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This lesbian thriller follows on from the love story in The Patterned Flute. Here, canny fiddle player, Kate, and Liz, find themselves seriously together and also involved in a protest movement against green-field development. Ultimately, the environment and, indeed romance win out.
"My American" follows the lives and loves of Amy Lee and Robert Vorst: from a chance childhood meeting to the comic, tragic and romantic trysts that follow. A baker's daughter, Amy has dreams of becoming a writer, whilst Robert is destined to be a doctor. Later, embarking on a lecture tour, Amy is reminded of 'her American' and endeavours to find him amidst Depression-era America.
Jimmy Jenner has been working as a private detective since a terrorist bomb took both his leg and his job on London's police force. He's been hired to work on a straightforward divorce case, but the stakes are quickly raised. First someone tries to murder a man who resembles Jenner, then the subject of his divorce investigation is found dead in Epping Forest. Jenner soon realizes he's the catalyst in these events. And so he begins to question his own past, particularly the accidental death of his brother Joe, 30 years earlier. Joe was a minor criminal, a peripheral member of the circle of South London gangster, Tommy Slaughter. Was Joe's death what it seemed at the time? The answer may explain the violence now closing in on Jimmy Jenner.
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Welcome to the world of Amy, Alice and Felix; they've little to say in favour of it. Mostly they fail to find tolerable partners, bicker, whinge and spend too much time in a dive called The Snakepit. And then there's teaching careers to avoid and the rest of humanity to endure. And there's Morgana and Oswald. And then Felix's partner leaves him for an unemployed circus clown. And that's what living in the faded glory of Ambleside (an end of the line coastal town that wasn't too glorious before it faded) is all about - if you can call it living. And then you die.
Amy has enough to deal with for one lifetime: a superstitious Chinese mother, a best friend whose mood changes as dramatically as her hair colour and a reputation at high school for being weird. The last thing she needs is to be haunted by Logan, a ghost from the 80s. He could be dangerous. He might also be Amy’s dream boy. Preloved is an engaging young adult novel by Australian author Shirley Marr. This paranormal romance about a sassy teenage girl stuck between the past and the present deals with issues of self-esteem and independence. For more YA fiction, read Shirley’s murder mystery Fury. To learn more about these books, visit www.shirleymarr.net “Preloved is full of warmth, humou...
Take Three Girls is a school novel, written by an English teacher in response to demands from his students that he should write them a 'decent story' - not like the ones in the library . It tells the tale of three girls and a boy beginning their upper school careers. They find new friendships and danger. Each chapter ends with the diary entries of the main characters, revealing their personal thoughts on what happens to them and what they really think of each other.
A robust compliance program is essential to protecting a company from running afoul of the myriad laws and regulations that have been enacted to combat fraud and waste. The second edition of the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Compliance Manual includes guidance to help companies develop a compliance program tailored to today's complex enforcement and business environment. Study of this Manual will enable compliance professionals and lawyers to understand the government's expectations of an effective compliance program and ethical business practices, as well as: how the government discovers potential enforcement actions, its approach to pursuing such actions, what behaviors can constitute mitigating factors for a company in the event of a legal violation. Coverage includes new chapters covering:Pharmaceutical industry interactions with patient organizations Compliance 2.0: compliance analytics in the era of big dataThe art and science of health care compliance in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries The Manual will be a great tool for health and life sciences attorneys, compliance officers, and others in the pharmaceutical and medical devices industry
Phillip Winters is a computer guy with a dream to set sail. His lawyer wife Lucy only half shares his vision but begrudgingly follows Phillip to their first sailing class in the sailing capital of America, Annapolis, MD. She excels, while he falls behind. Setting out to find the perfect boat, whether his wife approves or not, Phillip finds a storm-ravaged boat and gets in over his head, much to his wife's disapproval. They move to Beaufort, NC, and fix up the derelict vessel without having the first clue of how to fix a boat or even how to sail for that matter. They quickly realize that it is a task they are ill-equipped to handle, and one which they lack the experience or know-how to tackle...