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Sons of Fortune
Автор: Jeffrey Archer Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 2003 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20092005-07-23
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«Set in Greenwich, Connecticut, in the early 1950s, Archer's «New York Times» bestseller is the story of a set of twins separated at birth. The two brothers live separate lives, and how they find each other mirrors the chronicle of a nation in transition.»
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Sparkling Cyanide
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 2001 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20092003-05-22
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It's been less than a year since beautiful heiress Rosemary Barton took her own life during a birthday dinner in her honor. Her husband George never believed that his fun-loving wife would commit suicide--especially now that he's received two anonymous letters that suggest cold-blooded murder. One implicates even George himself. It's true he long suffered Rosemary's infidelities. But what about her embittered sister who was left out of the family will? Or any of Rosemary's secret lovers, not to mention their betrayed wives? Now one of them has ever forgotten Rosemary. Nor has any one of them ever forgiven her. But only one of them killed her...
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The Traitor
Автор: Stephen Coonts Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 2007 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20092012-08-23
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When he is assigned to Paris, CIA officer Tommy Carmellini joins his old boss Jake Grafton on a bold mission: To locate a French intelligence agent who has secret investments in the Bank of Palestine. Together they work to unravel a tangle of espionage, deception, and murder…and develop an elaborate strategy to infiltrate the highest levels of Al Queda. Meanwhile, the leaders of the G-8 industrialized nations will soon meet in Paris — an event that would make a tempting terrorist target. Throw into the mix the beautiful, clever daughter of the French ambassador to Washington and an Israeli spy or two, and the stage is set for a tour de force of deception and drama. Soon Carmellini and Grafton unearth a horrifying plan to shake the West as never before. But can they stop the conspiracy without compromising the intelligence source that could bring down Al Queda once and for all?
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The Unexpected Guest
Автор: Agatha Christie Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 2000 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092002-05-12
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«Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time with her works outsold only by Shakespeare and the Bible. She is regarded by generations of fans as the greatest mystery writer ever, and her novels are read and cherished the world over. Clarissa, the young wife of a Foreign Office Diplomat, delights in tweaking the sensibilities of her more serious friends and for playing a game she calls «supposing» — imagining a difficult situation and figuring out how people would respond. But Clarissa's lighthearted game becomes deadly serious when she discovers the dead body of an unknown person in her own drawing room. If that wasn't bad enough, her husband is on the way home with an important foreign politician and the attendant scandal of the dead body would irrevocably damage his career at the very least. Therefore, Clarissa decides to dispose of the body and persuades her three houseguests to help. But before she can get the body off the premises, a policeman arrives at her front door. The police received an anonymous tip about a murder in the house and have shown up to investigate. Now Clarissa must keep the body hidden, convince the skeptical police inspector that there has been no murder, and, in the meantime, find out who has been murdered, why, and what the body is doing in her house.»
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Watermark
Автор: Joseph Brodsky Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 2002 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20092007-08-11
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«In this brief, intense, gem-like book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, Brodsky turns his eye to the seductive and enigmatic city of Venice. A mosaic of 48 short chapters — each recalling a specific episode from one of his many visits there (Brodsky spent his winters in Venice for nearly 20 years) — «Watermark» associatively and brilliantly evokes one city's architectural and atmospheric character. In doing so, the book also reveals a subject — and an author — readers have never before seen.»
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The Ambler Warning
Автор: Ludlum Robert Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 2006 Страниц: 632 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 20092008-05-28
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On Parrish Island, off the coast of Virginia, lies a psychiatric facility. Far from prying eyes, it is a government-run hospital for former intelligence employees in possession of highly classified information. Former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler is one of these patients whose mind is filled with secrets of state—and is considered such a security risk that he is kept heavily medicated and closely watched. But there’s one critical difference between Ambler and the other patients—Ambler isn’t crazy. Now he must find a way to escape the facility, find out who put him there, and uncover the truth of who he was…and why someone is willing to risk everything to see him dead.
