' Centaine screamed & drove the point of her stave down into the jaws with all her strength. She felt the sharpened end bite into the soft pink mucous membrane in the back of its throat saw the spurt of scarlet blood & then the lion locked its jaws on the stave & with a toss of its flying mane ripped it out of her hands & sent it windmilling out & down to hit the earth below.' The passionate love of a beautiful French aristocrat for a courageous South African aviator is begun & extinguished in the blazing skies of war-torn France. But Centaine de Thiry is bent on realizing some of the dreams which she & Michael Courtney had shared
- & sets out to seek a future for his unborn child in the country of Michael's birth. But in a monumental odyssey of disaster & adventure she must first brave all the combined terrors of war shipwreck thirst fever & the burning vastnesses of Namibia's Skeleton Coast before she sees another living soul...
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1935: Harry Jardine is a soldier of fortune. Forced to flee Hamburg after helping Jews escape Nazi Germany he is recruited by a secretive British committee to smuggle guns from Rumania into Abyssinia under threat of Italian invasion. Taken to the Horn of Africa the guns are transported over the harsh landscape a slave trader's route full of danger into the hands of the Ethiopian Army. On his travels Jardine acquires more baggage than he cares for including a beautiful but difficult American female in search of her archaeologist mother a drunken British reporter & a daredevil French flyer. But the Ethiopians are ill-equipped to face a modern Italian army using tanks bombers & poison gas. Trained for war can Jardine just walk away? Or will he be drawn into a bloody conflict against massive odds & still save those who now depend on him? ...

Randall Haight has a secret: when he was a teenager he & his friend killed a 14-year-old girl. Randall did his time & built a new life in the small Maine town of Pastors Bay but somebody has discovered the truth about Randall. He is being tormented by anonymous messages haunting reminders of his past crime & he wants private detective Charlie Parker to make it stop. But another 14-year-old girl has gone missing this time from Pastors Bay & the missing girls family has its own secrets to protect. Now Parker must unravel a web of deceit involving the police the FBI a doomed mobster named Tommy Morris & Randall Haight himself. Because Randall Haight is telling lies.. . ...

The true chronicler of my life a tall soft-looking man with watery eyes came up to me at the gathering & said as if he had been waiting a long time to tell me that he knew everything. I had never seen him before. This is the brilliant memoir of a man who starts out in Manhattan & comes of age in the skies over Korea before emerging as one of Americas finest authors in the New York of the 1960s. Burning the Days showcases Salters uniquely beautiful style with some of the most evocative pages about flying ever written together with portraits of the actors directors & authors who later influenced him. It is an unforgettable book about passion ambition & what it means to live & to write. ...

Bred by capricious parents for his innate leopard-shifting abilities billionaire Jake Bannaconni has spent his life in an emotional vacuum
- especially after a tragic twist of fate has left him to raise his infant son alone. But when his path crosses that of an enigmatic young woman Jake's life takes a detour he could never have predicted. There is something irresistible about Emma Reynolds
- something Jake can't live without. She's the first human to stir something in him he's never felt before so he hires her as his son's nanny to keep her close. It soon becomes apparent that she may not be all that she seems yet what's raging between them is pure animal instinct
- out of control burning wild & as hot as the lick of a flame.


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Burnley Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of Lancashire. Reproduced in full colour this is an exciting examination of well-known streets & famous faces & what they meant to the people of this area throughout the 19th & into the 20th Century. Looking beyond the exquisite exterior of these well-kept photos readers can see the historical context in which they are set & through the authors factual captions for every picture & carefully-selected choice of images the reader can achieve a reliable view of the local history. There is something for everyone here whether they have lived in the area all their lives or whether they are just visiting Burnley for the first time. Burnley Through Time also shows how photography has continually evolved to keep up with an ever changing society. ...

Uncle Nigel is determined to get a sun tan. But Tim is sure there is something sinister going on when his uncles skin starts to frazzle & his brain begins to fry. When Bart buys a magical monkeys ear in a market in Marrakesh he discovers that making wishes is a dangerous game
- you might just get what you wish for.. . And who is the writer of the shortest horror story ever written?
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1731: When his youngest son is killed in a tragic accident Sir William Keyt master of Norton House buries himself in his fortune. He builds a second vast mansion on his grounds squandering money he does not have on luxury his family does not want. Keyt has long been blind to the desires of others. His eldest son has fallen in love with their young maidservant Molly Johnson a ray of light in a household dimmed by tragedy. Keyt wants Molly for himself & driven mad with lust & jealousy he will do anything to have her... ...

An Anita Blake Vampire Hunter novel You cant trust anyone who sleeps with the monsters. Thats what Ive always said. Thats what Ive always believed. But now Im the one sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the City. Im Anita Blake the woman the vampires call the Executioner. From part of the solution Ive become part of the problem. So it hits close to home when an arsonist begins to target vampire-owned businesses all over town
- an arsonist who seems to want to destroy more than just property. Its the monsters who are in danger now. & its up to the Executioner to save them from the inferno.
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In a prison cell in the US a man stands trembling naked fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantanamo Bay. How did it come to this? he wonders. August 9th 1945 Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back she is twenty-one in love with the man she is to marry Konrad Weiss. In a split second the world turns white. In the next it explodes with the sound of fire & the horror of realisation. In the numbing aftermath of a bomb that obliterates everything she has known all that remains are the bird-shaped burns on her back an indelible reminder of the world she has lost. In search of new beginnings she travels to Delhi two years later. There she walks into the lives of Konrads half-sister Elizabeth her husband James Burton & their employee Sajjad Ashraf from whom she starts to learn Urdu. As the years unravel new homes replace those left behind & old wars are seamlessly usurped by new conflicts. But the shadows of history
- personal political
- are cast over the entwined worlds of the Burtons Ashrafs & the Tanakas as they are transported from Pakistan to New York & in the novels astonishing climax to Afghanistan in the immediate wake of 9/11. The ties that have bound them together over decades & generations are tested to the extreme with unforeseeable consequences. Sweeping in its scope & mesmerising in its evocation of time & place Burnt Shadows" is an epic narrative of disasters evaded & confronted loyalties offered & repaid & loves rewarded & betrayed."

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