Somalia
- a lawless violent land ignored by the West ripped apart by civil war & famine fought over by drug-fuelled gun-crazy clan
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Winter in Three Pines & the sleepy village is carpeted in snow. Its a time of peace & goodwill
- until a scream pierces the biting
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Sookie Stackhouse has one last adventure in store. Life has taken her from a waitress in Merlotte's Bar Bon Temps to part owner; from social outcast to the heart of her community; from a vampire's girlfriend to the wife of one of the most powerful vampires in the state. She has survived explosions revolutions & attempts on her life. Sookie has endured betrayal heartbreak & grief...and she has emerged a little stronger & little wiser every time. But with life comes new trials... The question is in the end: who will love who will live & who will be dead ever after? ...

One house. Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty microphones. Yet again the public gorges its voyeuristic appetite as another group of unknown & unremarkable people submit themselves to the brutal exposure of the televised real-life soap opera House Arrest. Everybody knows the rules: total strangers are forced to live together while the rest of the country watches them do it. Who will crack first? Who will have sex with whom? Who will the public love & who will they hate? All the usual questions. & then suddenly there are some new ones. Who is the murderer? How did he or she manage to kill under the constant gaze of the thirty television cameras? Why did they do it? & who will be next? ...

Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident & his mother is succumbing to the greasy charms of her dead husbands brother Uncle Alan. The remaining certainties of Philips life crumble away when his fathers ghost appears in the pub & declares Uncle Alan murdered him. Arming himself with weapons from the school chemistry cupboard Philip vows to carry out the ghosts relentless demands for revenge. But will Leah the gorgeous daughter of Uncle Alans God-fearing business partner Mr. Fairview prove too much of a distraction? & can the words of a ghost be trusted any more than the lies of the living? Philip makes his decision & when the moment comes to act he finds himself hurtling towards disaster. Just as Matt Haigs acclaimed & bestselling first novel The Last Family in England" was a brilliant reworking of Henry IV Part 1 with dogs in the major roles so " The Dead Fathers Club" gives more than a nod towards Hamlet. Hilariously funny it is full of poignant insights into the strange workings of the world seen through the eyes of a child." ...

Solving the mystery behind your death can be murder. Charlotte wakes up at Hotel Atessa home to murdered New York teenagers & HQ of The Dead Girls Detective Agency. Before she has time to adjust to her new erm dead self she's thrust into the arms of her new afterlife companions Lorna Nancy & the cute
- if slightly hostile
- dead boy Eddison. But where does this leave Charlotte & her boyfriend David? Is it possible to have a long-distance relationship from beyond the grave? The only way out of this limbo is to figure out who killed her or she'll have to spend eternity here. But who could hate her enough to want her dead?

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Claire has her share of challenges. Like being a genius in a school that favours beauty over brains; homicidal girls in her dorm & finding out that her college town is overrun with the living dead. On the up side she has a new boyfriend with a vampire-hunting dad. But when a local fraternity throws the Dead Girls' Dance hell is really going to break loose. ...

A hugely revered Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative history of Reagan Gorbachev & the dying days of the Cold War
- & the dangerous
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When Jack Haines reports a break-in at his greenhouse the motive of the intruder is unclear. Other than the destruction of some expensive orchids no damage has been done & nothing seems to be missing. But Detectives Sloan & Crosby sense something sinister & soon their suspicions are confirmed. Similar reports are multiplying & sabotage is the word on everyones lips. The pair are drawn into an equally perplexing case when the mysterious Miss Enid Maude Osgathorp goes missing. Investigations begin at her deserted abode Canonry Cottage where the detectives soon discover that the house has been raided. Shattered glass is found in the larder & traces of blood bespatter the floor
- a disturbing event has taken place but the identity of the perpetrator is unknown. It soon becomes clear that the cases are linked but will this provide the clues necessary to solve the mystery? Detectives Sloan & Crosby aim to find out.. .
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