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Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness
Автор: Taraborrelli J. Randy Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2004 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20092006-10-20
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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.
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Mostly Harmless
Автор: Adams Douglas Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 230 Дата загрузки: 9 февраля 20092005-09-12
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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 . . .
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A Place Called Freedom
Автор: Follett Ken Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2003 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092004-12-07
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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».
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Scarlett
Автор: Ripley Alexandra Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 1996 Страниц: 838 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20091998-05-25
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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.
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Sharing a Shell
Автор: Donaldson Julia Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2005 Страниц: 28 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20082010-08-23
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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.
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Sons of Fortune
Автор: Archer Jeffrey Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2003 Страниц: 598 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20092006-09-10
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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...
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Stalin: A Biography
Автор: Service Robert Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2005 Страниц: 715 Дата загрузки: 27 августа 20092006-12-16
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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».
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Strange Affair
Автор: Robinson Peter Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 484 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20152014-03-12
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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.
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Whiteout
Автор: Follett Ken Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20132013-04-22
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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».
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In Company: Elementary: student's Book + CD (+ CD-ROM)
Автор: Clarke Simon Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 143 Дата загрузки: 17 апреля 20112008-12-30
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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.
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Calcium Made Interesting: Sketches, Letters, Essays and Gondola
Автор: Graham Chapman Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 260 Дата загрузки: 13 февраля 20082008-05-15
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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.
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Chances
Автор: Jackie Collins Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 679 Дата загрузки: 18 июня 20092008-06-23
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From the casinos of Las Vegas to the streets of New York, Chances was the name of the game... and everybody took them. A brand spanking new, rejacketed B format edition featuring a letter from Jackie Collins to her fans... Gino Santangelo – a boy from the New York slums carves himself a crime empire that takes him all the way to the top. His daughter, Lucky, proves herself to be as deadly as her father. Sensual and provocative, she is too much like him not to make a bid for his empire... Chances spins through six decades like a giant roulette wheel, where the high stakes are on big money, dangerous sex and irresistible power.
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Empire of Dragons
Автор: Valerio Massimo Manfredi Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20082008-07-11
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Southern Anatolia, 260 AD. The town of Edessa, a Roman outpost, is on its last legs, besieged by the Persian troops of Shapur I. Roman Emperor Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to draw up a peace treaty, but it is only a trap and the Emperor and his twelve guards are chained and dragged away to work as prisoners in a solitary Persian turquoise mine. After months of forced labour the Emperor dies, but his guards make a daring escape lead by the heroic and enigmatic chief, Marcus Metellus Aquila. They meet a mysterious, exiled Chinese Prince, Dan Qing, and agree to safeguard his journey home to reconquest his throne from his mortal enemy, a eunuch named Wei. Thus begins the adventures of the Romans and the Prince as they journey to China. There they will discover that they aren't the first of their kind to arrive in China: they were preceded centuries before by the survivors of the 'lost legion'.
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Ink — The Book of All Hours
Автор: Hal Duncan Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 624 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20122013-08-17
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It's twenty years since the Evenfall swept across the Vellum and the bitmites took reality apart, twenty years since Phreedom Messenger disappeared into the wilderness and Seamus Finnan was imprisoned in his own past. Twenty years of chaos but the Dukes, the remnants of the Covenant, still cling to power in their enclaves of order in the bitmite-devastated wilderness...in their Havens in the Hinter. Across the folds of time and space, though, rogues and rebels are rising up against the Empire. From a mediaeval fortress where wandering mummers stage a Harlequin play based on Euripides’s The Bacchae and performed in the Cant … to Kentigern where another Harlequin, Jack Flash, wreaks havoc on a fascist state that thought him dead. From a 1939 Paris where Jack Carter and Seamus Finnan, heroes of the International Brigades, seek to rewrite history — to a 1929 Berlin where a very different Jack seeks to save the world from a history he has helped make real. Locked in an eternal battle of chaos and order, it seems everyone must play their part now, as rebel or tyrant, hero or villain.
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Inquisition: The Reign of Fear
Автор: Toby Green Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 356 Дата загрузки: 14 марта 20112010-10-23
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Everybody has heard of the Inquisition. It was an institution that pursued heretics, philandering priests and sexual deviants in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America for a period of over 350 years, changing its focus with the times and enduring stubbornly into the nineteenth century. Today the word implies dread, fear and a withheld threat of torture. But who were its targets? Why did it provoke such fear? How and where did it operate? Why was it founded, and why did it last for so long? Toby Green’s incredible new book brings an extraordinary 350-year period vividly to life by focusing on the hitherto untold stories of individuals from all walks of life. Because the Inquisition touched every aspect of society, it changed the world: people attending church had to look suitably devout, or they might be denounced; a curse at a game of cards, thrown out in the heat of the moment, could bring an investigation; stripping fat from a leg of lamb was enough to excite accusations of being a Jew. A secret police and a thought police, the Inquisition produced a permanent state of fear. This history, though filled with stories of terror and the unspeakable ways in which human beings can treat one another, is also one of hope and ultimately of the resilience of the human spirit. Instead of being cowed by their fear, countless people rebelled in small and big ways, paving the way for a more inclusive society. The story of the Inquisition is not, then, one to be hidden and avoided; it deserves to be told in all its human richness and complexity.
