An unwanted child San Francisco 1958. On a dark December night a baby girl is left at the Sisters of Charity Orphanage on Telegraph Hill. A mysterious suicide: one year later movie star Frances Fitzgerald takes her own life. Her husband wealthy businessman Maximilian Stanhope is rumoured to know more about her death than he is letting on but nothing is ever proved. A terrible secret: What is the connection between these two events? Francess daughter Cara is determined to find out. Abandoned by her mother when she is just seven years old her childhood is filled with hardship & loss. As a young woman she finds professional success as a journalist but on a personal level she still struggles to trust those around her. Soon Cara becomes convinced that uncovering the secret behind her mothers death is the only way to lay her demons to rest but learning the truth may end up tearing her apart. ...

Venice 1407. The city is at the height of its powers. In theory Duke Marco commands but Marco is a simpleton so his aunt & uncle rule in his stead. They seem all powerful yet live in fear of assassins better than their own. On the night their world changes Marcos young cousin prays in the family chapel for deliverance from a forced marriage. It is her misfortune to be alone when Mamluk pirates break in to abduct her
- an act that will ultimately trigger war. Elsewhere Atilo the Dukes chief assassin cuts a mans throat. Hearing a noise he turns back to find a boy drinking from the victims wound. The speed with which the angel-faced boy dodges his dagger & scales a wall stuns Atilo. He knows then he must hunt him. Not to kill him but because hes finally found what he thought was impossible
- someone fit to be his apprentice. Award-winning author Jon Courtenay Grimwood is a master storyteller. Here he blends history politics & dark fantasy in a compelling vision of an alternative Venice.

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The Starship Titan continues on her outward voyage of discovery in this latest exciting novel. Captain William Riker & the Titan crew look forward to living Starfleets mission: seeking out new life discovering new civilizations & to boldly go where no one has gone before. ...

Can Skinner surmount the greatest challenge of his life...and if he does will he ever be the same? A thrilling novel in the hugely popular Scottish crime series. When a body is found after a flood the secrets of a tempestuous life surface with it. Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner has kept the existence of his hated brother Michael hidden for years. As he relives their past conflict other demons threaten his future. For not only are his professional enemies circling but Sarah his wife seems set on a course for calamity. Meanwhile in an Edinburgh art gallery his team confront a shocking & very public case of arson. Was it a political protest or something much deeper? ...

Unexpected. Unrequited. Forbidden. Eternal. Everyone has their own love story. & in a twist of fate four extraordinary love stories combine over the course of a romantic Valentines Day in Medieval Engl&. Miles & Shelby find love where they least expect it. Roland learns a painful lesson about finding-and losing love. Arianne pays the price for a love so fierce it burns. & for the first -and last- time Daniel & Luce will spend a night together like none other. Lauren Kates FALLEN IN LOVE is filled with love stories.. .the ones everyone has been waiting for. True love never says goodbye.. . To bring the book cover & author photograph to life simply download the free Fallen Book app from the App Store or Android Marketplace launch the app & point your device at the front cover & the author photograph. ...

1918: German troops flood back from the Eastern Front for an all-out assault in France before the Americans can join the war. The under-strength British retreat & for the first time the real possibility of defeat comes home to a shocked nation. At the front Bertie struggles to bring his battered battalion out safely while at home Jessie secretly carrying his child knows that sooner or later she must face her familys censure. At Morland Place Teddy braves local opinion to bring German POWs to work on the land little knowing how close to home the consequences of his decision will strike. & the terrible news arrives that Jack has been shot down. Men are falling each one the King of someones heart. For the Morlands only love faith & compassion will keep the family safe until the longed-for days of peace.. . ...

Following the critical acclaim for his debut Patrick Flanery's Fallen Land is his astonishing break-out novel; a nail-biting story powered by a fierce anger at the utter failure of the American dream & the greatest fears that lurk in every one of us. Poplar Farm has been in Louise's family for generations inherited by her sharecropping forebear from a white landowner after a lynching. Now the farm has been carved up the trees torn down; a mini-massacre replicating the destruction of lives & societies taking place all over America. Architect of this destruction is Paul Krovik a property developer soon driven insane by the failure of his dream. Julia & Nathaniel arrive from Boston with their son Copley & buy up Paul's signature home in a foreclosure sale. They move into the half-finished subdivision & settle in to their brave new world. Yet violence lies just beneath the surface of this land & simmers deep within Nathaniel. The great trees bear witness Louise lives on in her beleaguered farmhouse & as reality shifts & the edges of what is right & wrong blur & are lost Copley becomes convinced that someone is living in the house with them. ...

Terrific novel set in the Roaring Twenties reissued to accompany Philippa Gregorys new bestselling novel The Last Boleyn. Lily Valance wants to forget the war. Shes determined to enjoy the world of the 1920s with its music singing laughter & pleasure. When she meets Captain Stephen Winters a decorated hero back from the Front shes drawn to his wealth & status. In Lily he sees his salvation -- from the past from the nightmare from the guilt at surviving the Flanders plains where so many were lost. But its a dream that cannot last. Lily has no intention of leaving her singing career. The hidden tensions of the respectable facade of the Winters household come to a head. Stephens nightmares merge ever closer with reality & the truth of what took place in the mud & darkness brings him & all who loves him to a terrible reckoning! ...

Following the defeat at Wabash in 1792 the Washington administration created a new US Army to replace the one that had been destroyed. The man chosen to lead it was the famous Major-General Mad Anthony Wayne. Having trained his new force Wayne set out in 1793 to subdue the Ohio Indians. Wayne faced many of the same problems as St Clair including the logistical & intelligence problems of campaigning in the wilderness not to mention the formidable Ohio Indians. Wayne faced additional problems including the likelihood that he would have to fight both British & Spanish forces not to mention an American army led by the celebrated commander George Roger Clark. He also faced an insurrection in western Pennsylvania Whiskey Rebellion & a conspiracy led by many of his officers & contractors. Despite all these difficulties Wayne managed to defeat the Ohio Indians at the battle of Fallen Timbers". This was a decisive defeat that led directly to the Treaty of Greeneville the following year which ended 20 years of conflict between the Americans & the Ohio Indians." ...

In February 2005 Edwyn Collins suffered two devastating brain haemorrhages. He should have died. Doctors advised that if he did survive there would be little of him left. If that wasn't enough he went on to contract MRSA as a result of an operation to his skull & spent six months in hospital. Initially Edwyn couldn't speak read write walk sit up or feed himself. He had lost all movement in his right side & was suffering from aphasia
- an inability to use or understand language. When he initially recovered consciousness the only words he could say were ' Grace' ' Maxwell' 'yes' & 'no'. But with the help of his partner Grace & their son Will Edwyn fought back. Slowly & with monumental effort he began to teach his brain to read & speak all over again
- with some areas of his mind it was if he had been a slate wiped utterly clean. Through a long & arduous road of therapy he began to re-inhabit his body until he could walk again. Grace's story is an intimate & inspiring account of what you do to survive when your husband is all but taken away without warning by a stroke.

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