Midnight is a young man who was born into a wealthy & politically influential Islamic African family in the Sudan. Sent to the United States with his pregnant mother as a small boy to escape an attack on his fathers empire Midnight learns to survive on the streets of Brooklyn while never forgetting his roots. As he grows to young manhood he must defend his family & their way of life all while they build a business & remain true to their beliefs. This is a story that has never been told before from a perspective that never gets heard. At the core of this global adventure are the universal themes of love manhood womanhood & family. With MIDNIGHT & THE MEANING OF LOVE Sister Souljah engages many of the most dominant themes of our time & does so with riveting intensity. A gorgeous storyteller a keen observer of world culture & religion she takes the story of one young mans journey & turns it into a journey of self-discovery for all readers. Souljah has created incredible characters that leap off the pages & stir your soul. Most importantly they are all unafraid to love. Truly Sister Souljah is the mother of all contemporary urban literature. ...

Loyal honest & above all principled. There is no finer detective in Victorian London than Thomas Pitt. It is 1896 & Thomas Pitt is in charge of Special Branch. He is beginning to understand the power he now commands but is still ill at ease at the glittering events he & his wife Charlotte must attend. During a lavish party at the Spanish Embassy a policeman breaks into Pitt's conversation with investor Rawdon Quixwood to break the terrible news that Quixwood's wife Catherine has been viciously assaulted at their home & left for dead. Worse still it appears that the assailant was someone she had trusted as she opened the door to the attacker herself. At the same party Charlotte sees Angeles Castelbranco an ambassador's daughter flinch in fear at the teasing of some young men. A few days later Angeles flees from the same group & in her terror falls from a window
- what could have caused her to take that fatal step? Pitt & his friend Victor Narraway vow to uncover the unspoken truth behind these two women's deaths. But as they investigate deception & violence get ever nearer & danger is only ever one step away...
...

He has resisted temptation for centuries
- until he meets someone whose heart is as frozen as his... With a dagger in her hand
...

One house holds a deadly secret.. . Ever since Declan Fitzgerald saw dilapidated Manet Hall on the outskirts of New Orleans hes been enchanted
- & obsessed
- by it. Determined to restore the rooms to their former splendour Declan begins the daunting renovation. But spending his days in total isolation in the empty house is taking its toll. Local legend has it that the house is haunted & Declan starts seeing visions of terrible grief & horror from long ago. With every day that passes the house tightens its hold. So when he meets the alluring Angelina Simone hes glad of the distraction. But Angelina has her own surprising connection to Manet Hall
- a connection that will help Declan uncover a secret thats been buried for a hundred years.. .


...

From the bestselling author of Along Came a Spider & Cat & Mouse a mesmerising tale of non-stop action & suspense. Already a bestseller in paperback -- now reissued in striking new cover style. Nobody knows the underbelly of the city like New York cop John Stefanovitch. Hes out to get Alexandre St-Germain the most powerful member of the Midnight Club -- a secret international society of ruthless crime czars all of whom are respectable businessmen. & Stefs the ideal man for the job -- until hes levelled by a blast from St-Germains shotgun & left for dead. Now Stef is back wheelchair-bound yet sworn to destroy St-Germain. With the help of a beautiful journalist & a Harlem cop Stef is determined to crack the Midnight Club. & hes up against odds that are as unknown as they are deadly! ...

For Billy Hayes 1970 was a horrifying year. It was the year when he tried to smuggle 4lbs of hashish from Istanbul back to his home in America. It was the year when he was arrested at Istanbul airport tried & sentenced to 30 years in a Turkish jail. For five years he suffered the filth brutality & degradation of imprisonment in an environment of hellish squalor while his family fought in vain to secure his release. Finally in desperation he made a daring escape bid & incredibly the bid succeeded. This is the astounding true story told in Billy Hayes's own words of those five years of living hell & of the harrowing ordeal of his time on the run. Vivid & realistic without being morbid it is a classic story of survival & human endurance told with humour intelligence & total honesty. ...

They called him Bane the Bastard
- though none said it to his face. Born of treachery his name a curse he grew up among the warriors
...

This is the first available unabridged audio book adaptation of a classic of childrens literature & the first of two adventures featuring Kay Harker. Life is very dull for orphan Kay under the discipline of his governess Miss Sylvia Daisy. But one night woken by Nibbins the cat he begins a magical quest to recover the long-lost Harker family treasure. But this treasure is also sought by the villainous Abner Brown using magic to pursue his evil ends. If Kay is to reach it first he will need all the help that he can get from...the midnight folk. Full of memorable characters & enjoyable twists & turns The Midnight Folk" has been called one of the greatest childrens books ever written." ...

Since his father died Charlie Bone has lived with his mother & her mother in the house of his other grandmother Grandma Bone. Looking at a picture of a couple with a baby & a cat he suddenly discovers he can hear their voices. Although he tries to hide his new gift Grandma Bone & her scary sisters soon find out & send him to Bloors Academy. Charlie quickly finds life at Bloors pretty tough with its strict rules & the malevolent head boy Manfred set against him. When Charlie discovers that the child in the photograph is being held hypnotised against her will he & his new friends with gifts try to awaken her. But can they overcome Manfreds sinister hypnotic gifts? ...

Tom would do anything not to have to stay on Aunt Millie's farm while his parents are away
- he likes the city & hates climbing
...