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The Key To Rebecca
Автор: Ken Follett Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 1998 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20091999-12-07
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He is known to the Germans as ‘Sphinx’, to others as Alex Wolff, a European businessman. He arrives suddenly in Cairo from out of the desert, armed with a radio set, a lethal blade and a copy of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca – a ruthless man with a burning, relentless conviction that he will win at all costs. The stakes are high, for the survival of the British campaign in North Africa is in the balance. Only Major William Vandam, an intelligence officer, and the beautiful courtesan Elene can put an end to Wolff’s brilliant clandestine reports of British troop movements and strategic plans.. As Rommel’s troops come closer to victory, Vandam edges nearer to Wolff and the crucial key. Follett builds tension and suspense to a nerve-tearing pitch as he follows the adversaries across the infernal desert to a confrontation which will determine who wins – and loses – in this deathly struggle.
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The Litvinenko File
Автор: Martin Sixsmith Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20102013-08-17
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On 7 December 2006, in a Highgate Cemetery drenched with London rain, a Russian was buried within a stone’s throw of the grave of Karl Marx. He was Alexander Litvinenko, Sasha to his friends, a boy from the deep Russian provinces who rose through the ranks of the world’s most feared security service. Litvinenko was the man who denounced murder and corruption in the Russian government, fled from the wrath of the Kremlin, came to London and took the shilling of Moscow’s avowed enemy … Now he was a martyr, condemned by foes unknown to an agonised death in a hospital bed thousands of miles from home. Martin Sixsmith draws on his long experience as the BBC’s Moscow correspondent, and contact with key London-based Russians, to dissect Alexander Litvinenko’s murder. Myriad theories have been put forward since he died, but the story goes back to 2000 when hostilities were declared between the Kremlin and its political opponents. This is a war that has blown hot and cold for over seven years; a war that has pitted some of Russia’s strongest, richest men against the most powerful president Russia has had since Josef Stalin. The Litvinenko File is a gripping, powerful inside account of a shocking act of murder, when Russia’s war with itself spilled over onto the streets of London and made the world take notice.
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The Lizard's Bite
Автор: David Hewson Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20102011-03-19
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As their exile in Venice draws to a close, Roman detectives Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni are ordered to investigate an apparently open-and-shut case, a fire in a glass foundry that has claimed two lives, so all they want is to wrap it up quickly. However, as they dig more deeply into the insular glass-making community on Murano and the strange Arcangeli family, things don’t quite add up. With increasing pressure from above to finish quickly, events spiral quickly out of control – with devastating consequences...
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Madonna: An Intimate Biography
Автор: J. Randy Taraborrelli Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20092012-03-29
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The internationally bestselling biography, fully updated in time for Madonna's fiftieth birthday. Whereas other books about Madonna have been based on previously published material, this biography is the result of fifteen years of exclusive interviews with people who are speaking publicly for the first time, including close friends, business associates and even family members. Acclaimed biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli has also interviewed the star herself on numerous occasions and he draws on these first-hand experiences to bring Madonna to life as not merely a tabloid delight, but as a flesh-and-blood woman with human foibles and weaknesses, as well as great strengths and ambitions. Newly updated and published to celebrate Madonna's fiftieth birthday, this paperback edition covers the last six years in the star's life, including her self-imposed exile from America and adoption controversy, all told in J. Randy Taraborrelli's wonderful trademark style.
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Nerve
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20122010-09-17
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A man doesn't publicly shoot himself in the head in broad daylight with no warning. But Art Mathews did. Pip Pankhurst found his shin bone sticing out of his leg, and his rides over for the season. Grant Oldfield needed help. The kind a psychiatrist gives. It was as though there was a hoodoo on the whole jockey tribe. Then Robb Finn started riding losers. Too many to be a coincidence. Thirteen out of fifteen too many. Finn needs to know just what the hell is going on. However no one is talking. But Finn soon realises he is alone in a world where the only pointers are violence, dope, and the malignant force of twisted envy...
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