Shari Cooper is dead the victim of a murderous attack. She is on the other side in a place of spirits. But she is given a rare offer. To return to Earth without having to be reborn. Into the body of a messed-up teenage girl
- Jean Rodriguez. A transfer of souls they call it. Shari is given a chance to be a Wanderer & to do a great service for humanity. It is an offer she gladly accepts. Then she is back in a human body. Yet she does not remember being Shari Cooper. At first she recalls nothing of the afterlife. Perhaps it is just as well. Not everybody on Earth welcomes Wanderers. Of the few who know of their existence some want them dead. & others the truly evil ones wish them much worse than that.
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Van Veeteren thought back to what his friend Mahler had said the previous evening: Doing something at the right time is more important than what you actually do.. . An unmissable hospital appointment is looming for Inspector Van Veeteren when a corpse is found rolled in a rotting carpet by a young child playing in a local beauty spot. Missing head & limbs the torso is too badly decomposed for forensic identification
- bar one crucial detail.. . Circumstantial evidence soon points to a local man a double murderer who disappeared 9 months before shortly after being released on parole; a local hero turned monster after being convicted of killing two women over a span of three decades. Recuperating after an operation Van Veeteren is nevertheless directing investigations from his hospital bed for he is convinced that only the innocence of this new victim can be the motive for his murder. But the two women have been dead for long enough for any evidence to have died with them.. . And is he a little like Inspector Morse can be on occasion simply on the wrong track completely?
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A secretarys silent passion for her boss meets the acid test on a business trip; a man & a womans mutual disdain at first sight shows how deceptive appearances can be; an insecure wife clings to the illusion of order only to discover chaos at the hands of a house-sitter who opens the wrong doors; a pair of star-crossed travellers pick up each others bags & then learn when you unlock a strangers suitcase you enter a strangers life. These & many more poignant ironic often humorous stories
- unforgettable slices of life
- show why Maeve Binchy is one of the worlds favourite storytellers.

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The outbreak tore the USA in two. The east remains a safe haven. The west has become a ravaged wilderness. They call it the Evacuated States. It is here that Henry Marco makes his living. Hired by grieving relatives he tracks down the dead to deliver peace. Now Homeland Security wants Marco for a mission unlike any other. He must return to California where the apocalypse began. Where a secret is hidden. & where his own tragic past waits to punish him again. But in the wastelands of America you never know who
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- is watching you.. .

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In the spring of 1839 the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks & plumed shakos nearly 20 000 British & East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes & re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk. On the way in the British faced little resistance. But after two years of occupation the Afghan people rose in answer to the call for jihad & the country exploded into violent rebellion. The First Anglo-Afghan War ended in Britain's greatest military humiliation of the nineteenth century: an entire army of the then most powerful nation in the world ambushed in retreat & utterly routed by poorly equipped tribesmen. Return of a King is the definitive analysis of the First Afghan War told through the lives of unforgettable characters on all sides & using for the first time contemporary Afghan accounts of the conflict. Prize-winning & bestselling historian William Dalrymple's masterful retelling of Britain's greatest imperial disaster is a powerful & important parable of colonial ambition & cultural collision folly & hubris for our times. ...

Paul Krugman winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics shows how todays crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression
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Spencer is back! He & Emily kissed a few weeks ago but they havent talked since & Spencers unsure of her feelings. Itll take some ill-advised fashion choices a disastrous disco & a terrible party to convince him that Emily may actually like him
- just the way he is! Hilarious much-requested sequel to the bestselling Diary of an (Un) Teenager"."
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WORD IN THE ROYAL COURT HAS SPREAD THAT THE WILD SCOTTISH BORDERS ARE TOO UNRULY. UPON THE KING'S COMMAND JOHN BRUNSON MUST RETURN HOME... Once part of a powerful border clan John has not set sight on the Brunson stone tower in years. With failure never an option he must persuade his family to honour the King's call for peace. To succeed John knows winning over the daughter of an allied family Cate Gilnock holds the key. But this intriguing beauty is beyond the powers of flattery & seduction. Instead the painful vulnerability hidden behind her spirited eyes calls out to John as he is inexorably drawn back into the warrior Brunson clan... The Brunson Clan The family who will kneel to no one... ...

The return of the Crimson Guard could not have come at a worse time for an empire exhausted by warfare & weakened by betrayals & rivalries. Into the seething cauldron of Quon Tali
- the Malazan Empire's heartland
- they march & with their return comes the memory of their vow: undying opposition to the Empire. But elements within the Guard's elite the Avowed have set their sights on far greater power while other more ancient entities are rising up intent on furthering their own arcane ends. & what of the swordsman called Traveller who with his companion Ereko seeks a confrontation from which none have ever returned? As the Guard prepare to wage war the Empress Laseen's generals & mages grow impatient at what they perceive as her mismanagement of the Empire. Is she losing her grip on power or has she outwitted them all? Could she be using the uprisings to draw out & finally eliminate the last irksome survivors from the days of Kellanved her illustrious predecessor?

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WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR SIDETRACKED Herbert Molin a retired police officer is living alone in a remote cottage in the vast forests of northern Sweden. He has two obsessions: one is the tango & the other is a conviction that he is being hunted constantly pursued by 'demons'. He has no close friends no close neighbours & by the time his body is eventually found Molin is almost unrecognisable. Lindman a police officer on extended sick leave hears of the death of his former colleague & to take his mind off his own problems decides to involve himself in the case. What he discovers to his horror & disbelief is a network of evil almost unimaginable in this remote district & one which seems impossible to link to Molin's death. ...