Set in a dark vision of the near future a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys & twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdee steps forward to take her younger sisters place in the games she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her survival is second nature. ...

Set in a dark vision of the near future a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys & twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her younger sister's place in the games she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her survival is second nature. ...

After 150 years of hellish torture at the hands of the vampire horde Lachlain king of the Lykae (werewolf) clan escapes his captors. He's disoriented & full of hatred & yet he finds the mate he's been longing for for 1200 years in a small delicate vampire. Desperate to find information on her parents Emmaline Troy a timid overprotected half vampire/ half valkyrie had travelled to Paris away from the protection of her valkyrie aunts for the first time in her young life (she's only 70) but she manages to be kidnapped by a raging Lykae who's tender to her one minute though-if he is reminded she's a vampire-furious the next... ...

The eleventh crazy adventure in this hugely popular comedy horror series for ghouls & girls
- with four free collector's cards
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From the No. 1 international bestselling author of BARED TO YOU & REFLECTED IN YOU (Crossfire trilogy) A HUNGER SO WILD is the second red-hot paranormal romance following the sizzling A TOUCH OF CRIMSON. If you fell for Gideon Cross wait until you meet the men who really are out of this world... Elijah Reynolds is the most dominant of lycans a rare Alpha whose skill for the hunt is surpassed only by his primal sexuality. When the lycans revolt Elijah becomes both enemy & coveted ally in the conflict between vampires & angels. Vashti is the second most powerful vampire in the world a lethal beauty with a path of devastation in her wake. She approaches Elijah with a proposed alliance...and discovers his vow to avenge his closest friend with her death even as his passion demands her surrender. Their enmity soon erodes beneath an all-consuming desire. But as war looms each must decide where their loyalty lies
- with their own kind or with the enemy lover they can no longer live without...
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Nick went head down finning desperately to catch the swirling body which tumbled like a leaf in high wind. He had a fleeting glimpse of Bakers face contorted with terror & lack of breath the glass visor of his helmet already swamping with icy water as the pressure spurted through the non-return valve. The Chiefs headset microphone squealed once & then went dead as the water shorted it out. Robbed of his wife & ousted from his huge shipping empire Nick Berg is hell-bent on vengeance. It is the sea which gives him his opportunity. When his arch-rivals luxury liner is trapped in the tempestuous Antarctic Nick stakes all to pit his powerful salvage tug the Warlock in a desperate race against time & the elements.. . ...

As one of the most ancient in the Argeneau clan Cale Valens has given up on finding a life mate. His friends & family however have not. In fact they believe they've finally found his perfect match. Getting them together however requires one little white lie.. . Alexandra Willan is in a panic. Her restaurant is due to open in two weeks but her chef just walked out. Then a highly recommended replacement arrives an impossibly handsome culinary genius who sends electric tingles racing through her body.. . Except he can't cook. In fact Cale hasn't eaten real food in two thousand years. Yet he's determined to prove to Alex his prowess in the kitchen.. .and elsewhere. Because never has he hungered so for any mortal woman. & not just for a taste of her but for the whole delicious feast! ...

1991 in Hong Kong & the colony is preparing for Chinese rule. Geoff Howells a government-trained killing machine is brought out of retirement & sent there. His brief: to assassinate Chinese Mafia leader Simon Ng. Howells devises a dangerous & complicated plan to reach his intended victim
- only to find himself the next target.. . Patrick Dugan a Hong Kong policeman has been held back in his career because of his family connections
- his sister is married to Simon Ng. But when Ngs daughter is kidnapped & Ng himself disappears Dugan gets caught up in a series of violent events & an international spy ring that has spun out of control.. .

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An outstanding new picture book with an extremely simple text
- full of humour with a brilliant twist at the end. Hungry Hen eats
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Fom the author of The Glass Palace the widely-acclaimed bestseller. The Hungry Tide is a rich exotic saga set in Calcutta & in the vast archipelago of islands in the Bay of Bengal. An Indian myth says that when the river Ganges first descended from the heavens the force of the cascade was so great that the earth would have been destroyed if it had not been for the god Shiva who tamed the torrent by catching it in his dreadlocks. It is only when the Ganges approaches the Bay of Bengal that it frees itself & separates into thousands of wandering strands. The result is the Sundarbans an immense stretch of mangrove forest a half-drowned land where the waters of the Himalayas merge with the incoming tides of the sea. It is this vast archipelago of islands that provides the setting for Amitav Ghoshs new novel. In the Sundarbans the tides reach more than 100 miles inland & every day thousands of hectares of forest disappear only to re-emerge hours later. Dense as the mangrove forests are from a human point of view it is only a little less barren than a desert. There is a terrible vengeful beauty here a place teeming with crocodiles snakes sharks & man-eating tigers. This is the only place on earth where man is more often prey than predator. & it is into this terrain that an eccentric wealthy Scotsman named Daniel Hamilton tried to create a utopian society of all races & religions & conquer the might of the Sundarbans. In January 2001 a small ship arrives to conduct an ecological survey of this vast but little-known environment & the scientists on board begin to trace the journeys of the descendants of this society. ...