I turned to Luke & reached for him. My blood felt as though it had seized up in my veins. Lanny what is it?" Luke asked. I clutched his lapel desperately " It's Adair. He's free". For 200 years she's been hiding. He gave her immortality. She tried to destroy him. Now he is searching for her. They must not meet. Or there will be a reckoning." ...

Nobody expected Dru Anderson to survive this long. Not Graves. Not Christophe. Not even Dru herself. She's battled killer zombies jealous djamphirs & bloodthirsty suckers straight out of her worst nightmares. But now that Dru has bloomed into a full-fledged svetocha
- rare beautiful & toxic to all vampires
- the worst is yet to come. Because getting out alive is going to cost more than she's ever imagined. & in the end is survival really worth the sacrifice?

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I turned to Luke & reached for him. My blood felt as though it had seized up in my veins. Lanny what is it?" Luke asked. I clutched his lapel desperately " It's Adair. He's free." For 200 years she's been hiding He gave her immortality. She tried to destroy him. Now he is searching for her. They must not meet. Or there will be a Reckoning." ...

This is the original vampire romance: go back to where the bloodlust began! Mary Seward thought she had escaped the darkness of Transylvania. But now back in England she has terrible nightmares fears the darkness & sees vampires everywhere. When a strange virus weakens her father Mary suspects that there's a far more sinister force at work. Then Mary's worst nightmare comes true: Quincey Harker heir to Dracula's bloodline appears in Engl&. He declares his eternal love for her & claims he has renounced his evil heritage. But is he telling the truth? Can his lust for blood be so easily forsaken? The first temptation is never the strongest... ...

Gerd Gigerenzer's Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty" illustrates how we can learn to make sense of statistics & turn ignorance into insight. However much we want certainty in our lives it feels as if we live in an uncertain & dangerous world. But are we guilty of wildly exaggerating the chances of some unwanted event happening to us? Are we misled by our ignorance of the reality of risk? Far too many of us argues Gerd Gigerenzer are hampered by our own innumeracy while statistics are often presented to us in highly confusing ways. With real world examples such as the incidence of errors in tests for breast cancer or HIV or in DNA fingerprinting & the manipulation of statistics for evidence in court he shows that our difficulty in thinking about numbers can easily be overcome. " Indispensable... The book will change the attentive reader's way of looking at the world". (" Sunday Telegraph"). " An important book.. .the reader is presented with a powerful set of tools for understanding statistics.. .anyone who wants to take responsibility for their own medical choices should read it". (" New Scientist"). " Gigerenzer makes clear thinking easier". (" Evening Standard"). " More than ever citizens need to know how to evaluate risk... This book should be pressed into the palms of". (" Independent"). Gerd Gigerenzer is Director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior & Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin & former Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. He has published two academic books on heuristics " Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart" & " Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox" as well as a popular science book " Gut Feelings: Short Cuts to Better Decision Making"." ...

Ex-special forces soldier Nick Stone is recuperating in Switzerl&. His latest mission cost the life of one of his closest friends. & the woman he went to bed with last night has left without saying goodbye. When she fails to reappear Stone begins his quest to find her. Once in Africa & in the heart of a very dirty Congo war it isn't long before the past comes knocking on the door. One bloody twist leads to another & Stone finds himself catapulted into the dark brutal world he thought he's managed to leave behind. ...

Catherine Harrison & Becky Tate daughters of Charlotte Lucas & Mr. Collins grew up in the shadow of Rosings Park domain of the formidable Lady Catherine de Bourgh; but as adults their paths have diverged dramatically. When a catastrophe at Rosings Park brings Becky back to visit her sister the two clash over their aspirations for the marriage of Catherines young daughter & both women are forced to confront the ghosts of their past
- in particular Lady Catherines cruelty & deception. As the shocking truth emerges the Darcy & Bingley families rally. But is it too late for the sisters to find the love & happiness they were denied so long ago?
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Single mother & lawyer Kate Baron is in the meeting of her career when she is interrupted by a telephone call. Her daughter Amelia has just been suspended from her exclusive prep school. When Kate eventually arrives at Grace Hall an hour later she is greeted by the news that no mother ever wants to hear. A grieving Kate can't accept that her daughter would kill herself. But she soon discovers she didn't know Amelia quite as well as she thought. Who are the friends she kept what are the secrets she hid? & so begins an investigation which takes her deep into Amelia's private world
- & into the mind of a troubled young girl. Then Kate receives an anonymous text: AMELIA DIDN'T JUMP. Is someone toying with her or has she been right all along? To find the truth about her daughter Kate must now face a darker reality than she could ever have imagined.
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The history of the Guinea Pig Club the band of airmen who were seriously burned in aeroplane fires is a truly inspiring spine-tingling tale. Plastic surgery was in its infancy before the Second World War. The most rudimentary techniques were only known to a few surgeons worldwide. The Allies were tremendously fortunate in having the maverick surgeon Archibald Mc Indoe
- nicknamed the Boss or the Maestro
- operating at a small hospital in East Grinstead in the south of Engl&. Mc Indoe constructed a medical infrastructure from scratch. After arguing with his superiors he set up a revolutionary new treatment regime. Uniquely concerned with the social environment or holistic care Mc Indoe also enlisted the help of the local civilian population. He rightly secured his group of patients
- dubbed the Guinea Pig Club
- an honoured place in society as heroes of Britains war. For the first time official records have been used to explain fully how & why this remarkable relationship developed between the Guinea Pig Club the RAF & the Home Front. First-person recollections bring to life the heroism of the airmen with incredible clarity.



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Updated editions to the bestselling series. They have been completely redesigned in colour.

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