When Jess is knocked off her bicycle she finds herself at the gates of Heaven early
- before her actual death date. Striking a
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The gripping new action thriller from New York Times bestselling author & former FBI agent Noah Boyd. Steve Vail has brains brawn & balls -- & is back for his latest mission. Steve Vail visits Kate Bannon Assistant Director of the FBI for a well-earned & romantic New Years Eve in Washington DC but he suddenly finds himself knee-deep in a very complicated & unusual case. A man known simply as Calculus an intelligence officer at the Russian embassy approaches the FBI claiming he knows of several Americans who are supplying confidential government information to the Russian secret service. In exchange for this list he asks for $250 000 for each traitor the FBI arrests. But when Calculus is suddenly recalled to Moscow the Bureau suspects the worst. The Russians have probably captured Calculus & might have access to his list -- which means theyll soon track down the informants & murder them. That is unless the FBI can find them first but without knowing exactly who is on the list they must keep the operation quiet. Once again Vail is their man. Hes the ideal candidate for this kind of stealth recon mission. It soon becomes clear that finding Calculus & his list of traitors isnt going to be quick or quiet. In fact its going to be downright deadly! ...

Douglas Adams genius was in using comedy to make serious points about the world
- Independent". After years of reflecting
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Thirteen-year-old Johnny Merrimon has to face things no boy his age should face. In the year since his twin sisters abduction his world has fallen apart: his father has disappeared & his fragile mother is spiralling into ever deeper despair. Johnny keeps strong. Armed with a map a bike & a flashlight he stalks the bad men of Raven County. The police might have given up on Alyssa; he never will. Someone somewhere knows something theyre not telling. Only one person looks out for Johnny. Detective Clyde Hunt shares his obsession with the case. But when Johnny witnesses a hit-&-run & insists the victim was killed because hed found Alyssa even Hunt thinks hes lost it. & then another young girl goes missing.. . ...

This is the Penguin English Library Edition" of " The Last Chronicle of Barset" by Anthony Trollope. " He is so scandalously weak & she is so radically vicious that they cannot but be wrong together. The very fact that such a man should be a bishop among us is to me terribly strong evidence of evil days coming". When Reverend Josiah Crawley the impoverished curate of Hogglestock is accused of theft it causes a public scandal sending shockwaves through the world of Barsetshire. The Crawleys desperately try to remain dignified while they are shunned by society but the scandal threatens to tear them & the community apart. Drawing on his own childhood experience of genteel poverty Trollope gives a painstakingly realistic depiction of the trials of a family striving to maintain its standards at all costs. With its sensitive portrayal of the proud & self-destructive figure of Crawley this final volume is the darkest & most complex of all the Barsetshire novels. " The Penguin English Library"
- 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War."
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It's the Discworld's last continent & it's going to die in a few days except... Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Sheep shearer beer drinker bush ranger & someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's sober. A man in a hat whose luggage follows him on little legs. Yes it's Rincewind the inept wizard who can't even spell wizard. He's the only hero left. Still...no worries eh? ...

Anything you do in the past changes the future. The tiniest little actions have huge consequences. You might tread on an ant now & it might entirely prevent someone from being born in the future.' There's nothing like the issue of evolution to get under the skin of academics. Especially when those same academics are by chance or bad judgement deposited at a critical evolutionary turning point when one wrong move could have catastrophic results for the future. Unfortunately in the hands of such an inept & cussed group of individuals the sensitive issue of causality is sadly only likely to receive the same scant respect that they show to one another... ...

LAPD detective Harry Bosch is down on his luck
- his house is condemned in the aftermath of the earthquake his girlfriend has left
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The Last Crusade puts the reader on da Gamas ships in the midst of a perplexing terrifying yet exciting new world & in doing so traces the ancestry of antagonism between the worlds two dominant faiths Christianity & Islam. In 1498 a young captain sailed from Portugal circumnavigated Africa crossed the Indian Ocean & discovered the sea route to the Indies opening up access to the fabled wealth of the East. It was the longest voyage known to history; the ships were pushed to their limits their crews were racked by storms & devastated by disease. However the greatest enemy was neither nature nor the fear of venturing into unknown worlds. With blood-red Crusader crosses emblazoned on their sails the explorers arrived in the heart of the Muslim East at a time when the old hostilities between Christianity & Islam had intensified. In two voyages that spanned six years Vasco da Gama would fight a running sea battle that would ultimately change the fate of three continents. The Last Crusade is an epic tale of spies intrigue & treachery; of bravado brinkmanship & confused
- often comical collisions
- between cultures encountering one another for the first time. With the world once again tipping back East The Last Crusade offers a key to understanding age-old religious & cultural rivalries resurgent today.

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The Last Crusaders is about the titanic contest between Hadsburg-led Christendom & the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth & sixteenth centuries the last great conflict between East & West
- the battles that were fought & the men who led the armies that fought them. It was in its way the first world war.
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