This is the fifth volume in the award-winning Inspector Ted Stratton series, which opened during the London Blitz (with The Innocent Spy) and has now landed in the rainy summer of 1958. Detective Inspector Stratton is investigating the death of a rent collector-never a popular personage-in Notting Hill, a district seething with tensions between the new Caribbean immigrants and their white, working-class neighbors. Stratton has his suspicions, but...

Write the SAT Essay Right! is not your average-ho-hum-SAT-prep book, full of fluff and boring, useless stuff. Instead, Write the SAT Essay Right! gives college-bound students the down-low skinny on the ten best-kept secrets to raise SAT scores. In an easy step-by-step way, students learn proven secrets, then practice their newfound skills. Sample tests to study and evaluate, key strategies, and lots of score-raising tips make this a must-have resource...

"A tense and intelligent psychological thriller that confirms Laura Wilson's seat at the high table of British crime writing." -The Guardian Winner of the Prix du Polar Européen (France) It's the fall of 1940, and London is being destroyed by the Blitz. Every night, its citizens cram into shelters, basements, subway stations-anything to avoid the bombs. And every morning, they awake to scenes of fresh devastation. But some of those citizens...

Revolutionary Cookbook Teaches You How To Lose Seventy-Nine Pounds Without Counting Calories Or Fancy Diets. Wouldn't you rather Change WHEN you eat instead of WHAT you eat. Count kilograms lost instead of calories consumed. Enjoy your favorite food while losing weight. Melt away belly fat instantly and with half the effort required by most diet plans. Get ready to change everything you thought you knew about weight loss. In this must-read...

"How would you like to be queen for a day?" Those words opened a popular game show of the 1950s. Teenage girls like Catty Wadsworth gazed upon sweet ladies on the show, who receive a gift--such as a new stove! Each woman has submitted a story of a tragic accident, disease, or an important need, like a wheelchair. Catty hopes for a new car for the family so her mother, the sole breadwinner, can get to work alive. Catty is a fantasizer; she...