Riley has made a bargain with Heaven & now they've come to collect. Lucifer's finest are ruling the streets & it seems that Armageddon might be even closer than Riley imagined. But with her soul & her heart in play it's all she can do to keep herself alive let alone save the world. Riley's not afraid of kicking some major demon butt but when it comes to a battle between Heaven & Hell she might need a little help.. . ...

Riley has always wanted to be a Demon Trapper like her father & shes already following in his footsteps as one of the best. But its tough being the only girl in an all-guy world especially when three of those guys start making her life more complicated: Simon the angelic apprentice who has heaven on his side; Beck the tough trapper who thinks hes Gods gift & Ori the strikingly sexy stranger who keeps turning up to save her ass. One things for sure -- if she doesnt keep her wits about her therell be hell to pay.. . ...

As a research grunt at a local television station Abby Baker tends to blend into the background which is where shes most comfortable. But when she ends up being the last resort to cover a hot story Abby discovers a whole new side to her personality when she is possessed by a fiend
- a type of rogue demon. Suddenly everyone wants a piece of her. & now the demon Rule
- also a hunter of his own kind who have gone astray
- is Abbys only hope... Meanwhile the Others
- vampires werewolves & witches oh my!
- have come out of the supernatural closet & the rest of the humans are all aflutter. Mischief is afoot in the demon realm & Rule knows that Abby is key to figuring it all out before the fiends tip the fragile balance between the newly-discovered Others & the humans over into an epic battle. Now its up to two lost souls to make love not war...




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The Goblin Market has always been the centre of Sins world. Shes a dancer & a performer secure in her place. But now the Market is at war with the magicians & Sins place is in danger. Keeping secrets from the market she loves struggling with a friend who has become a rival Sin is thrown together with the Ryves brothers Nick & Alan
- whom shes always despised. But Alan has been marked by a magician to be tortured as the magician pleases & as Sin watches Alan struggle to protect the demon brother he loves she begins to see both brothers in a new light. But how far will brother go to save brother
- & what will it cost them all?

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Were the Demons Watch son. Protectors of Port Fayt. Scourge of all sea scum. Dont tell me youve never heard of us? Half-goblin boy Joseph Grubb lives in Fayt a bustling trading port where elves trolls fairies & humans live side by side. Fed up of working at the Legless Mermaid tavern Grubb dreams of escape
- until a whirlwind encounter with a smuggler plunges him into Fayts criminal underworld. There he meets the Demons Watch & learns of their mission to save the port from a mysterious & deadly threat. Can Grubb & his new allies uncover the dark plot in time or will they end up as fish food in Harrys Shark Pit?
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Professor David Ullman is among the world's leading authorities on demonic literature. Not that he's a believer. He sees what he teaches as a branch of the imagination & nothing more. So when offered a luxury trip to Venice to consult on a 'phenomenon' he accepts taking his 11-year-old daughter Tess with him. Amidst the decadent splendour of the city David makes his way to the address he's been asked to visit. What he witnesses in the tiny attic room shakes him to the core: a man restrained in a chair clearly insane. But what David hears the man say is worse. The voice of his father dead for 30 years repeating the last words he ever spoke to his son. Words that have left scars
- & a mystery
- behind. Terrified David is determined to leave with Tess as quickly as possible. But he can't shake the feeling that something is following him. & then before his eyes on the roof of their hotel Tess disappears. But before she falls into the Grand Canal's waters she utters a plea: Find me. At once frightening & deeply moving Andrew Pyper's page-turning thriller explores the lengths a father will go to find his daughter & the darkness he is prepared to confront along the way.

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Demons" also known as " The Possessed" or " The Devils" is a dark masterpiece that evokes a world where the lines between & good & evil long ago became blurred. This " Penguin Classics" edition of Fyodor Dostoyevskys " Demons" is translated by Robert A. Maguire & edited by Ronald Meyer with an introduction by Robert L. Belknap. Pyotr Verkhovensky & Nikolai Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the Tsar destroy society & seize power for themselves. Together they train terrorists who are willing to go to any lengths to achieve their goals
- even if the mission means suicide. But when it seems their motley group is about to be discovered will their recruits be willing to kill one of their own circle in order to cover their tracks? As the ensuing investigation & trial reveal the true identity of the murderer Dostoyevskys & everyones faith in humanity is tested. Partly based on the real-life case of a student murdered by his fellow revolutionaries Dostoyevskys sprawling novel is a powerful & prophetic yet lively & often comic depiction of nineteenth-century Russia & a savage indictment of the madness & nihilism of those who use violence to serve their beliefs. Robert A. Maguires superb translation captures Dostoyevskys vigorous prose. In his introduction Robert L. Belknap discusses Dostoyevskys own revolutionary activities his narrative technique & use of different genres & the background of Radicalism in Imperial Russia. Edited by Ronald Meyer this volume also

Includes:: a chronology further reading notes & a glossary. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was born in Moscow. From 1849-54 he lived in a convict prison & in later years his passion for gambling led him deeply into debt. His other works available in " Penguin Classics" include " Crime & Punishment" " The Idiot & Demons". If you enjoyed " Demons" you might like Joris-Karl Huysmans " The Damned (La-Bas)" also available in " Penguin Classics"."


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Connor & Grace are twins recently orphaned after their widowed fathers death. Rather than being adopted by the towns busy-bodies they decide to set sail for new pastures in their fathers last single possession his sailing boat. But a vicious storm sees their boat capsize & the twins separated. Two mysterious ships sail to their rescue
- each picking up one twin before disappearing into the mist. Connor wakes to find himself on a pirate ship & is soon being trained up with a cutlass. Meanwhile Grace finds herself locked in a darkened room as the vampirates await nightfall... Determined to find each other yet intrigued by their new shipmates the twins are about to embark on the biggest adventure of their life...
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The fighting around the town of Demyansk was one of the longest encirclement battles on the Eastern Front during World War II stretching from February 1942 to February 1943. Originally the German 16. Armee occupied Demyansk in the autumn of 1941 because it was key terrain that would be used as a springboard for an eventual offensive into the Valdai Hills. Instead the Soviet winter counter offensive in February 1942 encircled the German II Armeekorps & other units inside the Demyansk Pocket. Yet despite severe pounding from five Soviet armies the embattled German troops held the pocket & the Luftwaffe organized a major aerial resupply effort to sustain the defenders. For the first time in military history an army was supplied entirely by air. In February 1943 Marshal Timoshenko was ordered to launch an offensive to cut off the base of the salient & annihilate the 12 divisions. At the same time Hitler finally came to his senses after the Stalingrad debacle & authorized the 16. Armee to withdraw from the pocket. This volume will conclude with the drama of a German Army-sized withdrawal under fire in winter under attack from three sides. ...

Following the award-winning The Diamond of Drury Lane" our hardy heroine Cat Royal finds herself on the streets of Revolutionary Paris in Den of Thieves. When Cat Royal finds herself homeless she travels to Paris & becomes an underground reporter
- all the while being disguised as a prissy ballerina! She nearly gets hung for being a traitor to the revolution & is baffled by attention from numerous suitors. As the French Royal family flee Cat discovers the power of the people. Vive La Revolution!"
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