The warmth of him the glorious warmth was fading by the minute. In a huge old school house by the sea full of precious paintings Thomas Porteous is dying. His much younger wife Di holds him & mourns. She knows that soon despite her being his sole inheritor Thomass relatives will descend on the collection that was the passion of both of their lives. & descend they do. The two needy daughters who were poisoned against their father by their defecting mother are now poison themselves. The family regard Thomass wealth as theirs by right with the exception of young Patrick who adored his grandfather & is torn between his parents & Di the interloper. The family know Dis weaknesses & she has to learn theirs. After all she met Thomas when she came to his house to rob him. With the help of an unlikely collection of loners & eccentrics she sets a trap to hoist the family members on their own greed. & on the night they are lured to the house Di will be ready. Or will she? ...

Glamour intrigue lust & betrayal merge in the sizzling new blockbuster from The Sunday Times bestselling author of Daddys Girls New York billionaire Adam Gold is moving to London. Hes sexy single & about to come face to face with The Gold Diggers. Karin the jet-setting swimsuit entrepreneur & Londons most glamorous socialite. Adam Gold could be her perfect accessory. Erin the naive country girl who snares the job as Adams PA. But the bright lights & obscene money threaten to lose her everything she once held dear. Molly a fading eighties supermodel with an expensive drug habit. Adam could be her last chance at gaining the ultimate lifestyle before time finally catches up with her. Summer is Mollys daughter. A burgeoning beauty living in the shadows of her famous mother. Now the tables are about to turn when she lands herself a television deal & becomes the next big thing. From Monte Carlo to Lake Como St Moritz to St Barts Gold Diggers takes us on a heady journey through the social circuit of the super-rich plunging the reader into a world of sex murder & scorching betrayal. Tasmina Perry is bringing sexy back! ...

Gold First has: * New design & 100% new content with the same winning formula * Fast-paced syllabus with comprehensive exam coverage * Stimulating discussion-rich topics * Strong focus on vocabulary & chunks of language * Extensive writing support including full reference with sample answers With the Coursebook: * Active Book: digital book with audio interactive activities & Vocab Trainer to practise & remember new words. * i Tests.com access code for one full FCE test: realistic interactive exam practice in the format of the exam ...

Lovejoy discovers how the lure of gold brings out the worst kind of treasure seeker when broke as usual & earning a crust as an unlikely babysitter he stumbles across the diaries of a painter that appear to point to the whereabouts of a fabled hoard of Roman gold coins. Lovejoy is tempted to dismiss the whole thing as a hoax but vile threats & violent intimidation have a way of changing his mind. He sets out to unravel the clues in the diaries with some particularly nasty characters dogging his every move. ...

Big King was at the shaft station when they heard the water coming. It sounded like an express train in a tunnel a dull bellow of irresistible power. The water was pushing the air from the drive ahead of it so that a hurricane of wind came roaring from the mouth of the drive blowing out a cloud of dust & loose rubbish. Rod Ironsides ambitious & hard-living mining expert knows that the general managership of the Sonder Ditch gold mine is the chance of a lifetime. But the price of unquestioning obedience to the coldly obsessive genius of Dr Manfred Steyner proves impossible to pay. Both men are but unwitting tools of powerful people -- for whom the control of a gold mine is only part of the realization of dreams & ambitions which include the destruction of the very mine itself.. . ...

