Meet Alex Hoffmann: among the secretive inner circle of the ultra-rich he is something of a legend. Based in Geneva he has developed a revolutionary system that has the power to manipulate financial markets. Generating billions of dollars it is a system that thrives on panic
- & feeds on fear. & then in the early hours of one morning while he lies asleep a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of his lakeside home. So begins a waking nightmare of paranoia & violence as Hoffmann attempts
- with increasing desperation
- to discover who is trying to destroy him
- before its too late...



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The silent snow-covered streets of Oslo are a perfect scene of Christmas tranquillity. But over the tolling of bells for the last Sunday of Advent a black note sounds. A boy's body washes up near the shoreline of the city's Aker Bridge. His corpse is bloated by the water almost unrecognisable. Nobody has even bothered to report him missing. One week later the bishop of Bergen is found stabbed to death on a deserted street. Eva Karin Lysgaard is a popular public figure a sixty-two year-old grandmother: why was she on a lone errand in the deserted city on the night before Christmas? Johanne Vik criminal researcher & police profiler is called in to untangle the motivation behind the bishop's murder. But with her husband at the head of this increasingly high-profile investigation Vik's association with the case is under intense scrutiny. & why does Lysgaard's shocking death lead her towards the sad death of an unknown boy? ...

Compulsive daydreamer Isadora Wing doesnt want much
- just to be free & to find the perfect guiltless zipless sexual encounter.
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Sent to an Industrial School in Dublin at the age of seven Patrick Touher was forced into a tough regime of education & training prayer & punishment strict discipline & fearful nights. No allowances were made for emotion sentiment or boyhood worries & anyone who disturbed the routine was severely punished. Artane demanded absolute obedience absolute submission; Patrick's was an education in cruelty & fear. Patrick Touher spent eight long years in Artane Industrial School. Run by the Christian Brothers the school has become synonymous with the widespread abuse of children in Ireland in the 1940s & 1950s which is currently the subject of a Commission inquiry. This is the inside story of a childhood lived in the most horrific of circumstances. A moving & powerful true account Fear of the Collar" bears testament to the courage & determination of the children that society forgot." ...

The worst day of Tim Blake's life started out with him making breakfast for his seventeen-year-old daughter Sydney. Syd was staying with him while she worked a summer job
- even if he wasn't entirely sure what her job at the Just Inn Time motel actually was
- & Tim hoped this quality father-daughter time would somehow help her deal with his divorce. When she didn't arrive home at her usual time he thought she'd probably gone to the mall to hang with her friends. When she didn't answer her phone he began to worry. When she didn't come home at all he began to panic. & when the people at the motel said they had no Sydney Blake working there & never had he began to see his life going into freefall. If she hadn't been working at the motel every day what had she been doing? Something she couldn't
- or wouldn't
- tell her own father about? To find his daughter Tim doesn't need to simply track her down
- he needs to know who she really was & what could have made her step out of her own life without leaving a trace. Only one thing has him convinced the worst hasn't already happened: the fact that some very scary people seem just as eager as he is to find her. The question is: who's going to find her first?




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In 1699 William Milmullen took his six pupils to the lakeside but only he returned after a creature rose up from the water & devoured the six boys right before his eyes. The whole town was shocked & terrified by the tragedy. Many were now too frightened to go out on the lake to fish & the town's economy was under threat. William Milmullen recovered from the shock of what he'd seen. He named the creature ' The Mourn' & declared himself ' Mourner'. He took upon himself the responsibility to appease the creature by feeding livestock into the lake & vowed his family would forever be responsible for the safety of the town & that every Milmullen son would take the mantle of Mourner at the age of 16. This novel is set in the present day & nobody believes in monsters anymore. These days the town is somewhat embarrassed about its monster stories & to many the Milmullen family is a bit of a joke. The family however have held onto their duty believing that if they forsake the creature it will rise from the lake again. Tim Milmullen turns 16 in a week's time. On his birthday he will become the 13th Mourner. But Tim doesn't know if he wants the role. For one thing all the kids at school tease him calling his father crazy saying Old William back in 1699 killed the schoolboys himself & made up the story. & Tim's biggest problem is that he doesn't know if he believes in the legend or not. How can he dedicate his whole life to something he has never seen? ...

In our universe a Cardassian sleeper agent called Iliana Ghemor was once surgically alltered to resemble & replace Bajoran resistance fighter Kira Nerys. That plan never reached fruition & the fate of the agent remained unknown -- until now. Robbed of the past sixteen years & on the brink of madness Iliana Ghemor is back with a vengeance. She has already made one attempt on the real Kiras life & now the Deep Space 9 crew must somehow must stop the false Kira without derailing the delicate flow of history that must unfold if two universes & countless others are to survive. ...

After saving his brother Jacob Reckless faces death from the fairy's curse burning in his heart. In search of a cure he returns to the Mirrorworld where he is reunited with Fox a beautiful shape-shifting girl. He has one more chance: a golden crossbow with the power to both save & destroy life buried in a dead king' tomb beneath an invisible palace. Jacob must cross continents ace monsters & men
- including a dangerous rival
- & learn what it means to stay alive.

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Another Stephanie Plum bestseller packed full of JANET EVANOVICHs trademark wit adventure & comedy. For fans of SIZZLING SIXTEEN & SMOKIN SEVENTEEN. Dom Rizzi robbed a bank stashed the money & did the time. His family couldnt be more proud. Dom happens to be the cousin of Joe Morelli Stephanies off-again on-again boyfriend so when less than a week after Doms release from prison Joe has shadowy figures breaking into his house & dying in his basement Stephanie finds herself involved in this bank-robbery-gone-bad disaster. With an offer from Ranger of some night work she cant refuse personal vendettas hidden treasure & a monkey named Carl its not long before Stephanie Plum is embroiled in her most explosive adventure ever! ...

A feast for the eyes & the senses & now available in a handsome paperback edition Feast is a must for every kitchen. In the style & tradition of Nigella's classic How to Eat it applies those same ' Pleasures & Principles of Good Food' to celebrations from feast days to everyday happiness. Essentially about families & food about public holidays & private passions about how to celebrate the small pleasures as well as the big occasions it

Includes:: everything from Christmas Thanksgiving Hanukkah & Eid to Passover & Easter; from Meatless Feasts to Midnight Feasts from weddings to funerals from kitchen feasts to kids' favourites from Partytime to the ultimate Chocolate Cake Hall of Fame. Heartwarming passionate informed refreshingly uncomplicated & full of ideas Feast is destined to become a classic like How to Eat. Written with the same enjoyment sensuality & practical awareness & packed with over 300 recipes & more than 200 photos Feast proclaims Nigella's love of life & great food to celebrate it with.

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