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Having found fame and success as a model, Christine's short affair with the minister for war, John Profumo, led to his downfall at the end of Harold Macmillan's Conservative government, and was at the heart of the social and political earthquake that followed. She became the subject of scandal, intrigue and gossip and was tried for perjury and briefly jailed following the death of Stephen Ward, the socialite who had introduced her to Profumo.

For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until the arrival of European explorers they were the only people to have ever lived there. Both the most closely related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before the era of mass migration, Polynesians can trace their roots to a group of epic voyagers who ventured out into the unknown in one of the greatest adventures in human history.

A thrilling, intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.

FBI Agent Joe Roberts and his fiancée, Dr. Madeline Pierce, must track down a rage-producing nano-drug before it devastates the nation, in this fourth book of The Chemical Attraction Series. Staying in Detroit with the FBI, Madeline works to develop an antidote from the confiscated journals. She clashes with the women from Joe’s past. In West Michigan, Joe hunts for the bio-weapon. With a history as a player, he’s worried his relationship with Madeline is at risk. Working apart, they attempt to focus on the threat.

"One hundred and twenty Marines wounded. Eighteen dead. All for one lousy hill". Based on her father’s letters to his parents throughout the Forgotten War, author Christina Thompson has produced this work of historical fiction to pay tribute to Navy corpsmen by remembering their service to their brothers and their country. Imagining her father had guarded his parents from the carnage of war, Christina elaborates on what could have happened while staying true to the dates and experiences her father shared in his actual letters.

Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand, told partly as a history of the complex and bloody period of contact between Europeans and the Maoris in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and partly as the story of Christina Thompson's marriage to a Maori man.

Working in nanotechnology, Madeline Pierce, a dedicated scientist, has pain in her heart from an abusive relationship. She hides in her research. Charismatic yet brooding, Joe Roberts searches for an instant chemistry with his soulmate, the one person who will love him for his faults not in spite of them. Dr. Pierce teams up with Agent Roberts to uncover a criminal network within her medical research facility in West Michigan. Feeling an undeniable attraction, they struggle to stay professional while they determine the degree of company involvement.

A collection of sweet, tender, poetic, beautiful, heart-wrenching, sensual love stories.

Molly Ayer has been in foster care since she was eight years old. Most of the time, Molly knows it's her attitude that's the problem, but after being shipped from one family to another, she's had her fair share of adults treating her like an inconvenience. So when Molly's forced to help an elderly woman clean out her attic for community service, Molly is wary. Just another adult to treat her like a troublemaker.

Barnen tror inte sina ögon när det plötsligt en dag står en liten frusen ponny i deras trädgård. Den verkar vara sjuk så mamma ringer till en veterinär. Men vem i all världen tillhör ponnyn? Christine Pullein-Thompson (1925-2005) var en brittisk författare som skrev cirka 100 böcker under sin livstid, främst hästböcker riktade till barn och ungdomar. Hennes systrar Diana och Josephine var också framstående författare.

Tre barn anländer till Ponnypensionatet och Harriet och hennes famlij märker direkt att något är galet. Sally, Marion och Kenny, som barnen heter, säger knappt någonting, verkar rädda och ledsna och deras ponnyer är undernärda och sjuka. Efter tre veckors slit ska deras pappa komma och hämta dem, men han dyker aldrig upp. Vad är det egentligen som har hänt med barnen? Christine Pullein-Thompson (1925-2005) var en brittisk författare som skrev cirka 100 böcker under sin livstid, främst hästböcker riktade till barn och ungdomar.

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