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In order to become a flight nurse, Cherry Ames, already a professional nurse of skill, compassion, and courage, completes six weeks of intensive training that prepares her and others to fly in winged ambulances to every American battlefront on the globe...

 In Chief Nurse, Cherry is whisked off to a new assignment on an island in the Pacific close to the battlefront - as Acting Chief Nurse! Colonel Pillsbee thinks she is too "young and pretty" to successfully supervise sixty nurses and 200 corpsmen. Can...

The best way to get ahead in sales is by developing the critical soft skills that will enable you not just survive but thrive.Chronic complainers, no accountability finger-pointers, or learning-resistant laggards—these culture-killers costs sales...

The best gift you can give to Grandma is the chance to share her story.The Official Hear Your Story CollectionGrandmother, I Want to Hear Your Story is a treasured space for your grandmother to capture her life's journey, creating a lasting legacy for...

A window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writer'You are the knife I turn inside myself'Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the...

An enchanting, fact-filled treasury for the bee lover in all of usBeepedia is a one-of-a-kind celebration of bees, from A to Z. Featuring dozens of alphabetical entries on topics ranging from pollination and beekeeping to the peculiar lifestyles of...

This is a rock n roll classic - back in print, updated and revised. One of the funniest rock memoirs ever! Al Koopers legendary "Backstage Passes" is available again. Als quirkly life from wouldbe teenage rocker, to crashing Bob Dylans recording session...

A behind-the-scenes look at over a century of female wrestling, with profiles and photos, documenting the rise of women’s wrestling from sideshow to WWE main event“Sisterhood of the Squared Circle is absolutely a must read for most fans . . .” Wrestle...

A revealing collection of quotations from the world-renowned artist and political activist behind the iconic Obama 'Hope' poster and the 'Obey Giant' street-art campaign.Shepard Fairey is one of today's most important...

A collection of inspiring and empowering quotations from an artist noted for her frank treatment of sex and for her portraits of Madonna, Pamela Anderson, Lady Gaga, and Lizzo.Since the 1980s, Marilyn Minter has been a pioneer of sex-positive feminism...

NOW A NETFLIX FILM - SPENSER CONFIDENTIAL - STARRING MARK WAHLBERG Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favor. Until now. A heavy-handed developer is trying to buy up...

In the latest Spenser thriller, the legendary Boston PI and his young protégé Mattie Sullivan take on a billionaire money manager running a network of underaged girls for his rich and powerful clientsTen years ago, Spenser helped a teenage girl named...

When two seemingly unconnected mysterious deaths occur on his watch, police chief Jesse Stone must pull out all the stops to unravel the truth and stop a killer from striking again.The small town of Paradise is devastated when a star high-school baseball...

Too many people loved Kelly Rowland. One of them killed her, but was it the man in prison for her murder?'A thrilling finale' Crime Review'A clever, witty plot... a delight to read' TimesGethin Grey is back in the game. His wife may have left him and...

Carolina Garcia-Ramirez is a rising star in national politics, taking on the establishment with her progressive agenda. Tough, outspoken, and driven, the young congresswoman has ignited a new conversation in Boston about race, poverty, health care, and...

Brilliant! Another cracking book in this series, done it in a day looking forward to the next one. Charlie When a wheelchair-bound woman is discovered in her home by a neighbour, flat on her back, eyes wide and staring at the ceiling, it soon...

'When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw' - Nelson Mandela1964, Apartheid South Africa. Danie du Plessis, the son of a conservative Afrikaner family, is poised to start a glittering legal...

COMING SOON - The perfect companion to Fart's Aren't Invisible! Read the newest fun and interesting fact book from Mick O'Hare, Yawns Freeze Your Brain. Includes quick fire fact sections designed to astound, enlighten and make you laugh. Available to...

Robert B. Parker's PI Sunny Randall's newest case hits close to home in ways she never expected in her latest thrilling investigation.PI Sunny Randall owes a favour. Her landlord and former client, famous novelist Melanie Joan Hall, is being threatened...

In a shocking act of violence, an apparently unassuming man is ruthlessly murdered with no discernible motive. Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel and her team find themselves stumped, until a breakthrough occursâ€"the victim's body yields DNA evidence...

Lawyer Kelly McCann, defends men accused of rape.She's fought to build a successful career as a criminal defence attorney, with a speciality in defending men accused of sex crimes â€" falsely accused, she always maintains.Her detractors call her a...

'Like a darker, grimier version of Mick Herron's Slough House novels, this is a highly promising debut.' Mail on Sunday'Mesmerising'. The Financial TimesA senior civil servant dies in suspicious circumstances. A sensitive file in his possession and...

