From the author of Flowers in the Attic comes Book Three of the internationally bestselling Dollanganger family saga. The family was now living as far as possible from the haunting scenes of their past & in the sunshine & joy of their new life with the children & their shared love they tried to forget the anguish of their loveless inheritance. But the hidden secrets of the past rose up to trouble them. Their parents' dark heritage began to haunt them once more. The rage & hatred they felt returned to torment & twist the new generation. Only if they could forgive their mother & forgo their final revenge could they at last find the peace they so desperately sought. ...

With the moral stamina & intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan this slightly built duitful unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth steadfastly to think it through & then to render it comprehensible in lucid unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events & with the most contempible. What has survived in Levi's writing isn't just his memory of the unbearable but also in THE PERIODIC TABLE & THE WRENCH his delight in what made the world exquisite to him. He was himself a magically endearing man the most delicately forceful enchanter I've ever known"
- PHILIP ROTH"
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With the moral stamina & intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan this slightly built duitful unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth steadfastly to think it through & then to render it comprehensible in lucid unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events & with the most contempible. What has survived in Levis writing isnt just his memory of the unbearable but also in THE PERIODIC TABLE & THE WRENCH his delight in what made the world exquisite to him. He was himself a magically endearing man the most delicately forceful enchanter Ive ever known"
- PHILIP ROTH"
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Mark Wilkinson has three names. He left his own behind in the rainy north of Engl&. American immigration knows him as Joe Novak. & at the Valhalla the mysterious complex where he sells lofty ambition & dark desires he goes by Mr Jones. Since he was eighteen Mark has been running away. Running from his small town his vanished mother his broken father. But one night in Las Vegas shocked by violence & ambushed by memories he is propelled back to his real name & his real past. Back to Bethany Wilder: carnival queen partner in dreams & tragic ghost. From the acclaimed author of Ten Stories About Smoking comes an electrifying novel about the power of dreams to destroy of memory to distort -- & of what it means to be home. ...

The international bestseller from the master of suspense. A mafia conspiracy & one women against the world. Tracy Whitey is on top of the world. Young beautiful intelligent she is about to marry into wealth & glamour
- until betrayed by her own innocence she finds herself in prison framed by a ruthless mafia gang & abandoned by the man she loves. Beaten & broken but surviving with her dazzling ingenuity Tracy emerges from her savage ordeal
- determined to avenge those who have destroyed her life. Her thirst for revenge takes her from New Orleans to London from Paris to Madrid & Amsterdam. Tracy is playing for the highest stakes in a deadly game. Only one man can challenge her
- hes handsome persuasive & every bit as daring. Only one man can stop her
- an evil genius whose only hope of salvation is in Tracys destruction...



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Susanna Forrest grew up in the 1980s near Norwich & like many a girl she yearned for a pony. She was never to get one but this didnt stop her becoming obsessed with all things equine. If Wishes Were Ponies is the story of that all-consuming interest & of the authors nerve-wracked attempts later in life to ride once again. However as Susanna Forrests journey unfolds it leads her to horse-obsessed princesses recovering crack addicts courtesans warriors pink-obsessed schoolgirls national heroines & runaways across the ages. From girl-riders of the Bronze Age to lavishly adorned equestrian Victorians & twenty-first-century children on horseback in Brixton she explores the development of this Pony Cult from its earliest times to the present day. Alternating between Berlin London & Norfolk urban suburban & rural Susanna Forrest visits gymkhanas & pony shows horse refuges & inner-city riding schools acquainting herself with fabulous figures such as Alice Hayes a medical missionary turned horsebreaker who was the first woman to ride a wild zebra & a fragile & fierce old lady called Hope who today carries a knitting bag full of painkillers for her old riding injuries. In doing so she takes to the saddle once more & rediscovers her own riding legs in this frank eclectic & captivating memoir of an ever-changing equine world."" ...

Susanna Forrest grew up in the 1980s near Norwich & like many a girl she yearned for a pony. She never did get one of her own but this didn't stop her becoming obsessed with all things equine. If Wishes Were Horses is the story of that all-consuming interest. As Susanna's journey unfolds it leads her to horse-fixated princesses recovering crack addicts national heroines & runaways across the ages. From girl-riders of the Bronze Age to lavishly adorned equestrian Victorians & twenty-first-century children on horseback in Brixton she explores the development of this Pony Cult from its earliest times to the present day. In doing so she takes to the saddle once more & rediscovers her own riding legs in this frank eclectic & captivating memoir of an ever-changing equine world."" ...

Tender magical & captivating -- a story of family friends & the unlikeliest of romances from the No. 1 bestselling author Cecelia Ahern. What if love was right there in front of you -- you just couldnt see it? Elizabeth Egan is too busy for friends. As a reluctant mother to her sister Saoirses young son Luke & with her own business to run every precious moment is made to count. But with Saoirse crashing in & out of their lives leaving both her sister & her son reeling Luke & Elizabeth are desperately in need of some magic. Enter Ivan. Wild spontaneous & always looking for adventure in no time at all Ivan has changed Elizabeth in ways she could never have imagined. But is Ivan too good to be true? Has Elizabeth opened her heart only to risk it being broken again? ...

Tender magical & captivating
- a story of family friends & the unlikeliest of romances.. . What if love was right there in front
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In 1854 high in the Pyrenees in the tiny country of Andorra a band of mercenaries lead by highlander Courtland Mc Carrick wages war under ruthless general Reynaldo Pascal. Though Court is a cold-hearted merc who was cursed years ago to walk with death or walk alone " even he balks when he learns how vicious Pascals campaign against the people of this region really is. He removes his men from the fray demanding only to be compensated for the time theyd spent under the Generals leadership but the man refuses. This Scottish leader will exact his revenge-by kidnapping the generals exquisite Castilian fiance & forcing her back to his highland home. Annalia Tristan Llorente staid beautiful a noblewoman to her toes despises the fierce barbaric highlander. Because of his cadres skills her own brothers resistance was crushed & he was imprisoned-only to be freed once Annalia weds the general. Distrusting Courts seemingly mercurial loyalties she tells him nothing of her brothers imprisonment allowing Court to think Anna is more mercenary than he since she longs to return to the rich general to wed. With every mile further from her home she plots to escape hating the highlander more with each thwarted attempt outrage bubbling in her every time he captures her in his powerful arms. Annalias fury only increases when she finds herself attracted to the dark commanding warrior. But if she succumbs & loses her innocence she signs her brothers death warrant as well as her own. From the moment Court sees that Annas prim facade masks fiery passionate lass beneath his hearts ensnared. He realizes he will never let her go & for the first time he dares to defy the curse that has shadowed his life. Until it comes true when the general vows hell hunt the two never stopping until hes destroyed them both." ...