Hollywood, 1945. Shipping heir Ward Thayer and screen star Faye Price are reunited after a chance meeting two years earlier. Unable to forget the connection they shared and helpless to resist it, romance quickly sparks. But for Faye, daring and passionate, the life she`s heading for with Ward is a threat to her ambition. How can she decide between Hollywood and motherhood? Is it right to choose fame over family? Faye is on the brink of an impossible choice that will shape her life - and the lives of those she loves - in ways she could scarcely have imagined.
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2012
When Mrs Hawkins tells Hector Bartlett he is a `pisseur de copie`, that he `urinates frightful prose`, little does she realise the repercussions. Holding that `no life can be carried on satisfactorily unless people are honest` Mrs Hawkins refuses to retract her judgement, and as a consequence, loses not one, but two much-sought-after jobs in publishing. Now, years older, successful, and happily a far cry from Kensington, she looks back over the dark days that followed, in which she was embroiled in a mystery involving anonymous letters, quack remedies, blackmail and suicide.
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2011
You should have been a detective. If there's one thing the last year has proved, it's how good you are at finding things out. Not simple things. Hard things. Things that nobody is supposed to be able to find out. Things that are buried so deep nobody even thinks twice about them. The sort of things that turn people's lives inside out once they're ; Meet Tony Hill's most twisted adversary - a killer with a shopping list of victims, a killer unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer driven by the most perverted of desires. The murder and mutilation of teenager Jennifer Maidment is horrific enough on its own. But it's not long before Tony realises it's just the start of a brutal and ruthless campaign...
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: август 2011
Living on the crest of a highly successful career, he was moving too fast to realise that he had everything - except what he wanted Sent to San Francisco to open the smartest department store in California, Bernie Fine becomes aware of the hollowness of his personal life. Despite his success he grows increasingly disenchanted with his existence - until five-year-old Jane O`Reilly gets lost in the store. Through Jane, Bernie meets her mother Liz, who finally offers him the possibility of love. But the rare happiness they find together is disrupted by tragedy and Bernie must face the terrible price we sometimes have to pay for
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: август 2011
`This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and If that`s the sort of thing you think you might enjoy, then you have happened upon the perfect story!` So speaks Christopher Moore, one of America`s funniest and bestselling authors, regarded as highly as classic satirists such as Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams. Read Fool and discover for yourself why this book has dominated bestseller lists across the world, and why it has reduced millions of grown men and women to tears of helpless
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St Columb to be ripe for any folly, any outrage that will alter the tedium of her days. But there is another, secret Dona who longs for a life of honest love - and sweetness, even if it is spiced with danger. It is this Dona who flees the stews of London for remote Navron, looking for peace of mind in its solitary woods and hidden creeks. She finds there the passion her spirit craves - in the love of a daring pirate hunted by all Cornwall, a Frenchman who, like Dona, would gamble his life for a moment`s joy.
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Scarlett O`Brien is in with the movies. Utterly hooked on Hugh Grant, crazy about Richard Curtis, dying with lust for Johnny Depp, Scarlett spends her days with her head in the clouds and her nights with her hand in a huge tub of popcorn. Which is not exactly what her sensible, DIY-obsessed fiance David has in mind for their future. So when Scarlett has the chance to house-sit an impossibly grand mansion in Notting Hill? The setting of one of her all-time favourite movies? She jumps at the chance to live out her film fantasies one last time. It`s just a shame that her new neighbour Sean is so irritating? And so irritatingly handsome, too. As a chaotic comedy of her very own erupts around Scarlett, she begins to realise there`s more to...
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Scarlett O`Brien, utterly addicted to romantic films, has found her leading man. She`s convinced Sean is Mr Right, but the day-to-day reality of a relationship isn`t quite like the movies. With Sean constantly away on business, Scarlett and her new best friend Oscar decide to head to New York for the holiday of a lifetime. From one famous landmark to the next, Scarlett and Oscar make many new friends during their adventure - including sailors in town for Fleet Week, a famous film star, and Jamie & Max, a TV reporter and cameraman. Scarlett finds herself strangely drawn to Jamie, they appear to have much in common: a love of films and Jamie`s search for a parent he never knew. But Scarlett has to ask herself why she is reacting like this...
