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$8.00

An irresistible novel from our number one bestselling author. From the pen of multi-million copy bestselling author Joanna Trollope comes this wonderfully moving and thought – provoking novel, pitting matters of the heart and head against each other. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James and Amanda Prowse. ‘Particularly rich and satisfying’ — Mail on Sunday ‘Clever, clever, clever… probes right to the heart of a typically modern dilemma’ Daily Mail. Good: Very tidy condition.

Vanished

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Lauren Heller and her husband Roger, a brilliant executive at a major corporation, are attacked in a Georgetown parking lot after an evening out. Knocked unconscious by the assailants, Lauren lies in a coma in the hospital while her husband has vanished without a trace. With nowhere else to turn, Lauren’s teenage son Gabe reaches out to his uncle, Nick Heller, a high-powered investigator with a corporate intelligence firm in Washington, D.C. Having returned to town on the next available flight, Nick finds Lauren conscious, the police skeptical and his older brother Roger still missing. Good: Tidy condition.

Kitty

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When 18-year-old Kitty Carlisle’s father dies unexpectedly in Norfolk in 1838, Kitty and her mother are left impoverished. After Kitty is discovered in a compromising position with an unscrupulous adventurer, her reputation is left in shreds. In desperation, her mother banishes Kitty to the colonies in disgrace, under the guardianship of her dour missionary uncle and his long-suffering wife. Against the backdrop of the wild and unruly Bay of Islands in the period leading up to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, Kitty meets and falls in love with Ryan Farrell, a rude, aloof and atheistic ships captain. When she discovers he is also a gun runner, her loyalties are torn and her tempestuous nature leads to an estrangement. The path to true love is tortuous, involving rampaging Maori war parties, illicit sexual liaisons and incarceration in Sydney’s Hyde Park Barracks, forgery, betrayal and death at sea. A tempestuous romance and a lively adventure with a fiery and memorable heroine, Kitty is a stand-alone novel. Good: Very tidy condition.

Palomino An Epic, Unputdownable Read from the Worldwide Bestseller

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Every time Samantha went back to the flat, John’s words rang through her head :’I can’t live with you any more – I’ve got to get out.’ He’s been seeing another woman, and now she was promising him the one thing Sam couldn’t give: a child. The man she had shared her life with, her love and her laughter, had lied to her.

When the agency gave her four months on a ranch she thought they were crazy. Did they think a holiday would change her? She knew she was wild and untamable, a lone free Palomino – until she met the man who could break any horse on the range and entered a world of endless and enduring love . . .An epic and romantic tale from one of the best-loved writers of all time. Very Good: Very tidy condition.

The Raiders

$12.00

Richard Garrett traces the origins of Allied special operations from the desperate early years of World War II, when Britain sought innovative ways to strike back against Axis forces. He explains how Prime Minister Winston Churchill championed the creation of the Commandos, whose daring raids on occupied Europe boosted morale, gathered intelligence, and tied down enemy troops. The book covers: The formation, selection, and rigorous training of the British Commandos. The establishment of the U.S. Army Rangers, inspired by British commando methods. Major raids and amphibious operations in Norway, France, North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and Normandy. The planning, execution, successes, and costly failures of these missions. The leadership, equipment, and tactics that influenced post-war special forces around the world. Garrett combines strategic analysis with accounts of individual acts of courage, illustrating how relatively small units could achieve objectives far beyond their numbers. The book also discusses the high risks faced by raiding forces and the evolution of combined operations during the war. Overall, The Raiders is an accessible overview of the emergence of modern special operations forces, suitable for readers interested in World War II military history, commandos, and elite fighting units.

Sustainable Democracy

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Sustainable Democracy is a joint report of twenty-one social scientists, from eleven countries and four academic disciplines, who collaborated over the period of two years under the name of the Group on East-South Systems Transformations (ESST). Their report identifies the principal political and economic choices confronting new democracies in Southern and Eastern Europe and South America, while evaluating their merits and feasibility in the light of current social science knowledge. The scientists explore the social, political and economic conditions under which democracy is likely to generate desirable and politically desired objectives, as well as, whether it is likely to last. It is argued that the state has an essential role in promoting universal citizenship and in creating conditions for a sustained economic growth. Special emphasis is placed on the interdependence between political and economic reforms. Good: Minor marks on some pages, binding is good.

