The new Maggy Thorsen coffeehouse mystery
- " Theres a chill in the Wisconsin air & its a shot in the arm
- a triple espresso

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When Atlanta police detective Michael Ormewood is called out to a murder scene at the notorious Grady Homes he finds himself faced with one of the most brutal killings of his career: Aleesha Monroe is found in the stairwell in a pool of her own blood her body horribly mutilated. As a one-off killing it's shocking but when it becomes clear that it's just the latest in a series of similar attacks the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are called in & Michael is forced into working with Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Apprehension Team
- a man he instinctively dislikes. Twenty-four hours later the violence Michael sees around him every day explodes in his own back yard. & it seems the mystery behind Monroe's death is inextricably entangled with a past that refuses to stay buried...
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Featuring Jack Reacher hero of the new blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise. For Jack Reacher being invisible has become a habit. He spends his days digging swimming pools by hand & his nights as the bouncer in the local strip club in the Florida Keys. He doesn't want to be found. But someone has sent a private detective to seek him out. Then Reacher finds the guy beaten to death with his fingertips sliced off. It's time to head north & work out who is trying to find him & why. ...

Got you. The sight of the bomb hit Felix like a punch in the guts. Just twelve minutes remaining on the clock.. . He was going to have to move fast. Following a devastating terrorist bomb attack on Heathrow airport Felix Smith is determined to avenge his fathers death. He successfully becomes a member of the Minos Chapter a secret service full of gifted under-age recruits. His speciality
- Bomb Disposal. Felix & his fellow recruits are now the ultimate spooks
- trained to fight terror with terror. The timer is ticking...

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This is an audio CD of the first extraordinary novel in a new trilogy combining nail-biting suspense gripping mystery & archaeological adventure with a paranormal twist. Rachel & Adam are sent to stay with their grandmother following their parents divorce. But the quiet English village is a sinister unsettling place. Is there a dark heart beating beneath the thatched roofs of Triskellion? It is a place protected by an ancient three-bladed artefect; a village where crops never fall & where the war memorial is blank; a community with much to protect. With the help of the mysterious Gabriel Rachel & Adam begin to unearth centuries-old secrets & make a shocking revelation about their familys past
- & their own future... This is the first in a thrilling & genre-busting trilogy for children & the dazzling joint fiction debut from Will Peterson
- the pseudonym of acclaimed novelist Mark Billingham & TV writer & performer Peter Cocks. An inventive cross between The X-Files" & " The Da Vinci Code" " Triskellion" is a pacy suspenseful read that is sure to appeal to fans of Darren Shan Anthony Horowitz & Garth Nix. It is supported by a major marketing & publicity campaign. It is part of Walker Books New Voices promotion which showcases 2008s brightest new storytelling talents. It

Includes:: eight gripping CDs read by well-known actress Teresa Gallagher: runtime t.b.c."



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Laurence Sternes The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman is a huge literary paradox for it is both a novel & an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour & generous sentiments it introduces us to a vivid group of memorable characters variously eccentric farcical & endearing. As an anti-novel it is a deliberately tantalising & exuberantly egoistic work ostentatiously digressive involving the reader in the labyrinthine creation of a purported autobiography. This mercurial eighteenth-century text thus anticipates modernism & postmodernism. Vibrant & bizarre Tristram Shandy provides an unforgettable experience. We may see why Nietzsche termed Sterne the most liberated spirit of all time. ...

The Triumph Bonneville has been one of motorcyclings most enduring British icons. The name comes from the Utah salt flats where a streamlined twin-cylinder Triumph captured the World Motorcycle Speed Record in 1956. In 1959 the first Bonneville the T120 appeared & the Bonneville name would remain a revered badge of motorcycling honour for the following three decades. This elegant picture-lavish book featuring Bonnevilles specially photographed in a studio setting pays tribute by showing all the classic models in exquisite photographic detail accompanied by an expert commentary. This is a visual feast for all Bonneville enthusiasts. ...

Triumph Cars traces the 80-year history of the Triumph company & its products from the Tri-car of 1903 through to the end of car production. The authors also unravel the politics of the companys management the design & engineering story the factorys long-running competition activities including the highly successful career of the TR series plus the international sales & marketing achievements. ...

This new novel from the international bestselling author of Roma" is set against the background of Caesars stupendous quadruple triumphs in Rome in 46 BC full of colour & spectacle. Having obliterated the opposition Caesar is now dictator for life. In the upcoming celebrations Vercingetorix the Gaul is scheduled to be executed as is Arsinoe the sister of Cleopatra...and Cleopatra herself is in Rome on a state visit trying to convince Caesar to acknowledge their son as his heir. Marc Antony & Caesar are at odds; Cicero is making a fool of himself with a new teenage bride; & Caesars wife Calpurnia having fallen under the spell of an Etruscan soothsayer is convinced of a plot on her husbands life. Murder & intrigue again draw Gordianus into the vortex of history. Praise for Stephen Saylor: Saylor is on top form with the latest in his extraordinarily vivid series of crime novels set in ancient Rome
- " Sunday Times". Saylors gifts include authentic historical & topographical backgrounds &...sombre themes set off the brilliant scenery & clever plotting
- " Times Literary Supplement". Saylors scholarship is breathtaking & his writing enthrals
- Ruth Rendell. Readers will find his work wonderfully (and gracefully) researched...this is entertainment of the first order
- " Washington Post". Saylor has acquired the information of a historian but he enjoys the gifts of a born novelist
- " Boston Globe"."




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In the Sudan decades of brutal misgovernment by the ruling Egyptian Khedive in Cairo precipitate a fierce & bloody rebellion & Holy War headed by a charismatic new religious leader The Madhi or Expected One". The British are forced to intervene to protect their national interests & to attempt to rescue the hundreds of British subjects stranded in the country. Along with hundreds of others British trader & businessman Ryder Courtney is trapped in the capital city of Khartoum. It is here that he meets Captain Penrod Ballantyne of the 10th Hussars as well as the British Consul David Benbrook & his three beautiful daughters. Against the vivid & bloody backdrop of the siege of Khartoum in which British General Charles George Gordon is killed & the British retreat these three powerful men fight to survive. 'A fine storyteller..." Triumph of the Sun" is one of his very best'
- " Daily Mail"."
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