Two high profile victims
- a former Left-wing radical turned environmental campaigner & a geneticist researching the possibility
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A vast army of over 7000 terracotta statues of soldiers surrounds the tomb of the first emperor of the Qin dynasty in the Shannix province in northwestern China. These vigilant soldiers have been on duty for 2000 years but does anyone know what sort of ruler Qin Shi Huang was? Why did his tomb have to be guarded by a mysterious army? Was Qin Shi Huang so power hungry he sought control even over the spirit world? Why did he feel compelled to defend himself even in the next life? Using the mausoleum structure as a key this splendidly illustrated book answers many of the questions that have intrigued travelers archeologists & students of Chinese culture since the site was discovered in 1974. ...

Alisa has spent the past five thousand years as a vampire living alone & fighting for survival. In her loneliness Alisa cannot resist bringing Teri -- a descendant of her human family -- into her life. But Alisa is surrounded by death & destruction & just by knowing Alisa Teri's life is at risk. Alisa's guilt grows when she becomes involved in a dangerous conspiracy. A top-secret group knows Alisa's secret & will stop at nothing to use her powers for their cause. As Alisa desperately tries to protect herself & Teri from the unknown enemy she discovers a force more powerful & more lethal than anything she has ever seen. Alisa doesn't know who to trust who to challenge or who she will become... ...

There is a divine restlessness in the human heart today an eternal echo of longing that lives deep within us & never lets us settle for what we have or where we are. Now in this exquisitely crafted inspirational book John O' Donohue explores that most basic of human desires
- the desire to belong. It is a desire that constantly draws us towards new possibilities of self-discovery friendship & creativity. In Eternal Echoes John O' Donohue embarks upon a journey of discovery into the heart of our post-modern world
- a hungry homeless world that suffers from a deep sense of isolation & fragmentation. With the thous&-year-old shelter of divine belonging now shattered we seem to have lost our way in this magical wondrous universe. Here as we explore perennial themes & gain insight from a range of ancient beliefs we draw inspiration from Ireland's rich spiritual heritage of Celtic thought & imagination. It is a heritage of profound mystical wisdom that will open pathways to peace & contentment & lead us to live with creativity honour & compassion the one life that has been given to us. Destined to become a timeless classic of vision & hope this is an imaginative tour de force by one of today's most inspirational writers.

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The prophecies were there but no one listened. Until now. They are the Lords of Deliverance & they have the power to usher in Doomsday.. .or prevent it. His name is Ares & the fate of mankind rests on his powerful shoulders. If he falls to the forces of evil the world falls too. As one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse he is far stronger than any mortal but even he cannot fight his destiny forever. Not when his own brother plots against him. Yet there is one last hope. Gifted in a way other humans can't
- or won't
- understand Cara Thornhart is the key to both this Horseman's safety & his doom. But involving Cara will prove treacherous even beyond the maddening dangerous desire that seizes them the moment they meet. For staving off eternal darkness could have a staggering cost: Cara's life.

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Liam OConnor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026. But all three have been given a second chance
- to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history.. .A time wave has struck that alters the entire history of the American Civil War. Abraham Lincoln has followed Liam into the present from 1831
- & now the world is in a dangerous state of limbo.. . If the Time Riders cant return Lincoln to the past the Civil War will never end. Can Maddy persuade two colonels on either side of no mans land to cease fire long enough to save the future?

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At the end of Darkness Falls the second Immortal Beloved novel Nastasya has fought back against the dark immortals with her own brand of magick...but can she fight against true love? In the exhilarating finale to the Immortal Beloved trilogy Nastasya ends a 450-year-old feud & learns what eternally yours really means. ...

Ethan Coen (b. 1957) & Joel Coen (b. 1954) known as the Coen brothers are among the most creative of contemporary American directors. From their very first feature Blood Simple (1984) to their most recent film True Grit (2010) they have written directed & produced their films jointly. Their style is unique somewhere between film noir (Fargo 1996; No Country for Old Men 2007) & mordant comedy (The Big Lebowski 1998; A Serious Man 2009). No matter what genre they tackle their films deal with recurrent themes: American ethnicity religion & Judaism brotherhood & the family unit. They have received numerous awards including a Palme d' Or for Barton Fink (1991) & four Oscars
- including best Picture
- for No Country for Old Men (2007).

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Set against the frozen waste of a harsh New England winter Edith Whartons Ethan Frome" is a tale of despair forbidden emotions & sexual tensions published with an introduction & notes by Elizabeth Ammons in " Penguin Classics". Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm & struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult suspicious & hypochondriac wife Zeenie. But when Zeenies vivacious cousin enters their household as a hired girl Ethan finds himself obsessed with her & with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. In one of American fictions finest & most intense narratives Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies. Different in both tone & theme from Whartons other works " Ethan Frome" has become perhaps her most enduring & most widely read novel. Edith Wharton (1862-1937) born Edith Newbold Jones was a member of a distinguished New York family said to be the basis for the idiom keeping up with the Joneses. During her life she published more than forty volumes including novels stories verse essays travel books & memoirs; for years she published poetry & short stories in magazines but the book that made Wharton famous was " The House of Mirth" (1905) which established her both as a writer of distinction & popular appeal. In 1920 Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature with her novel " The Age of Innocence". If you enjoyed " Ethan Frome" you might like Nathaniel Hawthornes " The Scarlet Letter" also available in " Penguin Classics"." ...

On a poor farm near Starkfield in western Massachusetts Ethan Frome struggles to wrest a living from the land unassisted by his whining & hypochondriacal wife Zeena. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie Silver is left destitute the only place she can go is Ethan's farm. An embittered man & an enchanting young woman meeting in such circumstances unleash predictable consequences as passions are aroused between the three protagonists Edith Wharton's characterisation & deft handling of reversals of fortune are so accomplished that Ethan Frome has remained enduringly popular since its first publication in 1911 & is considered her greatest tragic story. ...