Jeremy Clarksons Grubby Little Secret (Grubby Little Secrets Book 3)

I also dislike the notion of the dom always having some kind of dark past that made him into what he is.

Doesn't that rather mean that he has mental issues? Mar 19, Lopamudra rated it did not like it. I thought a lot before penning this review. I read the book and just pondered about the reason why it became such a bestseller. It is just a common story of sex, flesh and passion. I don't know what it is to go so ga-ga over a sex slave and being a woman, it definitely was very demeaning. Saddens me that today's readers actually appreciate such trash and there is a sequel too!!!!!

Aug 03, John Benda rated it liked it. It is a beautiful love story of two people that growing together from two very different spectrums of love. I love how the author developed and evolved the characters of Anastasia Steele and Christian Gray and how they grown together throughout the series.

All in all a great and fun book series to read. Sep 09, XxProreadsxX rated it did not like it. This book sucks never read it, I never will. It was a twilight fan fic originally, the writer is just some fat pervert who sits in her house all day fantasizing this stuff. This is not a book. It is an abomination, if you like it you are either retarded or you read a different book and thought it was this one. Oct 01, Ilga rated it did not like it.

I had people tell me it was really bad, but I was too curious about what all the fuss was about. Do yourself a favor -- RUN from this book. If you want porn, read those parts and skip the rest of it. The porn itself was, well porn. But the plot around the porn was horrible, painful, EW! Dec 18, Aria Gmitter rated it liked it Shelves: The book is better than the movie, but both left me wanting more. I found it difficult to get close to the character because of the way the book was written.

However, if you enjoy snappy dialogue with fast paced conversation and you're not into deep setting descriptions or too much interruption between character speak, this book will be enjoyable to you. Feb 13, Phyllis rated it it was ok. Sep 12, Djajlivi rated it it was amazing. It was so different. You just have to be open minded. Feb 16, Jerry rated it liked it. Yup, I read it. I had to see what the big deal was and it was okay. Carolyn rated it liked it Sep 09, Shaina Omento rated it it was amazing Sep 30, Andy rated it it was ok Feb 04, Mary E rated it did not like it Mar 03, Heather rated it liked it Jun 30, Tameka rated it liked it Jan 11, Jessica Moss rated it did not like it Jan 23, Amanda Plaine rated it liked it Mar 14, Susie Kirk rated it liked it Jul 28, Ray rated it really liked it Nov 23, Connie Lee rated it it was ok Jan 02, Venilda Barringer rated it did not like it Jun 20, Ali Maze rated it did not like it Jan 06, Dustjacket has wear on the edges.

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Social drama and portrait of an era. Bottom RH corner on front cover very slightly bent. It confronts not only the brutality of war but the possibility of heroism - and delivers an ending that is both shocking and deeply moving. Previous owner's name ink-stamped. Light bumping to corners. Light chipping to spine. Binding a little tender, but still intact. Small sticker remnants to first page and inside rear cover. Drama, set in post-war Germany. Light soiling to outside edges of text block. Very light browning to page extremities. Very small dampstain to top edge of text block. Very light soiling to covers.

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For Knight, Day and rumpled D. Jones, the question is who was the intended victim and how is the Vietnamese community involved? Knight and Day are cheerfully outspoken adversaries who outwardly spar while trying to untangle their ambiguous relationship, and Jones is great as the melancholy cop, with his love of architecture and his dejection at failing efforts to curtail street crime. Fast-paced and crisply styled, the icing on the cake is the clever conclusion at the Vietnam Wall.

The elderly Mrs Shoddy suffers acute depression as a result of a bushfire that kills her beloved horses. A capable countrywoman, she loses her grip and is living in squalor when the district nurse finds her and has her committed to an insane asylum.

The time is ; the place, a country town in NSW. In this powerful novel, finding herself pitted against the power of the state, Mrs Shoddy calls on her memories of her missing husband, on the spirit of her horses and on the recovery of her self-respect and resilience to create a world in which she can remain sane, even against the institutional brutality she is subjected to. And the characters in her mind become as palpable as the real people she is surrounded by. An unmarked copy in "as new" condition. An unmarked copy in excellent condition, complete with original ribbon marker. Dust jacket rubbed, bumped and chipped.

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Runyon was first and foremost a journalist and his writing resonates of everyday happenings in America. Everything from a horse race to an electrocution. Fiction; United States; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Library of Congress No: Edges badly foxed and browned. The publication date given above is an estimate only, there being no date given in the book.

