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Large print - in good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When it comes to good friends, Molly and Nellie just can't be beaten!In the backstreets of Liverpool, best mates Molly Bennett and Nellie McDonough are up to their usual tricks, sharing a joke at the local butcher's or taking a trip to the market to see what's on offer. As always, they're keeping an eye on their children and grandchildren, but they're never too busy to help out a friend, so when Claire Thompson attracts the attention of a mysterious admirer it's clear that their detective skills are required. It's not long before they reveal the man's true colours and they have to tell Claire, but soon it's time for a real celebration.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.'No, forgive and forget,' say your friends.So you think you'll ring the new couple and tell them how happy you are for them. Four o'clock in the morning would be a good time - at ten-minute intervals. For the next six months.This is Wendy Harmer's Classic Manual for the Love-Lost, A How-Not-To Guide for the Brokenhearted.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In the green depths of spring, morning breaks on a woman splayed in a bed of flowers - her eyes wide, her neck broken.Her death is a mystery; so is the woman herself. But as Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team peer into the dark corners of the victim's past, they explore a secret that rots at the very heart of their community - a secret that will implicate someone they've trusted for years. And as Gamache knows too well, in the flickering shadows of death, the truth may be just a trick of the light.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The mansion looked as dark and forbidding as its owner...Art expert Jay Stanmer had been hired to determine whether or not the famous Felstead collection - seven supposedly priceless paintings - were actually worthless forgeries.She arrived at the imposing Yorkshire mansion that was home to the enigmatic owner of the collection, Rhys Felstead, full of trepidation. But once Jay had entered its stone walls she was enthralled by the house. And also by its owner.The Felstead collection was indeed magnificent. But Jay soon found that much more than money hung in the balance regarding their authenticity. What ghosts dwelt within the memory of the mansion? And would her love for Rhys be strong enough to challenge the shadows of the past.

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Who was John Smith? What was the mystery surrounding his past? Why did he elect to live alone in the bush and listen to the silence? These were the questions the outraged members of the Hurlingford clan asked when John Smith came to town and stole the valley out from under their self-important noses. He would have to go! said the third Sir William. What was all the fuss about? asked Alicia the clan belle, too busy planning her wedding to appreciate the ominous rumblings of change that seemed to follow in the stranger's wake.But to no one did the enigmatic John Smith come to matter as he did to the youngest of the three ladies who lived in the house called Missalonghi.Missy Wright's existence could hold no surprises, for it stretched as drearily predictable in front of her as it did behind. Like the mother and maiden aunt who lived with her, Missy was just another of the Hurlingford… Read More

Large Print - in very good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The Black Hills Ring with a Song of Romance...A woman challenges the Victorian assumption that females are meek and needy...but will doing so deafen her to the call of romance?Hannah Williams was raised to think independently and stand on her own identity. When she gets into a fix, how can she tell a rancher who is used to solving everybody's problems that she doesn't need him? Can this independent woman of South Dakota surrender her desires to her heavenly Father and her heart to the joy of romance?

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The Truth Lies Within...Dan Brown's bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code, has become a global phenomenon, and introduced millions of readers to a mysterious world where Leonardo Da Vinci encoded hidden meanings into his paintings; strange symbols are engraved in a remote Scottish chapel; and the Catholic Church and an ancient secret society are locked in a centuries-old battle to gain control of the ultimate prize: the Holy Grail.But how much of the novel is actually true and what is fictional distortion? Cracking the Da Vinci Code is the first book to cut through the confusion. In a simple A-Z format it reveals the stranger-than-fiction answers to such questions as:• Does the secret society known as the Priory of Sion really exist?• Why was the Golden Ratio once believed to reveal the hand of God?• What are the latest theories about the true nature of the Holy Grail?• What is… Read More

