Raised by Father Fujimoto a famous exorcist Rin Okumura never knew his real father. One day a fateful argument with Father Fujimoto forces Rin to face a terrible truth
- the blood of the demon lord Satan runs in Rin's veins! Rin swears to defeat Satan but doing that means entering the mysterious True Cross Academy & becoming an exorcist himself. With the defeat of the Impure King the Exwires have returned to their routine lives back at True Cross Academy
- but the routine doesn't last for long! Halfway around the world a strange encounter in the desert is the harbinger of evil things to come. An upturn in supernatural incidents at the academy involves Rin & his friends but their seemingly simple tasks are about to draw them into a far larger conspiracy. Powerful forces have begun to awaken & an old enemy prepares for a new conflict.

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Penelope Fitzgeralds final masterpiece. Set in Germany at the very end of the eighteenth century The Blue Flower is the story of the brilliant Fritz von Hardenberg a graduate of the Universities of Jena Leipzig & Wittenberg learned in Dialectics & Mathematics who later became the great romantic poet & philosopher Novalis. The passionate & idealistic Fritz needs his fathers permission to announce his engagement to his hearts heart his true Philosophy twelve-year-old Sophie von Kuhn. It is a betrothal which amuses astounds & disturbs his family & friends. How can it be so? One of the most admired of all Penelope Fitzgeralds books The Blue Flower was chosen as Book of the Year more than any other in 1995. Her final book it confirmed her reputation as one of the finest novelists of the century. ...

The Silk sisters are back rescued from their evil uncle by the impossibly glamorous fashionista Nolita Newbuck. But could it be that the devil really DOES wear Prada? The sisters must continue the dangerous search for their mysteriously missing parents but nothing is ever quite as it seems... ...

Private eye Kate Brannigan confronts betrayal & cold-blooded greed as she investigates the alien world of medical experimentation & the underbelly of the rock music business. Kate Brannigans not just having a bad day shes having a bad week. Her boyfriends death notice is in the paper her plan to catch a team of fraudsters is in disarray & a neo-punk band want her to find out whos trashing their flyposters. & her business partner wants her to buy him out. Fine but private eyes with principles never have that kind of cash. Kate cant even cry on her best friends shoulder for Alexis has worries of her own. Her girlfriends pregnant & when the doctor responsible for the fertility treatment is murdered Alexis needs Kate like shes never done before. So whats a girl to do? Delving into the alien world of medical experimentation & the underbelly of the rock-music business Kate confronts betrayal & cold-blooded greed as she fights to save not only her livelihood but her life as well! ...

Planet Earth is a paradox
- a lush fertile world three-quarters-covered by water yet in danger of running dry. Fresh water is disappearing
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Blue Lightning is the fourth book in Ann Cleeves' Shetland series -- which is now the major BBC1 drama starring Douglas Henshall SHETL&. With the autumn storms raging Fair Isle feels cut off from the rest of the world. Trapped tension is high & tempers become frayed. Enough to drive someone to murder.. .A woman's body is discovered at the renowned Fair Isles bird observatory with feathers threaded through her hair. The islanders react with fear & anger. Detective Jimmy Perez has no support from the mainland & must investigate the old-fashioned way. He soon realizes that this is no crime of passion -- but a murder of cold & calculated intention. There's no way off the island until the storms abate -- & so the killer is also trapped just waiting for the opportunity to strike again. Also available in the Shetland series are Raven Black White Nights Red Bones & Dead Water. Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series (ITV television drama VERA) contains five titles of which The Glass Room is the most recent. ...

The world's most famous travelling reporter is on the trail of the Blue Lotus. In India Tintin gets drawn into a dangerous mystery revolving around a madness-inducing poison. He traces its origins to Shanghai & a nefarious web of opium traffickers. But can he outwit the crooks? Join the most iconic character in comics as he embark on an extraordinary adventure spanning historical & political events & thrilling mysteries. Still selling over 100 000 copies every year in the UK & having been adapted for the silver screen by Steven Spielberg & Peter Jackson in 2011 The Adventures of Tintin continue to charm more than 80 years after they first found their way into publication. Since then an estimated 230 million copies have been sold proving that comic books have the same power to entertain children & adults in the 21st century as they did in the early 20th. ...

In September 1939 World War Two is declared. For RAF fighter pilots patrolling the Franco-German border it is a bizarre time: one moment they are chasing an elusive Luftwaffe the next ordering champagne in Paris. Then in May 1940 Hitler launches Blitzkrieg & the Hurricane squadrons find themselves engulfed in battle. Blue Man Falling follows the fortunes of two RAF pilots; Englishman Kit Curtis & American Ossie Wolf who clash not only with the Germans but also with each other fighting for different reasons & employing different methods as France collapses & the Allies face humiliation & defeat. They also encounter the insidious Fifth Column the enemy within & those intent on profiting from chaos... ...

The final novel in Kim Stanley Robinsons massively successful & lavishly praised Mars trilogy. The ultimate in future history Daily Mail Mars has grown up It is fully terraformed
- genetically engineered plants & animals live by newly built canals & young but stormy seas. It is politically independent. A brave & buzzing new world. Most of the First Hundred have died. Those that remain are like walking myths to Martian youth. Earth has grown too much Chronic overpopulation bitter nationalism scarce resources. For too many Terrans Mars is a mocking utopia. A dream to live for fight for...perhaps even die for.
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It is the most singular of sounds yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions. Miles Davis Kind of Blue" is the best selling piece of music in the history of jazz & for many listeners among the most haunting in all of twentieth-century music. It is also notoriously the only jazz album many people own. Recorded in 1959 (in nine miraculous hours) there has been nothing like it since. Its atmosphere
- slow dark meditative luminous
- became all-pervasive for a generation & has remained the epitome of melancholy coolness ever since. Richard Williams has written a history of the album which for once does not rip it out of its wider cultural context. He evokes the essence of the music
- identifying the qualities that make it so uniquely appealing
- while making effortless connections to painting literature philosophy & poetry. This makes for an elegant graceful & beautifully-written narrative."



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