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- known to later ages as Paracelsus
- stands on the borderline between

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Clive Cussler's astounding Devil's Gate sees the return of Kurt Austin & the NUMA team. Deep beneath the Eastern Atlantic Ocean lies an extraordinary underwater burial ground of ships & planes... Nearby, a Japanese cargo ship blows up without warning. Racing to help, Kurt Austin & the NUMA team are beaten to the scene by heavily armed pirates. But when the ruthless gang's own boat explodes as they're making their escape, the men from NUMA are suddenly plunged from a disaster into a mystery. Soon they uncover a scheme involving the deadly ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of terrible power, a kidnapped CERN scientist & a deep-water graveyard holding a lost aircraft & its precious cargo. As a terrifying & audacious plan to bring the world's major nations to their knees is set in motion, only Kurt Austin
- the right man, in the right place, at the right time
- can stop it... With Devil's Gate, UK number one bestseller Clive Cussler shows us once more why he is the grand master of adventure fiction. The ninth book in Clive Cussler's bestselling NUMA Files series, Devils's Gate is a novel that will have readers gripped right to the last page. Kurt Austin, hero of previous titles Medusa & The Navigator, must avert a disaster of global proportions.

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It's Labour Day, Camilla's favourite weekend of the year. She's planning to relax & ponder what's happening in her relationship with policman Sargeant Ray Deveau. She's emphatically not planning to get involved in anything that means trouble. No wonder the news that an old acquaintance has had an accident comes as a surprise. ...

A feature on Old Wives' Tales is not exactly the assignment to make Kate Mallory's pulse race. She fancies herself an investigative journalist & crime reporter & has the stories under her belt to prove it. But her research throws up a vital clue to the series of arson attacks & gruesome murders that is baffling the Darlaston police force. It's too good a story to miss. But it will lead Kate into a deadly encounter with a ruthless woman, a coven of Satanists
- & Evil incarnate.
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July, 1943. With North Africa secured, the Allies launch an invasion of Sicily, & the 2nd Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Rangers are in the van of the assault on the Italian beaches. But promotion to Company Commander has brought him fresh trouble for Jack Tanner. ...

The only thing that makes St Teresa's Preparatory School for Girls bearable for Jane is her friend Ally. But when Ally changes into a different person literally overnight the fall of their senior year, Jane's very confused. Turns out, Ally has sold her soul in exchange for popularity
- to a devil masquerading as a sophomore at St Teresa's.
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From the author of the International Bestselling ' Morganville Vampires' series. What's the price of a deal with the devil? Jazz Calendar don't ever call her Jasmine has one goal, proving that her friend Ben, is innocent of murder. Too bad no one will lend her the money. Until a mysterious guy with the devil s own grin appears with an offer she can t refuse.... $100, 000. But if Jazz accepts the deal, there s no turning back. Because once she opens that envelope, all hell s gonna break loose.... ...

The excesses of the young Marquis of Vidal are even wilder than his father's before him. Not for nothing is the reckless duellist & gamester called 'the Devil's Cub'. But when he is forced to leave the country, Mary Challoner discovers his fiendish plan to abduct her sister. & only by daring to impersonate her can Mary save her sibling from certain ruin. Georgette Heyer's wonderful characters & stories made her the undisputed queen of the historical romance, & an international bestseller, still loved today by a huge readership. ...

The psychic world will never be the same again Lucia Garza is trapped in a supernatural power struggle. To save a friend she agreed to work for sinister psychic organisation The Cross Society. But after a death threat that almost succeeds, she's starting to think they want her out of the way. Forever. Worse, as Lucia uncovers the society's most dangerous secrets, she discovers that she's being used as a pawn between two warring paranormal factions. Caught in a battle no one can win, Lucia's only choice could be to go against long-told prophecy to destroy both The Cross Society & its sworn enemies. But what are the consequences of defying destiny? ...

In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome & dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured & burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession & sexual hysteria in history. ...