Alice Shoemaker habitually goes to great lengths to avoid telling the truth about herself & her past. After agreeing to help out a friend by shopping & cleaning for the unknown man staying at Cuckoo House she soon becomes suspicious that her strange & obnoxiously rude client has something to hide... Clayton Miller's life is a mess. His career as one of the country's best comedy script writers has stalled & his long-term girlfriend has left him for his ex best friend & ex writing partner. Just when he thinks his life couldn't get any worse he commits a spectacularly public fall from grace & with the press hounding him his agent banishes him to the middle of nowhere until the dust has settled. & there he meets Alice... When Alice & Clayton discover the truth about each other they form an unlikely friendship
- until Alice discovers Clayton has betrayed her in the worst possible way.
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A sumptuous wedding feast two advantageous marriages & a blessing from the golden king When silk merchant John Lambert marries off his two beautiful daughters their fortunes are set to change forever. Elder daughter Jane starts a notorious liaison with Edward IV while her sister Isabel as the new silkweaver to the court becomes privy to its most intimate secrets. Could they hold the keys to power in this time of uncertainty? Vanora Bennett brings to life a time of passions & politics a time of turmoil & tension a world in flux & a country up for grabs. ...

BOOK 2 OF THE BELGARIAD the worldwide bestselling fantasy series by master storyteller David Eddings. Discover the epic story that inspired thousands
- from Raymond Feist's The Riftwar Cycle series to George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones. The Accursed One is not dead... He only sleeps... The evil God Torak covets dominion over all men. If the stolen Orb of Aldur reaches him he will surely gain what he desires. Garion travels through strange lands with master sorcerers Belgarath & Polgara in frantic pursuit of the Orb. But as his own powers grow Garion starts to realize that he too may have a part to play
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Legends told of how the evil God Torak had coveted the power of the Orb of Aldur until defeated in a final battle. But the prophecy spoke of a time when he would awake & again seek dominance over the world. Now the Orb has been stolen by a priest of Torak & that time is at h&. ...

The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories. In this classic literary representation of gambling Alexander Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. Hints of the occult & gothic alternate with scenes of St Petersburg high-society in the story of the passionate Hermann's quest to master chance & make his fortune at the card-table. Underlying the taut plot is an ironical treatment of the romantic dreamer & social outcast. This volume contains three other major works of Pushkin's fiction moving from the witty parodies of sentimentalism & high melodrama in The Tales of Belkin to an early experiment with recreating the past in Peter the Great's Blackamoor. It concludes with the novel-length masterpiece The Captain's Daughter which combines historical fiction in the manner of Sir Walter Scott with the colour & devices of the Russian fairy-tale in a narrative of rebellion & romance. These new translations as well as being meticulously faithful to the original do full justice to the elegance & fluency of Pushkin's prose. The Introduction provides insightful readings of the stories & places them in their European literary context. A chronology of the Pugachov Uprising illuminates the events in The Captain's Daughter. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

After 6 000 years of horrifying stillness Akash mother of all vampires & Queen of the Damned has risen from her sleep to let loose the powers of the night. But her monstrous plan for ruling the worlds of the living & the undead must be stopped before she destroys mankind & it falls to the evil vampire Lestat to fight her all-encompassing evil
- for it is he who challenged her power by waking her from sleep.
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Life for East End families like Pat's was always a struggle. She worked for years in Tate & Lyle's sugar factory while her husband Charlie took on two jobs so their growing family could survive. Until one day Charlie came home with a brilliant idea
- they should take over The Rising Sun pub in Bromley-by-Bow. In this charming memoir Pat describes her years as a pub landlady & vividly evokes the East End community she served in the 1960s the extraordinary characters she encountered & the changes that swept through society at that time. She also reveals why she & Charlie moved to Essex & what it felt like to become a star of The Only Way is Essex in her seventies.
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Third story in the Wolf Tower sequence. Leaving behind the strange world of Wolf Star Rise Claidi looks forward to a joyful reunion with her beloved Argul. But to her horror her return to the Hulta people is met with hostility mistrust & derision. Argul they tell her has left them shattered by the grief of her betrayal. Alone again Claidi determines to follow Argul north. When finally she finds him he refuses to speak with her but agrees to take her with him to an unknown destination. Meanwhile the strange & threatening character of Jelly is in hot pursuit.. . When finally the purpose of their journey is revealed so too is Claidis true identity. & so she must confront the past & find a way to secure her future with Argul. ...

Thulsa Dooms evil snake-god Set is bringing him back from the grave so Doom can have vengeance on Sonja. But Set has his own hidden agenda. As Doom rises from the hellish depths to smash Sonjas palace Sonja is lucky just to escape with all her limbs attached. Doom owes a heavy debt to his god Set for his new-found power. Set didnt revive Thulsa out of charity; it needs the undead sorcerer to carry out a horrific rite that can only be performed once every thousand years. The results of this dark ritual? Only Set knows the full truth... The Queen Sonja Volume 4 TP" collects issues numbered 16-20 [the " Son of Set" storyline] along with a complete cover gallery." ...