A sudden act of vandalism had just been committed in the chill Venetian dawn. But Commissario Guido Brunetti soon finds out that the perpetrator is no petty criminal. For the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene of the crime is none other than Paola Brunetti his wife. As Paola's actions provoke a crisis in the Brunetti household Brunetti himself is under increasing pressure at work: a daring robbery with Mafia connections is linked to a suspicious death & his superiors need quick results. As his professional & personal lives clash Brunetti's own career is under threat
- & the conspiracy which Paola had risked everything to expose draws him inexorably to the brink.. .
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Fatal Revenant Book Two of The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant " begins where The Runes of the Earth ended: Linden Avery watches from a balcony while Thomas Covenant & her adopted son Jeremiah ride desperately toward Revelstone. But their reunion has vast consequences which she could not have foreseen. Soon she is betrayed by the people whom she most needs to trust. Transported deep into the Land's past she is forced to confront mysterious strangers legendary heroes & ancient evils & to stand alone against the malevolence of the Despiser's minions. Abandoned in Garroting Deep the most bloodthirsty of the Land's long-dead forests she reaches a fearsome decision: she determines to reshape reality in an attempt to end the Despiser's evil & her son's suffering. However her purpose requires her to find Loric's krill a weapon abandoned among the Hills of Andelain millennia ago. & she needs the aid of friends & allies who will turn against her if she reveals her intent. Attacked by enemies old & new & harried by strange beings with ambiguous agendas she strives toward Andelain. But the ravenous skurj are rising & all of her actions appear to serve her worst foes." ...

In 1787 the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia-An epic description of the brutal transportation of men women & children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag & was the origin of Australia. The Fatal Shore is the prize-winning scholarly brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given its true history to Australia. ...

A plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina. But a severed foot is discovered a good distance from the crash site... Forensic anthropologist Dr Temperence Brennan is first on the scene. The task that confronts her is a sad & sickening one & her investigation seems to be throwing up more questions than answers. But when Tempe makes a discovery that raises dangerous questions her professional standing is threatened. Convinced that another corpse lies in the woods Tempe pits herself against a conspiracy of silence & uncovers a shocking tale of deceit & depravity... ...

1581: young St Andrews academic Hew Cullan is unhappy with his life & disillusioned with the law. After his father's death he is invited by the advocate Richard Cunningham to complete his legal education in Edinburgh as Richard's pupil at the bar. Among his father's things Hew finds a manuscript entitled ' In Defence of the Law' directed to the Edinburgh printer Christian Hall. At first he resists its influence but when a young girl is found dead on the beach at St Andrews he is left unsettled & confused. He resolves to take the book to press & agrees to Richard's offer. Embarking on his new life in the capital he falls in love. His relationships are fraught with lies & secrets & lead to brutal murder on the borough muir. Hew suspects a link with the dead girl on the beach. As he begins his desperate search to find the killer he finds that the truth lies closer to home. ...

For the last time the dwarves are going to war
- & the outcome will decide the fate of their race. There has been no word from
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After ten years of servitude Nish is about to be released from the blackest prison of the maimed God-Emperor Jal-Nish Hlar his corrupt father. Jal-Nish holds the two sorcerous quicksilver tears Gatherer & Reaper & with them controls all of the Secret Art. All opposition having been crushed he has begun to remake the world in his depraved image. The only hope of overthrowing him lies in Nish whom the oppressed peoples of the world see as a messianic figure. They have named him the Deliverer for as Nish was dragged away to prison a decade ago he wildly promised to return & cast down his father. Unfortunately Nish is powerless & without allies. But worse his father wants Nish to become his lieutenant & become as corrupt as he is. Jal-Nish offers Nish everything he has ever desired & faced with the unbearable alternative of another ten years in prison he isnt sure he can resist the temptation. ...

What happens when you discover you arent who you thought you were? When the person you love is the person who must betray you. If fate is already determined
- can you fight it? Lucas Gray is half Shadow Warrior half human & a member of the Brotherhood
- a group of assassins tasked with killing the last purebred Hunter on Earth before she can fulfil a dangerous prophecy. The Hunters name is Evie Tremain. Evie Tremain is seventeen-years-old a waitress & has just discovered she is the last in a long line of demon slayers
- & an unwilling participant in a war between Hunters & unhumans that has raged for the last thousand years.


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Scientist & single mother Cara paulsen is used to fighting for what she wants & doing whatever it takes to protect her daughter Janie. But 'whatever it takes' has never before included a shotgun wedding to a dangerous-looking stranger. Vampire leader Talen says that he's there to protect Cara & Janie. But his idea of a wedding night is more like a sexual taming
- dominant & scorching hot. With shapeshifting allies they must fight against an evil race of vampires that has discovered a way to venture into sunlight in order to safeguard Janie...and the rest of humanity.
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Ian Kershaws Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World 1940-41" offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War. The hurricane of events that marked the opening of the Second World War meant that anything could happen. For the aggressors there was no limit to their ambitions; for their victims a new Dark Age beckoned. Over the next few months their fates would be determined. In " Fateful Choices" Ian Kershaw re-creates the ten critical decisions taken between May 1940 when Britain chose not to surrender & December 1941 when Hitler decided to destroy Europes Jews showing how these choices would recast the entire course of history. " Powerfully argued.. .important.. .this book actually alters our perspective of the Second World War". (Andrew Roberts). " This fascinating closely-argued book adds to our understanding of a terrible war". (Alan Massie). "A compelling re-examination of the conflict... Kershaw displays here those same qualities of scholarly rigour careful argument & sound judgement that he brought to bear so successfully in his life of Hitler". (Richard Overy). "A splendidly lucid & impeccably argued exposition of the greatest political decisions of the Second World War". (Max Hastings). " How fortunate that it is Ian Kershaw bringing his immense knowledge & clarity of thought to the task.. .brilliantly explained.. .an immensely wise book". (Anthony Beevor). Ian Kershaw (b. 1943) was Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield from 1989-2008 & is one of the worlds leading authorities on Hitler. His books include " The Hitler Myth" his two volume biography " Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris" & " Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis" & " Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World 1940-1941". He was knighted in 2002." ...