The tale of an outsider told from the inside. It speaks to the resilience of the human spirit. Cadence Roth holds the world record of shortest woman & is trying to renew her failed acting career Maupin narrates the story through Cadences journal entries. ...

Maybe This Christmas...? Christmas Eve always reminds Gemma of her husband paediatrician Andy Baxter. It was the day she first fell in love & also the day her heart broke. But now her tiny niece needs urgent medical care & the only man she trusts is Andy. Will this be the Christmas that finally brings them back together? A Doctor A Fling & A Wedding Ring As she escapes the African plains for a luxury cruise liner romance couldnt be further from Dr Tara Mc Williams emotionally scarred mind...even if gorgeous cocktail waiter Nick Fender leaves her shaken & stirred! Nicks the ultimate goodtime guy but hes hiding demons (and a certificate in medicine!) of his own. & soon neither is sure how their holiday fling has spun so out of control... ...

Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean a missile strikes the Trans Flight 52 a supersonic passenger jet bound for Japan. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now defying both nature & man three survivors must achieve the impossible. Land the plane. From master story-teller Nelson De Mille & master pilot Thomas Block comes MAYDAY
- the classic American bestseller that packs a supersonic shock with every turn of the page the most terrifyingly realistic air disaster thriller you will ever read.
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Major Dirk Pitt picked up the frantic distress call as he cruised his lumbering amphibious plane over the islands of the Aegean. Brady Air Force base was under fire its entire force of jets destroyed on the ground.. .by just one First World War bi-plane! A psychotic ex-Nazi a bloodthirsty Greek strongman & a beautiful double agent set Pitt on the trail of the warped mastermind behind a devastating sabotage plot. & on that trail danger & death are never far behind.. . ...

Mayes' Midwifery" an established key textbook for students & qualified midwives contains essential knowledge for professional practice. For this 14th edition each section & chapter has been fully updated & enhanced by leading authors to ensure the text complies with contemporary practice & current guidelines. Added benefits are the availability of a variety of additional online resources for each chapter including case studies video & website links & a bank of multiple-choice questions to test knowledge. With a strong emphasis on normal birth the book covers the spectrum of midwifery-related topics applied to practice providing a foundation of knowledge & encouraging independent thought through the use of reflective exercises in each chapter & online. The book provides midwives with material that meets individual ways of learning & supports current modes of midwifery education. " Mayes' Midwifery" is the text for initial preparation & for ongoing midwifery practice." ...

When a rotting torso is discovered in the vault of New Scotland Yard it doesnt take Dr Thomas Bond Police Surgeon long to realise that there is a second killer at work in the city where only a few days before Jack the Ripper brutally murdered two women in one night. Though just as gruesome this is the hand of a colder killer one who lacks Jacks emotion. & as more headless & limbless torsos find their way into the Thames Dr Bond becomes obsessed with finding the killer. As his investigations lead him into an unholy alliance he starts to wonder: is it a man who has brought mayhem to the streets of London or a monster? ...

Dirty Bertie
- the boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits
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Kinjiro Sakamachi is a normal" seventeen-year-old boy who happens to suffer from an abnormal fear of women otherwise known as gynophobia. His phobia which surfaces as an occasional nosebleed has been kept more or less under control.. .until now. A fateful visit to the school bathroom turns Kinjiros world upside down as he discovers the dashing & popular Konoe Subaru is actually a girl!? Whats worse the principals cruel & domineering daughter Kanade Suzutsuki has every reason to keep this secret from leaking out & makes it her lifes work to torment Kinjiro while attempting to cure his gynophobia. Is Kanade simply sadistic or does she really want to help Kinjiro overcome his fears? It makes no difference to poor Kinjiro because his life has just become a living hell." ...

None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid & readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex the 'partly real partly dream country' he founded on his native Dorset it charts the rise & self-induced downfall of a single 'man of character'. The fast-moving & ingeniously contrived narrative is Shakespearian in its tragic force & features some of the author's most striking episodes & brilliant passages of description. ...

The woman is no good to me. Wholl have her? Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair & impulsively sells his wife Susan & baby daughter. Eighteen years later Susan & her daughter seek him out only to discover that he has become the most prominent man in Casterbridge. Henchard attempts to make amends for his youthful misdeeds but his unchanged impulsiveness clouds his relationships in love as well as his fortunes in business. Although Henchard is fated to be a modern-day tragic hero unable to survive in the new commercial world his story is also a journey towards love. This edition is the only critically established text of the novel based on a comprehensive study of the manuscript & Hardys extensive revisions. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...