Книги издательства Macmillan Publishers
Название: Code to Zero
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2001
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Three days that could change the world's political landscape ...A man wakes up to find himself lying on the ground in a railway station, his mind stripped bare of all recollection. He has no idea how he got there. He does not even know his own name. Convinced he is a drunken down and out, it isn't until a newspaper report about a satellite launch catches his eye that he begins to suspect all is not what it seems ...The year is 1958, and America is about to launch its first satellite, in a desperate attempt to match the Soviet Sputnik and regain the lead in the space race. As Luke Lucas gradually unravels the mystery of his amnesia, he realizes that his fate is bound up with that of the rocket that stands ready on launch pad 26B at Cape Canaveral. And as he relearns the story of his life, he uncovers long-kept secrets about his wife, his best friend and the woman he once loved more than life itself...
Название: Every Boy's Got One
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2005
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Maid-of-honour at her best friend Hollys wedding, Jen takes an instant dislike to best man Cal. But when Holly and Marks wedding plans hit a major snag that only Jen and Cal can repair, the two find themselves having to put aside their mutual dislike for one another in order for the wedding to go ahead.
Название: False Impression
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2006
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Jeffrey Archer, one of the greatest popular novelists of our generation, delivers a truly page-turning thriller. When an aristocratic old lady is brutally murdered in her country home the night before 9/11, it takes all the resources of the FBI and Interpol to work out the connection between her and the possible motive for her death — a priceless Van Gogh painting. It’s a young woman in the North Tower when the first plane crashed into the building who has the courage and determination to take on both sides of the law and avenge the old lady’s death. Anna Petrescu is missing, presumed dead, after 9/11 and she uses her new status to escape from America, only to be pursued across the world from Toronto to London, to Hong Kong, Tokyo and Bucharest, but it is only when she returns to New York that the mystery unfolds. Why are so many people willing to risk their own lives and others' to own the Van Gogh Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear?
Название: The Master and Margarita
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 1997
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This is a fully annotated translation of the most complete text of Bulgakov's exuberant comic masterpiece. A literary sensation from its first publication, The Master and Margarita has become an astonishing publishing phenomenon in Russia and has been translated into more than twenty languages, and made into plays and films. Mikhail Bulgakov's novel is now considered one of the seminal works of twentieth-century Russian literature. In this imaginative extravaganza the devil, disguised as a magician, descends upon Moscow in the 1930s with his riotous band, which includes a talking cat and an expert assassin. Together they succeed in comically befuddling a population which denies the devil's existence, even as it is confronted with the diabolic results of a magic act gone wrong. This visit to the world capital of atheism has several aims, one of which concerns the fate of the Master, a writer who has written a novel about Pontius Pilate, and is now in a mental hospital. By turns acidly satiric, fantastic and ironically philosophical, this work constantly surprises and entertains, as the action switches back and forth between the Moscow of the 1930s and first century Jerusalem. The commentary and afterword provide new insight into the mysterious subtexts of the novel, and here The Master and Margarita is revealed in all its complexity.
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2004
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So much has how been said and written about the life and career of Michael Jackson that it has become almost impossible to disentangle the man from the myth. Recent revelations are only the latest installments of a saga that began decades ago. This book is the fruit of over 30 years of research and hundreds of exclusive interviews with a remarkable level of access to the very closest circles of the Jackson family — including Michael himself. Cutting through tabloid rumors, J. Randy Taraborrelli traces the real story behind the Michael Jackson we see and hear today, from his drilling as a child star through the blooming of his talent to his ever-changing personal appearance and bizarre publicity stunts. This major biography includes the behind-the-scenes story to many of the landmarks in Jackson's life: his legal and commercial battles, his marriages to Lisa Marie Presley and Debbie Rowe, his passions and addictions, his children. Objective and revealing, it carries the hallmarks of all of Taraborrelli's best-sellers: impeccable research, brilliant storytelling and definitive documentation.
