So were you glad deep down? Were you glad to be rid of her? Your perfect sister? Were you secretly glad when she was killed? Following a horrific tragedy that leaves her once perfect family devastated Katherine Patterson moves to a new city starts at a new school & looks forward to a new life of quiet anonymity. But when Katherine meets the gregarious & beautiful Alice Parrie her resolution to live a solitary life becomes difficult. Katherine is unable to resist the flattering attention that Alice pays her & is so charmed by Alices contagious enthusiasm that the two girls soon become firm friends. Alices joie de vivre is transformative; it helps Katherine forget her painful past & slowly tentatively Katherine allows herself to start enjoying life again. But being friends with Alice is complicated
- & as Katherine gets to know her better she discovers that although Alice can be charming & generous she can also be selfish & egocentric. Sometimes even Alice is cruel. & when Katherine starts to wonder if Alice is really the kind of person she wants as a friend she discovers something else about Alice
- she doesnt like being cast off. Shocking & utterly absorbing Rebecca James strong narrative will grip readers from the very first page. Beautiful Malice" has become a publishing phenomenon sparking numerous auctions worldwide selling to 27 countries & launching a previously unknown writer into the centre of the international book market."

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At the age of 31 John Nash mathematical genius suffered a devastating breakdown & was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Yet after decades of leading a ghost-like existence he was to re-emerge to win a Nobel Prize & world acclaim. The inspiration for a major motion picture directed by Ron Howard Sylvia Nasars award-winning biography is a drama about the mystery of the human mind a triumph over incredible adversity & the healing power of love. ...

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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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. ...

In this title four experienced paper crafters show you everything you need to make your own quilled characters wildflowers & motifs to decorate your craftwork. This is a comprehensive source of innovative ideas in which each of the many projects is accompanied by full step-by-step techniques. Start from the beginning with clear explanations of the basics of quilling & build up to make everything from chocolate drops to angels it takes in frogs & hot air balloons along the way! It

Includes:: material from Quilled Borders & Motifs" (Judy Cardinal) 9781844482085; " Miniature Quilling" (Diane Boden Crane) 9781844482054; " Three-Dimensional Quilling" (Jane Jenkins) 9781844482047; & " Quilled Wild Flowers" (Janet Wilson) 9781844482184."

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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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