For the first time in decades The Eternal City is paralysed by a blizzard. & a gruesome discovery is made in the Pantheon
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Sartaj the only Sikh inspector in the whole of Mumbai is used to being identified by his turban beard & the sharp cut of his trousers. But the silky Sikh is now past forty his marriage is over & his career prospects are on the slide. When Sartaj gets an anonymous tip-off as to the secret hideout of the legendary boss of the G-company hes determined that hell be the one to collect the prize... ...

The thinkers of ancient Egypt Greece & India recognized that numbers governed much of what they saw in their world & hence provided an approach to its divine creator. Robert Lawlor sets out the system that determines the dimension & the form of both man-made & natural structures from Gothic cathedrals to flowers from music to the human body. By also involving the reader in practical experiments he leads with ease from simple principles to a grasp of the logarithmic spiral the Golden Proportion the squaring of the circle & other ubiquitous ratios & proportions. Art & Imagination These large-format gloriously-illustrated paperbacks cover Eastern & Western religion & philosophy including myth & magic alchemy & astrology. The distinguished authors bring a wealth of knowledge visionary thinking & accessible writing to each intriguing subject. ...

1570 in the Italian city of Ferrara. Sixteen-year-old Serafina is fipped by her family from an illicit love affair & forced into the convent of Santa Caterina renowned for its superb music. Serafinas one weapon is her glorious voice but she refuses to sing. Madonna Chiara an abbess as fluent in politics as she is in prayer finds her new charge has unleased a power play
- rebellion ecstasies & hysterias
- within the convent. However watching over Serafina is Zuana the sister in charge of the infirmary who understands & might even challenge her incarceration.

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This book is the winner of the 1992 Booker prize. Gripping... Sacred Hunger" covers a period between 1752 & 1765...it concerns the entangled & conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp the son of a Lancashire merchant & Matthew Paris a scholar & surgeon just released from prison for denying Holy Writ...the Liverpool Merchant is the vessel on which the whole of the novel hinges & it carries the reader deep into the history of mans iniquitous greed... As regards its dramatic breadth & energy no recent domestic novel has come within a mile of it
- Anthony Quinn in the " Independent"."
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As humans evolved on Earth they used plants for everything imaginable
- food weapons baskets clothes shelter & medicine. Indigenous
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Constantinople 1204: the holy city is razed to the ground by Crusaders
- the streets awash with blood. Modern day Istanbul: an
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Masonic secrets are of great interest to a wide audience
- whether Freemasons or not. The popularity of Dan Browns books has shown
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Clive Cussler author of the bestselling Dirk Pitt" novels including " Arctic Drift" & " Black Wind" & co-author Craig Dirgo put hero Juan Cabrillo to the test once more in the second " Oregon Files" adventure " Sacred Stone". Tens of thousands of years ago: a fist of stone punches through the Earths atmosphere & falls on the snowy wastes of Greenland
- its deadly secret waiting to be found by man... The discovery of a radioactive meteorite in Greenland sends Jan Cabrillo & the crew of his hi-tech ship Oregon
- in Iceland to seize a nuclear weapon from terrorists
- on a second rescue mission: to retrieve the dangerous stellar object before someone unlocks the terrible properties it holds. Unfortunately Cabrillo is too late to prevent a fanatical group from spiriting the orb away. Now Cabrillo & his team aboard the Oregon have two problems: preventing the detonation of a nuclear bomb in London on New Years Eve & getting their hands on the meteorite before a madman uses it to start World War III..." Impossible to put down...a compelling sense of adventure that can rival any cinematic blockbuster". (" Big Issue"). " Cussler is hard to beat". (" Daily Mail"). Bestselling author Clive Cussler has kept readers on the edges of their seats for four decades with his thrilling action novels. As well as the " Oregon Files" series there are also the "NUMA Files" the " Dirk Pitt" stories (which started it all) the Isaac Bell adventures & the " Fargo" series. The other titles in the " Oregon Files" are: " Golden Buddha" " Dark Watch" " Skeleton Coast" " Plague Ship" " Corsair" " The Silent Sea" & " The Jungle" & are all available in Penguin paperback."


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1067. In the desolate wastes of Greenland a band of hunters stumble across a strangely-shaped stone which has fallen from the sky. At first the mysterious sky-stone seems to bring good luck. But the villagers are soon cursed with violence & murder as they fight to gain control of the precious object. Over the next six hundred years the Sky-Stone will fall into the hands of crusading knights a wicked manor-lord of Devon a group of radical young kabalists the dying King Henry III & a band of travelling players. But treachery discord & violent death follow for all who seek to possess it. ...