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Paperback. Condición: Good. As an amateur jockey, Roland Britten was lucky; as an accountant he was zea lous. He knew he was on the hate list of several fraudsters, but never thou ght pen-pushers got kidnapped - not from a racecourse. Not after winning th e Cheltenham Gold Cup. The identity of the kidnappers unknown, the reason b ehind Britten's abduction is a mystery. Then, with the help of old school h eadmistress Hilary Pinlock, he escapes and begins to use his accountant's l ogic to track his abductors down. But they have other ideas .'Dick Franci s holds his form like a top-class chaser' The Times Literary Supplement.

Condición: Very Good. Addressing American industry's continuing decline in foreign and domestic m arkets, Peters (In Pursuit of Excellence) here offers a detailed plan for u nstructured business activity in which some readers will see not only chaos but anarchy. Nevertheless, the author's perception of high quality as a de termining consumer motivation and his radical recipe for achieving it are p ersuasive. Noting that smaller service-oriented businesses like Federal Exp ress prosper while mammoth GE and GM falter, Peters would largely eliminate top-heavy management superstructures in favor of creative worker involveme nt and customer participation, with supervisors on hand to encourage. This textbook cites dozens of specific business situations and person-to-person responses in support of its step-by-step instructions for turning a failing enterprise aroundif those involved can act fast.

Condición: Good. In the summer of 1686, Alex marries his cousin, Louise and they are happily awaiting the arrival of their first child. But their world is shattered wh en the baby is born prematurely, and in the aftermath of the ensuing traged y, grief and guilt affect their marriage.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Ingeniously plotted and seething with grotesque characters, the striking fi rst novel in a new Gothic Victorian crime series will grip readers from its first dark pages Murder is rampant in Early Victorian London. Detective Inspector Newsome of the new Detective Force decides to recruit a recently-apprehended master criminal to help bring the culprits to justice. A polymath with a mysterious past, the man is no eager volunteer. And when the ghastly murder of conjoined twins galvanizes the city, Newsome blackmails his prisoner-Noah Dyson, as he calls himself-into working with the Force's finest: Sergeant George Williamson. Unknown to the policemen, the criminal genius behind the murder shares a dark past with their new associate. It is not justice that is on Dyson's mind, but retribution. As Williamson and Dyson together close the net, the murder-rate soars and the streets of London begin to burn.

Paperback. Condición: Good. What Your Star Sign Says About Life, Love and Relationships Astrological guide to love, life and relationships for teenager girls. Each chapter presents information on one of the 12 signs including personality, finance, compatibility with other signs and passions.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Taking up where his A Year in Provence leaves off, Peter Mayle offers us an other funny, beautifully (and deliciously) evocative book about life in Pro vence. With tales only one who lives there could knowof finding gold coins while digging in the garden, of indulging in sumptuous feasts at truck sto psand with characters introduced with great affection and witthe gendarme fallen from grace, the summer visitors ever trying the patience of even th e most genial Provençaux, the straightforward dog "Boy". Toujours Provence is a heart-warming portrait of a place where, if you can't quite "get away from it all," you can surely have a very good time trying.

