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The shadows hide a deadly story . . .
1979. It is the winter of discontent, and reporter Allie Burns is chasing her first big scoop. There are few women in the newsroom and she needs something explosive for the boys' club to take her seriously.
Soon Allie and fellow journalist Danny Sullivan are exposing the criminal underbelly of respectable Scotland. They risk making powerful enemies - and Allie won't stop there.
When she discovers a home-grown terrorist threat, Allie comes up with a plan to infiltrate the group and make her name. But she's a woman in a man's world . . . and putting a foot wrong could be fatal.
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In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The Accomplice describes one of the most shocking events of the seventeenth century: the wreck of a Dutch ship, the Batavia, off the west coast of Australia, and the extraordinary events that befell its stranded survivors. It is also the story of Judith Bastiaansz, sailing with her family to a new life, who is caught up in something well beyond her experience: first infatuation, and then, perhaps, something far more dangerous. Combining a gripping narrative with vivid historical detail, The Accomplice is a beautiful, terrifying, deeply moving novel of love and anarchy.

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In the book, Acorna has finally been reunited with her people - the Linyaari -and has travelled to the new homeworld of her people Narhii - Vhiliinyar to learn about her lost culture. However, she is distinctly different from her people due to her unusual upbringing, and most are not accepting of her. The only people who really befriend her are her aunt, Neeva and her shipmates, and the oldest Linyaari Grandam Naadiina, as well as the young girl named Maati. All of her friends on the ship Balakiire are called away on Acorna's first day on her planet, to investigate the loss of communication with certain off-world Linyaari colonies. This loss of communication soon spreads, and more ships are launched, but all join the missing and soon the fate of her spacefaring friends is placed in Acorna's hands.

Large print - in good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights of books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Marie-Charlotte Jubert, a widow in the remote French seaside village of Louisbourg, is horrified to see the schooner Donna Rae put into port. The schooner, in which Marie is a secret investor, has been seized for smuggling, putting Marie's business ventures and her ability to support her two children at risk.On board the ship is Matthew Carter, an English Protestant, who is taken to the Fortress Louisbourg as a prisoner. Marie gets close to Matthew, hoping to discover whether or not he knows her secret and will turn her in. In the process, the two are drawn to one another and Marie is torn when her feelings for this stranger conflict with her desire to keep her children out of jeopardy.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.'We meet the first Wednesday of each month,' Mandy said. 'Our next book is by James Salter. It will help ease you in, so to speak.' She touched her finger to Holly's silver band. 'A kind of release. A valve, if you like, to let the steam out before you explode.'Holly wears a ring that says True love waits, so she is slightly shocked when her new book club turns out to be devoted to the erotic classics. Soon, however, she is fascinated: by the strange new world of Eros, by the power she senses in her own body - and by a weird blue glow emanating from the deepest, darkest part of herself.But Salter, Nin and Nabokov are one thing. When Holly encounters The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman - quickly followed by the infamous orgone generator of Wilhelm Reich - things are primed to detonate.

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Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual : he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture.
The odd superstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children and slaves in the West at the period of this story; that is to say, thirty or forty years ago.
Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try pleasantly to remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in. THE… Read More

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Mac and Anna appear to have the perfect marriage, but their relationship is cracking under the strain of infertility. Anna cannot surrender her dream of having a child, and Mac doesn't know how much longer he can cope with her pain and disappointment.Georgie and her sister-in-law Louise have made The Reading Rooms bookshop a success, but Georgie has not been so lucky in her love life. Then one day Liam walks into The Reading Rooms and Georgie finds herself at a turning point.As do Mac and Anna, when finally the hurt and frustration sets Mac on a path that will have unforeseen consequences for them all.

