Dulcie Ballantyne knows that creative writers groups attract an unlikely mix of people so when she starts up Hidden Talents she is well prepared for the assortment of people she is bringing together: Beth King is facing empty-nest syndrome as her only son Nathan leaves home for university. Jack Solomon a local estate agent is having trouble coming to terms with the shock of his wife leaving him for his best friend. Jaz Rafferty is an intensely private seventeen-year-old girl who writes to escape her large boisterous family. Victor Blackmore is a know-it-all who claims to be writing the blockbuster novel every publisher will be clamouring for. What they all have in common is a need to escape as well as a desire to keep their lives as private as possible. As they grow more confident in their writing skills friendships develop & gradually they come to realise that a little openness isnt necessarily a bad thing. ...

Fern's warmth insight & humour combine to deliver a hugely enjoyable novel that will speak to women everywhere. Helen Merrifield has said goodbye to her philandering husband & her swish West London house to live in an idyllic country cottage in the heart of a postcard-perfect village in Cornwall. Putting the past behind her Helen throws herself into country life & soon makes a new set of eccentric friends. To her surprise Helen finds herself the love-interest of two very different men: the kind gentle desperate-for-love-&-sex Simon & the darkly enigmatic local historian Piran. Whilst Helen is getting to grips with her new life her oldest & dearest friend Penny a hot-shot TV Producer has decided that the village is the perfect setting for her new TV series. When the cast & crew descend two worlds collide & Helen is thrown headlong into 5am wake-up calls & temperamental celebrities. In the midst of all this Helen stumbles across a forgotten old tin chest full of Edwardian treasures. Who do they belong to? Will the unpleasant historian Piran help her to find out or will Simon have the key? As Helen finds herself the focus of Simon & Piran's attentions it looks like her ex-husband is planning to put in an unscheduled appearance. Will Helen embrace the future or is it too difficult to let go of the past? ...

Arguably the oldest book in the Bible the book of Job has a surprising amount to say about some of the newest scientific discoveries & controversies. Far from a book that is just about suffering Job is filled with rich insight into both ancient & modern questions about the formation of the world; the difference between animals & humans; cosmology; dinosaurs & the fossil record; how to care for creation; & more. With careful consideration & exegesis internationally known astrophysicist & Christian apologist Hugh Ross adds yet another compelling argument to the case for the veracity of the biblical commentary on the history of the universe Earth life & humanity. Hidden Treasures in the Book of Job shows that the Bible is an accurate predictor of scientific discoveries & a trustworthy source of scientific information & that both the book of Scripture & the book of nature are consistent both internally & externally. ...

Karin Schaeffers husband is missing presumed dead. The police are convinced that Mac took his own life after the brutal murder of his parents in what looks like a robbery gone bad... Karin is determined to do all she can to find her husb&...alive or dead. Only shes about to discover how little she knows about the man she married. But someone else is watching the Schaeffer family. Watching waiting & biding their time before they reveal the dark secrets of Macs past
- & exact a terrifying revenge.
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From the author of the New York Times bestselling PRETTY LITTLE LIARS comes a killer new series THE LYING GAME. Sutton Mercer had a life anyone would kill for
- & someone did. But thanks to a view from the afterlife & Emma Paxton her long-lost twin sister Sutton has a chance to solve her own murder. Emma slips into Sutton's old life to piece together her disappearance. But can Emma keep up the charade long enough to discover what really happened to Sutton...or will she become the next victim? Let the lying games begin.
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A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat spreadeagled cross-like on the floor between two burned-down candles a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Just another dead addict
- until John Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference treachery deceit & sleaze that lurks behind the facade of the Edinburgh familiar to tourists. Only Rebus seems to care about a death which looks more like a murder every day about a seductive danger he can almost taste appealing to the darkest corners of his mind...
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Irish Sunday Times Bestseller A true story of war peace & friendship: a Nazi colonel & an Irish priest The story begins in Rome at the outbreak of WWII when ardent Nazi Herbert Kappler SS Obersturmbanfuhrer & Monsignor Hugh OFlaherty would become adversaries in a real-life game of cat & mouse of epic proportions. Hide & Seek chronicles the intimate & intensely personal war between them. A fiercely fought rivalry that would culminate in failed attempts by Kappler to kidnap & then murder his Irish opponent. In July 1943 Rome was bombed for the first time during the war. As the swastika flew above the city it was a time of fear & a moment of choice: collaborate & compromise or resist & revolt. OFlaherty decided to quietly resist & fight the new rulers. Dubbed Irelands Oscar Schindler he masterminded a large-scale operation from within the Vatican to help Jews & escaped Allied prisoners on the run from the Nazis. He used a series of safe houses & church buildings & sheltered around 500 Jews in the Holy See & it is believed that sanctuary was found for some 4000 Jews across Rome & 4000 Allied escapees. After the Resistance killed 32 German soldiers in a bombing Hitler was enraged & declared that he wanted a revenge attack to make the world tremble". He instructed Kappler to draw up plans. Eventually 335 people would be executed in the Ardeatine Caves a labyrinth of tunnels outside the city. The massacre would become the worst atrocity committed on Italian soil during WWII. Kapplers handiwork would remain secret until Rome was liberated by the Allies in June 1944. The Nazi Colonel was found guilty on all the charges relating to the caves massacre. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with no parole. Amazingly OFlaherty would continue his relationship with Kappler going to see his former rival in prison. The discussions of the two men would become intense & searching & a friendship grew between them. In later life after much soul-searching Kappler became a Catholic & was baptised by the Irish Monsignor." ...

