The international bestseller Dean Koontz delivers a masterclass of storytelling suspense in this thriller. What would you do if a serial killer forced you to choose who he murders next? On the windscreen of his SUV Billy finds the first note. It gives him a choice. If he takes the note to the police an elderly woman will be killed. If he doesnt approach the police a schoolteacher will die. He thinks its a hoax. The schoolteacher is killed. Further notes taunt Billys conscience forcing him to decide who lives & who dies. He must think the unthinkable fast in an accelerating nightmare. More communications from the killer follow with ever tighter deadlines. Each is more personal more confrontational than the last until he is isolated with no one to rely on but himself. Finally he must risk everything to save the helpless clueless victims... ...

How can you win when the only certainty is change? Highly accessible lively & inspiring Velocity" draws upon the authors unique perspectives & experiences to present seven timeless new laws for businesses & individuals in a world that is dominated by rapid change & digital technology. Written as a fascinating & enjoyable conversation between the authors
- Stefan Olander Vice President of Digital Sport from Nike & Ajaz Ahmed founder & Chairman AKQA
- " Velocitys" up-to-date examples illustrate key lessons together with insights ideas & inspiration that individuals & businesses should adopt to thrive. " Velocity" shares the vision & values required to succeed with the untold backstories to influential & iconic innovation. Fast paced useful provocative & highly motivating " Velocity" will arm you with actionable ideas to define your future. This title

Features: 4 Velocity principles: Speed Direction Acceleration Discipline; 7 Laws including A Smith & Wesson beats four aces Its easier done than said Convenient is the enemy of right & No good joke survives a committee of six."



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Audrey Popkin realises she has bitten off more than she can chew when she gets embroiled with icy-cool banker Sterling Foster. His ideas about how to have fun are more bizarre than any English Literature graduate should have to put up with! One morning she packs her bags & walks out of his luxury Florida apartment heading back to Washington DC in search of a more regular deal with a more regular guy. But for a girl like Audrey this is not as easy as it sounds. When Patrick Dugan the charismatic owner of an old-world bar with a talent for mixing the smoothest cocktails fixes Audrey in his sights some strange alliances are about to be formed. Within a week Audrey talks her way into a job at Patricks bar & a room in the apartment he shares with a drag queen jazz singer called Basil
- who has a great line in platinum wigs. Audrey soon realises that Patrick is not all he seems. Why is he pretending to be gay? & what is he covering up for his father a pillar of the local community? Audrey is so besotted with the enigmatic barman that she doesnt realise they are connected by a mutual adversary
- a steely cold-hearted son of a bitch who will take them all down if he doesnt get his little plaything back. A fast-paced tale of everyday amoral folk & the delicious cocktails they drink!

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A lavishly illustrated & deeply personal story of the creation of an idiosyncratic Australian country garden Velvet Pears is an inspirational book that is also full of practical ideas. Author Susan Southam created the amazing garden at Foxglove Spires on the land of an old dairy paddock. Susan generously shares her lifes lessons in this beautiful special gift book. Velvet Pears captures the essence of living simply & with the seasons within a local community with a sustainable lifestyle. "" ...

This is the groundbreaking examination of the psychology of homosexuality & why it leads to shame over one's identity & how to overcome it
- now expanded & fully updated. Today's gay man enjoys unprecedented hard-won social acceptance. Despite this victory however serious problems still exist. Substance abuse depression suicide & sex addiction among gay men are at an all-time high causing many to ask Are we really better off?" Drawing on contemporary research psychologist Alan Downs' own struggle with shame & anger & stories from his patients " The Velvet Rage" passionately describes the stages of a gay man's journey out of shame & offers practical & inspired strategies to stop the cycle of avoidance & self-defeating behaviour. Updated to reflect the effects of the many recent social cultural & political changes " The Velvet Rage" is an empowering book that has already changed the public discourse on gay culture & helped shape the identity of an entire generation of gay men."
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Once there was a velveteen rabbit who longed to be real. He was owned by a boy who loved him more & more every day even when the rabbits velveteen coat grew old & shabby & worn. Then one day something magical happened & the rabbits wish began to come true... ...

In this extraordinary new edition Donna Greens beautiful & evocative paintings bring poignant meaning to a classic tale that remains as compelling today as when it was first published in 1922. Margery Williams famous story tells of a young boy & his treasured favorite toy a splendid fat & bunchy" rabbit whose ears are lined with a pink sateen. For this new edition Green has created superb oil-on-canvas works that are fresh & innocent painted with a soft tender touch that is utterly her own." ...

In the nursery only the toys that are old & wise truly understand what it means to be Real. The Velveteen Rabbit a newcomer to the nursery asks one of the most knowledgeable toys the Skin Horse what being real means. Real isn't how you're made " says the Skin Horse. " It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long long time not just to play with but REALLY loves you then you become real. It doesn't happen all at once. You become..." & so begins the Velveteen Rabbit's journey towards becoming real
- through the love of a child..."
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On 23 May 1992 the Mafia assassinated its Number One Enemy the legendary prosecutor Judge Falcone with a motorway bomb that also killed his wife Francesca & three bodyguards. Fifty-seven days later the Mafia killed Falcones friend & colleague Judge Paolo Borsellino with a car bomb outside his mothers home that also killed five bodyguards. These two murders changed forever how Italy viewed the Mafia. VENDETTA tells the inside story of the assassination plots & the investigation that followed. Follain reveals Borsellinos desperate race against time to find out who killed his friend while knowing he was next on the list & reveals the daring undercover police mission which unmasked the killers. Based on new & exclusive interviews & the testimony of investigators Mafia supergrasses survivors relatives & friends VENDETTA recounts the events hour-by-hour minute-by-minute as the Mafiosi plan & carry out the murders & as the police hunt them down. ...

Michael Dibdins gripping Italian mysteries Ratking" " Vendetta" & " Cabal" have been repackaged to tie in with the primetime "BBC One" feature length dramas starring Rufus Sewell as detective Aurelio Zen." ...