Valerie never gave much thought to the legends of vampires. That is until she's kidnapped by a fang-wielding psychopath & kept hostage in an underground dungeon with six other female-dining companions. Able to escape using her martial art skills & her wits she's picked up by the Argeneau rescue team
- & the sexy Anders
- only to discover that her captor got away...and is on the hunt again. When Anders discovers Valerie battered & bruised under a bush he's not expecting to meet someone capable of defending herself against a vampire attack
- or his psychic influence. Immediately taken by this fierce beauty he's determined to find the vamp responsible for her abuse...and make him pay.


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' She'd come to New York to be a cop because she believed in order. Needed it to survive. She had taken control had made herself into the person some anonymous social worker had named Eve Dallas' But in a few weeks she won't just be Eve Dallas lieutenant homicide. She'll be Roarke's wife. But Eve's wedding plans may have to be put on hold as her private & professional lives collide... The victim in her latest murder investigation is one of the most sought-after women in the world. A top model who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted
- even another woman's man. & Eve's chief suspect is the other woman in this fatal love triangle
- her best friend Mavis. Putting her job on the line to head the investigation Eve discovers that the world of high fashion thrives on an all-consuming passion for youth & fame. One that leads from the runway to the dark underworld of New York City where drugs can fulfil any desire
- for a price.. .


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Immortal Last Words is a fascinating diverse collection of history's most uplifting entertaining & thought-provoking dying remarks & final farewells. The 370 entries in this book have been drawn from some of history's greatest statesmen poets scientists novelists & warriors
- the eminent men & women who have shaped events over the last four & a half millennia & whose final recorded words have often inspired great deeds or shed light on the nature of the human condition. There are also entries are from less well- known individuals who did not make such an impact on history but whose dying words are equally noteworthy as they encapsulate the spirit of the times or simply reflect the character of the speaker. & finally the pages of this book contain the last words of some of most ignoble personalities in history
- the monsters & maniacs whose final defiant utterances prompt us to reflect on the nature of evil & man's inhumanity to man. Arranged chronologically from antiquity to the present day each entry is accompanied by contextual information giving a brief biography of the author & an explanation of the circumstances that gave rise to the"ation. Some of the sentiments expressed are unbelievably sad while others are optimistic; some final words have become famous while others have remained obscure but all reflect the follies & greatness of mankind
- its heroes & villains war & peace & the absolute power of language to change our feelings & challenge our minds. Sample entries include: Buddha ' Strive for your own liberation with diligence'; Vespasian ' Dear me I believe I am becoming a god'; Thomas Hobbes 'I am about to take my last voyage a great leap in the dark'; Robespierre ' Death is the commencement of immortality!'; George Washington' Tis well'; John Keats ' Here lies one whose name was writ in water'; John Maynard Keynes'I should have drunk more champagne'; Salvador Dali 'I do not believe in my death'; Keith Floyd 'I've not felt this well for ages.'


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Her name was Henrietta Lacks but scientists know her as He La. Born a poor black tobacco farmer her cancer cells
- taken without
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Immortal Words is an anthology of history's most memorable uplifting or thought-provoking"ations from all ages & nations. The texts are drawn not only from the works & words of great writers thinkers & orators but also from less well-known sources such as gravestones book dedications speeches & political manifestos letters & diaries inscriptions & chance remarks. Each of the 370"ations is accompanied by an extended annotation that tells the story of the speaker or explains the circumstances that gave rise to the"ation. The words & sentiments expressed have been used to encapsulate the human condition to inspire great works or deeds in times of hardship or simply reflect the spirit of the time
- they will live with you & inspire you day by day from one year's end to the next. Sample entries include: Marcus Aurelius
- ' Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.. .'. Martin Luther King
- 'I have a dream.. .'. John F. Kennedy
- ' Ask not what your country.. .'. John Gillespie Magee Royal Air Force pilot 1941
- ' High Flight'. Ronald Reagan
- ' Tear down his wall.. .'. Isadora Duncan
- on her sickbed writes a feverishly passionate letter to her lover the actor Gordon Craig. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
- ' Life is.. .'. Colonel Tim Collins of the Royal Irish Regiment March 19 2003
- ' We come not to conquer.. .. Emma Lazarus
- ' The New Colossus' (plaque on Statue of Liberty). Joseph Stalin
- first broadcast to the Russian people after the German invasion July 3 1941. Mahatma Gandhi
- 'I am a man of peace.. .'. Abraham Lincoln
- on leaving Springfield Illinois to take the oath as President. February 11 1861. Cicero
-"ing Cato the Elder in De Senectute (On Old Age) 44 BC. Charles Lindbergh
- describing the last minutes of his pioneering non-stop flight from New York to Paris in 1927. Nelson Mandela
- 'I am the First Accused'. Buddha
- ' All acts of living creatures become bad by ten things.. .'. Benjamin Franklin
- writes a first draft of his own epitaph. Thomas Jefferson
- ' Force cannot change right.. . Winston Churchill
- ' Never in the field of human conflict.. .'. Adolf Hitler
- ' My patience is now at an end'. Edward Everett
- President of Harvard on the protest of the student body against the admission of a Negro student. Francis Bacon
- ' This world's a bubble; & the life of Man Less than a span.. .'. Horatio Nelson
- ' Separated from all I hold dear in this world.. .'. Charlotte Cushman
- inscription on the curtain of Ford's Opera House Baltimore. Shakespeare
- ' Once more unto the breach.. .' Henry V. Marie Antoinette
- letter to her sister on the day of her execution. Ludwig Van Beethoven
- 'I carry my ideas about me for along time often a very long time...'. Aldous Huxley 1920- 'A million million spermatozoa.. .'. Eleanor Roosevelt
- speaking on the function of hatred in a just cause. Indira Gandhi
- ' Women's education is almost more important than the education of boys & men.'"





























