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One Day
Автор: Nicholls David Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2012 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20142013-12-07
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The Macmillan Readers series are carefully graded from Starter to Upper Intermediate (A1-B2) to help students choose the right reading material for their ability. Our list of titles includes great stories from both contemporary and classic authors. 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their university graduation. Soon their lives will go in separate directions. But where will they be on 15 July of the following year, and the year after that? One Day is a wonderful and moving love story which takes place over the decades of the eighties and nineties.
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Testbuilder for the TOEIC Tests: Student's Book (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Beck Jessica Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2012 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20142013-12-07
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A brand new title in this popular series of 'Tests that teach', designed to help improve students' exam performance and increase language competence. Task types familiarise students with the tasks they will face in the exam, further practice and guidance pages build confidence in answering them and an expanded answer key gives clear explanations as to why the given answer is correct. It can be used in the classroom or for self-study. The Testbuilder for the TOEIC Tests offers three complete tests for the Listening & Reading TOEIC test, followed by three tests for the Speaking TOEIC test and three tests for the Writing TOEIC test.
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Assegai
Автор: Smith W. Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2009 Страниц: 672 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20142012-04-22
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It is 1913 and ex-soldier turned professional big game hunter, Leon Courtney, is in British East Africa guiding rich and powerful men from America and Europe on safaris in the Masai tribe territories. One of his clients, German industrialist Count Otto Von Meerbach, has a company which builds aircraft and vehicles for the Kaiser's burgeoning army. But Leon had not bargained for falling passionately in love with Eva, the Count's beautiful and enigmatic mistress. Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, Leon is recruited by his uncle, Penrod Ballantyne, Commander of the British Forces in East Africa, to gather information from Von Meerbach. He stumbles on a plot against the British involving the disenchanted survivors of the Boer War, but it is only when Eva and Von Meerbach return to Africa that Leon finds out who and what is really behind the conspiracy.
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The Master
Автор: Toibin Colm Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2005 Страниц: 200 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20102007-10-27
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It is January 1895 and Henry James's play, Guy Domville, from which he hoped to make his fortune, has failed on the London stage. Opening with this disaster, The Master spans the next five years of James's life, during which time he moves to Rye in Sussex, having found his dream retreat. There he writes his short masterpiece The Turn Of The Screw, a tale in which he incorporates many details from his own life, including his experiences as a member of one of the great eccentric American families and, later, an exile in England. Impelled by the need to work and haunted by his past — including his failure to fight in the American Civil War, and the golden summer of 1865, and the death of his sister Alice — James is watchful and witty, relishing the England in which he has come to live and regretting the New England he has left.
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Dark Fire
Автор: Sansom C.J. Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20102011-03-19
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It is 1540 and the hottest summer of the sixteenth century. Matthew Shardlake, believing himself out of favour with Thomas Cromwell, is busy trying to maintain his legal practice and keep a low profile. But his involvement with a murder case, defending a girl accused of brutally murdering her young cousin, brings him once again into contact with the king's chief minister — and a new assignment... The secret of Greek Fire, the legendary substance with which the Byzantines destroyed the Arab navies, has been lost for centuries. Now, an official of the Court of Augmentations has discovered the formula in the library of a dissolved London monastery. When Shardlake is sent to recover it, he finds the official and his alchemist brother brutally murdered — the formula has disappeared. Now, Shardlake must follow the trail of Greek Fire across Tudor London, while trying at the same time to prove his young client's innocence. But very soon he discovers nothing is as it seems...
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Patterns of Fashion 4
Автор: Arnold Janet Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20102010-07-21
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No one interested in the history of dress, from art historians to stage designers, from museum curators to teachers of fashion and costume, can function effectively without Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion series, published by Macmillan since 1964. Since her untimely death in 1998, admirers of her work have been waiting, with increasing impatience, for the promised volume devoted to the linen clothes of the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods, a companion to her previous volume on tailored clothes of the same era.Planned and partly prepared by Janet herself, and completed by Jenny Tiramani, Janet's last pupil, no other book exists that is dedicated to the linen clothes that covered the body from the skin outwards. It contains full colour portraits and photographs of details of garments in the explanatory section, as well as patterns for 86 items of linen clothing, which range from men's shirts and women's smocks, from superb ruffs and collars to boot hose and children's stomachers. Beautifully produced, it is an invaluable guide to both the history and the recreation of these wonderful garments.
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As the Earth Turns Silver
Автор: Wong Alison Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20122013-09-24
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It is New Zealand, and the first decade of the twentieth century. Katherine McKechnie is struggling to raise two children following the death of her husband, when a chance encounter with a Chinese shopkeeper blossoms into friendship and, eventually, love. Racial tension and prejudice mean the two must keep their relationship secret, but Katherine's son, Robbie, learns the truth and, on the eve of World War I as young men everywhere are swept up on a tide of macho patriotism, takes his family's honour into his own hands — with devastating consequences. Both captivating and beautiful, As the Earth Turns Silver is a compelling read — and a remarkable debut.
