Bad Becky is cheeky opinionated & always in some kind of trouble. But you can't help loving her! I mean wouldn't you rather hear a story about a princess who gets gobbled up by the dragon rather than another soppy one where the prince saves the Princess? & if a magician at a party was rubbish wouldn't you point it out? & who wants their horrible Great Aunt Mildred visiting? So really Becky is just doing everyone a favor... The first book in a wickedly funny new series for readers gaining confidence. Bad Becky's got attitude! ...

Bad Becky is cheeky (but charming) opinionated & always in some kind of trouble. But you can't help loving her! I mean wouldn't you rather hear a story about a princess who gets gobbled up by the dragon rather than another soppy one where the prince saves the princess? & if a magician at a party was rubbish wouldn't you point it out? & who wants their horrible Great Aunt Mildred visiting? So really Becky is just doing everyone a favour.. .A wickedly funny new series for readers gaining confidence. Bad Becky's got attitude! ...

There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery & despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming & clever Baudelaire children read on... The three youngsters encounter a greedy & repulsive villain itchy clothing a disastrous fire a plot to steal their fortune & cold porridge for breakfast. Then again why trouble yourself with the unfortunate resolutions? Avoid these books in Lemony Snicket's international bestselling series & you'll never have to know what happens! ...

Readers everywhere will be entranced by bestselling Sheila O' Flanagan's unputdownable novel of friendship love & sweet revenge. Darcey & Nieve were best friends for life. Until Nieve stole the heart of Aidan the boy Darcey had fallen in love with while Nieve was travelling. Aidan was going to propose the very night Nieve caught his eye & Darcey had seen the ring. For the next ten years she's haunted by the memory of her humiliation. No career success no comfort her eccentric but loving family can offer not even (short-lived) marriage to Neil can console her. & then the invitation comes: to the wedding of Aidan & Nieve neither of whom she's seen since they left Ireland for life in the USA. They're coming home to have the wedding of a lifetime at Ireland's most expensive hotel. Will Darcey be there? Will there be fireworks? & can the past be put to rest at last? ...

For Jeremy Whittle there isnt much in life as spectacular as the Tour de France: sweat-streaked taut & burnished athletes toiling across vast & ancient European landscapes hundreds of thousands of fans lining the route. The twisting Mediterranean roads the jerseys the peloton in full flight
- these have become as familiar to him as the lines around his eyes. & then there are the riders: men of almost superhuman capabilities men who have become his friends men whose stories he has written day in day out for the past decade. But even the biggest fan can one day wake up to find that he has lost his faith. We all want to believe in our heroes. Thats why Jeremy got into cycling. But what happens when you cant? When youve seen too many positive dope tests when youve been lied to too many times when your sport is destroying itself from within? Bad Blood" is the story of Jeremy Whittles journey from unquestioning fan to Tour de France insider & confirmed sceptic. Its about broken friendships & a sport divided; about having to choose sides in the war against doping; about how galloping greed & corporate opportunism have led the Tour de France to the brink of destruction. Part personal memoir part devastating expose of a sport torn apart by drugs & scandal " Bad Blood" is a love letter to one mans past & a warning to cyclings future."
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Detective Paul Hjelm member of an elite Swedish team assembled to investigate violent international crime receives an urgent call from the FBI offices in America. A man has been found murdered at New York airport. The killer's violent methods bear a frightening resemblance to those of the notorious ' Kentucky Killer' a serial killer who was thought to have died some years before in a car crash witnessed by an FBI agent. The FBI believe that the killer has boarded a flight to Sweden but when the plane lands in Stockholm he escapes without being identified. Soon the bodies begin to pile up
- some bearing the hallmarks of the Kentucky Killer's signature torture device: a weapon that squeezes shut the vocal chords. Has he somehow returned from the dead or do they have a copy-cat on their hands? & what does the killer want in Sweden?
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Banks isnt back & thats the problem. If DCI Alan Banks had been in his office when his old neighbour came calling perhaps it would have turned out differently. Perhaps an innocent man would still be alive. & perhaps Bankss daughter wouldnt be on the run with a wanted man. But Banks is on holiday blissfully unaware of the terrible chain of events set in motion by the discovery of a loaded gun in a young womans bedroom & his daughters involvement with the ultimate bad boy.. . ...

Unable to cope with raising his children alone Robert Sullivan abandons them to others until he has a change of heart & decides to go back for them. But on the way there he is involved in a horrific accident. Jack & Nancy are placed in the brutal regime of the Galloway Children's Home where Jack's devotion to his sister & fiery temper land him in more trouble. The children find themselves at the mercy of the corrupt Clive Ennington who splits them up & sells Nancy off to the highest bidder. Meanwhile Mary Robert's only love is forced to seek a new life for herself. She decides to marry Paul Marshall the handsome owner of a seaside guesthouse but her chance of happiness is threatened by his embittered aunt. As Robert recovers in hospital he is determined to find & reunite his family. But when he realises the terrible consequences of his actions he begins to wonder if he will ever see Mary & the children again. ...

Several years after the first edition of Bad Boys Bad Men was published Donald W. Black MD brings us the Revised & Updated edition. Containing the same examination of antisocial personality disorder Dr. Black continues to draw on case studies scientific data & current events to explore antisocial behavior in people. In this new edition Dr. Black builds upon the succes of the previous volume & updates it with new research findings including the genetic & biological determinants of antiscoial personality disorder. Dr. Black also discusses the difference between & overlap with psycopathy. Several new cases have been added to Bad Boys Bad Men including John Wayne Gacy Mike Tyson & Sadam Hussein. He also briefly discusses antisocial women & provides a case example of Aileen Wuornos. ...

When Marlene Cowley hires Spenser to see if her husband Trent is cheating on her he encounters more than he bargained for. Not only does he find a two-timing husband but a second investigator as well hired by the husband to look after his wife. As a result of their joint efforts Spenser soon finds himself investigating both individual depravity & corporate corruption. Nobody does it better than Parker.
- The Sunday Times
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