Living among the Sachakan rebels, Lorkin does his best to learn about their unique magic. But the Traitors are reluctant to trade their secrets for the Healing they so desperately want. Meanwhile, Snea searches for the rogue, knowing that Cery cannot avoid assassination for ever but the rogue's influence over the city's underworld is far greater than she first feared. & in the University, two female novices are about to remind the guild that sometimes their worst enemy is found within. ...

In 1962 Mick Jagger was a bright, well-scrubbed boy (planning a career in the civil service), while Keith Richards was learning how to smoke & to swivel a six-shooter. Add the mercurial Brian Jones (who'd been effectively run out of Cheltenham for theft, multiple impregnation's & playing blues guitar) & the wryly opinionated Bill Wyman & Charlie Watts, & the potential was obvious.

During the 1960s & 70s the Rolling Stones were the polarising figures in Britain, admired in some quarters for their flamboyance, creativity & salacious lifestyles, & reviled elsewhere for the same reasons. Confidently expected never to reach 30 they are now approaching their seventies &, in 2012, will have been together for 50 years.

In The Rolling Stones, Christopher Sandford tells thehuman drama at the centre of the Rolling Stones story. Sandford has carried out interviews with those close to the Stones, family members (including Mick's parents), the group's fans & contemporaries
- even examined their previously unreleased FBI files. Like no other book before The Rolling Stoneswill make sense of the rich brew of clever invention & opportunism, of talent, good fortune, insecurity, self-destructiveness, & of drugs, sex & other excess, that made the Stones who they are.

This paperback book has 498 pages & measures: 19.7 x 13 x 3cm






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Featuring fresh insights from Mick, Keith, Charlie & Ronnie, Unzipped digs deeper than ever before into the Stones’ archives

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The image of the Roman legionary is as familiar today as it was to the citizens
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The Simple Guide to The Roman Catholic Church will help you appreciate the significance of the largest organized religion in the world, understand what it means to be a Roman Catholic, recognize the Church's key practices & beliefs, & avoid faux pas in conversation, in travelling, in personal relationships. ...

A woman has been arrested on the streets of Rome. She's young. She's beautiful. She's covered in blood. & she claims to be an ancient prophet on the run from a mighty power that centuries ago brought the eternal city to its knees. Ex-priest Tom Shaman teams up with a headstrong policewoman to unravel the mystery. But within rome's churches & corridors of power, stealthy enemies are conspiring against them. & someone is re-enacting sinister legends from the city's bloody past. ...

Clara Wheaton is the consummate good girl: over-achieving, well-mannered, utterly predictable. When her childhood crush invites

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There's one last change for justice...

They dreamed of changing the world. Instead they're facing a mountain of

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God help themï ½ In the most brutal killing crusade Philadelphia has seen in years, a series of young Catholic women are found dead, their bodies mutilated & their hands bolted together. Each clutches a rosary in her lifeless grasp. Veteran cop Keith Byrne & his rookie partner Jessica Balzano set out to hunt down the elusive killer, who leads them deeper & deeper into the abyss of a madman's depravity. Suspects appear before them like bad dreams ï ½ & vanish just as quickly. While the body count rises, Easter is fast approaching: the day of resurrection & of the last rosary to be counted ï ½ ...

Details: When Eva's film star sister Katrina dies, she leaves California & returns to Cornwall, where they spent their
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