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London: Watermark Press, 2000. Used. PRINTING ISSUE WHERE FIRST PAGE HAS SLIGHTLY STUCK TO FRONT COVER OTHERWISE BOOK HAS NO TEARS , MARKS OR INSCRIPTIONS. PRICE REDUCED ACCORDINGLYA fascinating insight into early Australian aviation, seen through the long and interesting life of 91-year-old George Roberts, who joined Qantas in his early twenties, and over the next 38 years rose to great heights within the organization. George is still involved with maintaining the company's archives.

YMAA Publication Center, 2002. Used. Having a light-hearted attitude towards living is helpful in finding the truth of life says Yanling Lee Johnson when asked how do we live a happy and healthy life? Incorporating simple qigong exercises into our daily routine can have profound effects on our health, happiness and longevity. Qigong isn't always that difficult to do, we need good information, a sincere attitude and patience to receive the wonderful results that qigong practice can reward us with. In this book, we will explore Qigong as it realates to our soul and spirit; Qigong as it is taught and practiced in modern China; and we will learn many useful Qigong exercises that we can use today to improve our health, refine our spirit, and even increase our sexual pleasures. Learn about immortality in terms of Qigong practice Understand the relationship between Qigong, Soul and Spirit Explore recent Qigong experiments in modern China Learn many practical Qigong exercises for improving your health.

Adaptation of Quality Management to the Australian Culture; a Guide for Managers and Chief Executives

Not Listed: Not listed, Not recorded. Used. "Hawkins, there's two million in there...". Tony Hawkins wasn't really made for the FBI. He rarely hit what he aimed at, forgot his own code name, and had a tendency to panic at the slightest hint of trouble. Now he's gotten himself handcuffed to an attache case with two million dollars inside, and stuffed aboard a hijacked DC-10, bound for Scotland. where he's being chased through the countryside by the hijackers, Scots patriots, a crazy Cuban colonel and half the police force. All of them want only two things: the money and Tony's head in a noose..

Corgi, 1984. Used. WELL READ PAPERBACK. SOME CREASES TO COVER AND SPINE. NO RIPS, INSCRIPTIONS OR TEARSA Desperate Duke Everything about Lord Harry's easygoing life is about to change. After unexpectedly inherting the title of Duke of Sommersville, he's also discovered it comes with a load of debt. To save the estate, he's going to need money. Lots of it-and quick. A Free-Spirited Duchess Lady Christina has no problem with Harry marrying her for her dowry.After all, they've been friends since childhood. But gone is the laughing, charming boy she once knew. And she won't share anything of herself until she gets that Harry back. No matter how tempting he proves to be... Praise for New York Times bestselling author Patricia Rice "Rich as a magical touch for creating fascinating plots, delicious romance, and delightful characters."- Booklist "Charming and immensely entertaining."- Library Journal "Rice bewitches, beguiles, and tickles your fancy."- RT Book Reviews Top Pick, 4 1?2stars

London: Corvus, 2011. large size paperback. Used. A novel which is by turns a spy thriller, a war story, a saga of betrayal, vengeance and obsessive love, and the story of a lifelong quest resolved, finally, by a series of mind-wrenching plot twists. It is suitable for fans of commercial crime Fiction with a literary edge.

Crows Nest, N.S.W: Allen & Unwin, 2012. Hardcover/First Edition. Used. Award-winning author Michelle de Kretser illuminates travel, work and modern dreams in this brilliant evocation of the way we live now. Wonderfully written, Questions of Travel is an extraordinary work of imagination - a transformative, very funny and intensely moving novel.

London: Scarlet, 1996. Used. An impetuous tomboy, Billie was everything Travis Kent claimed to despise in a woman, but every time they met, magic filled the air between them. Although they worked side by side, Travis did his best to ignore Billie, until he was forced to spend a weekend with his bewitching colleague. Soon, Travis was rethinking his life in order to make Billie his, but then he made a serious mistake and Billie disappeared. Travis couldn't understand why Billie had left him, but she knew that she couldn't stay with the man she loved if he didn't trust her.

