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The Condition
by Jennifer Haigh
ISBN 9780007271252
Trade Paperback $32.99

The Condition explores one turbulent year in the lives of the McKotches, a New England family in extremis.

Paulette and Frank McKotch, long divorced, hide a mountain of old grievances from their three adult children who are busy with crises of their own. Billy, the eldest, is a successful Manhattan cardiologist living a double life. Scott the youngest, has made an endless series of wrong turns. And Gwen, the daughter, lives a hermitic life far away from her parents.

The family attributes her reclusive temperament to her Turner's syndrome, a chromosomal disorder that has left her with the stature and physical maturity of an eleven year old child. From the day it was diagnosed, Gwen's condition has caused an explosive disagreement between her parents. Frank is fascinated by the clinical manifestations of Turner's -- a scientific interest that horrifies Paulette, who sees Gwen's condition as nothing short of calamity.
As Christmas 1997 approaches, Frank, a prominent medical researcher, is on the brink of a big discovery when an old rival reappears. Billy's secret life implodes, and Scott becomes obsessed with roads not taken. And Gwen, in her thirties, falls in love for the first time, a development the whole family views with alarm.

The Ice Princess
by Camilla Leckberg
ISBN 9780007253937
Trade Paperback $29.99

For the first time in English, the bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Leckberg's stunning debut.

Returning to her hometown after the death of her parents, writer Erica Falck finds a community on the brink of tragedy. The death of Erica's childhood friend, Alex, is just the beginning. Her wrists slashed, her body frozen in an ice-cold bath, it seems, at first, that Alex has taken her own life.

When Erica delves further, however, it becomes clear that her death is connected to events long in the past. And as she and local detective Patrik Hedstrom come closer to the truth, they are drawn into a web of deception that someone is willing to do anything to protect...
 

Guilty Pleasures
by Tasmina Perry
ISBN 9780007264964
Trade Paperback $32.99

In the ultra-chic world of the fabulously rich, fashion can have a very high price...

Saul Hemmingway, owner of one of England’s oldest and most prestigious luxury goods companies is dead, but who will inherit his estate?

For years Saul's niece Saskia, editor-in-chief of Rive, the most glamorous fashion magazine of the moment has believed that she would be the sole benefactor. But she's not the only family member with their eye on the ultimate prize. Roger, Saul's handsome brother with a demanding wife who has a gambling problem. Elizabeth the art-dealer with a dark and brooding secret and Tom the playboy nephew, they all have their reasons for wanting the company.

When the estate is bequeathed to long lost niece Emily, a beautiful workaholic living in Boston, the knives are quietly drawn. The Hemmingways want what is rightfully theirs and one of them will go to any lengths to achieve their goal.

Beneath the Bleeding
by Val McDermid
ISBN 9780007243280
Paperback $19.99
**HOT PRICE**
The race is on to uncover the identity of a murderer with nothing to lose - and everything to kill for.

When Robbie Bishop, star midfielder for the Bradfield Vics, is poisoned by a rare and deadly toxin, profiler Dr Tony Hill and trusted colleague DCI Carol Jordan have their work cut out for them. Robbie was adored, so the public want answers - but the answers aren't coming, and trails are running cold.

Then a bomb explodes in the football stadium, causing massive casualties - and another man dies from poisoning. Is there a link between the cases? And what are the motives for these crimes? The clock is ticking for Tony and Carol - and the death toll keeps rising...

The Sky Isn't Visible From Here
by Felicia C. Sullivan
ISBN 9780732288051
Trade paperback $29.99
A fiercely honest story of a woman who survived the childhood from hell with only to face her own deadly battle -- with herself...
Swaggering down mean streets, Rosie was once beautiful, impetuous and wild, afraid of no one. Cocaine turned her into a monster her child could not recognise. As a little girl Felicia Sullivan was forced to become her mother's keeper, rushing her to hospital when she overdosed, withstanding her terrifying rages and abusive boyfriends, and wondering why she wouldn't tell the truth about her real father. Ashamed of her past, she invented a fake new identity to show the world. Yet despite putting herself through an Ivy League university and forging an outwardly successful high-powered career, like her mother she eventually succumbed to the same terrifying alcohol and drug abuse. Sullivan wrote this breathtakingly honest and moving memoir when she realised that it was time to kill her own creation, and save her life.
'A poignant memoir palpates the wounds of growing up with an unstable, cocaine-abusing mother...' Publishers Weekly

Stolen Innocence: My Story of growing up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
by Elissa Wall with Lisa Pulitzer
ISBN 9780061715198
Trade Paperback $29.99
In this harrowing and spellbinding book, Elissa Wall tells the complete story of her life in the FLDS polygamist sect and how she brought down controversial sect leader, Warren Jeffs.
Detailing how Jeffs forced her into an unwanted marriage at age 14, Elissa speaks candidly about the horrifying reality she faced as a young teenager in a devastating marriage to a man five years her senior. But what began as tragic tale of forced marriage quickly descended into madness, as Elissa's troubled relationship spiralled out of control before her vows were even spoken. The end result of the union was a nightmare of rape and abuse that Elissa suffered at the hands of her Church-appointed husband and in the name of God. Pushed out of her home by abuse, she began living in her car to avoid the crushing realities of her situation.
And yet somehow, in face of this bleak reality, she never gave up on the hope that she would some day find a way out. That way out came from a former FLDS member named Lamont Barlow, whose chance encounter with Elissa sparked a relationship that gave her the strength she needed to leave her marriage and throw off the shackles of the FLDS forever.
But though Elissa won her freedom from the FLDS, she had yet to earn her victory, and here she illustrates how she used her newfound freedom to put Warren Jeffs behind bars. Looking at her crucial role in Utah's case against Jeffs, Elissa elucidates how her testimony helped convict him and how remarkably she arose from this ordeal with her hope intact and her heart filled with love.
**Author Elissa Wall will appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show, screening on channel 10, Thursday 24 July -- don't miss it!

Brotherhood of Warriors
by Aaron Cohen with Douglas Century
ISBN 9780061685958
Trade Paperback $32.99
At the age of 18, Beverly Hills native Aaron Cohen left his life of comfort to prove himself in the crucible of the armed forces-and not just any armed forces. He was determined to be a part of Israel's most elite security forces-the equivalent of our Green Berets and Navy SEALS. In 15 months of gruelling training, Cohen acquired skills that usually take years to master: expertise in combat infantry tactics, urban counter-terror warfare; he became a firearms expert, Krav Maga martial artist, undercover operative, getaway-car driver. He was offered the only post a non-Israeli can hold: in a top-secret, highly controversial unit which dispatches operatives disguised as Arabs into the Palestinian-controlled West Bank to abduct Hamas leaders and bring them to Israel for trial.
Between 1997 and 2000, Aaron Cohen would learn flawless Hebrew and conversational Arabic, lose any semblance of his all-American-90210 appearance, and participate in over 200 life or death missions.
A propulsive, gripping read, Cohen's story is a rare fly-on-the-wall view into the shadowy world of 'Black Ops' that will redefine readers' understanding of what invincible strength, true danger, and inviolable security really is.

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