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The Song House
Автор: Azzopardi Trezza Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20152013-10-31
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When Kenneth Earl realises his memory is failing, he advertises for someone to help him catalogue his vast collection of music, and so create a record of his life. Maggie, the final candidate, is his last hope. But he doesn't guess when he gives her the job that the archive will be as much about her past as his — because this isn't the first time that Maggie has been to Earl House, and it's no coincidence that she applied for the post... 'Slowly, and in Azzopardi's melodic, lyrical prose the secrets of Maggie's childhood are revealed, full of loss and longing, unfaithful loves and bad choices' — Marie Claire. 'Not just a good read, but a fireworks display of true talent. A Fred and Ginger extravaganza — and an unforgettable dance' — The Scotsman. 'Azzopardi is an accomplished writer, beautifully weaving the past into the present until her words literally sing off the page' — Stylist magazine Book of the Week.
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Three Stations
Автор: Smith Martin Cruz Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20152015-03-12
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This is the stunning new thriller from the author of Gorky Park and Stalin's Ghost. As a train pulls into Yaroslav Station, Moscow, a teenage girl — Maya — wakes to an unimaginable horror. Her baby has been taken... Increasingly disillusioned with the workings of Moscow's Prosecution Service, Arkady Renko is teetering on the brink of resignation when he becomes drawn into a strange new case. A prostitute has been found dead in a trailer in Three Stations — a dark, notorious part of the city — without a mark on her. Soon Renko will find that the girl is linked to the extravagant Club Nijinsky and, as he is drawn into the extraordinary world of Moscow's super-rich, that nothing is quite as it seems. Meanwhile, Maya also wanders Three Stations, searching for her baby. Her only ally is a young man, Zhenya — Renko's own troubled ward — who is drawn to her cause and will guide her through Moscow's dark underbelly. But neither Zhenya nor Renko realize that Maya herself is being hunted. And those seeking her will stop at nothing to silence her...
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The Sea
Автор: Banville John Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20132017-08-24
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First published in 2005, The Sea was critically acclaimed as an extraordinary achievement. It went on to win that year's Man Booker Prize, one of the most hotly contested in the history of the award. When Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. Mr and Mrs Grace and their twin children Myles and Chloe appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. He grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that was to follow. In 2012 Picador celebrate our 40th anniversary. During that time we have published many prize-winning and bestselling authors including Bret Easton Ellis and Cormac McCarthy, Alice Sebold and Helen Fielding, Graham Swift and Alan Hollinghurst. Years later, Picador continue to bring readers the very best contemporary fiction, non-fiction and poetry from across the globe.
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Love Letters of Great Men
Автор: Doyle Ursula Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20102009-06-11
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From the private papers of Mark Twain and Mozart to those of Robert Browning and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men collects together some of the most romantic letters in history. For some of these great men, love is a 'delicious poison' (William Congreve); for others, 'a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music' (Charles Darwin). Love can scorch like the heat of the sun (Henry VIII), or penetrate the depths of one's heart like a cooling rain (Flaubert). Every shade of love is here, from the exquisite eloquence of Oscar Wilde and the simple devotion of Robert Browning, to the wonderfully modern misery of the Roman Pliny the Younger, losing himself in work to forget how much he misses his beloved wife, Calpurnia.Taken together, these Love Letters of Great Men show that perhaps men haven't changed so very much over the last 2,000 years; passion, jealousy, hope and longing are all represented here — as is the simple pleasure of sending a letter to, and receiving one from, the person you love most.
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Blood Sport
Автор: Francis Dick Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 345 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20112009-10-21
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Gene Hawkins woke on the first day of his holiday with his hand on the Luger under his pillow, and a ringing in his ears. His boss was on the phone, inviting him on a family boat trip up the Thames. Keeble didn't fraternise with his employees unless he wanted something. What he wanted now was for Gene to spend three weeks looking for kidnapped stallions in Kentucky. He wouldn't take no for an answer. But before the afternoon was out Gene's survival skills were called on cloer to home — catapulting him into a maelstrom of blackmail and murder that would turn the blue grass of Kentucky to red...
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The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and Her People
Автор: Marr Andrew Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20142016-03-22
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With the flair for narrative and the meticulous research that readers have come to expect, Andrew Marr turns his attention to the monarch and to the monarchy, chronicling the Queen's pivotal role at the centre of the state, which is largely hidden from the public gaze, and making a strong case for the institution itself. Arranged thematically, rather than chronologically, Marr dissects the Queen's political relationships, crucially those with her Prime Ministers; he examines her role as Head of the Commonwealth, and her deep commitment to that Commonwealth of nations; he looks at the drastic changes in the media since her accession in 1952 and how the monarchy and the monarch have had to change and adapt as a result. Indeed he argues that under her watchful eye, the monarchy has been thoroughly modernized and made as fit for purpose in the twenty-first century as it was when she came to the throne and a 'new Elizabethan age' was ushered in.
