In less than twenty four hours I'll be seventeen. Although technically I won't actually be turning seventeen. I've been in the Nevernever too long. When you're in Faery you don't age. So while a year has passed in the real world agewise I'm probably only a few days older than when I went in. In real life I've changed so much I don't even recognize myself. My name is Meghan Chase. I thought it was over. That my time with the fey the impossible choices I had to make the sacrifices of those I loved was behind me. But a storm is approaching an army of Iron fey that will drag me back kicking & screaming. Drag me away from the banished prince who's sworn to stand by my side. Drag me into the core of conflict so powerful I'm not sure anyone can survive it. This time there will be no turning back. ...

Avi Shlaims The Iron Wall: Israel & the Arab World" is a fresh & informed account of the modern worlds most intractable conflict. In the 1920s hard-line Zionists developed the doctrine of the Iron Wall: negotiations with the Arabs must always be from a position of military strength & only when sufficiently strong Israel would be able to make peace with her Arab neighbours. This doctrine argues Avi Shlaim became central to Israeli policy; dissenters were marginalized & many opportunities to reconcile with Palestinian Arabs were lost. Drawing on a great deal of new material & interviews with many key participants Shlaim places Israels political & military actions under & uncompromising lens. His analysis will bring scant comfort to partisans on both sides but it will be required reading for anyone interested in this fascinating & troubled region of the world. "" The Iron Wall" is strikingly fair-minded scholarly cogently reasoned & makes enthralling.. .reading". (Philip Ziegler " Daily Telegraph"). " Anyone wanting to understand the modern Middle East should start by reading this elegantly written & scrupulously researched book". (Trevor Royle " Sunday Herald"). "A milestone in modern scholarship of the Middle East". (Edward Said). " Fascinating... Shlaim presents compelling evidence for a revaluation of traditional Israeli history". (Ethan Bronner " The New York Times Book Review"). Avi Shlaim is Professor of International Relations at St. Antonys College Oxford. His previous books include " Collusion Across the Jordan" (1988) & " War & Peace in the Middle East" (1995)." ...

Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2012. For over a decade Dave Scott & Mark Allen were locked in one of the fiercest rivalries sport has ever known. The men who seemed able to force their bodies into achieving the impossible dominated the nascent sport of triathlon continually pushing each other to ever-greater feats of athleticism & endurance. On October 14 1989 the battle between Scott & Allen reached its peak at the 13th Hawaii Ironman when the pair raced the 140.6-mile event side by side for eight straight hours at breakneck speed. The eventual winners margin of victory was a scant 58 seconds. In a profound psychological portrait of these two men & a gripping exploration of the aching gap between triumph & defeat Iron War tells triathlons greatest ever story. ...

The Iron Warriors are Chaos Space Marines with unrivalled expertise in the art of siege warfare. With great batteries of artillery & all the favours of the Ruinous Powers at their command there is no fortress in the galaxy that can stand against them for long. This omnibus follows the schemes of the embittered Warsmith Honsou in his struggles against the hated Space Marines of the Imperium. Drawing upon characters & events from author Graham Mc Neills popular Ultramarines series & for the first time in a single publication Storm of Iron" & the novella " Iron Warrior" are gathered along with short stories " The Enemy of My Enemy The Heraclitus Effect "and " The Skull Harvest."" ...

Mulholland Books presents...THE IRON WILL OF SHOESHINE CATS Its New York 1963 & college student Russell Newhouse has just made the acquaintance of notorious Jewish gangster Shoeshine Cats. Cats wants a tiny favour. &
- for his own reasons
- he also wants to educate Russell in the world of crime cops & the gritty reality of life on the edge. Russell knows a lot about books a bit about girls & nothing at all about the mob. Thats about to change.

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The game is afoot! Londons geniuses are being picked off by a vicious killer & Emma Bannon a sorceress in the service of the Empire must protect the next target Archibald Clare. Unfortunately hes more interested in solving the mystery of the murders than staying alive.. . In a world where illogical magic has turned the Industrial Revolution on its head Bannon & Clare will face dark sorcery cannon fire high treason & the vexing problem of reliably finding hansom cabs in the city. ...

After the bloody battle of Colden Moor the warlike highlanders had lost their independence. They lived in surly subservience to the Outlanders & only a teenage girl survived to represent the line of kings: Sigarni. Sigarni the silver-haired. Huntress whore princess. All of these she was called. But those who pierce the veil of the future knew that a leader was coming to the North
- a leader descended from Ironhand mightiest of the highland kings.
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First a pack of vile smelly goblins snatch Simon. Then a band of elves try to entrap Jared. Why is the entire faerie world so eager to get their hands on Spiderwicks Guide? & will the Grace children be left alone now that the Guide has mysteriously disappeared? Dont count on it! At school someone is running around pretending to be Jared & its not Simon. To make matters even worse now Mallory has disappeared & something foul in the water is killing off all the plants & animals for miles around. Clues point to the old abandoned quarry just outside of town. Dwarves have taken over an abandoned mine there. & the faerie worlds abuzz with the news that a creature with plans to rule the world has offered them a gift to join with him
- hes given them a queen...
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For fourteen years Steve & Meredith Whitman have sustained a marriage of passion & friendship despite the demands of two all-consuming careers. Meredith is a top investment banker Steve a gifted physician
- the only thing missing in their life is children. Steve longs for them. But Meredith keeps putting off motherhood & now she has been offered an extraordinary job opportunity in San Francisco three thousand miles away. Steve urges her to accept saying that he's more than happy to uproot himself & will join her as soon as he can find a new job himself. Perhaps in California he hopes they can begin a family at last. Neither Steve nor Meredith had reckoned on a prolonged separation but Steve's job keeps him in New York for months longer than planned. Weekends together fall prey to their hectic schedules. Alone in San Francisco Meredith is spending long hours at the office with her boss charismatic entrepreneur Callan Dow. Steve is working late shifts at the hospital grabbing an occasional dinner with a new female colleague. Almost unnoticed Steve & Meredith have begun living separate lives & irresistible forces start to tear their lives & hearts apart. With unerring insight Danielle Steel explores what happens when lives that fit together like delicately balanced puzzles are shifted changed & drift apart. Who survives & if love survives is at the core of Irresistible Forces"."
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Some women
- including apparently almost all heiresses
- find themselves drawn to thoroughgoing bastards who steal their money

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