The start of her second year in high school brings someone unexpected into Maria's life
- Shintaro Kurosu a brash first-year student
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A new novel from Paulo Coelho author of The Alchemist. A stranger arrives in the small mountain village. He carries with him a backpack containing a notebook & eleven gold bars. Burying these in the vicinity the stranger strikes up a curious friendship with a young woman from the village
- Miss Prym. His mission is to discover whether human beings are essentially good or evil. In this stunning new novel Paulo Coelho's unusual protagonist sets the town a moral challenge from which they may never recover. A fascinating meditation on the human soul The Devil & Miss Prym illuminates the reality of good & evil within us all & our uniquely human capacity to choose between them.
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When Hillary & her girlfriends rent a country house for their summer vacation it is a pleasant surprise to find that its secretive & kinky owner Darius Harwood seems to be the most desirable man in the locale. That is before Hillary meets Haldane the blond & beautifully proportioned Norwegian sailor who works nearby. Intrigued by the sexual allure of two very different men Hillary cant resist exploring the possibilities on offer. But these opportunities for misbehaviour quickly lead her into a tricky situation & she is forced to make the most difficult decision of her life. ...

When the rains came they found the girl's face. Just her face. At least that was how it appeared... On a perfect summer evening in 1954 sixteen-year-old Nancy Denton walked into the woods of her hometown of Whytesburg Mississippi. She was never seen again. Two decades on Sheriff John Gaines witnesses a harrowing discovery. A young woman has been unearthed from the riverbank her body perfectly preserved yet she bears evidence of a brutal ritualistic killing. Nancy has come home at last but her return does not bring closure to her family nor to the townsfolk of Whytesburg. Already haunted by his experiences in Vietnam Gaines must now stretch his abilities to the limit pushing himself ever closer to breaking point. What really happened to the beautiful & vivacious Nancy? & why do her friends refuse to talk? As Gaines closes in on the truth he is forced to not only confront his own demons but to unearth secrets that have long remained hidden. & that truth so much darker than he could ever have imagined may be the one thing that finally destroys him. Intense gripping & hauntingly atmospheric The Devil & the River is the stunning new thriller from bestselling author R.J. Ellory. ...

An underground chamber is exposed in a seedy dilapidated house with sagging trim & peeling paint... In the dark cellar a ritualistic display is revealed. A human skull rests on a cauldron surrounded by slain chickens & bizarre figurines. Beads & antlers dangle overhead. Called to the scene is forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan. Bony architecture suggests that the skull is that of a young black female. But how did she die? & when? Then just as Tempe is working to determine post-mortem interval another body is discovered: a headless corpse carved with Satanic symbols. As citizen vigilantes blaming Devil-worshippers begin a witch-hunt intent on revenge Tempe struggles to keep her emotions in check. But the truth she eventually uncovers proves more shocking than even she could have imagined... ...

In the Rocky Mountains a horrible massacre ensues. Bodies are found purposefully positioned to form two symbols. One man recognises the warning behind the gruesome murders: Painter Crowe director of SIGMA has seen these symbols before & knows the deaths were a personal threat. One of the victims was his beloved cousin. Crowe joins forces with Commander Grayson Pierce to penetrate the shadowy heart of a dark cabal that has been manipulating American history. But can he discover the truth before it destroys all he holds dear? The truth lies hidden within the ruins of a cursed lost colony
- a place known only as THE DEVIL COLONY.
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Nobody
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- does this stuff better than Rollins LEE CHILD Deep in the Rocky Mountains a gruesome discovery
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Bens under a curse that will kill him unless he sells it on to someone else. Can he bring himself to do it? While he hesitates the body count rises... Spellbinding horror Barrington Stoke specialise in books for reluctant struggling & dyslexic readers. ...

There was a crooked man & he walked a crooked mile He made a crooked deal & he blew a crooked pile He dug a crooked hole. & he sank the crooked isle & they all went to hell in a stew of crooked bile. The Devil I Know" is a thrilling novel of greed & hubris set against the backdrop of a brewing international debt crisis. Told by Tristram in the form of a mysterious testimony it recounts his return home after a self-imposed exile only to find himself trapped as a middle man played on both sides
- by a grotesque builder hes known since childhood on the one hand & a shadowy businessman hes never met on the other. Caught between them as an overblown property development begins in his home town of Howth it follows Tristrams dawning realisation that all is not well. From a writer unafraid to take risks " The Devil I Know" is a bold brilliant & disturbing piece of storytelling."
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This is an award winning first novel that immediately established Mosley as a great American writer. Los Angeles 1948: Easy Rawlins is a war veteran just fired from his job. Drinking in a friends bar he wonders how to meet his mortgage when a white man in a linen suit walks in offering good money if Easy will locate Miss Daphne Monet a blonde beauty with a reputation. In the sleazy fearful city Easy must rely on his instincts not just to solve the case but to save his life. ...