Blackburn 1947. In the tiny front parlour fourteen-year-old Laura Blake watches her beloved father die. But not before he tells her she will make something of her life. Laura never forgets his words. Yet her path to success proves to be a rocky one. Forced to trundle a cart around the back streets selling other folks cast-offs to support her family Laura learns enough to start work in her uncles furniture shop. But then fate deals another cruel blow when Laura is brutally raped. Bearing the child of her attacker in secret she vows to make the world pay for its injustice towards her. As she grows older her protective shell hardens even as her beauty blossoms & her new toughness helps her forge a successful career in the antiques business. But it is in affairs of the heart that Laura stumbles... ...

Hollywood has come to Franklin Grove! Olivia is very excited. Jackson Caulfield
- the hot teen movie star
- is shooting a movie

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Hey buster! Normal life is a total yawn. So break out boredom with multi-million-copy bestselling author Lauren Child & meet your new favourite heroine... Ruby Redfort: detective secret agent thirteen-year-old kid. Everyone's favourite kid detective is back for a second mind-blowing instalment packed with all the off-the-wall humour action & friendship of the first book. This time though it's an adventure on the wide open ocean & Ruby is all at sea... Can she crack the case of the Twinford pirates while evading the clutches of a vile sea monster as well as the evil Count von Viscount? Well you wouldn't want to bet against her... ...

Hey buster! Normal life is a total yawn. So break out boredom with multi-million-copy bestselling author Lauren Child & meet your new favourite heroine... Ruby Redfort: detective secret agent thirteen-year-old kid. Everyone's favourite kid detective is back for a second mind-blowing instalment packed with all the off-the-wall humour action & friendship of the first book. This time though it's an adventure on the wide open ocean & Ruby is all at sea... Can she crack the case of the Twinford pirates while evading the clutches of a vile sea monster as well as the evil Count von Viscount? ] Well you wouldn't want to bet against her... ...

The Takeaway Secret" is a book which will enable readers to cook their own tasty takeaway food at home. After over 5 years of research & investigation the secret ingredients & cooking techniques used by takeaway & fast food restaurants can now finally be revealed. In today's increasingly health conscious & now financially cautious world there's never been a better time to learn the secrets of cooking your own takeaway food at home. From now on the takeaway menu will become an inspiration to cook not an expensive option for dinner. Some of the recipes which can now be faithfully recreated at home include Lamb Donner & Chicken Kebabs Chicken & Vegetable Pakora Szechuan Chicken Sweet & Sour Chicken Chicken Wings Spare Ribs Triple-Decker Burgers Chicken Burgers Spiced Onions Kebab Sauces Sub Rolls Wraps & many more. Many recipe books call for an extensive & expensive list of ingredients often interesting to read but impractical for everyday cooking. " The Takeaway Secret" will stand out as the modern cookbook ideal for a generation of people who desire delicious food delivered quickly without the need to slave over a hot stove for hours on end. The recipes included make it possible for home cooks both novice & professional to recreate their favorite takeaway & fast food restaurant dishes in their own kitchen." ...

A beautiful woman Model & it-girl Tara Parker Trench is famous across Ireland
- with her beauty glittering lifestyle & perfect
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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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