When Mickey Haller is invited by the Los Angeles County District Attorney to prosecute a case for him, he knows something strange is going on. Mickey\'s a defence lawyer, one of the best in the business, and to switch sides like this would be akin to askin

Lucy Marinn is a glass artist living in beautiful, inspiring Friday Harbour, Washington. Creatively fulfilled and in love, she is content with her life, until she is stunned by the worst kind of betrayal: her boyfriend Kevin announces he\'s leaving Lucy to be with her younger sister. Facing the disapproval of Lucy\'s parents, Kevin asks his friend Sam Nolan, one of the owners of the Rainshadow vineyard,

There\'s a reckoning on the way ...and Sookie has a knack for being in trouble\'s way; not least when she witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte\'s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is known to be two-natured, suspicion immediately falls on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but before she can investigate something else - something even more dangerous - comes up. Sookie\'s

How far would you go to protect your daughter? ‘Deeply intriguing and provocative,… ALL IS NOT FORGOTTEN is not to be missed’ –KARIN SLAUGHTER Since the night she was attacked, Jenny Kramer hasn\'t been able to recall what happened. Her parents and the doctors saw to that. Her mother couldn’t prevent the terror in the woods, but she’s done all she can to stop it ruining Jenny’s life. The only thing

Features more than 150 lavish photographs of top models, providing an illustrated index of technical information as well as text that places the creation of period cars within a context of their time, in a volume that includes depictions of such examples as the Buick Skylark, the Ford Skyliner, Fire

Optional audio CD to use with the Workbook, featuring exercises on grammar and pronunciation.

This volume features a dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted graphic design related media. This resplendently illustrated volume brings together an unsurpassed collection of the most original, inventive, and best new characters from designers and artists around the world. Featuring a huge variety of styles and mediums - including 2D, 3D, animated, illustrated, digital, vinyl, paper, plush,

This book presents eight outstanding projects by prominent contemporary architects and designers: inspiring villas, apartments and penthouses, where design plays a key role.

1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return, to find the one thing

What if everything in life could be reduced to a simple formula? What if numbers were able to tell us which partners we were best matched with - not just in terms of attractiveness, but for a long-term committed marriage? Or if they could say which films would be the biggest hits at the box office, and what changes could be made to those films to make them even more successful? Or even who out of us

Poetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The cliches of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and loved. The congenial attitude comes from a poetical history of about a millennium and a half. This classic collection of verse therefore contains poetry from the earliest, primitive period, through the Nara,

The first book to explore two of the biggest names in modern and contemporary art side by side, Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons In the first half of the 20th century, Marcel Duchamp redefined what we consider art and what it means to be an artist. Many of his ideas return, transformed, in the work of Jeff Koons, born when Duchamp was 68 years old and whose own career lit up the art world of the late

Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum which has been swiftly filled by a fiendish new criminal mastermind who has risen to take his place. Ably assisted by Inspector Athelney Jones of Scotland Yard, a devoted

Explosive and enthralling, David Baldacci\'s Divine Justice is the fourth novel in his bestselling Camel Club series. Known by his alias, \'Oliver Stone\', John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who hid the truth of Stone\'s past and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced. But Stone\'s freedom has come at a steep price; the assassinations he carried

Arthur Maxley is a tense and listless young man. One day he receives a letter from his long-estranged father. Arthur\'s fear and aversion to the man is powerful, yet his compulsion to see his father is irresistible. After their meeting, Arthur is propelled into a night of drinking and spontaneous intimacy with a beautiful young woman. But as the memories of childhood trauma surface and disorientate,

Wearily, I take the path to the river, there in the cool to fill my being with the sounds of my sister-being, to refresh myself in the modest scents of pigeonwood and mitzeerie, to let my gaze end in a tangle of monkey ropes and fern arches and the slowly descending leaves, and to find rest, all day long, all night long. A young slave girl accompanies her owner on an expedition into the African interior

Der Krieg als \"Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln\" - als Carl von Clausewitz an seiner monumentalen Abhandlung \"Vom Kriege\" (1832-34) arbeitete, konnte er nicht ahnen, dass dieser Satz einmal zum geflügelten Wort werden würde. Doch wer wie sein Autor gute Gründe hat, den Krieg als ein Instrument zu begreifen, das in der Hauptsache politischen Zwecken dient, kommt nicht umhin, seine Folgerichtigkeit

The Collector\'s Colour Library takes the favourite illustrated titles of The Collector\'s Library and presents them in full colour. Original colour illustrations are faithfully reproduced, and where illustrations and decorations were originally black-and-white they have been sensitively coloured by Barbara Frith, one of Britain\'s most accomplished colourists. One of the most celebrated works of classic

Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize for new writers A Times Children\'s Book of the Week A Guardian Top Teen Read of 2015 \"Happy birthday, Stanly. We hope you like your present...\" Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird is a fairly typical teenager - unless you count the fact that his best friend is a talking beagle named Daryl, and that he gained the powers of flight and telekinesis when he turned sixteen.