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In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town...Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure'. The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the gruesome, vicious war on the eastern front. The citizens of...
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On 28 August 1984, Josef Fritzl drugged his teenage daughter with ether and imprisoned her in an underground bunker behind eight locked doors. Over the following twenty-four years, he raped and abused her, never letting her or the children she bore him out of the dark, windowless cellar. Based on 150 new interviews...
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Lara Cameron, a young and beautiful self-made tycoon, has worked relentlessly for success, power and control of her life and personal relationships. But a discarded lover has vengeance in mind. By the author of "The Other Side of Midnight", "Master of the Game" and "Rage of Angels".
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'I lived through the Dutroux affair from the inside, and all these years I have kept silent about it - about my 'personal' Dutroux Affair, my time in the company of the most hated psychopath in Belgium. I need to write this book for three reasons: so that people stop giving me strange looks and treating me like a...
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On Sarah Whitfield's seventy-fifth birthday, memories take her back to New York in the 1930s. To a marriage that ends after a year, leaving Sarah shattered. A trip to Europe with her parents does little to raise her spirits, until she meets William, Duke of Whitfield. In time, despite her qualms, William insists on...
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell's modern fable on the way power corrupts is as apt as ever in the twenty-first century. Educational edition of this much-loved classic from Longman.
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The bestselling phenomenon of the Dollanganger family saga continues, as the children who escaped the attic build new lives, haunted by their tragic past. The children now growing to adulthood had survived their imprisonment in the dark attic and had broken free to the sunlit world outside. But they found that the...
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A supernatural thriller from 'America's most popular suspense novelist' (Rolling Stone): his most chilling, gripping and original novel to date. The Face. He's Hollywood's most dazzling star. His flawless countenance inspires the worship of millions, and fires the hatred of one twisted soul. In the days before...
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'Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamourous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a...
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On a deserted London street late one evening in 1980, a beautiful young woman is brutally killed. When Detective Smallbone is called to the scene he learns that the victim is a model, but otherwise his investigation proves fruitless. The killer left no clues and what's more no one seems to know who the victim...
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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 for their idyllic cottage in the Cotswold village of Oddlode. The village is full of quaint and eccentric characters, both blue-blooded and...
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Written by the author of "Flowers in the Attic", the story continues with the family now living as far as possible from the haunting scenes of their past, in the sunshine and joy of their new life. However the hidden secrets of the past rise up to trouble them again.
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Abby Collins wasn't in the habit of having one-night stands. Especially with strong but staid ranchers like Leo Storm. Their night together had been wilder than she'd ever imagined, but it had consequences that Abby hadn't bargained for. She was pregnant...with Leo's baby. He'd asked her to marry him--said it would...
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For twenty-five years, Julie Goodyear became part of everyone's family when she played Bet Lynch, the loveable brassy barmaid of the Rovers Return in "Coronation Street". Now, at sixty-four (the age her mother was when she died), Julie feels the time is right to tell her amazing life story. Julie Goodyear 's father...
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Among the sultry society of coastal Georgia, the Vonavendier family at Sainte's Point Island is considered mysterious, notorious, and extremely odd. Now, simple, plain Alice Riley, an outcast who is far more extraordinary than she ever imagined, is about to find love, kinship, and adventure in the family's amazing...
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The "Los Angeles Times" bestseller that has Austen lovers hooked After nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut, Courtney Stone wakes up to find herself not in her Los Angeles bedroom or even in her own body, but inside the bedchamber of a woman in Regency England. Who but an Austen addict...
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Two magicians shall appear in England. The first shall fear me; the second shall long to behold me The year is 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation's past. But scholars of this glorious history discover that one...
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The countdown has begun...A vengeful woman who aches for her place in paradise. In Iraq, an aid worker whose husband and child were killed in a brutal attack, saves the life of an American - believing he can help her avenge her family's death.An anguished mother desperate to find her child. In California, a mother...
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Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid spell that transforms her into an old lady. Her only chance at...
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"Left Behind," with over six million sold in the last five years, is now available in a paperback geared for those that appreciate the large-print format. The 15-point type is over 40 percent larger than the type in the trade paperback edition.
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