1291 AD Acre. As the city burns under the onslaught of the Sultan's men the Falcon Temple sets sail carrying a small band of knights & a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Order's Grand Master. But the ship vanishes without a trace... Present day New York. At the Metropolitan Museum four horsemen dressed as Knights Templar storm the gala opening of an exhibition of Vatican treasures & in a brutal & bloody attack steal an arcane medieval decoder. For FBI agent Sean Reilly & archaeologist Tess Chaykin this is just the start of a deadly game of cat & mouse as they race across three continents in search of the ruthless killers
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Paris: The Knights Templar has been destroyed by Pope Clement having been persuaded by a jealous king that they are corrupt devil worshippers. There is one survivor
- a knight who swears vengeance. Devon: A charred body is discovered in a burned-out building
- general consensus is that it is an accidental death. However Sir Baldwin de Furnshill believes differently. As he & Simon Puttock the bailiff piece together the evidence they hear of a gruesome murder in a nearby village where the victim was clearly burned alive…

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The Number One bestselling crime series featuring Dr Tony Hill hero of TV's Wire in the Blood written by the award-winning Val Mc Dermid. The hunt for a serial killer leads from Britain through Europe in this terrifying psychological thriller. A twisted killer targeting psychologists has left a grisly trail across Europe. Dr Tony Hill expert at mapping the minds of murderers is reluctant to get involved. But then the next victim is much closer to home... Meanwhile his former partner DCI Carol Jordan is working undercover in Berlin on a dangerous operation to trap a millionaire trafficker. When the game turns nasty Tony is the only person she can call on for help. Confronting a cruelty that has its roots in Nazi atrocities Tony & Carol are thrown together in a world of violence & corruption where they have no one to trust but each other. ...

Darrell & her friends grow together as they share their school days. There are new students to induct sporting matches to be won tempers to control & tricks to play on teachers. This work presents stories about life at boarding school as readers follow the girls' lives through 6 years at Malory Towers. ...

Do you envy the suicide bombers their firm faith in life after death? Probably not: you think they are deluded. People in the west have quite recently lost all their old ideas about a Better World Hereafter. We now accept that we are already in the Last World the world with no further reality beyond it & that wed better live our life to the full while we have it. If so then what happens to the traditional problem of Christian origins? Jesus preached the arrival of the Last World & urged us to begin a new solar kind of living. His message was one of secular fulfilment. But the Apostolic Faith by raising him to the supernatural world took us all a whole dispensation back to the Penultimate World a world dominated by supernatural fears & hopes a world of watching & waiting under strict discipline. The new era announced by Jesus was thus aborted probably during the late 40s. But today we need not the New Testament message but a Last Testament for the Last World which is our world. Don Cupitt attempts some midwifery. It is time for the faith to be born properly & to become public property not a clerical monopoly. ...

Similar in style to Rebecca Elliotts highly acclaimed Zoo Girl (nominated for the 2012 Kate Greenaway Medal) this story warns of what the future might hold if we neglect our duty of care to our environment. In a world that has been destroyed by human carelessness a little boy discovers the last tiger. But where did he come from? Through their adventure together they rediscover a natural way of living & lead the world to a sustainable future. With striking illustrations crafted in ink line & collage this thoughtful yet uplifting picture book leaves a lasting impact. ...

When Olivia Berrington gets the call to tell her that her best friend from university has been killed in a car crash in New York her life is turned upside down. Her relationship with Sally was an exhilarating roller coaster until a shocking betrayal drove them apart. But if Sally really had turned her back why is her little girl named after Olivia? As questions mount about the fatal accident Olivia is forced to go back & unravel their tangled history. But as Sally's secrets start to spill out Olivia's left asking herself if the past is best kept buried. ...

Three children strangers to each other are brought together by seemingly motiveless & extreme acts of violence. Orphaned & alone they are taken in as students at Evensong a boarding school for emotionally traumatized children in the remote Maine wilderness. A PLACE OF SAFETY? Forensic pathologist Maura Isles already has a connection with the school
- Julian ' Rat' Perkins the 16-year-old boy she met during a previous case is now living there. But she suspects that the Evensong founders may be using the school for their own agenda. & her concerns grow when Detective Jane Rizzoli is asked to investigate yet another attempt on the life of one of the orphans at the school.. .OR A PLACE OF DANGER? What both Jane & Maura soon discover is that even a school protected by locked gates & acres of forest cannot shut out a gathering threat. When three blood-spattered twig dolls are found hanging from a tree they wonder if the threat comes from outside the school.. .or from within.
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Imagine you are an RAF torpedo pilot in World War Two sent on missions so dangerous that you're later likened to the Kamikaze. Suicide wasn't a recognised part of the objective for British airmen yet some pilots felt they had accepted certain death just by climbing into their cockpits. There were times in 1942 when Arthur Aldridge felt like this. At the age of 19 this courageous young man had quit his studies at Oxford to volunteer for the RAF. He flew his Bristol Beaufort like there was no tomorrow
- a realistic assumption after seeing his best friend die in flames at the end of 1941. Aldridge was awarded a DFC (Distinguished Flying Cross) for his bravery on the same strike on a German cargo ship during which he lost a wing tip by flying too close to the deck. He was equally lucky to survive his squadron's chaotic torpedo attack on the giants of Hitler's maritime fleet during the notorious Channel Dash. As 1942 wore on & the stress became intolerable Aldridge & his Cockney gunner Bill Carroll held their nerve & ' Arty' was awarded a Bar to his DFC for sinking two enemy ships off Malta & rescuing a fellow pilot while wounded. Malta was saved by the skin of its teeth Rommel denied vital supplies in North Africa & the course of the war was turned. Aldridge was still only 21 years old. Now both 91 but firm friends as ever Aldridge & Carroll are two of the last torpedo airmen who deserve their place in history alongside our heroic Spitfire pilots. Their story vividly captures the comradeship that existed between men pushed by war to their very limit.
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From the bestselling Irish novelist here comes a sweeping tale of consequences that spans from the 1930s to the 1990s. Last Train from Liguria" takes us on a journey from claustrophobic Dublin & the tense formality of London to the heat & bustle of the pre-war Italian Riviera. This is a must-read for fans of books by Rose Tremain & Helen Dunmore. In 1933 Bella Stuart leaves her quiet London life to move to Italy to tutor the child of a beautiful Jewish heiress & an elderly Italian aristocrat. Living at the familys summer home Bellas reserve softens as she comes to love her young charge & find friendship with Maestro Edward his enigmatic music teacher. But as the decade draws to an end & fascism tightens its grip on Europe the fact that Alec is Jewish places his life in grave danger. Bella & Edward take the boy on a terrifying train journey out of Italy
- one they have no reason to believe any of them will survive..."
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