Now that science has proved that mental exercise is vital in order to keep your mind young fit & healthy
- & even to stave off
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Ros has a secret crush on Jonathan. Jonathan is massively hung up on Freya (even after she dumps him). & Freya? Well Freya is a beautiful enigma. Even more so when she goes missing without a trace... Pretty Twisted" is narrated in alternating chapters by Jonathan (16) & Ros (14) who meet online at a time when things are going sour for Jonathan. His stunning girlfriend Freya is away at college & they are growing apart
- consequently he is struggling with his own sense of identity. Ros is also experiencing some problems
- one of her friends is dating an older man whose strange behaviour gives Ros cause for concern. Meanwhile the local news has been reporting some kidnappings of teenage girls. So when Freya dumps Jonathan then seems to disappear off the face of the earth he enlists Ros' (somewhat reluctant) help in tracking down the girl he still loves. With danger lurking around every corner their stories become inextricably linked in a way nobody could have predicted..."

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Tom & Kate have escaped Kates werewolf mother & made it to New York. But its not the safe haven they had hoped for. Something sinister is stalking the streets preying on the vulnerable
- people with no place to stay no money no one to ask for help
- & before Tom & Kate can find the medicine man who can save Tom from his own werewolf instincts it looks like they might be next on the menu. This is urban gritty writing with action from the first page & a fright around every corner.

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A battle is coming & Faythe will not allow the Pride to become prey... Faythe has finally come to accept that she will someday be Alpha of the Pride & she is hell-bent on changing the sexist Tribal Council from the inside. But first she must ensure that there will still be a Pride left to lead. Her fathers role as Alpha is at risk as is his control over the territory they all love. At the same time Faythes exiled boyfriend is under attack from rogues somehow connected to the political schemes of the tribal council. With her world collapsing around her Faythe must fight to keep her friends & family together as their enemies conspire against them. ...

Boston District Attorney Will Sullivan dreams of becoming the next governor of Massachusetts. With his beautiful wife Joanna & adorable daughter Sydney Will seems destined for greatness
- until Sydney becomes seriously ill. Now both parents resolve to do anything to save their daughters life. But in the twilight world of the Briarwood Medical Center nothing is as it seems. Patients on the brink of death are not only surviving but thriving while others wither away
- & the recoveries all revolve around the ministerings of a mysterious counselor who takes an unsettling interest in Joanna. When Sydneys health miraculously improves Will suspects that Joanna made a terrible bargain to save their child. Now Will must face a powerful unknown evil before he loses
- everything.


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DC Winter sacked from the police has joined the city's premier drug baron Bazza Mackenzie. Adrift in a world of easy money & brutally hard-won respect Winter appears to be in his element. Worryingly so...DI Faraday meanwhile is deeply involved in two high-profile murders
- but when one enquiry is taken out of his hands he begins to uncover a web of evidence with profound implications for both investigations...and for the disgraced Paul Winter. The relationship between the two men has never been easy but now might be the time to bury their differences.
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Hiding from the paparazzi...in a sexy strangers hotel room! Her flight is cancelled. Her politician fiance has dumped her. & the press pack are on her tail. Just another day for reclusive heiress Charlotte Dumont. Then handsome charmer Nic Russo offers her his hotel room to hide out in. Are there strings attached? Does she care? Charlotte has spent her privileged life keeping up appearances staying in control never letting go. Tonight perhaps she will go a little bit wild
- with Nic. & then return to her buttoned-up self in the morning... Cleverly written a pitch-perfect hero & heroine.
- Nadine Speech Therapist Nottingham

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The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916" is the second book of Alistair Hornes trilogy which

Includes:: "

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The top 1 percent have the best houses the best educations the best doctors & the best lifestyles but there is one thing that money doesnt seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn
- too late. In this timely book Joseph Stiglitz identifies three major causes of our predicament: that markets dont work the way they are supposed to (being neither efficient nor stable); how political systems fail to correct the shortcomings of the market; & how our current economic & political systems are fundamentally unfair. He focuses chiefly on the gross inequality to which these systems give rise but also explains how inextricably interlinked they are. Providing evidence that investment
- not austerity
- is vital for productivity & offering realistic solutions for levelling the playing field & increasing social mobility Stiglitz argues that reform of our economic & political systems is not just fairer but is the only way to make markets work as they really should.


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America currently has the most inequality & the least equality of opportunity among the advanced countries. While market forces play a role in this stark picture politics has shaped those market forces. In this best-selling book Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz exposes the efforts of well-heeled interests to compound their wealth in ways that have stifled true dynamic capitalism. Along the way he examines the effect of inequality on our economy our democracy & our system of justice. Stiglitz explains how inequality affects & is affected by every aspect of national policy & with characteristic insight he offers a vision for a more just & prosperous future supported by a concrete program to achieve that vision. ...