Ellie Christianson (Julia Stiles) is an average teenage girl with a somewhat excessive attachment to her father. In fact, Ellie's feelings are such that, when her mother dies in mysterious circumstances, she immediately launches a plan to seduce the old m ...

In idyllic Rosewood, four very pretty girls just can't help but be bad. Hanna will stop at nothing to be Rosewood's queen bee. Spencer's digging up her family secrets. Emily can't stop thinking about her new boyfriend. & Aria approves a little too strongly of her mom's taste in men. Now that Ali's killer is finally behind bars, the girls think they're safe. But those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. & they should know by now that I'm always watching. ...

An astonishingly rich re-creation of the land of Oz, this book retells the story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, who wasn't so wicked after all. Taking readers past the yellow brick road & into a phantasmagoric world rich with imagination & allegory, Gregory Maguire just might change the reputation of one of the most sinister characters in literature. ...

After inspiring a Tony-award winning hit musical & selling over 2 million copies worldwide, enter the world of Wicked by Gregory Maguire & experience a wonderful world of imagination & allegory. Dorothy's triumph over the Wicked Witch of the West in the classic novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was only one side of the story. But what of her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Long before Dorothy is spirited away to the world of Oz, a girl named Elphaba is born with emerald-green skin, who will one day grow up to become the infamous witch. Elphaba is smart, pricklyand most of all misunderstood, challenging all our preconcieved ideas about the nature of good & evil. Then revisit Oz in the sequel to Wicked, Son of a Witch, taking place after Dorothy has clicked her heels together & headed home to live happily ever after. A happy ending for everyone but Liir. Bruised & comatose & revived by a silent novice at the cloister of Saint Glinda. What dark force has left Liir in this condition? Is he really the Wicked Witch's son? He has her broom & her cape
- but what of her powers? In an Oz that is under new management, can Liir keep his head down long enough to grow up? Two magical books bringing together a vivid world for the whole family to enjoy in this masterful retelling from Gregory Maguire.
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The book sets the scene for debating the key challenges facing current & future generations, & sets possible agendas for how leaders, & potential leaders, can solve challenges through the wise application of multi-tiered multi-channel, multi-organizational intervention lead in a highly developed, enlightened, & selfless way. ...

A man controlled by his desires... Infamous for his wild, sensual needs, Lazarus Huntington, Lord Caire, is searching for a savage killer in St. Giles, London's most notorious slum. Widowed Temperance Dews knows St. Giles like the back of her hand
- she's spent a lifetime caring for its inhabitants at the foundling home her family established. Now that home is at risk... A woman haunted by her past... Caire makes a simple offer
- in return for Temperance's help navigating the perilous alleys of St. Giles, he will introduce her to London's high society so that she can find a benefactor for the home. But Temperance may not be the innocent she seems, & what begins as cold calculation soon falls prey to a passion that neither can control
- one that may well destroy them both. A bargain neither could refuse.


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Maybe it's something they put in the Guinness, maybe it's the craze for the craic, but with wits like George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde & Flann O' Brien, the Irish have a heritage of humour that's unmatched. This book is packed with witty one-liners that will tickle your shamrock & turn your beer green. It's St Patrick's Day every day with Wicked Irish Wit, to be sure. ...

This is the third & final book in the stunning series of exclusive manga stories from Melissa Marr, set in the same seductive ...

Eighteen-year-old Anne has always been jealous of her attractive & successful older sister, Haley. Feeling second best is something she has grown used to. But when a handsome young man rejects her advances & takes a shine to Haley instead, it is one humiliation too many. Seething with envy, Anne decides to take revenge the only way she knows how
- by using her young body & sexual charms to destroy Haley's relationship. Before long behaving wickedly becomes an obsession & Anne relishes the rewards her promiscuous behaviour brings her. Prepared to go to any extreme to trump her sister, Anne makes plans to seduce Haley's future husband on the night before the wedding. The size of this book is 17.7cm in height & 10.8cm wide with 249 pages Show More Show Less
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Whispers... rumours... & none of them true, but Connal Delaney cannot escape or explain. If all of County Kildare thinks of him as a scoundrel & seducer, there is nothing the handsome horse trainer can do but endure his loneliness. Then Connal's hard-won peace is shattered by the unexpected arrival of Bethany Doyle. ...