With 3.2 million copies of her Immortals series in print Alyson Noel is one of the hottest paranormal teen authors writing today. EVERLASTING is the sixth & final instalment of the epic love story that has enchanted readers across the world. Ever & Damen have spent centuries facing down bitter rivals jealous friends & their own worst fears--all in the hope of being together forever. Now in EVERLASTING their destiny is finally within reach. Will they be united.. .or torn apart forever? Readers will finally discover the truth in this anxiously awaited conclusion! ...

Seventeen-year-old Ever is the sole survivor of a car crash that killed her entire family. Living with her aunt in Southern California she's plagued by the ability to hear the thoughts of those around her & haunted by the ghost of her little sister. She tries to tune everyone out shunning her old lifestyle as the pretty popular cheerleader but somehow she can't hide from Damen the new guy at school. Stunningly handsome clever & not a little bit intimidating there's something about him that doesn't quite add up. Ever realises he's hiding something but nothing could prepare her for the truth
- especially when the truth involves past lives murderous enemies everlasting love & the secret of eternal youth.
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Ever & Damen have travelled through countless past lives -- & fought off the world's darkest enemies -- in search of each other. But just when their destiny seems finally within reach a powerful curse falls upon them. A single touch of their hands a soft brush of their lips will mean death for Damen -- cast into the darkness of the Shadowl&. But as she seeks to break the curse Ever meets Jude -- a green-eyed golden surfer boy who understands magick & understands Ever better than she realises. & she begins to ask a terrifying question: even if you're immortal can true love really last forever? ...

As a librarian Imogen read a lot of books but none of them covered real life on the Riviera. Her holiday with tennis ace Nicky & the whole glamorous coterie of journalist playboy photographer was a revelation
- & so was she. A prize worth winning. A wild Yorkshire rose among the thorny model girls Cable & Yvonne with a rare asset that theyd mislaid years ago... But the path of a jet-set virgin in that lovely wicked world was a hard one. Imogen began to wonder if virtue really was its own reward...
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Apples video-editing program is better than ever but it still doesnt have a printed guide to help you get started. Thats where this gorgeous full-color book comes in. You get clear explanations of i Movies impressive new features like instant rendering storyboarding & one-step special effects. Experts David Pogue & Aaron Miller also give you a complete course in film editing & DVD design. * Edit video like the pros. Import raw footage add transitions & use i Movies newly restored intuitive timeline editor. * Create stunning trailers. Design Hollywood-style Coming Attractions!" previews for your movies. * Share your film. Distribute your movie in a variety of places-on smartphones Apple TV your own site & with one-click exports to You Tube Facebook Vimeo CNN i Report & Mobile Me. * Make DVDs. Design the menus titles & layout for your DVDs & burn them to disc." ...

St John of the Cross testifies to a God who longs to meet us in our deepest need. Whilst rejection & imprisonment played their part in the life of this sixteenth-century Spanish friar Johns poetry & prose reveal the beauty & power of a wondrous God. It gives us courage to believe in the possibility of change in our own lives however unlikely or impossible this may seem. Father Iain Matthew uses this classic inspirational Christian writing as his starting point & offers five interpretations which make its richness relevant to the modern reader. ...

In the wake of Steve Jobss recent death the overwhelming interest in not only the details of Jobss personal life but also of his business philosophy has naturally extended to other business titans including to the one other person who is & always will be compared to Jobs: Microsoft Corporation founder Bill Gates. Consistently ranked as one of the worlds wealthiest men u as well as one of the most controversial founders & CEOs in history u businesspeople of all stripes have for years taken their cues from Gates using his words & business strategies to help create & grow their own companies. Despite the fact that he has certainly had his critics throughout the years after he left running the day-to-day operations of Microsoft in 2008 to devote himself full-time to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation a kinder gentler side began to emerge. People involved in their own philanthropic efforts whether in a professional or part-time capacity began to take a second look at the man. ...

As health becomes a central focus of political debate are architects urban designers & landscape architects seeking a new moral & political agenda to address these concerns? Imperfect Health looks at the complexity of todays health problems juxtaposed with a variety of proposed architectural & urban solutions. Essays by Margaret Campbell David Gissen Carla C. Keirns & Sarah Schrank deal with different aspects of the topic of health in the context of architecture such as: An Architectural Theory of Pollution" & " Strange Bedfellows: Tuberculosis & Modern Architecture
- How The Cure Influenced Modernist Architecture & Design.""
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272 AD The Roman Emperor Aurelian has defeated Queen Zenobia & crushed the Palmyran revolt. Fariduns Banner hallowed battle standard of the Persian Empire has fallen into Roman hands & is to be returned to the Persians as part of a historic peace treaty. But on the eve of the signing the banner goes missing. Recalled to Syria imperial agent Cassius Corbulo is charged with recovering the flag. Accompanied by his faithful servant Simo & ex-gladiator bodyguard Indavara Cassius must journey across the dangerous wastes of Syria to the equally perilous streets of Antioch. He & his companions face ruthless brigands mysterious cults merciless assassins & intrigue at every turn. ...

Clay is a successful screenwriter middle-aged & disaffected; hes in LA to cast his new movie. However this trip is anything other than professional & hes soon drifting through a louche & long-familiar circle -- a world largely populated by the band of infamous teenagers first introduced in Less Than Zero. But his debauched reverie is about to be interrupted by a violent plot for revenge & Clays seemingly endless proclivity for betrayal & exploitation looks set to land him somewhere darker & more ominous than ever before. A murder mystery -- a woozy paranoid hallucinatory version of LA noir Sunday Times Brilliantly written & coolly self-aware.. . Here as in Less Than Zero Ellis is plumbing the depths of human nature exposing it at its worst. Observer The novel is a kind of modern noir & as in Chandler the forms accepted master atmosphere is king. Paranoia prevails Independent on Sunday ...