Книги издательства Macmillan Publishers
Название: Faking It
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2003
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Matilda Goodnight and Davy Dempsey are both trying to get the upper hand with gold-digging Clea Lewis, but they forge a temporary alliance to take on an inept art collector, an exasperated hitman, and a seductive femme fatale.
Название: False Impression
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2006
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A breathtaking journey of twists and turns from New York to London, from Bucharest and on to Tokyo ends up in a sleepy English village where the mystery surrounding Van Gogh's last painting will finally be resolved.
Название: First Among Equals
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2004
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Charles Seymour, second-born son, will never be the earl like his father, but he did inherit his mother's strength and the will to realize his destiny... Simon Kerslake's father sacrificed everything to make sure his son's dreams come true. Now it is Simon's chance to rise as high as those dreams allow... Ray Gould was born to the back streets but raised with pride — a quality matched by a sharp intellect and the desire to attain the impossible... Andrew Fraser was raised by a soccer hero turned politician. Now it's his turn for heroics, whatever the cost.From strangers to rivals, four men embark on a journey for the highest stakes of all — the keys to No.10 Downing Street. Unfolding over three decades, their honor will be tested, their loyalties betrayed, and their love of family and country challenged. But in a game where there is a first among equals, only one can triumph.
Название: Flowers in the Rain and Other Stories
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 1992
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She makes you laugh... she makes you cry... she takes you to a world of hope and romance. The Shell Seekers and September, once again proves that she is a rare writer whose heartwarming stories are presented to readers like gifts of love. «Entertaining and wise... Each story is like a work of art.» — Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Название: Glass Houses
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2008
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Gregor Demarkian investigates a baffling series of murders in Philadelphia — perpetrated by the Plate Glass Killer — in order to prove the innocence of a man who has already confessed to the killings.
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2007
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In interviews with more than 25 public personalities, including Bono, Hugh Hefner, and Anne Rice, Falsani offer a fresh, occasionally controversial, and always illuminating look at the beliefs that have shaped their lives.
Название: Hardscrabble Road
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2007
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When a right-wing radio show host is arrested for illegal possession of prescription drugs, the incident sets into motion a deadly series of events. Leading the investigation is Gregor Demarkian, a retired FBI agent hired to stop a killer from striking again.
Название: The Headmaster's Wife
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2006
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Windsor Academy ranks as one of the best New England prep schools money can buy. From its Gothic arches to its ethnic diversity, it looks picture perfect... as long as nobody notices that the headmaster’s wife has a student lover and drugs are as available as candy. And when freshman Mark DeAvecca looks out a faux medieval window and sees a body across the campus, he wonders if he’s hallucinating — especially when no corpse is found. Since everyone thinks that Mark is a druggie, they all ignore him — until he returns to his dorm room to discover his roommate dead, hanged by the neck from the ceiling. Desperate, Mark calls his mother’s friend Gregor Demarkian, former FBI agent and the one person Mark knows will listen. Demarkian is world-weary and ready to retire from his investigative career, yet he can’t turn down a plea from a scared kid. And it doesn’t take long before Gregor knows something is very wrong at Windsor Academy... something like manipulation, dirty tricks, and murder.
Название: The Hotel Riviera
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2004
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American Lola Laforet was swept away in a whirlwind wedding and found herself the chef/owner of the Hotel Riviera. Her life seemed to be a dream come true. But then her husband disappeared one day with nothing more than a wave goodbye. Six months later, Jack Ferrar, an American ex-pat living on his boat, drops anchor in Lola's harbor and teaches her the true meaning of attraction. When various shady people-all claiming ownership of the Hotel Riviera-and the police appear, Lola and Jack have to track down the mysterious Patrick. And along the way, they fall in love. With great food, wonderful sensuality, and lush scenery, Elizabeth Adler holds you under her spell and transports you to one of the most romantic places on earth.
Название: The House in Amalfi
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2006
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Lamour Harrington’s husband died two years ago. It is the second time she has lost a man she loved to a tragedy: her father died in a mysterious boating accident when she was seventeen. When a devastating discovery about her husband’s death leaves Lamour feeling stunned and betrayed, she returns to the house on the lush Amalfi coast where she'd lived with her father during the happiest years of her childhood. But the house of her memories has secrets all its own, forcing her to face new truths about another man she once loved. Was her father’s death truly accidental? Or was he hiding something that caused his early demise? Torn between two mysterious and compelling men who have now entered her life, Lamour discovers that the past has a way of returning when you least expect it. And someone wants to ensure that Lamour doesn’t uncover the secrets of this idyllic, dreamy coastal getaway. As the past and the present collide in a shattering and suspenseful climax, Lamour must face the things she fears the most, in order to find the courage to live life to the fullest.
