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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17-year-old Lucinda falls in love with a gorgeous, intelligent boy, Daniel, at her new school, the grim, foreboding Sword & Cross.. .only to find out that Daniel is a fallen angel, & that they have spent lifetimes finding & losing one another as good & evil forces plot to keep them apart. Get ready to fall... ...

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. ...

' Falling Angel' pits tough New York private eye Harry Angel against the most fearsome adversary a detective ever faced
- one Louis
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