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The death of Adam Penhallow on the eve of his birthday seems, at first, to be by natural causes. He was so bad tempered and mean that both his servants and his family hated him. It soon transpires that far from being a peaceful death, Penhallow was, in fact, murdered.

This is the era of Luke Skywalker's legacy: the Jedi Master has unified the order into a cohesive group of powerful Jedi Knights. Melding the galaxy into one cohesive political whole after the savage war with the Yuuzhan Vong is not the easiest task, and already some worlds are chafing under the demands of the new government.

A girl's body lies, posed, on the pale sand of a Hamburg beach, a message concealed in her hand. Jan Fabel, of the Hamburg murder squad, struggles to interpret the twisted imagery of a dark and brutal mind. Four days later, a man and a woman are found deep in woodland, their throats slashed deep and wide. The hunt is on for a serial killer.

Richard Littlejohn's cast of characters including Two Jags, the Wicked Witch, Captain Hook and the Mad Mullah of the Traffic Taliban are now part of the fabric of the nation.

is the school's most notorious juvenile delinquent and he's suddenly come to a shocking realization: he's got a huge crush, and now he must tell her how he feels. Life-changing obsessions, colossal foul-ups, grand schemes, deep-seated anxieties, and raging hormones - School Rumble portrays high school as over-the-top comedy!

But why would anyone want to kill a humble river pilot?As the crowds around the murdered man thicken, one-eyed spy Owen Archer is quickly brought to the scene by his adoptive son, Jasper.

Luke Skywalker's judgement is clouded by grief, even as he faces his most momentous decision since becoming Grand Master of the Jedi order: whether to support Jacen's illegitimate government against the forces threatening Coruscant...or to join the Rebel Confederacy and take arms against the Galactic Alliance he helped forge.

A stranger stalks the streets of Houghton le Spring and he is getting too close for comfort for Detective Inspector Lorraine Hunt. As he circles ever closer, nobody escapes suspicion and Lorraine faces her toughest case yet. The closer the killer gets, the more elusive he becomes.

In this ground-breaking new book, Ram Charan, co-author of the bestselling Execution, redefines leadership by focusing on eight specific practical skills that, if mastered, are guaranteed to bring success. 1.

Ultimately, it's about making the best use of your time and energy. Whether you want to know how to approach each task with clarity, focus and purpose, how to prioritize, or even how to make sure others don't waste your time, Cut to the Chase has a brilliant and simple rule you can follow.

Perfect Written English is an indispensable guide to mastering grammar and improving your writing style.

The Death Star is one of the great icons of the science fiction genre. Now veteran Star Wars authors Michael Reaves and Steve Perry join forces to tell the story of the Death Star, from the start of its construction to its final destruction at the hands of Luke Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance.

He has written dozens of naval books under his own name and the pseudonym Alexander Kent, including the famous Richard Bolitho books set during the Napoleonic Wars.

In Israel, in the turbulent first century, a baby is born to a humble Jewish family - but to a great destiny.

When we first met Paula Spencer - in The Woman Who Walked into Doors - she was thirty-nine, recently widowed, an alcoholic struggling to hold her family together.

After four years, the tide of war is turning in North Africa and Europe. Men like Lieutenant James Ross, awarded the Victoria Cross for his work in underwater sabotage, or the desperate amateur Charles villiers, heir to a fortune now controlled by the Japanese. The two-man torpedo - the chariot - is the ultimate weapon in a high-risk war.

There will be days when you wonder at and question some of the risks you had to take, the sacrifices you were forced to offer in the face of death.'Kiel Harbour, 1945 - the war in Europe is at an end.

Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world existing in parallel to our own, each Other owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light. The Night Watch, first book in the Night Watch series, follows Anton, a young Other owing allegiance to the Light.

Charles Handy is perhaps best known outside the business world as a wise and warm presenter of Radio 4's "Thought for the Day". Here, he leaves the management territory he has so effectively and influentially mapped in the past to explore the issues and dilemmas - moral and creative - raised by the turning points of his long and successful life.

They were the best of friends, they were the worst of friends ... Lizbet and Cassie are close, yet far apart. The one flaw in her quality-controlled life may be her marriage - and if there are any other flaws lurking, Cassie has them covered. Perhaps because - as Cassie says - they've always wanted different things.

Miles Avery drives his wife, Jacqueline, to the station. At the station, she gets out, takes an overnight bag from the back seat, then turns towards the platforms. This is the last anyone sees of her. Three weeks later, Miles calls the police. Enquiries are made, but there is no evidence of her boarding a train, or even entering the station.

Perfect Psychometric Test Results is an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to secure their ideal job.

The Ultimate Gi Diet incorporates, and builds upon, the remarkable results and success stories of the original Gi Jean's Diet. Rosemary takes the scientifically proven success of Glycaemic Indexing (Gi) and represents it in a straightforward format with an easy to follow A-Z of Gi foods.

They lived. In the small Yorkshire town of Cottenly - dominated by the steel works and surrounded by beautiful countryside - Isaac Stanford lives with his wife Emily and their three lovely daughters, known locally as the Stanford lasses.

In the 1940s, nearly a quarter of a million East Londoners decamped annually for the hopfields of Kent. In this vivid book she not only pays tribute to the creative genius of the working class of London's East End, but examines the role of memory and oral history in our understanding of the past.

As captain of His Majesty's frigate Unrivalled of forty-six guns, Adam Bolitho is required to assist the senior officer of the patrolling squadron. But all efforts of the patrols to curb a flourishing trade in human life are hampered by unsuitable ships, and by the belligerence of the Dey of Algiers, which threatens to ignite a full-scale war.

February 1813With convoys from Canada and the Caribbean falling victim to American privateers, Sir Richard Bolitho returns to Halifax to pursue a war he knows will not be won, but which neither Britain nor the United States can afford to lose. England's youngest admiral desires only peace.

In the late 19th century, the river Nile became the setting for the first major encounter between the West and Islam in the modern era. In a collision between Europeans, Arabs and Africans, three empires rose in the space of thirty years. This is the story of Islam and the Empire on the Nile c 1869.

Determined to cope with Francois's cruelty and indifference, Claudine soon finds herself driven to find love in the arms of Armand St Jacques, one of her husband's vignerons. But all is not what it seems in the de Lorvoire family.

Like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi is an iconic figure, and the best-known prisoner of conscience alive today. Yet if her exemplary fortitude has earned Aung San Suu Kyi world-wide admiration, inside Burma itself little has changed - as Justin Wintle's comprehensive biography makes hideously plain.