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

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Grand Central station, New York. 1-23pm.

What starts as a normal day on the New York City subway becomes a race against time when a commuter train is hijacked. It is packed with passengers and the ransom is one million dollars.

The NYPD frantically pursue the train on the city streets, but the question remains- the subway is a closed system – surely there is no way out…

But the four hijackers, led by a mercenary named Ryder, have thought about this. And once they receive their ransom money, they plan to send the train off at top speed toward the terminal station where it will crash, killing all the passengers…

Wish Me Luck

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Wish Me Luck by Margaret Dickinson Wish Me Luck is an engrossing romantic saga by Margaret Dickinson, and sequel to Without Sin. Fleur Bosley didn’t believe in love at first sight, at least not until she bumped into Robbie Rodwell on a railway station in the blackout of wartime Britain. Posted to a newly-built Lincolnshire airfield, Robbie as a wireless operator on bombers and Fleur as a R/T operator in the watch office, their only escape is to the little cottage in the nearby village where Fleur is billeted with another WAAF, Ruth. The two girls become good friends, but Ruth, already hurt by the loss of one of the pilots, does not approve of wartime romances. And Ruth is not the only one to disapprove. When Fleur’s mother hears Robbie’s name she becomes hysterical and bans him from her home. The young couple are determined to grab their happiness where they can, but is it a kind Fate or a cruel one that has brought them together when secrets from the past threaten their future? Away from their families, there is fun and laughter, the aircrews determined to make the most of every day, every minute, but whenever they fly off into the night on a bombing raid, Fleur must keep watch until the early hours praying that Robbie’s plane comes back. Good: Very Tidy Condition.

Er the Weaver

$10.00

“In the tenth book of The Republic, Plato describes the experiences of Er, son of Armenius, a Pamphyllian who died in battle, but came back to life several days later, having seen at least the first parts of the way into the Land of the Dead. In this long meditative, narrative poem Nicholas Messenger follows him as he rediscovers the Living and considers the Dead”–Back cover.

In Other Places Two Novelettes: ANOTHER MOVIE MONSTER and MISSION

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ANOTHER MOVIE MONSTER and MISSION There are lands that so lend themselves to the imagination that even when you go there, they live up to your dreams. It is as if you are recalling them from somewhere beyond themselves. And later, when you remember them for real, they are more like themselves than ever. These are the lands the daydreamers and artists inhabit. We live in one ourselves, although we often forget it, because they are always Other Places. These are two books in one volume, one youthful and the other older. They find themselves conversing between these covers like travelers from different countries, sitting side-by-sidein a small bus making its way somewhere over an enormous landscape. About the author Born in 1945, NICHOLAS MESSENGER is a lifelong poet and story-teller, painter and illustrator, who grew up in New Zealand, in the Bay of Islands, and has travelled and worked in several countries, in Latin America, Europe and Asia. He has been a seaman, security guard, demolition worker and various other things. For many years he was a teacher of science, languages and art in high schools in New Zealand, and latterly, for nine years, taught English, in three different regions in Japan. His mountains are those of the West Coast of the South Island, where he was a team leader in Search and Rescue, but he has climbed those of the Andes and far and wide in Japan. He has a son and daughter. Passed away peacefully on Wednesday August 21st, 2024, in his 80th Year. Very Good: Almost like new.

The Pocket Guide to Natural Good Health

$5.00

A compact quick ready reference guide to natural health by Angela Haldane Dip Appl Sc, Naturopathy, ND (Melb)

Whispers of Betrayal

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Harry Jones is an ambitious junior minister navigating the dangerous world of British politics. When a colleague is found dead under suspicious circumstances, Harry is drawn into a web of deception, blackmail, and political intrigue that reaches the highest levels of government. As rival factions battle for power, he must decide how far he is willing to go to protect his career, uncover the truth, and survive in a system where loyalty is often a liability. The novel blends suspense, espionage, and insider political drama, exploring the personal and ethical costs of ambition. Good: Very tidy condition.

