Macmillan Publishers
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Shake Hands Forever Reader (+ Audio CD)
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Macmillan Publishers
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Автор: Ruth Rendell
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers, 2009
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PDF, 3.36 МБ
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The murder of Angela Hathall was extremely well planned. The only clue left was a single fingerprint with an L-shaped scar. The detective in charge, Reg Wexford, suspects that Angela's husband Robert Hathall killed his wife. But one question troubles Wexford most of all. Who is the mysterious woman Wexford is sure Hathall is seeing? Does she have an L-shaped scar on her finger?
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7 декабря 2011
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The Last King: Rome's Greatest Enemy
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Macmillan Publishers
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Автор: Michael Curtis Ford
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers, 2005
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PDF, 432 страницы, 12.96 МБ
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«To the Romans, the greatest enemy the Republic ever faced was not the Goths or Huns, nor even Hannibal, but rather a ferocious and brilliant king on the distant Black Sea: Mithridates Eupator VI, the last king of Pontus, known to history as Mithridates the Great. At age eleven, he inherited a small mountain kingdom of wild tribesmen whom his wicked mother governed in his place. Sweeping to power at twenty-one-years-old, he proved to be a military genius and a man intent on ousting the Romans from the Black Sea coast territories. For over forty years, Rome sent its greatest generals to contain Mithridates, but time and again he embarrassed the Romans with devastating defeats. Each time Rome declared victory, Mithridates considered it merely a strategic retreat and soon came roaring back with a more powerful army than before. From the author of the acclaimed «The Ten Thousand and Gods and Legions», comes a fascinating recreation of a wickedly cunning and ruthless king who would stop at nothing to protect his people-and who would go down in history as one of the greatest and most formidable warriors of the ancient world.»
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olen33
20 декабря 2009
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Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War
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Macmillan Publishers
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Автор: Newt Gingrich
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers, 2005
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DjVu, 544 страницы, 21.76 МБ
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«The Battle of Gettysburg has become the great «what if» of American history. Gettysburg unfolds an alternate path and creates for General Robert E. Lee the victory he might have won. Full of dramatic battle scenes, military strategy, and captivating period details, Gettysburg stands as a remarkable entry in the pantheon of Civil War literature and as a vivid novel of the realities of war. The year is 1863, and General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia are poised to attack the North and claim the victory that could end the brutal conflict. Launching his men into a vast sweeping operation, General Lee, acting as he did at Chancellorsville, Second Manassas, and Antietam, displays the audacity of old. He knows he has but one more good chance to gain ultimate victory. Now Lee's lieutenants and the men in the ranks, imbued with this renewed spirit of the offensive, embark on the Gettysburg Campaign that many dream «should have been»...»
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garun-al-rashid
21 июня 2009
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Saving Faith
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Macmillan Publishers
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Автор: David Baldacci
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers, 2003
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PDF, 464 страницы, 13.92 МБ
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Danny Buchanan is a top Washington lobbyist who once earned a vast fortune serving the interests of giant corporations. Appalled by the desperate poverty he witnessed on his global travels, he decided to use his political genius to help the world's poor. With the loyal aid of his assistant, the attractive and committed Faith Lockhart, Danny works tirelessly and in secret to redress the balance of power. But Robert Thornhill has rather different ideas of public service. A ruthless top-ranking veteran of covert CIA activity, he discovers the secret of Danny's political influence and is determined to destroy him...
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biomg
24 июля 2009
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Jinx
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Macmillan Publishers
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Автор: Meg Cabot
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers, 2008
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PDF, 240 страниц, 7.20 МБ
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It wasn’t just the power failure the night Jean Honeychurch was born that earned her the nickname Jinx: misfortune seems to follow her wherever she goes. Which is why she’s been shipped off to New York to stay with relatives – including her sophisticated cousin Tory – until the trouble she’s caused back in her small hometown dies down. Tory couldn’t care less about Jinx – until Jinx’s chronic bad luck starts wreaking havoc in Tory’s perfect world. Only then does Jinx learn that beneath Tory’s big-city glamour lies a world of hatred and revenge. And now Jean’s jinx could be the only thing that can save her life...