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Set against the Independence struggles of two British colonies, Of Marriageable Age is ultimately a story of personal triumph against a brutal fate, brought to life by a multicultural cast of characters: Savitri, intuitive and charismatic, grows up among the servants of a pre-war English household in the Raj.

But the traditional customs of her Brahmin family clash against English upper-class prejudice, threatening her love for the privileged son of the house. Saroj, her fire hidden by outward reserve, comes of age in Guyana, South America, the daughter of a strictly orthodox and very racist Hindu father. Her life changes forever on the day she finally rebels against him. Edges of dust jacket have superficial wear and minor chipping.

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She was also the editor of a popular girls' magazine, Atalanta. She was a feminist and a member of the Pioneer Club. The book's original date was , I can't say if this is a second or later, it just says "New edition" pp age-darkened, binding OK but not great. Spine firm, silver title there-on. Plain black boards undamaged. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket negligibly edge-creased only. From the jacket flap: Married to the Duke of Bedford, English Regent of France, Jacquetta is introduced by him to a mysterious world of learning and alchemy.

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Dedicated to Damien Parer the only non fictional character. Illustrated gloss boards undamaged. Like-illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket in excellent condition. This omnibus contains three of Brother Cadfael's most intriguing mysteries in one remarkable volume: Old price mark on front cover. Covers have moderate creasing and slight soiling. She serves faithfully, charging the dervishes in the Western Desert and enduring the privations of Allenby's great campaign in Palestine.

She recovers from wounds to swelter through a summer in the Jordan Valley. She takes part in the triumphant advance on Damascus - only to be sold off in Cairo among the 22, horses left behind by the War Office after the Armistice. By , the forceful Griselda Romney, a war widow, has discovered that her old hunter, Philomena, could be still alive.

With her six-year-old daughter, and of course Nanny, Mrs Romney sets out to Egypt, to find Philomena and to rescue her Our Horses in Egypt depicts the work of a troop-horse in the Army - and of exotic Cairo, in political unrest - as meticulously and exuberantly as Hound Music recreated the milieu of Edwardian fox-hunting. The voices she gives to the sad, the dispossessed, the resigned animal and human characters are unforgettable. If only the Booker jury would stop drooling over the usual suspects and give credit where it is genuinely deserved. Close and Investigate Macdonnell, J. Multiple copies of this title available.

Spine has mild fading. Dust jacket has moderate creasing. When it isn't prison, it's hell. For this is the British Army in the days of National Service, a grimy deposit of post-war gloom. An endless round of kit layout, square-bashing, shepherd's pie 'made with real shepherds' and drills is relieved only by the occasional lecture on firearms or V.

The reckless, impulsive Mike and the more pragmatic Jonathan adopt radically different attitudes to survive this two-year confiscation of their freedom, with dramatic consequences Quantity Available: The Hive of Glass J. Small tear at bottom of title page.

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Nurse Gerry Gaddis, Peggy W. Australia's first major detective thriller opens as two men hail a cab outside the Melbourne Club at 1 o'clock in the morning.

Boards and dust jacket are in good condition with only minor shelf wear, scuffing and chipping, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster-when their boat explodes. What is happening in this part of the world? As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical power, and an unimaginably audacious plan to extort the world's major nations.

The penalty for refusal? The destruction of their greatest cities. Filled with the high-stakes suspense and boundless invention unique to Cussler, Devil's Gate is one of the most thrilling novels yet from the grand master of adventure. The passenger is shot before he can reboard the plane and is left for dead. Hudson is also hit and the "Connie" he's flying goes down in the Atlantic. If you are familiar with the Cussler template, you know this incident will eventually intrude on present-day events.

If you're a high-adventure enthusiast, give Cussler and Brown a nod. Text is lightly tanned. Previous owners inscription on ffep. Dust jacket has moderate creasing and moderate rubbing. Edges of dust jacket have moderate bumping. Fiction; Thrillers; Inventory No: Edges of pages are slightly soiled. A woman's orderly life is disrupted when a connection is made between the death of a young girl and her husband, and as she considers his guilt she becomes aware of the shifts and changes in their marriage.

