Were all familiar with the trials & tribulations of the current British Royal Family but there are more than 25 royal families that still wield power in the world today from Japan & Thailand to Saudi Arabia & Scandinavia. The crown prince of Q&A Doug Lennox is at it again this time with a cornucopia of facts & frivolities about the escapades excesses & extravagances of the worlds monarchies past & present. From betrayal & beheadings to pageantry & privilege discover the truth about life behind the castle walls. Which wife of Englands Henry VIII had six fingers on one hand? What royal connection does Thomas Crapper inventor of the flush toilet have? What is the royal residence in Monaco known as? What royal family in the world today has ruled the longest? Who was the Hammer of the Scots"? Why are members of royal families said to have "blue blood"? Which member of the British royal family competed at the Olympics? Where did the word czar come from? What did Marie Antoinette say before she was executed?" ...

A successful lawyer & loving mother Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York
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Is Jack back? More cunning more illusive & ready to play new games.. .A savage murder on Londons streets 120 years to the day since Jack the Ripper claimed his first victim. A crime with all the hallmarks of a copycat killer. Detective Constable Lacey Flint has never worked a murder case. Now she must outwit a brilliant psychopath whose infamous role model has never been found. When the murderer claims another victim Lacey agrees to be the bait to lure out the monster. But this killer is already one step ahead & fixated on Lacey... ...

With his richly praised sequence of novels featuring Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick John Harvey created not only an unforgettable character of great depth & complexity but a realistic & richly peopled inner-city world of struggling heroes & feckless villains. A woman is beaten; a charred body is found in a warehouse: another 4 a.m. call for Charlie Resnick. Gathered together in Nows The Time are twelve short stories featuring Resnick including a new story written especially for this edition. Billies Blues reunites Resnick with the troubled & beautiful Eileen former stripper & mistress of a gangland boss & now on the run & in fear for her life. From old foes to upstart pretenders the city & the jazz-soaked night-time world of Charlie Resnick come vividly to life. ...

Nowhere is a fast-paced conspiracy thriller by debut author Jon Robinson. ' No one's coming for us. Not our families not the police. No one.' Alyn Jes Ryan & Elsa are Nowhere. A concrete cube in the middle of a dense forest. Imprisoned inside are one hundred teenagers from all over the country. They're all criminals. But none of them remember committing any crimes. Who has put them there. What do their captors want? & how will they ever break free...? An intensely gripping conspiracy thriller for 11+ readers. A phenomenal debut novel for readers who love Jason Bourne & Alex Scarrow. Jon Robinson was born in Middlesex in 1983. When he's not writing he works for a charity in central London. Nowhere is his debut novel. ...

Theyre above the law & theyre watching her every move...A compulsively readable thriller perfect for fans of Mark Billingham & Peter Robinson. The lines between good & bad are indistinguishable... On the North Wales coast two people traffickers are brutally murdered; a drug dealer is mown down in inner-city Stockport & in a remote Pennine cottage a police informant is shot dead. Seemingly random these murders are the work of one professional hitman. Reluctantly Marie Donovan takes on another undercover role & finds herself working with DI Jack Brennan a high-flying detective with a tarnished career. Soon mistrustful of each other & their superiors both begin to suspect that they are mere pawns in a complex game of criminal rivalry & police corruption. As Marie struggles to uncover the truth she realises that nothing is as it seems. With every move she draws the threat ever closer until ultimately the killer is watching Marie herself. Out on her own she finds herself with no friends no-one to trust & nowhere to hide. ...

Joe Picketts in his last week as the temporary game warden in the town of Baggs Wyoming but there have been strange things going on in the mountains & his conscience wont let him leave without checking them out: reports of camps looted tents slashed elk butchered. & then theres the runner who simply vanished one day. Joe doesnt mind admitting that the farther he rides the more he wishes he could just turn around & go home. & he is right to be concerned. Because what awaits him is like nothing hes ever dealt with like something out of an old story except this is all too real & too deadly. When hed first saddled up hed thought of this as his last patrol. What he hadnt known was just how accurate that thought might turn out to be. ...

The New Revised Standard Version is a thorough revision of the Revised Standard Version of 1952 itself a revision of the 1611 King James Version. Its aim is to be as literal as possible as free as necessary. Widely used in academic circles as well as churches the NRSV takes full advantage of recent scholarship. This edition contains the Apocrypha or Deuterocanonical Books in a convenient text format with translation footnotes. The Apocrypha are documents written around the same time as the books of the Old & New Testaments but not accepted as canonical. They are essential background reading for anyone studying the Bible particularly the inter-testamental period. ...

This title deals with Bespoke training programmes that is designed to meet the specific needs of individual athletes. NSCAs Guide to Program Design" presents the most up-to-date information guidance & protocols from respected scientists & practitioners in strength & conditioning programme design. Developed by the National Strength & Conditioning Association (NSCA) this text offers strength & conditioning professionals a scientific basis for developing training programmes for specific athletes at specific times of the year. The fitness safety & performance of athletes reflect the importance of continued education in the science of strength & conditioning. "NSCAs Guide to Program Design" helps bridge the gap between scientist & practitioner by providing coaches & other strength & conditioning professionals with evidence-based information & applications. "NSCAs Guide to Program Design" is part of the " Science of Strength & Conditioning" series." ...

This is the first softbound edition of this indispensable resource for Dutch-speaking students of English & for English-speaking students of Dutch. It's scope is comprehensive with 30 000 entries divided between the two languages & its style is practical with current spellings & concise definitions in an accessible format. It also

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