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 Iron Woman has come to take revenge on mankind. Full of the power & fantastic imagination of his book The Iron Man" this sequel from the late Poet Laureate is a cry against the relentless pollution of the Earths waterways through the dumping of industrial waste." ...

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. ...

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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From healthy & wholesome to decadent & daring this wonderful book offers an enticing choice of milk & yogurt smoothies fresh fruit & vegetable juices frozen drinks made with ice cream & crushed ice & wickedly boozy blends. Learn how to create delicious blended drinks including choosing the right machine for the job & combining different ingredients to achieve the perfect result. ...

Thousands of people suffer from the miseries of irritable bowel syndrome. If youre one of them youll know that what you eat makes a big difference to how you feel. This is a diet book that without disrupting your life provides recipes & suggestions for healthy meals youll enjoy. There is also advice about what to choose for a snack lunch what to order in a restaurant & how to cope when youre invited out for a meal. The Irritable Bowel Diet Book will help you relieve stomach-aches & queasiness & live a happier life. ...