When the police are called to a building on New Yorks Upper East Side Detective Mike Chapman & Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper respond quickly. A resident Tina Barr is alleged to have been assaulted but she refuses to co-operate with their enquiries. Within a day Alex & Chapman are back at the same building confronted with the body of a woman battered to death & with a mysterious jewel-encrusted book beside her. But the victim isnt Tina Barr & Tina has disappeared. The book is part of a rare collection at the New York Public Library & Alex & Chapman are plunged into the deadly world of the super-rich
- those who protect their fortunes & collections more carefully than other peoples lives.
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Would you let a child die if your family were threatened? When the government wants someone to disappear without a trace they put in a call to Donovan Creed. Creed is a man of many identities a ruthless assassin with access to all the technology that the military can offer. You dont want to take on Creed. But then again most dont even see him coming. When Creed meets an orphaned girl she reminds him of his own daughter & he swears to protect her from the men who killed her parents. But when his involvement becomes public knowledge amongst the criminal fraternity Creed & his family also become targets... ...

The prophesies were there.. .but no one listened. They are the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse & they have the power to usher in Doomsday.. .or prevent it. Eight months ago demon-slayer Regan Matthews seduced the fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse Thanatos. Now she's pregnant with his child
- a child who if prophecies are to believed is fated to save the world. But things aren't always as they appear & the baby conceived by two warriors may yet be the very catalyst that kicks off Armageddon. Thanatos who will be Death when his Seal breaks never thought he'd have a family but as he grows close to Regan & his unborn son he allows himself to dream. But as the world edges closer to the end of days & his evil brother plots against him Thanatos realises that the sacrifice he must make will destroy everything he dreamed of having.
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New York fashion designer Jamie Nova has chosen the glitz of Las Vegas as the setting for celebrating her impending divorce. Joined by her two best friends street-smart Madison Castelli & Natalie de Barge an ambitious TV reporter
- Jamie plans to make the most of her hard-earned holiday & forget all about her controlling ex. When the threesome encounters Mark Blaine the fun-loving playboy scion of a real estate billionaire things start to heat up very quickly. Madison & Natalie receive a frantic midnight phone call telling them Mark is lying in Jamies bed. & hes dead...
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When a mummy in the Museum of Albion is unpacked it is found to contain a bundle of curious objects & documents which tell of the wanderings of an unknown woman Leto. On the run in a far-off era of civil strife Leto gives birth to twins shelters with wolves survives in a desert stronghold as the lover of its commander stows away on a ship loaded with plundered antiquities & then works as a maid in a war-torn city. She loses her son but saves her daughter during a long siege. As the novel sweeps from mythological times & the Middle Ages to the treasure-hunting of Victorian Europe & into the present day Leto reappears in different guises. Eventually she becomes a servant to a rock singer & begins to search for her son. ...

Captivating & evocative Letter from a Stranger will take you on an unforgettable journey from idyllic Connecticut to exotic Istanbul to war-torn Berlin then back to the present day. When award-winning film maker Justine Nolan returns to her beautiful childhood home she is intrigued by an envelope she finds in her absent mother's post. But the letter inside contains a shocking revelation. If genuine it will change everything she believes about her family's recent history her mother & her adored grandmother Gabriele. With the support of her beloved twin brother Richard Justine resolves to uncover the truth. To do so she must travel to Istanbul
- the teeming beguiling city on the cusp of East & West. It is a place which holds its own secrets leading her to a fascinating man who appears to know more than he is prepared to disclose. Yet even when her quest succeeds Justine is faced with a further mystery: Gabriele's background is not what it seems. Justine is given a book of memories in which the real story unfolds taking her back to the darkest days of European history with its suffering & astonishing acts of bravery. At the heart of it lie the final facts of Gabriele's identity
- & her own. The letter from a stranger has brought her not only to the truth about her family but also a chance to heal the wounds of past betrayals to embrace a new love & new life.