Название: The King of Lies
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2007
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John Hart creates a literary thriller that is as suspenseful as it is poignant, a riveting murder mystery layered beneath the southern drawl of a humble North Carolina lawyer. When Work Pickens finds his father murdered, the investigation pushes a repressed family history to the surface and he sees his own carefully constructed façade begin to crack. Work's troubled sister, her combative girlfriend, his gold digging socialite wife, and an unrequited lifelong love join a cast of small town characters that create no shortage of drama in this extraordinary, fast-paced suspense novel. Hart's mastery of prose and plot belie his newcomer status as he explores the true heart of a man. An illuminating anatomy of a murder and the ripple effect it produces within a family and a community, The King of Lies is a stunning debut.
Название: Let It Bleed
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 1998
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Continuing the excellent work of Ian Rankin, well known to the many fans of his Edinburgh — based detective John Rebus is «Let It Bleed» which begins with a wild chase across the Firth Bridge and doesn’t let up until the last page. Sometimes dark, consistently interesting, Rankin writes some of the best contemporary mystery.
Название: The Men in the Brown Suit
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2001
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How odd, Anne Beddingfeld thought, that the stranger caught her eye, recoiled in horror, and fell to his death on the rails of Hyde Park Underground Station. Odder still was a doctor in a brown suit who pronounced him dead and vanished into the crowd. But what really aroused Anne's suspicion was when she learned of the doctor's link to the murder of a famous ballerina, a fortune in hidden diamonds, and a crime-lord embroiled in blackmail. And most frightening of all was the attempt made on Anne's own life. But she is unable to resist the lure of an isolated mansion that could hold the solution to the bizarre mystery — even if she becomes the next victim...
Название: Middlesex
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2008
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Lefty and Desdemona must flee the Turks who are invading their crumbling city in the Ottoman Empire, and decide to head for America. What this unusual brother and sister do not realise is that a rare genetic mutation is following them. It secretly travels with them first to Detroit, and then to suburbia, through prohibition and the race riots of 1967. And in the spring of 1974, their granddaughter Calliope finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. Through eight decades — and one unusually awkward adolescence — Jeffrey Eugenides' long-awaited second novel is a breathtaking vision of the American Dream and a modern fable of crossed bloodlines, immigration, the intricacies of gender, and deep, untidy desire.
Название: The Nanny Diaries
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2007
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WANTED: One young woman to take care of four-year-old boy. Must be cheerful, enthusiastic, and selfless--bordering on masochistic. Must relish sixteen-hour shifts with a deliberately nap-deprived preschooler. Must love getting thrown up on, literally and figuratively, by everyone in his family. Must enjoy the delicious anticipation of ridiculously erratic pay. Mostly, must love being treated like fungus found growing out of employer's Hermes bag. Those who take it personally need not apply. Who wouldn't want this job? Struggling to graduate from NYU and afford her microscopic studio apartment, Nanny takes a position caring for the only son of the wealthy X family. She rapidly learns the insane amount of juggling involved to ensure that a Park Avenue wife, who doesn't work, cook, clean, or raise her own child, has a smooth day. When the X's marriage begins to disintegrate, Nanny ends up involved way beyond the bounds of human decency or good taste. Her tenure with the X family becomes a nearly impossible mission to maintain the mental health of their four-year-old, her own integrity, and, most important, her sense of humor. Over nine tense months, Mrs. X and Nanny perform the age-old dance of decorum and power as they test the limits of modern-day servitude.
Название: Passenger to Frankfurt
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2003
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It was an unusual predicament for Sir Stafford Nye — to awaken in a stupor after being drugged, only to find his passport stolen. There was also no trace of the fascinating woman he encountered in Frankfurt who begged him to help save her life. But Sir Stafford's troubles are only just beginning. The target of two murder attempts, he now seeks the help of the stranger who so urgently sought his. If he can locate her. What he finds is a woman of numerous identities and twice as many secrets, who ushers him into the shadows of an international conspiracy that could well prove to be the death of them.
Название: Power Play
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2008
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From the «New York Times» bestselling author of «Paranoia» and «Killer Instinct» comes a pulse-pounding, high-stakes thriller set in the cutthroat corporate world.
Название: Princess Academy
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2007
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All the teenage girls from a small mountain village must attend the academy to learn how to become a princess. Miri soon finds herself confronted with a harsh academy mistress, bitter competition among the girls, and her own conflicting desires to be chosen.
Название: Rainbows End
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2007
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Hugo Award winner Vinge pens a sci-fi thriller set in San Diego, California, in the year 2025. As world-famous poet Robert Gu regains his faculties from Alzheimer's through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed — and so has his place in it.
Название: Saturnalia
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2008
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In 76 A.D., during the reign of Vespasian, «informer» Marcus Didius Falco searches for a general's famous female conquest who has escaped from house arrest — leaving a horrendous murder in her wake. Falco seems to be the only one who notices that some dark agency is bringing death to the city streets.
