When the U.S.S. Voyager is dispatched on an urgent mission to the planet Kerovi Captain Chakotay & his first officer Commander Thomas Paris must choose between following orders & saving the lives of two of those dearest to them. B' Elanna Torres & her daughter Miral are both missing in the wake of a brutal attack on the Klingon world of Boreth. With the aid of their former captain Admiral Kathryn Janeway -- as well as many old friends & new allies -- Voyager's crew must unravel an ancient mystery placing themselves between two warrior sects battling for the soul of the Klingon people.. .while the life of Mirl hangs in the balance. But these events & their repurcussions are merely the prelude to even darker days to come. As Voyager is drawn into a desperate struggle to prevent the annihilation of the Federation lives are shattered & the bonds that were forged in the Delta Quadrant are challenged in ways that none could have imagined. For though destiny has dealt them crushing blows Voyager's crew must rise to face their future.. .and begin a perilous journey in which the wheel of fate comes full circle. ...

Mma Ramotswe who became engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni at the end of the first book is still engaged. She wonders when a day for the wedding will be named but she is anxious to avoid putting too much pressure on her fiance. For indeed he has other things on his mind
- notably a frightening request made from him by Mma Potokwani pushy matron of the Orphan Farm. Mma Ramotswe herself has weighty matters on her mind. She has been approached by a wealthy lady
- whose fortune comes from successful hair-braiding salons
- & has been asked to check up on several suitors. Are these men just interested in her money? This may be difficult to find out but Mma Ramotswe is of course a very intuitive lady.. .


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Is it possible to fully know anyone? Even those we love the most? What tips someone over the edge to commit a crime? For a Nebraska farmer the turning point comes when his wife threatens to sell off the family homestead.A cozy mystery writer plots a savage revenge after a brutal encounter with a stranger. Dave Streeter gets the chance to cure himself from illness
- if he agrees to impose misery on an old rival. And Darcy Anderson discovers a box containing her husbands dark & terrifying secrets
- hes not the man who keeps his nails short & collects coins. & now hes heading home.. . Like DIFFERENT SEASONS & FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT which generated such enduring hit films as The Shawshank Redemption & Stand by Me FULL DARK NO STARS proves Stephen King a master of the long story form.

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When a bomb devastates the office of London's most unusual police unit & claims the life of its oldest detective Arthur Bryant his surviving partner John May searches for clues to the bomber's identity. His search takes him back to the day the detectives first met as young men in 1940. In Blitz-ravaged London a beautiful dancer rehearsing for a sexy sinister production of ' Orpheus In The Underworld' is found without her feet. Bryant & May's investigation plunges them into a bizarre gothic mystery where a faceless man stalks terrified actors & death strikes in darkness. Tracking their quarry through the blackout searching for a murderer who'll stop at nothing to be free of a nightmare the duo unwittingly follow the same path Orpheus took when leading Euridyce from the shadows of Hell. Back in the present day John May starts to wonder if their oldest adversary might be the killer who took his partner's life. He must work alone to solve a puzzle that began over half a century earlier... In a war-shaken city of myths rumours & fear Bryant & May discover that a house is not always a home nothing is as it appears the most cunning criminals hide in plain sight & the devil has all the best tunes. Dark drama & black comedy combine as Bryant & May take centre stage in their first great case. ...

Dee loves her children very much but now they are all grown up shouldnt they leave home? Rosie moved out when she got married but it didnt work out so now she is back with her parents. Helen is a teacher & doesnt earn enough for a place of her own. Anthony writes songs & is just waiting for the day when someone will pay him for them. Until then all three are happy at home. It doesnt cost them anything & surely their parents like having a full house? When a crisis occurs Dee decides things have to change for the whole family.. .whether they like it or not. ...

Alfie & Tim are looking forward to their school trip until Tim gets flu & has to stay behind. Alfie will have to cope without his best friend for once but at least its not Full Moon & he wont be turning into a werewolf.. .or so he thinks! A calendar mix-up means that Alfie will be camping out with his classmates in the woods during full moon with a crazy hunter as their guide. How on earth will Alfie keep his werewolf identity a secret from his friends & avoid being the hunters prey? & as if that wasnt enough something scary is lurking in the forest.. . ...

The thought of being cooped up in Blandings Castle with Clarence the Earl of Emsworth the perennially youthful Galahad & with the Earl's younger son Freddie Threepwood openly appalled Colonel Wedge. It was he grimly asserted like being wrecked on a desert island with the Marx Brothers. But the arrival of Tipton Plimsoll at Blandings Castle considerably brightened the Colonel's horizon. For Tip-ton was a rich young American & rich young Americans were in the Colonel's opinion quite the most desirable companions for his daughter Veronica the dumbest beauty listed in the pages of Debrett. The stage was set for a great romance or so the Colonel thought & so it might have been had the knowledge of Freddie's erstwhile engagement to Veronica been withheld from the jealous Tipton or if Prudence the Earl's niece had not been forcibly parted from her unsuitable lover Bill Lister. On such incidents do great issues depend. However Uncle Gaily who combined the ready resource of a confidence trickster with the zeal of a cheerful crusader intervened with an ingenious scheme to reunite the young lovers. It was a master-plan. How the plot miscarried at the crucial stage & in doing so caused a social & domestic revolution unparalleled in the history of Blandings Castle is revealed in this most hilarious of chronicles. ...

A rare hybrid of vampire & werewolf Riley Jenson & her twin brother Rhoan work for Melbourne's Directorate of Other Races an organisation created to police the supernatural races
- & protect humans from their depredations. While Rhoan is an exalted guardian aka assassin Riley is merely an office worker
- until her brother goes missing on one of his missions. The timing couldn't be worse. More werewolf than vampire Riley is vulnerable to the moon heat the weeklong period before the full moon when her need to mate becomes all-consuming... Luckily Riley has two willing partners to satisfy her every need. But she will have to control her urges if she's going to find her brother. For someone is doing some illegal cloning in an attempt to produce the ultimate warrior
- by tapping into the genome of nonhumans like Rhoan. Now Riley knows just how dangerous the world is for her kind
- & just how much it needs her.



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Scotty Bowers a dashing young ex-Marine exuding sex appeal arrived in Hollywood in 1946 & quickly caught the attention of many of the town's stars. Working out of a gas station on Hollywood Boulevard Bowers soon became the go-to guy for anyone looking for a bespoke sexual partner; no matter how outlandish the tastes Scotty could find someone for everyone... In his thirty years 'tricking' & arranging tricks for LA's rich & famous Bowers went to bed with thousands of people & engineered sexual liaisons of all flavours for countless more. Full Service is the ultimate guilty pleasure revealing for the first time the shadow lives of the people who created popular culture told by the man who was so central to fulfilling their desires. ...

Yet another witty comedy thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author JANET EVANOVICH. For fans of FINGER LICKIN FIFTEEN & PLUM SPOOKY. Mysterious sexy Maximillian Holt is determined to discover why a Tennessee preacher wants him dead. Newspaper publisher Jamie Swifts predictable life was shaken up when Max arrived in her home town & now she wont let him leave without her. He promises her the ride of a lifetime but neither expects the danger & intrigue they find
- or the sheer excitement...
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