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Unerringly perceptive, superbly written, every page packed with the warmth and compassionate wisdom that have become Nancy Thayer's trademark, "Heat Wave" tells the moving story of a woman who, after...

"[A] PRETTY LITTLE BOOK ABOUT MIRACLES. . .Sometimes funny, sometimes reverent, sometimes inspirational". --L.A. Daily News Sophy Burnham's name has become synonymous with angels. Her first book about the beautiful...

TV producer Fliss Benson receives an anonymous card at work. The card has sixteen numbers on it, arranged in four rows of four numbers that mean nothing to her. On...

US Navy intelligence analyst Ryan Evans is used to treating life like a code to be deciphered. But a brutal kidnapping in the Iraqi desert presents him with an excruciating...

Cissy Cahill's world is unravelling fast. One by one, her family are dying. Cissy's right to be afraid but not for the reasons she thinks. The truth is much more...

Book 1 in L. J. Smith's incredible vampire series - in love with two vampire brothers, will Elena choose good or evil? Currently streaming on Netflix and ITV-X Elena is...

Growing up, Sophie carried a terrible secret. She was her father's slave, in the most horrific ways imaginable. At just a few months old she was adopted by a couple...

When Charlie Parker was still a boy, his father, a NYPD cop, killed a young couple, a boy and a girl barely older than his son, then took his own...

Mischa knows what it is to be abandoned. His German father disappeared at the end of the war, leaving him and his mother to endure the hatred and contempt of...

Set against the first three decades of twentieth century American history, The Sucker s Kiss begins during the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Seven-year-old Thomas Moran finds himself accidentally embarking...

Three hundred years ago, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed by one of their own, and slaughtered. Now a band of killers has returned to...

When Ellen Jamieson breaks up with her long-standing boyfriend, she plans to go travelling. But first she agrees to house-sit for her parents, who are trying to find a buyer...

This is a story about a Roman Catholic priest who runs his North London parish whilst harbouring an almighty secret: he doesn't believe in God. This doesn't stop him from...

'Few recently published books have made a greater impression on me than R. T. Kendall's Total Forgiveness,' writes Robin Eames. 'I have found so much in his words to challenge...

August 1966, the long hot summer of World Cup euphoria is suddenly shattered by a brutal crime that shocks a nation seemingly at ease with itself. Three characters' fates are...

"Philosophy: Key Themes" is a beginner's guide to understanding and critiquing philosophical arguments. Each chapter introduces one of the five major themes covered on philosophy courses: theory of knowledge, moral...

An enormous landmark event in France when it was published, Cosette is the sequel to Victor Hugo's classic epic of revolutionary France Les Miserables.Fran?ois C?r?sa takes up the story in...

For ten years, newly retired Policeman Michael McLoughlin has been haunted by the case of a young woman brutally murdered and the affection he felt for the victim's mother, Margaret....

The concept of numbers and the ability to recognize and process them is innate, part of everyone's intellectual apparatus whether they've had formal education or not. This "number instinct" is...

Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates . . . An unlikely suicide or a deadly conspiracy? When Bristol Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates the fatal plunge of a man from a motorway bridge,...

HER BLISTERING NEW CRIME THRILLER Acid Row. The name the beleaguered inhabitants give to their 'sink' estate. A noman's land of single mothers and fatherless children - where angry, alienated...

Take one forged painting, two con-artists, three people with alter egos and a desperate plan to save a family business...The result is classic Jennifer Cruise: sassy, smart, drop dead sexy...

In the fifty years between 1757 and 1815, Britain lost an empire, won another and emerged from the epic Napoleonic wars as the greatest power the world had ever seen....

The body of a dead man is discovered in an overgrown cemetery in Bristol, the sign of the cross gouged into his flesh. At first it seems to coroner Jenny...

Shrinkwrap includes B format editions of The Disappeared and The CoronerThe DisappearedTwo young British students, Nazim Jamal and Rafi Hassan vanish without a trace. The police tell their parents that...

Home from Iraq, a lieutenant kills his commanding officer - was it self-defence or pre-meditated murder? The McCarrans and the Gallaghers, two families with deep ties to the military, have...

When revelation comes to Peter Thorpe he reacts in a surprising way.He throws his safe life away to pursue his passion for a mercurial woman.Hampered by disaffected millionairesses, shifty gurus,...

Jack's back - and still as barking as ever! Now that Jack has embraced his doggy alter ego - Anubis, jackal-headed god of the dead - he must travel to...

'The world will witness my despair . . .' In the heart of Beijing's business district, a man throws himself off the top of a building. Tied to an advertising...

Mary DiNunzio is strong, smart and has plenty of attitude. She's become a big-time business-getter at Rosato & Associates, but the last person she expects to walk into her office...

In the midst of her life with her small brother and unpredictable mother, Pearl is a child who strives to get things right. But the events of one summer's day...

Every great city deserves a book like this one: a sweeping chronicle by an author whose motives mix passion and bewilderment. Over the course of four and a half millennia,...