Hey buster! Normal life is a total yawn. So break out boredom with multi-million-copy bestselling author Lauren Child & meet your new favourite heroine... Ruby Redfort: detective secret agent thirteen-year-old kid. Everyone's favourite kid detective is back for a second mind-blowing instalment packed with all the off-the-wall humour action & friendship of the first book. This time though it's an adventure on the wide open ocean & Ruby is all at sea... Can she crack the case of the Twinford pirates while evading the clutches of a vile sea monster as well as the evil Count von Viscount? ] Well you wouldn't want to bet against her... ...

The Takeaway Secret" is a book which will enable readers to cook their own tasty takeaway food at home. After over 5 years of research & investigation the secret ingredients & cooking techniques used by takeaway & fast food restaurants can now finally be revealed. In today's increasingly health conscious & now financially cautious world there's never been a better time to learn the secrets of cooking your own takeaway food at home. From now on the takeaway menu will become an inspiration to cook not an expensive option for dinner. Some of the recipes which can now be faithfully recreated at home include Lamb Donner & Chicken Kebabs Chicken & Vegetable Pakora Szechuan Chicken Sweet & Sour Chicken Chicken Wings Spare Ribs Triple-Decker Burgers Chicken Burgers Spiced Onions Kebab Sauces Sub Rolls Wraps & many more. Many recipe books call for an extensive & expensive list of ingredients often interesting to read but impractical for everyday cooking. " The Takeaway Secret" will stand out as the modern cookbook ideal for a generation of people who desire delicious food delivered quickly without the need to slave over a hot stove for hours on end. The recipes included make it possible for home cooks both novice & professional to recreate their favorite takeaway & fast food restaurant dishes in their own kitchen." ...

Casey Edwards has demons to put to rest. Since she had to give away her baby at 15 she's been lost in booze & bad company. But now she wants to find her child & put things right...' All she wanted to do was get out of there. Get on a train & head for London the place she'd been avoiding for so many years. But it was finally time.' Casey Edwards has demons to put to rest. Since she had to give away her baby at 15 she's been lost in booze & bad company. But now she wants to find her child & put things right. Heading to Soho Casey meets former gangster Vince Sadler an old-school hard man who can still handle himself
- & anyone else. There's a spark between Vince & Casey but she can't let herself get hurt not again. To find the truth Casey must enter the dark world of London's gangland: hard drugs vice even people trafficking. Soon she discovers that mob boss Alfie Jennings & sadistic psycho Oscar Hardings are plotting something dangerous something brutal. Something that puts Casey
- & her child
- in serious trouble.. . Full of strong women devious gangsters & compelling twists Taken is compulsive read perfect for fans of Jessie Keane & Roberta Kray.


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A beautiful woman Model & it-girl Tara Parker Trench is famous across Ireland
- with her beauty glittering lifestyle & perfect
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When Nita Morales hires Elvis Cole to find her missing adult daughter she isn't afraid even though she's gotten a phone call asking for ransom. She knows it's a fake that her daughter is off with the guy Nita will only call that boy" & that they need money: " Even smart girls do stupid things when they think a boy loves them." But she is wrong. The girl & her boyfriend have been taken by bajadores
- bandits who prey on other bandits border professionals who prey not only on innocent victims but on each other. They steal drugs guns & people
- buying & selling victims like commodities & killing the ones they can't get a price for. Cole & Pike find the spot where they were taken. There are tire tracks bullet casings & bloodstains. They know things look as bad as possible. But they are wrong too. It is about to get much worse. Going undercover to find the two young people & buy them back Cole himself is taken & disappears. Now it is up to Joe Pike to retrace Cole's steps burning through the hard & murderous world of human traffickers to find his friend. But he may already be too late."

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Kylie Galen believes that if she can just uncover what she is all the other uncertainties in her life will suddenly make sense. & things really need to make sense right now. For starters her heart is still torn between Lucas & Derek
- or it was. Now she's beginning to wonder if she was wrong about both boys. But it's not just romance that's leaving Kylie conflicted. She's also being haunted by an amnesia-stricken ghost who can't remember who she is. Complicating matters even more is the message the spirit brings from the world beyond: Death is imminent for someone at Shadow Falls Camp
- & this time there's nothing Kylie can do to stop it...

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Her desire for revenge is ice cold... In the frozen wilds of the Alaskan interior former state trooper Jenna Darrow was taken hostage by a deadly vampire who terrorized her for hours feeding on her blood & leaving her more dead than alive. But Jenna did survive
- albeit as an altered being... Now Jenna wants revenge on that vampire & for that she must turn to the very race of beings who terrify her the most: the Breed. But of all the Breed warriors it is Brock the immense forbidding male who makes Jenna feel most at ease. Even more unsettling are the unbidden emotions Brock stirs within her. & the affair that begins as a physical understanding devoid of emotional strings soon blazes into something much deeper
- but just as their passion flares white hot so does a ghost from Brocks past threaten to break their fragile forbidden love.

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Bryn knows first-hand that being the alpha of a werewolf pack means making hard decisions & that being human makes things a thousand times worse. She's prepared to give up her humanity but the wolf who promised to Change her is waiting
- though for what Bryn doesn't know. Still human she must take her place in the werewolf Senate the precarious democracy that rules the North American packs. Standing side by side with werewolves who were ancient long before she was ever born is enough of a challenge but Bryn soon learns that the Senate has been called to deal with a problem: the kind of problem that involves human bodies a Rabid werewolf & memories that Bryn Chase & the rest of their pack would rather forget. With bodies stacking up & political pressure closing in from all sides Bryn & her pack are going to have to turn to old enemies & even older friends for help
- especially when it starts to look like this time the monster might be one of their own.

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TORMENTED BY HER INNOCENCE As leader of his clan Black Rob Brunson has earned every dark syllable of his name. But having taken hostage his enemys daughter in a fierce act of rebellion he is tormented by feelings of guilt & torn apart with the growing need to protect her
- & seduce her! Stella Storwick feels Robs disdain from the first. Then slowly she starts to see behind his eyes to a man in turmoil. Something he has no words for something that can only be captured in a heart-wrenching kiss... The Brunson Clan The family who will kneel to no one...
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This autobiography describes the hours before & after Terry Waite was taken hostage. Waite analyzes his thoughts & feelings immediately prior to captivity. It is also an account of his years in solitary confinement & of the inner strengths which enabled him to survive. ...