London: Fourth Estate, 2007. Used. ADVENTURE / THRILLER. Patient DL lies motionless in a small room at the end of a hospital corridor. She has suffered massive damage to her brain, and it's not clear whether she can see or hear the world around her. When Sarah Newman, the narrator of this ghostly tale, is charged with finding a spark of light in her lifeless body, she is drawn into a drama which extends far beyond the hospital walls. What accident befell DL to cause her such massive brain damage? Why does her family behave in such unsettling and perplexing ways? Why is DL's estranged husband visiting the patient after hours, in the dead of night? And what is troubling the narrator herself, who seems to carry a burden from her past? As the tension builds Sarah Newman finds herself at the heart of a personal and an ethical dilemma. 'The Quick' is the thrilling account of an obsession, charged throughout with a sense of the mystery of consciousness.

London: Arrow, 1998. Used. A sequel to "A Song at Twilight" and "The Endless Game". Framed for a murder and exiled in Russia as a defector, Alec Hillsden is offered a pardon and a new identity. He returns to Britain to unravel the 50-year-old mystery of the arrest and death of an art dealer

London: Orion, 2007. Used. Detective and mystery stories. Joseph Vaughan's life has been dogged by tragedy. Growing up in the 1950s, he was at the centre of series of killings of young girls in his small rural community. The girls were taken, assaulted and left horribly mutilated. Barely a teenager himself, Joseph becomes determined to try to protect his community and classmates from the predations of the killer. Despite banding together with his friends as ' The Guardians', he was powerless to prevent more murders - and no one was ever caught. Only after a full ten years did the nightmare end when the one of his neighbours is found hanging from a rope, with articles from the dead girls around him. Thankfully, the killings finally ceased. But the past won't stay buried - for it seems that the real murderer still lives and is killing again. And the secret of his identity lies in Joseph's own history.

London: Harvill Secker, 2007. Used. Set in Denmark in the here and now, Hoegs masterful, inventive novel centers around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt.

London: Penguin Publishing Group, 2005. Used. Moments before the crash of her chartered flight, Kylie O'Rourke sees a raven perched on the plane's wing, as still as death, staring at her. Regaining consciousness in a Boston hospital, Kylie finds herself haunted by unnerving memories of the crash, of the survivors, and the rescuers--and when her fellow survivors start dying one-by-one, she knows she's living on borrowed time.

PAPERBACK EDITION.CREASES TO COVER AND SPINE London: Penguin, 1990. Used. An extraordinary modern novel in the Victorian tradition, Charles Palliser has created something extraordinary--a plot within a plot within a plot of family secrets, mysterious clues, low-born birth, high-reaching immorality, and, always, always the fog-enshrouded, enigmatic character of 19th century -- London itself."You read the first page and down you wonderfully fall, into a long, large, wide world of Fiction."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

London: Penguin Books Limited, 2006. Used. Life couldnt be better for Lucinda Purefoy. Granted its a little embarrassing, her father being the Bishop of Aldershot, but shes got a steady boyfriend, a degree in social sciences and the offer of a job in advertising. With all this, she felt she should pay back her debt to society and do a little good in the world. Thats why she joined SCRAP (short for Social Carers, Reformers and Praeceptors), an organization which trains girls like Lucy to become the guide, philosopher and friend to ex-convicts coming out of prison, to find them a job, a home and to encourage them to kick the habit of stealing things. And so Lucy finds herself standing outside the gates of Wormwood Scrubs, on a windy March morning, waiting to greet her first SCRAP client a career-burglar called Terry Keegan. What happens next confounds expectations and produces a story full of surprises. With a cast of characters that rivals anything in his famous Rumpole stories and a compulsive plot,… Read More

London: Little Brown and Company, 2013. large size paperback. Used. "If I'd known it was going to be my last book, I'd have been quite disappointed that I'm going out with a relatively minor piece."The Quarry is about somebody dying. The terrible irony is that when he was writing this book, Iain Banks did not know that he was dying. In the event he died soon after publication, after writing close to 30 novels, some literary, some science-fiction and some gothic. His many admirers will miss him;

London: Orion, 2003. Used. Two seventeen-year-olds are killed by an ex-Army loner who has gone off the rails. The mystery takes Rebus into the heart of a shattered community. Ex-Army himself, Rebus becomes fascinated by the killer, and finds he is not alone. Army investigators are on the scene, and won't be shaken off. The killer had friends and enemies to spare and left behind a legacy of secrets and lies.Rebus has more than his share of personal problems, too. He's fresh out of hospital, but won't say how it happened. Could there be a connection with a house-fire and the unfortunate death of a petty criminal who had been harassing Rebus's colleague Siobhan Clarke?