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Always the BridesmaidAmy's life is not working out like she imagined. She's about to turn the dreaded 3-0, her career is going nowhere fast and her love life is not exactly flourishing. But things seem to be coming together for everyone else in her life...Visiting her friend, Jodie, Amy finds that she and Jack, the man she once thought she might marry, have spent the night together. Her younger sister Suzi has just arrived home, fiancê in tow. And now Amy discovers that her best friend Beth is also tying the knot, and Amy is asked to be bridesmaid. With a sinking heart, she remembers that old saying: always the bridesmaid, never the bride...Surely it can't be true?It Had to Be YouIn the Irish village of Burnaby, life is about to change for three very different women.Molly is the long-suffering manager of the Happily Ever After bookshop. She can't stand Milo Jones, the super-smooth… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Amazir: The Berber word for 'a man of independent spirit'.An idealistic young Englishman, Harry Summerfield, befriends an American oil explorer in Gibraltar in the 1930's. Their meeting sparks a journey for both men which will take them across Morocco and northern Africa, to encounter the harsh realities of Berber opposition to French colonial rule and the passion of a love for the same young French woman. From the mysterious alleyways of Marrakech to the beautiful solitude of the Atlas Mountains, Amazir paints an unforgettable portrait of a country, a time of war, and a clash of passion.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In a world that has already felt the soul-shattering blow of the Great War, North America in 1934 is the powder keg that could ignite another global conflict - complete with a new generation of killing machines.Jake Featherston, leader of the Freedom Party, now rules the Confederate States of America and is taking his country and the world to the edge of an abyss.Charismatic, shrewd and addicted to conflict, Featherston is whipping the Confederate States into a frenzy of hatred. Blacks are being rounded up and sent to prison camps and the persecution has just begun.The North stumbles through a succession of leaders, still locked in a bitter, bloody occupation of Canada, facing an intractable rebellion in Utah and fatigued from a war in the Pacific against Japan. Is the USA strong enough now to endure if Featherston seizes his chance and declares war?

Large Print - in good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When his cousin's secretary was called to Canada by her sister's illness, it seemed a heaven-sent opportunity to Ryan Addams to introduce the girl he loved to Dover Court. Sharon did not object: she was interested in the blind composer and writer, Rennie Addams, and wanted to know more of the publicity-shy, mysterious man. Perhaps it was inevitable that she found a safe harbour after all her wanderings abroad, but the swiftly strengthening love which invaded her heart invoked no response in the bitter, cynical Rennie - even when it turned out that her presence at Dover Court was a blessing in disguise...

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, two men dressed as police officers entered Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, tied up the guards, and escaped with 500 million dollars' worth of paintings. The heist provoked a massive search for both the thieves and the lost masterpieces. But the paintings never surfaced and the mystery remained unsolved. Now, almost twenty years later, the case threatens to break wide open.When attorney Scott Finn agrees to help an old friend from Southie, Devon Malley, he has no idea of the trouble he is bringing upon himself. Members of Boston's criminal underworld start turning up dead, and the M.O. of the attacks suggests the involvement of someone trained by the IRA. But when Finn learns of Malley's role in the heist, he's quickly drawn into the crossfire, and into the renewed hunt for the missing artwork...A hunt that may cost Finn… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.I am everything no longer forgotten. I banish forgetting. My seed has grown and become prophecy. Truth walks the world above. Magic is risen to the world once more.In Cornwall, they have seen it rise in an angel of death and endless, unseasonal snow. Across the ocean, on a remote Canadian island, the blood and offerings and smoke of England seem nothing more than distant rumours of hysteria.Until the girl disappears. And the whale comes. And The Plague spreads.And nothing is as it was before.

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In this exhilarating new novel, Colleen McCullough takes us back to 1960 and Sydney's Kings Cross - and the story of a young woman determined to defy convention.
Twenty-one-year-old Harriet, a newly qualified X-ray technician earning a coveted male wage, ignores her father's warning that "only fools, Bohemians and tarts live at Kings Cross@ and moves into Mrs Delvecchio Schwartz's rooming house. There she discovers that Mrs Delvecchio Schwartz has more sources of income than rents. She casts horoscopes, reads tarot cards, and gazes into her crystal ball - far more profitable!
But it is mute four-year-old Flo - her mother's medium and beloved angel puss - who captures Harriet's heart. As she learns about men, love, and tarot cards, Harriet finds that following your heart is not always easy. And protecting those you care for most can be hardest of all.
Angel Puss vividly evokes the dynamism… Read More