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admin
22 марта 2011
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Under Orders
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Macmillan Publishers
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Автор: Dick Francis
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers, 2007
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PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ
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It’s the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day that really troubles super-sleuth Sid Halley. Former champion jockey Halley knows the perils of racing all too well – but in his day, jockeys didn’t usually reach the finishing line with three 38 rounds in the chest. But this is precisely how he finds jockey Huw Walker – who, only a few hours earlier, had won the coveted Triumph Hurdle. Just moments before the gruesome discovery, Halley had been called upon by Lord Enstone to make discreet enquiries into why his horses appeared to be on a permanent losing streak. Are races being fixed? Are bookies taking a cut? And if so, are trainers and jockeys playing a dangerous game with stakes far higher than they realise? Halley’s quest for answers draws him ever deeper into the darker side of the race game, in a life-or-death power play that will push him to his very limits – both professionally and personally.
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admin
15 мая 2010
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Simple Genius
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Macmillan Publishers
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Автор: David Baldacci
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers, 2007
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DjVu, 592 страницы, 23.68 МБ
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Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are both haunted by their last case. Realizing that Michelle is teetering on the brink of self-destruction from long-buried demons, Sean arranges therapy for his reluctant partner. But instead of focusing on her recovery, Michelle unearths disturbing secrets in the hospital... Sean accepts a much-needed job. A physicist, Monk Turing, has died in mysterious circumstances near Babbage Town – a secretive establishment populated by an eccentric group of scientists and cryptographers, funded by an anonymous but powerful group. Meanwhile the dead man’s young daughter, piano-playing prodigy Viggie, has secrets of her own. But what is the significance of the phrase ‘codes and blood’? Directly across the York River from Babbage Town lies the sinister CIA training ground, Camp Peary, where Monk Turing’s body was found. With both the FBI and CIA breathing down Sean's neck, can he discover the truth? And will he be in time to save Michelle from herself?
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erdik
13 декабря 2009
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Gomorrah: Italy's Other Mafia (film tie-in)
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Macmillan Publishers
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Автор: Roberto Saviano
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers, 2008
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PDF, 301 страниц, 9.03 МБ
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«Published to coincide with the eponymous blockbuster film, Roberto Saviano's groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller and has to date sold 750,000 copies in Italy alone. Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities, the author has received so many death threats from the Camorra that he has been assigned police protection. Known by insiders as 'the System', the Camorra, an organized crime network with a global reach and large stakes in construction, high fashion, illicit drugs and toxic-waste disposal, exerts a malign grip on cities and villages along the Neapolitan coast is the deciding factor in why Campania has the highest murder rate in all of Europe and why cancer levels there have skyrocketed in recent years. In pursuit of his subject, Saviano worked as an assistant at a Chinese textile manufacturer and on a construction site, both controlled by 'the System', and as a waiter at a Camorra wedding. Born in Naples, he recalls seeing his first murder at the age of fourteen, and how his own father, a doctor, suffered a brutal beating for trying to help an eighteen-year-old victim, left for dead in the street. «Gomorrah» is both a bold and engrossing piece of investigative writing and one heroic young man's impassioned story of a place under the rule of a murderous organization.»
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be4hoctb
14 февраля 2010
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Pirate Stories
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Macmillan Publishers
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Издательство: Macmillan Publishers, 2007
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PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ
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Haunted wooden legs, captains good and evil, parrots a-plenty — they're all here in this wide-ranging collection of illustrated pirate stories, brought to you by authors such as Cornelia Funke, Colin McNaughton and John Grant. Read them while you're scrubbing the decks, walking the plank or navigating the open seas. Ooh-arr.
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lawyer_78rus
25 июня 2009
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Kingdom
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Macmillan Publishers
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Автор: Tom Martin
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers, 2009
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DOC, 512 страниц, 1.00 МБ
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A monastery in Tibet is overrun with Chinese soldiers searching for a sacred relic. The monks flee to seek refuge in hidden caves, but their progress is hampered by an injured stranger, whose presence threatens them all... Journalist Nancy Kelly receives a parcel containing a mysterious trumpet made of bone, and hears an account of a Westerner penetrating into a hidden kingdom in Tibet, where orchids cover the earth, pagodas hug the hills and soaring cathedrals hide underground. Soon she embarks on a dangerous journey into an ancient land of myth and legend, in search of a secret older than time itself...
