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In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In the land of Cymria, humans and griffins rule side by side...Arren Cardockson is a despised Northener, a people conquered and enslaved centuries ago. By freak chance, he became a griffiner - chosen by a griffin as their companion - but many people resent and fear his existence.Meanwhile, chained in a cage behind the fighting Arena where rogue griffins entertain the crowds, a mysterious dark griffin dreams of escape. Arren's meeting with this renegade creature sets his life on an inexorable path of murder, conflict...and an encounter with his past.

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Kidnapped by slavers, Lizzie Petrule was dragged in chains across the Great Sea to the corrupt empire of Meridal. There beneath a floating citadel and an ocean of golden sand, lies a pleasure den for gladiators-and a prison for the maidens forced to slake their carnal thirst.
Despite impossible odds, against imponderable magic, three men have vowed Lizzie's return: Justin, her suitor; Leon, her father; and Ril, the shape-shifting but war-weary battler. Together, this broken band can save her, but only with a word that must remain unsaid, a foe that is a friend, and a betrayal that is, at heart, an act of love.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Showdown explores the revival of the Lithuanian independence movement, beginning in 1988 when the popular front movement, Sajudis, was founded and including its February 1990 victory in the first free elections in the Soviet Union. A month later, Lithuania declared its independence. But as American author and political scientist Richard J. Krickus explains, by 1990 Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev had begun scaling back reforms and courting the neo-Stalinists. Lithuanian independence threatened to upset the Soviet Union's uneasy status quo. The Soviets' deadly response and the movement's ultimate success - with its far-reaching consequences - stunned the world.Krickus was in Lithuania as an elections monitor during the momentous days leading to independence. His eyewitness account explains how this nation of fewer than four million set in motion the forces that broke apart the vast… Read More

In good condition - ex library - markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Khrushchev: A Political Life traces the fortunes of one of this century's most colourful and controversial statesmen, from his peasant origins through his rise to supreme power and subsequent fall. Drawing on newly available material, this biography provides the most detailed account to date of Khrushchev's early life and career. Thompson also concentrates on the many contradictions of Khrushchev's years in power, such as his desire for consumer welfare and detente and determination not to sacrifice the more traditional goals of the Soviet regime.

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In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.It's a bad enough day for NYPD detective Callum Doyle when his cop partner is murdered. It's about to get a hell of a lot worse...When the dead man's replacement is also brutally killed, suspicion falls on Doyle himself. Then he receives an anonymous message. This is just the beginning, it says. Anyone he gets close to will die - and that includes Doyle's own family. The only way to keep them alive is to stay away. For good.Doyle is desperate to find out who is responsible, but when his every move puts others in danger he is forced to back off. With the investigation getting nowhere and his isolation deepening, Doyle has to ask himself an uncomfortable question: just how low is he prepared to sink in order to get his life back?

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Meet the hothouse student talent in a university Creative Writing course for would-be poets, novelists, dramatists - and some talents not so hot. Rivalries burn and grow dangerous. Sex simmers, Lucy Corth, a lecturer, is sacked, to cut overheads, and almost immediately afterwards turns out to be a published literary genius.Meantime, Vice Chancellor of the university, Caspar Ballaugh, must do what he can to suppress these internal wars and pull the college up from its low spot in the educational league tables, so that it can qualify for bigger Government money and survive. His job is made trickier by the fact that the Government's policy seems to change every other day. One way for Ballaugh to secure glory for his university might be to help get the local city a glistening European award for cultural achievement. He works on it gamely, but there are mighty snags...

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In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.From unswerving scorn to unreserved admiration, the attitude of press and public to the Royal Family frequently swings from one extreme to the other. And in recent years, no-one has felt the full breadth of opinion more than Princess Anne.But her own admission, the role of princess is not one she would have assumed through choice; but to it she has brought grace, a disarming sense of humour and her unique stamina.Anne: The Working Princess investigates every facet of a remarkable person. As wife, mother and champion horsewoman, she combines a hectic personal life with her unswerving dedication to official duties. Not satisfied with anything less than an active involvement in the countless organisations she supports, the Princess Royal undertakes over five hundred official engagements every year.And nowhere is her support more evident than in her capacity as President of the Save The… Read More