Название: Mostly Harmless
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2002
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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has, in what we laughingly call the past, had Jt a great deal to say on the pi subject of parallel universes. Very little of this, however, below the level of Advanced God and, since it is now well-established that all known gods came into existence a good three millionths of a second after the Universe began rather than, as they usually claimed, the previous week, they already have a great deal ot explaining to do as it is, and are therefore not available for comment at this time . . .
Название: A Place Called Freedom
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2003
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In a brutal world, charismatic rebel miner Mack McAsh — a slave by birth — is a man with the courage to stand up for what is right, and the strength to stick by his beliefs. Independent, rebellious Lizzie Hallim, meanwhile, is engaged to Jay Jamisson, the ruthless landlord's son and heir to an exploitative business empire. Born into separate worlds, Mack and Lizzie are thrown together when Mack becomes an enemy of the state and is forced to flee his homeland. Lizzie aids his escape, and it is not long before passions rage in the old world as well as the new ...Set in an era of turbulent social changes, «A Place Called Freedom» is a magnificent novel from the undisputed master of suspense and drama, Ken Follett. «A compulsive, sweeping adventure» — «Today». «Gripping historical narrative» — «San Francisco Chronicle».
Название: Scarlett
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 1996
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История Скарлетт О`Хара и Ретта Батлера оборвалась на полуслове. Но миллионы читательниц всего мира не желали расставаться с полюбившимися героями. Тогда Александра Рипли написала своё произведение — роман-продолжение «Cкарлетт», книгу, ставшую знаменитой и популярной. Неукротимая Скарлетт и неотразимый Ретт снова любят и страдают, борются с судьбой и надеются на счастье... На английском языке.
Название: Sharing a Shell
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2005
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When the little hermit crab finds a shiny new shell he doesn't want to share it — not with a blobby purple anemone and a tickly bristleworm. Join Crab, Blob and Brush in the rock pool for a sparkly story of sea, shells and friendship.
Название: Sons of Fortune
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2003
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Bestselling author Jeffrey Archer returns with a powerful tale of twins separated by fate and reunited by destiny. It is Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 1940's, and a set of twins is separated at birth by a desperate nurse. Nat Cartwright goes home with his parents, a schoolteacher and an insurance salesman. But his twin brother is to begin his days as Fletcher Andrew Davenport, son of a wealthy CEO and his society wife. During the years that follow, the two brothers grow up unaware of each other's existence. Nat leaves college at the University of Connecticut to serve in Vietnam. Returning a war hero, he finishes school and goes on to become a successful bank executive. Fletcher, meanwhile, has graduated from Yale University and distinguishes himself as a criminal defense lawyer before he is elected a senator. As their lives unfold, both men are confronted with tragedy and betrayal, loss and hardship, all the time overcoming life's obstacles to become the men they are destined to be. In the tradition of Jeffrey Archer's most popular books, SONS OF FORTUNE is as much a chronicle of a nation in transition as it is the story of the making of these two men — and how, eventually, they come to find each other...
Название: Stalin: A Biography
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2005
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Drawing on a wealth of unexplored material — available for the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union — Robert Service's biography of Stalin is the most authoritative yet published. It concentrates not simply on Stalin as dedicated bureaucrat or serial political killer, but on a fuller assessment of his formative interactions in Georgia, his youthful revolutionary activism, his relationship with Lenin, with his family, and with his party members. «This is effectively the first full biography since perestroika to encompass the economic, political, diplomatic, military, administrative and, above all, ideological dimensions, as well as the personal aspects of Stalin's colossal life...Gritty and unshowy, but enlightened by Service's compelling characterisation, magisterial analysis and dry wit, this outstanding biography of lightly worn authority, wide research and superb intuition will be read for decades» — Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of «Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar», «Sunday Times».
Название: Strange Affair
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2010
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When Alan Banks receives a disturbing message from his brother, Roy, he abandons the peaceful Yorkshire Dales for the bright lights of London, to seek him out. But Roy seems to have vanished into thin air. Meanwhile, DI Annie Cabbot is called to a quiet stretch of road just outside Eastvale, where a young woman has been found dead in her car. In the victim's pocket, scribbled on a slip of paper, police discover Banks' name and address. Living in Roy's empty South Kensington house, Banks finds himself digging into the life of the brother he never really knew, nor even liked. And as he begins to uncover a few troubling surprises, the two cases become sinisterly entwined. The Banks novels are, simply put, the best series now on the market — Stephen King.
