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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 on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, two men dressed as police officers entered Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, tied up the guards, and escaped with 500 million dollars' worth of paintings. The heist provoked a massive search for both the thieves and the lost masterpieces. But the paintings never surfaced and the mystery remained unsolved. Now, almost twenty years later, the case threatens to break wide open.When attorney Scott Finn agrees to help an old friend from Southie, Devon Malley, he has no idea of the trouble he is bringing upon himself. Members of Boston's criminal underworld start turning up dead, and the M.O. of the attacks suggests the involvement of someone trained by the IRA. But when Finn learns of Malley's role in the heist, he's quickly drawn into the crossfire, and into the renewed hunt for the missing artwork...A hunt that may cost Finn… Leer más

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Josephine Hurst has her family under control. With two beautiful daughters, a brilliantly intelligent son, a tech-guru husband, and a historical landmark home, her life is picture-perfect. She has everything she wants all she has to do is keep it that way. But living in this matriarch's determinedly cheerful, yet subtly controlling domain hasn't been easy for her family, and when her oldest daughter Rose, runs off with a mysterious boyfriend, Josephine tightens her grip, gradually turning her flawless home into a darker sort of prison.Resentful of her sister's newfound freedom, Violet turns to Eastern philosophy, hallucinogenic drugs, and extreme fasting, eventually landing herself in the pysch ward. Meanwhile, her brother, Will, shrinks further into a world of self-doubt. Recently diagnosed with Asperger's and epilepsy, he's separated from the other kids around town and is… Leer más

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Welcome to Lomaverde - a new Spanish utopia for those seeking their place in the sun. Now a ghost town where feral cats outnumber the handful of anxious residents. A place of empty pools, long afternoons and unrelenting sunshine.Here, widowed Midlands bus driver Dermot Lynch turns up one bright morning. He's come to visit his son Eamonn and his girlfriend, Laura. Except Eamonn never opened Dermot's letter announcing his trip. Just like he can't quite get out of bed, or fix anything, or admit Laura has left him.Though neither father nor son knows quite what to make of the other, Lomaverde's Brits - Roger and Cheryl, Becca and Ian - see in Dermot a shot of fresh blood. Someone to enliven their goat-hunting trips, their paranoid speculations, the endless barbecuing and bickering.As Dermot and Eamonn gradually reveal to one another the truth about why each left home, both get… Leer más

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.They call them revivors - technologically reanimated corpses - and away from the public eye, they do humanity's dirtiest work. In the near future, where a never-ending war drones on, they are the infantry. Back home, they sustain a black-market trade in labour and pleasure models.If Nico Wachalowski never sees another revivor, it will be too soon. He chose to fight alongside - and against - them rather than allowing his corpse to later be revived for military service. But now, back home and working as a field agent for the FBI, he's sent to bust a smuggling ring trafficking revivors for the sex trade. What he finds is not pleasure models, but revivors that are custom-made to kill, and a massive stockpile of weapons. Someone is taking a war to the streets. Nico soon realizes that the twisted roots of this conspiracy go unfathomably deep - and that there may be more to revivors… Leer más

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.It was past two in the morning and Alice Marlowe was in bed alone when the phone rang. Lifting the receiver, she heard the voice of a child at the other end - a child who was clearly frightened, reluctant to reveal too much and, like Alice, all alone.After a brief, halting conversation - and before she knows quite what she's doing - Alice is at the little girl's apartment. She has no idea where Larissa Benton's mother has gone or when she's coming back. She knows the right thing to do is to call the police. But when they arrive and carry a crying Larissa away, accompanied by a social worker, Alice finds it difficult to let her go.She had no plans to bring a child into her life. She is single, in her late forties. She lives with a cat named Sampson and has imaginary conversations with her dead twin brother. As a sign-language interpreter for the deaf, she is used to standing… Leer más

