The classic bestseller
- over a million copies sold worldwide High fashion low cunning
- & the boss from hell When Andrea first

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In the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries the era of the Reformation thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. In response to their horrifying symptoms
- violent convulsions displays of preternatural strength vomiting of foreign objects displaying contempt for sacred objects & others
- exorcists were summoned to expel the evil spirits from victims' bodies. This compelling book focuses on possession & exorcism in the Reformation period but also reaches back to the fifteenth century & forward to our own times. Entire convents of nuns in French & Spanish towns 30 boys in an Amsterdam orphange a small group of young girls in Salem Massachusetts
- these are among the instances of demon possession in the United States & throughout Europe that Brian Lavack closely examines taking into account the diverse interpretations of generations of theologians biblical scholars pastors physicians anthropologists psychiatrists & historians. Challenging the commonly held belief that possession signals physical or mental illness the author argues that demoniacs & exorcists
- consciously or not
- are following scripts encoded in their various religious cultures & their performances can only be understood in those contexts.




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Unputdownable Bagshawe (Cosmopolitan). Another fantastic blockbuster from the author of GLAMOUR & PASSION. Three heads are better than one... What do a feisty New Yorker an LA rock chick & a dreamy English public school girl have in common? On paper not a lot. But even though they live thousands of miles apart & have never met Rose Fiorello Poppy Allen & Daisy Markham have the strongest of bonds. They just dont know it yet. A sinister secret is buried deep at the heart of all their pasts & sooner or later it has to come out. When that happens one things for certain: the three girls lives will never be the same again. But will it finally bring them together? After all when there are old scores to settle theres definitely strength in numbers... ...

Sonny Farehams lover
- & also her boss
- is the charismatic Tony Bridgeman a successful & ruthless man who usually gets what

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Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist & London is his stamping ground. At a time when the supernatural world is in upheaval & spilling over into the mundane reality of the living his skills have never been more in dem&. A good exorcist can charge what he likes
- & enjoy a hell of a life-style
- but there's a risk: sooner or later he's going to take on a spirit that's too strong for him. After a year spent in 'retirement' Castor is reluctantly drawn back to the life he rejected & accepts a seemingly simple exorcism case
- just to pay the bills you underst&. Trouble is the more he discovers about the ghost haunting the archive the more things don't add up. What should have been a perfectly straightforward exorcism is rapidly turning into the Who Can Kill Castor First Show with demons were-beings & ghosts all keen to claim the big prize. But that's OK; Castor knows how to deal with the dead. It's the living who piss him off...


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Convicted of a series of horrific crimes against young women in the up-market California town of Santa Barbara wealthy playboy Charlie Mendez has fled across the US border into Mexico. As one bounty hunter after another meets a grisly end at the hands of the murderous drug cartel his family have hired to keep him safe it seems that Mendez is one fugitive destined to remain beyond the reach of the law. Or at least thats how it looks until one determined victim persuades high-end security specialist Ryan Lock & his partner retired Marine Ty Johnson to take on the case. Plunged into a nightmare world where no one can be trusted least of all the authorities the two men discover a city more deadly than any war zone. Worse still when an attractive young American touristis snatched from the streets it appears that Mendez has returned to his old ways. But in order to stop him before he claims another victim will Lock & Ty have to pay the Devils Bounty? ...

He doesnt need Alex Riders girly gadgets. Hes much more fanciable than Andy Mc Nabs Boy Soldier. His adventures will take you to places even Wilbur Smith hadnt thought of. Soon after escaping an assassin that bursts from the shadows to try & kill him in the dark windswept grounds of his school in Dartmoor Max Gordon discovers that his explorer father has also gone missing. Max is determined to find him whatever dangers may lay in his path. A secret clue that his father has left leads Max to the inhospitable wilderness of Namibia & the discovery of a potential massive ecological disaster masterminded by the very powerful & completely ruthless businessman Shaka Chang. Whoever is behind Maxs fathers disappearance is determined to get rid of Max too. For good. The Devils Breath" is the first incredible book in a blockbuster new adventure series for boys & girls of 9+ with more plot twists & death defying action scenes than a Bond film. A world of stampeding buffalo lethal scorpions ancient tribes & prophecies awaits you..." ...

Rumours of plague threaten Cambridge again ten years after the Black Death had almost laid waste to the town. Neither the church nor its priests had defended people from the disease & now they turn elsewhere for protection to pagan ritual & magical potions. It is a ripe atmosphere to be exploited by the mysterious Sorcerer an anonymous magician whose increasing influence seems certain to oust both civil & church leaders from power. One murder another unexplained death a font filled with blood a desecreated grave
- all bear the hallmarks of the Sorcerers hand only the identity of the magician remains a mystery. A mystery which Matthew Barthlomew must solve before he loses his reputation.. .and his life.
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In the heart of summer in the dead of night something wakes you. The house is quiet. The children are sleeping. The kitchen is empty. Except for the body on the floor. A series of brutal home invasions is terrorizing the Peak District. Until now the burglars havent left a clue. This time theyve left a corpse. But as the death toll rises two intrepid cops begin to suspect that the robberies
- & the murders
- are not what they seem. Beneath the scorching summer sun a dangerous game is in play.. .and a merciless killer is hiding in plain sight. Packed with twists suspense & danger The Devils Edge is a gripping thriller to rival the very best of Peter Robinson & Peter James. PRAISE FOR STEPHEN BOOTH A modern master Guardian Wonderful Daily Mail One of our best storytellers Sunday Telegraph

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FBI agent Sean Reilly & archaeologist Tess Chaykin heroes of Raymond Khourys bestselling Templar novels return in another edge-of-your-seat thriller that reaches from present day back to 1700s Mexico
- & possibly beyond. What if there was a natural drug previously lost to history in the jungles of Central America capable of inducing an experience so momentous
- & so unsettling
- that it might shake the very foundations of Western civilization? What if powerful forces on both sides of the law got wind of that drug & launched a vicious uncompromising pursuit to possess it? In Raymond Khourys million-copy-selling Templar novels Reilly & Tess traveled the globe to unravel ancient mysteries with present-day ramifications. In The Devils Elixir they find themselves dragged into a race
- against the clock against a brutal drug kingpin known as El Brujo"
- the sorcerer
- & even against government authorities
- to merge two divergent trails one several hundred years old the other as current as a heartbeat that could drag humanity to the brink of self-destruction. Packed with the nonstop suspense & unexpected twists Raymond Khoury fans delight in The Devils Elixir is destined for bestseller lists everywhere."






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