Colleen Stan was a sweet-natured lively twenty-year-old when she set out to hitchhike from her home in Washington to Southern California. Seven years later she emerged from hell the victim of a bizarre & chilling crime. Cameron & Janice Hooker had literally made her their slave
- & forced her to endure all of Cameron's twisted sexual perversions. During these seven years the Hookers had two children entertained their friends at home & held down jobs
- while Colleen was held captive in a coffin-like box under their bed. This is also the story of Christine Mc Guire a young inexperienced deputy district attorney who prosecuted Cameron Hooker for kidnapping & successfully explained why Colleen
- who had numerous chances to escape
- stayed captive for so many years.



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Perfect Wedding Speeches & Toasts is an invaluable guide to preparing & delivering unforgettable speeches. Covering everything from advice on mastering your nerves to tips about how to make a real impact it walks you through every aspect of preparing for the big day & speaking in public. Whether you're the father of the bride the bride herself the groom or the best man Perfect Wedding Speeches & Toasts will help make sure your speech goes off without a hitch. The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear & straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-&-tested tips each book contains all you need to get it right first time. ...

Chartered accountant Harold Eastwood conventionally minded chances to meet Alec Goodrich on the train travelling first-class with a third-class ticket. Alec is a best-selling novelist. He soon finds Harolds knowledge of income tax allowances useful & when Alec pays a visit to the accountant his wife Isabel who yearns for culture & literature quickly takes up the fantasy to be his mistress. However not she but Irma the Austrian barmaid at the tavern has caught Alecs wayward fancy... ...

Perfect Written English is an indispensable guide to mastering grammar & improving your writing style. Written by Chris West a professional author & writing consultant it tells you everything you need to know about writing fluently & convincingly from the correct way to use commas to the most persuasive structure for an argument. With helpful tips on avoiding common mistakes & practical sections on writing everything from personal webpages to corporate sales reports Perfect Written English has all you need to make sure you get your message across elegantly & effectively. The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear & straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-&-tested tips each book contains all you need to get it right first time. ...

The new novel from Patrick Gale author of Richard & Judy-bestseller ' Notes from an Exhibition returning readers to his beloved Cornish coastline. ' Do you need me to pray for you now for a specific reason? 'I m going to die. ' We re all going to die. Does dying frighten you? 'I mean I m going to kill myself. When 20-year-old Lenny Barnes paralysed in a rugby accident commits suicide in the presence of Barnaby Johnson the much-loved priest of a West Cornwall parish the tragedy's reverberations open up the fault-lines between Barnaby & his nearest & dearest
- the gulfs of unspoken sadness that separate them all. Across this web of relations scuttles Barnaby's repellent nemesis
- a man as wicked as his prey is virtuous. Returning us to the rugged Cornish landscape of ' Notes from an Exhibition Patrick Gale lays bare the lives & the thoughts of a whole community & asks us: what does it mean to be good?

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A Perfectly Imperfect Match Jared Winterset is not in the market for a wife...until he's thrown together with beautiful violinist Elizabeth. Soon they are enjoying themselves way too much but Elizabeth isn't sure it will last & Jared thinks their relationship is just fun. But they're about to learn that in a real love match both players can win... To Have the Doctor's Baby Nick Damian paediatric surgeon extraordinaire was stunned to see his beloved exwife Ryleigh Evans in his office. She thought he'd be the perfect person to father the baby she longed to have & it was the deal of a lifetime for Nick. He'd let Ryleigh slip out of his arms once before. It wasn't a mistake he would make a second time! ...

This is the second book in the Small Blue thing trilogy. Still recovering from her earlier brush with death Alexs source of strength & comfort is Callum still locked in a sad half-life after drowing in the river Fleet that flows into the Thames. & she needs all the strength & comfort she can get: someone is out to make her life a misery & someone is out to get hold of the extraordinary bracelet that enables her to communicate with Callum. ...

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- full of fresh ingredients simple to throw together when you're short of time & packed with nutrient-rich
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Performance" sizzles with the electric charge that passes between a great photographer & an incandescent artist when they share a purpose & a passion. The photographer Richard Avedon had in his own words a passion for high-definition performance & a faith in the religion of perpetual acceleration. Or as critic John Lahr says of Avedon He was ravished by the articulate energy of great performers. The preeminent stars & artists of the performing arts from the second half of the twentieth century offered Avedon their greatest gifts
- & sometimes their inner lives. More than two hundred of them are portrayed in " Performance" many in photographs that have rarely or never been seen before. Of course the great stars light the way: Hepburn & Chaplin Monroe & Garland Brando & Sinatra. But here too are the actors & comedians pop stars & divas musicians & dancers artists in all mediums with public lives that were & are essentially performances. The celebrated author & critic John Lahr offers an elegant assessment of Avedons achievement. Four supremely talented artists from the performing arts
- Mike Nichols Andre Gregory Mitsuko Uchida & Twyla Tharp
- contribute lively & moving memoirs about their collaborations with Avedon. Finally " Performance" is a remarkable achievement in book-making from its innovative portfolio binding to the superb quality of its printing."


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Released in 1970 Performance starred James Fox Mick Jagger & Anita Pallenberg. Chas a violent & psychotic East London gangster needs a place to lie low after a hit that should never have been carried out. He finds the perfect cover in the form of guest house run by the mysterious Mr Turner a one-time rock superstar who is looking for the right spark to rekindle his faded talent. A thorough analysis of the making of the film featuring original interviews with those involved. How Performance came about & the involvement of key players such as James Fox who journeyed into the criminal underworld & how real gangsters were involved in the research for the film. Reveals how Marlon Brando was originally considered for the role of Chas. The various conflicts & intrigues that arose during filming how the film was edited the censorship pressures the unseen footage & how it eventually made its way to the big screen. Critical reaction to the film & how it turned into a cult classic. An overview of the careers to date of directors Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roag. ...