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1856
nniikk
17 августа 2011
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50 Ways to Find a Lover
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Macmillan Publishers
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Автор: Lucy-Anne Holmes
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers, 2009
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PDF, 432 страницы, 12.96 МБ
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Sarah Sargeant has been single for three years and nine months. She has just spent five months plucking up the courage to ask out a balding man with a paunch who works in her local pub. The gentleman in question informed her that he would rather stay in and watch the Narnia movie on DVD. Her pride has not just been bruised, it's been disembowelled. And she vows it's the last time she will ever reach out to a member of the opposite sex. But her family and friends have other ideas. They enter her into a reality TV show against her will, persuade her to go speed dating and even more radically, they encourage her to start a blog. Suddenly Sarah Sargeant is on a mission. A mission to explore 50 Ways To Find A Lover.
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21 августа 2011
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Silks
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Macmillan Publishers
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Автор: Dick Francis
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers, 2009
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PDF, 432 страницы, 12.96 МБ
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When defence barrister Geoffrey Mason hears the judge’s guilty verdict, he quietly hopes that a long and arduous custodial sentence will be handed down to his arrogant young client. That Julian Trent only receives eight years seems all too lenient. Little does Mason expect that he’ll be seeing Trent again much sooner than he’d ever imagined. Setting aside his barrister’s wig, Mason heads to Sandown to don his racing silks. An amateur jockey, his true passion is to be found in the saddle, on a thoroughbred, pounding the turf. But when a fellow rider is brutally murdered – a pitchfork driven through his chest – the prime suspect is champion jockey Steve Mitchell and the evidence is overwhelming. Mason, reluctant to heed Mitchell’s pleas for legal advice, soon finds himself at the centre of a sinister web of threat and intimidation and is left fighting a battle of right and wrong, and more immediately, a battle of life and death… his own.
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1566
olen33
21 августа 2011
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American Star
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Macmillan Publishers
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Автор: Jackie Collins
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers, 2009
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PDF, 568 страниц, 17.04 МБ
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«Feel the heat... as cult superstar Nick Angel claws his way from Midwest boyhood poverty to riches, power and fame in the heart of New York City. Feel the heat... as his path collides with the beautiful Lauren Roberts, an innocent learning fast about the ways of the world. About men. About money. And about never having to be alone... «American Star»... a fantastic love story – as only Jackie can tell it!»
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nextpeople
18 мая 2012
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The Sacred Cut
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Macmillan Publishers
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Автор: David Hewson
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers, 2006
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PDF, 496 страниц, 14.88 МБ
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For the first time in decades The Eternal City is paralysed by a blizzard. And a gruesome discovery is made in the Pantheon — one of Rome's most ancient and revered architectural treasures. Covered by softly falling snow is the body of a young woman — her back horribly mutilated... But before Costa, Peroni and Rome's Questura can begin a formal investigation the US Embassy has brought in its own people, FBI Agents who want the case closed down as quickly and discreetly as possible. But Costa is determined to find out why — and as the FBI grudgingly admits that this corpse is not the first, the mutilations of the woman's body point to Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man — and to a conspiracy so sinister and buried so deep, that only two people know its true, crazed meaning.
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neptun
15 сентября 2011
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Mastering English Language
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Macmillan Publishers
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Автор: S.H. Burton
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers, 1992
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PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ
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«Mastering English Language» combines a systematic, detailed and lively approach that will stimulate, clarify and, where necessary, simplify many essential matters relating to the English language. The new edition has been extensively rewritten to take into account examination changes. The book will empower students by developing their effectiveness in speaking, reading and writing in the classroom, examination-room, place of work or at home. Topics covered include the components of expression; words, sentences, paragraphs; idea — formation; specific writing techniques; types of literary composition ...»
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805
allkonekt
03 августа 2009
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Othello
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Macmillan Publishers
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Автор: Lena Cowen Orlin
Издательство: Macmillan Publishers, 2003
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PDF, 280 страниц, 8.40 МБ
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«With its focus on gender, power, race, sexuality, and violence, «Othello» is an important site for new critical approaches to the study of Shakespeare's works. Both criticism and culture are represented in this collection of recent essays which provides readers with examples of feminist, new-historicist, cultural materialist, deconstructive, and post-colonial perspectives on «Othello». With discussions of recent stage and screen productions, and analysis of the use of the play in such contemporary events as the O.J. Simpson murder trial, this compelling critical volume presents a wide variety of ways of understanding the continuing significance of Shakespeare's play both in his own time and in ours.»
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10 декабря 2009
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