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? ...

Taylor Edwards family might not be that close
- everyone is a little too busy & overscheduled but for the most part they get along
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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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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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Charley Davidson sees dead people. As grim reaper extraordinaire it's her job to convince them to 'go into the light'. But when these very dead people have died under less than ideal circumstances (i.e. murder) Charley dons her Private Investigator hat to solve the crime. ...

Whoever you are at this moment you have a choice. You can believe menopause signals the end or you can make a few small changes to finally become the person you always thought you could be. In her groundbreaking book Jill Shaw Ruddock offers answers to the questions women think & care about at this time of their life. The change is not just physical but cerebral as well. Although a woman can no longer create life this is the time when she can give birth to herself. Drawing on her extensive experience research & interviews Jill Shaw Ruddock scrutinises what could be holding you back & provides practical hands-on advice on how to harness the new-found focus that menopause brings. From money to the mind dating to divorce exercise to eating & separation to self-expression Ruddocks inspiring book sets out a game plan to prepare & guide you to make the second half of your life the best half. ...