North Africa 23 October 1942. The eve of El Alamein the battle that turned the Second World War. The greatest artillery barrage in the history of warfare is about to be unleashed. Within twelve days the Axis forces will be in full retreat their dreams of controlling the Mediterranean & seizing the Suez Canal shattered. RAF fighter pilot Englishman Kit Curtis is in an unarmed photo-reconnaissance Spitfire reporting Axis movements. Ossie Wolf American volunteer is seconded to fly in a covert operation behind enemy lines. Since they flew together during the Siege of Malta both men have taken different paths Curtis following his conscience Wolf insouciant & headstrong killer in the air liability on the ground. But Alamein unites them in a desperate struggle for survival. & together they encounter the commander of the Axis forces the Desert Fox himself... ...

Marcus Pierce a strikingly handsome aristocrat with a wicked reputation inherits guardianship of Arabella Loring & her two younger sisters
- & immediately declares his intention to marry them off. But gorgeously defiant Arabella sparks frustration
- & something deeply erotic
- in Marcus. After matching both wits & swords with her Marcus concludes that this beautiful & formidable foe must be his. Having sworn off marriage & men Arabella wishes to be left alone to run her finishing school for young ladies. To that end she boldly accepts Marcus's intimate challenge: If he can woo & win her within two weeks she'll take her place in his bed as his wife. However if she can resist his considerable charms the Loring sisters will be granted their independence. Thus an extraordinary game of seduction begins... Nicole Jordan puts the steam in steamy. A smoldering hero & delightful heroine make this a sizzling read. Don't miss it!" Sabrina Jeffries " In To Pleasure a Lady Nicole Jordan gracefully fashions a delightfully entertaining & delectably sexy battle of wits & wiles between two equally stubborn protagonists." Chicago Tribune " Jordan turns up the heat in this battle-of-wills/lessons-in-love romance that perfectly launches The Courtship Wars series. Lively dialogue soaring sexual tension & characters you can take to your heart make this a keeper." Romantic Times Rouge Romance
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One night in 1974 a young Frenchman secretly
- & illegally
- rigged a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center.

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New York Times" bestselling author Alex Kershaw has written the first full biography of one of the most remarkable men to have outwitted Hitler
- Raoul Wallenberg the young Swedish diplomat who almost single-handedly saved the lives of countless Hungarian Jews at unimaginable risk & great cost to himself. As a Holocaust survivor said Schindler saved hundreds. Wallenberg saved tens of thousands. This is the story of how he achieved this & of his personal duel with Adolf Eichmann the SS colonel charged with obliterating Hungarian Jewry who sent half a million Jews to their deaths in Auschwitz. This confrontation reaches its climax in 1944 when Soviet & German troops are fighting h&-to-hand through the suburbs of Budapest & Eichmanns push for the Final Solution is personally opposed by Wallenberg. This book also sheds new light on Wallenbergs fate
- he disappeared into the Soviet Union after the war to a highly controversial & disputed death. (The Americans were so determined to discover what happened to him that they made him an honorary citizen in order to prise information out of the Russians.) Its an inspiring story which moves at the pace of a master thriller-writer but the truth behind it is heartbreaking."

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Ned Henry is a time-travelling historian who specialises in the mid-20th century
- currently engaged in researching the bombed-out
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Jasper Renshaw Viscount Vale has a problem: he needs to marry & produce an heir to the title. All Jasper wants is to find a lady who will put up with him long enough to wed so he can return to his customary life of drinking & womanizing. Melisande Fleming on the other hand has been secretly in love with Jasper for years. Knowing that Jasper is under pressure to marry Melisande grasps her fate with both hands & volunteers to wed him even though she means nothing to him. Although Jasper is initially only interested in producing an heir their wedding night is pleasant if not earth-shattering & he oddly enough finds himself curious about his wife. What does Melisande do all day? What does she think about? Melisande however has everything she told herself shed be content with: marriage to the man she loves. But to her chagrin she wants more from the Jasper. More of his time more of his thoughts & heart & really while were on the subject more lovemaking. Thus she sets out to seduce her husband by night even as he starts turning up in her life during the day. ...

A classic Black Lace tale of a love-hate affair with a charismatic master... Beautiful but shy Laura works for a powerful company where it seems that every man harbours hidden desires for her. If only she thinks with shame they could guess at her own torrid fantasies about them. But her subtle provocations are not going unnoticed or unappreciated. In fact they are taking her into dangerous territory with several men. But the real object of her desire is ' The Devil'
- a masterful & arrogant figure who both terrifies & thrills her with his demands. He is a man who is intent on becoming her complete master a man she would have to serve in ways that make her head spin. But isn't that what she always wanted?
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We're all in Sales now. Each day millions of people earn their keep by convincing someone else to make a purchase. They sell planes to airlines oil shares to sheiks cars to drivers. They sell consulting agreements magazine subscriptions time-shares double glazing broadband fitted kitchens car insurance life insurance pet insurance! Some work in fancy offices with glorious views others in dreary cubicles but most look exactly like you. In fact each & every one of us spends time trying to persuade others to part with resources
- money time attention
- though most of the time we don't realise we're doing it. Parents sell their kids on going to bed. Spouses sell their partners on mowing the lawn or putting the cat out. We sell our bosses on giving us more money & more time off. & in astonishing numbers we go online to sell ourselves on Facebook Twitter & in Match.com profiles. In this new book from the bestselling author of Drive Dan Pink explores the ways in which we can all improve our sales skills in every area of our lives & identifies the three personal qualities & four essential skills necessary to move people. Relying on science rather than platitudes & analysis instead of exhortation Dan builds on his own sales experience & on the profiles of some of the world's best salespeople
- & makes us look again at our own sales skills.


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Life is all about pitching. The problem is that we're not very good at it. Each day millions of people earn their keep by convincing someone else to make a purchase. They sell planes to airlines oil shares to sheiks cars to drivers. They sell consulting agreements magazine subscriptions time-shares double glazing broadband fitted kitchens car insurance life insurance pet insurance! Some work in fancy offices with glorious views others in dreary cubicles but most look exactly like you. In fact each & every one of us spends time trying to persuade others to part with resources
- money time attention
- though most of the time we don't realise we're doing it. Parents sell their kids on going to bed. Spouses sell their partners on mowing the lawn or putting the cat out. We sell our bosses on giving us more money & more time off. & in astonishing numbers we go online to sell ourselves on Facebook Twitter & in Match.com profiles. What businesses politicians & academics don't seem to have realised yet is that we're all in sales now. In this new book from the bestselling author of Drive Daniel Pink explores the ways in which we can all improve our sales acumen in every area of our lives & identifies the three personal qualities & three essential skills necessary to move people. Relying on science rather than platitudes & analysis instead of exhortation Pink shows that sales isn't what it used to be that the low road of deceit & trickery is no longer a viable option & that success in any kind of persuasion or influence now depends on being more human. Brimming with new & inspiring ideas on peddling pitching & persuading this book presents us with the tools & the tips to change the way we sell our products our ideas & ourselves.

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Miner's son David Powlett-Jones returns from the carnage of the Western Front in 1918 shell-shocked & bitterly hardened by the violence of war. He begins life again as a master at a remote Devon school controlling the destiny of boys barely his junior. As the years pass David becomes a teacher of rare talent begins to find peace & is able to adjust to the changes which are overwhelming society. But soon he will have to face up to the prospect of another terrible war. ...