It is the year 5012 & the Milky Way galaxy is under attack. After the Universal War a war that almost brought about the destruction of every known universe the planets in the Milky Way banded together to create the Intergalactic Force
- an elite fighting team sworn to protect & defend the galaxy. Only the brightest & most promising students are accepted into the Intergalactic Force Academy & only the very best cadets reach the highest of their ranks & become.. .STAR FIGHTERS! Lethal Combat The crew of the Phoenix have escaped the dark planet & now need to complete their mission to return Prince Onix to his home planet
- without them knowing. But their plan is foiled & the Xions capture them soon after landing. They are asked to choose their punishment: 1) Be ejected into space in a pod that orbits Xion forever 2) 20 years hard labour in one of their mines 3) Fight the deadly Xio-bot. They choose to fight the Xio-bot. It's their only chance to make it back home again
- but no one has beaten it.. .yet.


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What would it take to make you a killer? One day a total stranger walks into your home & offers you $100k in cash. The only condition is that if you do someone will die. The twist is that person has killed before. Would you take the money? When hes not working for the government Donovan Creed ruthless assassin runs a special line in contract killings. Right now hes involved in a crazed social experiment but hes finding it hard to reconcile with his conscience... ...

When the police are called to a building on New Yorks Upper East Side Detective Mike Chapman & Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper respond quickly. A resident Tina Barr is alleged to have been assaulted but she refuses to co-operate with their enquiries. Within a day Alex & Chapman are back at the same building confronted with the body of a woman battered to death & with a mysterious jewel-encrusted book beside her. But the victim isnt Tina Barr & Tina has disappeared. The book is part of a rare collection at the New York Public Library & Alex & Chapman are plunged into the deadly world of the super-rich
- those who protect their fortunes & collections more carefully than other peoples lives.
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Would you let a child die if your family were threatened? When the government wants someone to disappear without a trace they put in a call to Donovan Creed. Creed is a man of many identities a ruthless assassin with access to all the technology that the military can offer. You dont want to take on Creed. But then again most dont even see him coming. When Creed meets an orphaned girl she reminds him of his own daughter & he swears to protect her from the men who killed her parents. But when his involvement becomes public knowledge amongst the criminal fraternity Creed & his family also become targets... ...

The prophesies were there.. .but no one listened. They are the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse & they have the power to usher in Doomsday.. .or prevent it. Eight months ago demon-slayer Regan Matthews seduced the fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse Thanatos. Now she's pregnant with his child
- a child who if prophecies are to believed is fated to save the world. But things aren't always as they appear & the baby conceived by two warriors may yet be the very catalyst that kicks off Armageddon. Thanatos who will be Death when his Seal breaks never thought he'd have a family but as he grows close to Regan & his unborn son he allows himself to dream. But as the world edges closer to the end of days & his evil brother plots against him Thanatos realises that the sacrifice he must make will destroy everything he dreamed of having.
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When a mummy in the Museum of Albion is unpacked it is found to contain a bundle of curious objects & documents which tell of the wanderings of an unknown woman Leto. On the run in a far-off era of civil strife Leto gives birth to twins shelters with wolves survives in a desert stronghold as the lover of its commander stows away on a ship loaded with plundered antiquities & then works as a maid in a war-torn city. She loses her son but saves her daughter during a long siege. As the novel sweeps from mythological times & the Middle Ages to the treasure-hunting of Victorian Europe & into the present day Leto reappears in different guises. Eventually she becomes a servant to a rock singer & begins to search for her son. ...

Ellie seems to have it all
- a loving & secure home wonderful friends & a great job as a chef in a Dublin hotel. She's also about
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Captivating & evocative Letter from a Stranger will take you on an unforgettable journey from idyllic Connecticut to exotic Istanbul to war-torn Berlin then back to the present day. When award-winning film maker Justine Nolan returns to her beautiful childhood home she is intrigued by an envelope she finds in her absent mother's post. But the letter inside contains a shocking revelation. If genuine it will change everything she believes about her family's recent history her mother & her adored grandmother Gabriele. With the support of her beloved twin brother Richard Justine resolves to uncover the truth. To do so she must travel to Istanbul
- the teeming beguiling city on the cusp of East & West. It is a place which holds its own secrets leading her to a fascinating man who appears to know more than he is prepared to disclose. Yet even when her quest succeeds Justine is faced with a further mystery: Gabriele's background is not what it seems. Justine is given a book of memories in which the real story unfolds taking her back to the darkest days of European history with its suffering & astonishing acts of bravery. At the heart of it lie the final facts of Gabriele's identity
- & her own. The letter from a stranger has brought her not only to the truth about her family but also a chance to heal the wounds of past betrayals to embrace a new love & new life.

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Captivating & evocative Letter from a Stranger will take you on an unforgettable journey from idyllic Connecticut to exotic Istanbul to war-torn Berlin then back to the present day. When award-winning film maker Justine Nolan returns to her beautiful childhood home she is intrigued by an envelope she finds in her absent mothers post. But the letter inside contains a shocking revelation. If genuine it will change everything she believes about her familys recent history her mother & her adored grandmother Gabriele. With the support of her beloved twin brother Richard Justine resolves to uncover the truth. To do so she must travel to Istanbul -- the teeming beguiling city on the cusp of East & West. It is a place which holds its own secrets leading her to a fascinating man who appears to know more than he is prepared to disclose. Yet even when her quest succeeds Justine is faced with a further mystery: Gabrieles background is not what it seems. Justine is given a book of memories in which the real story unfolds taking her back to the darkest days of European history with its suffering & astonishing acts of bravery. At the heart of it lie the final facts of Gabrieles identity -- & her own. The letter from a stranger has brought her not only to the truth about her family but also a chance to heal the wounds of past betrayals to embrace a new love & new life. ...

Alastair Cookes Letter from America: 1946-2004" is a defining collection from his legendary BBC Radio broadcasts that guides us through nearly sixty years of changing life in the United States. Alistair Cookes " Letter from America" interpreted nearly sixty years of changing US life for the rest of the world. Covering key moments from the assassination of Kennedy through Vietnam & Watergate to September 11 Iraq & anticipating the 2004 elections this book provides a defining collection of Letters from his legendary BBC Radio 4 broadcasts. Encompassing portraits of the great & the good from Charlie Chaplin to Martin Luther King & topics as varied as civil rights golf jazz & the changing colours of a New England fall each Letter contributes a captivating portrait of a nation
- & of a man. " Cooke was the special relationship". (" Daily Mail"). " Such experience wisdom & education are unlikely ever again to combine in one journalist". (Mark Lawson). " There is never going to be anyone else like Cooke a chronicler of amazing times". (" Daily Telegraph"). " The range of Cookes experiences was awesome but he always had the personal touch". (Jeremy Vine). " No one else succeeded in explaining to the English-speaking world.. .the idiosyncrasies of a country at once so familiar & yet so utterly foreign". (" Independent"). Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) enjoyed an extraordinary life in print radio & television. " The Guardians" Senior Correspondent in New York for twenty-five years & the host of groundbreaking cultural programmes on American television & of the BBC series America Cooke was however best known both at home & abroad for his weekly BBC broadcast " Letter from America" which reported on fifty-eight years of US life was heard over five continents & totalled 2 869 broadcasts before his retirement in February 2004 far & away the longest-running radio series in broadcasting history."
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