My ambition is to give back to the women of my blood the power of speech confiscated by their men. Badra is a young Berber girl from a North African village who is married off to an old man & brutally raped on her wedding night. She thinks sexual pleasure exists only for men until she escapes from her cruel husband to the city. Then she meets a handsome doctor who introduces her to a new world of sexual passion...LAmande written under a pseudonym by a North African woman living in France reads like an erotic manifesto for modern women who want to break free from the bonds of cultural tradition & unashamedly demand their right to pleasure. ...

The Good Life goes on at El Valero. Find yourself laughing out loud as Chris is instructed by his daughter on local teenage mores; bluffs his way in art history to millionaire Bostonians; is rescued off a snowy peak by the Guardia Civil; & joins an Almond Blossom Appreciation Society. You'll cringe with Chris as he tries his hand at office work in an immigrants' advice centre in Granada spurred into action by the arrival of four destitute young Moroccans at El Valero. & you'll never see olive oil in quite the same way again... In this sequel to Lemons" & " Parrot" Chris Stewart's optimism & zest for life is as infectious as ever." ...

Gifted with a mind that continues to impress the elders in his village Ichmad Hamid struggles with the knowledge that he can do nothing to save his friends & family. Living on Occupied land his entire village operates in constant fear of losing their homes jobs & belongings. But more importantly they fear losing each other. On Ichmad's twelfth birthday that fear becomes reality. With his father imprisoned his family's home & possessions confiscated & his siblings quickly succumbing to hatred in the face of conflict. Ichmad begins an inspiring journey using his intellect to save his poor & dying family. In doing so he reclaims a love for others that was lost through a childhood rife with violence & discovers a new hope for the future. ...

A YULETIDE BRIDE? Shana Callahan had long ago given up wishful thinking. A single mum with a chequered past she knew to be grateful for small gifts. & what Landon Kincaid had given her was far more than that. His unexpected job offer had provided her with so much
- a good income a safe home for her child & the opportunity to start anew in Chance City. Shed insisted on keeping things strictly business but the more she got to know her charismatic boss the harder it became to be his
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Tom & Octavia Fleming have the perfect power marriage: he is a spin-doctor & she runs a consultancy to the charity industry. They are attractive rich successful... Then Octavia discovers Tom is having an affair & not only the discovery but the affair itself have consequences that are potentially fatal
- both to the marriage & its power. For this is no ordinary affair but one that leads to terror & danger threatening other people damaging other lives.
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When she was young Steffie Wyler always knew exactly what she wanted to do with her life: 1. Make ice cream. 2. Marry the coolest boy in town. 3. Live happily ever after. These days Steffie is the proud owner of One Scoop or Two a wildly popular ice cream parlor. But the cool guy left town right after high school before they could scratch the surface of their mutual attraction to see what if anything lay beneath. Steffie's made a great life for herself in St. Dennis but true love has never come knocking. Wade Mac Gregor left for college in Texas & remained there to start a successful business with his best friend Robin Kennedy but he's always felt something was missing. Then life throws him a curveball: A third partner has robbed the company blind & Robin has died-but not before entrusting Wade with a precious secret. Now back in St. Dennis Wade's determined to do whatever it takes to protect his friend's legacy-and to figure out once & for all if the sparks that fly whenever he's with Steffie are just temporary fireworks or the lights in the window leading him home. ...

In his new book Steve Jones takes on the challenge of going back to the book of the millennium Charles Darwins The Origin of Species. Before The Origin biology was a set of unconnected facts. Darwin made it into a science linked by the theory of evolution the grammar of the living world. It reveals ties between cancer & the genetics of fish between brewing & inherited disease between the sex lives of crocodiles & the politics of Brazil. Darwin used the biology of the nineteenth century to prove his case. Now that science has been revolutionized & his case can be reargued using the twentieth centurys astonishing advances. From AIDS to dinosaurs from conservation to cloned sheep bursting with anecdotes jokes & irresistible facts Almost Like a Whale is a popular account of the science that makes biology make sense. It will catch the millennial mood & tell all those for whom Darwin is merely a familiar name what he really meant. It exposes the Darwinian delusions which try (and fail) to explain human behaviour in evolutionary terms & while giving an up-to-date account of our own past shows how humans are the first species to step beyond the constraints of biology. ...

Ruthless killers are hunting Ty so the police move him & his mum to a quiet seaside town. But a horrific attack & a bullet meant for Ty prove that hes not safe. On the road again Tys in hiding with complete strangers.. .who seem to know a lot about him. Meanwhile hes desperate to see his girlfriend Claire & terrified that she may betray him. Ty cant trust his own judgement & hes making dangerous decisions that could deliver him straight to the gangsters. A thrilling sequel to When I Was Joe shot through with drama & suspense. ...

Ruthless killers are hunting Ty so the police move him & his mum to a quiet seaside town. But a horrific attack & a bullet meant for Ty prove that hes not safe. On the road again Tys in hiding with complete strangers.. .who seem to know a lot about him. Meanwhile hes desperate to see his girlfriend Claire & terrified that she may betray him. Ty cant trust his own judgement & hes making dangerous decisions that could deliver him straight to the gangsters. A thrilling sequel to When I Was Joe shot through with drama & suspense. ...

A dazzling sequence of novels about the English misbehaving at home & abroad. Alms for Oblivion"is a series of ten novels all telling separate stories but at the same time linked together by the characters they have in common: solidiers & dons men of business politician & writers. Full of hearty rancour they form a scathing chronicle of the upper echelons of postwar English society. This final volume contains Bring Forth the Body"and The Survivors. ...