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The day of the storm
Автор: Pilcher Rosamunde Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 1997 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20092002-08-31
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On the last day of her mother's life, Rebecca learns she has a family in Cornwall, and sets out to find the grandfather and cousin she has never known. But only the enigmatic Joss Gardner, the outsider who seems to be the apple of her grandfather's eye, can help her understand the dark currents that lie behind her family's loving reception.
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Don`t Look Down
Автор: Jennifer Crusie Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 2007 Страниц: 373 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20102008-06-15
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«SHE is a director of dog food commercials who's just been recruited to finish a four-day movie shoot. But as soon as Lucy Armstrong arrives on set, she discovers that the staff is in chaos, the make-up artist is suicidal, and the stunt director just happens to be her ex-husband. That, and the temperamental lead actor has just acquired as an advisor a Green Beret who has the aggravating habit of always being right. HE thought that hiring on as a military consultant for a movie star was a to-die-for deal: easy work, easy money, easier starlets. But his first day on the job, Captain J.T. Wilder ends up babysitting a bumbling comedian, dodging low-flying helicopters, and trying to find out who's taking «shooting a movie» much too literally.»
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Drop Dead Beautiful
Автор: Jackie Collins Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 2008 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20132011-02-19
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Lucky Santangelo's 16-year-old daughter Max goes looking for trouble when she hooks up with a guy she met on the Internet. Soon the beautiful, willful Max finds herself in deeper water than she could imagine.
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Faking It
Автор: Crusie Jennifer Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 2003 Страниц: 412 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20092008-08-13
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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.
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False Impression
Автор: Archer Jeffrey Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 2006 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20082007-06-25
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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.
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First Among Equals
Автор: Archer Jeffrey Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 2004 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20092006-07-28
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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.
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Hardscrabble Road
Автор: Haddam Jane Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 2007 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20122008-06-05
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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.
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The King of Lies
Автор: Hart John Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 2007 Страниц: 385 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20122011-03-24
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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.
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Middlesex
Автор: Eugenides Jeffrey Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 2008 Страниц: 628 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20132010-10-23
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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.
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Power Play
Автор: Finder Joseph Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 2008 Страниц: 404 Дата загрузки: 20 октрября 20112011-09-27
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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.»
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Saturnalia
Автор: Davis Lindsey Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 2008 Страниц: 383 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20102009-12-30
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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.»
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The Shell Seekers
Автор: Pilcher Rosamunde Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 1997 Страниц: 582 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20091999-07-18
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«At the end of a long and useful life, Penelope Keeling's prize possession is «The Shell Seekers», painted by her father, and symbolizing her unconventional life, from bohemian childhood to wartime romance. When her grown children learn their grandfather's work is now worth a fortune, each has an idea as to what Penelope should do. But as she recalls the passions, tragedies and secrets of her life, she knows there is only one answer — and it lies in her heart.»
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Silver Pigs
Автор: Davis Lindsey Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 2006 Страниц: 329 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20082007-12-16
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«When Marcus Didius Falco, a Roman «informer» who has a nose for trouble that's sharper than most, encounters Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses immediately all is not right with the pretty girl. She confesses to him that she is fleeing for her life, and Falco makes the rash decision to rescue her — a decision he will come to regret. For Sosia bears a heavy burden: as heavy as a pile of stolen Imperial ingots, in fact. Matters just get more complicated when Falco meets Helena Justina, a Senator's daughter who is connected to the very same traitors he has sworn to expose. Soon Falco finds himself swept from the perilous back alleys of Ancient Rome to the silver mines of distant Britain — and up against a cabal of traitors with blood on their hands and no compunction whatsoever to do away with a snooping plebe like Falco....»
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Spider's Web
Автор: Christie Agatha Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Год: 2001 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20092003-05-12
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When Clarissa stumbles upon a corpse in her drawing room, she decides that she must dispose of it before her husband arrives with an important foreign dignitary and persuades her three house guests to assist her in the endeavor, but her efforts are threatened by the arrival of a police officer who has come in response to an anonymous tip about a murder.
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