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The Masterly Stories of Mary Gordon return us to the pleasure of this writer's craft and to her monumental talent as an observer of character and of the ever-fading American Dream. These pieces encompass the pre- and post war Irish American family life she circles in the early Temporary Shelter series, as well as a wealth of new fiction that brings her contemporary characters into middle age; it is their turn to face bodily decline, mortality, and the more complex anxieties of modern life. Gordon captures the sharp scent of feelings as they shift, the shape of particular lives in their hope and incomprehensibility. In "The Neighbourhood," a seven-year-old who has lost her father finds birthday parties, with their noisy games and spun-sugar roses on fancy cakes, her greatest trial. "City Life" explores the dark side of Manhattan apartment living. "Intertextuality" proposes a… Leer más

Large print - in good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Over a hundred years ago, Nikola Tesla created a device for transferring electricity without wires. It was supposed to be his greatest triumph. Instead, his invention spawned a nightmare so terrifying that it was hidden from the world...until now. Unusual surges of electricity are being tracked emanating from the former Yugoslavia. Special Agent John Taft of the National Intelligence Agency is dispatched to investigate the phenomenon, and uncovers a conspiracy of terror, led by a fanatical Serbian nationalist and powered by a machine capable of targeting any location on the globe-and causing apocalyptic earthquakes to strike on command. Now, as the terrorists fell cities at will with their earth-shattering weapon, Taft must fight a battle on dangerous ground, against an unstable foe whose greatest desire is to control the world--or destroy it.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Army Intelligence reservist Kat Caldwell is teaching Arabic at a military college in Virginia when the order comes: Retired spy chief Dick Morrow needs to find a CIA informant who has slipped away from his handler in Spain and may be heading to Morocco. Jamal was a prisoner whom Kat interrogated when she worked at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan. Having gained his trust, she is now expected to discover his whereabouts on a treacherous trail that leads from Madrid's red-light district to the slums of Casablanca. But when a British Special Forces soldier is murdered just as he is about to give testimony on the death of a Bagram detainee, Kat begins to suspect that the real story here is one of the cover-up of U.S.-sanctioned torture. And when in desperation Jamal contacts his former CIA handler, he unwittingly rekindles a bitter struggle between the one man who can save him and… Leer más

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.From theft and fraud to murder, The World's Greatest Unsolved Crimes examines the facts behind the most intriguing crimes of all - those that remain unsolved.Such cases are the stuff of whodunnits. But this book is based on real life and not fiction. It reveals the astonishing known facts about real acts of villiany ... and it probes the fascinating, missing facts that confound the law and are kept in a file marked 'Unsolved'.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A short story collection written in a tough, dry style follows the fortunes of a diverse group of characters on singularly American pilgrimages, including an East Coast girl who dares a cowboy to whisk her away to the Rocky Mountains. A first collection.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When James the Sixth, His Grace of Scotland, also becomes His Majesty of England, far-reaching changes take place in the two realms.David Murray, the young son of Sir Andrew, a Perthshire laird, has no aspirations to greatness. Then a chance encounter with King James the Sixth leads to his becoming Cup Bearer and Master of the Horse to his young liege. Together with James;s foster brother John Erskine, Master of Mar, the three men enter a new era of political intrigue and dynastic manoeuvring.When David meets and falls in love with Elizabeth Beaton he hopes that he can distance himself from court events and lead a quiet family life in his beloved Perthshire hills. But the demands of a right royal friend lead him straight back into the thick of one of the most notable periods of Scots and English history.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Remedial English teacher and psychic Jim Rook has been feeling out of sorts all summer, and things only get worse when, on the first day of the Fall semester, he runs over and kills his pet cat, Tiddles. But halfway through his first class, enigmatic new Korean student Kim Dong Wook arrives...with a gift for his teacher. Inside the basket he presents to Jim is a living, healthy cat that not only looks like Tiddles, it is Tiddles. The Korean spirit Kwisin, Jim is told, is saying "thank you" in advance. But what for? Jim can't help but feel deeply uneasy...

