BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER Considered the plain clever one in her family Lady Cressida Armstrong knows her father has given up on her ever marrying. But who needs a husband when science is the only thing to set Cressie's pulse racing? Disillusioned artist Giovanni di Matteo is setting the ton abuzz with his expertly executed portraits. Once his art was inspired; now it's only technique. Until he meets Cressie... Challenging intelligent & yet insecure Cressie is the one whose face & body he dreams of capturing on canvas. In the enclosed intimate world of his studio Giovanni rediscovers his passion as he awakens her own. ...

An erotic novel of discipline love & surrender from master storyteller Anne Rice. This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty resumes Beauty's explicit teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire & seduction. Now Beauty having indulged in a secret & forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan is sent away. Sold at auction she will soon experience the tantalizing punishments of 'the village ' as her education in love cruelty dominance submission & tenderness is turned over to the brazenly handsome Captain of the Guard. Once again Anne Rice's classic tale of pleasure & pain dares to explore the most primal & well-hidden desires of the human heart. This is the second of Anne Rice's classic Sleeping Beauty trilogy. ...

An erotic novel of discipline love & surrender from master storyteller Anne Rice. In this Anne Rice classic Beauty's adventures in the hypnotic realm of sexuality make her the bound captive of an Eastern Sultan & a prisoner in the exotic confines of the harem. As this voluptuous adult fairy tale moves towards its conclusion all Beauty's encounters with the myriad variations of sexual fantasy are presented in a sensuous seductive & erotic prose that intensifies Beauty's secret world. Anne Rice makes the forbidden side of passion a doorway into the hidden regions of the psyche & the heart in this final volume of the classic Sleeping Beauty trilogy. This is the third of Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty trilogy. ...

' Mad Nicholas' to his friends ' Scourge of Spain' to the enemy Sir Nicholas Beauvallet has never been known to resist a challenge. When a captured galleon yields the lovely Dona Dominica de Rada y Sylva he vows to return her & her father to the shores of Spain. But he has no sooner done so than he proposes a venture more reckless than any of his exploits on the high seas which have made him Drake's equal & a favourite of the Queen. He will take Dominica as his bride even if he must enter the lion's den... ...

This is the first adventure in the Beavor Towers" series. A magic spell whisks Philip away on his new kite to a far-off island where he meets the beavers
- Mr Edgar & his grandson Baby B. They tell him of the terrible danger that threatens them. The wicked witch Oyin has imprisoned most of the island's inhabitants in Beaver Towers & when her powers are complete she will put them to death & rule the isl&. Philip has to get her spell book in order to save them."
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In this fourth Beaver Towers adventure Philip & old Mr. Edgar set off on their travels so that Philip can learn how to use his powers to fight evil. But while they are away the island itself is under threat from a strange creature named Retson. This time it is up to Baby B the little beaver & Nick the hedgehog to save the day. ...

Darren Shan's Demonata series continues with more shocks demons & thrilling twists in the chilling Bec. As a baby Bec fought for her life. As a trainee priestess she fights to fit in to a tribe that needs her skills but fears her powers. & when the demons come the fight becomes a war. Bec's magic is weak & untrained until she meets the druid Drust. Under his leadership Bec & a small band of warriors embark on a long journey through hostile lands to confront the Demonata at their source. But the final conflict demands a sacrifice too horrific to contemplate... ...

One summer's day ten-year-old Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries
- & comes home with a dog. Winn-Dixie
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The New York Times bestselling e-book serialisation complete & in print for the first time. If you love Fifty Shades Bared to You & J. Kenner you'll adore Because You Are Mine... It's at a cocktail party in her honour that she first meets him
- & the attraction is immediate for graduate student Francesca Arno. It's also bewildering. She's not used to such a wholesale sexual response to a stranger. Enigmatic darkly intense with a commanding presence billionaire Ian Noble completely unnerves her. & she likes it. For Ian Francesca is the kind of woman he can't resist
- one that comes all too rarely: a true innocent. But he can sense in her a desire to open up to experiment to give herself to the fantasies of a man in control. The first kiss the first caress the first challenge for a woman who craves what she's never had
- a man who gets what he wants...
Includes: A PREVIEW OF BETH KERY'S WHEN I'M WITH YOU



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Becks Cognitive Therapy: Distinctive Features" explores the key contributions made by Aaron T. Beck to the development of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT). This book provides a concise account of Becks work against a background of his personal & professional history. The author Frank Wills considers the theory & practice of Becks cognitive therapy by firstly examining his contribution to the understanding of psychopathology & going on to explore Becks suggestions about the best methods of treatment. Throughout the book a commentary of how Becks thinking differs from other approaches to CBT is provided as well as a summary of the similarities & differences between Becks methods & other forms of treatment including psychoanalysis & humanistic therapy. " Becks Cognitive Therapy" will be ideal reading for both newcomers to the field & experienced practitioners wanting a succinct guide." ...