Elite athletes arent born. Theyre made. Michael Johnson From a living icon of the Olympic Games -- as both an athlete & now as a BBC broadcaster -- Gold Rush is a compelling analysis of the fascinating combination of psychological & personal qualities as well as internal & external factors that go to create an Olympic champion. This exciting new book is based on Michael Johnsons own experiences as an iconic four-time Olympic champion & on the knowledge he has gleaned as a top-class coach & motivational speaker. It also features uniquely more than a dozen exclusive & insightful interviews with Olympic legends from across several different sports who between them have claimed more than 50 gold medals over the past 30 years. In essence Johnson has assembled his very own Olympic Hall of Fame in assessing the DNA of true champions. Gold Rush is themed around chapters in which Johnson will discuss each of the key qualities/factors. He expertly feeds in fascinating first-person testimonies from the Olympic legends. In the process he builds up a definitive knowledge bank of expertise & experience from athletes who have been on this fascinating journey encountered the highs & the lows but ultimately reached the summit
- an Olympic gold medal. Johnsons interviewees include: Usain Bolt Carl Lewis Sally Gunnell Seb Coe Daley Thompson Cathy Freeman Ian Thorpe Michael Phelps Rebecca Adlington Chris Hoy Steve Redgrave Matthew Pinsent Lennox Lewis & Michael Jordan.
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Elite athletes arent born. Theyre made. Michael Johnson From a living icon of the Olympic Games
- as both an athlete & now as a
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In 1945 US Intelligence officers in Manila discovered that the Japanese had hidden large quantities of gold bullion & other looted treasure in the Philippines. President Truman decided to recover the gold but to keep its riches secret. These would be combined with treasure recovered inside Japan during the US occupation & with Nazi loot recovered in Europe to create a worldwide American political action fund to fight communism. Overseen by General Mac Arthur President Truman & John Foster Dulles this Black Gold" gave Washington virtually limitless unaccountable funds providing an asset base to reinforce the treasuries of America's allies to bribe political & military leaders & to manipulate elections in foreign countries for more than fifty years. Drawing on a vast range of original documents & thousands of hours of interviews Gold Warriors exposes one of the great state secrets of the twentieth century." ...

The Brit Writers' Awards (www.britwriters.co.uk) is nothing short of a writing & publishing phenomenon. It has attracted tens of thousands of entries in its eight categories & is offering the largest prize ever for unpublished writers in a creative writing competition. Infinite Ideas will publish this year's deserved winner of the Children's story category Catherine Cooper's wonderful novel The Golden Acorn. When Jack Brenin finds a golden acorn lying in the grass little does he know that it is the beginning of a thrilling & magical adventure. Just an ordinary boy Jack has been chosen for a hugely important task & enters a world he believed only existed in legend. Full of twists & turns talking ravens & mischievous Spriggans The Golden Acorn is a hugely entertaining & exciting tale from a very talented new author. Your kids will love it & so will you! ...

Moving between Spanish conquest abroad & the court of the astute Charles V Hugh Thomas The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V" is the second volume in a planned trilogy on the Spanish Empire. When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in South America in the sixteenth century they swept across the continent in a blaze of imperial expansion & brutal savagery. Beginning with the return of the remnants of Magellans circumnavigation in 1522 & ending with Charles death in 1558 Hugh Thomas masterful work brilliantly brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods of the Renaissance revealing how the Spaniards were able to conquer Guatemala Yucatan Columbia Venezuela Peru & Chile; how the audacious conquistador Francisco de Orellana sailed down the Amazon why Cabeza de Vaca walked from Florida to Mexico & what drove Hernando de Soto to pursue worldly riches in Florida Mississippi & Georgia. While adventurers & explorers like Cortes & Pizarro build entire cities & amassed vast wealth from the treasures of the land they also killed thousands & left the indelible mark of Spains language & religion for centuries to come. " Thomas tells the story of missionary zeal & military plunder with a zest worthy of a swashbuckling historical novelist". (" The Times"). "A riveting story of adventure & cruelty.. .a considerable scholarly accomplishment". (Ben Wilson " Daily Telegraph"). " This monumental history is an extraordinary achievement...A beguilingly-written account of a fascinating subject". (Alexander Samson " The Times Higher Education"). Supplement Hugh Thomas is the author of among other books " The Spanish Civil War" (1962) which won the Somerset Maugham Award " Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom" (1971) " An Unfinished History of the World" (1979) & the first volume of his " Spanish Empire trilogy Rivers of Gold" (2003)." ...