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A powerful story of glamorous lives and ruthless ambition.In 1974 Stephen Reece-Carlton and Christina Carlton are honeymooning in Barbados. When they discover, and fall in love with, Crystal Springs House – an old colonial mansion – they decide there and then to buy it and convert it into a luxury hotel. From this beginning rises Platinum Hotels, one of the world’s largest hotel groups.Platinum Coast is the story of three members of the Carlton family: Stephen, whose ambition breeds ever greater ruthlessness as his empire expands; Christina, increasingly rejected by her husband but finding solace in the arms of a young Englishman, Martin Ward; and Victoria, Stephen’s daughter by an earlier marriage, consumed with hatred for Christina and possessing a devastating secret which can shatter Stephen’s relationship with his American business partner.

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Platinum Coast

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русская фантастика

The premise of Lynne Pemberton’s fifth novel is: Did Monroe and Kennedy have a child?Kate O’Sulliavan has only known the harsh regime of an Irish orphanage. Beautiful, wilful and uncowed by the cruelty of the nuns, she falls passionately in love with a handsome young priest. Father Declan Steele struggles to resist Kate’s overpowering sexuality and the tension between fairth and flesh reaches breaking point.She runs away to Dublin and comes under the protective wing of a cultured older man, Brenden Fitzgerald, who helps her build a dazzling international career as an artist. She trades her consuming passion for Declan for the security of marriage to fatherly Brneden but temptation is too much for the orphan and the priest.In the turmoil, tragedy and scandal that follow, Kate’s notoriety raises ghosts from her past. Suddenly she is swept along in a search for her true identity – a search that takes her back in time, to an illicit love ad the long-buried secret of a movie goddess and a White House legend.

изобразительное искусство

Marilyn’s Child

A sparkling saga from the author of Platinum Coast.Lucinda Frazer-West: daughter of Lord Nicholas and Lady Serena, a young actress with a glittering future beckoning.Luna Fergusson: daughter of West Indian businessman Royole, reluctantly accepted by his wife Caron, and developing a high-flying business career.Two successful young women, unaware of the bond that links them. They are twins, the product of a one-in-a-million biological chance, following a liaison between Serena and Royole: twin sisters, one white, one black.Now, twenty-seven years later, events are destined to bring them together, and to unmask the secret of their birth.

социология

Eclipse

общая психология

The blockbuster novel of suspense, intrigue and revenge, from the celebrated author of Sleeping With Ghosts.After twenty-five years of being incarcerated in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, Jay Kaminsky is out. Out to pick up the pieces of his life, and to answer the questions that have plagued, and sustained, him through his nightmare. Someone robbed him of his youth and his freedom, and someone killed his Harvard room-mate all those years ago. Jay has paid their debt to society, now he wants to know who, and why.Kelly Preston has it all – beauty, fame and wealth. With her college friends Weston and Beth, she’d forged a pact: to channel their ambitions, talents and energy into elevating each other to positions of power by the millennium. For twenty-five years they have carved reality from their dreams. Now, they stand on the threshold of success.But Jay Kaminsky is in the way, dancing with shadows of the past. He’s never forgotten his college sweetheart, Kelly, and he’s convinced that she and her friends can help him. After twenty-five years their paths are set to converge once again, in a head-on collision of passion, murder, betrayal and retribution.

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Dancing With Shadows

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Перестройка

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A blockbuster novel of suspense, intrigue and revenge, from the celebrated author of Platinum Coast and EclipseKathryn de Moubray comes from a respectable English family. So when she discovers that her grandfather was a high-ranking Nazi and wanted war criminal who disappeared in 1944, she is devastated – and compelled to trace the family history that her mother, now dead, kept hidden for so many years.Adam Krantz, a New York art dealer whose family was wiped out in the Holocaust, is on a mission to find their legacy: an exquisite collection of paintings which vanished at the same time as Kathryn’s grandfather. Adam is convinced that the two are connected.They meet in St Lucia, and again in London when a priceless painting turns up mysteriously, amidst a storm of controversy. Despite the bitterness and betrayal of the past, the attraction between them grows stronger. But will it unite them or drive them apart as they unravel the extraordinary events that took place in wartime Berlin more than fifty years ago?