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Captivating & evocative Letter from a Stranger will take you on an unforgettable journey from idyllic Connecticut to exotic Istanbul to war-torn Berlin then back to the present day. When award-winning film maker Justine Nolan returns to her beautiful childhood home she is intrigued by an envelope she finds in her absent mothers post. But the letter inside contains a shocking revelation. If genuine it will change everything she believes about her familys recent history her mother & her adored grandmother Gabriele. With the support of her beloved twin brother Richard Justine resolves to uncover the truth. To do so she must travel to Istanbul -- the teeming beguiling city on the cusp of East & West. It is a place which holds its own secrets leading her to a fascinating man who appears to know more than he is prepared to disclose. Yet even when her quest succeeds Justine is faced with a further mystery: Gabrieles background is not what it seems. Justine is given a book of memories in which the real story unfolds taking her back to the darkest days of European history with its suffering & astonishing acts of bravery. At the heart of it lie the final facts of Gabrieles identity -- & her own. The letter from a stranger has brought her not only to the truth about her family but also a chance to heal the wounds of past betrayals to embrace a new love & new life. ...

Alastair Cookes Letter from America: 1946-2004" is a defining collection from his legendary BBC Radio broadcasts that guides us through nearly sixty years of changing life in the United States. Alistair Cookes " Letter from America" interpreted nearly sixty years of changing US life for the rest of the world. Covering key moments from the assassination of Kennedy through Vietnam & Watergate to September 11 Iraq & anticipating the 2004 elections this book provides a defining collection of Letters from his legendary BBC Radio 4 broadcasts. Encompassing portraits of the great & the good from Charlie Chaplin to Martin Luther King & topics as varied as civil rights golf jazz & the changing colours of a New England fall each Letter contributes a captivating portrait of a nation
- & of a man. " Cooke was the special relationship". (" Daily Mail"). " Such experience wisdom & education are unlikely ever again to combine in one journalist". (Mark Lawson). " There is never going to be anyone else like Cooke a chronicler of amazing times". (" Daily Telegraph"). " The range of Cookes experiences was awesome but he always had the personal touch". (Jeremy Vine). " No one else succeeded in explaining to the English-speaking world.. .the idiosyncrasies of a country at once so familiar & yet so utterly foreign". (" Independent"). Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) enjoyed an extraordinary life in print radio & television. " The Guardians" Senior Correspondent in New York for twenty-five years & the host of groundbreaking cultural programmes on American television & of the BBC series America Cooke was however best known both at home & abroad for his weekly BBC broadcast " Letter from America" which reported on fifty-eight years of US life was heard over five continents & totalled 2 869 broadcasts before his retirement in February 2004 far & away the longest-running radio series in broadcasting history."
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Thousands of people have written to tell me that I am wrong not to believe in God. The most hostile of these communications have come from Christians. This is ironic as Christians generally imagine that no faith imparts the virtues of love & forgiveness more effectively than their own. The truth is that many who claim to be transformed by Christs love are deeply even murderously intolerant of criticism. While we may want to ascribe this to human nature it is clear that such hatred draws considerable support from the Bible. How do I know this? The most disturbed of my correspondents always cite chapter & verse. So begins Letter to a Christian Nation" Sam Harris hard-hitting rebuttal of religious fundamentalism & blind belief. With deceptively simple arguments he demolishes the myths on which Christianity was built challenges believers to open their eyes to the contradictions of their faith & warns us of the dangers of Americas ever increasing unification of Church & State." ...

Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her Letter to my Daughter reveals Maya Angelous path to living well & living a life with meaning. Told in her own inimitable style this book transcends genres & categories: its part guidebook part memoir part poetry
- & pure delight. Here in short essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters & taught her lessons about compassion & fortitude. Whether she is recalling lost friends extolling honesty or simply singing the praises of a meal of red rice Maya Angelou writes from the heart to millions of women. Like the rest of her remarkable work Letter to My Daughter entertains & teaches. It is a book to cherish savour reread & share.
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