Laurell K. Hamilton's ' Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter' novels have established her as a force to be reckoned with. Her voice is fresh, her style sensual, her characters leap off the page & her blend of the contemporary & the supernatural is both original & exciting. Now, in A KISS OF SHADOWS, she introduces readers to an unforgettable new heroine: Meredith Gentry.

A Los Angeles private investigator with a strange speciality
- supernatural crime, Merry has an even stranger secret: she's a Faerie princess in hiding, & on the run from her own otherworldly realm. For her aunt, the malevolent Queen of Air & Darkness, has dispatched her chief bodyguard back to the mortal world to fetch Meredith back, whether she likes it or not. She is to be the pawn in a plot that will transform the future of the Seelie & Unseelie Courts. Her role: to enjoy the constant company of the most beautiful
- & immortal
- men in the world of the Sidhe. Her reward: the crown. The penalty for refusal: death...

Rich, sensual & full of earthly pleasures, dazzling magic & memorable characters, some as deadly as they are beautiful, A KISS OF SHADOWS is an unbridled tour-de-force of the imagination where folklore, myth & legend come together with thrilling, erotically-charged adventure.






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Laurell K. Hamilton's ' Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter' novels have established her as a force to be reckoned with. Her voice is fresh, her style sensual, her characters leap off the page & her blend of the contemporary & the supernatural is both original & exciting. Now, in A KISS OF SHADOWS, she introduces readers to an unforgettable new heroine: Meredith Gentry.

A Los Angeles private investigator with a strange speciality
- supernatural crime, Merry has an even stranger secret: she's a Faerie princess in hiding, & on the run from her own otherworldly realm. For her aunt, the malevolent Queen of Air & Darkness, has dispatched her chief bodyguard back to the mortal world to fetch Meredith back, whether she likes it or not. She is to be the pawn in a plot that will transform the future of the Seelie & Unseelie Courts. Her role: to enjoy the constant company of the most beautiful
- & immortal
- men in the world of the Sidhe. Her reward: the crown. The penalty for refusal: death...

Rich, sensual & full of earthly pleasures, dazzling magic & memorable characters, some as deadly as they are beautiful, A KISS OF SHADOWS is an unbridled tour-de-force of the imagination where folklore, myth & legend come together with thrilling, erotically-charged adventure.






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For thirty years David Campbell has been conducting ecological studies in the Brazilian Amazon. It is a place of extraordinary abundance: in the eighteen hectares of rainforest Campbell has studied are 20, 000 individual trees of about 2, 000 species
- three times as many species of trees as there are in all of North America. & each tree is an ecosystem in itself, bearing fungi, lichens, mosses, reptiles, mammals, birds, spiders, scorpions, beetles & uncountable legions of insects. Campbell knows each tree on his study sites as an individual.

River of Light is the story of the Amazonian rainforest of Brazil, its flora & fauna, & of the people who try to live on this frontier so vast that they seem eclipsed by it
- the colonists from eastern Brazil, the caboclos who eke out a living in the river or forest, & the Native Americans, who once understood every nuance of the forest & had a name for every one of its species, but are now dislocated & confused, coveting Western ways but unable to grasp them. These people, wittingly or unwittingly, are destroying the forest, & Campbell's book is at once a description of a world that is vanishing fast & a plea for its survival.

In The Crystal Desert, his first, highly-praised book, David Campbell wrote about Antarctica, a place where only a handful of species have managed to climb ashore & survive. In the Amazon Valley there are more species of lichens, liverworts, mosses & algae on a single palm leaf than there are growing on the entire continent of Antarctica. It is a fine canvas for Campbell to paint his extraordinary word pictures upon.





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There had been rumours for years about the wealth of old Mr Mackie. But when ben & Richard start snooping around the dead man's house, they're soon plunged into a web of terror. Whose dark face is at the window? Where are the strange footsteps coming from? & what is the secret of the blue ring wrapped in a blanket?

Pursued by a villainous tramp, & haunted by ghastly visions, the two boys find themselves on a daring journey through darkest Wales, & into the unearthly territory of the ancient spirits.

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You know me. I am Meredith Gentry, princess & heir apparent to the throne in the realm of Faerie; one-time private investigator ...

You know me. I am Meredith Gentry, princess & heir apparent to the throne in the realm of Faerie; one-time private investigator ...

You know me. I am Meredith Gentry, princess & heir apparent to the throne in the realm of Faerie; one-time private investigator ...

A moving, unforgettable memoir of two lost men: a father & his child.

He had his final heart attack in the Silver Band Club

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