An astonishingly rich re-creation of the land of Oz this book retells the story of Elphaba the Wicked Witch of the West who wasnt so wicked after all. Taking readers past the yellow brick road & into a phantasmagoric world rich with imagination & allegory Gregory Maguire just might change the reputation of one of the most sinister characters in literature. ...

In idyllic Rosewood four very pretty girls just can't help but be bad... Hanna will stop at nothing to be Rosewood's queen bee. Spencer's digging up her family secrets. Emily can't stop thinking about her new boyfriend. & Aria approves a little too strongly of her mom's taste in men. Now that Ali's killer is finally behind bars the girls think they're safe. But those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. & they should know by now that I'm always watching... ...

Three superstars. Three sensational secrets. Three deadly games. For Robin Kristin & Turquoise the spotlight burns brightly. But ambition always comes at a price...and the devil is waiting to claim his dues. Reality TV crowned Robin the people's queen but a dangerous past lurks poisonously in the shadows... Only something truly sinful could shake child-star Kristin of her angelic reputation. Turquoise's mega-star facade masks a sordid secret
- an expose would blow the lid off Hollywood! Vengeance is waiting. The atmosphere is heady with sin. This year fame is a murderous word. It's a long way to plummet from the glittering heights of stardom...
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The first in a new series LIZZY & DIESEL from bestseller JANET EVANOVICH. For fans of her Stephanie Plum series featuring SMOKIN SEVENTEEN & EXPLOSIVE EIGHTEEN. Meet br&-new heroine Elizabeth Tucker: Marblehead resident bakery worker unlucky in love...and descendant of witches. Life is pleasantly predictable for Lizzy until a tall black-haired dark eyed man shows up. His name is Gerwulf Grimoire also known as Wulf. & he wants what Lizzy has: knowledge. Almost simultaneously comes another man a different man but this one just as dangerous. His name is Diesel. & he wants several things Lizzy has only one of them being knowledge. Unbeknownst to Lizzy she has the ability to find empowered objects. A collection of stones that represent the seven deadly sins have made their way to Marblehead. If the stones are grouped together they have the power to unleash hell on earth. Wulf wants them. Diesel wants to stop him. & Lizzy is the key to all of it. Can Lizzy stay one step ahead of two men who both want her...both body & soul? ...

Revelatory investigation into the police handling of the Yorkshire Ripper Case which spanned over 14 years. Newly updated to include Sutcliffes bid for freedom in 2008 & the verdict from court in 2010. For over twenty years the dark secrets of the biggest criminal manhunt in British history have remained a closed book. Detectives refused all requests to tell the inside story of the Yorkshire Ripper investigation that logged over two million manhours of police work. The victims who survived maintained a wall of silence. & the detailed forensic evidence witness statements & autopsy reports have remained locked away
- until Wicked Beyond Belief was published. Award-winning writer Michael Bilton persuaded the key people to talk. After years of exhaustive research he has revealed the extraordinary truth behind the murder enquiry that left Peter Sutcliffe free to kill again & again. With exclusive access to the detectives involved to pathologists archives & confidential police reports the story of the hunt reads as tensely as any thriller. In this updated edition he charts the blunders & changes in the law that enabled Sutcliffe to demand a minimum term with the possibility of parole in 2010. He also explores what has happened to the Rippers surviving victims & their families in recent years. Wicked Beyond Belief is a shocking & important indictment of the most notorious murder hunt of the twentieth century.
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From Janet Evanovich the bestselling author of SMOKIN SEVENTEEN & WICKED APPETITE comes the eagerly awaited second in the Lizzy & Diesel series Lizzy Tuckers once normal life as a pastry chef in Salem Massachusetts turns upside down as she battles both sinister forces & an inconvenient attraction to her unnaturally talented but off-limits partner Diesel. When Harvard University English professor & dyed-in-the wool romantic Gilbert Reedy is mysteriously murdered & thrown off his fourth-floor balcony Lizzy & Diesel take up his twenty-year quest for the Luxuria Stone an ancient relic believed by some to be infused with the power of lust. Following clues contained in a cryptic nineteenth-century book of sonnets Lizzy & Diesel tear through Boston catacombs government buildings & multimillion-dollar residences. On their way theyll leave behind a trail of robbed graves public disturbances & general mayhem. Diesels black sheep cousin Gerwulf Grimoire also wants the Stone. His motives are far from pure & what he plans on doing with the treasure no one knows.. .but Lizzy Tucker fears shes in his crosshairs. Never far & always watching Grimoire has a growing vested interest in the cupcake-baker-turned-finder-of-lost-things. As does another dangerous & dark opponent in the hunt--a devotee of lawlessness & chaos known only as Anarchy. Treasures will be sought & the power of lust will be unmistakable as Lizzy & Diesel attempt to stay ahead of Anarchy Grimoire & his medieval minion Hatchet in this ancient game of twisted riddles & high-stakes hide-&-seek. ...

Matthew Bartholomew doctor of medicine & fellow of Michaelhouse Cambridge is travelling with a party from the college to accept the gift of the living of a parish in Suffolk. One of his companions Unwin an unworldly scholar is to be installed as priest. Their journey is not without incident
- they are chased by footpads pass through an eery village abandoned after the recent plague & find a man barely alive on a gibbet
- so they reach their destination with some relief. But their thoughts of recovering while enjoying the local Pentecostal Fair are soon curtailed as they are immediately thrust into the machinations of local boundary disputes between three landowners. Then all such squabbles seem mere trivia when Unwin is murdered in the very church which was to have been his home. While trying to investigate a possible motive for his killing Bartholomew discovers that this is not the first unnatural death in the village
- deaths which everyone has put down to the curse of the plague dead village. He is of too practical a mind to believe the superstitions but is he wily enough to work out the real motive behind the murders & who will gain from them?


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Considering his history with Mariketa the Awaited Bowen Mac Rieve of the Lykae clan should be pleased when dark forces unite against her. Yet when he discovers how vulnerable the beautiful wee witch truly is Bowen a ruthless warrior finds himself using all his strength & skill to keep her alive. Mari can't control the awesome power she possesses & recognizes the need for a temporary Protector
- even one as cold as Bowen. Though it's rumoured that no one can touch his hardened heart soon passion begins to burn between them. Once Bowen realizes he wants Mari for his own will she withstand his wicked seduction
- or surrender her body & her love to this fierce warrior?

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After discovering her true identity Willow De Beers leaves her North Carolina town to live with her real mother & her half-brother in Palm Beach Florida. Caught up in a world of glamour & extravagant wealth
- where nosy neighbours fuelled by gossip & greed keep an eye on her eccentric family
- Willow is determined to make a fresh start. Thatcher Eaton the debonair lawyer uses his intoxicating charm once again this time convincing Willow to give him her hand in marriage. Its to be the ritziest wedding of the decade
- even by Palm Beach standards. But as future plans are made families feud & rumours fly
- & Willow learns the horrifying truth: from the darkest of secrets there is no escape.



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' Looking back I think I knew I was in trouble the first time I met him. The road he took me down was at once both more liberating than I could have dreamed of & yet more intense than I could cope with. If the path of love doesn't always run smooth.. .then how much more crooked it becomes when mixed with raw desire.' This is no novel but the memoir of an intense exciting & at times unsettling relationship. Alex for all his charms is no billionaire playboy & Kelly is no blushing virgin; rather your typical overworked teacher who has no time for games certainly not the wicked games he leads her into. Games that she ends up craving like a drug. ...