Suffused with rich satire chaotic brilliance verbal turbulence & wild humour The Crying of Lot 49" opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lovers estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually death drugs madness & marriage combine to leave Oepida in isolation on the threshold of revelation awaiting " The Crying of Lot 49". This is one of Pynchons shortest novels & one of his best." ...

Claire Nightingale is haunted by the memory of childhood abuse & the painful choices she was forced to make. Longing to find peace she knows she must first confront her demons. Moving to Solihull with her adopted daughter Nikki she tries to make amends with the family she left behind. But Claire is not the only one hurting: Nikki is scarred by her own abusive past & their relationship once loving becomes fraught with tension & resentment. Struggling to come to terms with their pain it is not long before ghosts from the past bring a new threat that jeopardises the possibility of any future happiness...A heartbreaking tale of abuse courage & above all the redemptive power of love. ...

If " The Crying Tree" doesn't make you cry you have better control over your blubbing than I do. This is an astonishing debut novel." (Richard Madeley " Woman's Own"). Irene Stanley thought her world had come to an end when her teenage son Shep is murdered. Daniel Robbin who had spent his teenage years in & out of trouble gave himself up to the police & was given the state's harshest sentence: death by lethal injection. Now nineteen years later as the state penitentiary prepares to execute Robbin Irene Stanley must reveal what she has been hiding from her family. That in order to survive the anger & grief she had at loosing her so she not only had forgiven the man who killed him but had come to be his friend. Her revelation stuns her family & cracks open the secrets that had been surrounding her son's death. Secrets that reveal how little she understood Shep her husband or herself. Dramatic emotional & ultimately uplifting " The Crying Tree" is an unforgettable story of love & redemption the unbreakable bonds of family & the transformative power of forgiveness. " If you enjoy reading Jodi Picolut you'll love Naseem Rakha. These are big themes for a new writer but Rakha knows what she's doing.. ." The Crying Tree" is quite simply a terrific story." (Judy Finnigan " Woman's Own")." ...

This is Bob Monkhouse's classic autobiography. One of Britain's most enduring & famous comedians tells us in his own inimitable style the fascinating & often hilarious story of his life. From disclosures of very painful personal tragedies to extraordinary & outrageously funny anecdotes about the stars he knew his confessions are blisteringly honest touching
- & often shocking. Crying With Laughter combines heartache with hilarity sexy showbiz revelations with genuinely moving tales of the hard times & typically funny jokes with sobering personal reflections to create a passionate witty & sparkling account of an extraordinary man's extraordinary life.
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A figure wearing a white mask swoops down a deserted hospital corridor towards a quarantined patient. Covered in black sores & writhing in agony the patient cant be saved by modern medicine. But then the masked figure is not a modern doctor... Bodies are being discovered all over London all marked with the same black sores
- it seems a contagious disease is spreading across the city. But when witnesses all report seeing the same mysterious masked figure it seems theres something more sinister going on. This is a case for CRYPT: a team of elite teenage agents who use their extra sensory perception & arsenal of high-tech gadgets to investigate crimes that the police cant solve.
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Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations & the private obsessions of men decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that have shaped the past century. Weaving together the cracking of the Axis codes during WWII & the quest to establish a free South East Asian data haven for digital information in the present Cryptonomicon explores themes of power information secrecy & war in the twentieth century in a gripping & page-turning thriller. ...

A ten-foot-tall copper sculpture stands in the courtyard of the Central Intelligence Agency emblazoned with a message no one can decipher. One man knows exactly what the statue says. Dr. Jonathan S. Chalmers heads a CIA working group tasked with containing the greatest secret our government has ever kept
- & planning for its consequences. He alone knows the full story of the threats that face America: threats that have shaped our countrys past present & future. If Chalmers cant save us nobody can.
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NYC 2023. Terrifying alien invaders stalk the streets & a nightmare plague strikes down the citys myriad inhabitants with brutal epidemic speed. The citys systems are in chaos its streets & skyline are smashed & in flaming ruin. The battle is on against the lethal armoured bipedal war machines that stalk ravaged New York. ...

Praise for Katie Price. A fabulous guilty holiday pleasure
- heat. Unabashedly laden with sex & OTT with glitz... Go on run yourself
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The Crystal Bible" has become the worlds favourite crystal reference guide having sold over a million copies. The directory format enables you to find a known crystal instantly or to identify an unknown crystal. It covers the practical & esoteric properties of each stone including spiritual mental psychological emotional & physical effects plus its use in crystal healing. Encompassing traditional & contemporary crystal lore this book draws on Judy Halls 35 years of experience in this field. It is an indispensable reference for crystal lovers everywhere." ...