Книги издательства Macmillan Publishers
Название: Elephants on Acid
Жанр: Palgrave
Год: 2012
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Have you ever wondered if a severed head retains consciousness long enough to see what happened to it? Or whether your dog would run to fetch help, if you fell down a disused mineshaft? And what would happen if you were to give an elephant the largest ever single dose of LSD? The chances are that someone, somewhere has conducted a scientific experiment to find out...'Excellent accounts of some of the most important and interesting experiments in biology and psychology' — Simon Singh. If left to their own devices, would babies instinctively choose a well-balanced diet? Discover the secret of how to sleep on planes. Which really tastes better in a blind tasting — Coke or Pepsi?
Название: First Family
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2009
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When she turned the page and her gaze flickered over the date on top it was as though the lightning outside had somehow grounded right into her. A billion volts of pain, a shriek of anguish you could actually see, and feel, as it pierced her. Camp David, USA. A birthday party turns into a nightmare when a child is snatched after the celebrations. The First Lady enlists the services of Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to bring the child home safely. But she and King share a past. Years ago he saved her then senator husband from political disaster. And this may not be all that passed between them. With Michelle still battling her own demons, the two are pushed to the limit, with forces aligned on all sides against them — and the line between friend and foe impossible to define ...or defend.
Название: Gifted: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2009
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Thirteen year old Queen-of-mean Amanda Beeson, wakes up one morning in the wrong body. She's become lonely, unfashionable Tracey Devon — one of Amanda's targets for bullying. Amanda discovers that Tracey, ignored at home and at school, has the ability to turn invisible. Amanda sets out to rescue her one-time victim from obscurity — as well as rescuing herself from Tracey's life!
Название: Gifted: Better Late Than Never
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2009
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Teenage goth and occasional rebel Jenna Kelly can read anyone's mind without even trying. When her alcoholic mother has to go into hospital, a stranger turns up who says he's her long-lost dad, and promises her a better future. While Jenna is happy to discover what it's like to have a proper parent, the gifted class have their concerns, but will Jenna listen?
Название: Gifted: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2009
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These students look like the others, but each of them has a special supernatural attribute that marks them out. You could call it a skill, a talent or a disadvantage, but each of these students is unique — they're gifted. Shy, dreamy Emily's premonitions aren't always quite right, and the gifted class usually don't take her seriously. But as Emily's visions get clearer, her classmates are forced to listen to her — before it's too late...
Название: The Heretic's Daughter
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2009
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Martha Carrier was hanged on August 19th, 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, unyielding in her refusal to admit to being a witch, going to her death rather than joining the ranks of men and women who confessed and were thereby spared execution. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and wilful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. In this startling novel, she narrates the story of her early life in Andover, near Salem. Her father is a farmer, English in origin, quietly stoical but with a secret history. Her mother is a herbalist, tough but loving, and above all a good mother. Often at odds with each other, Sarah and her mother have a close but also cold relationship, yet it is clear that Martha understands her daughter like no other. When Martha is accused of witchcraft, and the whisperings in the community escalate, she makes her daughter promise not to stand up for her if the case is taken to court. As Sarah and her brothers are hauled into the prison themselves, the vicious cruelty of the trials is apparent, as the Carrier family, along with other innocents, are starved and deprived of any decency, battling their way through the hysteria with the sheer willpower their mother has taught them.
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2010
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When all issues of space, time, matter and the nature of being are resolved, only one question remains: Where shall we have dinner? «The Restaurant at the End of the Universe» provides the ultimate gastronomic experience and, for once, there is no morning after. Arthur Dent's odyssey through space continues as he takes a trip to the end of time itself in search of a decent meal, and accidentally alters the future of the entire human race.
Название: The Immortals: Evermore
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2009
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Seventeen-year-old Ever is the sole survivor of a car crash that killed her entire family. Living with her aunt in Southern California, she's plagued by the ability to hear the thoughts of those around her, and haunted by the ghost of her little sister. She tries to tune everyone out, shunning her old lifestyle as the pretty, popular cheerleader, but somehow she can't hide from Damen, the new guy at school. Stunningly handsome, clever and not a little bit intimidating, there's something about him that doesn't quite add up. Ever realises he's hiding something, but nothing could prepare her for the truth — especially when the truth involves past lives, murderous enemies, everlasting love and the secret of eternal youth.
Название: The Infinites
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2010
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One midsummer's day in Arden, the Godley family gather at their dying father's bedside, a collection of troubled individuals and fraying relationships. The gods, those mischievous spirits, look on silently; unable to resist intervening, they spy, tease and seduce their mortal playthings. Old Adam Godley's time on earth seems to be running out, and his mind runs to disquieting memories. Little does he realize, as he lies mute but alert in the Sky Room, what mischief the gods are capable of. Overflowing with a bawdy humor, and a deep and refreshing clarity of insight, The Infinities is at once a gloriously earthy romp and a delicately poised, infinitely wise look at the terrible and wonderful plight of being human. In electrifying prose, Banville captures the aching intensity, the magic and enchantment, of a single midsummer's day in Arden.
Название: Kane and Abel
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2009
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They had only one thing in common...William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant — two men born on the same day on opposite sides of the world, their paths destined to cross in the ruthless struggle to build a fortune. The marvellous story, spanning 60 years, of two powerful men linked by an all-consuming hatred, brought together by fate to save — and finally destroy — each other.
