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In good condition - has markings from use - has slight yellowing to page ends - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Excerpt"The images of Catherine that have spanned three centuries testify to the strong emotions her life aroused at the time and long afterwards. On the one hand, the title and surtitle added to her Russian name - Empress Catherine the Great - conjure up notions of imperial splendor, military glory, political genius, territorial advance, and intellectual brilliance. Challenging such praise, on the other hand, are the attacks of an army of critics and moralists who brand her an adultress, usurper, murderess, tyrant, conqueror, oppressor, hypocrite, egotist, bad mother, nymphomaniac, and worse. One favourite label, applied by friend and foe, is "the Semiramis of the North" - after the mythical Queen of Babylonia who used charm and religion to usurp the throne and rule over her contentious subjects. Another comparison was with Messalina, the lustful third… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.American, Muslim, and Proud - One's Family's StoryFor many Americans, the words "American" and "Muslim" simply do not marry well. For many, the combination is an anathema, a contradiction in values, loyalties, and identities. This is the story of how, through the lives, their schools, their friends, and their neighbours, one American Muslim family ended up living the challenges, myths, fears, hopes, and dreams of all Americans.In this moving memoir, Ranya Tabari Idliby explores what it means to be Muslim in America today and reveals the obstacles she faces as she tries to raise her children and teach them about their heritage and religious legacy. She discusses life in a world where hostility toward Muslims runs rampant, where there is an entire industry of anti-Muslim sentiment financed and supported by think tanks, authors, film makers, and individual vigilantes whose sole… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Juvela is different.Growing up in a prosperous city of merchant prines, Juvela discovers that she can see what others can't. The very currents of the celestial are open to her, and that includes the truths they hide: An escalating series of unsolved kidnappings have been haunting the city-state, leaving its shadows pooled deep with innocent blood.Has Juvela been cursed with the forbidden Witches' Kiss - or perhaps something worse?Yet, more is to come, for not only has she witnessed an abduction, but she will have to endure a role in the victim's ritual death. For Juvela is about to become forsaken, and that's before she learns the real truth of not just the dark crimes plaguing Ossard, but the wider world: A world at war, and governed by gods whose highest pleasure is to sup on the taste of death.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The new romantic thriller from a master storyteller.On a bright summer's day a young girl, carefree and smiling, receives an ominous warning from an old gypsy woman, a warning that she will never be able to forget. Some years later, another young woman is caught up, unwittingly, in Alex's sinister story.Imogen Voisey arrives at Upton Stowey House as governess to little Janine, daughter of the dangerously attractive Bradley Palmer. Janine's mother Alexandra died in mysterious circumstances and now Brad's second wife, Rosalie, has also disappeared. Rumours abound concerning the role of Brad Palmer in the fate of his two wives. Against her will and despite the powerful emotions his presence arouses in her, Imogen is forced to confront these rumours and establish, for herself and for Janine, the truth?

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A coaching accident has left nineteen-year-old Davina Grimes without a family, and with no memory of her past life. When her well-meaning grandparents introduce her to wealthy Bristol businessman John Paterson, she is compelled to accept his proposal of marriage, even though she finds him abhorrent. Not only is Paterson years older than her, but he has made his fortune through the slave-trade.Davina settles reluctantly into her new life as a lady of leisure amongst Bristol's merchant class. But a chance encounter with a handsome stranger who accosts her in the street, calling her 'Rowan' and claiming to have known her in her past life, stirs up long-suppressed recollections of her youth, and rekindles dangerous emotions. As her memory returns, and she starts to piece together the fragments of her past, Davina uncovers evidence of a sinister conspiracy to prevent her from… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.One hot Saturday, thirteen-year-old Genette Tate took her bicycle out of the garden shed and set off on a weekend paper round. Hours later, two of her friends found her bicycle lying abandoned at the side of a quiet country lane. Despite a massive police operation and intense media publicity, John Tate is still no nearer to knowing his daughter's fate. Genette: Where is She Now? tells the story of John Tate's ordeal, and how he discovered a new faith and hope in his darkest moments.But it is more than one man's story. Out of this tragedy, the organization International Find a Child was born, dedicated to help the growing number of parents whose children vanish each year.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.LOOKING BACK, Martha could have said no when Mr Booker first tried to kiss her. That would have been the sensible thing to do. But she's sixteen, she lives in a small dull town - a cemetery with lights - her father's mad, her home's stifling and she's waiting for the rest of her life to begin. Of course Martha would kiss the charming Englishman who brightened her world with style, adventure, whiskey and the promise of sex.But Martha didn't count on the consequences.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Jack Irish has no shortage of friends. Jockeys and journos, lawyers ad standover men, people in nameless occupations who aren't in the phone book. These days, though, the only family he sees are Irish men in faded football team photographs on the pub wall.So when Des Connors, the last link to his father, calls to ask for help in the matter of a missing son, Jack is happy to lend a hand.But sometimes prodigal sons go missing for a reason. As Jack begins to dig, he discovers that Gary Connors was a man with something to hide.And his friends are people with darker, more deadly secrets.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Set in Revolutionary France, this atmospheric novel explores the life of `La Belle Pamela'. As a child Pamela Sims is taken from England to the French court, where she is brought up in luxury as the illegitimate daughter of Madame de Genlis. Exploring how her past shaped the extraordinary lives of Pamela and her daughter, this novel captures the atmosphere of 18th-century France and the complexity of a world where your origins are everything.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.'I am a wanderer: one with a hoarder's love of houses and things...I am tracing here a memory map of all the places that have stayed with me and, since this is also a map of all the voyages of discovery, this is also the story of the getting to those places.'In Memory Maps, her most personal book since the bestselling The Hacienda, Lisa St Aubin de Teràn charts a life spent in all corners of the world, from Wimbledon to the Venezuelan Andes, from the Caribbean to Ghana, and confesses to wanderlust and fate being her chief guides. An itinerant lifestyle creates an unpredictable personal life; Memory Maps is the extraordinarily vivid record of a life lived without boundaries.

