A novel by the author of "Ellen Foster". "Kaye Gibbons shows us the secret core of a love that easily outlasts death. It's invisible mastery - but mastery all the same". Reynolds Prince ... When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was 20 and he was 40. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked a woman to do more than help him hitch a mule. They didn't fall in love so much as they simply found each other ... |
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Award-winning readers series of original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Called away suddenly to a secret meeting in New Zealand, British spy Ian Munro senses that he is being followed. Who's following him? And why is the coded information he is given so secret that others are prepared to kill for it? Can Munro escape and crack the code? ... |
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This Reader aims to reveal the ideals and the principles, on which modern societies are based. These are, of course, political in the sense that they underpin the life of the polis - of that political society, in which people live, in which people live, communicate and interact as citizens. Dealing with modern societies, the story here is the story of the West. The West is based on equality and the respect of human rights and civic freedoms. Elsewhere, it is power, traditions or religions that from the basis of human rights and human organisation. The Reader traces the evolution of this right from the beginning - from ... |
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Award-winning readers series of original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Hundreds of dead fish, some unexplained deaths and a birdless town. Three newspaper reports from Finland attract interest from the British secret service. 'Foreign Executive' Ian Munro is sent to Lahti to investigate. But when his first contact is killed in front of him, Munro realises that someone knows why he is there... and that they will do anything to protect their secret. ... |
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Cia Special Agent Ethan Hunt and his highly skilled Impossible Mission Force specialize in perilous, last-chance assignments. An expert of intrigue and a master of disguise, Ethan has never failed to bring a case to a successful close. Until now. Their latest operation-to retrieve a top-secret list of undercover American agents in Europe-is moving along smoothly when something goes terribly wrong, and the secret government list vanishes. In a final, brutal twist, Ethan himself is accused of betraying his country. ... |
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Интерпол търси помощта на криптолога и професор по история Томаш Нороня за разследването на убийството на Хауърд Доусън – ръководител на американската антарктическа станция. Доусън става свидетел на най-голямото доказателство за глобално затопляне, виждано от човек, но преди да успее да напише доклада си е убит. Задачата на Томаш е да разшифрова посланието оставено от убийците – 666, библейското число на Звяра. Мисията на професора ще го отведе до далечни точки на света. Животът му ще бъде в опасност многократно. Залогът е глобалното затопляне, изчерпването на световните запаси от петрол и апокалиптичня срив, който би ... |
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В 22:03 ч. на 13 февруари 1945 г. британски бомбардировачи започват една от най-разрушителните въздушни атаки на Втората световна война: бомбардировката на Дрезден. Експлозиите превръщат в руини сърцето на града и го подготвят за ада на запалителните бомби. Пътищата стават капани от разтопен асфалт и валящи отломъци; бомбоубежищата - пещи; Дрезден е обхванат от огнен ураган, в който смъртта си намират над 25 000 души. Рано сутринта на следващия ден американските бомбардировачи довършват започнатото. "Дрезден 1945" на Синклер Маккей е спиращо дъха историческо изследване, което ни показва живота на града преди ... |
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Алберт Шпеер е главният архитект на Хитлер и министър на въоръжението на нацистка Германия в разгара на Втората световна война. Той пише своите мемоари от 1946 до 1966 г., докато изтърпява в затвора своята присъда за военни престъпления, издадена от Нюрнбергския трибунал. Публикувани са през 1969 г. на немски език, а година по-късно излизат и на английски. Мемоарите на Шпеер предлагат едно от най-подробните и проникновени описания на живота в близкото обкръжение на Хитлер, на възхода и падението на Третия райх, както и на самия фюрер. Третият райх отвътре e свидетелски поглед към най-висшите етажи на нацистката власт ... |
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A forbidden love. A heartbreaking sacrifice. In Morocco, behind the ancient walls of the Medina, secrets will be revealed... Amina Bennis has come back to her childhood home in Morocco to attend her sister's wedding. The time has come for her to confront her strict, traditionalist father with the secret she has kept for more than a year - her American husband Max. Amina's best friend Charlie, and Charlie's feisty grandmother Bea, have come along for moral support, staying with Amina and her family in their palatial riad in Fes, and enjoying all that the city has to offer. But Charlie is also hiding someone ... |
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The first novel of "The Last Hours". ... From internationally bestselling author Cassandra Clare comes the first novel in a brand new Shadowhunters trilogy. Evil is hiding in plain sight and the only thing more dangerous than fighting demons is falling in love. Cordelia Carstairs is a Shadowhunter, a warrior trained since childhood to battle demons. When her father is accused of a terrible crime, she and her brother travel to Edwardian London in hopes of preventing the family's ruin. Cordelia's mother wants to marry her off, but Cordelia is determined to be a hero rather than a bride. Soon Cordelia ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. The French Revolution is in full swing and the aristocracy are being sent to the guillotine in their hundreds. In the shadows, English dandy Sir Peter Blakeney - working under his alter ego, the Scarlet Pimpernel - is breaking the condemned out of prison and leaving his distinctive calling card, a picture of a red flower, to torment the French ... |
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The book featured 3D models of historical monuments. ... A legend has it that in Roman times there were strongholds here that guarded the way to the magnificent Nicopolis ad Istrum. When the barbarians invaded, they besieged and destroyed the great city. Then the Romans settled in the fortresses. Under the fortresses, there were large tunnel-connected dungeons. The Romans carried the treasures of Nicopolis to the galleries. They fortified and managed to hold the fortresses for some time. When they had to retreat, they made lethal mechanisms in the galleries and smeared them with poison. Then they masked the secret ... |