To the Death Macdonnell, J. What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted? A Hong Kong Story Before Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. Raising the Stones Tepper, Sheri S. Light age and reading wear. No torn or missing pages.. New book, unread, remainde rmark to base. A bishop is mutilated and dismembered, and in his confessional an angelic-looking young men is found hiding, covered in blood and clutching the murder weapon - and claiming he's innocent.

The most brilliant lawyer in Chicago is forced to defend him. It is one of the funniest books I have ever read in my whole life. I laughed until I cried. There are so many funny stories it is hard to begin, but some of my favourites are the episodes with the medical dictionary and the frying pan.

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The only time I frowned was when it was finished. The Huxwoods, a fabulously wealthy family that run a publishing empire, has their already-tenuous family peace shattered when Sir Harry Huxwood is found murdered in his bed, and anyone with a stake in the Huxwood dynasty is under suspicion. Investigator Isaac Bell is on the trail of a ruthless espionage agent On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency's intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell.

Unfortunately, they are not so lucky the second time. The thugs attack again - and this time one of the scientists dies. What are they holding that is so precious? Only something which will revolutionize business and popular culture - and perhaps something more. For war clouds are looming, and a ruthless espionage agent has spotted a priceless opportunity to give the Germans an edge. It is up to Isaac Bell to figure out who he is, what he is up to, and stop him, but he may already be too late Dust jacket has light creasing and superficial rubbing. In a fanatical Christian emperor orders the destruction of the great library and museum at Alexandria.

Secretly the most precious items are removed and hidden until when a UN plane is brought down in Greenland by a terrorist conspiracy and Dirk Pitt is caught up in a web of intrigue. Clive Cussler is also the author of "Raise the Titanic! Wear and chipping to ends of spine and corners of boards. All edges gilt in good condition. One volume of the 2-volume set. Boards are quite worn. End pages are split at the hinges but the binding is still sound. This is the fourth novel featuring former Texas Ranger turned lawyer turned crime fighter, Billy Bob Holland, set in the savage and beautiful landscape of Montana.

At the end of Bitterroot, rodeo cowboy Wyatt Dixon - 'the most dangerous, depraved, twisted and unpredictable human being I ever knew' - was sentenced to sixty years in Deer Lodge Pen for the murder of a biker in the Aryan Brotherhood. Now, one year later, he's out, due to the DA's failure to disclose a piece of evidence. Among his many crimes, Wyatt once tortured Billy Bob's wife, Temple, when she was a cop.

Dixon declares to Billy Bob that he's a reformed character and he needs his help in a venture to raise rodeo livestock. But how can Billy Bob believe him? Dust jacket has light creasing. But one proud young Aztec, Tenamaxtli, refuses to bow to the foreign conquerors - and secretly begins to recruit, from among the struggling survivors of the Conquest, an army of insurrection. On his courageous quest he finds high adventure, passionate women, unlikely allies, bright hope, and bitter tragedy. Driven by his dream of restoring the lost glory of the Aztec empire, he will come to threaten the seemingly invincible power of mighty Spain.

Until now, Tenamaxtil's rebellion has been little remembered, perhaps because it shed no glory on the men who would write the history books, but on its outcome depended the future of all North America. Publishers Uncorrected Proof Copy. East End chancer Harry Cole is consumed with a burning desire to transcend his social class and when World War Two breaks out he joins the British army in France and reinvents himself as the suave Captain Mason.

He becomes involved with an attractive French nurse, who persuades him to set up and run an escape line. As the debonaire Captain Mason, he helps dozens of soldiers to safety, including one Airey Neave. But when his true identity is discovered by the Secret Intelligence Service MI6 , Harry is faced with his toughest moral dilemma - the acceptance he craves at the cost of betraying his comrades-in-arms. Meanwhile, back in London, Neave is furious that Harry had the gall to impersonate a British officer and sends instructions to apprehend Harry at all costs.

Harry realises he is involved with forces far more ruthless and devious than he could ever have imagined The author's name on the front of the dust jacket has been partially rubbed off, but otherwise the jacket is in very good condition. Set in Maine, this story concerns Bobbi who has developed telepathic powers. A spaceship landed at the bottom of her garden and when it is uncovered, the citizens of Haven metamorphose into increasingly bizarre and dangerous creatures. Pages are in excellent condition - no creasing or marks. Dustjacket is in very good condition with only minor bumping and wear.