Being Elizabeth

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Elizabeth Turner, scion of the fabled Deravenel family, carries the red-gold hair and beautiful English complexion of her ancestors. And it is not just her colouring that she has inherited from Edward Deravenel. Astute and charismatic, she is also bold, daring and fiercely ambitious, with the same ruthless streak. Now, aged just twenty-five, she stands in the position she has dreamed of – inheriting the family business, Deravenels. Over eight hundred years old, the company is a bastion of male chauvinism and the challenge that lies ahead of Elizabeth is immense. Her future is threatened also by the bitter enmity of her cousin, Mary, who believes herself the rightful heir. Cecil Williams acts as Elizabeth’s mentor while navigating the treacherous corridors of power with her. But her greatest ally is her childhood friend, handsome, charming Robert Dunley. Highly intelligent, he is her match in every way — and there is a spark between them that is impossible to resist. Yet Robert is already married. When they begin an affair it scandalises those around them. But far worse is to come From the family seat perched high on the Yorkshire moors to the glamour of London as the twentieth century draws to a close, Elizabeth fights for her birthright and her inheritance.Passion, drama, betrayal and death stalk the pages of this gripping new blockbuster from the author of A Woman of Substance.

Winston Churchill Man of Destiny

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This is a compact soft covered book detailing the life of Sir Winston Churchill during the 1940s, The Second World War. Packed with photos this book gives an over view of Winston’s political activities set against the background of the war. 62 pages over 100 monochrome photos. Condition is poor significant wear to the stapled spine. Very readable.

Gifts for Our Time

$6.00

Germany 1939, and Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport, unsure that she’ll ever see her beloved mother and father again. Once in England she is taken in by elderly Mrs Pelling, who grows to love Christa as the daughter she never had. But in 1945 Mrs Pelling dies. While her will cannot be found, her money-grabbing niece appears out of the blue to claim her inheritance and turfs Christa out, with only a suitcase to her name. The prejudice against Germans still runs high in England, and Christa is unable to secure a job or a place to stay … Luck comes her way when a lady she saves from being mugged turns out to be Mayne Esher’s friend Daniel’s mother. Taking pity on Christa, they take her to Rivenshaw where they plan to start a new life as part of the Esher building firm. There Christa is welcomed with open arms and she soon develops a love for the place, the people and, Daniel … But Esherwood is not the trouble-free sanctuary she first thinks. Determined to do their bit for soldiers returning from the war. Ex-Library: Good Tidy condition

Pulse

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WITH THE STAKES SO HIGH, RACING CAN BE A DEADLY BUSINESS

Chris Rankin is a doctor, a specialist in Emergency Medicine at Cheltenham Hospital, but a doctor who also has health problems.

A smartly dressed man has been found unconscious at the local racecourse and is rushed to the hospital, where he subsequently dies. But who is he? Where does he come from? He had no form of identification on him, and no one claims the body.

Doctor Rankin is intrigued by the nameless dead man, obsessed even, and starts asking questions. However, someone doesn’t want the questions answered and will go to any lengths to prevent it, including attempting murder. But no one else believes that someone tried to kill Chris, leaving the doctor no option but to discover who the nameless man is and why he died, preferably before following him into an early grave.

The Francis brand of thrillers are bigger and bolder for a new generation!

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Not that Kind of Girl

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Henrietta Tate has always taken her role as a full-time mother and home-maker very seriously. She’s never had time for anything else. But now she and her family have moved to an idyllic house in the countryside and her teenage children are away at boarding school most of the time, she finds herself less than fulfilled by life in the sticks. Perhaps a new job working for Laurence de Havilland, the famous military historian, could provide just the distraction she needs…

Hearts Aflame and Surrender My Love Two books in one volume.

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With more than 54 million copies of her books in print and translated into 12 languages, Johanna Lindsey is one of the world’s most popular authors of historical romance. Now here are two of her bestselling novels together in this omnibus edition: Hearts Aflame, and Surrender my Love. Very Good: Almost like new.

