Morganville Texas is a quiet college town where humans & vampires live in relative peace. But lately a great deal of blood is being spilled
- not in a feeding frenzy but for someone's twisted idea of entertainment. After discovering that vampires populate Morganville
- & surviving a number of adventures with her new night-dwelling friends
- college student Claire Danvers has come to realise that for the most part the undead just want to live their lives. But someone else wants them to get ready to rumble. There's a new extreme sport being broadcast over the Internet: bare-knuckle fights pitting captured vampires against one another
- or worse against humans. Tracking the out-of-town signal leads Claire
- accompanied by a loyal group of friends & frenemies
- to discover that what started as an online brawl will soon threaten everyone in Morganville. & if they want to survive they'll have to do a lot more than fight...





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One minute Leigh was walking home in the early hours of the morning & the next a vampire was sinking his teeth into her neck. It turns out he was a rogue vampire already marked for termination.. .but that doesnt do Leigh any good. The damage has already been done: shes become one of them. Lucian Argeneau rogue vampire hunter has been alive for over two thousand years & theres not much that can excite him anymore. Food has become tasteless sex is ordinary life is increasingly bl&. Then Leigh drops into his life & suddenly he finds himself craving coffee.. .and imagining the sassy brunette atop the black satin sheets of his lovely big bed! Its Lucians job teach Leigh about being immortal a task made more difficult as tutoring her ignites a fire in him that hasnt burned for centuries. But until they stop a renegade bloodsucker from destroying the human race the passion will have to wait! ...

As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family & friends. Rumors of rebel attacks were no more than a distant worry. But when 12-year-old Mariatu set out for a neighboring village she never arrived. Heavily armed rebel soldiers many no older than children themselves attacked & tortured Mariatu. During this brutal act of senseless violence they cut off both her hands. Stumbling through the countryside Mariatu miraculously survived. The sweet taste of a mango her first food after the attack reaffirmed her desire to live but the challenge of clutching the fruit in her bloodied arms reinforced the grim new reality that stood before her. With no parents or living adult to support her & living in a refugee camp she turned to begging in the streets of Freetown. In this gripping & heartbreaking true story Mariatu shares with readers the details of the brutal attack its aftermath & her eventual arrival in Toronto. There she began to pull together the pieces of her broken life with courage astonishing resilience & hope. ...

Rule 1: Never get involved with someone who wont be there for you when the sun comes up. Rule 2: Never kiss a vampire.. .it can be a pain in the neck. Once bitten twice shy
- & sexy PI Jackie Morrisey *so* wasnt going there again with a vampire. Vincent Argeneau might be the hottest guy shed ever met living or dead but shed been hired to stop a killer from turning him into dust not to jump into bed with him. So what if Vincents had four hundred years to perfect his kissing skills & looks incredibly tempting when he runs around the house shirtless. Hes also charming protective.. .and did we mention he can kiss? Jackie needs to be on her guard or else shell have to come up with a new rule: if youre going to fall in love with a vampire make sure its a bite to remember.
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In this landmark series literary"ations legend Fred Metcalf builds on the success of his bestselling series of"ations books for Penguin to produce classic far-ranging volumes of humorous"es on just about every subject you will ever need. This amazing new series is a must-have for every bookshelf. ...

Ive been fighting it all night. Im going to lose.. . Nature wins out. It always does. Elena Michaels didnt know that her lover Clay was a werewolf until he bit her changing her life forever. Betrayed & furious she cannot accept her transformation & wants nothing to do with her Pack
- a charismatic group of fellow werewolves who say they want to help. When a series of brutal murders threatens the Pack
- & Clay
- Elena is forced to make an impossible choice. Abandon the only people who truly understand her new nature or help them to save the lover who ruined her life & who still wants her back at any cost.


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Blind dates can be bad but Sarah Dearlys date is a true contender for worst ever. His neck nibbling didnt just leave a bruise; it turns her into a vampire -- & the newest target for a pack of zealot vampire hunters. With her date now their latest victim Sarah runs for her immortal life -- straight into Thierry de Bennicoeur a master vampire who is just a wee bit suicidal. Thierry cant resist a damsel in distress & agrees to teach Sarah how to live the vampire life if shell help him end his own. But as it turns out Sarah may be his best reason for living. ...

Now that the threat to the vampires of Morganville has been defeated the gravest danger to the human residents is the enemy within.. . For years the human & vampire residents of Morganville have managed to coexist in peace. But thanks to the eradication of the parasitic creatures known as the draug the vampires of Morganville have now been freed of their usual constraints. With the vampires indulging their every whim the town's human population is determined to hold on to their lives by taking up arms. College student Claire Danvers with ties to both humans & vampires isn't about to take sides. To make matters worse a television show comes to Morganville searching for ghosts just as vampire & human politics collide. Now Claire & her friends have to figure out how to keep the peace without ending up on the nightly news.. .or worse. ...

Laure seventeen beautiful & already abandoned twice in her young life. Once by the glamorous mother she can barely remember a woman who brought shame on the St Lazare family name & fled to America; & then again by a handsome soldier who left her pregnant & alone facing the wrath of her grandmother. Amelie caught in a world where shes neither servant nor mistress trapped between the St Lazare family shes always worked for & the simmering hostility of a country on the verge of meltdown. With a past she knows nothing about & no family of her own she yearns to find a place that can be home. Melanie the rock stars daughter who has everything money can buy except the love she craves. A daddys girl caught in a whirl of damaging relationships testing those closest to her. In one man she sees the chance to change her life for ever but at what price? In a story that begins in the relentless heat of a Haitian summer & sweeps through the luxury of Americas elite to the colourful chaos of East End London BITTER CHOCOLATE is a glorious tale of the quest for love marriage & finding a place to belong. ...

In July 2007 Zimbabwe's worsening economy saw inflation skyrocket to 7 634 per cent deepening the already chronic food shortages in a country where only one in five of the adult population is in employment. Months later on 20 November 2007 Ian Smith the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia died leaving behind him a lifetime of resistance to black majority rule & the dangers that he believed it would bring to his country. Ian Smith was a man with the ability to excite powerful emotions in all who heard his name. To those who still revere his memory he was a hero a mighty leader a man whose formidable integrity led him into head-to-head confrontation with the Labour Government of Britain in the 1960s. To others he was & remains a demon a reactionary whose intransigence long delayed majority rule in an important corner of Africa. The last decades of the twentieth century & the first years of the new millennium have seen Zimbabwe spiral into a chaos of violence & towards the brink of economic collapse prompting many to reappraise Smith's role & the prescience of his actions. In this revealing & important historical document Ian Smith charts the rise & fall of a once-great nation. He tells the remarkable story behind the signing of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence as well as the excesses of power that Mugabe has used to create the virtual dictatorship which exists in Zimbabwe today. ...