Large print - in good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Gustine is a "dress lodger," a young prostitute who rents a beautiful dress from her landlord to attract a higher class of clientele. To keep her from running off with his gown, her pimp has a malevolent old woman, "the Eye," follow her through the back alleys of Sunderland. By day a potter's assistant, by night a courtesan of the streets, Gustine works to support her fragile child, born with a remarkable anatomical defect.Surgeon Henry Chiver has come to Sunderland to start a new life. He has a loving fiancée, an influential uncle and an anatomy school that is chronically short of teaching cadavers.Doctor and dress lodger come together during the worst epidemic since the bubonic plague. Gustine secures bodies for the doctor's school, until Henry's greed and his growing obsession with her child challenge her loyalty to him. With cholera bearing down on the city,… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.You Can Live Your Whole Life not realising that what you're looking for Is Right In Front Of You.15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways.So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that?And every year that follows?

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Famed aviatrix Evangeline Starke never expected to see her husband, adventurer Gabriel Starke, ever again. They had been a golden couple, enjoying a whirlwind courtship amid the backdrop of a glittering social set in pre-war London until his sudden death with the sinking of the Lusitania. Five years later, beginning to embrace life again, Evie embarks upon a flight around the world, collecting fame and admirers along the way. In the midst of her triumphant tour, she is shocked to receive a mysterious - and recent - photograph of Gabriel, which brings her ambitious stunt to a screeching halt.With her eccentric aunt Dove in tow, Evie tracks the source of the photo to the ancient City of Jasmine, Damascus. There she discovers that nothing is as it seems. Danger lurks at every turn, and at stake is a priceless relic, an artefact once lost to time and so valuable that criminals… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - has slight yellowing to page ends - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.On a hot late summer evening in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her investigative partner, Pete Marino, respond to a call about a dead bicyclist near the Kennedy School of Government. It appears that a young woman has been attacked with almost superhuman force.Even before Scarpetta's headquarters, the Cambridge Forensic Centre, has been officially notified about the case, Marino and Scarpetta's FBI agent husband, Benton Wesley, receive suspicious calls, allegedly from someone at Interpol. But it makes no sense. Why would the elite international police agency know about the case and even be interested? With breathtaking speed it becomes apparent that an onslaught of interference and harassment might be the work of an anonymous cyberbully named Tailend Charlie, who has been sending cryptic communications to Scarpetta for over a… Read More

In good condition - has yellow aging spots on front and back pages - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Sydney in 1841: a rough tumult of a town. An upper-class few clung to their illusions of privilege while the streets teemed with brawling chaotic life: the immigrant overflow of Britain's desperate slums, dispossessed Irish peasants, indentured servants and labourers, drunken seamen, political and religious refugees.Into this sink-or-swim whirlpool of ambition, despair and hope, came Raunie, half Irish and half gipsy, just disembarked from the floating, fever-ridden squalor of the immigrant barque May Queen. Sixteen, pregnant and widowed, her wild flaunting beauty barely disguised by her filthy ragged clothes, she had nothing but the hard-won knowledge, wit and determination of a born survivor. But already she had sensed that in this harsh half-lawless society, there were possibilities as well as pitfalls, rewards as well as dangers.