Foursome

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Rebecca, Daniel, Alex and Isabel have been best friends since university. Rebecca married Daniel, Alex married Isabel and, for 20 years, they have been inseparable. But all that is about to change…

When Alex walks out on Isabel Rebecca thinks things can’t get any worse. But then she finds out the reason why and she’s left harbouring a secret she’d rather forget…

And not only that, Alex’s new girlfriend just happens to be Rebecca’s skinny, neurotic, self-obsessed colleague, Lorna, her arch nemesis at work and now a regular feature in her social life too.

They say you should keep your friends close and enemies closer but sometimes your best friend can become your worst enemy……

Fallen Gods

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The heat is on for DCC Bob Skinner, Scotland’s most revered and, in some circles, most feared cop. His career hangs by a thread, as a recent illness gives his enemies a weapon to use against him. A body found in the detritus of a flood is identified as the hated brother whose existence he has kept hidden for years. On the crime front, an incendiary device destroys a valuable painting in the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. As Skinner and his team tackle these crises, his wife Sarah, left in America with their children to recover from the loss of her parents, finds comfort with an old college lover. When fate leaves her staring at a seemingly inevitable murder conviction, Bob will need all his fearsome resources to sort out the tangled mess his life has become. But is he still up to the challenge…’

Beneath the Shadows

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When Grace’s husband, Adam, inherits a cottage on the Yorkshire moors, they leave London behind to try a new life. A week later, Adam disappears. The following year, Grace returns with her baby daughter, Millie . She is desperate for answers, but resigned to preparing the cottage for sale. With no-one prepared to divulge their secrets, Grace finds herself unwilling to trust anyone. Then, just as snowfall threatens to cut her off from the rest of the world, she makes a terrible discovery. In the aftermath, she realises that she has been looking in the wrong place for answers all along. In the wild winter weather she sets out to reclaim her daughter from the one person seemingly intent on taking Millie away, praying that she will reach them in time. .

Secret Keeping for Beginners

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Even the closest families have secrets … it’s when they are shared that things begin to change. The lives of three very different sisters collide in this witty new novel from bestseller Maggie Alderson. Recently divorced Rachel is juggling her new dream job in interior design PR with the demands of two young daughters. She’s full of creative ideas but – even with a colourful childminder or two – some days she can’t make it into the office in time and in matching shoes. Her life is balanced more precariously than she cares to admit. Tessa, a talented muralist, is feeling flat. Her kids are growing up and she’s feeling upstaged by her husband’s new-found celebrity as the host of a reality TV fireplace restoration show. But everything turns on its head when she gets a surprise from her past. Youngest sister Natasha leads a glamorous jetsetting life – she’s one of Vogue’s favourite make-up artists who regularly creates the looks for the biggest shows in Paris and Milan. Single and childless, she’s been focused

The Stone Carvers

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Father Archangel Gstir, a good-natured Bavarian priest, has been sent to the wilds of Canada to set up a new parish. He recruits Joseph Becker to create a crucifix. Many decades later his granddaughter Klara who has learnt Joseph’s skills is called upon to carve a monument to the Canadian dead. Good: Very tidy condition

Currawong Manor

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“Currawongs appearing at the manor in vast numbers had come to portend one thing… death was on its way. When photographer Elizabeth Thorrington is invited to document the history of Currawong Manor for a book, she is keen to investigate a mystery from years before: the disappearance of her grandfather, the notorious artist Rupert Partridge, and the deaths of his wife, Doris, and daughter, Shalimar. For decades, locals have speculated whether it was a terrible tragedy or a double murder, but the shocking truth of what happened at the manor that day has remained a secret. Relocating to the manor, Elizabeth interviews Ginger Lawson, one of Rupert’s life models from the forties, and Dolly Shaw, the daughter of the enigmatic ‘dollmaker’ who seems to have been protected by the Partridge family. Elizabeth is sure the two women know what happened all those years ago, but neither will share their truths unconditionally. And in the surrounding Owlbone Woods, a haunting presence still lurks, waiting for the currawongs. Very Good: Very tidy condition.

