For almost a year Michael Palin travelled through 18 countries on the perimeter of the worlds largest ocean in a spectacular journey of contrasts drama & beauty. From head-hunters in Borneo to a meal of maggots in Mexico his route takes him to some of the most politically volatile & physically demanding places on Earth. Whether climbing the Exalted Mountains in China dodging icebergs in Chile or being taken short on the banks of the Amazon Michael Palin paints a vivid picture of the people & places around him. It was a journey of dazzling surprises & jarring extremes. Beauty & ugliness sophistication & squalor unceasing urban noise & monastic tranquillity.. . This is a record of a year of wonder Michael Palin. ...

At eighteen years old beautiful Tana Roberts found that she didn't long for a husband security a home or even children. All she knew was that for her a career came before marriage
- even if that meant defying convention & the wishes of her fussing over-protective mother. Throughout the turbulent Sixties Tana followed her heart wherever it led her searching for fulfilment in her work as a highly successful lawyer in friendships & in fleeting affairs. Until one day quite unexpectedly she discovers a gaping void in her life that only true love could fill.. . Full Circle moving of love & new beginnings
- Danielle Steel is a master storyteller.

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Saker has devoted himself to dark enchantments & desires nothing but vengeance. & vengeance he has in abundance. His ghost army is slaughtering those of the new blood fuelled by an ancient wrong. But while Saker had thought revenge would be simple he's now plagued by voices foreshadowing a calamity beyond his comprehension. Ash & Bramble raise the warrior spirit of Acton mighty in life & powerful in death. Only he can stop Saker's rampage. But is Acton Lord of War murderer or saviour? & why would he help strangers protect a world he's never known? Bramble has been marked as Saker's nemesis but will be challenged by deeper powers than Saker can command
- as well as by her own feelings for Acton. As the living fight the dead strange forces will shape an uncertain future from pain & suffering.
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When the U.S.S. Voyager is dispatched on an urgent mission to the planet Kerovi Captain Chakotay & his first officer Commander Thomas Paris must choose between following orders & saving the lives of two of those dearest to them. B' Elanna Torres & her daughter Miral are both missing in the wake of a brutal attack on the Klingon world of Boreth. With the aid of their former captain Admiral Kathryn Janeway -- as well as many old friends & new allies -- Voyager's crew must unravel an ancient mystery placing themselves between two warrior sects battling for the soul of the Klingon people.. .while the life of Mirl hangs in the balance. But these events & their repurcussions are merely the prelude to even darker days to come. As Voyager is drawn into a desperate struggle to prevent the annihilation of the Federation lives are shattered & the bonds that were forged in the Delta Quadrant are challenged in ways that none could have imagined. For though destiny has dealt them crushing blows Voyager's crew must rise to face their future.. .and begin a perilous journey in which the wheel of fate comes full circle. ...

Mma Ramotswe who became engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni at the end of the first book is still engaged. She wonders when a day for the wedding will be named but she is anxious to avoid putting too much pressure on her fiance. For indeed he has other things on his mind
- notably a frightening request made from him by Mma Potokwani pushy matron of the Orphan Farm. Mma Ramotswe herself has weighty matters on her mind. She has been approached by a wealthy lady
- whose fortune comes from successful hair-braiding salons
- & has been asked to check up on several suitors. Are these men just interested in her money? This may be difficult to find out but Mma Ramotswe is of course a very intuitive lady.. .


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When a bomb devastates the office of London's most unusual police unit & claims the life of its oldest detective Arthur Bryant his surviving partner John May searches for clues to the bomber's identity. His search takes him back to the day the detectives first met as young men in 1940. In Blitz-ravaged London a beautiful dancer rehearsing for a sexy sinister production of ' Orpheus In The Underworld' is found without her feet. Bryant & May's investigation plunges them into a bizarre gothic mystery where a faceless man stalks terrified actors & death strikes in darkness. Tracking their quarry through the blackout searching for a murderer who'll stop at nothing to be free of a nightmare the duo unwittingly follow the same path Orpheus took when leading Euridyce from the shadows of Hell. Back in the present day John May starts to wonder if their oldest adversary might be the killer who took his partner's life. He must work alone to solve a puzzle that began over half a century earlier... In a war-shaken city of myths rumours & fear Bryant & May discover that a house is not always a home nothing is as it appears the most cunning criminals hide in plain sight & the devil has all the best tunes. Dark drama & black comedy combine as Bryant & May take centre stage in their first great case. ...

Dee loves her children very much but now they are all grown up shouldnt they leave home? Rosie moved out when she got married but it didnt work out so now she is back with her parents. Helen is a teacher & doesnt earn enough for a place of her own. Anthony writes songs & is just waiting for the day when someone will pay him for them. Until then all three are happy at home. It doesnt cost them anything & surely their parents like having a full house? When a crisis occurs Dee decides things have to change for the whole family.. .whether they like it or not. ...

A fast-paced comedy thriller that combines scintillating suspense & steamy sex from bestselling author JANET EVANOVICH. For fans of EXPLOSIVE EIGHTEEN & SMOKIN SEVENTEEN. Nick Kaharchek senses danger the minute he sees Billie Pearce. Happy in her stable home life as a divorced mother of two she represents everything the footloose Kaharcheks always avoided. But she is also irresistibly fascinating
- in a car-crash sort of way. Billie meanwhile finds her instinctive response to Kaharcheks attention almost as frightening as the mysterious break-ins in her neighbourhood & the spider invasions her pest-control man seems unable to beat. As fate brings Billie & Kaharchek ever closer they are suddenly thrown into a world of mayhem seduction & terror
- but will it lead to love everlasting?

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Alfie & Tim are looking forward to their school trip until Tim gets flu & has to stay behind. Alfie will have to cope without his best friend for once but at least its not Full Moon & he wont be turning into a werewolf.. .or so he thinks! A calendar mix-up means that Alfie will be camping out with his classmates in the woods during full moon with a crazy hunter as their guide. How on earth will Alfie keep his werewolf identity a secret from his friends & avoid being the hunters prey? & as if that wasnt enough something scary is lurking in the forest.. . ...

The thought of being cooped up in Blandings Castle with Clarence the Earl of Emsworth the perennially youthful Galahad & with the Earl's younger son Freddie Threepwood openly appalled Colonel Wedge. It was he grimly asserted like being wrecked on a desert island with the Marx Brothers. But the arrival of Tipton Plimsoll at Blandings Castle considerably brightened the Colonel's horizon. For Tip-ton was a rich young American & rich young Americans were in the Colonel's opinion quite the most desirable companions for his daughter Veronica the dumbest beauty listed in the pages of Debrett. The stage was set for a great romance or so the Colonel thought & so it might have been had the knowledge of Freddie's erstwhile engagement to Veronica been withheld from the jealous Tipton or if Prudence the Earl's niece had not been forcibly parted from her unsuitable lover Bill Lister. On such incidents do great issues depend. However Uncle Gaily who combined the ready resource of a confidence trickster with the zeal of a cheerful crusader intervened with an ingenious scheme to reunite the young lovers. It was a master-plan. How the plot miscarried at the crucial stage & in doing so caused a social & domestic revolution unparalleled in the history of Blandings Castle is revealed in this most hilarious of chronicles. ...