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Sidney Sheldon
Sheldon’s sweeping saga of greed and betrayal, sabotage and danger, and the ties that can kill… roffe and sons is a family firm, an international empire filled with desperate, cash-hungry family members. at its head was one of the wealthiest men in the world, a man who has just died in a mysterious accident and left his only daughter, elizabeth, in control of the company. now as this intelligent, tough, and beautiful young woman dares to save — not sell — roffe and sons, she will have to outwit those who secretly want her power, and the unknown assassin who wants her life.
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Memoirs Of A Geisha
‘an epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world’ the times a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. many years later she tells her story from a hotel in new york, opening a window into an extraordinary half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation and summoning up a quarter of a century of japan’s dramatic history. ‘intimate and brutal, written in cool, lucid prose it is a novel whose psychological empathy and historical truths are outstanding’ mail on sunday
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Wish You Were Here
Number one bestselling author mike gayle explores beach basics for the broken-hearted in his new romantic comedy wish you were here.
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The Golem’s Eye
In their continuing adventures, magician’s apprentice nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni bartimaeus travel to prague to locate the source of a golem’s power before it destroys london.
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The Mark Of Athena
Fantasy. the greek and roman demigods will have to cooperate in order to defeat the giants released by the earth mother, gaea. then they will have to sail together to the ancient land – greece itself – to find the doors of death
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The Solar System
With informative diagrams and nasa photography, this up-to-date text informs children about basic astronomy and the secrets of the solar system.
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Dead In The Family
If you think your family relationships are complicated, think again: you haven’t seen anything like the ones in bon temps, louisiana. sookie stackhouse is dealing with a whole host of family problems, ranging from her own kin (a non-human fairy and a telepathic second cousin) demanding a place in her life, to her lover eric’s vampire sire, an ancient being, who arrives with eric’s ‘brother’ in tow at a most inopportune moment. and sookie’s tracking down a distant relation of her ailing neighbour (and ex), vampire bill compton. in addition to the multitude of family issues complicating her life, the werewolf pack of shreveport has asked sookie for a special favour, and since sookie is an obliging young woman, she agrees. but this favour for the wolves has dire results for sookie, who is still recovering from the trauma of her abduction during the fairy war.