Foxing to top edge of pages. Cover is protected in clear, self-adhesive laminate. Remainder mark on page edges. Hana has Werner's Syndrome, a disease which speeds aging to twice the normal rate: Their lives are quiet and dignified as they both try to come to terms with and find meaning in Hana's sickness. When Laura, Hana's best friend from childhood, shows up unexpectedly on their doorstep with her two energetic daughters, all of their lives are changed forever. It is about finding the answers to life in the quietest of places and in the simplest acts of kindness.

Dust jacket has minor bumping to edges. Page edges slightly foxed. Previous owner's name on front end page. This adventure tells the story of Rosetta, who travels from a cosy life in her father's Bloomsbury house to a Turkish harem. The author has written numerous novels, mainly set in the East. Some rubbing to cloth. Hinge is cracked at title page. Boards have wear to corners and spine ends. Small stain on bottom edge of pages. No creasing, wear or marks to covers or pages. Harry always knew he would go back one day!

Eighteen years ago when he was a boy, he had made a decision that drove him from the place he knew and loved. In those early years, between boy and man, he had carved out a life for himself, and somehow, he had found a semblance of peace. Yet through every waking moment during those long aching years, he was haunted by what happened when he was a boy. He had never forgotten that warm, carefree girl with the laughing eyes. Then he recalled the sadness, the bad timings and even now, he could not forgive himself.

They say you never forget your first love and it's true. You could have a dozen loving relationships and even settle down with someone you would die for, but your first love is always there, safe and protected in your heart and soul. Now for the first time in all those years, Harry is heading back. Excited, afraid, and full of doubts, he knows he has no choice. Rightly or wrongly, he needs to know the outcome of what happened all those years ago. And most importantly, he needs to find forgiveness.

Spine has moderate lean. From the bestselling author of "Bright Lights, Big City" and "Brightness Falls" comes a chronicle of a generation, as enacted by two men who represent all the passions and extremes of the class of Patrick Keane and Will Savage meet at prep school at the beginning of the explosive '60s. Over the next 30 years, they remain friends even as they pursue radically divergent destinies--and harbor secrets that defy rebellion and conformity.

Mark Watson doesn't take much notice of the news when the head of Berkeley Square Cosmetics is gruesomely attacked in London. Mark has just been wooed to LA to be groomed as the new singing partner to the rock star, Isis. Still not totally believing his good luck he allows himself to be 'made over' - new wardrobe, new hair style, new name - until he's not too sure who he really is.

Even when he learns that he and Isis have a multi-million dollar endorsement deal with Berkeley Square, Mark doesn't make the connection between the violence in London and his new role. Then someone targets them in a bomb attack and Mark wakes up with a jolt. Unable to fathom Isis's over-hysterical reaction, Mark determines not only to survive with his life and his career intact, but also to discover who the real Isis is and why she should be so vulnerable to threats.

It's a path which leads him into chilling danger and which makes him wish he'd never entertained an ambition to be famous. A thriller which tells of the deadly corrupting influence between love and money as one man falls desperately in love with an innocent girl who proves willing but inadequate in satisfying his overwhelming demands. A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. A hectic, funny sexual affair between two best friends.

A World War II veteran dealing with his emotional and physical scars. A second-rate actor plunged into sudden stardom and a whirlwind press junket. A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A woman adjusting to life in a new neighborhood after her divorce. Four friends going to the moon and back in a rocket ship constructed in the backyard. A teenage surfer stumbling into his father's secret life.

These are just some of the people and situations that Tom Hanks explores in his first work of fiction, a collection of stories that dissects, with great affection, humour, and insight, the human condition and all its foibles. The stories are linked by one thing- in each of them, a typewriter plays a part, sometimes minor, sometimes central. To many, typewriters represent a level of craftsmanship, beauty and individuality that is harder and harder to find in the modern world. In his stories, Mr Hanks gracefully reaches that typewriter-worthy level.

Known for his honesty and sensitivity as an actor, Mr Hanks brings both those characteristics to his writing. Alternatingly whimsical, moving and occasionally melancholy, Uncommon Type is a book that will delight as well as surprise his millions of fans. It also establishes him as a welcome and wonderful new voice in contemporary fiction, a voice that perceptively delves beneath the surface of friendships, families, love and normal, everyday behaviour.

Battered veterans of a devastating European war, rebel outcasts too proud to be held by any prison -- for them Australia held no threat, only temptation. For them it was truly the Promised Land. But the serpent had already found a place in Eden. Among those who trekked its sprawling outback and settled its lush valleys were those who existed only to exploit, imprison, and enslave. Pitted against them were passionate women like Katie O'Malley, the beautiful American whose untamable desires would lead her into the dreaming heart of the wilderness Cherishing a dream, they were no longer exiles.

