This is the story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution blamed for her mother's death ignored by her millionaire father & unwanted by her Eurasian step mother. A story of greed hatred & jealousy; a domestic drama is played against the extraordinary political events in China & Hong Kong. Written with the emotional force of a novel but with a vividness drawn from a personal & political background Falling Leaves" has been an enduring bestseller all over the world." ...

Jeanette is a young solitary post-doctoral researcher who has dedicated her life to studying astronomy. Struggling to compete in a prestigious university department dominated by egos & incompetents & caught in a cycle of brief & unsatisfying affairs she travels to a mountain-top observatory in Chile to focus on her research. There Jeanette stumbles upon evidence that will challenge the fundamentals of the universe drawing her into conflict with her colleagues & the scientific establishment but also casting her back to the tragic loss that defined her childhood. As the implications of her discovery gather momentum & her relationships spiral out of control Jeanette's own grip on reality is threatened finally forcing her to confront the hidden past. Pippa Goldschmidt's bittersweet debut novel blends black comedy heart-breaking tragedy & fascinatingly accessible science in this intricate & beautiful examination of one woman's disintegration & journey to redemption. ...

You can't choose your family.. .living or dead. Trapped between two very different worlds newly made vampire Moth is struggling to find her place in either. Not only does she have to answer to her strict Irish-Catholic Dad but her over-protective maker Theo is intent on making her the star attraction in his powerful Boston vampire clan. Moth will have to pull off the double-act of the century to please both of them... Adding to her problems is the dangerously attractive Jason Murdoch a trainee vampire hunter who loves to play cat & mouse in his spare time (Jace = cat; Moth = mouse). But when the young & gorgeous teenagers of Boston's wealthiest families start to disappear it forces Moth & Jace into an uneasy truce. Will they be able to solve the mystery behind the disappearances
- before someone winds up undead?
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Falling Upwards tells the story of the enigmatic group of men & women who first risked their lives to take to the air & so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it what their contemporaries thought of them & how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet in wholly unexpected ways is its subject. In this heart-lifting book the Romantic biographer Richard Holmes floats across the world following the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts from the first heroic experiments of the Montgolfiers in 1780s to the tragic attempt to fly a balloon to the North Pole in the 1890s. It is a compelling adventure story of the kind that only Holmes could tell. Dramatic sequences move from the early Anglo-French balloon rivalries the crazy firework flights of beautiful Sophie Blanchard; the revelatory ascents over the great Victorian cities & sprawling industrial towns of Northern Europe; & the astonishing long-distance voyages of the American entrepreneur John Wise & the French photographer Felix Nadar. Later we find balloons used to observe the horrors of modern battle during the American Civil War (including a memorable flight by General Custer); the legendary tale of sixty balloons that escaped Paris during the Prussian siege of 1870; & the terrifying high-altitude flights of James Glaisher FRS who rose above seven miles without oxygen helping to establish the new science of meteorology as well as the environmental notion
- so important to us today
- of a 'fragile' planet. Besides the aeronauts themselves readers will also discover the many writers & dreamers
- from Mary Shelley to Edgar Alan Poe from Charles Dickens to Jules Verne
- who felt the imaginative impact of flight & allowed it to soar in their work. Through all these adventures the narrative continually lifts off in unexpected literary & scientific directions exploring the interplay between technology & science fiction the understanding of the biosphere & the metaphysics of flight itself. Most of all through the strange allure of the great balloonists Holmes offers another of his subtle portraits of human endeavour recklessness & vision.



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The clock is still ticking... The Shackleton Building has been turned into a concentration camp & the last free people in Phoenix have been forced into hiding. Unless Jordan & the others can figure out where the Co-operative is keeping Tobias everythin theyve fought for will be for nothing. & as Peter spins further out of control can Jordan find a way to save Lukes life or is history doomed to repeat itself? With only weeks left until Tabitha is released Phoenixs biggest secrets are still yet to be revealed. There are 35 days until the end of the world. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed folding map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities including walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the OS Explorer map series details information essential in the great outdoors including youth hostels pubs & visitor information. Rights of way fences permissive paths & bridleways are clearly shown ensuring you have the best information to get the most out of your time in the countryside. ...

The Honourable Christopher Fancot on leave from the diplomatic service in the summer of 1817 is startled to find his entrancing but incorrigibly extravagant mother on the brink of financial & social ruin
- & more than alarmed to find that his twin Evelyn has disappeared without trace. Christopher
- Kit
- is forced into an outrageous masquerade by the tangled affairs of his wayward family: his rigid uncle Lord Brumby the surprisingly wily Sir Bonamy Ripple the formidable old Lady Stavely & Evelyn's betrothed Cressy. But in the face of Evelyn's continues absence Kit's ingenuity is stretched to the limit.. . In this typically wonderful & sweeping romance Georgette Heyer shows all the skill that made her the queen of historical fiction for over fifty years
- & won her a huge audience that continues to this day.



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In the midst of the current financial crisis John Gray revisits his brilliant polemic against the forces of global capitalism & deregulation. Written over ten years ago False Dawn" is a remarkably prescient book sharply criticising the greed & unsustainable economic practices which have proved to be the seeds of a world-wide recession. In a substantial new chapter Gray will consider how the economic landscape has shifted in a decade & ask the crucial question: where do we go from here?" ...

The ninth book in the bestselling Dan Spider Shepherd series. The most wanted man in the world is dead. Now those loyal to him seek revenge. When Navy Seals track down & kill Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan its obvious there was a traitor on the inside. After the false friends are revealed to be two British students Malik & Chaudhry
- former Islamic fundamentalists recruited by MI5
- they become targets themselves. Dan Spider Shepherd must teach the pair how to survive undercover with al-Qaeda closing in. But Spider is not used to playing the handler. & with the line between mentor & friend beginning to blur & a terrorist plot putting thousands of lives at stake can he protect everyone before its too late?

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