Power politics & closely guarded secrets abound in INTO TEMPTATION the third & final novel of Sunday Times bestselling author Penny Vincenzi's Spoils of Time trilogy ' Like an illicit lover I have been sloping off all week to snatch another hour's pleasure with Penny Vincenzi's terrific new novel' Jilly Cooper For any reader of Elizabeth Buchan Santa Montefiore or Harriet Evans & for any fan of epics such as Downton Abbey The Lytton family past is full of secrets & only Lady Celia knows them all There's her daughter Adele's difficult dark past; the dreadful cruelty of a truth her son Kit had to confront; even the shadows of Celia's own life & that of Barty Miller the child she rescued from the slums in babyhood who now owns more than half of the Lytton publishing house Some secrets are more dangerous than others some shared with Celia's family some entirely her own & all absolutely safe in her keeping Until something threatens to reveal them all ...

Harry Barnett is a middle-aged failure Leading a shabby existence in the shadow of a past disgrace he is reduced to caretaking a friend's villa on the island of Rhodes & working in a bar to earn his keep Then a guest at the villa
- a young woman he had instantly & innocently warmed to
- disappears on a mountain peak Under suspicion of her murder Harry stumbles on a set of photographs taken in the weeks before her disappearance Obsessed by the mystery that has changed his life & determined to clear his name he begins to trace back the movements & encounters that led to the moment when she vanished into the blue The trail leads him back to England to a world he thought he had left for ever
- & a past he has tried desperately to forget


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Two professional divers (Chris Carmack Laura Vandervoort) fight for their lives when they encounter criminals in Hawaiian waters ...

Journey through the zombie apocalypse in a race to save your family Arm yourself with an arsenal of powerful weapons & do whatever it takes to survive Maim mow down & massacre the Dead anything to keep moving! In a world where no one is safe how far will you go to make it out alive? Features - 60 story levels spread across 7 chapters-each containing special challenges to complete 3 different endings to discover 8 Loyal animal companions-from lovable dogs to ferocious tigers these companions aide you in battle level up & come with special abilities 25 unique weapons across 8 classes-each with up to 7 different boosts to equip The all-new sawblade launcher weapon & Bear companion give you the maiming power to keep you moving ...

'VISCERAL IRRESISTIBLE a claustrophobic deep-sea terror tale that will leave readers glad to be safely on dry land' Kirkus NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR MIRA GRANT RETURNS WITH A RAZOR-SHARP TALE OF THE HORRORS THAT LIE BENEATH Seven years ago the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a mockumentary bringing to life ancient sea creatures of legend It was lost at sea with all hands Some have called it a tragedy; others have called it a hoax Now a new crew has been assembled to investigate & they'll discover that whatever is down there is definitely no joke Praise for Mira Grant'ASTONISHING' New York Times 'GRIPPING THRILLING & BRUTAL A MASTERPIECE OF SUSPENSE' Publishers Weekly'INTELLIGENT & EXCITING' Telegraph'MYSTERY DANGER & EXCITEMENT ABOUND' RT Book Reviews ...

A shortcut through the forest to Grandma's house produces some eerie moments
- & some oddly familiar characters
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In 2006 Dr Adrian Owen & his team made medical history They discovered a new realm of consciousness a twilight zone somewhere between life & death They called this the Grey Zone The people who inhabit the Grey Zone are frequently labelled as being irretrievably lost with no awareness & no sense of self The shocking truth is that they are often still there an intact mind trapped deep inside a broken body & brain hearing everything around them experiencing emotions thoughts pleasure & pain just like the rest of us Not quite living & not quite gone they have existed silently in these shadowlands But now through Dr Owen's pioneering techniques we can talk to them
- & they can talk back These shifting boundaries of consciousness have shaken the architecture of our sense of self We have known for a long time that a body does not define a person
- but what if a brain does not define a mind? What does it mean if a mind can exist unharmed within a deeply damaged brain? Through cutting edge research & case studies that are poignant tragic & uplifting Dr Owen maps this inner universe of the self showing us what it means to be alive & human

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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 James Marsden (X-Men Days of Future Past) Billy Bob Thornton (Entourage) Thomas Jane (The Mist) & Piper Perabo (Looper) star in this nerve-shredding thriller A sheriff whose mission is protecting the threatened grizzly bear suddenly finds himself conflicted when a massive rogue grizzly wreaks havoc on a local Alaskan community Enlisting the help of his estranged brother he enters the labyrinthian Grizzly Maze to track down his wife who s gone missing before the bear does As the body count mounts & an infamous bear hunter enters the fray determined to take down the bear he s been waiting for his whole life no one is safe in the harsh Alaskan wilds ...

When Allen Allenson scion of a noble family that has fallen on hard times gets a mission to roust the power-hungry Terrans from a wild star sector where they encroaching he jumps at the chance to show his individual worth improve his family fortunes & gather enough lucre to make a good marriage But the wily Terrans are not so easily persuaded by a young colonial they think of as a rube! ...

When Allen Allenson scion of a noble family that has fallen on hard times gets a mission to roust the power-hungry Terrans from a “wild” star sector where they’re encroaching he jumps at the chance to show his individual worth improve his family’s fortunes – & gather enough lucre to make a good marriage But the wily Terrans are not so easily persuaded by a young colonial they think of as a rube Worse Riders the beings who naturally ply the wilderness between the stars are playing their own deadly political games – against the Terrans against the colonials & against one young greenhorn commander in particular naïf young Allen whom they figure they can manipulate to do their bidding The one thing nobody has counted on is the fact that Allen while young & inexperienced & much to his own amazement happens to be a hero in the making About the Author The Army took David Drake from Duke Law School & sent him on a motorized tour of Viet Nam & Cambodia with the 11th Cav the Blackhorse He learned new skills saw interesting sights & met exotic people who hadn&t run fast enough to get away Dave returned to become Chapel Hill&s Assistant Town Attorney & to try to put his life back together through fiction making sense of his Army experiences Dave describes war from where he saw it the loader&s hatch of a tank in Cambodia His military experience combined with his formal education in history & Latin has made him one of the foremost writers of realistic action SF & fantasy His bestselling Hammer&s Slammers series is credited with creating the genre of modern Military SF He often wishes he had a less interesting background Dave lives with his family in rural North Carolina Dr John Lambshead is senior research scientist in marine biodiversity at the Natural History Museum London He is also the Visiting Chair at Southampton University Oceanography & Regent’s Lecturer University of California He also writes military history & designs computer & fantasy games ...