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Paperback. Condición: Good. Synopsis:nnI wonder if I should keep these diaries under lock and key. Je nny Spede has disturbed them again. What does she make, I wonder, of an o ld woman, deformed by arthritis, stripping naked for a young man? The pills worry me more. Ten is such a round number to be missing. nnMathilda Gi llespie's body was found nearly two days after she had taken an overdose an d slashed her wrists with a Stanley knife. But what shocked Dr Sarah Blaken ey the most was the scold's bridle obscuring the dead woman's face, a metal contraption grotesquely adorned with a garland of nettles and Michaelmas d aisies. What happened at Cedar House in the tortured hours before Mathilda' s death?nnThe police assume that the coroner will return a verdict of sui cide. Only Dr Blakeney, it seems, doubts the verdict. Until it is discovere d that Mathilda's diaries have disappeared.nn'An atmosphere of tantaliz ing, overpowering menace. The tradition of the English whodunnit has pass ed into the safe hands and dangerous imagination of Minette Walters' The Ti mes.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Synopsis:nnThe girls in Maia's class told her what to expect when she rea ched the Brazilian jungle. 'There are huge mosquitoes which bite you. You t urn as yellow as a lemon and then you die.' But Maia, an orphan, can't wait to start the long sea voyage. She is to begin a new life with relatives sh e has never met, a thousand miles up the Amazon river. And Maia's classmate s could never, even in their wildest dreams, imagine the adventures that aw ait her on the shores of River Sea.nnReview:nnSent in 1910 to live with distant relatives who own a rubber plantation along the Amazon River, Engl ish orphan Maia is excited. She believes she is in for brightly colored mac aws, enormous butterflies, and "curtains of sweetly scented orchids trailin g from the trees." Her British classmates warn her of man-eating alligators and wild, murderous Indians. Unfortunately, no one cautions Maia about her nasty, xenophobic cousins, who douse the house in bug spray and forbid her from venturing beyond their coiffed compound. Maia, however, is resourcefu l enough to find herself smack in the middle of more excitement than she ev er imagined, from a mysterious "Indian" with an inheritance, to an itineran t actor dreading his impending adolescence, to a remarkable journey down th e Amazon in search of the legendary giant sloth.nnEva Ibbotson, author of Dial-A- Ghost, Island of the Aunts, and other positively delightful and dr oll fantasies, won a Gold Award for this book in the 2001 Nestlé Smarties B ook Prizes. Likable heroines, loathsome villains, and splendid adventures-- -along with Kevin Hawkes's appealing ink illustrations--make Ibbotson's nov.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged.nnAft er twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vi enna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her arist ocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansio n in Germany.nnAbout the Author:nnEva Ibbotson was born in Vienna, but spent her early childhood travelling backwards and forwards across Europe b etween the homes of her father, a scientist, and her mother, a novelist, wh o separated when she was three. When the Nazis came to power, her family fl ed to England. She lives in Newcastle, where she brought up her four childr en and has written the best-selling novels for both adults and children tha t have been published all around the world.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Arriman the Awful, feared Wizard of the North, has decided to marry. But hi s wife must be a witch of the darkest powers.nnA sorcery competition is held to discover which witch is the most potent and fiendish, and glamorou s Madame Olympia conjures up a thousand plague-bearing rats! Belladonna, th e white witch, desperately wants to be a wicked enchantress, but her magic produces flowers instead of snakes. How can she become more devilish than a ll the other witches?

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. In Boston's largest hospital, two patients undergoing routine surgery fall victim to a baffling mishap. They never regain consciousness. Fighting against the scorn of her colleagues and the medical establishment, one brave woman starts to investigate the coma cases: steadily uncovering something unbelievably hideous .Coma. The fear will never leave you. 'Master of the medical thriller' New York Times.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Synopsis: Biomolecular researcher Victor Stein creates a son through the surrogacy process, and while this superior being develops fantastically well for a time, things soon begin to change horribly.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Synopsis: Our story begins in the year 1001 and the toddler, Thorgils Leiffson, son of Leif the Lucky and Thorgunna, arrives on the shores of Brattahlid in Greenland to be brought up in the fostercare of a young woman - Gudrid. Thorgils is a rootless character of quicksilver intelligence and adaptability. He has inherited his mother's ability of second sight and his destiny lies beyond the imagination of those around him. Virtually orphaned, he is raised by various mentors, who teach him the ancient ways and warn him of the invasion of the 'White Christ' into the land of the 'Old Gods'. Thorgils is guided by a restless quest for adventure and the wanderlust of his favoured god, Odinn. His fortunes take him into many dangerous situations as well as to the brink of death by execution, in battle, disease and shipwreck. Packed with wonderfully reimagined Viking sagas and adventures, and fascinating and unique characters, "Viking - Odinn's Child" gives historical novel writing a new dimension.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Synopsis: It is Constantinople in 1035, and Thorgils has become a member of the Varangian lifeguard, where he witnesses the glories of the richest city on earth. He embarks on a campaign launched to recover Sicily from the Saracens. After years of traveling, Thorgils retreats to Sweden, but is eventually summoned again to assist in coordinating William the Conqueror's invasion of England. In September 1066, a Norse fleet of three hundred ships sails towards England and the battle begins. It is a prophetic dream that makes Thorgils warn the troops of the impending disaster at Stamford Bridge, but even he cannot turn aside what fate has decreed--the end of the Viking world.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Synopsis: Book by Hailey, Arthur From AudioFile: "Predictable" and "formulaic" aptly describe this Arthur Hailey novel, which follow a cast of characters whose loves and lives converge at the luxurious St. Gregory Hotel in New Orleans. Yet through skillful abridgment and Victor Garber's ability to depict characters with various accents, this fast-paced audiobook is quite enjoyable. It would make great listening for a long trip. A.A.B. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Synopsis: Pan edition paperback vg++ In stock shipped from our UK warehouse From the Inside Flap: nd final volume of The Saga of Pliocene Exile. Until the arrival of Aiken Drum, the 100,000 humans who had fled backward in time to Pliocene exile on Earth knew little but slavery to the Tanu -- the humanoid aliens who came from another galaxy. But King Aiken's rule is precarious, for the Tanu's twisted bretheren are secretly maneuvering to bring about his downfall. Worse -- Aiken is about to confront a man of incredibly powerful Talents who nearly overthrew a galactic rule. He is Marc Remillard. Call him . . . The Adversary.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Luke Hadler turns a gun on his wife and child, then himself. The farming co mmunity of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily. If one of their own broke under the strain, well . When Federal Police investigator Aaro n Falk returns to Kiewarra for the funerals, he is loath to confront the pe ople who rejected him twenty years earlier. But when his investigative skil ls are called on, the facts of the Hadler case start to make him doubt this murder-suicide charge. And as Falk probes deeper into the killings, old wo unds start bleeding into fresh ones. For Falk and his childhood friend Luke shared a secret . A secret Falk thought long-buried . A secret which L uke's death starts to bring to the surface.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Packed with incident and anecdote, this is vintage Simpson and gives reader s a unique insight into the way a journalist follows a story, even when the odds are stacked against them.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Four men gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the last orders of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and deliver his ashes to the sea. As they drive towards the fulfillment of their mission, their errand becomes an extraordinary journey into their collective and individual pasts. Braiding these men's voices, and that of Jack's widow, into a choir of sorrow and resentment, passion and regret, Swift creates a testament to a changing England and to enduring mortality.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Moriarty lives again and revolts against the upstart criminals who have att empted to oust him from his rightful place as king of all criminal endeavou r.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Heather should be happy. She's got a boyfriend, she's passing her first col lege course, and better yet, her dad's moving out. On the down side, her bo ss, Dr Veatch, may well be the most boring man on the planet . But that h ardly seems reason enough to put a bullet through his head.

