Would the real Lucia Acosta please stand up? Fun-loving & feisty Lucia Acosta was the girl everybody wanted at their party. With her sultry South American looks she captured every mans attention. One terrible secret later a paler quieter Lucias gone from owning the dance floor to cleaning it when a ghost from parties past walks in... Luke Forster would recognise those curves anywhere
- he grew up hypnotised by them! But as his best friends little sister she was strictly off-limits. Hes shocked to see her fallen so low but relieved her prides still intact! The real Lucia Acosta is still in there somewhere & hes the man to tempt her out...I think I must be Susans biggest fan; I cant get enough of her books!
- Ruth Web Developer Brighton

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Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels from Starter to Advanced this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. A plane crashes in the middle of the desert in Oman leaving a pilot & his family hurt & stranded. The pilot begins a journey across the desert to get help but collapses from exhaustion. He is found & taken to a nearby hospital but he is unconscious & no one has any idea who he is or where he has come from. Meanwhile time is running out for his wife & son who are waiting in the desert for help to arrive. Paperback-only version. Also available with Audio CD including complete text recordings from the book. ...

It is just before the outbreak of World War I & Britain must enlist the aide of Russia. Czar Nicholass nephew is to visit London for secret naval talks with Lord Walden who has lived in Russia & has a Russian wife Lydia. But there are other people who are interested in the arrival of Prince Alexei: the Waldens only daughter Charlotte -- willful idealistic & with an awakening social conscience; Basil Thompson head of the Special Branch; & above all Feliks Kschessinky the ruthless Russian anarchist. No one could have foretold that Lydia should recognize Feliks or that she might put her own daughters life at risk for his sake. As the secret negotiations progress the destinies of these characters become ineluctably enmeshed. & as Europe prepares for the catastrophe of war the final private tragedy which will shatter the complacency of the Waldens is acted out. ...

The man from the land of Fandango is coming to pay you a call! He wears a hat with a tassel & a polka-dot tie
- & he juggles &
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Fearless & charismatic Angie Masters is on a man hunt. While attending the prestigious Hotel Training Academy the attractive & dominant director of the institute
- James Steele
- catches her eye. But she soon realises shes taken on more than she bargained for. Steele has an equally predatory sexuality as well as a penchant for erotic punishment. By seducing a fellow student Angie is able to sexually torment Steele. But Angie has a rival
- the luscious Italian Isabella who is prepared to do anything to please him. A battle of wills ensues featuring catfights orgies & triumph for either Angie or Isabella. Who will be the victor?


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Ten years ago The Bonfire of the Vanities" defined an era
- & established Tom Wolfe as the prime fictional chronicler of America
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Mark Smith is the Man in Seat Sixty-One. Although this might make him sound like a fictional spy he is in fact the man behind the massively popular www.seat 61.com website which offers invaluable advice on worldwide train travel. This book is the essential guide for anyone who wishes to travel to Europe & beyond by train. Packed with insider knowledge & top tips it offers advice on everything from the quickest routes & the cheapest fares to the best weekends away; travelling with children & changing trains; timetables & maps; essential items to travel with; & everything in between. More & more people are choosing to avoid air travel & seek alternatives & this is the only book they need to plan those journeys. ...

Mark Smith is the Man in Seat Sixty-One. Although this might make him sound like a fictional spy he is in fact the man behind the massively popular seat 61.com website which offers invaluable advice on worldwide train travel. Following on from the success of The Man in Seat 61" which took travellers around Europe by train this book covers international train travel around Africa Asia the Americas & Australasia. Focusing on affordable international travel by scheduled trains not just deluxe tourist services this book is packed with insider knowledge & top tips on the best routes & cheapest fares; travelling with children & changing trains; timetables & maps; essential items to travel with; & everything in between. More & more people are choosing to avoid air travel & seek alternatives & this is the only book they need for environmentally friendly journeys around the world." ...

A young woman investigates an accidental death at a London tube station & finds herself of a ship bound for South Africa! Pretty young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact adventure comes looking for her -- & finds her immediately at Hyde Park Corner tube station. Anne is present on the platform when a thin man reeking of mothballs loses his balance & is electocuted on the rails. The Scotland Yard verdict is accidental death. But Anne is not satisfied. After all who was the man in the brown suit who examined the body? & why did he race off leaving a cryptic message behind: 17-122 Kilmorden Castle? ...

A dazzling speculative novel of counterfactual history from one of Americas most highly-regarded science fiction authors Philip K. Dicks The Man in the High Castle"

Includes:: an introduction by Eric Brown in " Penguin Modern Classics". Philip K. Dicks acclaimed cult novel gives us a horrifying glimpse of an alternative world
- one where the Allies have lost the Second World War. In this nightmare dystopia the Nazis have taken over New York the Japanese control California & the African continent is virtually wiped out. In a neutral buffer zone in America that divides the worlds new rival superpowers lives the author of an underground bestseller. His book offers a new vision of reality
- an alternative theory of world history in which the Axis powers were defeated
- giving hope to the disenchanted. Does reality lie with him or is his world just one among many others? Philip Kindred Dick (1928-82) was born in Chicago in 1928. His career as a science fiction writer comprised an early burst of short stories followed by a stream of novels typically character studies incorporating androids drugs & hallucinations. His best works are generally agreed to be " The Man in the High Castle" & " Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" the inspiration for the movie " Blade Runner". If you enjoyed " The Man in the High Castle" you might like Yevgeny Zamyatins " We" also available in " Penguin Classics". " The most brilliant science fiction mind on any planet". (" Rolling Stone"). " Dicks finest book & one of the very best science fiction novels ever published". (Eric Brown)."




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