Thanks to its unique mix of human & vampire residents, Morganville, Texas, is a small college town with big-time problems. But it isn't the only town with vampire trouble. Claire never thought she'd leave Morganville, but when she gets accepted into the graduate course at MIT, she can't pass up the opportunity. Saying goodbye to her friends, especially her boyfriend Shane, is bittersweet, & her new life at MIT is both scary & exciting. Enrolled in a special advanced study programme with Professor Irene Anderson, former Morganville native, Claire is able to work on VLAD, her machine designed to cancel the mental abilities of vampires. But Morganville & its inhabitants are never really far from Claire's mind. When she begins testing her machine on live subjects, things quickly spiral out of control, & Claire begins to wonder whether leaving Morganville was the last mistake she'll ever make. ...

The dominant view is that the 'fall of Rome' was a largely peaceful transition to Germanic rule, & the start of a positive cultural transformation. Encouraging the readers to think again by reclaiming the drama & violence of Rome's fall, this book exa ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 was the turning point in the struggle against Communism in Eastern Europe. This book explains why the wall was built, reveals its devastating impact on the lives of people on both sides, & provides an account of the events that led to the wall's destruction & the end of the Cold War. ...

There was nothing special about San Diego detective Robbie Brownlow, until he plunged six storeys from a burning hotel. He was left with broken bones, a large scar, & synesthesia
- a condition where words take on shapes & colours that indicate the speaker's emotions. Now, he's a human lie detector.
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First the sickness rotted the adults' minds. Then their bodies. Now they stalk the streets, hunting human flesh. The Holloway crew are survivors. They've fought their way across London & made it to the Natural History Museum alive
- just. But the fight will never end while the Enemy lives, unless there's another way...
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Sequel to the bestselling The Testament. In a hidden cave in the mountains of Lebanon, a man makes a fateful discovery. He has been chosen to be the carrier, to bring what has been forbidden for thousands of years out of the darkness & into the light: the Testament of Lucifer. ...

Voted the most popular Italian sportsman of the twentieth century, Fausto Angelo Coppi was the campionissimo
- champion of champions.
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The Fallen Angel finds herself pitted against a special guest-star
- Joss Whedon's Illyria. On a mission to reclaim three objects
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A lost legacy puts one of England’s great families in mortal peril.

Lazen Castle, home to the much-envied Lazender

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When Blaire Wynn's mother passed away, Blaire's life changed in an instant. Having cared for her sick mother for the last three years, suddenly Blaire has to leave the small farmhouse in Alabama they shared, to move in with her father & his new wife in their sprawling beach house along the Florida gulf coast. But what she isn't prepared for is the lifestyle change that comes with the move, & she knows she'll never fit into the new world of luxury & extravagance that suddenly surrounds her. Even worse, her father has run off to Paris for the summer with his wife, leaving her stranded with Rush, her new stepbrother, who's irritating, arrogant and? seriously sexy. Rush is as spoiled as he is gorgeous; his famous father's guilt money, his mother's desperation to win his love, & his charm are the three reasons he has never been told no. Blaire knows he is anything but good for her, but somehow she can't fight the attraction she's feeling, especially when she starts to think the attraction might be mutual? Rush is jaded & has secrets Blaire knows she may never uncover but even knowing all of that Blaire just may have fallen too far. ...