On a remote island in Quebec a monastery stands. The monks there are one of the last surviving groups to sing & keep alive original Gregorian chants handed down to them from generations before. But now the outside world has affected their peaceful self-sufficient existence. A body is found in the abbots garden. One of the monks has been killed & presumably by someone within the monastery. So Chief Inspector Gamache & Inspector Beauvoir come to the island to investigate & question. They have no choice but to stay in the lonely silent monastery until the murderer is brought to light
- which soon brings to the surface their own inner turmoil...
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On a remote island in Quebec a monastery stands. The monks there are one of the last surviving groups to sing & keep alive original Gregorian chants handed down to them from generations before. But now the outside world has affected their peaceful self-sufficient existence. A body is found in the abbots garden. One of the monks has been killed & presumably by someone within the monastery. So Chief Inspector Gamache & Inspector Beauvoir come to the island to investigate & question. They have no choice but to stay in the lonely silent monastery until the murderer is brought to light
- which soon brings to the surface their own inner turmoil...
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Jesus is the most vague misrepresented figure in the history of the world. Is it possible to know & trust someone so ethereal & lofty? What is he really like? BEAUTIFUL OUTLAW offers a look into the humanity of Jesus dismantling all the religious nonsense & helping us understand who this man really was
- on a personal level. Focusing on his compelling personality bestselling author John Eldredge shows us the real Jesus
- playful wild & often scandalous.

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A hilarious tale from Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author WENDY HOLDEN. For fans of MARRYING UP & BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE. Fame love & happiness. Can anyone have it all? Darcys a struggling English-rose actress when The Call comes from LA. An Oscar-tastic director. A movie to make her famous. The hunkiest co-star in Hollywood. So why doesnt she want to go? Belles a size-zero film star but shes in big fat trouble. Hotter than the earths core a year ago shes now Tinseltown toast after her last film bombed. Can she get back to the big time? When the two women lock horns over men movies & megadiets theres more drama than even Hollywood can handle. & after a celebrity nanny reluctant supermodel & passionate star chef enter the mix things get seriously hot & spicy. ...

Featuring 12 magnificent breeds from all over the world this delightful calendar is a treat for anyone. From the classic Hampshire to the exotic Read Mangalitsa each champion has its best side captured in fantastic studio photography as they battle to hog the limelight. ...

Beautiful Redemption" is the much-anticipated finale of the spellbinding love story that began with " Beautiful Creatures"
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The No. 1 New York Times Bestseller Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins is a gorgeous glamorous novel set in 1960s Italy & a modern Hollywood studio. The story begins in 1962. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper chest-deep in daydreams looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea & views an apparition: a beautiful woman a vision in white approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet he soon learns & she is dying. & the story begins again today half a world away in Hollywood when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot searching for the woman he last saw at his hotel fifty years before. Gloriously inventive funny tender & constantly surprising Beautiful Ruins is a novel full of fabulous & yet very flawed people all of them striving towards another sort of life a future that is both delightful & yet tantalizingly seems just out of reach. Magic...A monument to crazy love with a deeply romantic heart". (New York Times). "A novel shot in sparkly Technicolor". (Booklist). " Hilarious & compelling". (Esquire). " Beautiful Ruins is a novel unlike any other you're likely to read this year". (Nick Hornby The Believer). Jess Walter is the author of the National Book Award finalist The Zero & the Edgar Award-winning Citizen Vince. His previous book The Financial Lives of the Poets was published in the UK by Penguin." ...

This beautiful collection of portraits shows sheep as you have never seen them before
- polished preened & styled to perfection
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When Ryan Media Group opens a new office in New York numbers whiz Sara Dillon happily accepts the position of Director of Finance. On her first weekend in her new town Sara has wild
- & very public
- sex with a gorgeous stranger on a balcony overlooking Chloe Mills' raucous engagement party. Sara assumes the tryst was a one-time thing but when her mysterious lover sends her the steamy phone video he took of their encounter she realizes he might have unearthed a side of her she'd never let herself explore. Unfortunately an affair with Max Stella Wall Street's newly-imported golden boy could be very very bad for her new career. Max has a legendary appetite for casual sex but the kindred kink he finds in Sara is hard to brush off. Soon the formerly-irresistible investment banker finds himself pursuing a woman who seems to want very little to do with him outside of their playful & creative exhibitionism. They have only three rules: keep it casual keep it private & no faces. That is until Max convinces Sara to come with him to a club that opens a new world for them & their sex-only relationship grows decidedly more intimate.

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Portraits of 40 majestic models The best-selling Beautiful...series has seen a plethora of handsome thoroughbreds step into the spotlight to have their looks preserved for posterity. Now our leading portrait photographer focuses his lens on beasts of an altogether different nature. Beautiful Tractors presents a fabulous variety box of the worlds most magnificent agricultural machines each primed polished & gleaming in all its robust glory. Stylishly lit against a studio backdrop these superb photographs of vintage & modern masterpieces make for an impressive line-up of engineering prowess. Each photograph is accompanied by a directory offering information on the machines history production & distribution use & of course size. From the elegant early Titan (oddly reminiscent of Stephensons Rocket) to the classic big red tractor looks of the prosaically named Allis-Chalmers Model U theres plenty here to stir the senses whether youre a bona fide petrol head or simply nostalgic for a simpler world in which a straightforward piece of farm machinery could also be a feast for the eyes. ...