In good condition - has price sticker of 29 cents on front cover - has markings from use -due to differing weights of books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When war with Germany was declared in August, 1914, few people believed that it would last longer than December. Few people doubted that Britain would not be able to crush the aggressor by Christmas, so that for the first few months at least, the British people were able to look ahead to the aftermath of victory. But soon the harsh truth became known. For five long years, in summer and in winter, the dreadful reality of war in the trenches struck home. Amidst the carnage and the slaughter, suffocated by the acrid smell of cordite, men fought and won, battling not only against an enemy but also against the appalling shambles that was THE WESTERN FRONT 1914-1918.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout."His last prayer was more than forty years ago, and it went unanswered, so there is no use trying again. He can see his home in the distance: the marquee in the garden, his yacht at anchor. It is all like a simple parable. The rich man, the fat man, gets his comeuppance. Absurd, that he will be found dead wearing nothing but Speedos - it almost makes him laugh."

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Popular children's story by Brothers Grimm, Hansel and Gretel tells the story of two small children getting lost in forest and being found by a wicked witch, who wants to eat them. A Little Golden Book

In good condition - has markings from use - has small markings on top left of front cover - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Eat Well, stay active and take controlTYPE 2 DIABETES is a health priority for everyone. One in 12 adults now has diabetes. In the over 65's, it's now one in three. Chances are that diabetes could affect you, your friends or your family. Diabetes has the potential to impact on many aspects of your health, from your head to your toes. But there are many opportunities to beat diabetes or reduce its impact. The key is making simple changes to your diet and lifestyle to follow for life.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Kathleen is facing old age alone. Between her selfish children - 'Brain' and his straying wife, and daughter Shamrock and Shamrock's hubby the 'Big Developer' - there is no longer a place for her. But Passing Downs Old People's Home is still not the place for a woman like Kathleen. She is not ready for that and they're not ready for her.'I've skipped the grandma years,' Kathleen said. 'The four ages of women: bimbo, breeder, baby-sitter, burden...I've cut and run. Wasn't going to tell a soul but I've decided cutting and running is what it's all about.'

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A terrific storm on a night in the mid 1850's brings tragedy to Adamslee, an impoverished village on the south west coast of England. The Paloma, a ship bringing the 38th Regiment of Foot back home from the Crimea, runs aground with the loss of 412 lives of soldiers, their wives and children.There is one survivor, the mysterious and handsome Joby Lancer. And in the ensuing months Lancer's life becomes entangled with the lives of some local villagers, including a village girl, a farmer's wife, the leader of the local smugglers, and highwayman "Buckingham Joe".

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Missionary Stew follows political fund-raiser Draper Haere's quest to get dirt on his boss's opponent in the 1984 U.S. presidential election by uncovering the secret behind a right-wing coup in an unnamed Central American country. His pursuit of the truth repeatedly puts Haere's life in danger, as the powers-that-be will stop at nothing to keep the episode buried. Along the way, Haere carries on an affair with his candidate's wife and enlists the aid of Morgan Citron, an almost-Pulitzer-winning journalist who once spent thirteen months in an African prison where the prisoners were fed human flesh - the titular missionary stew. Together, Citron and Haere face cocaine traffickers, Latin American generals, corrupt U.S. officials, and Citron's estranged, tabloid-publisher mother.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Would you be wary if someone gave you the assignment of delivering five million dollars to a Philippine terrorist - never mind from whom or why? Booth Stallings, a terrorism expert just fired from his job at a bashful organization that never admitted its mount in the Washington merry-go-round, is wary. So wary that he cuts in con man "Otherguy" Overby, who in turn involves Artie Wu, pretender to the throne of China, and his partner, Quincy Durant. Obviously, good patriots don't want to hand over all that money to bad guys. Better they keep it for themselves. Which inevitably raises the question: Who among them will end up with the money?

Large print - in good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Sadie's life is calm and complete. She is a mother, a good friend, and the robust survivor of a marriage she deliberately left behind. She has come to believe that she has everything she wants, or deserves. But now her father is dying: the vital, elusive man who spent his life creating perfumes for other women is slipping away from her. When she realises that she can never make her peace with him, Sadie begins to look back over her childhood. In pursuing his separate life, Sadie's father ignored her, subjecting her to a succession of 'aunties'. leaving her loveless and alone to fend for herself. As Sadie confronts the truth about her father, her relationship with her son Jack appears to be breaking down and she is intent on saving it. Then the arrival of one of those fleeting women from her father's past starts a train of events that even she cannot control.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.We've all dreamt about it, but for Cleo Dowling the dream becomes a reality. Lucky Cleo comes into serious money and takes herself off to the pretty village of Kilrowan in the west of Ireland to write a novel. But what happens when she loses the plot and becomes obsessed with her sexy neighbour?Dannie Moore's love life has always been complicated - and Dannie has the knack of complicating things even more. When film director Jethro Palmer chooses Kilrowan as the location for a blockbuster movie, the effect on her life is cataclysmic.Deirdre O'Dare leaves her husband Rory behind in LA to accompany her friend, movie star Eva Lavery, to Kilrowan. When the cat's away and all that...but which is the cat? Deirdre or Rory? And although Deirdre is writing Eva's biography, it would appear that the actress is not telling the truth, the whole truth...