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A young man wakes up bruised and beaten, with no memory of who he is or where he came from • The press immediately dub him 'The Lost Man' • Naming himself Richard Kite, he spends the next ten months desperately trying to find out who he is. But despite media appeals and the efforts of the police, no one knows him • Richard's last hope may be private investigator David Raker - a seasoned locator of missing people. But Raker has more questions than answers • Who is Richard Kite? • Why does no one know him? • And what links him to the body of a woman found beside a London railway line two years ago? • Could Richard be responsible for her death - or is he next?

One year ago, Alex Towne's body was found • One month ago, his mother saw him on the street • One week ago, David Raker agreed to look for him • Now he wishes he hadn't • Mary Towne's son, Alex, went missing six years ago. Five years later he finally turned up - as a corpse in a car wreck. Missing persons investigator David Raker doesn't want the work: it's clearly a sad but hopeless case of mistaken identity brought to him by a woman unable to let go of her son. But haunted by a loss of his own, Raker reluctantly agrees • Big mistake • For as he digs deeper, he discovers that Alex's life was not the innocent one his mother believed. Buried in his past are secrets that were never meant to be found - and dark, dangerous men willing to kill to protect them

Straight-A student Megan Carver was an unlikely runaway. But six months on, she's never been found • Missing persons investigator David Raker knows what it's like to grieve. He knows the shadowy world of the lost, too. So when he's hired by Megan's parents to find out what happened to her, he recognises their pain - but knows that the darkest secrets can be buried deep • The more Raker digs, the more he realises everything is a lie. People close to Megan are dead. Others are too terrified to talk. And at the centre of it all is a place like no other • They call it The Dead Tracks • And there, Megan's secrets could cost Raker his life

Nine neighbours gather for a dinner party • But by the next morning, they had disappeared without a trace • No bodies. No evidence. No clues • Two and a half years later, it remains a mystery. Desperate for answers, the families of the missing turn to investigator David Raker • How did an entire village vanish overnight? • And is he looking for nine missing people, or nine dead bodies?

I buried you • I mourned you • But now you're back • A woman walks into a police station • She has no phone and no ID, just a piece of paper that reads 'David Raker' • She says she's his wife • She looks just like her • She knows everything about him • But David buried his wife eight years ago • Is this really the woman he loved? Did he really say goodbye? • Or is he losing his mind? • Raker needs to find out the truth before it's too late, because he is now the prime suspect in her disappearance

A secret that will change lives forever • When Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie's house, she finds the front door unlocked and no one inside • Dinner's cooking, the TV's on. Carrie, her husband and their two daughters are gone • When the police draw a blank, Emily asks missing persons investigator David Raker to find them. It's clear someone doesn't want the family found • But as he gets closer to the truth, Raker begins to uncover evidence of a sinister cover-up, spanning decades and costing countless lives • And worse, in trying to find Emily's missing family, he might just have made himself the next target

When Sydney's husband dies, she is dealt another devastating blow. He never changed his will and she is forced to leave the beautiful home they shared. On a flight from Paris to New York, an emergency landing forces her into the arms of Paul Zeller. The pair bond over a shared love of fashion, and before long they go into business together. But Sydney's daughters are less than impressed by their mother's mysterious new acquaintance . . .Offered a job at Paul's high-street clothing chain, Sydney thinks her luck has turned. But when a scandal hits the company, it's Sydney in the firing line.Humiliated, publicly shamed, destitute - Sydney hits rock bottom. There are only two choices: giving up or starting over. With the unwavering support of her daughters and the assistance of an unlikely business partner, Sydney discovers that her greatest adventure might still be to come

You find strength when you're at your weakest... When Sydney's husband dies, she is dealt another devastating blow. He never changed his will and she is forced to leave the beautiful home they shared. On a flight from Paris to New York, an emergency landing forces her into the arms of Paul Zeller. The pair bond over a shared love of fashion, and before long they go into business together. But Sydney's daughters are less than impressed by their mother's mysterious new acquaintance... Offered a job at Paul's high-street clothing chain, Sydney thinks her luck has turned. But when a scandal hits the company, it's Sydney in the firing line. Humiliated, publicly shamed, destitute - Sydney hits rock bottom. There are only two choices: giving up or starting over

в вдохновляющем романе «Падении от благодати» любимой в мире сказочницы Даниэль Стил женщина одна женщина находит в себе силы начать все сначала, когда ее жизнь переворачивается с ног на голову • Очаровательная жизнь Сидни Уэллс исчезает, когда внезапно умирает ее преданный муж. Овдовевшая в сорок девять лет, она обнаруживает, что он не включил ее в свое завещание. Поскольку ее порочные падчерицы контролируют его поместье, и у нее нет денег, Сидни выселяют из ее прекрасного дома, где она прожила шестнадцать лет. Несмотря на предупреждения собственных дочерей, Сидни возвращается в мир моды, где много лет назад онга была талантливым молодым дизайнером. Но ее выбор таит в себя скрытые опасности • Она подвергается эксплуатации со стороны своего босса и сталкивается с уголовным преследованием, будучи слишком наивной и не имея надежных партнеров в этой высококонкурентной индустрии, где все средства хороши

Penguin Readers – серия разделённых на уровни книг для преподавателей английского языка. Она предназначена для работы с подростками и молодыми людьми, изучающими английский как иностранный или второй язык. Вниманию читателей предлагаются тщательно отобранные адаптированные тексты, новые иллюстрации, упражнения и дополнительные ресурсы • Их ждут известные классические и современные произведения художественной литературы и интересные познавательные книги • В данную книгу вошёл адаптированный текст романа Томаса Гарди «Вдали от обезумевшей толпы». Это история юной хозяйки фермы Батшебы Эвердин. Она молода, красива и независима. А ещё у неё есть три поклонника: бедный пастух, богатый фермер и солдат. Кого она выберет? И будет ли этот выбор правильным? • По роману был снят фильм «Вдали от безумной толпы» и несколько одноимённых кинокартин

Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era, writing sharp and succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and statesman of the classical period. Taken from the Lives, a series of biographies spanning the Graeco-Roman age, this collection illuminates the twilight of the old Roman Republic from 157-43 bc. Whether describing the would-be dictators Marius and Sulla, the battle between Crassus and Spartacus, the death of political idealist Crato, Julius Caesar's harrowing triumph in Gaul or the eloquent oratory of Cicero, all offer a fascinating insight into an empire wracked by political divisions. Deeply influential on Shakespeare and many other later writers, they continue to fascinate today with their exploration of corruption, decadence and the struggle for ultimate power

This is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake in halting the German advance on Dunkirk in 1940. Drawing on technical mastery and interviews with both Allied and German participants, Blitzkrieg sets out the technical thinking behind the attack and the weapons that made it possible. It is a compelling, detailed account of Europe's darkest hour