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I want them to suffer, and I want them dead . . .
Carly Chase is traumatized ten days after being in a traffic accident which kills a teenage student from Brighton University. Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare.
The drivers of the other two vehicles involved have been found tortured and murdered. Now Dectective Superintendent Roy Grace of the Sussex police force issues a stark and urgent warning to Carly: she could be next.
The student had deadly connections; connections that stretch across the Atlantic. Someone has sworn revenge and won't rest until the final person involved in that fatal accident is dead.
The police advise Carly that her only option is to go into hiding and change her identity. The terrified woman disagrees - she knows these people have ways of hunting you down anywhere. If the police are unable to stop them, she has to find a… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Once Bitten...Twice ShyTattoo artist Riley Poe is in trouble. After surviving the bite of a powerful vampire, she feels herself changing in unimaginable ways. She can no longer hide behind her normal life at the Inksomnia tattoo parlour after a recent rash of vampire attacks in Savannah has her questioning her sanity - and fearing she may have had something to do with them.Eli Dupré, her vampire lover, has seen the change in her. He tells her they must meet the patriarch of the vampire cult that attacked her if they want to prevent a total vampiric conversion.In the vampire cult's fortress in Romania, Riley will face her worst fears - and the dark powers threatening to destroy her. And she'll have to do the one thing she's been determined not to do - put her trust in Eli.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.To save their Russia they will lay waste to the worldThey are four old comrades from cadet school - one KGB, one Army, one Air Force, and one Navy. Together, they stand ready to re-establish the old Soviet Union the way they liked it best. They wait only for the perfect moment to seize control, oust Yeltsin, and assume power over the breakaway republics that will yield to their domination.Meanwhile, the tools of global mass destruction and weapons-grade nuclear material are traded on the black market by men ruthless enough to exploit the situation. Jordan Blish, a junior diplomat in the British foreign service, has stumbled onto one such perilous transaction which has terrible implications for his own life and the future of the world...

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Featuring Hauptkommissar Müller and his sidekick, Pappenheim - The fourth in the series set in the reunified Germany. As personal revelations come to light, Müller is drawn further into the web of intrigue that threatens the security and unity of the new Germany. Can Müller cope with his own past, and can he succeed in protecting his country's future?

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An electriying serial in six parts.
I gulped. My mouth was dry. How could I tell her? How could I just announce that her son's innards had been sucked out by giant worms and that his skin was probably flapping somewhere in the morning breeze?
I turned away, struggling to find the words...
It's WICKED!
It'll suck you in deeper.
And it's to be continued...

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.An electrifying serial in six parts.
I burst out of a clump of bushes and froze. Silhouetted against the moonlit sky were several massive shapes.
What if Eileen had infected something else? What if the hospital had cockroaches? Or bedbugs? What if the frogs weren't all dead.
I stifled a scream.
It's WICKED! It's got you in its grip.
And it's to be continued.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The electrifying serial reaches its breathtaking climax...
Rory's tiny breaths sounded like milkshake fighting its way up a very thin straw. His eyes were closed.
'Rory,' I said. 'Don't die. Don't die.'
His eyes fell open. They flicked wildly around. 'The goat,' he shouted.
I didn't bother looking behind me. I knew there was no goat. And I knew Rory wasn't dying. Not yet.
It's WiCKED! It's the end.
But you'll never forget it.

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'At every turn you'll find a twist.
Don't be fooled.'

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'No one here is quite like you.
But you are just like them.'

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'The game has no rules.
So watch how you play.'

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In a hospice in Bury St Edmunds, a man called Daniel is slowly fading away. His friend Maggie sits with him every day, she holds his hand and she listens to the story of his life, to his regrets and to his secrets. And then he tells her about the children he has never met and never will. He talks of them wistfully, His legacy, he calls them.Lydia, Dean and Robyn don't know each other. Yet. And they are all facing difficult changes. Lydia is still wearing the scars from her traumatic childhood and, although she is wealthy and successful, her life is lonely and disjointed.Dean is a young man, burdened with unexpected responsibility, whose life is going nowhere. And Robyn wants to be a doctor, just like her father - a man she's never met. But is her whole life built on an illusion.Three people leading three very different lives. All lost. All looking for something. But when they… Read More