Blonde bubbly Sookie Stackhouse loves her job as a cocktail waitress in Merlottes in her home town of Bon Temps. Sookies cute but it takes her a long time to make friends; perhaps thats not so surprising when you consider how few people appreciate her telepathic ability. Whichever species you are life is never boring in Bon Temps Louisiana! ...

Blonde bubbly Sookie Stackhouse loves her job as a cocktail waitress in Merlotte's in her home town of Bon Temps. Sookie's cute but it takes her a long time to make friends; perhaps that's not so surprising when you consider how few people appreciate her telepathic ability. Whichever species you are life is never boring in Bon Temps Louisiana! ...

Mason Mace" Perry was a maverick cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped & framed for a crime. She lost everything--her career her liberty--and spent two years in prison. Now back on the outside Mace is trying to rebuild her life & track down the people who set her up. But even with her police chief sister at her side she has to work in the shadows: theres a vindictive US attorney on her tail & shes just looking for a reason to send her back behind bars.. . Roy Kingman is a young lawyer still getting used to his high-paid job at a law firm in Washington. When Roy discovers the dead body of a female partner at the firm his fate becomes entangled with Maces as the two team up to investigate. But as their enquiries gather pace Roy & Mace soon find themselves in unexpected territory; drawn into both the private & public world of the nations capital as dark secrets begin to emerge. For what began as a fairly routine homicide investigation will quickly turn into something far more complex. & possibly lethal.. ." ...

Mason Mace" Perry was a maverick cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped & framed for a crime. She lost everything--her career her liberty--and spent two years in prison. Now back on the outside Mace is trying to rebuild her life & track down the people who set her up. But even with her police chief sister at her side she has to work in the shadows: theres a vindictive US attorney on her tail & shes just looking for a reason to send her back behind bars.. . Roy Kingman is a young lawyer still getting used to his high-paid job at a law firm in Washington. When Roy discovers the dead body of a female partner at the firm his fate becomes entangled with Maces as the two team up to investigate. But as their enquiries gather pace Roy & Mace soon find themselves in unexpected territory; drawn into both the private & public world of the nations capital as dark secrets begin to emerge. For what began as a fairly routine homicide investigation will quickly turn into something far more complex. & possibly lethal.. ." ...

The Russian oligarchs are the world's new elite. They treat the world as their plaything travelling without borders & living lives of unimaginable luxury without fear or restraint. But when an assassin starts killing off some of the world's richest men an oligarch with friends in high places seeks the protection of MI5. & Spider Shepherd is placed in the firing line. But while Shepherd has to save the life of a man he neither likes nor respects he has to deal with a face from his past. The Taliban sniper who put a bullet in his shoulder turns up alive & well & living in London. & Shepherd is in no mood to forgive or forget. ...

True Confessions of Adrian Mole Margaret Hilda Roberts & Susan Lilian Townsend" is the third book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny " Adrian Mole" series. Monday June 13th. I had a good proper look at myself in the mirror tonight. I've always wanted to look clever but at the age of twenty years & three months I have to admit that I look like a person who has never even heard of Jung or Updike. Adrian Mole is an adult. At least that's what it says on his passport. But living at home clinging to his threadbare cuddly rabbit ' Pinky' working as a paper pusher for the Do E & pining for the love of his life Pandora has proved to him that adulthood isn't quite what he expected. Still without the slings & arrows of modern life what else would an intellectual poet have to write about... Included here are two other less well-known diarists: Sue Townsend & Margaret Hilda Roberts a rather ambitious grocer's daughter from Grantham. Bestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britain's favourite comic writer for over three decades. " Essential reading for Mole followers". (" Times Educational Supplement"). " Wonderfully funny & sharp as knives". (" Sunday Times"). Sue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author. Her hugely successful novels include eight " Adrian Mole" books " The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 55 )" " Number Ten" " Ghost Children" " The Queen & I" " Queen Camilla" & " The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year" all of which are highly acclaimed bestsellers. She has also written numerous well-received plays. She lives in Leicester where she was born & grew up." ...

16 fascinating profiles of cases of misdeeds committed by men & women of the Civil War The epic battles of the Civil War have become the stuff of legend & the subject of a vast amount of literature. Much less known is the war behind the lines
- a war carried out by merciless guerrillas bloodthirsty mobs murderous vigilantes & sinister secret agents. True Crime in the Civil War delves into the conflicts criminal history profiling 16 cases of misdeeds committed by men & women on both sides of the fight. Civil War buffs will find newly uncovered information on a pair of obscure incidents: the 1863 murder of a Tennessee family by freed slaves living in a Union camp & an 1865 killing in North Carolina that immediately tested the nations commitment to equality. Also included are fresh accounts of some of the wars most notorious crimes including the short & brutal life of Bloody Bill Anderson the evils perpetrated behind Andersonvilles walls & the still-controversial Lincoln assassination conspiracy
- providing a stark reminder that those on the wars front lines werent the only ones facing danger.

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There is no knowing what lies in a mans heart. On a trip to buy ponies Frank Ross is killed by one of his own workers. Tom Chaney shoots him down in the street for a horse $150 cash & two Californian gold pieces. Rosss unusually mature & single-minded fourteen-year-old daughter Mattie travels to claim his body & finds that the authorities are doing nothing to find Chaney. Then she hears of Rooster
- a man shes told who has grit
- & convinces him to join her in a quest into dark dangerous Indian territory to hunt Chaney down & avenge her fathers murder.

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Merlin the Magician has remained an enthralling & curious individual since the idea was first invented in the twelfth century in the pages of Geoffrey of Monmouths History of the Kings of Britain". But although the Merlin of literature & Arthurian myth is well known Merlins historical impact & his relation to medieval magic are less familiar. In this book Anne Lawrence-Mathers explores just who he was thought to be & what he has meant to Britain. The twelfth-century Merlin was no folk soothsayer: he was a learned figure at the cutting edge of medieval science & adept in astrology cosmology prophecy & natural magic as well as being a seer & proto alchemist. He was a convincing & powerful figure & his famed prophecies helped to add credibility to the long lost history of Britain first revealed here to a European public. Merlins prophecies reassuringly foretold Britains path establishing an ancient ancestral line & linking biblical prediction with more recent times. Merlin helped to place British history within world history. Lawrence-Mathers also explores the meaning of Merlins magic across the centuries arguing that he embodied ancient Christian & pagan magical traditions recreated for a medieval court & adapted to fit a new moral climate. Linking Merlins perceived reality & power with the culture of the Middle Ages this remarkable book reveals the true impact of the most famous magician of all time." ...

From the acclaimed author of THE PIRATES DAUGHTER comes a story of three women born into the divided troubled paradise of Jamaica. Easter 1981. With Jamaica in a state of emergency the Landing family gathers to bury one of its own. For Monica Landing who had not spoken to her daughter for fifteen years the death of Lana is the cruellest kind of loss. For Lanas youngest sister Jean it is an imcomprehensible tragedy. All she knows is that her beloved homeland holds no future for her. But flight means crossing a landscape where soldiers turned executioners & armed gangs rule. It means making her way through the memories that engulf her with perhaps the only man she has ever loved by her side. THE TRUE HISTORY OF PARADISE captures the grace beauty & brutality that are indelible parts of the Jamaican experience. ...