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The House I Loved
Автор: Rosnay Tatiana de Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20142016-03-22
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Paris, 1869. Houses are being razed, whole neighbourhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will permanently transform Paris into a modern city. In the midst of the tumult, one woman will take a stand. Rose Bazelet is determined to fight against the destruction of her family home until the very end; as others flee, she stakes her claim in the basement of the house on rue Childebert, ignoring the sounds of change that come closer and closer each day. Attempting to overcome the loneliness of her daily life, she begins to write letters to Armand, her late husband. And as Rose delves into her memories, she reveals the secrets held within the walls of her beloved house.
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The Lord God Made Them All
Автор: Herriot James Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20112008-10-17
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The war is over, the RAF uniform has been handed in and James Herriot goes back where he ought to be — at work in the dales around Darrowby. Much has changed, but the blunt-spoken Yorkshire folk and the host of four-legged patients are still the same. So is their vet, who doesn't yet know that literary success is just around the corner...
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Not Dead Enough
Автор: James Peter Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20132014-04-22
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On the night Brian Bishop murdered his wife he was sixty miles away, asleep in bed at the time. At least that's the way it looks to Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, who is called in to investigate the kinky slaying of beautiful socialite, Katie Bishop. Grace soon starts coming to the conclusion that Bishop has performed the apparently impossible feat of being in two places at once. Has someone stolen his identity or is he simply a very clever liar? As Grace digs deeper behind the facade of the Bishops' outwardly respectable lives, it becomes clear that everything is not at all as it first seemed. Then he digs just a little too far, and suddenly the fragile stability of his own troubled, private world is facing destruction... Packed with sharp dialogue, an appealing cast and vivid cameos of the more sinister face of Brighton.
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One Summer
Автор: Baldacci David Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20152016-03-26
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One International Bestseller. When thirty-four-year-old ex-war veteran Jack Armstrong is told he has only weeks to live, his first concern is for his beloved wife Lizzie, and their children: baby Jackie, twelve-year-old would-be actor Cory and rebellious teenage daughter Mikki. It seems so cruel that an apparently fatal illness should claim him, a survivor of Afghanistan and Iraq, when he still has so much left to live for. On Christmas Eve, as Jack prepares to say goodbye to his family, unthinkable tragedy strikes again and Lizzie is killed in a car accident. Just when Jack thought living was far harder than dying, and the children's future looked so bleak, something remarkable happens which gives Jack the valuable second chance he'd only dreamed of. Unexpectedly, the family inherits Lizzie's beautiful childhood home on the oceanfront in South Carolina. During one unforgettable summer Jack and the children struggle to rebuild their lives. They learn to live again — and to love again. And they learn the biggest lesson of all — the importance of family.
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Perfect People
Автор: James Peter Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20142016-03-22
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Be careful what you wish for...John and Naomi Klaesson are grieving the death of their four-year-old son from a rare genetic disorder. They desperately want another child, but when they find out they are both carriers of a rogue gene, they realize the odds of their next child contracting the same disease are high. Then they hear about geneticist, Doctor Leo Dettore. He has methods that can spare them the heartache of ever losing another child to any disease — even if his methods are more than they can afford. At his clinic is where their nightmare begins. They should have realized something was wrong when they saw the list. Choices of eye colour, hair, sporting abilities. They can literally design their child. Now it's too late to turn back. Naomi is pregnant, and already something is badly wrong...
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Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West
Автор: Service Robert Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2012 Страниц: 424 Дата загрузки: 12 апреля 20162014-07-24
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In the immediate aftermath of the Revolution, the Western powers were anxious to prevent the spread of Bolshevism across Europe. Lenin and Trotsky were equally anxious that the Communist vision they were busy introducing in Russia should do just that. But neither side knew anything about the other. The revolution and Russia's withdrawal from the First World War had ensured a diplomatic exodus from Moscow and the usual routes to vital information had been closed off. Into this void stepped an extraordinary collection of opportunists, journalists and spies sometimes indeed journalists who were spies and vice versa: in Moscow Britain's Arthur Ransome, the American John Reed and Sidney Reilly 'Ace of Spies' all traded information and brokered deals between Russia and the West; in Berlin, Paris and London, the likes of Maxim Litvinov, Adolf Ioffe and Kamenev tried to infiltrate the political elite and influence foreign policy to the Bolshevik's advantage. Robert Service, acclaimed historian and one of our finest commentators on matters Soviet, turns his meticulous eye to this ragtag group of people and, with narrative flair and impeccable research, reveals one of the great untold stories of the twentieth century.
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The Pillars of the Earth
Автор: Follett K. Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 1100 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 20122013-02-19
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A truly inspiring and humbling novel, Ken Follet successfully transports you back to a time where religion rules and perseverance and subordination are the key to survival. This book is a page turner, and at over 1000 pages long it still seems to fly by and is all over too soon. It follows the story of Tom Builder a master mason and the trials of his family as they follow his dream of building a great Cathedral in 12th Century Britain. Meeting many many characters along the way, not least the Prior Phillip who has his own story to tell and whose morality and dedication to the priory he serves is both admirable and frustrating in equal measures.
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