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Dr Rae Duprae is an obstetrician with more than a passion for her work. Driven by the memory of her own mother's death in the back of an ambulance, she is possessed by an all-consuming mission to save the lives of the women and babies she encounters daily at Berkeley Hills Hospital. But she is suddenly derailed by a series of 'bad baby' cases that seem to be emanating from the politically sensitive birth centre across the street - a centre run by her ex-lover. This threatens the very existence of her department and, it seems, her career. When Rae decides to uncover the truth, she sets off a firestorm of resistance from all sides. And to make matters worse, Rae finds herself falling for the new member of the rival cardiac department - a doctor with uncertain allegiances.

In the backwoods of the American South, an ex-SAS officer now workng for British Intelligence embarks on a terrifying mission to find a woman who holds the key to a dark and deadly conspiracy.

Parapsychologist Audrah Sidow is convinced that there is nothing on earth for which there is not a rational explanation. But she knows there is more to the collection of fractured people gathered at Lyndle Hall in the heart of Northumberland's National Park than is apparent.

Wilton Cooper is at a drive-in movie when he notices the ugly white boy walk into the projection booth. Seconds later a gun goes off, perfectly timed to coincide with the movie?s noisy climax. When the boy struts coolly out, blood sprayed on the front of his cheap print shirt, Cooper knows he?s found his partner. King Suckerman weaves the blaxploitation films, the drug deals, the soul music and the racial tensions that defined the ?70?s into a story of natural-born killers and two men who risk everything to bring them down. This is the second novel in the DC Quartet, the most explosive contribution to crime fiction since Ellroy?s LA Quartet.

Deep beneath the English Channel, a small army of vicious terrorists has seized control of the Eurostar to Paris, taken 400 hostages at gunpoint - and declared war on a government that has more than its own fair share of secrets to keep. One man stands in their way. An off-duty SAS soldier is hiding somewhere inside the train. Alone and injured, he's the only chance the passengers and crew have of getting out alive. Meet Andy McNab's explosive new creation, Sergeant Tom Buckingham, as he unleashes a whirlwind of intrigue and retribution in his attempt to stop the terrorists and save everyone on board - including Delphine, the beautiful woman he loves. Hurtling us at breakneck speed between the Regiment's crack assault teams, Whitehall's corridors of power and the heart of the Eurotunnel action, RED NOTICE is McNab at his devastatingly authentic, pulse pounding best. RED NOTICE: You have been warned .

Eric Van Lustbader takes us to the cutting edge of technology with this unique novel of suspense. New York City Homicide Detective Jon Christopher has a perfect record bringing serial killers to justice, but now all that has changed: the genocidal maniac dubbed the Pale Saint has eluded him for 18 months. When Christopher's best friend, assistant D.A. Bobby Austin, becomes the Pale Saint's latest victim, Christopher's need to catch the killer becomes a matter of personal obsession. Forced to take desperate measures in order to track down the Pale Saint, Christopher enlists an unexpected partner, the great lost love of his life, Austin's widow, Cassandra, a brilliant genetic engineer. Together they make a cataclysmic decision: they will create and train a clone of the Pale Saint, his mirror image, to become the human bullet that will bring the wily killer down. Eric Van Lustbader's new novel is an intense, breathless chase to root out and destroy the ultimate evil. And in redefining the age-old mysteries of love and death, loyalty and betrayal, sin and redemption, Pale Saint forces us to confront the most profound questions of our time: What defines a human being? What constitutes a

What's it like to drive a car that's actively trying to kill you? This and many other burning questions trouble Jeremy Clarkson as he sets out to explore the world from the safety of four wheels. Avoiding the legions of power-crazed traffic wombles attempting to block highway and byway, he: shows how the world of performance cars may be likened to Battersea Dog's Home reveals why St Moritz may be the most bonkers town in all of the world reminds us that Switzerland is so afraid of snow that any flakes falling on the road are immediately arrested argues that washing a car is a waste of time Funny, globe-trotting, irreverent and sometimes downright rude, Round the Bend is packed with curious and fascinating but otherwise hopelessly useless stories and facts about everything under the sun (and just occasionally cars). It's Jeremy Clarkson at his brilliant best.

The story revolves around Paul Riley, a successful prosecutor haunted by his past case against Terry Burgos, who killed six girls. As a new wave of gruesome murders and mutilations emerges, Riley uncovers a disturbing connection to his previous case. This revelation thrusts him into the dual role of investigator and suspect within a police task force, forcing him to confront his own demons while seeking justice. The tension escalates as he navigates the complexities of his involvement in both cases.

Thought-provoking and impossible to put down novel from the UK's Number One bestselling women's fiction author.

Van populair weblog naar New York Times-bestseller is dit hét boek voor zelfhulphaters! Stop met altijd maar positief zijn, en leer in plaats daarvan om te gaan met je tekortkomingen en de tegenslagen in het leven. Zodra je niet meer wegrent voor je angsten, fouten en onzekerheden maar de pijnlijke waarheid onder ogen durft te zien, vind je de moed en het zelfvertrouwen waar je in deze tijd zo’n behoefte aan hebt. Mark Manson geeft je de tools om te kiezen waar jij om geeft, en dus ook waar je niet om geeft. Dat idee omarmen werkt bevrijdend. Humoristisch en vol goede grappen, maar bovenal ondersteund door wetenschappelijk onderzoek.