January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor lonely & desperate to change his life. So when hes offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship leaves Norway: five men & eight huskies crossing the Barents Sea by the light of the midnight sun. At last they reach the remote uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year. Gruhuken. But the Arctic summer is brief. As night returns to claim the land Jack feels a creeping unease. One by one his companions are forced to leave. He faces a stark choice. Stay or go. Soon he will see the last of the sun as the polar night engulfs the camp in months of darkness. Soon he will reach the point of no return
- when the sea will freeze making escape impossible. & Gruhuken is not uninhabited. Jack is not alone. Something walks there in the dark...
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It is the 1960s & the charismatic & cunning Spenser Mallon is a campus guru attracting the devotion & demanding sexual favours of his young acolytes. After he invites his most fervent followers to attend a secret ritual in a local meadow the only thing that remains is a gruesomely dismembered body
- & the shattered souls of all who were present. Years later one man attempts to understand what happened to his wife & his friends by writing a book about this horrible night & its through this process that they begin to examine the unspeakable events that have bound them in ways they cannot fathom but that have haunted every one of them throughout their lives. As each of the old friends tries to come to grips with the darkness of the past they find themselves face to face with the evil triggered so many years earlier...
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Dayan has been searching for centuries to find the one woman who can complete him a true lifemate who can save him from the darkness in his soul. Despairing of ever finding her & on the run from his enemies something drives Dayan to stop at a bar & perform some of his music. Then Corrine Wentworth walks in & Dayan knows instantly that she is the one. Corrine wants nothing more than to surrender her life & soul to Dayan but she is suffering from a degenerative heart disease & pregnant with her late husbands child. She is also running from the men who killed her husband the same group of fanatics who are hunting Dayan & his kind. Dayan must call on his family & the greatest healers of the Carpathians to aid him in a race against time to save Corrine whose fate is now inextricably linked to his own. ...

The peaceful Eldarin were the last of three ancient races. The mystical Oltor healers & poets had fallen before the dread power of the cruel & sadistic Daroth. Yet in one awesome night the invincible Daroth had vanished from the face of the earth. Gone were their cities their armies their terror. The Great Northern Desert was their only legacy. Not a trace remained for a thousand years... The War of the Pearl had raged for seven years & the armies of the four Duchies were exhausted & weary of bloodshed. But the foremost of the Dukes Sirano of Romark possessed the Eldarin Pearl & was determined to unravel its secrets. Then on one unforgettable day a dark mon rose above the Great Northern Desert & a black tidal wave swept across the l&. In moments the desert had vanished beneath lush fields & forests & a great city could be seen glittering in the morning sunlight. From this city re-emerged the blood-hungry Daroth powerful & immortal immune to spear & sword. They had only one desire: to rid the world of humankind for ever. Now the fate of the human race rests on the talents of three heroes: Karis warrior-woman & strategist; Tarantio the deadliest swordsman of the age; & Duvodas the Healer who will learn a terrible truth. ...

On the night lovely Neomi Renate a famous ballerina at the turn of the century was murdered an evil force turned her into a spectre
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A dark night of the soul is not a psychological syndrome but a quest for meaning during lifes darkest hours: the loss of a loved one the end of a relationship ageing & illness career disappointments or just an ongoing dissatisfaction with life. Thomas Moores extensive experience as a psychologist & theologian has taught him that the dark night is a challenge to restore ourselves & to become someone of substance depth & soul. By using these trying times as an opportunity to reflect & delve into the souls deepest needs we can find a new understanding of lifes meaning. Dark Nights of the Soul has its roots in a favourite chapter in Thomas Moores million copy bestseller Care of the Soul. In this beautifully-written & thought-provoking work he explores our contemporary anxieties & insecurities & shows how these metaphoric dark nights can become transforming rites of passage. ...

Scandal & mischief in the aristocracy
- a classic romp from Fredrica Alleyn Ambitious young interior designer Annabel Moss is delighted
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First the Army then the military police Virgil Flowers had kicked around for a while before Lucas Davenport recruited him to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension promising him Well only give you the hard stuff". Hed been doing the hard stuff for three years now
- but never anything like this. In the small town of Bluestem where everybody knows everybody a house way up on a ridge explodes into flames its elderly owner trapped inside. Following up rumours of financial scams plus some very dodgy activities with other mens wives Flowers discovers several reasons why the victim was so hated. & that wasnt even the reason why hed come to Bluestem. Three weeks before thered been another murder two in fact
- a doctor & his wife; the doctor found propped up in his own backyard both eyes shot out. There hadnt been a murder in Bluestem in years & now suddenly three? Flowers knows two things: This isnt a coincidence & this has to be personal. But just how personal Flowers might not find out until too late. Because the next victim.. .might be himself."

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The bend in the road rushed towards them just a few more seconds. Then with a succession of jarring crashes that shook the whole body of the car a burst of fire hit them from behind. The windscreen starred into a sheet of opaque diamond lacework the dashboard clock exploded powdering Shermaines hair with particles of glass two bullets tore through the seat ripping out the stuffing like the entrails of a wounded animal. Bruce Curry is the leader of a mercenary band with the dubious support of three white officers. His mission is to relieve a mining town cut off by the fighting & to retrieve a priceless consignment of diamonds. Ranged against his ill-disciplined unit are bandits guerrillas & hostile tribes that infest the l&. But there is another even deadlier enemy -- one of his own men.. . ...

Josh & Ixchel have travelled back in time but it might not be so easy to get home again. Theyve landed in the Mayan era when the prophecy about the world ending in 2012 was first foretold. & they cannot believe who they have found there. Clearly Josh isnt the only person to have cracked the secret of time travel. But a bigger surprise awaits the pair when they return to the 21st century. Nothing is quite as they remember it
- & its up to them to work out why.
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