Ambitious art photographer Gina lives a glamorous life in bustling Rome. Her edgy shots of refugees have been receiving rave reviews & commissions for future work & things in her personal life have finally settled down. But just when she thinks she can sit back & relax in the apartment she was left by her unconventional husband a chance encounter sends her world into a tailspin. Sasha an exchange student from England had been excited to come on an adventure to Rome. But when she arrives the reality of living in the busy city is a sharp shock. Taking refuge with Gina in her art-crammed apartment Sasha befriends one of the refugee models from Gina's work. But this innocent act complicates Gina's busy creative life more than either of them knows. From her precious apartment Gina juggles her hectic life & relationships. But there are men in Rome who wield power & influence in devious ways & Gina has to fight them
- & some painful memories
- if she is to keep hold of her hard-fought independence.

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In February 2108 the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. It is over a century since the world was devastated by nuclear war but the blight of radioactivity & disease still gnaws away at the survivors. The expedition expects to find physical destruction but they are quite unprepared for the moral degradation they meet. Ape & Essence" is Huxleys vision of the ruin of humanity told with all his knowledge & imaginative genius." ...

Isabel Duncan a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab doesnt understand people but animals she gets
- especially the bonobos.
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Aphrodite delights in helping mortals in love but she's pretty annoyed at the constant attention she gets from the godboys at Mount Olympus Academy. When she decides to give Athena a makeover she's a bit unprepared for the result. She didn't count on all the interest Athena's new look would get. & she certainly never thought she'd find herself jealous of one of her best friends! Will she be able to put her jealousy behind her? Authors Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams put a modern spin on classic myths with the Goddess Girls series. Follow the ins & outs of divine social life at Mount Olympus Academy where the most privileged godboys & goddessgirls in the Greek pantheon hone their mythical skills. ...

The island is divided but one mans love will never be compromised... Its Cyprus 1955
- a guerrilla war is raging & four Greek brothers
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Tripping & slipping cases form a large part of the personal injury lawyers practice. Not all cases are straight-forward many involve complex questions of law engaging various legal disciplines. The APIL Guide to Tripping & Slipping Cases" is intended as a one-stop text covering all the legal disciplines that can come into play in a trip or slip case. It covers all the relevant areas of law
- Local Government Landlord & Tenant Occupier's Liability Highways Factories & Health & Safety at Work
- & gives detailed guidance on the applicable procedure together with precedent material. This work (previously published as " Tripping & Slipping: A Practtitioner's Guide") will take account of important changes principally to the substantive law especially in relation to the Highways Act 1980 such as Jones v Rhondda Taff Cynon County Borough Council (on reasonable foreseeability under s 41 HA 1980); DTER v Mott Mac Donald (on accumulation of water); & Atkins v Ealing LBC (on statutory defence)."

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The future has changed its course. In the notorious Bermuda Triangle a private jet vanishes without trace taking with it scientists working for world-famous philanthropist Joaquin Abell. In Miami Captain Kyle Sears is called to a murder scene. A woman & her daughter have both been shot through the head. But within moments of arriving Sears receives a phone call from the womans husband physicist Charles Purcell. I did not kill my wife & daughter. In less than twenty-four hours I too will be murdered & I know the man who will kill me. My murderer does not yet know that he will commit the act. With uncanny accuracy Charles goes on to predict the immediate future just as it unfolds around Sears & leaves clues for a man hes never met before: Ethan Warner. The hunt is on to find Purcell & Ethan Warner is summoned by the Defense Intelligence Agency to head up the search. But this is no ordinary case as Warner & his partner Nicola Lopez are about to discover & time is literally everything. ...

This is a fearlessly feminist roadtrip novel packed with atmosphere & romance. Valentine the troubled daughter of a well-off but dysfunctional Parisian family vanishes on her way to school. Inexperienced private detective Lucie Toledo is hired to find the missing teenager & enlists the help of a formidable agent with a past known to her friends as the Hyena. Their quest from Paris to Barcelona & back uncovers a rich cast of characters whose paths have crossed Valentine's leading to an alarming climax. Part political thriller part road-movie part romance the latest novel by subversive writer & film-maker Virginie Despentes won the Prix Renaudot 2010 for the pitiless gaze it directs at society in the age of the internet. ...

Bob Howard used to fix computers for the Laundry
- the branch of the British Secret Service that deals with otherworldly threats
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When scientists with warped imaginations accidentally unleash an experimental bioweapon that transforms Britains animals into sneezing bloodthirsty zombies with a penchant for pre-dinner sex with their victims three misfits become the unlikely hope for salvation. Abattoir worker Terry Borders love life is crippled by the stench of death that clings to his skin from his days spent slaughtering cows; teenage vegan Geldof Scabby Peters alternates between scratching furiously at his rash & baiting his overbearing New Age mother; & inept journalist Lesley Mc Brien struggles forlornly in the shadow of her famous war correspondent father & the star journalist at the Glasgow Tribune. When Britain begins a rapid descent into chaos & ministers cynically attempt to blame al-Qaeda Lesley stumbles upon proof that the government is behind the outbreak. During her bumbling quest to unveil the truth she crosses paths with Terry & Geldof & together they set out to escape a quarantined Britain with the evidence & vital data that could unlock a cure for the virus. Standing in the way are rampaging hordes of animals a ruthless security agent & an army ready to shoot anybody with a case of the sniffles on the off-chance the virus has mutated. Three losers. Overwhelming odds. A single outcome: the world is screwed. ...