Irish Sunday Times Bestseller A true story of war peace & friendship: a Nazi colonel & an Irish priest The story begins in Rome at the outbreak of WWII when ardent Nazi Herbert Kappler SS Obersturmbanfuhrer & Monsignor Hugh OFlaherty would become adversaries in a real-life game of cat & mouse of epic proportions. Hide & Seek chronicles the intimate & intensely personal war between them. A fiercely fought rivalry that would culminate in failed attempts by Kappler to kidnap & then murder his Irish opponent. In July 1943 Rome was bombed for the first time during the war. As the swastika flew above the city it was a time of fear & a moment of choice: collaborate & compromise or resist & revolt. OFlaherty decided to quietly resist & fight the new rulers. Dubbed Irelands Oscar Schindler he masterminded a large-scale operation from within the Vatican to help Jews & escaped Allied prisoners on the run from the Nazis. He used a series of safe houses & church buildings & sheltered around 500 Jews in the Holy See & it is believed that sanctuary was found for some 4000 Jews across Rome & 4000 Allied escapees. After the Resistance killed 32 German soldiers in a bombing Hitler was enraged & declared that he wanted a revenge attack to make the world tremble". He instructed Kappler to draw up plans. Eventually 335 people would be executed in the Ardeatine Caves a labyrinth of tunnels outside the city. The massacre would become the worst atrocity committed on Italian soil during WWII. Kapplers handiwork would remain secret until Rome was liberated by the Allies in June 1944. The Nazi Colonel was found guilty on all the charges relating to the caves massacre. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with no parole. Amazingly OFlaherty would continue his relationship with Kappler going to see his former rival in prison. The discussions of the two men would become intense & searching & a friendship grew between them. In later life after much soul-searching Kappler became a Catholic & was baptised by the Irish Monsignor." ...

A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat spreadeagled cross-like on the floor between two burned-down candles a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Just another dead addict
- until John Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference treachery deceit & sleaze that lurks behind the facade of the Edinburgh familiar to tourists. Only Rebus seems to care about a death which looks more like a murder every day about a seductive danger he can almost taste appealing to the darkest corners of his mind...
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A fish & a teardrop. Five black spots four blossoms blue & a T that is white. A heart & an arabesque. A smile a black Q & a reflection of you." These are just some of the hundreds of objects readers are invited to find in David Carters latest art pop-up book " Hide & Seek". His previous art pop-up titles " One Red Dot" "600 Black Spots" & other bestsellers have sold hundreds of thousands of copies around the world asking readers to find a single image hidden within ten pop-up kinetic sculptures. With " Hide & Seek" he has expanded the concept & now

Includes:: hundreds of images or words hidden within the pop-up landscapes inviting readers to explore & discover something new with each visit."

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