Allys feeling inadequate. Her only romantic experience amounts to a burping-in-mouth scenario with Keith Brownlow but Kyras only been in Crouch End two seconds & shes got herself a boyfriend! Even Allys dad seems to be dating
- has he forgotten all about her mum. Still Allys not sure whats more worrying: not having a boyfriend or being invited on a double date with Kyra Ricardo & Ricardos mystery mate...
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Weve all had bad dates. But thats nothing compared to the supernatural hijinx in DATES FROM HELL when Kim Harrison Lynsay Sands Kelley Armstrong & Lori Handeland look at what happens when your date is literally from hell or at least not quite of this world! Bestselling Kim Harrison returns to the Hollows with Undead in the Garden of Good & Evil" an enthralling look into the dark sensuous past of the living vampires Ivy & Kisten & an evening no one will ever forget! Lynsay Sands has fun with shape shifting in " The Claire Switch Project". On the night of her high school reunion Claire Beckett finally gets the chance to dance in the arms of her teenage crush. But theres something he doesnt know about Claire something that will make their night an unforgettable experience. Kelley Armstrong returns to the Otherworld with " Chaotic" where a half-demon tabloid journalists boring date is saved by a supernatural explosion? Shes off to save the day if only her less-than-stellar date wouldnt tag along! Luckily the intriguing infuriating & just plain sexy werewolf/jewel thief Karl Marsten also appears In Lori Handelands " Dead Man Dating" it figures that the first date Kits had in months turns out to be a demon. But just when she thought things couldnt get any worse she learns that shes a target of dark forces & her only salvation is a sexy demon hunter. Headlined by Kim Harrison & a team of superstar authors this anthology of dark supernatural adventure will be sexy sassy spellbinding & bound to be a success" ...

This book offers a unique insight into the land & water speed record-breaking dynasty. Gina Campbell last surviving member of a remarkable dynasty will forever be most closely associated with the fatal attempt by her father to break the water speed record in his astounding boat. In that sense she is indeed the daughter of Bluebird
- & has played a ceaseless role in the boats restoration. In this absorbing autobiography she talks about: her life with Donald Campbell as father early-day celebrity & holder of many world records on land & water; her personal life
- three failed marriages a suicide attempt & finding happiness in her later life; her power-boating career & setting two womens world water speed records in 1984 & 1990; her reaction to her fathers death while attempting to set a new world water speed record on Coniston Water in January 1967; her complete shock at the discovery of Bluebird & Donald Campbells body by divers in 2001; her decision to authorize the removal of the boat & Campbells remains from the lake despite widespread opposition; & the decision to restore Bluebird & house her in the Ruskin Museum on Coniston Water. Her dream of once again seeing & hearing Bluebird on the lake.

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Seventeen-year-old Lorelei Patio is the adopted daughter of a two-hundred-year-old vampire Sergio Patio. She never realized why her family has had to move often or why she is not permitted to get too friendly with other young people. In fact except for one shocking moment that seemed more like a dream Lorelei never fully realized who & what her father was nor what her sisters were brought up to do for him. But one day that all changed. Sergios daughters serve a very important purpose: they are all beautiful young ladies who can easily attract
- & lure
- men so Sergio can feed on their blood. & now Daddy expects Lorelei to be the obedient daughter he needs & bring him new victims. But when Lorelei meets the shy but handsome Buddy in school she quickly falls in love with him. He feels the same way but wonders why she doesnt want to take him home to meet her father. Lorelei knows what will happen if she does & tries desperately to keep her two worlds apart but she knows she can never truly escape her fate as a daughter of darkness.

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Pamela Mountbatten was born at the end of the Twenties into one of Britain's grandest families. The daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten & his glamorous wife Edwina Ashley she was bought up by nannies & governesses as she was often parted from her parents as they dutifully carried out their public roles. A solitary child she learned to occupy her days lost in a book riding or playing with the family's animals (which included at different times a honey bear chameleons a bush baby two wallabies a lion a mongoose & a coati mundi). Her parents' vast social circle included royalty film stars senior service officers politicians & celebrities. Noel Coward invited Pamela to watch him filming; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. dropped in for tea & Churchill would call for 'a word with Dickie'. After the war Pamela truly came of age in India while her parents were the Last Viceroy & Vicereine. This introduction to the country would start a life-long love affair with the people & the place. ...

