On 12 CDs. Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender & the mother of a vicious & diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out
- she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings including the slaughter of a Savannah family years earlier. She can see a pattern to these killings but who is behind them & why?
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Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender & the mother of a vicious & diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out
- she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings including the slaughter of a Savannah family years earlier. She can see a pattern to these killings but who is behind them & why? As she learns more Scarpetta is compelled to conclude that this is only the beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of conspiracy & potential terrorism on an international scale. & she is the only one who can stop it...
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As Hitlers forces smash into Soviet territory annihilating the Red Army divisions in its path a lone German scout plane is forced down. Contained within the briefcase of its passenger is the seemingly inconsequential painting of a hyalophoria cecropia otherwise known as a red moth. Military Intelligence dismisses the picture as insignificant but in the state of emergency Stalin suspects a German plot. He summons his old adversary Inspector Pekkala
- the elusive Finn who was once Tsar Nicholas IIs personal detective
- to discover the real significance of this strange wartime cargo. As the storm gathers around them Pekkala together with his assistant from the shadowy Bureau of Special Operations soon find themselves on the path of the most formidable art thieves in history. Those real target is a secret & prized possession of the Romanovs once considered to be the eighth wonder of the world. But as the Soviet Union crumbles in the face of the advancing cataclysm & the chaos of war is everywhere Pekkala realizes that to protect the Tsars treasure he must break through enemy lines. His desperate mission is to outfox the German invaders or face the wrath of Stalin himself.

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The story of a remarkable boy called Yann Margoza; Tetu the dwarf his friend & mentor; Sido unloved daughter of a foolish Marquis; & Count Kalliovski Grand Master of a secret society who has half the aristocracy in thrall to him & wants Yann dead. Yann is spirited away to London but three years later when Paris is gripped by the bloody horrors of the Revolution he returns charged with two missions: to find out Kalliovskis darkest deeds & to save Sido from the guillotine. With a tangle of secrets a thread of magic & a touch of humour the follies of the aristocracy & the sufferings of ordinary people are unfolded as their lives move relentlessly towards the tragic & horrific days of the Terror. THE RED NECKLACE is not only a tremendous adventure story but a vibrant & passionate picture of Paris in turmoil & of a large cast of memorable characters. ...

So much begins on the banks of the Nile: all religion all life all stories the script we write in the language we speak the gods the legends & the names of stars. This mighty river that flows through a quarter of all Africa has been history's greatest & most sustained creator. In this dazzling idiosyncratic journey from ancient times to the Arab Spring Robert Twigger weaves a Nile narrative like no other. Along the way we meet crocodiles & caliphs nineteenth-century adventurers & twentieth-century novelists biblical prophets & classical lovers dam-builders & crusaders. As he navigates a meandering course through the history of the world's greatest river he plucks the most intriguing colourful & dramatic stories
- truly a Nile red in tooth & claw. The result is both an epic journey through the whole sweep of human (and pre-human) history & an intimate biography of the curious life of this great river overflowing with stories of excess love passion splendour & violence.
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The demon threat closes around mortals & gods alike... When Emma became nanny to John Chen's daughter she never expected to be caring for the child of a Chinese god or that all the demons in hell would want him dead. Now she's in love with John & they are hunted from China to Europe by a race of demons. But who are the real pawns in this deadly celestial game? Kylie Chan's Dark Heavens trilogy is the most exciting Urban Fantasy debut of 2010. Already a smash-hit in the author's native Australia it brings a world of Oriental Gods martial arts action & romance to the genre. ...

Funny & adventurous stories with colourful engaging text design makes Geronimo Stilton" perfect for aspirational readers of " Diary of a Wimpy Kid". A huge hit with both avid & reluctant readers aged 5+. My troublemaker cousin was trapped in Transratania! & before I could even squeak my sister Thea dragged me along on her rescue mission. Little did we know that Transratania is the land of vampire bats! Holey cheese bats give me mouse bumps! Why? Well there's nothing a bat likes more than sinking its teeth into a nice juicy mouse... Who is Geronimo Stilton? That's me! I run a newspaper but my true passion is writing adventure stories. Here in New Mouse City the capital of Mouse Island my books are all bestsellers! My stories are fa-mouse-ly funny. They are whisker-licking-good tales & that's a promise!" ...

'A red pony colt was looking at him out of the stall. Its tense ears were forward & a light of disobedience was in its eyes. Its coat was rough & thick as an Airedale's fur & its mane was long & tangled'. Jody Tiflin is a ten-year-old boy living on his father's ranch. One day his father brings home a small pony. He's Jody's if the boy will learn to feed clean stable & care for him. But Jody learns through the colt & through his other adventures on the ranch that with responsibility can come sacrifice & pain. Joy may swiftly turn to tragedy. & he also discover that the simplicities of childhood must eventually turn into the complications of adulthood. The Red Pony" is Steinbeck's brilliant & sometimes brutal celebration of adolescence." ...

In 1907 Princess Sophy (' Sofka') Dolgorouky was born in St Petersburg. Members of the Imperial family had attended her parents' wedding earlier that same year & the child was born into a privileged world of nurses private tutors & elegant tea parties. The Russian Revolution caused the princess to flee across Europe to England but it was the Second World War that left the deepest marks on her adult life. During those years she left her first husband & lost her second. Later she was interned in a Nazi prison camp where she discovered Communism & showed great bravery in defending the rights of the Jewish prisoners. It was her Communism which took her back to the Soviet Union as an improbable tour guide for British workers. & Communism albeit indirectly brought her the last love of her life Jack a working-class Londoner who had never been abroad. Sofka's colourful life also included a close friendship with Laurence Olivier innumerable lovers some serious some quickly discarded & an abiding love of reading & especially poetry. This affectionate portrait of the 'red princess' by her granddaughter & namesake uses letters diaries & interviews to recreate a vanished world & also explore the author's own Russian roots. ...

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