It's the 1960s and Billy Cracken is a hard man to keep locked up. An austere and troubled childhood has given way to life as a hardened criminal and now status as one of the most feared prisoners in England. He has been moved from one maximum security...

The author of Get Carter returns to his greatest invention, a smooth-operating hardcase named Jack Carter, who is about to burn a city down in order to silence an informant...London. The late 1960s. It's Christmas and Jack Carter's the top man in a crime...

The town of Paradise receives a tragic shock when the mayor is discovered dead, his body lying in an open grave on a property on the lake. It's ostensibly suicide, but Jesse has his doubts... especially because the piece of land where the man was found...

Brooklyn, July 1996. Punk kids have to make their own fun in the summer. Bobby Santovasco likes to throw rocks at cars getting off the Belt Parkway. Then there's Jack Cornacchia, a widower who lives with his daughter Amelia and reads meters but also has...

A visionary and poignant novel centered around former newspaperman Sam Cunningham as he prepares to die, Late City covers much of the early twentieth century, unfurling as a conversation between the dying man and a surprising God. As the two review Sam's...

IT’S THE CASE OF AMANDA’S LIFETIME, BUT SOLVING IT WILL REQUIRE HER TO BETRAY ANOTHER SPY—WHO JUST SO HAPPENS TO BE HER FATHER. A Times Thriller of the MonthOne of The Washington Post’s Best Thrillers of 2023'It’s the case of Amanda’s lifetime but...

Welcome to Bundilla. A close-knit community where romance can blossom. The first two novels in the bestselling series from award-winning Australian author Alissa Callen. Snowy Mountains DaughterSmall-town Bundilla is the only place flower farmer Clancy...

Three perfect strangers who help each other to believe in themselves again What they don’t know is that they are going to burst into each other’s world and turn each other’s lives upside down. What they don’t know is that strang ‘Uplifting,...

The Last Taxi Driver is a darkly comic novel about a day in the life of an exhausted, middle-aged cabbie about to lose his job to Uber, his girlfriend to lethargy, and his ability to stand upright to chronic back spasms. Lou - a lapsed novelist and UFO...

The breathtaking saga of a steadfast girl's revenge against an implacable and unknowable beast, The Which Way Tree is a timeless tale full of warmth and humour, testament to the power of adventure and enduring love. When a panther attacks a family of...

Will’s a nice guy. So he steps out of the way when a stranger staggers towards him. Moments later, one man is dead and another’s life is changed forever. ‘I’m going to tell you about the worst thing that ever happened to me.’Will’s a nice guy...

Combining personal and professional experience, A Silent Tsunami is a moving exploration of the development of Dementia and its impacts on a mother-daughter relationship. A Silent Tsunami is a unique combination of memoir and medicine â€" Rowan...

Adrift in a sleepy coastal Massachusetts town, a man who ferries fugitives by day gets twisted up in a plot to pilfer diamonds in a heist novel that infuses Elmore Leonard and Casablanca. Adrift in a sleepy coastal Massachusetts town, a man who ferries...

The Cancer Guide is a definitive and inspirational book designed to help patients, partners, family and work colleagues navigate the trials and difficulties associated with cancer and its treatment. The Cancer Guide is a definitive and inspirational...

"I hear from Mrs Barlow, who is a good gossip, that your mother and your sister are both ill. You must, then, have very little company." "Very little human company," she replied.On a moonlit night, a wearied traveller dressed as the Devil calls at the...

The much anticipated memoir by media personality Alison Mau In my family, we never talked about the past...Since the age of twelve, Alison Mau wanted to be a journalist just like her dad. A beer-swilling, straight-talking man who was rough around the...

There's no escaping the onslaught of content these days. But it seems increasingly tricky to determine what's good and what's not as we stream, tap and swipe our way through our endless entertainment feeds. How can we tell our own taste? Have we reached...

From the champion of reluctant readers, Jeff Norton, a new title in this fast-paced fantasy series, set in a medieval land where dinosaurs still roam. Now an established Dino Knight, Henry Fairchild sets off to find his lost parents, but is soon caught...

'What is the task but to find my way back to the unfragmentation of the world as we knew it; to collect the uncollected, to make the unmade. To refuse victimhood even when annihilation seems to insist on it. To make a thing out of nothing, to make a...

Long before Germaine Greer and Anne Summers, Australia's women writers were pouring their intense political beliefs into their work. Mary Gilmore was a trailblazing feminist journalist and labour movement organiser; Katharine Susannah Prichard wrote...