It's spring break & the pretty little liars are trading in Rosewood for a cruise vacation. They want nothing more than to sail into the tropical sunset & leave their troubles behind for one blissful week. But where Emily Aria Spencer & Hanna go A goes too. From scuba diving to tanning on the upper deck A is there soaking up all their new secrets. Emily is smooching a stowaway. Aria's treasure-hunting partner is a little too interested in her booty. Spencer's going overboard trying to land a new boy. & a blast-or rather a crash-from Hanna's past could mean rough waters ahead for everyone. The liars better tighten their life jackets. A perfect storm is brewing & if they aren't careful A will bury them at sea... ...

When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her village as in so many others sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to ones family & was punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of arranging her punishment. One morning while Souad was washing the familys clothes he crept up on her poured petrol over her & set her alight. In the eyes of their community he was a hero. An execution for a crime of honour was a respectable duty unlikely to bring about condemnation from others. It certainly would not have provoked calls for his prosecution. More than five thousand cases of such honour killings are reported around the world each year & many more take place that we hear nothing about Miraculously Souad survived rescued by the women of her village who put out the flames & took her to a local hospital. Horrifically burned & abandoned by her family & community it was only the intervention of a European aid worker that enabled Souad to receive the care & sanctuary she so desperately needed & to start her life again. She has now decided to tell her story & uncover the barbarity of honour killings a practice which continues to this day Burned Alive is a shocking testimony a true story of almost unbelievable cruelty. It speaks of amazing courage & fortitude & of one womans determination to survive. It is also a call to break the taboo of silence that surrounds this most brutal of practices & which ignores the plight of so many other women who are also victims of traditional violence ...

A serial killer who wants to watch you burn... The media call him The Burning Man a brutal murderer who has beaten four young women to death before setting their bodies ablaze in secluded areas of London's parks. & now the fifth victim has been found... Maeve Kerrigan is an ambitious detective constable keen to make her mark on the murder task force. Her male colleagues believe Maeve's empathy makes her weak but the more she learns about the latest victim Rebecca Haworth from her grieving friends & family the more determined Maeve becomes to bring her murderer to justice. But how do you catch a killer no one has seen? & when so much of the evidence they leave behind has gone up in smoke? ...

Gripping & chilling with a killer twist THE BURNING AIR reaffirms Erin Kelly as one of Britain's foremost psychological thriller writers. Of course it was love for my children love for my son that caused me to act as I did. It was a lapse of judgement. If I could have foreseen the rippling aftershocks that followed I would have acted differently but by the time I realised the extent of the consequences it was too late. The Mac Brides have always gone to Far Barn in Devon for Bonfire Night but this year everything is different. Lydia the matriarch is dead; Sophie the eldest daughter is desperately trying to repair a crumbling marriage; & Felix the youngest of the family has brought a girlfriend with him for the first time. The girl Kerry seems odd in a way nobody can quite put their finger on
- but when they leave her looking after Sophie's baby daughter & return to find both Kerry & the baby gone they are forced to ask themselves if they have allowed a cuckoo into their nest.. .
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Sonny Boy Marsallas a New Orleans street hustler entrusts Detective Dave Robicheaux with a mysterious notebook kicking off a series of violent incidents & raising questions that need answers & fast... What did Sonnys girlfriend know that got her murdered? Why is Sonny known as Red Angel by Central American guerrillas? & what do the Mafia want with a desolate stretch of New Iberia? This time Sonny Boy may have pushed his luck with the Giacano family one deal too far. A rich sardonic & terrifying portrayal of contemporary America with a setting which is as charged as an electric storm. ...

Flames & funerals circus feats & seduction neighbours & nakedness: Tracy Chevalier's Burning Bright sparkles with historical drama. London 1792. The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped unforgiving city. They are leaving behind a terrible loss a blow that only a completely new life may soften. Against the backdrop of a city jittery over the increasingly bloody French Revolution a surprising bond forms between Jem the youngest Kellaway boy & streetwise Londoner Maggie Butterfield. Their friendship takes a dramatic turn when they become entangled in the life of their neighbour the printer poet & radical William Blake. He is a guiding spirit as Jem & Maggie navigate the unpredictable exhilarating passage from innocence to experience. Their journey inspires one of Blake's most entrancing works. Georgian London is recreated as vividly in Burning Bright as 17th-century Delft was in Tracy Chevalier's bestselling masterpiece Girl with a Pearl Earring. This novel is perfect for fans of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus & Essie Fox's Somnambulist. ...

The sequel to Falling Fast. Four months have passed & River & Flynns romance is still going strong. River thinks Flynn has his anger under control but when she discovers he has been getting into fights & is facing a terrible accusation at school she starts to question both Flynns honesty
- & the intensity of their passion. Things come to a head at a family get together when River sees Flynn fly into one unprovoked rage too many. The consequences for both of them are devastating & threaten to tear them apart forever.
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Ten brilliant seminal hard-edged nerve-enhancing stories from the most influential science fiction writer of our time. Ten brilliant seminal hard-edged nerve-enhancing stories from the most influential science fiction writer of our time. Since they were first published in the 1980s Gibsons vision has become a touchstone
- his lapidary prose seethes with buzz-phrases newly minted yet destined to be current well in to the future. Lowlife characters ghosts & hallucinations haunt the malls & plazas of an intensely realized holographic world a name-brand society with cloned Ninja bodyguards retro fashions stunning ideas. Gibson in the year 2000 is the unchallenged guru prophet & voice of the new cybernetic world order & virtual reality.
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If only our country hadnt been invaded. If only we could have carried on the way we used to watching other peoples wars on television. Ellie & her friends are more determined than ever to make an impact on the enemy. But the constant fighting is beginning to take its toll on the group. Kevin is suffering an emotional breakdown & the friendship that has kept the gang together for so long is under strain. & while there is no time for love in a time of war Ellie cant forget her feelings for Lee...A tale of relentless action & gripping intensity from one of the worlds best storytellers. (Book 5 of The Tomorrow Series.) ...

A MAN WHO KILLS FOR MONEY X marks the spot
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