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Best friends Benny and Joy host a beloved ‘comedy survival’ podcast, gleefully finding life-affirming humour in near-death experiences. When Benny arrives at Joy and her husband’s home one morning to record, he finds shattered glass and an empty house. With Joy missing and the hours ticking by, not even their most devoted fans could guess the terrible secrets they have hidden from the world – and from each other. If Benny wants to find Joy in time, and clear his own name, he’ll have to solve the highest stakes survival story yet.
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£25.00
Liza Minnelli is one of the most iconic and enduring figures in entertainment history. Now, in her first and only memoir, Liza tells her story in her own words – and what a story it is. Born into Hollywood royalty, Liza was the daughter of legendary director Vincente Minnelli and the incomparable Judy Garland – and yet her beloved ‘Mama’s’ brilliance was matched by searing personal battles, making her mother both an inspiration and, at times, a source of fear. In this deeply candid memoir, Liza pulls back the curtain on her extraordinary life, from her meteoric rise to Broadway and Hollywood stardom to the whirlwind of high-profile marriages and relationships, as well as the private heartbreaks of multiple miscarriages and lifelong struggle with Substance Use Disorder.
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When true-crime writer Rachel Vale and her daughter, Lucy, move into the abandoned Faraday House at the end of Lily Lane, they already know its tragic history. That’s why they came. Rachel hopes that untangling the muddled case of the Faraday’s might help her solve another puzzle: her daughter. But the small Midwestern town of Granger remembers the Faraday’s, and the residents do not take well to strangers pulling apart their mysteries. They will do whatever it takes to protect their own. As Rachel ignores the threatening notes on the doorstep and her daughter’s increasingly erratic behaviour, she unwinds a case of old money, historic rivalries and online abuse. But soon it becomes clear that she might be investigating the wrong story after all.
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In March 1603, Queen Elizabeth I, the last Tudor monarch, lies dying at Richmond Palace. The queen’s ministers cluster round her bedside, urging her to name her successor – something she has stubbornly resisted throughout her reign. Almost with her last breath she whispers that James VI of Scotland should succeed her. She dies shortly afterwards and the throne of England passes peacefully from Tudor to Stuart. Or so we’ve been led to believe. But, as enthralling new research shows, this is not what happened. In the years that followed, history was literally re-written on the orders of James VI to hide the truth: Elizabeth went to her grave without formally naming an heir. The notion of an approved succession from Tudors to Stuarts is little more than an elaborately constructed fiction. And so James’s rule in England began with a lie – a lie that went on to have devastating consequences.
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New Orleans: Then. Alone in The Big Easy, Selina is struggling to fit in. When a charismatic stranger invites her for a drink, she’s grateful for the company – but as their friendship grows, she can’t help but sense a darkness within her new friend. Who is Daniel, and what does he want from her? London: Now. Daniel is missing. No one has seen or heard from him in weeks. Beside herself with worry, his sister Caroline hosts an intimate gathering in her beautiful home so those closest to Daniel can come together and compare notes. But all isn’t quite as it seems as the dark truth of what really happened in New Orleans begins to emerge.
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This is the incredible true story about a Middle Eastern refugee who changed the course of the world forever. This impoverished Middle Eastern refugee lived and died in Palestine some 2,000 years ago. But the world was expecting him long before he was born. His birth had been mystically foretold by astrologers for hundreds of years, yet the rulers of his day dreaded his coming. This humble carpenter became a magnet for the poor and oppressed, a symbol of love and mercy, who transformed the lives and restored the health and purpose in all who encountered him. The local elite and governing rulers eventually tortured him and put him to death in the most violent and public of ways. Yet that was only the beginning. In the years since, billions of people have dedicated their lives to this man and have testified to his truth.
