Four sisters desperately seeking the blueprints to life-the modern-day retelling of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women like only Anna Todd (After Imagines) could do The Spring Girls-Meg Jo Beth & Amy-are a force of nature on the New Orleans military base where they live As different as they are with their father on tour in Iraq & their mother hiding something their fears are very much the same Struggling to build lives they can be proud of & that will lift them out of their humble station in life one year will determine all that their futures can become The oldest Meg will be an officer's wife & enter military society like so many of the women she admires If her passion-and her reputation-don't derail her Beth the workhorse of the family is afraid to leave the house is afraid she'll never figure out who she really is Jo just wants out Wishing she could skip to graduation she dreams of a life in New York City & a career in journalism where she can impact the world Nothing can stop her-not even love & Amy the youngest is watching all her sisters learning from how they handle themselves For better or worse With plenty of sass romance & drama The Spring Girls revisits Louisa May Alcott's classic Little Women & brings its themes of love war class adolescence & family into the language of the twenty-first century ...

' Jed Walker is right there in Reacher's rear-view mirror' Lee Child international bestselling author Jed Walker is the man you want watching your back A sinister group
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- has launched devastating global attacks Twelve targets across the world twelve code-named missions Operating distinct sleeper cells they are the ultimate terrorist organisation watching & waiting for a precise attack to activate the next group It is a frightening & deadly efficient way to stay one step ahead & cause the most chaos For ex-CIA operative Jed Walker chaos is his profession On the outer burned by his former agency he is determined to clear his name Stopping Zodiac is the only way Desperate to catch the killers & find the mastermind he can't afford to lose the next lead but that means that sometimes the terrorists have to win Ultimately it all comes down to Walker he's the only one who can break the chain & put the group to sleep permanently It's exactly eighty-one hours until deadline Praise for James Phelan' James Phelan has produced a big juicy rollicking tale in the spirit of Robert Ludlum We haven't seen an international thriller like this for a long time' Jeffery Deaver'A fast & furious ride through a complicated maze of timely political intrigue James Phelan has earned a new avid fan' Steve Berry'A corker Phelan writes in swift gritty prose never wasting a word An espionage novel with grunt' Sydney Morning Herald

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' Beautifully written & gripping' Sunday Mirror When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless Soon she was feted as the most elegant woman in the city A dancer who shocked & delighted audiences as a confidante & courtesan she bewitched the era's richest & most powerful men But as paranoia consumed a country at war Mata Hari's lifestyle brought her under suspicion In 1917 she was arrested in her hotel room on the Champs Elysees & accused of espionage Told in Mata Hari's voice through her final letter The Spy is the unforgettable story of a woman who dared to break the conventions of her time & paid the price ...

A World War I spy story of a German submarine captain who with the help of a Royal Navy traitor attempts to sink the British Fleet ...

We are entering a new state of global hypersurveillance As we increasingly resort to technology for our work & play our electronic activity leaves behind digital footprints that can be used to track our movements In our cars telephones even our coffee machines tiny computers communicating wirelessly via the Internet can serve as miniature witnesses forming powerful networks whose emergent behaviour can be very complex intelligent & invasive The question is how much of an infringement on privacy are they? Exposing the invasion of our privacy from CCTVs to blogs The Spy in the Coffee Machine explores what-if anything-we can do to prevent it from disappearing forever in the digital age & provides readers with a much needed wake-up call to the benefits & dangers of this new technology ...

CJ Sansom meets Shakespeare in Love
- a historical thriller with a swashbuckling twist & a hero like you've never seen him before
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From the master of spy thrillers John le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a gripping story of love & betrayal at the height of the Cold War This Penguin Modern Classics edition

Includes:: an afterword by the author & an introduction by William Boyd author of Any Human Heart Alex Leamas is tired It's the 1960s he's been out in the cold for years spying in the shadow of the Berlin Wall for his British masters He has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles Now Control wants to bring him in at last
- but only after one final assignment He must travel deep into the heart of Communist Germany & betray his country a job that he will do with his usual cynical professionalism But when George Smiley tries to help a young woman Leamas has befriended Leamas's mission may prove to be the worst thing he could ever have done In le Carre's breakthrough work of 1963 the spy story is reborn as a gritty & terrible tale of men who are caught up in politics beyond their imagining 'A portrait of a man who has lived by lies & subterfuge for so long he's forgotten how to tell the truth' Time' He can communicate emotion from sweating fear to despairing love with terse & compassionate conviction Above all he can tell a tale' Sunday Times


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The classic Cold War thriller published as a Penguin Essential for the first time Alec Leamas is tired It's the 1960s he's been out in the cold for years spying in Berlin for his British masters & has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles Now Control wants to bring him in at last
- but only after one final assignment He must travel deep into the heart of Communist Germany & betray his country a job that he will do with his usual cynical professionalism But when George Smiley tries to help a young woman Leamas has befriended Leamas's mission may prove to be the worst thing he could ever have done In le Carre's breakthrough work of 1963 the spy story is reborn as a gritty & terrible tale of men who are caught up in politics beyond their imagining' Superbly constructed with an atmosphere of chilly hell' JB Priestley' The best spy story I have ever read' Graham Greene' The master storyteller has lost none of his cunning' A N Wilson'I have re-read The Spy Who Came In From The Cold over & over again since I first encountered it in my teens just to remind myself how extraordinary a work of fiction can be' Malcolm Gladwell' One of those very rare novels that changes the way you look at the world Unflinching highly sophisticated superb' William Boyd
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DOUGLAS KENNEDYYou take a wrong step play the wrong card in Fate's game & you're lost in a world you had never imagined against which you have no weapons No compass' Vivienne Michel is running away
- from pain from rejection from humiliation When she stumbles into a criminal plot her life seems over until a chance encounter with James Bond turns her world upside down Ian Fleming's tenth 007 novel is a unique view of Bond through the eyes of a woman who loves him
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Nobody does it better than Bond & he proves it once more in this explosively entertaining adventure that takes him from the Egyptian pyramids to the ocean floor & to a gravity-defying mountaintop ski chase Roger Moore brings inimitable style to Agent 007 as he teams with beautiful Russian agent Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach) to stop the megalomaniac Stromberg (Curt Jurgens) from unleashing a horrific scheme for world domination ...