a uniquely personal mystery novel-meets-political thriller by a master of the form.
Detective Arkady Renko--"one of the most compelling figures in modern fiction" (USA TODAY)--returns in this tense thriller set amid the backdrop of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In the latest installment of Martin Cruz Smith's celebrated Arkady Renko series, the legendary Moscow investigator seeks to solve the murder of a diplomat as Russia's invasion of Ukraine wears on and the effects of Renko's Parkinson's Disease worsen. Helped by his lover, journalist Tatiana Petrovna, Renko traces the murder to a Russian paramilitary group aided by a government official who also used to be a romantic partner of Renko. Before long, those responsible for the killing look to similarly dispatch Arkady and Tatiana--all of it leading to a thrilling and action-packed climax. Hotel Ukraine upholds Martin Cruz Smith's reputation as a master of modern detective fiction and Arkady Renko's standing as one of the genre's most complex protagonists.
Arkhitekturnaja azbuka Ekaterinburga: ot arkady do jarusa
Bombora
2024
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Ekaterinburg - odin iz krupnejshikh gorodov Rossii s nepovtorimoj arkhitekturoj, vobravshej v sebja obraztsovyj sovetskij konstruktivizm i russkij klassitsizm. Gorod, kotoryj stoit posetit khotja by radi togo, chtoby nasladitsja vsem raznoobraziem epokh i otrazhajuschikh ikh stilej. Ekaterinburg ljubjat sovetovat vsem, kto tsenit vdumchivye progulki s vnimaniem k detaljam, ved ikh v etom gorode neschetnoe kolichestvo. - Na kakie dominanty stoit obratit vnimanie gostjam Urala? - Gde v Ekaterinburge najti zhikoviny (i chto eto takoe)? - Kto izobrazhen na samom izvestnom obeliske goroda, i gde on raspolozhen? Razobratsja v etikh detaljakh, a takzhe vo vsem mnogoobrazii stilej stolitsy Urala vam pomozhet novaja kniga fotografa i blogera Tatjany Erovoj, avtora "Arkhitekturnoj azbuki Sankt-Peterburga" i "Goroda s sotnej lits". Tatjana posvjatit vas v podrobnosti togo, kak ustroen Ekaterinburg i iz kakikh melochej sostojat ego ulitsy i prospekty, a takzhe nauchit luchshe ponimat arkhitekturu goroda. Kazhdaja mini-statja objasnit vam znachenie termina i raskroet priznaki arkhitekturnykh stilej, prodemonstrirovav ikh na primere znamenitykh osobnjakov, muzeev, khramov i drugikh tochek pritjazhenija mestnykh zhitelej i turistov. Krome togo, kniga stanet otlichnym podarkom dlja vsekh vljublennykh v Ekaterinburg i blagodarja krasochnym illjustratsijam dast vozmozhnost perezhit vpechatlenija ot goroda dazhe vdaleke ot nego. Proguljajtes s etoj knigoj po stolitse konstruktivizma i otkrojte dlja sebja stolitsu Urala po-novomu!
Arkhitekturnaja azbuka Ekaterinburga: ot arkady do jarusa (novoe oformlenie)
Bombora
2024
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Ekaterinburg - odin iz krupnejshikh gorodov Rossii s nepovtorimoj arkhitekturoj, vobravshej v sebja obraztsovyj sovetskij konstruktivizm i russkij klassitsizm. Gorod, kotoryj stoit posetit khotja by radi togo, chtoby nasladitsja vsem raznoobraziem epokh i otrazhajuschikh ikh stilej. Ekaterinburg ljubjat sovetovat vsem, kto tsenit vdumchivye progulki s vnimaniem k detaljam, ved ikh v etom gorode neschetnoe kolichestvo. - Na kakie dominanty stoit obratit vnimanie gostjam Urala? - Gde v Ekaterinburge najti zhikoviny (i chto eto takoe)? - Kto izobrazhen na samom izvestnom obeliske goroda i gde on raspolozhen? Razobratsja v etikh detaljakh, a takzhe vo vsem mnogoobrazii stilej stolitsy Urala, vam pomozhet novaja kniga fotografa i blogera Tatjany Erovoj, avtora "Arkhitekturnoj azbuki Sankt-Peterburga" i "Goroda s sotnej lits". Tatjana posvjatit vas v podrobnosti togo, kak ustroen Ekaterinburg i iz kakikh melochej sostojat ego ulitsy i prospekty, a takzhe nauchit luchshe ponimat arkhitekturu goroda. Kazhdaja mini-statja objasnit vam znachenie termina i raskroet priznaki arkhitekturnykh stilej, prodemonstrirovav ikh na primere znamenitykh osobnjakov, muzeev, khramov i drugikh tochek pritjazhenija mestnykh zhitelej i turistov. Krome togo, kniga stanet otlichnym podarkom dlja vsekh vljublennykh v Ekaterinburg i blagodarja krasochnym illjustratsijam dast vozmozhnost perezhit vpechatlenija ot goroda dazhe vdaleke ot nego. Proguljajtes s etoj knigoj po stolitse konstruktivizma i otkrojte dlja sebja stolitsu Urala po-novomu!
My Father Lived Radiantly: a collection of writings by Arkady
Arcadia Shanklin
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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A girl is frustrated by small-minded elders, decides to leave the cult. A resort waiter takes his children to the beach during summer custody visitation. A gay man comes out to his straight, teenaged kids. An arthritic man sits on the floor, plays little toy cars with his grandsons. A doctor regards his patient with real kindness. An old hippie plants flowers in the yard, hangs wind chimes and bird feeders. An officer knocks on a door, informs a woman of her father's death. A son and daughter put ashes in the ground. A mother sews her children's fabric-marker art into a panel for the AIDS Quilt. A writer finds her voice.