Audrey Popkin realises she has bitten off more than she can chew when she gets embroiled with icy-cool banker Sterling Foster. His ideas about how to have fun are more bizarre than any English Literature graduate should have to put up with! One morning she packs her bags & walks out of his luxury Florida apartment heading back to Washington DC in search of a more regular deal with a more regular guy. But for a girl like Audrey this is not as easy as it sounds. When Patrick Dugan the charismatic owner of an old-world bar with a talent for mixing the smoothest cocktails fixes Audrey in his sights some strange alliances are about to be formed. Within a week Audrey talks her way into a job at Patricks bar & a room in the apartment he shares with a drag queen jazz singer called Basil
- who has a great line in platinum wigs. Audrey soon realises that Patrick is not all he seems. Why is he pretending to be gay? & what is he covering up for his father a pillar of the local community? Audrey is so besotted with the enigmatic barman that she doesnt realise they are connected by a mutual adversary
- a steely cold-hearted son of a bitch who will take them all down if he doesnt get his little plaything back. A fast-paced tale of everyday amoral folk & the delicious cocktails they drink!

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A lavishly illustrated & deeply personal story of the creation of an idiosyncratic Australian country garden Velvet Pears is an inspirational book that is also full of practical ideas. Author Susan Southam created the amazing garden at Foxglove Spires on the land of an old dairy paddock. Susan generously shares her lifes lessons in this beautiful special gift book. Velvet Pears captures the essence of living simply & with the seasons within a local community with a sustainable lifestyle. "" ...

This is the groundbreaking examination of the psychology of homosexuality & why it leads to shame over one's identity & how to overcome it
- now expanded & fully updated. Today's gay man enjoys unprecedented hard-won social acceptance. Despite this victory however serious problems still exist. Substance abuse depression suicide & sex addiction among gay men are at an all-time high causing many to ask Are we really better off?" Drawing on contemporary research psychologist Alan Downs' own struggle with shame & anger & stories from his patients " The Velvet Rage" passionately describes the stages of a gay man's journey out of shame & offers practical & inspired strategies to stop the cycle of avoidance & self-defeating behaviour. Updated to reflect the effects of the many recent social cultural & political changes " The Velvet Rage" is an empowering book that has already changed the public discourse on gay culture & helped shape the identity of an entire generation of gay men."
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Youve devoured Fifty Shades.. . Now discover Velvet Touch. When Karen Heywood is offered a new job as assistant archivist she hopes that the mysterious halls & old libraries of Blackwood Towers will finally reveal to her the inner strength & purpose shes spent her life searching for. But as dark secrets & desires start to rise to the surface Karen realises theres more to the job than she bargained for. Secrets that she craves to unravel
- & only one man whose answers will set her free. Blackwoods mysterious owner Lord Mallory Burnet.. .the same man whos starting to consume her every waking thought.
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Once there was a velveteen rabbit who longed to be real. He was owned by a boy who loved him more & more every day even when the rabbits velveteen coat grew old & shabby & worn. Then one day something magical happened & the rabbits wish began to come true... ...

In the nursery only the toys that are old & wise truly understand what it means to be Real. The Velveteen Rabbit a newcomer to the nursery asks one of the most knowledgeable toys the Skin Horse what being real means. Real isn't how you're made " says the Skin Horse. " It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long long time not just to play with but REALLY loves you then you become real. It doesn't happen all at once. You become..." & so begins the Velveteen Rabbit's journey towards becoming real
- through the love of a child..."
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On 23 May 1992 the Mafia assassinated its Number One Enemy the legendary prosecutor Judge Falcone with a motorway bomb that also killed his wife Francesca & three bodyguards. Fifty-seven days later the Mafia killed Falcones friend & colleague Judge Paolo Borsellino with a car bomb outside his mothers home that also killed five bodyguards. These two murders changed forever how Italy viewed the Mafia. VENDETTA tells the inside story of the assassination plots & the investigation that followed. Follain reveals Borsellinos desperate race against time to find out who killed his friend while knowing he was next on the list & reveals the daring undercover police mission which unmasked the killers. Based on new & exclusive interviews & the testimony of investigators Mafia supergrasses survivors relatives & friends VENDETTA recounts the events hour-by-hour minute-by-minute as the Mafiosi plan & carry out the murders & as the police hunt them down. ...

Michael Dibdins gripping Italian mysteries Ratking" " Vendetta" & " Cabal" have been repackaged to tie in with the primetime "BBC One" feature length dramas starring Rufus Sewell as detective Aurelio Zen." ...

Covering the story of the author's life of crime this title slashes open the underbelly of Britain's streets & exposes the dark forces that police them as well as revealing the truth about the conspiracies & corruption that won't leave him alone. ...

Dangerously sensual breathtakingly beautiful & utterly unforgettable she is Lucky Santangelo the sizzling star of Chances Lucky & Lady Boss. With Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge Jackie Collins continues the saga of Lucky Santangelo in a nonstop action-packed tale of sex betrayal drugs intrigue & murder. A scorching new installment of the wildly popular Lucky series Vendetta finds Lucky in the most perilous situation of her life when her prized Panther Studios is taken from her by Donna Landsman the unscrupulous widow of Lucky's arch-enemy Santino Bonnatti. Donna intends to destroy Lucky in every way she can but Lucky is street-smart powerful & just as ruthlessly dangerous. & so the battle for control begins. With Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge Jackie Collins proves once again why she is an international powerhouse a writer who digs deep into the glamorous intoxicating
- yet ultimately treacherous
- world of Hollywood.

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