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This third edition of the bestselling Database Projects in Access has been brought up to date in line with the changes to the AS / A level specifications and the Applied GCE courses, and features a new full colour design as well as advice orientated to the latest and earlier versions of Access.

A New York Times bestseller, «Buddha» is a beautiful story told by one of the world's most inspirational writers.

Katie MacAlister's second deliciously funny romp through her world of gorgeously alpha-male «Dark Ones» and the charismatic women they can`t help but fall for...

»Duma Key» combines the appeal of «Cell» and «Lisey's Story» — two of Stephen King's most successful hardbacks of all time — to take the legendary author to a whole new level.

Presents a tale of survival, as a young mother fights to protect her child against a monster. In a terrifying trip across America, young Jack Sawyer is searching for the Talisman, the only thing that can save his dying mother. His quest takes him into the menacing Territories where violence, surprise and the titanic struggle between good and evil reach across a mythic landscape.

A reissue of Stephen King's fantasy classic with a dramatic new graphic cover style.

A solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. The Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. This collection of Stephen King stories takes a roller-coaster ride through the macabre and monstrous, via explorations of good and evil.

Three men linked by war: only one will survive — Shaw's superb novel of World War II was the biggest selling title of all 1948 and is a Hodder Great Read.

The gritty, compelling New York Times bestselling novel of star-crossed lovers and circus life, set in Depression-era USA.

»Keep your friends close and your enemies closer...»

She's your best friend. And your worst enemy.

Intelligence, heart and a great story: a million copies have been sold in Europe and anyone who loved «Back to the Future» or «The Time Traveller`s Wife» will love this.

Britain`s favourite Pub Landlord tackles modern-day mumbo-jumbo with a healthy dose of good old-fashioned common sense.

When Edgar Freemantle moves to Duma Key to escape his past, he doesn’t expect to find much there. But Duma Key and its mysteries have been waiting for him. The shells beneath his house are whispering to him, and something in the view from his window urges him to discover a talent he never knew he had. Edgar Freemantle begins to paint. Even though he has lost an arm. And even though the hand he uses is the one he lost!

The new gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling rival to Mary Higgins Clark.

Banished for a murder he didn't commit — now he's coming home.

More serious than global terrorism. More urgent than global warming — the world is running out of oil.

The first intimate biography of the Rothschild brothers — nineteenth-century Europ's richest and most fascinating family.

In 1945 Germany was a nation in tatters. Swathes of its population were despairing, homeless, bombed-out and on the move. Refugees streamed towards the West and soldiers made their way home, often scarring the villages they passed through with parting shots of savagery. Politically the country was neutered, carved into zones of occupation. While Britain and America were loathe to repeat the crippling reparations demands of the First World War, Russia bayed for blood, stripping their own zone of everything from rail tracks to lavatory bowls.»After the Reich» is the first history to give the full picture of Germany's bitter journey to reconstruction. Giles MacDonogh expertly charts the varied experiences of all who found themselves in the German melting pot. His people-focused narrative unveils shocking truths about how people continued to treat each other, even outside the confines of war. It is a crucial lesson for our times.

Box of 3 Le Carre bestsellers: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. TINKER TAILOR SOLIDER SPY George Smiley, a troubled man of infinite compassion, enters a Cold War landscape of moles and lamplighters, scalphunters and pavement artists, where men are turned, burned or bought for stock. Smiley's mission is to catch a Moscow mole burrowed 30 years into the Circus itself. HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY George Smiley has become chief of the battered British Secret Service. The betrayals of a Soviet double agent have riddled the spy network. Smiley wants revenge. He chooses his weapon: Jerry Westerby, «The Honourable Schoolboy», a passionate lover and a seasoned, reckless secret agent. Westerby is pointed east, to Hong Kong. So begins the terrifying game... SMILEY'S PEOPLE John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him — and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley — unprecedented worldwide acclaim. Rounding off his astonishing vision of a clandestine world, master storyteller le Carre perfects his art in Smiley's People. In London at dead of night, George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus (aka the British Secret Service), is summoned from his lonely bed by news of the murder of an ex-agent. Lured back to active service, Smiley skillfully maneuvers his people — the no-men of no-man's land — into crisscrossing Paris, London, Germany, and Switzerland as he prepares for his own final, inevitable duel on the Berlin border with his Soviet counterpart and archenemy, Karla.

BBC Business Editor Robert Peston lifts the lid on credit crunch Britain and the rise of the super-rich.

Where tragedy confronts eternity.

Katie MacAlister`s third deliciously funny romp through her world of gorgeously alpha-male «Dark Ones» and the charismatic women they can`t help but fall for...