When Angel is discovered by a model agent, her life changes for ever. Young, beautiful and sexy, she seems destined for a successful career and, very quickly, the glitzy world of celebrity fame and riches becomes her new home. But then she meets Mickey, the lead singer of a boy band, who is as irresistible as he is dangerous,and Angel reatises that a rising star can just as quickly fall ……

Join Jeanne Willis in the funniest talent show ever. In a fabulous rhyming text, meet bears with baggy bottoms, pigs with perky pinky ones and peacocks who love to put theirs on display. Perfect for reading aloud and guaranteed to cause fits of giggles, one thing's for sure - whoever is the winner, bottoms are top! This title is from the dynamic duo behind "Bottoms Up"!

Rand is on the run with Min, but his destination is a mystery to Cadsuane. Mazrim Taim, leader of the Black Tower, is revealed to be a liar, but his purpose remains shrouded in secrecy. Perrin is hunting desperately for Faile, now a prisoner of Sevanna's sept. With Elyas Machera, Berelain, the Prophet, and a very mixed army of disparate forces, he is moving through country rife with bandits and roving Seanchan ...while the man called Slayer is stalking the Wolf Dream and Tel'aran'rhiod. In Tar Valon, the schemers and counter-schemers in Elaida's White Tower are shaken to the core when Egwene and the rebels appear suddenly outside the walls. In Ebou Dar, the Seanchan princess known as Daughter of the Nine Moons arrives - and Mat, who has been recuperating in the Tarasin Palace, is introduced to her. Will the marriage that has been foretold come about? WINTER'S HEART is a triumph of epic storytelling, and a magnificent addition to a landmark series in the fantasy genre.

Herbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is the most widely readand enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One ofthe oldest and most universal stories known in literature, the epicof Gilgamesh presents the grand, timeless themes of love and death,loss and reparations within the stirring tale of a hero-king andhis doomed friend. A finalist for the National Book Award, Mason'sretelling is at once a triumph of scholarship, a masterpiece ofstyle, and a labor of love that grew out of the poet's longaffinity with the original.

Selden Edwards, apparently, took 35 years to write this dismal piece of drivel. He started writing at age 25, but I suspect that he conceived the idea at the age of 15. How else to explain the wholly un-ironic adoption of the puerile schoolboy nickname for the main character's guru - the Venerable Haze, a.k.a. the Haze - throughout the book? On page 6, Mr Edwards employs the word 'momentarily' to mean 'in a moment' - when in fact it means 'for a moment'. I would say that if it is English teaching that he has recently retired from, then it is just as well that he has retired. Time travel, I can (only just) live with, but the plot is contrived, and the story wholly devoid of humour, takes itself far too seriously, and employs tortured coincidences to allow the hero to make his way through life in 19th Century 'fin de siecle' (he loves that term!) Vienna. I managed 36 pages of this rubbish, and then gave up in disgust. I trust that Mr Edwards, if he ever does write another novel, will again take 35 years t

For more than a decade Donna Leon has been a bestseller inEurope with a series of mysteries featuring Commissario GuidoBrunetti. Always ready to bend the rules to solve a crime, Brunettimanages to maintain his integrity while maneuvering through a cityrife with politics, corruption, and intrigue. In "Uniform Justice,"a young cadet has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, inVeniceas elite military academy. Brunettias sorrow for the boy, soclose in age to his own son, is rivaled only by his contempt for acommunity that is more concerned with protecting the reputation ofthe school, and its privileged students, than with finding thetruth. The young manas father is a doctor and former politician. Heis a man of an impeccable integrity who inexplicably avoids talkingto the police. As Brunetti pursues his inquiry, he is faced with awall of silence. Is the military protecting its own? Or hasBrunetti uncovered a conspiracy far more sinister than that of asingle death?

An acknowledged masterpiece, this is the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and of Macondo, the town they have built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie hidden, encoded in a book and only Aureliano Buendía can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny. Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy with comic invention, One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century.

When a top model is murdered, police lieutenant Eve Dallas discovers that the world of high fashion thrives on an all-consuming obsession for youth and fame. One that leads from the runway to the dark underworld of New York City, where drugs can be found to fulfill any desire--for any price. J.D. Robb is the pseudonym of New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.

Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of hisdead father. He is shocked to find there the mistress's rival andsuccessor, Mrs. Ota, and that the ceremony has been awkwardlyarranged for him to meet his potential future bride. But he is mostshocked to be drawn into a relationship with Mrs. Ota - arelationship that will bring only suffering and destruction to allof them. "Thousand Cranes" reflects the tea ceremony's poeticprecision with understated, lyrical style and beautiful prose.

Now in paperback--the 19th book in the #1 "New York Times"bestselling In Death series, featuring New York City policelieutenant Eve Dallas. Eve investigates a rash of horrific killingswith the help of her new husband, billionaire Roarke, and her rawpartner, Peabody.

There's a saying at Hollywood Station that the full moonbrings out the beast--rather than the best--in the precinct'scitizens. One moonlit night, veteran officers Dana Vaughn and"Hollywood" Nate Weiss get a call about a prowler who's beenbrutally attacking women. Meanwhile, a pair of cops with the surfersobriquets Flotsam and Jetsam are on the lookout for asmooth-talking player in dreads and a crazy-eyed, tattooed biker.But something bigger, more high-tech, and much more deadly is aboutto go down. After a dizzying series of twists, turns, and chases,the cops discover that they've stumbled upon a complex web of crimewhere even the criminals aren't sure who's conning whom. And forsome of the men and women in blue, public duty will exact theheaviest of tolls.

In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?

Once in a generation a novel comes along that taps a vein ofuniversal human experience, resonating with readers of all ages.THE LOVELY BONES is such a book -- a #1 bestseller celebrated atonce for its artistry, for its luminous clarity of emotion, and forits astonishing power to lay claim to the hearts of millions ofreaders around the world. "My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I wasfourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her newhome in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, evenas she is watching life on earth continue without her -- herfriends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer tryingto cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling. Out ofunspeakable tragedy and loss, THE LOVELY BONES succeeds,miraculously, in building a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense,even joy. The major motion picture version of THE LOVELY BONES, directed byPeter Jackson and starring

The latest in this enchanting and fast-selling series, featuringthe beloved ghost Aunt Dimity, opens in a picturesque Englishcottage where the lovable Lori Shepherd is up to her elbows inpureed carrots and formula bottles, striving to be the perfectmother to twins Luckily, a beautiful Italian nanny arrives just intime -- so Lori can help settle the local civil war stirred up by avisiting archaeologist's excavation.With Reginald, the stuffed pinkrabbit and Edmond Terrance, the stuffed tiger in tow, Lori huntsdown a missing document, and the archaeologist digs up a lot morethan artifacts. It is Aunt Dimity's magic blue notebook thatprovides the key to buried secrets and domestic malice, and showsall the residents of Finch that even the darkest acts can beovercome by forgiveness.

Tom Sullivan,about to graduate from Princeton,is haunted by the violent death of his father,an academic who devoted his life to one of the rarest,most complex books in the world,Coded in seven languages,the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili,an intricate mathematical mystery and a tale of love and arcame burtality,has baffled scholars since 1499. Tom"s friend Paul is similarly obsessed and when a long-lost diary surfaces they finally seem to make a breakthrough.But only hours later,a fellow researcher is murderde and the two friends suddenly find themselves in great danger.Working desperately to expose the book"s secret,they slowly uncover a Renaissance tale of passion and blood,ahidden crypt and a secret worth dying to protect...

Hired by a Massachusetts grand dame to prove the innocence of her grandson, who has been implicated in a school shooting during which seven people were killed, Spenser wonders why the boy seems unconcerned about his possible wrongful imprisonment and faces difficult obstacles in the wake of unhelpful school officials and a blackmail conspiracy.

1348.The Black Death is sweeping through Europe.In Florence,plague has carried off one hundred thousand people.In their Tuscan villas,seven young women and three young men tell tales to recreate the world they have lost,weaving a rich tapestry of comedy,tragedy,ribaldry and farce.Boccaccio's Decameron recasts the storytelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds into perennial forms that inspired writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare down to our own day.Boccaccio makes the incredible believable,with detail so sharp we can look straight into the lives of people who lived six hundred years ago.His Decameron hovers between the fading glories of an aristocratic past-the Crusades,the Angevins,the courts of France,the legendary East-and the colourful squalor of contemporary life,where wives deceive husbands,friars and monks pursue fleshly ends,and natural instincts fight for satisfaction.Here are love and jealousy,passion and pride-and a shrewd calculation of profit and loss which heralds the rise of a dynami