His heart began to thud his throat to close. He tried to pull his body from the pool. 'I'll help you' his killer said. He felt no pain. A young teacher sips a hot chocolate blissfully unaware that his first taste condemns him to an agonising death. The community around him is devastated & suspiciously protective of their own. No one is better equipped to see through the lies than homicide Lieutenant Eve Dallas but she is distracted by the arrival of her husband Roarke's ex-lover an impossibly glamorous vixen determined to steal Roarke back. But Eve's personal life must wait when a second murder victim is found & everyone's eyes turn to the perfect school at the heart of it all. Its secret will soon be out.. . ...

When history teacher Craig Foster is found dead in his classroom his young wife is devastated & his family friends & colleagues all shocked. The two ten-year old students who discovered his body may be traumatised for life. Magdalena Percell an old flame of Eves billionaire husband Roarke has turned up in New York & shes anything but innocent. Unfortunately Roarke seems blind to Magdalenas maniuplations but not to her shapely figure & flirtatious ways. But Eve will have to put aside her potential heartbreak for a while at least- because another man has just turned up dead... ...

Miss Winthorpe's Elopement Lady Penelope Winthorpe is looking for a compliant husband to gain access to her inheritance. The drunken Adam Felkirk seems perfectly biddable-but she's in for a surprise... Once sobered up the arrogant gorgeous Duke of Bellston is determined to awaken his bluestocking bride! Dangerous Lord Innocent Governess Daphne Collingham is intrigued by the scandalous goings on at the home of Lord Timothy Colton & decides to disguise herself as a governess to uncover the truth! What Daphne hasn't bargained on is how the brooding lord will make her feel under his dark gaze... ...

Ron Williamson was a star college sportsman in the small town of Ada Oklahoma. When he left to pursue his dreams he seemed destined for glory. But years of injury drinking drugs & women took their toll & he returned to Ada a lonely drifter. Soon after his homecoming a local cocktail waitress was raped & murdered. With no immediate leads the police worked the case for five years before arresting Williamson & charging him with her murder. Despite no physical evidence & based largely on the testimony of jailhouse snitches he was found guilty at trial & sent to death row. Left to await his fate Williamson was the only person to know the terrible truth: that an innocent man had been sent on a journey to hell. A journey from which he might never return. ...

Her past has come back to haunt her... Delanie Tate waits nervously for the man who has torn through her fathers company consuming along the way her own small business. But she never thought it would be him! The man who ruthlessly commanded her trembling body...who finally shattered her fragile trusting heart. Marco Vincienta has taken everything he possibly could from Tate Industries
- apart from the woman who nearly destroyed him. He needs her for one last thing before he can cut her from his life. If Delanie wants her company back
- her life back
- shell have to do as he asks. A fave author. Gripping & enthralling.
- Nicola Graphic Designer Edinburgh



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Alison Weir our pre-eminent popular historian has now fulfilled a life's ambition to write historical fiction. She has chosen as her subject the bravest most sympathetic & wronged heroine of Tudor England Lady Jane Grey. Lady Jane Grey was born into times of extreme danger. Child of a scheming father & a ruthless mother for whom she was merely a pawn in a dynastic power game with the highest stakes she lived a life in thrall to political machinations & lethal religious fervour. Jane's astonishing & essentially tragic story was played out during one of the most momentous periods of English history. As a great-niece of Henry VIII & the cousin of Edward VI Mary I & Elizabeth I she grew up to realize that she could never throw off the chains of her destiny. Her honesty intelligence & strength of character carry the reader through all the vicious twists of Tudor power politics to her nine-day reign & its unbearably poignant conclusion. ...

WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2012. LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013. What if everything you'd ever wanted was no longer enough? Adam & Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweethearts whose lives & families have been intertwined for years; theirs is set to be the wedding of the year. But then Rachel's cousin Ellie makes an unexpected return to the family fold. Beautiful reckless & troubled Ellie represents everything that Adam has tried all his life to avoid
- & everything that is missing from his world. As the long-awaited wedding approaches Adam is torn between duty & temptation security & freedom & must make a choice that will break either one heart or many. ' Wonderful...witty...an astonishingly accomplished debut which will draw comparisons between Segal & Zadie Smith & Monica Ali' Stylist.
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' Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?' So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe & the Holy Land in June 1867. His adventures produced The Innocents Abroad a book so funny & provocative it made him an international star for the rest of his life. He was making his first responses to the Old World
- to Paris Milan Florence Venice Pompeii Constantinople Sebastopol Balaklava Damascus Jerusalem Nazareth & Bethlehem. For the first time he was seeing the great paintings & sculptures of the ' Old Masters'. He responded with wonder & amazement but also with exasperation irritation disbelief. Above all he displayed the great energy of his humour more explosive for us now than for his beguiled contemporaries.
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Developed specifically for undergraduate students Innovation & Entrepreneurship is an accessible introductory text written primarily for those studying business & management but also engineering & science degrees with management courses. The book features contemporary applications such as services (public & private) innovation for sustainability social entrepreneurship innovation for development & creating & capturing value from innovation & entrepreneurship. In this second edition the authors develop an explicit process model of entrepreneurship with clearer links between innovation & entrepreneurship. The second edition also features an extensive collection of web-based materials including: tools to support innovation & entrepreneurship audio & video cases solutions manual testbank additional case studies & image archive. An accompanying website is available at: www.iande.info ...

Turn team members into innovators Most organizations approach innovation as if it were a sideline activity. Every so often employees are sent to Brainstorm Island" an off-site replete with trendy lectures creative workshops & overenthusiastic facilitators. But once they return it's back to business as usual. Innovation experts Paddy Miller & Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg suggest a better approach. They recommend that leaders at all levels become "innovation architects " creating an ecosystem in which people engage in key innovation behaviors as part of their daily work. In short this book is about getting to a state of "innovation as usual " where regular employees--in jobs like finance marketing sales or operations--make innovation happen in a way that's both systemic & sustainable. Instead of organizing brainstorming sessions idea jams & off-sites that rarely result in success leaders should guide their people in what the authors call the "5 + 1 keystone behaviors" of innovation: focus connect tweak select stealthstorm (and the + 1) persist:
- Focus beats freedom Direct people to look only for ideas that matter to the business- Insight comes from the outside Urge people to connect to new worlds- First ideas are flawed Challenge people to tweak & reframe their initial ideas- Most ideas are bad ideas Guide people to select the best ideas & discard the rest- Stealthstorming rules Help people navigate the politics of innovation- Creativity is a choice Motivate everyone to persist in the five keystone behaviors Using examples from a wide range of companies such as Pfizer Index Ventures Lonza Go Travel Prehype DSM & others " Innovation as Usual" lights the way toward embedding creativity in the DNA of the workplace. So cancel that off-site. Instead read " Innovation as Usual"--and put innovation at the core of your business."
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