THE ROSE RENT: A young woman recently widowed bestows one of her properties on the Abbey of Shrewsbury. In return she expects an annual rent of a single rose. But such a beautfiul & wealthy woman is an attractive proposition for suitors. Someone it seems will stop at nothing to prevent the payment of the rose- not even murder. THE HERMIT OF EYTON FOREST: Ten year old Richard Ludel has become the new Lord of Eaton following the death of his father & is expected to make a marriage of convenience. But Richard befriends the young companion of Cuthred the Hermit who has recently taken up residence at Eyton Forest; a place of peace. But its tranquility is shattered by the discovery of a corpse. THE CONFESSION OF BROTHER HAULIN: Brother Haulin slips from the roof of the Abbey & makes his deathbed confession to the Abbot & Brother Cadfael. When Haulin recovers he sets on an arduous journey of expiation with Cadfael as his sole companion. It is a journey which leads to some shocking revelations & eventually to murder. ...

A classic tale from Doris Lessing Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007 of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben their feral fifth child. Listening to the laughter the sounds of children playing Harriet & David would reach for each others hand & smile & breathe happiness. Four children a beautiful old house the love of relatives & friends Harriet & David Lovatts life is a glorious hymn to domestic bliss & old-fashioned family values. But when their fifth child is born a sickly & implacable shadow is cast over this tender idyll. Large & ugly violent & uncontrollable the infant Ben full of cold dislike tears at Harriets breast. Struggling to care for her new-born child faced with a darkness & a strange defiance she has never known before Harriet is deeply afraid of what exactly she has brought into the world... ...

Peter Senge founder & director of the Society for Organisational Learning & senior lecturer at MIT has found the means of creating a learning organisation. In The Fifth Discipline he draws the blueprints for an organisation where people expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire where new & expansive patterns of thinking are nutured where collective aspiration is set free & where people are contually learning together. The Fifth Discipline fuses these features together into a coherent body of theory & practice making the whole of an organisation more effective than the sum of its parts. Mastering the disciplines will: * Reignite the spark of learning driven by people focused on what truly matters to them. * Bridge teamwork into macro-creativity. * Free you from confining assumptions & mind-sets. * Teach you to see the forest & the trees. * End the struggle between work & family time. The Fifth Discipline is a remarkable book that draws on science spiritual values psychology the cutting edge of management thought & Senges work with leading companies which employ Fifth Discipline methods. Reading it provides a searching personal experience & a dramatic professional shift of mind. This edition contains more than 100 pages of new material about how companies are actually using & benefiting from Fifth Discipline practices as well as a new foreword from Peter Senge about his work with the Fifth Discipline over the last 15 years. ...

They say that diplomacy is a gentle art. That its finest practitioners are subtle sophisticated individuals for whom nuance & subtext are meat & drink. & that mastering it is a lifetime's work. But you do need a certain inclination in that direction. It's not something you can just pick up on the job. Which is a shame if you find yourself dropped unaccountably into a position of some significant diplomatic responsibility. If you don't really do diplomacy or haven't been to school with the right foreign bigwigs or aren't even sure whether a nod is as good as a wink to anyone sighted or otherwise then things are likely to go wrong. It's just a question of how badly... ...

Sam Vimes is a man on the run. Yesterday he was a duke a chief of police & the ambassador to the mysterious fat-rich country of Uberwald. Now he has nothing but his native wit & the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (dont ask). Its snowing. Its freezing. & if he cant make it through the forest to civilization theres going to be a terrible war. But there are monsters on his trail. Theyre bright. Theyre fast. Theyre werewolves
- & theyre catching up. The Fifth Elephant" is Terry Pratchetts latest installment in the " Discworld" cycle this time starring dwarfs diplomacy intrigue & big lumps of fat."
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Charley Davidson may not look like your everyday run-of-the-mill grim reaper but she has vowed to reap grimness wherever she goes despite this unfortunate fact. Sadly she gets sidetracked when the sexy sultry son of Satan Reyes Farrow moves in next door. As he is the main suspect in her arson case she has vowed to stay away from him until she can find out the truth. However when dead women start appearing in her apartment
- lost confused & terrified beyond reason
- Charley has no choice but to ask for Reyes's help especially when it becomes apparent that her own sister Gemma is the serial killer's next target. With his ability to observe incorporeally surely he can find out who's responsible. & even if he can't he is the one man alive who could protect Gemma no matter who or what came at her. But he wants something in return: Charley. All of her
- body & soul. & to keep her sister safe it is a price she might be willing to pay.. .


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A DAY FOR DYING: A young man with everything to live for is tragically drowned in a swimming pool during his own engagement party. What began as a day for rejoicing ends as a day for dying. When Inspector Thanet of Kent CID arrives at the scene of the death he soon realises that not everyone regards it as a tragedy
- what seemed at first to be a terrible accident now looks like a callous murder...ONCE TOO OFTEN: When the husband of well-known Kent journalist Jessica Dander is found crouching over his wife's body Inspector Thanet's suspicions are naturally aroused. But almost at once doubts creep in. Who for instance was the anonymous caller who rang for an ambulance some time earlier & who was the mysterious prowler Jessica had reported to the police...DEAD & GONE: When the wife of a prominent QC is found dead at the bottom of a well Inspector Thanet discounts accidental death. Virginia Mintar was no angel
- her outrageous flirting knew no bounds & made her many enemies. But which one took that final step? Who wanted her dead & gone?

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In tough times crime is one of the few things that still pays but even criminals are having to make cut-backs. So for defence lawyer Mickey Haller most of his new business is not about keeping people out of jail; it's about keeping a roof over their heads as the foreclosure business is booming. Lisa Trammel has been a client of Mickey's for eight months & so far he's stopped the bank from taking her house. But now the bank's CEO has been found beaten to death
- & Lisa is about to be indicted for murder...
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Four nuns & a fifth woman are killed in a savage night-time attack in Africa. A year later Inspector Kurt Wallander invesigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher & discovers a gruesome & meticulously planned murder
- a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles. Then another man is reported missing. Once again Wallander's life is put on hold as he & his team work tirelessly to find a link between the series of vicious murders. Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Sidetracked.
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Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome full of energy & plans for the future. Autumn settles in & Wallander prays the winter will be peaceful. But when he investigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher he discovers a gruesome & meticulously planned murder
- a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles. Then another man is reported missing. & once again Wallanders life is on hold as he & his team work tirelessly to find a link between the series of vicious murders.
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