Название: Whiteout
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2010
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Jealousies, distrust, and hidden rivalries uncover dark secrets, then a dozen vials of a deadly virus go missing. As a blizzard whips out of the north on Christmas Eve, several people converge on a remote family house. Stanley Oxenford, director of a pharmaceutical research company, has everything riding on a drug he is developing to fight a lethal virus. Several others are interested in his success too: his children, at home for Christmas with their offspring, have their eyes on the money he will make; Toni Gallo, head of his security team and recently forced to resign from the police, is betting her career on keeping it safe; an ambitious local television reporter sniffs a story, even if he has to bend the facts to tell it; and a violent trio of thugs are on their way to steal it, with a client already waiting. As the storm worsens and the group is laid under siege by the elements, the emotional sparks crackle and dark secrets are revealed that threaten to drive Stanley and his family apart for ever. Filled with startling twists, «Whiteout» is the ultimate knife-edge drama from an international bestselling author who is in a class by himself. 'Few writers can come up with the thrills more effectively than Ken Follett' — «Guardian». 'A new breed of thriller...Follett drags readers to the very edge of their seats and holds them captive until the very last villain is satisfactorily dispatched' — «Publishers weekly».
Название: Conversational Russian In 20 Lessons
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 1990
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Includes: -Guide to pronunciation: simple phonetics based on English spelling -20 conversational lessons: useful vocabularies; interesting conversations with pronunciation and helpful footnotes -Cultural information: panorama of Russian life and literature -Complete reference grammar: clear explanations of rules of grammar and structure of the language -Bilingual dictionary: all useful words you need to know Special offer: -High quality sound -Compact and portable -Useful conversations -Easy to use -At home, in your car, or wherever you go
Название: Crooked House
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2002
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In a sprawling mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonide lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. His cunning widow, 50 years his junior, is set to inherit a sizable fortune, and is rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor living on the estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward casts his own doubts on the innocence of the entire Leonides brood. He knows them intimately — and knows no one is on the level.
Название: James Herriot's Dog Stories
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 1990
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The magic of Herriot's storytelling has never been more vivid than in this collection of 53 stories about the Yorkshire vet's favorite animal and «man's best friend». Each story is introduced by Herriot and enhanced by one of Victor Ambrus's masterful drawings. A major publishing event for a worldwide audience.
Название: The Wire in the Blood
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2002
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Criminal profilers Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan look for a pattern in the disappearances of teenage girls across the country. Authorities are convinced the girls are runaways. Hill and Jordan have spent years exploring the psyches of madmen — but they know sane men kill, too. When one of Hill's students is murdered, it's the first move in a sick and violent game for three players.
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2007
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In Company is a fast-paced, multi-level Business English course for professional adults. The course systematically develops key language skills through moticating activities that reflect the real world of modern business. It has been specifically designed for the in-company language training sector.
Название: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2006
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Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Clarke's magisterial novel — the story of the rise of two very different magicians — weaves magic into a flawlessly detailed vision of 19th-century England.
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2006
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Graham Chapman is said to have been Monty Python's one true anarchist. Like his mentors Spike Milligan and Peter Cook, the man who portrayed the mistaken messiah in Life of Brian lived his life on and off stage with a sheer delight in madness for its own sake. 'I want to be a loony', he said, 'it's quite an important thing'. Calcium Made Interesting contains everything from Graham Chapman's unpublished sketches and transcripts of his lecture tours to letters to his bank manager and reflections on his fellow Pythons and as a result offers a unique insight into the real Graham Chapman. Previously unpublished essays and notes help chart the life and times of a comic legend and include such gems as his reflections on how it feels to be crucified and his nostalgic memories of blowing up hotel rooms with his good friend Keith Moon. Funny and surreal, this collection captures the eclectic spirit of a true genius and confirms Graham Chapman's lasting impact on British comedy.