Stepping boldly into the unknown to forge the future, they became Spine firm, colour stripped on head. Nondescript inscription on ffep. Orange cloth lightly bumped on foredge corners. Just fair, art-illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket noticeably edgeworn, with open and closed tears, thumbnail-size piece missing from head of rear panel and spine. Historical fiction, set in the last year of Mary Tudor's reign: It is the story of two citizen-families of London. Jack Lindsay was the son of Australian art-world giant, Norman Lindsay.

Her work goes as planned, except that the mark has too much money, so much that someone very powerful must be very angry. Cassie soon finds herself running from a stone cold killer who somehow knows her every move in advance.

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He also appears to be closing in on Cassie's most closely guarded secret, the one thing that could have caused her to return to crime - and the one thing she will do anything to protect. Ambassador Spock continues his mission to unify the Romulan and Vulcan peoples, but is captured by a Romulan spy.

Starfleet dispatches its best ship, the "U. Ambassador McCoy, now over years old, is also sent to assist in the negotiations. But the situation becomes further complicated when another of Spock's former shipmates, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott confiscates an out-of-service starship and effects his own daring rescue of his friend. The top edge of several pages in the centre of the book have been mis-cut by the printer, text is unaffected.

Reading creases to spine. The Infernal Devices trilogy, a prequel to bestselling The Mortal Instruments trilogy, follows year-old orphan Tessa Gray, whose quiet life is thrown into turmoil when her older brother Nathaniel suddenly vanishes, leaving her alone. Tessa's search for him takes her to England during the reign of Queen Victoria, into London's dangerous underworld, where warlocks throw masked balls for halfdemon Downworlders and vampires and supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets.

When the friendless and hunted Tessa discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust her natural enemies, the demon-killing Shadowhunters, if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother. Drawn ever deeper into their world, she finds herself fascinated by - and torn between - two best friends; beautiful Will, a Shadowhunter hiding a deadly secret, and the devoted Jem, whose addiction to a demon drug is slowly destroying him. Tessa quickly realises that love may be the most dangerous magic of all and must draw on all her strength to save her brother and keep herself alive in this deadly new world.

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And sixteen-year-old Richard Bolitho waits to join the Gorgon ordered to sail to the west coast of Africa and to destroy those who challenge the King's Navy. For Bolitho, and for many of the crew, it is a severe and testing initiation into the game of seamanship. Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers.. Porterhouse College, Cambridge, is faced with the ultimate challenge when its established order, notoriety for rowing, low academic standards and proud cuisine come under scrutiny.

For to the college comes a new Master, an ex-grammar school boy, who demands first, women students, a self service canteen and a slot machine for contraceptives. The results are catastrophic!! Tanned pages, minor bumping to dust jacket. Krisztina is forced into marriage during the Nazi regime. Widowed by the war, she remarries and transforms her chateau into a hotel. But Nazi sentiments still threaten the success of her marriage and and her hotel.

What if we got it wrong? What if the first five chapters of the Bible weren't about good and evil at all? What if they contained a hidden meaning, evidence of a divine grand plan? Throughout history, a select few have been entrusted with the knowledge that the future of human civilization boils down to a single test. A test that's conducted every second century and just happens to coincide with major turning points in human history.

What if the choices you made determined the outcome? Five ordinary people from London who stumble across a hidden set of ruins are about to find out. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges. His Cold War is fought and won, and he is free to devote himself to his stately manor house, his vineyard, and his beautiful young mistress, Emma.

But no man can escape his past, and Tim's lives twenty miles away, in the chaotic person of Larry Pettifer: Between the two stands an unresolved rivalry that dates all the way back to their shared boyhood at public school. As the story opens, Larry and Emma have disappeared.

Have they run off together? Has Larry lured Emma into some dark game she cannot understand? Setting off in pursuit of them, Tim discovers that he too is being pursued, by his former masters. The hunter becomes the hunted. Raiding his own past like a thief, he follows Larry and Emma into the minefield - physical and emotional - of their new allegiance.

And as Tim advances across the moral wastes of post-Cold War Europe - the battered landscape of England after Thatcher, the lawless worlds of Moscow and Southern Russia - his dilemma deepens.