From its birth in 1959, the Mini grew to become a national treasure & huge success: Princess Margaret owned one, as did Steve Mc Queen, Paul Newman, the Beatles, Peter Sellers & Marianne Faithfull. Its popularity with women in particular marked it out from the crowd, & sales soared as the car was taken up by the new urban elite & took a starring role in The Italian Job. But there was trouble ...

Miss Amy Pringle is pert, spoilt & spirited when she arrives at Lancaster Hall to pursue her engagement to Lord Fitzroy, eldest son of the Earl & heir to a fortune. The Earl is not impressed, & sets out to break her spirit. But the trouble for him is that she enjoys every one of his `punishments' & creates havoc at the Hall, provoking the stuffy Earl at every opportunity. The young Lord remains aloof, however, &, in order to win his affections, Amy sets about seducing his well-endowed but dim brother Bubb. When she is discovered in bed with Bubb & a servant girl, how will father & son react? ...

An agonizing sports injury did more than end Brian Holbrook's professional football dreams. It left the skilled cardiologist with an addiction to prescription painkillers that eventually cost him his marriage & his license to practice medicine. But now, at thirty-eight, Brian's cleaned up his act, swallowed his pride, & is ready to start over. The prestigious Boston Heart Institute has offered Brian an opportunity to participate in trials of a new drug that could revolutionize medicine. Vasclear may have the power to reverse arteriosclerosis, the number one killer in the civilized world. The initial results are so dazzling Brian pushes to get his own father, who has a dangerous heart condition, into the scheme. But soon Brian is uneasy. Under close scrutiny because of his past, Brian cannot afford to make waves, but the mysterious disappearance of a colleague & deaths of patients on the scheme compels him to ask questions. However, with billions of dollars at stake, questions could cost him his career
- & his father's life. For as Brian is beginning to suspect, knowing too much at the Boston Heart Institute is the quickest way to the morgue.
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Martha Mac Kenzie was an ordinary woman. Nothing extraordinary had ever happened to her, unless she counted her marriage to Dan & the birth of her three perfect, healthy children. Until the day of the accident, when she touched the Lucas boy as he lay dying on the tarmac, & they said she saved him. That was the start of it all ...

Early one morning Joseph came to my stable. ' My donkey, ' he said, 'we must go on a journey... ' Lovingly retold by acclaimed children's author Shirley Isherwood, the wonder of ten of the best stories from the bible are married with striking contemporary illustrations in this sumptuous collection. -The immediacy of the text allows the reader an 'I was there' experience as events unfold in a narrative that is variously moving, dramatic & gently humorous. With illustrations from artists such as Reg Cartwright, Allison Reed & Liz Pyle this is a unique & very beautiful collection for any child. Stories featured are: Adam & Eve & Everything; Noah & the Flood; Moses & the Great Escape; David & the Giant; Jonah & the Whale; A Very Special Star; Fishes, Loaves & Miracles; The Story of the Good Samaritan; The Last Supper; First Light ...