Zarek is the most dangerous of all the Dark-Hunters. He endured a lifetime as a Roman slave & centuries as a Dark-Hunter in exile. Zarek trusts no one. Because of his steadfast denial to follow any orders he is kept in isolation in Alaska where his activity is seriously limited & closely monitored. There are many who fear he will one day unleash his powers against humans as well as vampires. Have nine hundred years of exile made Zarek too vicious to be redeemed? The gods want Zarek dead but reluctantly agree to allow justice goddess Astrid to judge him. Astrid has never yet judged a man innocent & yet there is something about Zarek that tugs at her heart. He views even the smallest act of kindness with shock & suspicion. But while Astrid struggles to maintain her impartiality in the face of her growing attraction to Zarek an executioner has already been dispatched... ...

A heart-warming family drama spanning three generations with an unforgettable love story at its heart. When the telegram arrives on a bright sunny day in 1942 Nancy feels sick with dread. But instead of wartime bad news it's from the legendary Jackie Cochran asking Nancy to fly for Great Britain. For Nancy a girl with flying in her blood it's an opportunity she simply can't turn down. But that fateful decision is to trigger a series of events with consequences that will reverberate through the generations. In summer 2006 Sarah is at a crossroads in her life when her adored grandmother Nancy asks her to help lay the ghosts of her past to rest. Sarah agrees little suspecting the long-buried & shocking secrets that will be dragged to the surface. From the tension of World War Two right up to the present day this is a sweeping family story that is both moving & unforgettable. ...

This novel opens on a battlefield: trudging back from the front through a ravaged & icy wasteland their horses dying around them their own hunger rendering them almost savage the Russian soldiers are exhausted as they reach the city of Ufa desperate for food & shelter. They find both & then music & dance. & there spinning unafraid among them dancing for the soldiers & anyone else who'll watch him is one small pale boy Rudolf. This is Colum Mc Cann's dancer: Rudolf a prodigy at six years old who became the greatest dancer of the century who redefined dance rewrote his own life & died of AIDS before anyone knew he had it. This is an extraordinary life transformed into extraordinary fiction by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. One kind of masculine grace is perfectly matched to another in Colum Mc Cann's beautiful & daring new novel. ...

London during the Blitz was a time of hardship heroism & hope. For Gillian Lynne
- a budding ballerina
- it was also a time

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Gillian Lynne is one of the world's pre-eminent choreographers the groundbreaking creative force behind blockbusters such as Cats & The Phantom of the Opera. But she started her career as a ballerina & learnt to dance alongside Margot Fonteyn Moira Shearer Beryl Grey & Frederick Ashton during the Second World War. A Dancer in Wartime tells the story of Gillian's extraordinary childhood. From Miss Madeleine Sharp's Ballet Class for Young Ladies in Bromley to being evacuated with her theatre school to rural Leicestershire; from performing in the West End with doodlebugs falling to touring a devastated Europe the early years were hard exciting & dramatic. & when the call came to join Sadler's Wells
- well what ballerina hopeful could have asked for more?
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The mystery of the body in motion. The surprise of seeing what seems impossible. & the pure joyful optimism of it all. Dancers Among Us" presents one thrilling photograph after another of dancers leaping spinning lifting kicking
- but in the midst of daily life: on the beach at a construction site in a library a restaurant a park. With each image the reader feels buoyed up eager to see the next bit of magic. Photographer Jordan Matter started his Dancers Among Us Project by asking a member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company to dance for him in a place where dance is unexpected. So dressed in a commuters suit & tie the dancer flew across a Times Square subway platform. & in that image Matter found what hed been searching for: a way to express the feeling of being fully alive in the moment unself-conscious present. Organized around themes of work play love exploration dreaming & more " Dancers Among Us" celebrates life in a way thats fresh surprising original universal. Theres no photo-shopping here no trampolines no gimmicks no tricks. Just a photographer his vision & the serendipity of what happens when the shutter clicks."
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Dances with Waves" has all the ingredients of a great adventure
- danger high drama narrow escapes bizarre encounters. On
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Wolfgang tied my wrists to the iron beam against the wall. His rough hands were all over me even before Ben had started photographing. His presumption was exhilarating. I struggled relishing my helplessness as he lifted me from the hips like a dancer & forced me to straddle him. It was a fantasy come true. Suddenly his hand connected sharply with my bottom & I yelped. He shoved me back against the wall & tore my dress open at the front exposing me. I trembled with excitement every nerve in my body awake & wildly alive. Niki Flynn tells her story in Dances with Werewolves
- a real-life Fifty Shades of Grey that dares to go even further. This is a no-holds-barred account from the ultimate submissive
- & every word is true. Niki is a young woman on a thrilling journey into the dark heart of sexual fantasy. This is her stunningly explicit & searingly honest memoir about her erotic life. But Niki is not just any submissive keeping her fantasies hidden behind closed doors. Shes the girl the whole world wants to dominate. & she is all too willing to please... After her first discovery of her submissive desires as a young girl at college Niki finds herself addicted to the rush her forbidden fantasies give her & starts off down a dark dark path. Her cravings lead her into the secretive underground of taboo film-making. Niki is an instant hit
- worldwide. From schoolgirl canings in England to spankings in California from a Stasi interrogation in Germany to a forced haircut in Prague Niki cant get enough. But it is when she meets Cameron her ultimate master that he unlocks her darkest desire of all...


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It is 1936 & harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters barely making ends meet their ages ranging from twenty-six up to forty. The two male members of the household are brother Jack a missionary priest repatriated from Africa by his superiors after 25 years & the seven-year-old child of the youngest sister. In depicting two days in the life of this menage Brian Friel evokes not simply the interior landscape of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation but the wider landscape interior & exterior Christian & pagan of which they are a part. ...

A gentle & deeply moving story of a young girl & her bear told with great charm by a master storyteller. High in the mountains in a tiny village an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child. Soon they are inseparable beloved by the whole village -- safe until the arrival of a glamorous film crew who need a dancing bear! ...