An Uncertain Place

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Commissaire Adamsberg leaves Paris for a three-day conference in London. With him are a young sergeant, Estalère, and Commandant Danglard, who is terrified at the idea of travelling beneath the Channel. It is the break they all need, until a macabre and brutal case comes to the attention of their colleague Radstock from New Scotland Yard.

Sex and Stravinsky

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The time is 1995, but everybody is linked by their past. Brilliant Australian Caroline can command everyone except her own ghoulish mother, which means that things aren’t easy for Josh and Zoe, her husband and twelve-year-old-daughter.
Josh has bizarre origins in a South African mining town, but now teaches mime in Bristol. Zoe reads girls’ ballet books and longs for ballet lessons; a thing denied to her until, on a school French exchange, she meets a runaway boy in a woodland hut. Meanwhile, on the east coast of Africa, Hattie Thomas, Josh’s first love, has taken to writing girls’ ballet books from the turret of her fabulous house – that’s when she can carve out the space between the forceful presence of Herman and her crosspatch daughter Cat who, after some illicit snooping, is secretly planning a make-or-break essay on mask dancers in Mali. Hattie wakes from a dream of Stravinsky’s Pulcinella and asks herself about the composer, ‘Do his glasses look sexy?’ His glasses are just like Josh’s glasses from two decades earlier. From far and wide, they are all drawn together; drawn to Jack’s place. Or is he Jacques? Or Giacomo?
Beautiful, mysterious Jack, the one-time backyard housemaid’s child who, having journeyed via Mozambique and Senegal to Milan, is back exactly where he started – only not for long.
In its mix of people from different spheres, the book throws up the complexity, cruelty and richness of the global world while, as a sequence of personal stories, it comes together like a dance; a masquerade in which things are not always what they seem.

Electricity Makes Things Work

$4.00

This text is about the making and moving of electricity, one of the most widely used sources of energy used today. Other text forms include an explanation and a pictorial time line.

Brothers in Hope The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan

$6.00

Eight-year-old Garang is tending cattle far from his family’s home in southern Sudan when war comes to his village. Frightened but unharmed, he returns to find everything has been destroyed.Soon Garang meets other boys whose villages have been attacked. Before long they become a moving band of thousands, walking hundreds of miles seeking safety — first in Ethiopia and then in Kenya. The boys face numerous hardships and dangers along the way, but their faith and mutual support help keep the hope of finding a new home alive in their hearts.Based on heartbreaking yet inspirational true events in the lives of the Lost Boys of Sudan, Brothers in Hope is a story of remarkable and enduring courage, and an amazing testament to the unyielding power of the human spirit.

Fair: Minor scuff marks around the edges.

The Ultimate Question 2.0 How Net Promoter Companies Thrive in a Customer-driven World

$22.00

In the first edition of this landmark book, business loyalty guru Fred Reichheld revealed the question most critical to your company’s future: “Would you recommend us to a friend?” By asking customers this question, you identify detractors, who sully your firm’s reputation and readily switch to competitors, and promoters, who generate good profits and true, sustainable growth.

You also generate a vital metric: your Net Promoter Score. Since the book was first published, Net Promoter has transformed companies, across industries and sectors, constituting a game-changing system and ethos that rivals Six Sigma in its power.

In this thoroughly updated and expanded edition, Reichheld, with Bain colleague Rob Markey, explains how practitioners have built Net Promoter into a full-fledged management system that drives extraordinary financial and competitive results. With his trademark clarity, Reichheld:

* Defines the fundamental concept of Net Promoter, explaining its connection to your company’s growth and sustained success
* Presents the closed-loop feedback process and demonstrates its power to energize employees and delight customers
* Shares new and compelling stories of companies that have transformed their performance by putting Net Promoter at the center of their business

Practical and insightful, The Ultimate Question 2.0 provides a blueprint for long-term growth and success.

Day and Night

$7.00

Simple text and photographs introduce day and night, showing the differences in the sky, and the different activities of people and animals during day and night. Suggested level: junior.

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