Now that Cassie is part of the most alluring & deadly clique imaginable she is starting to realise that power comes with a price
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This book seeks to promote closer collaboration between bird-keepers & veterinarians. The emphasis is on maintaining health & preventing disease rather than treating ailments. One section is orientated specifically towards veterinary surgeons & provides information on diagnosis & treatment. ...

AD 51. Bran is a slave a prisoner of Rome but dreams of one day returning to his homeland Britannia to fight against the Romans. When the proud young slave is overheard criticizing Rome he is thrown into prison & faces execution the next day. Luckily his cell mate Caratacus is a very special prisoner indeed
- a British chief. He believes he has a way to save both their skins but he'll need Bran's help. A tale based on a key moment in Roman history full of Terry Deary's dark humour & dry wit.
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Being carried around everywhere & having handsome Megumi act like a slave may seem ideal but Suzuka just wishes he would stop. Can anything be done about Megumi's captive state? Or is Megumi doomed to see Suzuka as his master...forever? Carefree Megumi Kuroishi was living a life of luxury until the day a girl named Suzuka Kogami walked into his life. All of a sudden Megumi finds himself kneeling at Suzuka's feet & prostrating himself like a servant! What Megumi doesn't know (until that very moment anyway) is that his family is cursed to follow the orders of the Kogami family. ...

Out of the limelight... Domenico Volpe has been a paparazzi target for years with his rugged Roman looks glamorous lifestyle & most recently a family tragedy. Now the woman at the centre of it all has been released from prison hell do whatever it takes to keep her quiet. & into the fire! Domenico ensures that Lucy Knight accepts his offer of refuge on his well-guarded offshore estate. While the media furore abates on the mainland things are heating up on the island! & Domenico is beginning to doubt Lucys guilt as he uncovers the innocent sensual woman behind the tough facade... Im a first time reader to Annie Wests work & have to say she did not disappoint. Beautifully written & filled with real passion...big thumbs up!
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A devastating indictment of the corruption at the heart of the British State by one of our most popular media figures. George Monbiot made his name exposing the corruption of foreign governments; now he turns his keen eye on Britain. In the most explosive book on British politics of the new decade Monbiot uncovers what many have suspected but few have been able to prove: that corporations have become so powerful they now threaten the foundations of democratic government. Many of the stories George Monbiot recounts have never been told before & they could scarcely be more embarrassing to a government that claims to act on behalf of all of us. Some are
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- resigning matters. Effectively the British government has collaborated in its own redundancy by ceding power to international bodies controlled by corporations. CAPTIVE STATE highlights the long term threat to our society & ultimately shows us ways in which we can hope to withstand the might of big business.

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Captivity Slavery & Survival as a Far East POW is the incredibly moving story of Gus Anckorn a British soldier who was captured by the Japanese & held for over three & a half years. Before the war Gus was a magician & throughout the war entertained both fellow soldiers & Japanese guards with his tricks. Gus has a brilliant sense of humour & a tell it as it is attitude which got him into a number of scrapes with both the Japanese & his own side. He has a remarkable humility to his character & is extremely endearing both in the book & face to face guaranteeing massive media attention. Gus experienced terrible ordeals that no one should have to face. He should have been killed on four or five occasions but remarkably survived due to quick thinking & good luck. Gus also reveals the heartache of leaving his fiancee behind & not knowing if he would ever see her again. This is an incredibly moving book & will surely be considered as one of the classic Far East POW stories. Gus is still alive & active today very publicity focused & well connected. He still holds the unique claim of being the youngest ever member of the Magic Circle & is now currently their oldest ever member. He is also a member of the Masons. Gus has appeared on BBC TV when they arranged for him to meet a Japanese POW camp guard on the bridge at Kwai. ...

ANGELICA CYNSTER is certain she'll recognise the love of her life at first sight. When her eyes meet those of a mysterious nobleman across a candlelit ballroom & her pulse begins to quicken she knows beyond doubt that he's the one. But her heart is soon pounding for an entirely different reason when this same man abducts her whisking her out of London; into the wild & untamed Scottish highlands. Angelica had always considered herself an expert in the art of assessing gentlemen
- could she have really been so wrong? The eighth Earl of Glencrae has no choice but to kidnap Angelica. To save his castle & his clan he must persuade her to assist him
- & he's prepared to offer marriage to seal the deal.. .

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Grace is a happily married mother of five-year-old Mary whose loving & angelic demeanor charms everyone around her. But in one tragic moment at a local shopping mall Grace looks down to discover that Mary is no longer at her side&8230;and cant be found anywhere. She & her husband wait by the phone for a ransom demand that never comes. For months Grace keeps up hope that Mary is somewhere alive & safe waiting to come home to her -- but as her family & friends give up hope Graces marriage begins to crumble. Only one detective Sam Abraham shares her determination to find Mary&8230;but could his motives be less than altruistic? As Sam & Mary work together to track Marys disappearance they discover clues that this was more than a random kidnapping & that Mary may have been special to more than just her mother&8230; ...

At the heart of Capturing the Light there lies a small scrap of violet-tinged paper over 170 years old & about the size of a postage stamp. On it you can just make out a tiny ghostly image -- an image so small & perfect that 'it might be supposed to be the work of some Lilliputian artist'; the world's first photographic negative. This captivating book traces the true story of two very different men in the 1830s both striving to solve one of the world's oldest problems: how to capture an image & keep it for ever. On the one hand there is Henry Fox Talbot a quiet solitary gentleman-amateur scientist tinkering away on his estate in the English countryside; on the other Louis Daguerre: a flamboyant charismatic French scenery-painter showman & entrepreneur in search of fame & fortune. Both men invented methods of photography that would enable ordinary people for the first time in history to illustrate their own lives & leave something behind of their passing. Photography would transform art the documentation of both war & peace & become so natural & widespread that now each of us carries a camera everywhere with us & takes this most magical of processes for granted. Only one question remains: which man got there first? ...