Young Lorelei Patio is determined to escape the eerie shadows of her past & her dark-willed father into a bright future filled with hope & love. Away from the darkness Lorelei finds refuge amongst the tenants of elderly Mrs Winston & when she meets her landlady's handsome gr&-nephew Liam love soon blossoms. But try as she might she can't seem to escape her past. Sinister nightmares weave through her nights & the hours of daylight seem incapable of protecting her from the perpetual terror that her father could find her & destroy her new life & everything she has come to hold dear. Virginia Andrews' breathtakingly seductive tale will hold readers captive in its irresistible spell. ...

Sattareh Farman Farmaian the daughter of a once-powerful & wealthy Iranian prince was raised & educated in the 1920s & 1930s in a Persian harem compound along with numerous mothers & more than 30 brothers & sisters. As a young woman she broke with Muslim tradition & travelled to America where she became the first Persian to study at the University of Southern California. Her new life in the West fired a vision to lift her own people out of backwardness & poverty & she returned to Iran to found the Tehran School of Social Work. For more than 20 years Sattareh & her students waged a war against poverty disease & overcrowding & then soon after the collapse of the Shahs regime she was forced to flee the country in fear of her life. In this account of her experiences she provides an insiders view of Irans journey through the 20th century & of the events which led up to & followed the Islamic revolution. ...

Errand requiring immediate attention. Come. The note was on vellum pierced by the talons of the almost-crow that delivered it. Karou read the message. He never says please she sighed but she gathered up her things. When Brimstone called she always came. In general Karou has managed to keep her two lives in balance. On the one hand shes a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague; on the other err&-girl to a monstrous creature who is the closest thing she has to family. Raised half in our world half in Elsewhere she has never understood Brimstones dark work
- buying teeth from hunters & murderers
- nor how she came into his keeping. She is a secret even to herself plagued by the sensation that she isnt whole. Now the doors to Elsewhere are closing & Karou must choose between the safety of her human life & the dangers of a war-ravaged world that may hold the answers she has always sought.

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DAUGHTER OF SMOKE & BONE is a book unbounded by genre but located at a magical crossroads where THE PASSAGE meets PHILIP PULLMAN & TWILIGHT meets PAN'S LABYRINTH. Errand requiring immediate attention. Come. The note was on vellum pierced by the talons of the almost-crow that delivered it. Karou read the message. ' He never says please' she sighed but she gathered up her things. When Brimstone called she always came. In general Karou has managed to keep her two lives in balance. On the one hand she's a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague; on the other err&-girl to a monstrous creature who is the closest thing she has to family. Raised half in our world half in ' Elsewhere' she has never understood Brimstone's dark work
- buying teeth from hunters & murderers
- nor how she came into his keeping. She is a secret even to herself plagued by the sensation that she isn't whole. Now the doors to Elsewhere are closing & Karou must choose between the safety of her human life & the dangers of a war-ravaged world that may hold the answers she has always sought. ' Remarkable & beautifully written.. . The opening volume of a truly original trilogy.' GUARDIAN

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Archaeologist spy Arabist linguist author poet photographer mountaineer & nation builder Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege & plenty but she turned her back on all that for her passion for the Arab peoples becoming the architect of the independent kingdom of Iraq & seeing its first king Faisal safely onto the throne in 1921. Daughter of the Desert is her story vividly told & impeccably researched drawing on Gertrude's own writings both published & unpublished. It is a compelling portrait of a woman who transcended the restrictions of her class & age & in so doing created a remarkable & enduring legacy. ' What a great Oscar-laden biopic this will make the combination of epic scenes & personal drama makes Georgina Howell's saga a winner' Daily Express ' Howell sketches in the gradations of colour & emotion that have been lacking in hitherto monochrome accounts of Bell's life.. . Exemplary' Sunday Times ' Riveting few women have had a life more worth reading about.' Diana Athill Literary Review ...