Luck is a double-edged sword for brooding war hero Rhys St. Maur. His death wish went unanswered on the battlefield while fate allowed the murder of his friend in the elite gentlemens society known as the Stud Club. Out of options Rhys returns to his ancestral home on the Devonshire moors battle-scarred & world-weary. But he is offered a chance at redemption in the arms of beautiful innkeeper Meredith Maddox who dares him to face the demons of his past. This is the second novel in Tessa Dares delightful Stud Club" trilogy. Other titles in this series are " One Dance with a Duke" & " Three Nights with a Scoundrel"." ...

On her thirteenth birthday Blue makes a desperate wish. To be transformed into a cool confident teenager. Enter Red appearing from nowhere like a wacky fairy godmother. Shes only visible to Blue
- in fact she IS Blue but a year older. With Red by her side to guide her Blue can avoid all the gruesome embarrassments! But her future self causes a heap of crazy trouble
- & there are dark secrets shes not telling...

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When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks & meets the mysterious alluring Edward Cullen her life takes a thrilling & terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin golden eyes mesmerising voice & supernatural gifts Edward is both irresistible & impenetrable. Up until now he has managed to keep his true identity hidden but Bella is determined to uncover his dark secret. What Bella doesn't realise is that the closer she gets to him the more she is putting herself & those around her at risk. & it might be too late to turn back.. . Deeply seductive & irresistibly compelling TWILIGHT is a love story that will stay with you long after you have turned the final page. ...

Designed as a celebration of the film this lavishly illustrated paperback edition is an exclusive behind-the-scenes guide featuring full-color photos of the cast locations & sets as well as storyboards interviews details of the special effects & much more. ...

Three muffled thuds ring from the partially filled grave of the newly wed girl. Only the verger hears them & he dismisses the noise as his imagination. But over the next few days others also hear faint sounds. An exhumation order is granted. Reporter Kate Hemingway sneaks into the small suburban churchyard when the coffin is opened & the scene she witnesses is so horrific she can never forget it. As she starts work on the story Kate finds herself caught up in a sinister & macabre cover-up. At the centre is a respected anaesthetist who has a secret obsession. He believes people can exist outside their bodies & that if he can prove it he will provide the answer to the question that has haunted mankind through the ages: is there life after death? Nothing
- & no one
- is going to stand in the way of his driving ambition.. .

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Bella Swan's move to Forks a small perpetually rainy town in Washington could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious & alluring Edward Cullen Bella's life takes a thrilling & terrifying turn. Up until now Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in but now nobody is safe especially Bella the person Edward holds most dear. Deeply romantic & extraordinarily suspenseful Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts & satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite. ...

From the author of the phenomenal Sunday Times bestsellers One Child & Ghost Girl comes a startling & poignant memoir of three peoples victimisation & abuse -- & their heartbreaking but ultimately successful steps to recovery with the help of Torey Hayden an extraordinary teacher. Two children trapped in a prison of silence & a woman suffering in the twilight of her years -- these are the cases that would test the extraordinary courage compassion & skill of Torey Hayden & ultimately reaffirm her faith in the indomitable strength of the human spirit. While working in the childrens psychiatric ward of a large hospital Torey was introduced to seven-year-old Cassandra a child who had been kidnapped by her father & was found dirty starving & picking though rubbish bins to survive. She refused to speak so Torey could only imagine what shed been through. Drake by contrast was a charismatic four-year-old who managed to participate fully in his pre-school class without uttering a single word. Then there was Gerda eighty-two who had suffered a massive stroke & was unwilling to engage in conversation with anyone. Although Torey had never worked with adults she agreed to help when all other efforts had failed. ...

The First Immortal Walks Again Utanapishtim has paid dearly for creating the vampire race
- imprisoned in a living death for centuries
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This is the story of Erik Wallin a Swede who volunteered for the Waffen-SS serving in the panzer reconnaissance battalion of the 11th SS Panzer Grenadier Division a unit composed mainly of volunteers from Scandinavia. The division saw combat in the Courland Pocket along the Oder River & in Berlin. ...

Twilight of the Romanovs" opens a door onto the world of pre-revolutionary Russia in original photographs taken during the last decades of Romanov rule. They include many remarkable colour images created using an early three-colourplate technique; these bring the remote past to life with an especially vivid jolt. We discover a world of exceptional diversity seemingly timeless almost archaic marked by persistent poverty yet also abundantly rich & often surprisingly modern. These photographs are snapshots of a vanished world. The Russian Empire was soon to be destroyed & in the ensuing blood-soaked decades rendered unrecognizable. Yet these images reveal a surprising continuity: despite the subsequent cataclysm faces postures buildings & landscapes still resonate with those who see them a century & more later." ...