One night in 1974 a young Frenchman secretly
- & illegally
- rigged a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center.

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New York Times" bestselling author Alex Kershaw has written the first full biography of one of the most remarkable men to have outwitted Hitler
- Raoul Wallenberg the young Swedish diplomat who almost single-handedly saved the lives of countless Hungarian Jews at unimaginable risk & great cost to himself. As a Holocaust survivor said Schindler saved hundreds. Wallenberg saved tens of thousands. This is the story of how he achieved this & of his personal duel with Adolf Eichmann the SS colonel charged with obliterating Hungarian Jewry who sent half a million Jews to their deaths in Auschwitz. This confrontation reaches its climax in 1944 when Soviet & German troops are fighting h&-to-hand through the suburbs of Budapest & Eichmanns push for the Final Solution is personally opposed by Wallenberg. This book also sheds new light on Wallenbergs fate
- he disappeared into the Soviet Union after the war to a highly controversial & disputed death. (The Americans were so determined to discover what happened to him that they made him an honorary citizen in order to prise information out of the Russians.) Its an inspiring story which moves at the pace of a master thriller-writer but the truth behind it is heartbreaking."

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Ned Henry is a time-travelling historian who specialises in the mid-20th century
- currently engaged in researching the bombed-out
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The thrill of the chase. Free-spirited Lilian Loring doesn't believe in love. For her marriage is best avoided entirely despite what her parents
- & society
- think. So when the charismatic Marquess of Claybourne
- a notorious rake
- begins to show interest she goes into hiding in a scandalous boarding house. Never having had a woman discourage his advances before Claybourne is set on winning Lilian's hand
- even if he must besmirch his reputation. Rouge Romance"
- your first stop for romance books."





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Jasper Renshaw Viscount Vale has a problem: he needs to marry & produce an heir to the title. All Jasper wants is to find a lady who will put up with him long enough to wed so he can return to his customary life of drinking & womanizing. Melisande Fleming on the other hand has been secretly in love with Jasper for years. Knowing that Jasper is under pressure to marry Melisande grasps her fate with both hands & volunteers to wed him even though she means nothing to him. Although Jasper is initially only interested in producing an heir their wedding night is pleasant if not earth-shattering & he oddly enough finds himself curious about his wife. What does Melisande do all day? What does she think about? Melisande however has everything she told herself shed be content with: marriage to the man she loves. But to her chagrin she wants more from the Jasper. More of his time more of his thoughts & heart & really while were on the subject more lovemaking. Thus she sets out to seduce her husband by night even as he starts turning up in her life during the day. ...

We're all in Sales now. Each day millions of people earn their keep by convincing someone else to make a purchase. They sell planes to airlines oil shares to sheiks cars to drivers. They sell consulting agreements magazine subscriptions time-shares double glazing broadband fitted kitchens car insurance life insurance pet insurance! Some work in fancy offices with glorious views others in dreary cubicles but most look exactly like you. In fact each & every one of us spends time trying to persuade others to part with resources
- money time attention
- though most of the time we don't realise we're doing it. Parents sell their kids on going to bed. Spouses sell their partners on mowing the lawn or putting the cat out. We sell our bosses on giving us more money & more time off. & in astonishing numbers we go online to sell ourselves on Facebook Twitter & in Match.com profiles. In this new book from the bestselling author of Drive Dan Pink explores the ways in which we can all improve our sales skills in every area of our lives & identifies the three personal qualities & four essential skills necessary to move people. Relying on science rather than platitudes & analysis instead of exhortation Dan builds on his own sales experience & on the profiles of some of the world's best salespeople
- & makes us look again at our own sales skills.


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Life is all about pitching. The problem is that we're not very good at it. Each day millions of people earn their keep by convincing someone else to make a purchase. They sell planes to airlines oil shares to sheiks cars to drivers. They sell consulting agreements magazine subscriptions time-shares double glazing broadband fitted kitchens car insurance life insurance pet insurance! Some work in fancy offices with glorious views others in dreary cubicles but most look exactly like you. In fact each & every one of us spends time trying to persuade others to part with resources
- money time attention
- though most of the time we don't realise we're doing it. Parents sell their kids on going to bed. Spouses sell their partners on mowing the lawn or putting the cat out. We sell our bosses on giving us more money & more time off. & in astonishing numbers we go online to sell ourselves on Facebook Twitter & in Match.com profiles. What businesses politicians & academics don't seem to have realised yet is that we're all in sales now. In this new book from the bestselling author of Drive Daniel Pink explores the ways in which we can all improve our sales acumen in every area of our lives & identifies the three personal qualities & three essential skills necessary to move people. Relying on science rather than platitudes & analysis instead of exhortation Pink shows that sales isn't what it used to be that the low road of deceit & trickery is no longer a viable option & that success in any kind of persuasion or influence now depends on being more human. Brimming with new & inspiring ideas on peddling pitching & persuading this book presents us with the tools & the tips to change the way we sell our products our ideas & ourselves.

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Miner's son David Powlett-Jones returns from the carnage of the Western Front in 1918 shell-shocked & bitterly hardened by the violence of war. He begins life again as a master at a remote Devon school controlling the destiny of boys barely his junior. As the years pass David becomes a teacher of rare talent begins to find peace & is able to adjust to the changes which are overwhelming society. But soon he will have to face up to the prospect of another terrible war. ...

The ton loves nothing more than a good scandal & theyre giddy with the appearance of wealthy Samuel Hartley. Not only is he self-made American & in the habit of wearing moccasins but he is also notorious for fleeing a battle in which several English gentlemen lost their lives. What the ton doesnt know though is that Samuel is in London because of this massacre. He believes his regiment was given up to the enemy & wont rest until he finds the traitor. Lady Emeline Gordon is captivated with Samuel. Not only does he defy convention with his unusual dress his sensual smile & his forthright manner but he survived the battle that killed her beloved brother. Samuel suspects that the person responsible for her brothers death is Jasper Renshaw Viscount Vale a family friend since childhood
- & Emelines fiance. Despite Emelines belief in Vales innocence & her refusal to break off her betrothal she & Samuel begin a passionate affair. But can their relationship survive the fallout from Samuels investigation?
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A three-year-old girl is snatched from a beach. Nobody heard a sound. Nobody saw a thing. Rosie Gilmour's much-needed holiday is cut short when the abduction story breaks & she's sent to cover it. Her instincts tell her something's wrong: such a crime must surely have witnesses & the girl's mother's story doesn't add up. With a child's life at stake Rosie must dig deeper into the seedy depths of the area making dangerous enemies. As she closes in on the truth she realises the penalty for missing this particular deadline could be her own demise. ...