Journalist Philip Dryden is shocked to be informed by police that his father has been killed in a car accident
- he drowned during
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Nevada USA. Fourteen-year-old twins Jamie & Scott Tyler are performing a mind-reading act in a dingy theatre. But when a sinister multinational corporation Nightrise kidnaps Scott Jamie is left alone
- & wanted for murder. He becomes embroiled in a corrupt presidential campaign & breaks into the American prison system before being propelled ten thousand years into the past where he encounters the other Gatekeepers & witnesses the creation of Ravens Gate
- & the first fateful battle against the Old Ones.

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Is Sophie Fevvers toast of Europes capitals part swan.. .or all fake? Courted by the Prince of Wales & painted by Toulouse-Lautrec she is an aerialiste extraordinaire & star of Colonel Kearneys circus. She is also part woman part swan. Jack Walser an American journalist is on a quest to discover the truth behind her identity. Dazzled by his love for her & desperate for the scoop of a lifetime Walser has no choice but to join the circus on its magical tour through turn-of-the-nineteenth-century London St Petersburg & Siberia. ...

Two fragile people. One desperate second chance. Reeling & desolate Adrienne Willis needs space to rethink her life after her husband leaves her for a younger woman. Fleeing everything she jumps at the chance to look after her friends guesthouse in the coastal town of Rodanthe North Carolina. But there is a storm heading for Adrienne in more ways than she can imagine. Stranded & isolated as the weather closes in Adrienne has only one guest: Paul Flanner a man running from his own shattered past. Taking refuge Paul & Adrienne have only each other to turn to. Against all the odds their one weekend sets in motion feelings that will resonate through the rest of their lives. ...

David Munro has everything a man could want
- a beautiful wife two adoring daughters a top academic position & a circle of devoted
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She can control her pack but not her heart.. .I wanted him to kiss me-wished he could smell the desire that I knew was pouring off me. You cant Calla. This boy isnt the one for you. Calla Tor has always known her destiny: graduation marriage & then a life leading her pack. But when she defies her masters laws to save a human boy she must choose. Is one boy worth losing everything? ...

In Jack Nightingale's world
- where reality & the occult collide
- sometimes the only way to fight evil is with evil. A farmer

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Chris Yates one of Britains most insightful & lyrical writers raises his gaze from his beloved rivers & ponds & takes us on a mesmerizing tour of the British countryside. Last November the sudden appearance of a hundred wintering ravens in a wood in Cranborne Chase where I have lived for twenty-five years without seeing more than a few solitary specimens reminded me that there is always something ready to flame up again in the landscape just when it seemed the fire had gone out." In Nightwalk we accompany Chris Yates on the most magical of journeys into the very heart of the British countryside. His acute observation of the natural world & ability to transcend it exquisitely sets Chris apart from his contemporaries. Time slows down for a deeper intimacy with nature & through Chriss writing we hear every rustle of a leaf every call of a bird. He widens the power of our imagination heightening our senses & revealing beauty in the smallest details." ...

In the ultimate showdown between light & darkness who will triumph? All her life Takala hoped to find the mother whod abandoned her. But shed never expected the woman to be a shadowy double agent in the underworld. Nor did she anticipate falling for the very vampire who wanted her mother destroyed. Like his name Striker was ruthless...and the sexiest thing Takala had ever seen. Her white-magic & her willpower were defenceless against him. But Takala didnt know the long-dead passion she roused in him could kill her. For centuries Striker had denied himself human blood but now Takala had resurrected that bloodlust...and only hers would satisfy him... ...

This is the fifth edition of this established introduction to astronomy but the first edition with UK specific content. With more than 275 000 copies in print since its initial publication Nightwatch has become the standard reference guide to stargazers around the world. Terence Dickinson covers all the problems beginners face starting with the fact that the night sky does not look the way a modern-city dweller expects. He discusses light pollution how to choose binoculars & telescopes how to pronouce the names of stars & constellations telescope mounts averted vision & why the Harvest Moon looks especially bright. Most of the photographs are taken by amatuers which gives the section on astrophotography a particularly inspirational gleam. The deep-sky star charts are incredibly comprehensive & all the tables of dates & times of future solar & lunar eclipses planetary conjunctions & planet locations have been updated through to the year 2018. One of the best handbooks for the wannabe astronomer. Dr. Tim OBrien senior lecturer in astrophysics at Jodrell Bank Observatory. ...