When Nita Morales hires Elvis Cole to find her missing adult daughter she isn't afraid even though she's gotten a phone call asking for ransom. She knows it's a fake that her daughter is off with the guy Nita will only call that boy" & that they need money: " Even smart girls do stupid things when they think a boy loves them." But she is wrong. The girl & her boyfriend have been taken by bajadores
- bandits who prey on other bandits border professionals who prey not only on innocent victims but on each other. They steal drugs guns & people
- buying & selling victims like commodities & killing the ones they can't get a price for. Cole & Pike find the spot where they were taken. There are tire tracks bullet casings & bloodstains. They know things look as bad as possible. But they are wrong too. It is about to get much worse. Going undercover to find the two young people & buy them back Cole himself is taken & disappears. Now it is up to Joe Pike to retrace Cole's steps burning through the hard & murderous world of human traffickers to find his friend. But he may already be too late."

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Welcome to Fountain Reach Ancient seat of the Aubuchon dynasty Majestic setting of the White Stone tournament Alex Veruss (not necessarily reliable) reputation attracts all sorts. Most are plain bonkers. Yet theres one invitation he just cant refuse. At Fountain Reach Alex is perfectly placed among the noted & notorious to figure out why apprentices have been vanishing. But the tournament is a minefield of ancient grudges & new threats & Alex cant afford to miss a trick as his elusive adversary stays one step ahead in this most dangerous of games. ...

Kylie Galen believes that if she can just uncover what she is all the other uncertainties in her life will suddenly make sense. & things really need to make sense right now. For starters her heart is still torn between Lucas & Derek
- or it was. Now she's beginning to wonder if she was wrong about both boys. But it's not just romance that's leaving Kylie conflicted. She's also being haunted by an amnesia-stricken ghost who can't remember who she is. Complicating matters even more is the message the spirit brings from the world beyond: Death is imminent for someone at Shadow Falls Camp
- & this time there's nothing Kylie can do to stop it...

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Her desire for revenge is ice cold... In the frozen wilds of the Alaskan interior former state trooper Jenna Darrow was taken hostage by a deadly vampire who terrorized her for hours feeding on her blood & leaving her more dead than alive. But Jenna did survive
- albeit as an altered being... Now Jenna wants revenge on that vampire & for that she must turn to the very race of beings who terrify her the most: the Breed. But of all the Breed warriors it is Brock the immense forbidding male who makes Jenna feel most at ease. Even more unsettling are the unbidden emotions Brock stirs within her. & the affair that begins as a physical understanding devoid of emotional strings soon blazes into something much deeper
- but just as their passion flares white hot so does a ghost from Brocks past threaten to break their fragile forbidden love.

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Bryn knows first-hand that being the alpha of a werewolf pack means making hard decisions & that being human makes things a thousand times worse. She's prepared to give up her humanity but the wolf who promised to Change her is waiting
- though for what Bryn doesn't know. Still human she must take her place in the werewolf Senate the precarious democracy that rules the North American packs. Standing side by side with werewolves who were ancient long before she was ever born is enough of a challenge but Bryn soon learns that the Senate has been called to deal with a problem: the kind of problem that involves human bodies a Rabid werewolf & memories that Bryn Chase & the rest of their pack would rather forget. With bodies stacking up & political pressure closing in from all sides Bryn & her pack are going to have to turn to old enemies & even older friends for help
- especially when it starts to look like this time the monster might be one of their own.

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This autobiography describes the hours before & after Terry Waite was taken hostage. Waite analyzes his thoughts & feelings immediately prior to captivity. It is also an account of his years in solitary confinement & of the inner strengths which enabled him to survive. ...

Control the Chaos with our newly refreshed Takeout Menu Organizer! Featuring a sleek look & a practical new zippered format this revitalized classic is impervious to pizza sauce & perfectly sized to blend in with all those cookbooks you aren't using. ...

This is an immortal love story. Have you ever loved someone so much that you'd do anything for them? When Dr Luke Findley turns up to his hospital shift in the small town of St Andrews Maine he's expecting just another evening of minor injuries & domestic disputes. But instead Lanore Mc Ilvrae walks into his life
- & changes it forever. For Lanny is a woman with a past... Lanny Mc Ilvrae is unlike anyone Luke has ever met. Hers is a story of love & betrayal that defies time & transcends mortality
- but this tale cannot end until Lanny's demons are finally put to rest. Her two hundred years on this earth have seen her seduced by both decadence & brutality
- yet through it all she has only ever had one true love in her life. Until now. An unforgettable novel about the power of unrequited love to elevate & sustain but also to blind & ultimately destroy The Taker" is an immortal love story on an epic scale..."


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Miku is going to School Camp in the forest with her friend Cait & the rest of her class. It should be fun. But Miku has premonitions of danger & when Oscar goes down with a festering rash & a rushing wind blows out the bonfire shes sure something bad is going on. Then Alex finds the frog-like Filth-Licker in the boys toilets & all at once Miku Cait & Alex are on a secret mission to overcome the vengeful Shape-Shifters or Super Demons before its too late... Later that night with Alex kidnapped by a pyromaniac fox & Cait possessed by some angry sickle weasels its up to Miku & the Filth-Licker to save them all from disaster. Coming in 2012 Takeshita Demons: Monster Matsuri ...

During snookers heyday in the 1980s Willie Thorne was one of the games best-known & well-liked players. He won 14 major titles & at the height of the games popularity famously appeared in the classic Chas n Dave video Snooker Loopy (Old Willie Thorne is airs all gawn!A). But behind the happy-go-lucky smile lurked a dark secret. Willie was a gambling addict & by the end of his career hed blown GBP1.5 million to the bookmakers & casinos of Britain. As the money from snooker dried up his destructive addiction showed no sign of abating & his life spiralled out of control. Desperation & depression took hold of him culminating in a suicide attempt when he came close to ending it all. In Taking a Punt on My Life Willie bares his soul talking openly & frankly about his life
- the good times & the bad
- his talent his addiction the dark days & his suicide bid & his inspirational recovery from the brink. Brutally honest & at times painful to read the book is by turns harrowing uplifting & in places hilariously funny as he re-lives the good times & the great characters of snookers heyday."

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