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In her dramatic follow-up to the sensational bestseller I Could Do Anything If Only I Knew What It Was, Barbara Sher offers a dynamic new step-by-step program that will help you create a life you can truly love. By using Sher's practical exercises and bold, innovative strategies, you can make your 'impossible' dreams possible, reachable, and real - in just ten easy step-by-step lessons.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The ExposéMikael Blomkvist has made his reputation exposing corrupt establishment figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with an investigation into sex trafficking, Blomkvist cannot resist waging war on the powerful figures within this lucrative industry.The MurderWhen a young couple are found dead in their Stockholm apartment, it's a straightforward job for Inspector Bublanski and his team. The killer left the weapon at the scene - and the fingerprints on the gun point in only one direction.The Girl Who Played With FireLisbeth Salander is wanted for murder. Her history of vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society - but no-one can find her. The only way Salander can be reached is by computer. But she can break into almost any network she chooses. . .

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.It is generally supposed that until this century and after the First World War, all Royal Marriages were arranged for political or national motivesThese included the acquisition of territory and the optimistic hope that the linking of two Ruling houses would ensure peace for the peoples over whom they ruled.Ninety-nine people out of a hundred were also sure that when Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, now our beloved Queen Mother, married the Duke of York, later George VI, it was the first love-match in Britain.I have therefore found it fascinating to discover that the first English King to marry for love was William the Conqueror. Far more Royalty in Europe have made love-matches than anyone had ever imagined. I do hope you enjoy reading about some of them.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Maya Cantescu, an art student in the San Francisco Bay Area, has more secrets than she can handle. Some she keeps from herself, like her mysterious talent for sorcery. Some she knows too well, like the rare disease that threatens to kill her - or someone else.When she meets Tor Thorlaksson, a sorcerer and runemaster, he seems to offer an escape from her deadly problems. But he knows secrets about them both, and these could turn her world upside-down.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The US President is Dead - and the Weight of the World falls on Jack Ryan's shoulders, in Tom Clancy's most extraordinary novel.A runaway Jumbo Jet has crashed into the Capitol Building in Washington, leaving the President dead, along with most of the Cabinet and Congress. Dazed and confused, the man who only minutes before was confirmed as the new caretaker Vice-President is told that he is now President of the United States.President John Patrick Ryan.But how do you run a government without a government? Where do you even begin? Ryan knows that the eyes of the world are on him now - and many of them are unfriendly. In Beijing, in Tehran and even in Washington, there are those eager to take advantage. Soon they will make their moves; soon they will present Jack Ryan with a crisis so great even he could not imagine it.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.It's only Too Late If You Don't Start Now is a provocative guide for defining dreams and realising them - in life's second and most rewarding half.Barbara Sher, who has transformed the lives of millions with her bestselling books, lectures and workshops, has created a dynamic new program for identifying and reclaiming dreams that have been lost along the way - and for creating a new life after forty.It's never too late to start over. In fact, midlife is the time to do it, a time when dreams for the future and experiences of the past finally come together. Sher shows readers how to identify the illusions that hold them back, then using enlightening exercises such as tracking dreams and constructing a thirty-year plan, she shows exactly how to tackle a new life.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights for books the postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A battle is an awe-inspiring and a terrible event, no matter whether it be fought with sword, lance, pike and cross-bow; musket, sabre and cannon; or machine-gun, high velocity shells and tanks and aircraft. In battle a large number of men fight each other to the death; many are killed, many wounded. War is ugly, battle is brutal.Yet there is another side to it, which does not alter the main fact that war and battle are horrible. In battle men willingly risk death or mutilation for what they believe to be right. One would not say that every soldier who has fought in battle went voluntarily, or even understood what he was fighting for. Yet there are always some, often many, who fight and kill for what they believe to be a just cause. Ordinary men become inspired to unexpected heights of courage and become selfless. Many a man has fought willingly, and died without complaining, because… Leer más