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On 14 August 1943, Adam Hart’s great-grandfather Frank Griffiths took off from RAF Tempsford, the SOE ‘Special Duties’ airbase in rural England. Frank and his crew were on a secret midnight mission codenamed Operation Pimento, but they were shot down near Annecy in southeast France. Only Frank survived. Though seriously injured, Frank felt it was his duty to get back to England to continue the fight against the Nazis. He embarked on a perilous, 1200-mile, 108-day escape across Europe, via the attic of a brothel, a Frenchwoman’s chimney and a Spanish prison cell. 79 years later, Frank’s 22-year-old great-grandson Adam Hart retraced the epic escape through France, Switzerland and Spain. His emotional encounters with descendants of people who’d risked their lives to help his great-grandfather reveal the enduring legacy of Operation Pimento and how we should never forget their sacrifice.
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When the Buckeye City Police Department receives a disturbing letter from a person threatening to ‘kill 13 innocents & one guilty’ in ‘an act of atonement for the needless death of an innocent man’, Detective Izzy Jaynes has no idea what to think. Are 14 citizens about to be slaughtered in an unhinged act of retribution? As the investigation unfolds, Izzy realises that the letter writer is serious, & she turns to her friend Holly Gibney for help. Meanwhile, controversial & outspoken women’s rights activist Kate McKay is embarking on a multi-state lecture tour, drawing packed venues of both fans & detractors. Someone who vehemently opposes Kate’s message of female empowerment is targeting her & disrupting her events. At first, no one is hurt, but the stalker is growing bolder, & Holly is hired to be Kate’s bodyguard – a challenging task with a headstrong employer & a determined adversary driven by wrath.
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Tennis is the most emotionally demanding and challenging sports in the world. To succeed, players need to embrace failure and learn to stay committed and confident, point after point. It is a sport which most reflects life. Drawing upon a lifetime of coaching experience and a deep understanding of the game, Patrick Mouratoglou presents the invaluable principles, skills, and mindsets that have made tennis championships and applies them to challenges and opportunities we face every day. Taking you on a transformative journey, Patrick guides you through a series of insightful anecdotes and practical advice that will help you unlock your true potential. You will discover the depth of your inner strength, your discipline, your tenacity and how to handle your emotions.
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£22.00
Wyatt Riggins, the boyfriend of rising Maine artist Zetta Nadeau, has gone missing, leaving behind a cell phone containing a single-word message: RUN. Private investigator Charlie Parker is hired to find out why Riggins has fled, and from whom. Parker discovers that Riggins, an ex-soldier, has been involved in the abduction of four children from Mexico: three girls and a boy, all belonging to the cartel boss Blas Urrea – except Urrea’s family is safe and well in Mexico, which means the abductees cannot be his children. Yet whoever they are, Urrea wants them back, and has dispatched his agents to secure them, even if it means butchering everyone who stands in their way.
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£25.00
As the fate of the world is decided, so too is that of the British, Dutch and French empires. In India a generation committed to independence must decide whether to support ‘the Raj’ or fight alongside the Japanese. One military family is bitterly divided. Will it be the brother who fights under British command, or the one who follows Subhas Chandra Bose and his Indian National Army, who goes on to help build a new and free India? In Borneo a little known Australian special forces campaign – secretly controlled from London – goes horribly wrong as questions are asked about whether its true purpose is military or imperial. And in Indochina and the East Indies British Generals free and arm Japanese prisoners of war and use them in savage campaigns that aim to put colonial rulers back into their palaces. Clearing away the haze of nostalgia, many uncomfortable truths emerge.
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Owain Mulligan was never what you’d call a career soldier. Nor even a particularly good one. At weekends he trained with the Territorial Army and dreamt of swapping the mayhem of teaching in a tough school for the adventure of service in Iraq. At least they’d let him wear a helmet in Iraq. But when the job in headquarters he’s been expecting doesn’t materialise, he finds himself on the streets of Basra during one of the most violent periods of the conflict. Between homicidal militias, a chain of command who seem determined to get him killed, and equipment which might well do it for them, he and his men have their work cut out. It certainly puts double geography with 9E into perspective. ‘The Accidental Soldier’ is a searingly honest and darkly funny account of what it was really like being in the British Army in Iraq (including all the bits they probably hoped you’d never find out).
