Traumatized by the events that took place in THE EVER-RUNNING MAN Sharon Mc Cone decides to take an extended vacation at her ranch in California's high desert country. Though she plans to contemplate her future Mc Cone soon becomes distracted by a troubled yet highly secretive Native American woman. When traces of violence at an abandoned resort lead directly back to the mysterious woman the county sheriff's deputy handling the case asks Mc Cone for assistance. The investigation will lead Mc Cone across the state & back to her own ranch where imminent danger lies closer than she ever expected & where her future & her life itself may hang in the balance. ...

Y'all need to get yourselves together. Here's a newsflash from the only High Priestess you have left at this dang school: Zoey isn't dead. & believe me I know dead. I've been there done that & got the fricken tee-shirt. Zoey Redbird is the youngest High Priestess in House of Night history & is the only person
- vamp or fledgling
- that can stop the evil Neferet from raising all kinds of immortal trouble. & she might just have a chance if she wasn't so busy being dead. Well dead is too strong a word. Stevie Rae knows she can bring her BFF back from her unscheduled va-cay in the Otherworld. But it's going to take a lot more than hoping to bring Zoey back. Stevie Rae will have to give up a few secrets of her own.. .

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It's spring break & the pretty little liars are trading in Rosewood for a cruise vacation. They want nothing more than to sail into the tropical sunset & leave their troubles behind for one blissful week. But where Emily Aria Spencer & Hanna go A goes too. From scuba diving to tanning on the upper deck A is there soaking up all their new secrets. Emily is smooching a stowaway. Aria's treasure-hunting partner is a little too interested in her booty. Spencer's going overboard trying to land a new boy. & a blast-or rather a crash-from Hanna's past could mean rough waters ahead for everyone. The liars better tighten their life jackets. A perfect storm is brewing & if they aren't careful A will bury them at sea... ...

When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her village as in so many others sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to ones family & was punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of arranging her punishment. One morning while Souad was washing the familys clothes he crept up on her poured petrol over her & set her alight. In the eyes of their community he was a hero. An execution for a crime of honour was a respectable duty unlikely to bring about condemnation from others. It certainly would not have provoked calls for his prosecution. More than five thousand cases of such honour killings are reported around the world each year & many more take place that we hear nothing about Miraculously Souad survived rescued by the women of her village who put out the flames & took her to a local hospital. Horrifically burned & abandoned by her family & community it was only the intervention of a European aid worker that enabled Souad to receive the care & sanctuary she so desperately needed & to start her life again. She has now decided to tell her story & uncover the barbarity of honour killings a practice which continues to this day Burned Alive is a shocking testimony a true story of almost unbelievable cruelty. It speaks of amazing courage & fortitude & of one womans determination to survive. It is also a call to break the taboo of silence that surrounds this most brutal of practices & which ignores the plight of so many other women who are also victims of traditional violence ...

A serial killer who wants to watch you burn... The media call him The Burning Man a brutal murderer who has beaten four young women to death before setting their bodies ablaze in secluded areas of London's parks. & now the fifth victim has been found... Maeve Kerrigan is an ambitious detective constable keen to make her mark on the murder task force. Her male colleagues believe Maeve's empathy makes her weak but the more she learns about the latest victim Rebecca Haworth from her grieving friends & family the more determined Maeve becomes to bring her murderer to justice. But how do you catch a killer no one has seen? & when so much of the evidence they leave behind has gone up in smoke? ...

Sonny Boy Marsallas a New Orleans street hustler entrusts Detective Dave Robicheaux with a mysterious notebook kicking off a series of violent incidents & raising questions that need answers & fast... What did Sonnys girlfriend know that got her murdered? Why is Sonny known as Red Angel by Central American guerrillas? & what do the Mafia want with a desolate stretch of New Iberia? This time Sonny Boy may have pushed his luck with the Giacano family one deal too far. A rich sardonic & terrifying portrayal of contemporary America with a setting which is as charged as an electric storm. ...

Joss Lambert has always been a loner constrained by a secret from his past until he finds friendship & solace firstly with Guy Liddell a friend from school & then with Guy's family who welcome him into their farmhouse home. Joss increasingly comes to depend upon the Liddells & treats Alvesdon Farm as the one place where he feels not only appreciated but also truly happy. But in late 1930s England the idyll cannot last. With war looming Joss is forced to confront the past. He escapes through flying becoming a fighter pilot in the RAF. But with the onset of war even the Liddells' world is crumbling. As Joss is fighting for his life in the Battle of Britain so he begins to fall madly in love with Stella
- Guy's twin
- but with tragic consequences. Leaving England & the Liddells far behind he continues to fly amid the sand & heat of North Africa's deserts flying above the ' Desert Rats' of the 8th Army until his hopes & dreams are seemingly shattered for good...

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Flames & funerals circus feats & seduction neighbours & nakedness: Tracy Chevalier's Burning Bright sparkles with historical drama. London 1792. The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped unforgiving city. They are leaving behind a terrible loss a blow that only a completely new life may soften. Against the backdrop of a city jittery over the increasingly bloody French Revolution a surprising bond forms between Jem the youngest Kellaway boy & streetwise Londoner Maggie Butterfield. Their friendship takes a dramatic turn when they become entangled in the life of their neighbour the printer poet & radical William Blake. He is a guiding spirit as Jem & Maggie navigate the unpredictable exhilarating passage from innocence to experience. Their journey inspires one of Blake's most entrancing works. Georgian London is recreated as vividly in Burning Bright as 17th-century Delft was in Tracy Chevalier's bestselling masterpiece Girl with a Pearl Earring. This novel is perfect for fans of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus & Essie Fox's Somnambulist. ...

The sequel to Falling Fast. Four months have passed & River & Flynns romance is still going strong. River thinks Flynn has his anger under control but when she discovers he has been getting into fights & is facing a terrible accusation at school she starts to question both Flynns honesty
- & the intensity of their passion. Things come to a head at a family get together when River sees Flynn fly into one unprovoked rage too many. The consequences for both of them are devastating & threaten to tear them apart forever.
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Ten brilliant seminal hard-edged nerve-enhancing stories from the most influential science fiction writer of our time. Ten brilliant seminal hard-edged nerve-enhancing stories from the most influential science fiction writer of our time. Since they were first published in the 1980s Gibsons vision has become a touchstone
- his lapidary prose seethes with buzz-phrases newly minted yet destined to be current well in to the future. Lowlife characters ghosts & hallucinations haunt the malls & plazas of an intensely realized holographic world a name-brand society with cloned Ninja bodyguards retro fashions stunning ideas. Gibson in the year 2000 is the unchallenged guru prophet & voice of the new cybernetic world order & virtual reality.
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