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Paperback. Condición: Good. A murder mystery about the search for a psychopath who murders a young coup le. In the 87th PRECINCT series.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Adrift in a rapidly changing world, the Bevan family cling to tradition whi le wrestling with taxes, tree blight and the need to keep the family skelet on firmly in the cupboard. Enter Maggie, an opinionated and occasionally fe rocious American journalist for CBS's hard-hitting current affairs show New sline. Far happier sending dispatches from the trenches of war-torn anywher e, Maggie is none too pleased at being forced to research a documentary on the decline and fall of England's upper classes. When these two world's col lide no one is prepared for the fallout.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Melissa Fuller, gossip columnist of the fictional "New York Journal" is on the brink of losing her job. This particular morning, she is 68 minutes lat e for work - making it her 37th late arrival so far this year. Human Resour ces have given her another official warning, her boss seriously doubts her commitment to the paper and, more importantly, even her best friend has beg un to worry about her psychological well being. This time, however, Melissa has a real excuse. She has just saved her elderly neighbour from a near-fa tal attack, taken her to hospital and in the process become sole custodian of Paco, her Great Dane - not the ideal accessory for a New York City girl. Melissa urgently needs to trace her neighbour's only relative and when she finally meets him the real trouble starts.

Paperback. Condición: Good. On a warm summer night in Oslo, Martin draws Stella into one of the risky g ames that have defined their ten years together: a balancing act on the edg e of their rooftop, seven stories up. Amid the shouts of horrified onlooker s, Stella stumbles, falling for a moment into Martin's arms before plummeti ng to her death. (Did he try to save her?)So begins Linn Ullmann's transfix ing tale of a jealous wife, compliant mistress, treasured friend, angelic n urse, unloved daughter, devoted mother - and finally, a woman possessed of a secret now forever lost to the living. As Stella's life unfolds in the re collections of those she has left beind, we observe the fabric of many unra velling lives. And as Stella herself bears witness from a place beyond deat h, we come to understand how precarious her life was behind its facade of l oveliness and order. With a quiet power, STELLA DESCENDING gives us the backlit dailiness - and the dark metaphysical underworld - of life in a fabled metropolis. And in brilliantly evoking the loneliness that haunts all our intimacies, it becomes a fable of life everywhere.

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Condición: Very Good. Moore has many hysterical things to say about deserving targets of all poli tical persuasions from the anaemic left to the giddy right. Hailed as 'bril liant' and 'subversive' on both sides of the Atlantic, TV NATION champions the issues which concern us all - from the heavyweight to the just plain ir ksome. Only in TV NATION will you witness the unthinkable - Mexican and Afr ican Americans gatecrashing a Ku Klux Klan rally to regale them with love s ongs and install a kissing booth - and the simply wish-fulfilling - the hom e of the director of the largest car alarm company in America being woken t o the tuneful chorus of a dozen car alarms at 6am. If you have ever felt po werless or at the mercy of 'the system', ADVENTURES IN A TV NATION is guara nteed to lift your spirits.