Book six in Kelley Armstrong's supernatural series marks the return of werewolf Elena Michaels from BITTEN & STOLEN. When half-demon Xavier calls in the favour Elena owes him it seems easy enough
- steal Jack the Ripper's ' From Hell' letter away from a Toronto collector who had himself stolen it from the Ripper evidence boxes in the Metropolitan Police files. But nothing in the supernatural world is ever as simple as it seems. Elena accidentally triggers a spell placed on the letter & manages to tear an opening that leads into the nether regions of Victorian London. Toronto may be looking for a tourism boost but ' Gateway to Hell' isn't quite the new slogan the city had in mind.. .
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When the body of a young woman is discovered deep beneath the icy waters of Lake Grant a note left under a rock by the shore points to suicide. But within minutes it becomes clear that this is no suicide. Its a brutal cold-blooded murder. All too soon former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton
- home for Thanksgiving after a long absence
- finds herself unwittingly drawn into the case. The chief suspect is desperate to see her but when she arrives at the local police station she is met with a horrifying sight
- he lies dead in his cell the words Not me scrawled across the walls. Something about his confession doesnt add up & deeply suspicious of Lena Adams the detective in charge Sara immediately calls in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Shortly afterwards Special Agent Will Trent is brought in from his vacation to investigate. But he is immediately confronted with a wall of silence. Grant County is a close-knit community with loyalties & ties that run deep. & the only person who can tell the truth about what really happened is dead...


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This month my name is Mary. My name is different every month
- Brandy Honey Amy...sometimes Joe doesn't even bother to ask
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When the first body is found mutilated & strangled on the riverbanks Philadelphia homicide detectives Kevin Byrne & Jessica Balzano suspect yet another case of random urban violence. Then it happens again. & again. Carefully dressed & posed each victim seems to tell a story so gruesome that Byrne & Balzano struggle at first to make sense of the killer's dark & twisted imagination. But when they stumble upon a collection of old fairy tales the fragile link between the murders suddenly becomes clear
- & with it the terrifying conclusion of the killer's plan. Desperately they try to anticipate the madman's next move but as the body count rises the killing spree spirals out of control.. .
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The old rules of Left & Right no longer apply. Left-wingers keenly support the bombing of Belgrade & the invasion of Iraq. Tories warn against the threat to civil liberties. The progressive BBC gives a fair hearing to the Conservative Party. Socialist journalists turn & rend Ken Livingstone. In democratic London merely expressing your opinion can be seriously bad for your career while in autocratic Moscow you can say pretty much what you like provided you dont do anything about it. The tearing down of the old Iron Curtain may have allowed markets to sweep into the old Warsaw Pact lands
- but it has also permitted revolutionary left-wing ideas to spread like a bacillus through the West. Nobody really cares any more about the old shibboleths of state ownership. The British Labour Party
- which opposed nuclear weapons supposedly on principle when they mattered
- is quite happy to spend billions on the same weapons now that they are unnecessary. The supposed right is as confused & nonsensical as the supposed left. Neo-conservatives run vast budget deficits at home & engage in utopian adventures abroad. They are actively opposed to old conservative ideas such as national sovereignty strong families & rigorous selective education & happy to bend the knee to left-wing orthodoxies from man-made global warming to egalitarianism. The political compass is broken its needle swinging wildly & meaninglessly. The existing political parties have converged or perhaps simply retreated in confusion on to what looked like safe territory the often tried & repeated failed policies of Fabian Social Democracy now worsened by 1960s sexual & social radicalism. They are no longer adversaries their personnel are interchangeable & they struggle to find ways to distinguish themselves from each other. They simply ignore
- or deny
- huge areas of human experience & concern from mass immigration to the collapse of marriage & the disappearance of order & rigour in the state education system. Yet conventional wisdom continues to insist that formal politics can & should continue as it did before
- & that an exasperated & increasingly angry electorate should place its hopes in a mere change of personnel at the next election. Peter Hitchens argues for the re-establishment of proper adversary politics & the rediscovery of principle.





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The world's most famous travelling reporter must call on a feathered friend to track down a famous artifact.. .and solve a murder in the process. The Arumbaya fetish has been stolen! But with the help of a talking parrot Tintin is soon on the hunt for the famous artefact which can be distinguished by its broken ear. He must solve a murder & discover the true value of the fetish & quick
- because he is not the only one on the trail! 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.
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A gritty tale of family & a love that holds no bounds from the best-selling author of Nobodys Girl & A Fathers Revenge. Celia Frost has always thought herself a cut above the other residents of Lark Rise in Battersea. When her beloved son Thomas starts seeing Amy Miller a girl from the bottom of the Rise Celia disapproves thinking her common. When Celias husband leaves her & Thomas announces he is to marry Amy she is more determined than ever to split them up. Celia needs an ally so she writes to her elder son Jeremy asking him to come home. Jeremys arrival unleashes a tide of jealously & hate. He wants everything that belongs to Thomas
- especially Amy. As Jeremys dangerous obsession for his brothers wife grows Amy must fight for her marriage & her baby. The heartbreaking new novel from the bestselling author of A Fathers Revenge & Nobodys Girl.
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She was too grown-up for childish games but too young to become a woman. Living with her parents & brother in her Grandmother Emmas enormous mansion Jordan March tries to be a good girl & follow her grandmothers strict rules. But one day without warning Jordans body begins to change & everyone notices her in a way that seems dark dangerous & threatening. Suddenly the March family secrets are unleashed & Jordan is ashamed & afraid that her soft curves are somehow unwelcome. Now Grandmother Emma sets out to make Jordan pay for her familys past mistakes sending her world spinning wildly out of control. ...

We hadnt always lived on an island.. .why would anyone dream of such a thing if they had a house with its own path & a gate at the end of it?" When Suresh & Sandeep run away from home to escape their abusive & bullying father they do so with the hope that they are going to find something better. However soon Sandeep & Suresh find themselves working to collect rubbish (broken glass) in the big city
- & their new home is a traffic island in the middle of a busy road. Is this their future forever or can the brothers change their fates to something much more hopeful?"
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If you dont care about her who will? Hope Randall leads a quiet life but that peace is about to be shattered. When a stranger turns up on her doorstep bringing news of a half-sister she never knew she had hes going to change her world for ever. Connies in deep trouble & the mysterious Flint needs Hopes help in finding her. Returning to London Hope is forced to confront old demons
- & new ones. To find her sister shell have to toughen up & fast. But when she enters the dark underworld of the East End its not only the notoriously savage Street family shell have to worry about: theres also a psychopath on the loose attacking working girls. If Connies going to be saved Hope may have to get close to the enemy.. .
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