One million dollars ï ½ thatï ½s what Harvey Metcalfe, lifelong king of shady deals, has pulled off with empty promises of an oil bonanza & instant riches. Overnight, four men ï ½ the heir to an earldom, a Harley Street Doctor, a Bond Street art dealer & an Oxford don ï ½ find themselves penniless. But this time Harvey has swindled the wrong men. They band together & shadow him from the casinos of Monte Carlo to the high-stakes windows at Ascot & the hallowed lawns of Oxford. Their plan is simple: to sting the crook for exactly what they lost ï ½ not a penny more, not a penny less. ...

The dark true story about the exceptional Nicky Nicholls & her struggle to survive a bleak & abusive young life.

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In Behind Closed Doors Jenny told the story of her brutal childhood, beaten & sexually abused by her father & neglected by her mother from the age of five until the moment she ran away, aged 16, in search of a better life. Bit scarred by her horrific ...

When a young boy gets a reputation for being naughty at school, he reacts by being the bad lad that everyone expects & he ends up in prison. Only when a kind stable manager decides to give him a chance is he saved him from a life of crime. This is an enthralling story of redemption from one of the greatest story tellers of our time. ...

Trafficking in people has become increasingly transnational in scope & highly lucrative. This book tells the stories of rescued victims & their heroic rescuers, & features background briefings on human trafficking, & practical ideas that empower individuals & their communities to join the campaign for human freedom. ...

All eight episodes from the second series of the witty BBC sitcom. Lee (Lee Mack) shares a flat with Kate (Megan Dodds). Their friendship is complicated by the fact that Lee's best friend, Tim (Tim Vine), is also Kate's ex-boyfriend. Episodes comprise: 'M ...

Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on; the financial stability she yearned for as a kid; & a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science.  Her world is stable, pleasant, & hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover & its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down. Eli Killgore & his business partners want Kline, period. Eli has his own reasons for pushing this deal through
- & he's a man who gets what he wants. With one burning exception: Rue. The woman he can't stop thinking about. The woman who's off-limits to him. Torn between loyalty & an undeniable attraction, Rue & Eli throw caution out the lab & the boardroom windows. Their affair is secret, no-strings-attached, & has a built-in deadline: the day one of their companies will prevail. But the heart is risky business
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Rosie Maxwell has a plan: move to New York, get her creative writing degree from NYU, become a bestselling romance writer. But that plan is derailed when she ends up in class with her archnemesis & ex-crush, Aiden Huntington, an obnoxious, surly, unreasonably gorgeous literary fiction writer who has no patience for romance – or for Rosie. Exhausted by Rosie & Aiden’s constant verbal sparring, their professor gives them an ultimatum: leave her class, or cowrite a novel that blends their respective genres. As Rosie & Aiden collaborate on their (accidentally steamy) novel, they try to put their differences aside. Could their manuscript-in-progress be just the outlet they need to confess their feelings – & explore their mutual attraction? But a potentially career-changing opportunity soon reignites the flames of their old rivalry. Rosie & Aiden’s once-in-a-lifetime love story is once again at risk of being shelved – unless they can find a way to end the book on their own terms... ...

The twenty-first book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Searching for truffles in a wood, a man & his dog unearth something slightly less savoury
- a human h&. The corpse, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so, wrapped in a violet cotton sheet. The post mortem can not reveal the precise cause of death. The only clue to solving this mysterious murder is a crack in one of the dead man's ribs. Wexford knows it will be a difficult job to identify the dead body. Although it covers a relatively short period of time, the police computer stores a long list of missing persons. People disappear at an alarming rate
- hundreds each day. & then, only about twenty yards away from the woodland burial site, in the cellar of a disused cottage, another body is found. The detection skills of Wexford, Burden & the other investigating officers of the Kingsmarkham Police Force are tested to the utmost to discover whether the murders are connected & to track down whoever is responsible.

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Poverty & factory work have filled Lu Wilmott with a determination to make something of herself.

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