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Romeo and Juliet meets The Godfather in this thrilling Mafia romance from number one bestselling author Catherine Doyle. Sophie Gracewell’s only plans for the summer involve working at her family’s diner, hanging out with her best friend Millie, and generally keeping a low profile after the drama of her father’s arrest last year. But when five mysterious Italian brothers suddenly move into town, her life changes forever. Irresistibly drawn to bad boy Nic, Sophie finds herself falling into a dangerous criminal underworld governed by powerful families. When her own dark family secrets come to light, she must pick a side – the family she was born into, or the boy she is falling in love ...
In a world without political freedom, personal freedom and precious little faith in anything comes a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask who fights political oppressors through terrorism and seemingly absurd acts. It's a gripping tale of the blurred lines between ideological good and evil. The inspiration for the hit 2005 movie starring Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving, this amazing graphic novel is packaged with a collectable reproduction of the iconic V mask.
A brand spanking new, rejacketed B format edition featuring a letter from Jackie Collins to her fans... In Chances, Lucky grew up in a top crime family, in Lucky she was married three times, in Lady Boss she took on Hollywood and bought Panther Studios. And now she’s back, facing the biggest challenge of all, in Vendetta: Lucky’s Revenge. Owning a Hollywood studio isn’t easy, but it satisfies Lucky’s passion for adventure and her desire to take chances. Until the scheming and dangerous widow of the Santangelo's arch enemy, Donna Landsman, puts her own plans into action, and they include taking over Panther… But Lucky’s just as street smart and twice as ruthless – and so the battle for control begins…
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Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971.
The lives and loves of the great condottieri Federigo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, was the archetypal 'Renaissance man': a brilliant soldier, scholar and ally of the pope, he spent much of the vast wealth on commissioning artists to decorate the city. Sigismondo Malatesta, lord of the neighbouring city of Rimini, was also a brilliant soldier and generous patron of the arts. He and Federigo were locked in an epic feud which saw them fight as mercenaries for and against just about every Italian ruler of note, so long as the other was on the opposite side. Together they epitomised the spirit of the condottieri - the contract army leaders who drove the explosion of new political, commercial and artistic ideas that has since become known as the Renaissance.
1896. the story is Italian, the time 1885, and the precise stage of the acts, Naples, during the last visitation of the cholera. a romance, but a romance of revenge & reality. No mind of man can imagine incidents so wonderful, so amazing as those of ac.
The armed guards and Alsatians stayed put as the prison gates slammed shut. 'I'm going straight,' Paul Ferris announced to the press, then sped off in a waiting car. Before he'd reached the first corner, the journalists were after him. And they weren't the only ones . . . Paul Ferris ruled crime in Scotland. He had links to London firms, Manchester gangs and Liverpool faces. He'd been accused of murdering The Godfather's son, Fatboy, and found not guilty. Some cops talked of killing him. Now he was telling the world that he was walking away from his life of crime. But would they let him? Vendetta tells the astonishing inside story of what happened next to Paul Ferris. And it's a story of int...
When Jan Hardy triumphs at Cheltenham races, little does she know that the year ahead will be the most traumatic and exciting of her life... A.D. O'Hagan wants Jan to train one of his most promising young horses, The Frozen North. The only problem is that, however talented it may be, the horse proves uncontrollable.