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: январь 2013
The pledged themselves for For Gillian and Chris their happiness seemed complete. Handsome, dynamic, with a wild past behind him and a golden future ahead, Chris was everything Gillian wanted - and more. Until a moment’s infidelity broke the bond they shared and sent Gillian running to the city of her birth. And into the arms of another man. She thought she’d said goodbye to love. But her heart told her that she should never despair, for forever is never over.
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2012
As one of the world`s richest women, beautiful Kezia Saint Martin is the darling of the jet-set, her life a careless round of glamorous games. But those games have rules of their own, and Kezia is harbouring secret longings. She wants all that her lavish world provides - and more. Then Kezia meets Lucas Johns: bold, dynamic - a man with a lust for life and a gift for danger. Ex-convict, crusader, he is a hero to many and a threat to many more. To Kezia he becomes the only thing that matters, and the love they share is richer and more powerful than any she has ever known. "Golden Moments" is poignant, moving and ultimately hugely enjoyable - Danielle Steel is a master storyteller. Формат: 11 см х 17,5 см.
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2012
1072 AD. The Normans have captured England. The Turks have captured a Norman knight. And in order to free him, a Frank warrior named Vallon must capture four rare hawks. In the company of a Sicilian scholar and an English falconer, Vallon sets off a heart-stopping odyssey to the far ends of the earth - from Greenland to Russia to Constantinople, across raging Arctic seas and blood-drenched battlefields. Braving Viking warlords, vengeful Normans, and the unforgiving elements, Vallon and his comrades must track down their quarry one by one in a relentless race against time. Ten years in the making, Hawk Quest is high adventure in the grand tradition of Bernard Cornwell and Robyn Young, an epic story packed with visceral combat, marvellous...
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Produced over six visits to India, from 1947 through the early 80s, these dramatic images are shaped by an eye and mind legendary for their intelligent empathy and graphic honesty. Cartier-Bresson`s pictures of refugee camps after the partition speak with the same passion as those of the Maharaja of Barodea`s birthday celebration. This seminal artist`s extraordinary gift of observation and his connections to the leaders of post-colonial India inform all these photographs, revealing the essence of a country that has long captured the world`s imagination. Author Biography: Born in 1908, Henri-Cartier Bresson studied painting in the late 1920s and committed himself to photography in the early 1930s. In 1947 he founded the photography agency...
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Mia thinks of herself as a grown up. Her twenty-two-year-old sister, Clare, is once again in the death throes of an affair that was always doomed to failure. Mia now understands that relationships need work; that in an adult partnership, passion and spontaneity give way to something different but more lasting. With Pete she knows that her search for `The One` can stop. Until, tripping over Pete`s phone on the way to the loo one night, she reads a text message that sends her blood cold. Everything in it - its tone, the kisses at the end, Pete`s evasions about the sender `Liz` - is wrong, and suddenly the blinkers are off. It`s time to get back in the game, and with everything to play for, Mia is about to discover a capacity for deceit she...
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Hotel LaChapelle takes the reader another step deeper the shocking world of David LaChapelle. Each full-color page is, metaphorically, a room in a crazy hotel. Hotel LaChapelle is full of neon, sex, and strange people - and the result is a beachy postcard from that nuns-with-guns place in the sun that could only exist in the vision of David LaChapelle. Hotel LaChapelle will be luxuriously printed and handsomely, colorfully boxed. Boasting more than 158 full-color images, it is a passport to this groundbreaking photographer`s unique imagination. His subjects include the hottest celebrities of today: Leonardo DiCaprio, Madonna, Tori Amos, Uma Thurman, Marilyn Manson, Daniel Day Lewis, Mike Myers, Pamela Anderson, and many others....
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: март 2012
Zoey needs a break after some serious excitement. Sadly, the House of Night school for vampyres doesn`t feature breaks on its curriculum - even for a High Priestess in training and her gang. Plus juggling three guys is no stress reliever, especially when one is a sexy Warrior so into protecting Zoey that he`s sensing her emotions. Wider stresses lurk too, and the dark force in Tulsa`s tunnels is spreading. Could Stevie Rae be responsible for more than a group of misfit fledglings? And Aphrodite`s visions warn Zoey to stay away from the immortal Kalona and his dark allure - but they also show that only Zoey can stop him. She`s not exactly keen to meet up, but if Zoey don`t go to Kalona he`ll exact a fiery vengeance on those closest to...