Название: Kiss Like You Mean It
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2010
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In 1916, a young cameraman, Ambrose March, was killed on the Western Front. His astonishing and beautiful shots of soldiers, living and dying, remain testament to his talent. Now a major Hollywood movie aims to recreate his final days, but the cast and crew are running into trouble. Rory Fermoy, leading man and Hollywood bad-boy is giving the performance of his life. Off set he's the archetypal Hollywood hell-raiser with a lifestyle that very much mirrors the destructive and restless character he is portraying. And Rory has developed a keen interest in Carey Sloan, the new girlfriend of the producer, Russian billionaire Anton Klubcic. It's well-known that Anton has his girlfriends followed by private detectives, and anyone who crosses him lives to regret it. The thought is enough to send director Hayden Bonnard into melt-down. With the help of make-up artist, Pagan Silversmith, Hayden is determined to save the film at all costs and though Pagan is tired of egocentric stars like Rory, she's willing to help. She has no idea what's she's letting herself in for.
Название: The Lost Army
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2009
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The next searing adventure from the author of The Last Legion. Manfredi has created a rip-roaring adventure seen from the perspective of a woman. Her story encompasses one of the great collective acts of heroism of the ancient world. She was the mistress of Xenophon, a general in the vast army of ten thousand Greek mercenaries from virtually every Greek city state that was employed by Cyrus the Younger, in his quest to seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II. A new and intense account of the most celebrated march in man's history.
Название: Lovers and Gamblers
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2009
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From London to New York, Hollywood to Rio, meet the lovers who gambled with the highest stakes imaginable. Al King — soul superstar and legendary stud; Dallas — a smoldering beauty with big ambitions and a secret past. «Lovers and Gamblers» — it's so hot it sizzles...'Erotic...glitter and glamor...a beauty queen and a rock star...riots, bomb scares, orgies and drug trips...high-powered fiction...a real blockbuster' — «Evening Standard».
Название: The Modigliani Scandal by: Ken Follett
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 1996
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In the modern art world of intrigue and competition, rumours had long flourished about the existence of a lost masterpiece by Modigliani. Now, with the prize for uncovering the work higher than ever, a chase begins across Europe to see who can get the painting first.
Название: Monkey Puzzle
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2000
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Butterfly has promised to help Monkey find his mum, but she keeps getting it wrong. Monkey's mum doesn't croak and she certainly isn't slimy or feathery! Young children will love trying to solve the Monkey Puzzle, in this new board book edition of the very successful picture book, from the creators of THE GRUFFALO.
Название: My Fairytale Princess Library
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2010
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This adorable pocket library includes the classic tales of «Cinderella», «Sleeping Beauty», «Snow White» and «Beauty and the Beast» retold especially for the very youngest of princesses! Louise Comfort's charming illustrations bring these fairytale worlds to life and will keep little girls enthralled for hours.
Название: On Wings of Eagles
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 1998
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The Eagles, a team of volunteers from the executive ranks of a US corporation, hand-picked and trained by a retired Green Beret officer, are sent to penetrate a heavily-guarded prison fortress in Iran, and free the Americans imprisoned there — against terrible odds of success and survival.
Название: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2009
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Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes Lyon, the youngest daughter of the Earl of Strathmore, was born on 4 August, 1900. It might reasonably have been expected that she would lead a life of ease and privilege but few could have imagined the profound effect she would have on Britain and its people. Her life spanned the whole of the twentieth century and this official biography tells not only her story but, through it, that of the country she loved so devotedly. Drawing on her private correspondence and other unpublished material from the «Royal Archives», William Shawcross vividly reveals the witty girl who endeared herself to soldiers convalescing at Glamis in the First World War; the assured young Duchess of York; the Queen, at last feeling able to look the East End in the face at the height of the Blitz; the Queen Mother, representing the nation at home and abroad throughout her widowhood. It is the definitive portrait of a remarkable woman.
Название: Room on the Broom Book (+ Audio CD)
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2009
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This is an excitingly interactive edition of the bestselling, prize-winning «Room on the Broom». Available in a set with the original paperback, the CD includes a full-length animation to watch, listen or read along to, plus a whole host of interactive games including Dodge the Dragon and Broomstick Catch. Printable activities of this title include a toy theatre, card games, and posters too! You can even create your own story using images and characters from the original picture book. Hours of fun, perfect for the whole family to enjoy over and over again.
Название: Seven Ancient Wonders
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2006
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It is the biggest treasure hunt in history with contesting nations involved in a headlong race to locate the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 4500 years ago, a magnificent golden capstone sat at the peak of the Great Pyramid of Giza. It was a source of immense power, reputedly capable of bestowing upon its holder absolute global power. But then it was divided into seven pieces and hidden, each piece separately, within the seven greatest structures of the age. Now it's 2006 and the coming of a rare solar event means it's time to locate the seven pieces and rebuild the capstone. Everyone wants it — from the most powerful countries on Earth to gangs of terrorists...and one daring coalition of eight small nations. Led by the mysterious Captain Jack West Jr, this determined group enters a global battlefield filled with booby-trapped mines, crocodile-infested swamps, evil forces and an adventure beyond imagining. More action, hair-raising stunts and lethal hardware than you'd find in four Bond movies.Reilly is the hottest action writer around.
