Passions are about to flare for the Concannon sisters.. . Maggie & Brianna Concannon are two very different sisters. The calm & gentle Bri seems able to weather any storm even the constant criticism that rains down on them both from their mother but Maggie is a passionate & fiery artist whose temper is as bold as her art. Their mother's bitterness is a mystery to Bri & Maggie until secrets from the past challenge everything they've come to believe. It's Maggie's skill as a glass blower that brings Rogan Sweeney the international gallery owner to her small cottage in County Clare. His interest in her is purely professional until their personalities clash & sparks begin to fly.. . As her career takes off how will Maggie cope with the heat of the spotlight & feelings for Rogan that she would rather ignore? ...

Brianna Concannon has buried a broken heart under her fair calm exterior for ten long years. Jilted just weeks before the wedding to her childhood love Bri turned her attention to keeping house for her family in County Clare. She's cooled her passions for anything other than tending to the guests at her inn until one stormy night when the wind blows in a houseguest who could change everything.. . Grayson Thane the acclaimed thriller writer has come to Ireland to research his next bestseller. It's the latest stop on Gray's travels: with a past of his own that he'd rather forget Gray won't let anything tie him down. But he's soon possessed by the ghost stories of Ireland
- & the fired-gold hair of his hauntingly beautiful host. Stumbling across her late father's letters in an attic trunk Bri is about to make a discovery that will stir dark family secrets & change her life for ever. But will Gray stay with her to weather the storm?
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For Shannon Bodine losing her mother has been doubly heartbreaking: hours before she died her mother confessed that Shannon's father was not the man she believed but a married man in Irel&. Across the ocean Brianna & Maggie Concannon have been eagerly awaiting news of their half-sister. But the woman who visits Brie's guest house in County Clare is not the loving sibling they had hoped for. Shannon shaken by the truth of her birth stays distant from the sisters while she tries to clear her head
- & to shake the feeling that she has met the tall young farmer Murphy somewhere or sometime before.. .
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In Born Liars Ian Leslie takes the reader on an exhilarating tour of ideas that brings the latest news about deception back from the frontiers of psychology neuroscience & philosophy & explores the role played by lies
- both black & white
- in our childhoods our careers & our health as well as in advertising politics sport & war. Drawing on thinkers as varied as Augustine Charles Darwin Sigmund Freud & Joni Mitchell the author argues that far from being a bug in the human software lying is central to who we are; that we cannot understand ourselves without first understanding the dynamics of deceit. After reading Born Liars youll never think about lies
- or life
- in quite the same way again.



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Devyn Kell spent his life in service to the League until he learned of the double dealing & backstabbing that was costing innocent people their lives. Refusing to play those politics he became a Runner
- someone who makes sure planets get the weapons medicine & supplies they need to survive. May the gods have mercy on any who get in his way because he definitely wont. Alix Garran is a woman on the run from a past she cant escape. Signing on to work for Devyn as a Systems Engineer she finds a cause she can fight for
- & a man she can respect. But as Alixs past catches up to her & Devyns old enemies turn lethal they have to fight together...or fall alone.

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The second most infamous member of the shadow organisation called Sentella Kere an explosives engineer is known for striking terror in the hearts of all enemies. The bounty on his head is truly staggering & no one outside the Sentella knows his real identity. Zarya Starska grew up hard on the back streets of hell. Labeled a traitor because of her fathers political beliefs she dreams of a different life & a different world. A world where the harsh hand of the Caronese government doesnt destroy the lives of its citizens. As a resistance leader her goal is to topple to government that took her fathers life along with her mysterious right-hand man known only as Kere. But Kere has a dark secret. Hes out for revenge for past crimes against his family & plans to annihilate all those he feels guilty along with every resistance member he can find.. .including Zarya. ...

The second most infamous member of the shadow organisation called Sentella Kere an explosives engineer is known for striking terror in the hearts of all enemies. The bounty on his head is truly staggering & no one outside the Sentella knows his real identity. Zarya Starska grew up hard on the back streets of hell. Labeled a traitor because of her father's political beliefs she dreams of a different life & a different world. A world where the harsh hand of the Caronese government doesn't destroy the lives of its citizens. As a resistance leader her goal is to topple to government that took her father's life along with her mysterious right-hand man known only as Kere. But Kere has a dark secret. He's out for revenge for past crimes against his family & plans to annihilate all those he feels guilty along with every resistance member he can find.. .including Zarya. ...

I was born on 31 January 1979
- a Wednesday. I know it was a Wednesday becasue the date is blue in my mind & Wednesdays are always
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Bear Grylls is no stranger to extremes. During a three-year stint in the SAS he was involved in a horrific parachuting accident in Africa & broke his back in three places. Months of rehabilitation followed but never losing sight of his childhood dream of climbing Everest Bear went on to become the youngest Briton ever to reach the summit & survive. It was a close-run thing however as during the descent he was almost killed in a crevasse his life saved only by his team-mate & a rope. In 2003 Bear completed another world-record-breaking expedition leading his team through freezing spray & icebergs across the North Atlantic Ocean in a small inflatable boat. More drama followed as Bear a karate black belt set out to show the viewers of Channel 4 what it is really like to complete the gruelling basic training of the Foreign Legion. Now in Born Survivor" which accompanies a brand new eight-part series for Channel 4 the world's ultimate survivor shows us how to stay alive in the most unforgiving conditions on Earth. From crossing piranha-infested rivers & finding fresh food to building bush fires & fighting off grizzly bears
- all manner of survival techniques from our most dangerous environments are covered. So whether you find yourself stranded on a desert island in the Pacific lost in the Lake District or stuck in the snow on Greenland once you've read this book you too will be able to beat the elements & survive the wild."
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Born to be Riled" is a collection of hilarious vintage journalism from Jeremy Clarkson. Jeremy Clarkson it has to said sometimes finds the world a maddening place. & nowhere more so than from behind the wheel of a car where you can see any number of people acting like lunatics while in control (or not) of a ton of metal. In this collection of classic columns first published in 1999 Jeremy takes a look at the world through his windscreen shakes his head at what he sees
- & then puts the boot in. Among other things he explains: why Surrey is worse than Wales; how crossing your legs in America can lead to arrest; the reason cable TV salesmen must be punched; that divorce can be blamed on the birth of Jesus. Raving politicians pointless celebrities ridiculous personalities & the Germans all get it in the neck together with the stupid the daft & the ludicrous in a tour de force of comic writing guaranteed to have Jeremys postman wheezing under sackfuls of letters from the easily offended. Praise for Jeremy Clarkson: " Brilliant.. .laugh-out-loud". (" Daily Telegraph"). " Outrageously funny.. .will have you in stitches". (" Time Out"). Number-one bestseller Jeremy Clarkson writes on cars current affairs & anything else that annoys him in his sharp & funny collections. " Clarkson On Cars" " Dont Stop Me Now" " Driven To Distraction" " Round the Bend" " Motorworld" & "I Know You Got Soul" are also available as Penguin paperbacks; the Penguin App i Clarkson: The Book of Cars can be downloaded on the App Store. Jeremy Clarkson because his writing career on the Rotherham Advertiser. Since then he has written for the " Sun" & the " Sunday Times". Today he is the tallest person working in British television & is the presenter of the hugely popular " Top Gear"."
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