Until Its Over is a riveting psychological thriller from the Top Ten bestselling author Nicci French Dead. Unlucky. Cycle courier Astrid Bell is bad luck
- for other people. First Astrids neighbour Peggy accidentally knocks her off her bike
- & not long after is found bludgeoned to death in an alley. Then a few days later Astrid is asked to pick up a package
- only to find the client slashed to pieces in the hall of her own home. For the police its more than coincidence. For Astrid & her six housemates its just the beginning of a nightmare
- the growing suspicion that the worst is yet to come. Because if its true that bad luck comes in threes
- who will be next to die? Praise for Nicci French: Reads like lightning". (Observer). " Another nail-biting thriller". (Daily Express). "A taut sexy & compulsive read". (Elle). " Taut & menacing.. .excellent". (Guardian). Nicci French is the pseudonym for Nicci Gerrard & Sean French. The couple live in Suffolk & have written thirteen other bestselling novels all published by Penguin: Complicit What to Do When Someone Dies Losing You Catch Me When I Fall The Memory Game Beneath the Skin The Safe House The Red Room Land of the Living Killing Me Softly Secret Smile & most recently Blue Monday & Tuesdays Gone in the brilliant new Frieda Klein series."




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PI John Craine has come to Hale Island to get away from it all
- the memories & the guilt & a past that just wont let go. But within
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Bill is a dedicated young lawyer working in New York. He leaves everything he trained for to follow his dream to become a minister in rural Wyoming. Jenny his fashion stylist wife leaves the milieu & life she loves to join him. The certainty they share is that their destinies are linked forever. Fast forward thirty-eight years. Robert is a hard-working independent book publisher in Manhattan looking for one big hit novel to publish. Lillibet is a young Amish woman living as though in the seventeenth century caring for her widowed father & three young brothers on their family farm. In secret at night by candlelight she has written the novel that burns within her. When it falls into Robert's hands he falls in love first with the book & then with the woman he has never met. In the hands of bestselling author Danielle Steel these two remarkable relationships come together in unexpected & surprising ways as lovers are lost & find each other again. If it is true that real love lasts forever & lovers cannot lose each other then Until the End of Time" will not only comfort & fascinate us as destiny does her dance but it will give us hope as well. Love & fate are powerful irresistible forces as Steel proves to us here in a book about courage change risk & hope & love that never dies." ...

Bestselling author Iyanla Vanzant has had an amazing & difficult life
- one of great challenges that unmasked her wonderful gifts
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A heartwarming dog story like no other: Tuesday a lovable golden retriever changes a former soldiers life forever. A highly decorated captain in the U.S. Army Luis Montalvan never backed down from a challenge during his two tours of duty in Iraq. After returning home from combat however his physical wounds & crippling post-traumatic stress disorder began to take their toll. He wondered if he would ever recover. Then Luis met Tuesday a sensitive golden retriever trained to assist the disabled. Tuesday had lived among prisoners & at a home for troubled boys & he found it difficult to trust in or connect with a human being--until Luis. Until Tuesday is the story of how two wounded warriors who had given so much & suffered the consequences found salvation in each other. It is a story about war & peace injury & recovery psychological wounds & spiritual restoration. But more than that it is a story about the love between a man & dog & how together they healed each others souls. ...

eatured artists include David Ellis Os Gemeos Banksy Dan Witz Ron English Obey JR Mac & Retna Mark Jenkins Elbowtoe Swoon Dolk Erica Il Cane Billi Kid Michael De Feo & many more. In addition to the fantastic art photographed in locations around the world pithy essays on diverse subjects ranging from intellectual property law Marshall Mc Luhan v. Street Art & THE Manifesto keep the book lively & thought provoking. ...

This is not history for history's sake however
- this is the history of our present & future long beyond cold war into war on terror
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This is not history for history's sake however
- this is the history of our present & future long beyond cold war into war on terror
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In The Untold Life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Lady Colin Campbell tells the griping true story of Elizabeths life. She reveals the truth behind: the mystery of her birth; her intra-family relationships; how she set about getting married; her relationship with her eldest brother-in-law prior to her marriage & afterwards when he was Prince of Wales Edward VIII & Duke of Windsor; how she came to marry his younger brother Bertie; how the other members of the Royal Family viewed Elizabeth at various stages in her life & theirs; the real state of her marriage; the circumstances surrounding the birth of her two children & why she never had any more; the part she played behind-the-scenes in the abdication crisis; her antipathy towards Wallis Simpson & what their relationship was; Lord Beaverbrooks interpretation of events & the crucial part he played during the abdication & afterwards; Elizabeths relationship with him; whether she had flirtations & romances during her marriage; Berties friendships with other women; Elizabeths popularity during the Second World War & the contribution she made to the welfare of the nation during it; her role as wife & mother during & after it her opposition to Prince Philip & her attempts to induce Lilibet to marry a peers son; Berties opposition & the reason why; Berties illness & death; her adjustment to relatively young widowhood
- the trouble she gave & the trouble she saved; her difficult relationship with Princess Margaret & the opinions of Margaret & some of her close friends & lovers of Elizabeths true character; her role as a grandmother & how she treated her varying grandchildren; her incredibly luxurious & fun-filled lifestyle during the last forty years of her life; whether her drinking & gambling were really the problems they were rumoured to be; her relations with Diana & other in-laws especially when their marriages were collapsing; her death & its aftermath.
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Untold Stories" Alan Bennetts first major collection of prose since his bestselling " Writing Home" brings together the finest & funniest of his writing over the last ten years. Two recordings feature selected material from " Untold Stories": Part 1: Stories contains the title piece & Part 2: The Diaries (also available from BBC Audio) covers Alan Bennetts much-celebrated diaries for 1997--2004. Part 1: Stories " Untold Stories" is a poignant family memoir recalling the marriage of Alans parents the lives & deaths of his aunts & the uncovering of a long-held family secret. At times heartrending & at others extremely funny " Untold Stories" is a matchless & unforgettable journey into Alan Bennetts past." ...