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: август 2011
It seems that life is going pretty well for Zoey Redbird. She`s settled in at the House of Night finishing school and is coming to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her. She even has a or two. Best of all, Zoey finally feels she has found somewhere she belongs. Then the unthinkable happens. Human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the vampires at Zoey`s school. While danger stalks the humans from Zoey`s past life, she begins to realise that the very powers that made her so unique might also threaten those she loves. Then, when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes the House of Night. Zoey finds herself facing a betrayal that could break her heart and jeopardise the very...
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: август 2011
A week ago Zoey had a group of special friends, three boyfriends and a (kinda) clear conscience. Now she has none of the above. Luckily ice-queen Aphrodite is showing signs of melting and ex-roomie Stevie Rae isn`t as dead as she`d thought. Though Stevie`s now hanging out in tunnels with freaks - gross. If she can get them to listen, Zoey will need all her friends as events take a frightening turn at the House of Night school for vampyres. Shocking true intentions are about to come to light, loyalties will be tested and an ancient evil is about to rise again. Some days being special just doesn`t seem all
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: август 2011
"I guess it had gone okay with Stevie Rae. I mean, she had agreed to meet me tomorrow. And she hadn`t tried to bite me, which was a plus. Of course, the whole trying-to-eat-the-street-person thing was highly "Zoey`s best friend, Stevie Rae, is undead - in an eww! zombie! kind-of-way, not in a cool vampire kind-of-way. She`s struggling to retain her humanity and Zoey doesn`t have a clue how to help. But she does know that anything they discover must be kept secret. Trust has become a rare commodity. Sinister forces are at work at the House of Night, where the line between friend and enemy is becoming dangerously blurred. - Not suitable for younger readers?
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: август 2011
`The door closed with a sickening thud of finality, shutting my friends out and leaving me alone with my enemy, a fallen angel, and the monstrous bird creature his ancient lust had created. Then I did something I`d only done twice before in my entire life. I fainted.` It`s all happening, though Zoey Redbird wishes it wasn`t. She has her friends back, which is great. But a dark angel has taken over the House of Night, supported by High Priestess Neferet. Not so great. This leaves Zoey hiding out with the (supposedly friendly) red fledglings in Tulsa`s prohibition-era tunnels. The not greatness continues. Zoey has some boy-thoughts to distract her, with a chance to make-up with super-hot-ex Eric. But thoughts of the archer that died,...
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: август 2011
Call yourself a man? You do? Do you even know what a real man is? Are you a six-foot-one Adonis who wears all the latest fashions, moisturises regularly, visits spas for pleasure and never does anything wrong? Or do you drink twenty pints every Friday night, guzzle a kebab on the way home and then fart yourself to sleep? It`s time to stop being the man everyone expects you to be and be the one you want to be. Learn how to: - Pick locks, safes and chastity belts - Disappear without a trace in 24 hours - Win a gun fight - Survive the wild - Ride a wall of death - Work a 4-hour week - Survive any crisis - Make things go boom - Drive cars sideways - Be a great dad ...and, of course, drive a tank. Fast-paced and funny, this is the ultimate...
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
The Brodricks of Clonmere gain great wealth by harnessing the power of Hungry Hill and extracting the treasure it holds. The Donovans, the original owners of Clonmere Castle, resent the Brodricks` success, and consider the great house and its surrounding land theirs by right. For generations the feud between the families has simmered, always threatening to break into violence…
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Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2012
What if the hottest guy in the world was hiding a nameless evil and all he wanted was you? At the start of this heart-pounding new installment of the bestselling House of Night series, Zoey`s friends have her back again and Stevie Rae and the red fledglings aren`t Neferet`s secrets any longer. But an unexpected danger has emerged. Neferet guards her powerful new consort, Kalona, and no one at the House of Night seems to understand the threat he poses. Kalona looks gorgeous, and he has the House of Night under his spell. A past life holds the key to breaking his rapidly spreading influence, but what if this past life shows Zoey secrets she doesn`t want to hear and truths she can`t face? On the run and holed up in Tulsa`s Prohibition - era...
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2011