Tamerlane the Ottomans the Mughals the Manchus the British the Soviets the Japanese & the Nazis All built empires they hoped would last forever all were destined to fail But as John Darwin shows in his magnificent book their empire building created the world we know today From the death of Tamerlane in 1405 last of the world conquerors' to the rise & fall of European empires & from America's growing colonial presence to the resurgence of India & China as global economic powers After Tamerlane provides a wonderfully intriguing perspective on the past present & future of empires ...

Grace should never have married the gentle curate who helped her during her mother's illness Seven yearslater he is rector of a rural parish & she is an unhappy wife & mother Her reckless behaviour tears the youngfamily apart Life changes for all of them after the affair 512 pages none Eleridge Elaine ...

A classic murder-mystery set among the struggling upper classes of 1920s Perthshire as in the aftermath of the First World War their comfortable world begins to crumble Dandy Gilver her husband back from the War her children off at school & her uniform growing musty in the attic is bored to a whimper in the spring of 1923 & a little light snooping seems like harmless fun Before long though the puzzle of what really happened to the Duffy diamonds after the Armistice Ball has been swept aside by a sudden unexpected death in a lonely seaside cottage in Galloway Society & the law seem ready to call it an accident but Dandy along with Cara Duffy's fiance Alec is sure that there is more going on than meets the eye What is being hidden by members of the Duffy family the watchful Lena the cold & distant Clemence & old Gregory Duffy with his air of quiet sadness not to mention Cara herself whose secret always seems just tantalizingly out of view? Dandy must learn to trust her instincts & swallow most of her scruples if he is to uncover the truth & earn the right to call herself a sleuth ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Kate Kassell is a fashion major & when she graduates her estranged father asks her to come work for him at his failing Fashion company She reluctantly accepts however Kate&s stepmother Elise & her two stepsisters Simone & Tannis conspire to keep her from rising in the company & ruining their plans Feeling disheartened Kate meets a shoe designer Daniel & they instantly take a liking to each other He encourages Kate to keep working very hard & she will eventually make it But as Kate s step-mother & step-sisters make things increasingly difficult for her she decides to don a disguise to help save the family business for her father Will Kate find her fairytale ending? ...

Tracklist Behold the Crown Exit Exist 1126 In Flux Respire Quicksand The Great Repeat To Challenge Existence A Pulse Exchanged ...

' Riveting! Bussi spins psychological suspense at its finest with this consuming tale of one child two families & the dark secrets that define us all Clear your schedule; this book is worth it!'
- Lisa Gardner 1 New York Times-bestselling author of Crash & Burn & Find Her On the night of 22 December 1980 a plane crashes on the Franco-Swiss border & is engulfed in flames 168 out of 169 passengers are killed instantly The miraculous sole survivor is a three-month-old baby girl Two families one rich the other poor step forward to claim her sparking an investigation that will last for almost two decades Is she Lyse-Rose or Emilie? Eighteen years later having failed to discover the truth private detective Credule Gr&-Duc plans to take his own life but not before placing an account of his investigation in the girl's hands But as he sits at his desk about to pull the trigger he uncovers a secret that changes everything
- then is killed before he can breathe a word of it to anyone

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A philosophy teacher challenges his graduating seniors to choose which ten of them would take shelter underground & reboot the human race in the event of a nuclear apocalypse ...

James Patterson's Book Shots Short fast-paced high-impact entertainment It's payback time A devastated soldier's wife wants special ops veteran Owen Taylor to avenge her broken husband & she won't have to ask twice ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018 The final novel from the bestselling author of the Inspector Wallander mysteries Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor 416 pages Mankell Henning ...

WINNER OF THE IRISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR 2015 Arson accident or murder? After a fire rips through a North London tower block two bodies are found locked in an 11th floor flat But is the third victim that ensures the presence of detective Maeve Kerrigan & the murder squad It appears that controversial MP Geoff Armstrong trapped by the fire chose to jump to his death rather than wait for rescue But what was such a right wing politician doing in the deprived culturally diverse Maudling Estate? As Maeve & her senior colleague Derwent pick through the wreckage they uncover the secret world of the 11th floor where everyone seems to have something to hide ...