A dark night of the soul is not a psychological syndrome but a quest for meaning during lifes darkest hours: the loss of a loved one the end of a relationship ageing & illness career disappointments or just an ongoing dissatisfaction with life. Thomas Moores extensive experience as a psychologist & theologian has taught him that the dark night is a challenge to restore ourselves & to become someone of substance depth & soul. By using these trying times as an opportunity to reflect & delve into the souls deepest needs we can find a new understanding of lifes meaning. Dark Nights of the Soul has its roots in a favourite chapter in Thomas Moores million copy bestseller Care of the Soul. In this beautifully-written & thought-provoking work he explores our contemporary anxieties & insecurities & shows how these metaphoric dark nights can become transforming rites of passage. ...

Scandal & mischief in the aristocracy
- a classic romp from Fredrica Alleyn Ambitious young interior designer Annabel Moss is delighted
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First the Army then the military police Virgil Flowers had kicked around for a while before Lucas Davenport recruited him to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension promising him Well only give you the hard stuff". Hed been doing the hard stuff for three years now
- but never anything like this. In the small town of Bluestem where everybody knows everybody a house way up on a ridge explodes into flames its elderly owner trapped inside. Following up rumours of financial scams plus some very dodgy activities with other mens wives Flowers discovers several reasons why the victim was so hated. & that wasnt even the reason why hed come to Bluestem. Three weeks before thered been another murder two in fact
- a doctor & his wife; the doctor found propped up in his own backyard both eyes shot out. There hadnt been a murder in Bluestem in years & now suddenly three? Flowers knows two things: This isnt a coincidence & this has to be personal. But just how personal Flowers might not find out until too late. Because the next victim.. .might be himself."

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The bend in the road rushed towards them just a few more seconds. Then with a succession of jarring crashes that shook the whole body of the car a burst of fire hit them from behind. The windscreen starred into a sheet of opaque diamond lacework the dashboard clock exploded powdering Shermaines hair with particles of glass two bullets tore through the seat ripping out the stuffing like the entrails of a wounded animal. Bruce Curry is the leader of a mercenary band with the dubious support of three white officers. His mission is to relieve a mining town cut off by the fighting & to retrieve a priceless consignment of diamonds. Ranged against his ill-disciplined unit are bandits guerrillas & hostile tribes that infest the l&. But there is another even deadlier enemy -- one of his own men.. . ...

Josh & Ixchel have travelled back in time but it might not be so easy to get home again. Theyve landed in the Mayan era when the prophecy about the world ending in 2012 was first foretold. & they cannot believe who they have found there. Clearly Josh isnt the only person to have cracked the secret of time travel. But a bigger surprise awaits the pair when they return to the 21st century. Nothing is quite as they remember it
- & its up to them to work out why.
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Seventeen years have passed & the Lanarkshire mining village of Blacklaw has weathered both depression & the driving ambition of its coalmaster. But at last falling wages have driven the miners to desperate rebellion... In Edinburgh Drew Stalker has become Scotland's most eminent young advocate with the highest honours within his grasp. Only scandal can bring him down
- & scandal in the form of his bastard son is about to re-enter his life. His sister Mirrin faces a different threat to her hard-won respectability. As Tom Armstrong's eyesight fails & her farm's future become uncertain Mirrin must draw on all her courage to survive. The Stalker Trilogy: ' Family ties family strengths & weaknesses ambition greed loyalty & love.. .the story is compelling.' Daily Telegraph 'I would strongly recommend it to anyone with a taste for family sagas.' Scotsman
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Dominic of the Dragonseeker lineage
- one of the most powerful lines the Carpathian people has
- ingests vampire blood laced

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On a freezing October morning Detective Inspector Frank Keane is called to the scene of a crime on Liverpools shoreline. The body of what looks like a man brutally tortured & burned has been tied to a pole on the beach. With very little evidence to go on Keane & his partner DS Emily Harris rely on their gut feeling that this murder is gang-related & their investigation takes them once again into the murky underworld of organised crime. Over in Australia ex-Liverpool Police detective Menno Koopman
- Franks former boss
- is enjoying his retirement. He has no plans to ever return to England but when the body on the beach turns out to be his son Stevie
- whom he only ever met once as a baby
- he knows he has to go back & seek justice for his horrific murder. But theres a fine line between justice & revenge...



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On a freezing October morning Detective Inspector Frank Keane is called to the scene of a crime on Liverpool's shoreline. The body of what looks like a man brutally tortured & burned has been tied to a pole on the beach. With very little evidence to go on Keane & his partner DS Emily Harris rely on their gut feeling that this murder is gang-related & their investigation takes them once again into the murky underworld of organised crime. Over in Australia ex-Liverpool Police detective Menno Koopman
- Frank's former boss
- is enjoying his retirement. He has no plans to ever return to England but when the body on the beach turns out to be his son Stevie
- whom he only ever met once as a baby
- he knows he has to go back & seek justice for his horrific murder. But there's a fine line between justice & revenge...



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Libby Day was just seven years old when her older brother massacred her family while she hid in a cupboard. Her evidence helped put him away. Ever since then she has been drifting surviving for over 20 years on the proceeds of the ' Libby Day fund'. But now the money is running out & Libby is desperate. When she is offered $500 to do a guest appearance she feels she has to accept. But this is no ordinary gathering. The Kill Club is a group of true-crime obsessives who share information on notorious murders & they think her brother Ben is innocent. Ben was a social misfit ground down by the small-town farming community in which he lived. But he did have a girlfriend
- a brooding heavy metal fan called Diondra. Through her Ben became involved with drugs & the dark arts. When the town suddenly turned against him his thoughts turned black. But was he capable of murder? Libby must delve into her family's past to uncover the truth
- no matter how painful...

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