When Mike & his friends decide to go for a day's cruising around the coast of Scotland they are surprised to come across a mysterious barren island that doesn't show up on any map or satellite image. Determined to explore it they make some chilling discoveries: piles of bones evidence of explosives & a strange old abandoned building full of scientific equipment
- including gas masks. But still none of them quite realizes the trouble they're in until a helicopter flies in & blows up their boat leaving them stranded...and falling desperately ill. Inspired by a real island in Scotland used for anthrax testing this eerie & contemporary thriller will keep readers on the very edge of their seat in the style of Malcolm Rose's acclaimed Kiss of Death"."
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It just may be impossible to exhaust the creative potential of LEGO bricks. With an active imagination as your guide there are endless possibilities-provided you follow the LEGO Companys official (and sensible) rules. This means no cutting or tampering with bricks creating models that shoot unapproved projectiles or using non-standard parts with any LEGO product. After all those little precision-molded ABS bricks can be dangerous in the wrong hands! Well toss those rules out the window. Forbidden Lego introduces you to the type of free-style building that LEGOs master builders do for fun in the back room. Using LEGO bricks in combination with common household materials (from rubber bands & glue to plastic spoons & ping-pong balls) along with some very unorthodox building techniques youll learn to create working models that LEGO would never endorse. Try your hand at a toy gun that shoots LEGO plates a candy catapult a high voltage LEGO vehicle a continuous-fire ping-pong ball launcher & other useless but incredibly fun inventions. Once you get into the spirit youll want to try inventing your own rule-breaking models. Forbidden Legos authors share tips & tricks that will inspire you & help you turn your visions into reality. Nothings against the rules in this book! ...

A spellbinding novel from Sunday Times Number One bestseller Penny Vincenzi: ' Seductively readable' The Times Forbidden Places is about love & marriage families & secrets & about wartime & how it affects social values. It is a story of three women & one family. One is married & widowed within five years. She is free to start again. Or is she? The second has a perfect husband she thinks she loves. He becomes a grotesque parody of what he once was. Is that love real? The third becomes trapped in a nightmare marriage. Can the war free her? ...

From Las Vegas to Dubai from Shanghai to London the fatal pull of the gambling world stretches... Savannah pleasure-loving It Girl wants to prove herself to her powerful ruthless father Michael Hudson
- until a terrible tragedy forces her to re-think her life. Lois an ex-cop from the wrong side of the tracks is now running the gambling business of Michaels greatest rival Roberto Enzo
- & torn between the glamour & wealth of the casinos & the needs of her vulnerable young daughter. Both women have to confront their pasts discover new loves & find out the really important things in life before the greed & corruption of their worlds consume them.

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Librarian Justine is given a chance to acquire La Coste": an unpublished story that is supposedly the most disturbing work written by the Marquis de Sade. Alleged to contain details of his most twisted indulgences " La Coste" is being put up for sale to anyone who can prove themselves worthy of owning this long lost catalogue of excess & depravity. Justines quest will bring her face to face with extremes of punishment & pleasure. Certain to face sacrilege sadism & subversion she knows there are no limits in the pursuit of forbidden reading." ...

Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators Capture the force in your life drawing subjects with this practical guide to dynamic drawing techniques
- packed with superb powerfully drawn examples that show you how to: * Bring your work to life with rhythmic drawing techniques * Create appealing & dynamic poses in your drawings * Experience the figures energy in three dimensional space * Use the asymmetry of straight & curved lines to clarify the direction of force in the body * Build on your foundational anatomy & figure drawing skills to animate your drawings * Apply the theory of force to your on-location & animal drawing observations Whether you are an animator comic book artist illustrator or fine arts student youll learn to use rhythm shape & line to bring out the life in any subject while Mike Mattesis infectious enthusiasm will have you reaching for your pencils! Mike Mattesi is the owner & founder of Entertainment Art Academy (www.enterartacad.com) based in Southern California. He has been a professional production artist & instructor for the last fifteen years with clients including Disney Marvel Comics Hasbro Toys ABC Microsoft Electronic Arts Dream Works & Nickelodeon. Audience level: Intermediate to advanced
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Joe Pickett's outlaw companion Nate Romanowski faces the battle of his life: one he may very likely lose. Nate knows too much about Special Forces Black Ops in Afghanistan
- & he must be silenced. Nate's former comrades know the time has come to end the threat once & for all. & they do it by incorporating many of the same tactics that served their unique & secret unit well in the Middle East: recruiting locals. Nate can trust no one except Joe Pickett who is constrained by his oath & duty to the law & the state. But Nate must involve Joe because he knows his enemy will strike at his friends in order to draw him out. The entire Pickett family will be a target. Nate can only fight back outside the law & Joe must make a choice: help his friend or keep the peace?
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Force on Force" brings the drama & action of modern warfare to the tabletop using miniature soldiers. The rules cover all aspects of modern warfare from the confidence & supply level of troops to air-strikes & off-board artillery & accommodates scenarios set anywhere from the end of World War II to the conflicts on today's news without sacrificing either character or playability. From infantry & armour to artillery & air support " Force on Force" presents everything that players need to recreate post-World War II warfare between conventional combined-arms forces. The book also contains the Ambush Alley rules that allow players to recreate intense counterinsurgency actions in an urban environment." ...

Everyone knows three things about the Women's Institute: that they spent the war making jam; the sensational Calendar Girls were WI; & more recently that slow-handclapping of Tony Blair. But there's so much more to this remarkable Movement. Over 200 000 women in the UK belong to the WI & their membership is growing. They cross class & religion include all ages -from students & metropolitan young professionals such as the Shoreditch Sisters to rural centenarians -with passions that range from supporting the 1920s Bastardy Bill (in response to a wartime legacy of illegitimate babies) to the current SOS for Honey Bees campaign. It was founded in 1915 not by worthy ladies in tweeds but by the feistiest women in the country including suffragettes academics & social crusaders who discovered the heady power of sisterhood changing women's lives & their world in the process. Certainly its members boiled jam & sang ' Jerusalem ' but they also made history. This fascinating book reveals for the first time how they are
- & always were
- a force to be reckoned with.

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Everyone knows three things about the Womens Institute: that they spent the war making jam; the sensational Calendar Girls were WI; & more recently that slow-handclapping of Tony Blair. 215 000 women in the UK belong to the WI. Their membership crosses class & has recently begun to recruit huge numbers of young women (eg Shoreditch Sisters (check))/ It was founded in 1915 not by worthy ladies in tweeds but by the feistiest women in the country including suffragettes academics & social crusaders who discovered the heady power of sisterhood changing womens lives & their world in the process. Certainly its members made jam & sang Jerusalem but they did & do much more besides. This fascinating book reveals for the first time how they are
- & always were
- a force to be reckoned with.

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