DEAD END: A call-out to a murder saves D.I Bill Slider from having to finish his canteen lunch but presents him with the problem of a dead conductor. In life Sir Stefan Radek was seriously famous & terminally unpleasant but neither of these facts seem reason enough to gun him down in a neo-Byzantine church in Shepherds Bush. BLOOD LINES: A celebrated music critic seems to have committed suicide just before appearing on a live television show but Slider suspects it is murder when it is shown that the body had been interfered with & when he learns that the victim had quarreled violently with his fellow panelists. KILLING TIME: Only half-recovered from an assault from the last villain he encountered Slider is forced to investigate the murder of an erotic dancer finding himself having to question lap-dancers prostitutes pimps & cabinet ministers & discovering one of his fellow officers has dubious links with all of them. ...

This volume contains three of Brother Cadfaels Chronicles: ST PETERS FAIR. An unseemly quarrel between the local burghers & the monks from the Benedictine monastery in Shrewsbury over who shall benefit from the levies on Shrewsburys annual Fair leaves a merchant dead & Cadfael is summoned from the peace of his herb garden to practice his skills as a detective. THE LEPER OF ST GILES. Outside the walls of Shrewsbury is St Giles a sanctuary for the sick but also a possible refuge for a wanted man. When a member of a wedding party is savagely murdered Brother Cadfael finds himself at St Giles as herbalist & as detective in search of the killer. THE VIRGIN IN THE ICE. In the winter of 1139 civil war brings refugees to Shrewsbury in search of sanctuary. But two orphans & their companion a nun dont arrive from Worcester & Cadfael is despatched from the Abbey to try & locate them in the harsh winter landscape of frost & snow. ...

As editor-in-chief of New Yorks leading fashion magazine Flona Monaghan was utterly content with her life jetting back & forth between Manhattan & Europe until the sweltering day John Anderson strolled into her office. A wldower with two daughters John was as conservative as Flona was freewheeling both amused & appalled by her world of high-strung designers anorexic models Fendi
- stuffed closets & Sir Winston her snoring bulldog. But after Flona Impulsively invited John to the Paris couture shows somewhere between the magic of the runway & the stroll along the Seine she let him into her heart. & within weeks of their return to New York John was making friends with Sir Winston-and Fiona was making room in her closets. In a dazzling tale of modern misadventures & career-crossed relationships Danielle Steel captures the heady magic of instant attraction the challenges of change
- & the hope that comes when we dare to do it all over again.

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Mark Todds eventing career is the stuff of legend & encompasses one of the greatest sporting comebacks of all time. When he retired from competing in eventing in 2000 he had already been named Rider of the Century for his natural empathy with a horse & his extraordinary success which included back-to-back Olympic gold medals five Burghley wins & three Badminton victories. He has also show jumped to Olympic level & trained winners on the racecourse. Considered a legendary horseman by his peers he seemed to have done it all. He returned to train racehorses in his native New Zealand but eight years later the idea of a comeback took root part dare part personal challenge to see if he could still cut it in a changed sport. Within eight months he was riding at the 2008 Beijing Olympics & in 2011 he hit the headlines by becoming the oldest rider to win Badminton. He is now at the forefront of New Zealands resurgence ahead of the London Olympic Games. The story of his progress from dairy farmer to world renown is told with typically laid-back humour but it reveals the fierce determination discipline & personal sacrifice which lies behind the relaxed outlook. ...

SONNIE'S EDGE. The popular sport of 'beastie-baiting' involves contests to the death between artificial monsters controlled via human affinity bonds. Sonnie's team is particularly successful...but then her monster ' Khanivore' has one special advantage. A SECOND CHANCE AT EDEN. A bitek habitat which orbits Jupiter mining the fusion fuel on which Earth is dependent Eden is a mini-nation of radical politics -- & even more radical technology. Then its creator is murdered in full view of the whole population but nobody can identify the perpetrator -- or the motive. NEW DAYS OLD TIMES. Settlers came to the planet Nyvan hoping for a lifestyle free of Earthbound hatreds. Alas though environments may change human nature does not. CANDY BUDS. The crime-lord Laurus rules Kariwak with an iron fist jealously guarding control of the bitek trade. But when an astonishing new substance appears on the streets virtual reality takes on an entirely new dimension. DEATHDAY. On a desolate planet a man wages an obsessive campaign of retribution against the last survivor of an alien race. But vengeance can cut both ways. THE LIVES & LOVES OF TIARELLA ROSA. A passion that spans two generations of women...and endures beyond. ESCAPE ROUTE. The starship LADY MACBETH encounters a long-abandoned alien spacecraft with its escape route still intact -- but leading where? & is the craft as empty as it seems? ...

God takes a look at the Earth around the time of the Renaissance & everything looks pretty good
- so he takes a holiday. In Heaven-time
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Empress Josephines family has been called to Napoleons court for the terrible news that he intends to divorce his barren wife of thirteen years & take a younger bride the Austrian Princess Marie-Louise. For Josephines daughter Hortense this means she is free to leave her husband Napoleons brother having given the Bonapartes three heirs. As she looks for love she must support her mother through the terrible grief of Napoleons betrayal. For his new wife it is a terrible duty she must take on in her fathers name. She has nothing in common with the strange older man she has married & can find little in her life to enjoy. But an unlikely friendship with Hortense will bring her much comfort especially as she must fight for her own happiness. For Napoleons sister Pauline Bonaparte it is yet another woman stealing her brothers attention & affection. Having spent years attempting to control his power & his influence she must fight harder & dirtier if she is to win... ...

Darrell & her friends grow together as they share their school days. There are new students to induct sporting matches to be won tempers to control & tricks to play on teachers. This work presents stories about life at boarding school as readers follow the girls' lives through 6 years at Malory Towers. ...

When the First Foundation was conquered by a force Seldon had not foreseen
- the overwhelming power of a single individual a mutant
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When a plot of land is being developed in Vermont against the will of a local Native American tribe strange things begin to happen
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