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Immortality shows how the quest to live forever has driven the development of human civilisation & how that quest is now coming to a climax through modern science. It argues that humans are hardwired to pursue eternal life
- & that the way they have done so has stayed remarkably consistent through the ages. All the main beliefs on defying death from freeing your soul to freezing your brain fall into four simple categories
- the four paths to immortality. Although all four paths are ancient science is now showing us
- for the first time in human history
- which of them could really lead to infinity. Immortality uses the stories of ten exceptional characters from Queen Nefertiti to the Dalai Lama to show how these four paths have shaped our culture from ancient times through to today. Unlike most books on this hugely popular subject Immortality does not argue from a particular religious viewpoint. Written by Stephen Cave philosopher (Ph D Cambridge) & regular writer for the Financial Times it shows general readers how the latest research in fields from anti-aging to neuroscience is providing new answers to lifes most important question.



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John Gray's The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death" raises vital questions about the 'truths' science can offer the technology we are still exploiting for immortality
- & exactly what it means to be human. At the heart of all human experience lies our obsession with death. For many years we turned to religion for our answers but at the turn of the twentieth centuries ideas from evolution & politics seemed to suggest that our lives
- & afterlives
- were in our own hands. These ideas would have both trivial & terrible effects from the nightmares of H. G. Wells's science fiction & the wild sweeping craze of seances to the murder of millions in the Stalinist terror. " Our sharpest critic of utopian fantasies skewers the crazed but enduring dream of cheating age time & death". (Boyd Tonkin " Independent"). " Elegant... He is on to something important regarding the delusion that science consists of indefinite progress". (" Sunday Telegraph"). " One of the most important & insightful polemicists currently writing in English.. .humanism's most vocal critic". (" Financial Times"). " Gray is an engaging writer an entertaining historian & a controversialist whose opinions can never be taken for granted". (" New Statesman"). John Gray has been Professor of Politics at Oxford University Visiting Professor at Harvard & Yale & Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics. His books include " False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism" " Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion & the Death of Utopia" & " Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans & Other Animals". His selected writings " Gray's Anatomy" was published in 2009."


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Things have changed for Ever since she met her beloved Damen -- not least because she's got a whole new set of powers courtesy of her new Immortal status. Just as she's getting stronger though Damen seems to be weakening. Panicked at the thought of losing him Ever finds a path to the in-between world known as Summerland where she learns the secrets of Damen's tortured past. But in searching for a cure for him Ever accidentally discovers a way to twist time so she can save her family from the accident that killed them. It's all she's ever wanted -- but so is Damen. & Ever must choose between them.. . ...

1900 BC: the once-proud Suryavanshi rulers of the Meluha Empire are in dire peril. The empires primary river the Saraswathi is slowly drying up. There are devastating terrorist attacks from the east the land of the Chandravanshis
- & to make matters worse the Chandravanshis appear to have allied with the Nagas an ostracised race of deformed humans with astonishing martial skills. The only hope for the Suryavanshis is an ancient prophecy: when evil reaches epic proportions & all seems lost a hero will emerge...
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Once it seemed being immortal was a gift to Ever Bloom
- now it's a curse. & she's a danger to herself. Ever has been dabbling
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