In good condition - has markings from use - has small markings on top left of front cover - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Eat Well, stay active and take controlTYPE 2 DIABETES is a health priority for everyone. One in 12 adults now has diabetes. In the over 65's, it's now one in three. Chances are that diabetes could affect you, your friends or your family. Diabetes has the potential to impact on many aspects of your health, from your head to your toes. But there are many opportunities to beat diabetes or reduce its impact. The key is making simple changes to your diet and lifestyle to follow for life.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.American, Muslim, and Proud - One's Family's StoryFor many Americans, the words "American" and "Muslim" simply do not marry well. For many, the combination is an anathema, a contradiction in values, loyalties, and identities. This is the story of how, through the lives, their schools, their friends, and their neighbours, one American Muslim family ended up living the challenges, myths, fears, hopes, and dreams of all Americans.In this moving memoir, Ranya Tabari Idliby explores what it means to be Muslim in America today and reveals the obstacles she faces as she tries to raise her children and teach them about their heritage and religious legacy. She discusses life in a world where hostility toward Muslims runs rampant, where there is an entire industry of anti-Muslim sentiment financed and supported by think tanks, authors, film makers, and individual vigilantes whose sole… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Two weeks away from giving birth, Detective Inspector Honey Laird is at a point when bending down is becoming increasingly difficult and straightening up again almost impossible, when her boss calls upon her to investigate Dr McGordon...her next door neighbour.On the outside, Dr McGordon appears to be the perfect doctor, giving services free in poor areas, providing care in underdeveloped countries, and even bringing patients to Britain (at his own expense) for special treatments. But when officers knock on his door, looking for witnesses to an accident, Dr McGordon, panicky and pale, reveals a guilty conscience about something and refuses to say anything.Aware that he's done something wrong but unsure of what, Honey - along with the help of an unsure young officer, her overprotective housekeeper, and her faithful Labrador, Pippa - dives into the case, using the computer,… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The latest adventure for the Roman sleuth and glamorous heroine of I, ClaudiaBlackmailed into investigating the murder of a child in south-west Gaul, Claudia is plunged into a bizarre world of nature priestesses, known as the Hundred Handed. Communicating silently through finger language, this is a fierce matriarchal society that has no use for men except as slaves.As Claudia probes deeper, she exposes discord within the society itself and, as the conflict spreads, she does not believe the widely-held belief an outsider was responsible for the girl's death.But while she works to uncover the truth, a more sinister force moves in the background. A mast of disguise, the Scorpion is as cunning as he is ruthless. He is the spearhead of an uprising that will unite the tribes against Rome and also the mastermind behind the criminal gang that raises the funds for this revolt. No one… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A jilted bride weeps on an empty beach, a local doctor is attached in an isolated churchyard - trouble has come to Morfi at a bad time, just as the backwater village is making headlines with a visit from a national government minister. Fortunately, where there's trouble there's Hermes Diaktoros, the mysterious fat man whose tennis shoes are always pristine and whose investigative methods are always unorthodox.In the latest instalment of the Mysteries of the Greek Detective, Hermes must solve a brutal crime that the victim does not seem to want solving, thwart the petty machinations of the town's ex-mayor and his cronies and pour oil on the troubled waters of a sisters' relationship.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In a riveting exploration of the power of the past wields over the present, Antoinette van Heugten transports readers back to the dark days of World War II.It's the stuff of nightmares: Nora de Jong returns home from work one ordinary day to find her mother has been murdered and her infant daughter is missing. The only clue is the body of an unknown man on the living room floor, clutching a gun in his cold, dead hand.Frantic to find baby Rose, Nora puts aside her grief and frustration to start her own search. But the contents of a locked metal box she finds in her parents' attic leave her with as many questions as answers, and suggest the killer was not a stranger. Saving her daughter means delving deeper into her family's darkest history, leading Nora half a world away to Amsterdam, where her own unsettled past and memories of painful heartbreak rush back to haunt her.As Nora… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout."Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found..."Now remebered as the author of the world's most famous hymn, in the mid-eighteenth century as England and France stand on the brink of war, John Newton is a young sailor wandering aimlessly through life. His only duty is to report to his ship and avoid disgracing his father - until the night he hears Polly Catlett's enchanting voice, caroling. He's immediately smitten and determined to win her affection.An intense connection quickly forms between the two, but John's reckless spirit and disregard for the Christian life are concerns for the responsible, devout Polly. When an ill-fated stop at a tavern leaves John imprisoned and bound, Polly must choose to either stand by his side or walk out of his life forever. Will she forfeit her future for the man she loves?Step back through the pages of… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Lessons on Brush Strokes & Painting Techniques includes 9 Painting Projects with Full Instructions