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In the fall of '73, Brooklyn, New York, is home to worn-down hotels, wise guys, immigrants, the disturbed, the disenfranchised, and a few people just trying to make an honest buck. When Silvano Iurata's troubled brother, Noonie, rumoured to be living in Brooklyn Heights, goes missing, Silvano returns to a place he swore he'd never set foot in again.
He left Brooklyn a long time ago -- wanting to leave behind his family and its seedy mob connections and a past that just won't stay buried. The jungles of Viet Nam felt more hospitable to him than his own hometown; now that he's back, he doesn't intend to stay for long. His cousin Domenic has harboured a deadly grudge against Silvano for something that happened when they were teenagers, but they aren't kids anymore, and his cousin has some dangerous friends.… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.During the hazy Newcastle summer, Nick's grandfather Geordie lies dying. A proud and resilient man, he has long outlived his peers but not the memories of his youth. As Nick watches, Geordie starts to relive the horrors surrounding his brother's death in the painful days before his own.Meanwhile at Lob's Hill, on the other side of the city, Nick and his pregnant wife Fran are failing to keep the peace in their increasingly fractious home. Looking after two-year-old Jasper is an exhausting business, made more so by the resentments of stepchildren Gareth and Miranda. In an attempt to unite the family, Fran organizes the children into decorating the living room. Gradually, as the old wallpaper is peeled away, a vigorous and obscene drawing of an Edwardian family is uncovered. The portrait is an exercise in hate: it reveals the history of their home, casting a terrifying shadow over the… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.On the outside, Faith Madison is the very picture of a sophisticated New Yorker. Slim, blond, stylish, Faith has a life many would envy. Overcoming a childhood marked by tragedy, married to a successful investment banker and having raised two grown daughters, Faith has enjoyed her role as mother and wife, and the good life that emanates from their bustling Manhattan townhouse. But every step of the way, Faith has carried within her a secret she could divulge to no one. And with it, she has kept an even more painful secret from herself.For Faith, it is the sudden death of her stepfather - a man who, like her husband Alex, always remained just beyond her reach - that will touch off a journey of change and revelation. At the funeral, painful memories flood back - and an old friend re-enters Faith's life. Faith is greeting mourners when she hears a voice behind her and a single word that… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - has yellowing spots around rim of dust jacket - due to differing weights of books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The epic story of two of the world's most famous lovers - and the forces of politics, intrigue and ambition that shaped them - told as only Collen McCullough can.Brutus and Cassius are dead at Philippi, leaving two Roman men to inherit the world. One is the twenty-year-old Octavian, whose brilliance, subtlety and political cunning give the lie to his small, sickly appearance. The other is Mark Antony, a man in his prime - lusty, Herculean, hedonistic, proven on the battlefields of war, politics and love. At first glance, it seems no contest: Antony is the certain winner.But in Alexandria sits Egypt's queen, Cleopatra, mourning the death of Julius Caesar, yet utterly focused on attaining world power for her only son, Caesarion. In order to achieve this, she must seduce and hold in thrall either Octavian or Antony. Her choice is Antony, whom… Read More

In very good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Marissa Rogers never wanted to be an alpha; beta suited her just fine. Taking charge without credit had always paid off: vaulting her to senior editor at a glossy magazine; keeping the peace with her critical, weight-obsessed mother; and enjoying the benefits of being best friends with gorgeous, charismatic, absolutely alpha Julia Ferrar.And then Julia gets hit by a cab. She survives with minor obvious injuries, but brain damage steals her memory and alters her personality, possibly forever. Suddenly, Marissa is thrown into the role of alpha friend. As Julia struggles to regain her memory - dredging up issues Marissa would rather forget including the fact that Julia asked her to abandon the love of her life ten years ago - Marissa's own equilibrium is shaken.With the help of a dozen girls she reluctantly agrees to coach in an after-school running program, Marissa uncovers… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A triptych of beautifully crafted novellas make up Anita Desai's exquisite new book. Set in modern India, but where history still casts a long shadow, the stories move beyond the cities to places still haunted by the past, and to characters who are, each in their own way, masters of self-effacement.The final story is of Ravi, living hermit-like in the burnt-out shell of his family home high up in the Himalayan mountains. He cultivates not only silence and solitude but a secret hidden away in the woods, concealed from sight. When a film crew from Delhi intrudes upon his seclusion, it compels him to withdraw even further until he magically and elusively disappears...