Jane Palmer: 24 books

Ara Zuyev is a secret to nearly everyone, and those who know anything about her have barely scratched the surface. A bodyguard for a powerful billionaire, she is the last line of defense for the family's inner circle. But when her charge, 16-year-old Samantha Harper, is kidnapped and the FBI are called...

Photographs of a selection of Spring flowers including a slipper orchid, tulips, ranunculi, magnolias, pansies, cherry blossom, camellias, daffodils, apple blossom, rosemary, primulas, forget-me-nots, Montana clematis, an azalea, forsythia, and crown imperial fritillary.

Dr Duncan Parfait is charismatic, a little shambolic, and totally convinced that there could be no intelligent culture pre-dating the present one. The unequivocal proof that there was sets his preconceptions and world on its head. Without giving a thought to it being too true to be good, he sets out...

Photographs of a selection of Spring and Summer flowers including blueberry, irises, wisteria, roses, tulips, tritonia, rhododendrons, flowering currant, moth orchids, periwinkles, a peace lily, water lilies, laburnum, a carnation, ranunculi, camellias, pansies, honeysuckle, gorse, trollius, and magnolias.

Photographs of a selection of Summer flowers including comfrey, roses, yellow corydalis, euphorbia griffithii (Fireglow), water lilies, pansies, kniphofia (red hot poker), hibiscus, kangaroo paw, gloxinia, campanula, astilbe, arum lilies, a dandelion, moth orchids, a gerbera, honeysuckle, palm flower, osteospermum, dicentra, polemonium, hydrangea, and sea campion.

Your complete guide to having a healthy, happy pregnancy This updated and expanded third edition of Pregnancy ForDummies offers mothers-to-be practical advice and expert guidance on every stage of their pregnancy — and beyond! Understand what's happening with your baby and your body,...

26 iconic deities from around the world, many still revered today, depicted in detailed, line artwork.

The bonds people forge can be glorious, everlasting and filled with devotion. All too often they are problematic and dogged by regrets. Many more are not what they seem. Devotion to a lost partner is one thing, devotion to the long dead quite another, and an orang-utan with a sweet tooth can be more appreciative than the family everything has been sacrificed for.

Sentient beings who refuse to accept that they could have evolved from such lowly origins as the primeval slime often end up surrendering to their own technology. From supercomputers that control Earth to plasma beings created to protect space museums, there is always that glitch which compels them...

The final book in the Planet Dweller series. The Earth is no longer fit for humans, the Planet Dweller is no longer one entity, and humankind are now dinosaurs. Which is what would be expected after the meddling of two superbeings who never quite got the hang of mortality, although secretly aspiring to it. And there is also this dodo, and an intergalactic criminal in a pretty frock.

Diana hears the voice of Moosevan, an entity who inhabits a distant planet, in her head. Her world is threatened and she wants Diana’s help. Yuri believes her, though he's usually drunk in charge of a ten inch reflector and has a bizarre theory about the movement of the asteroids. Then two cosmic...

Ahmose looks after the menagerie at the temple of Amon Ra and is a secret devotee of the Aton. The vengeful Ra transforms him into a golden bird damned to live forever and only turn into a man for a few days every five centuries. The curse of Ra is also drawn down onto those Ahmose encounters. The...

Preston Niblock’s wife dies in a fire that destroys the last business standing in the way of Palace Parade, a new shopping mall. He uncovers the truth about the development, so is bribed to keep quiet. But the local shopkeepers put out of business enlist the support of a crusading councillor, brilliant accountant, and backing of Preston’s ill gotten millions. What could go wrong?

A sequel to The Planet Dweller and Moving Moosevan. Human civilisation has been moved to Titan. It is now in a synchronous orbit on the opposite side of the Sun to the Earth. Titan has no oceans, so when the atmosphere starts to deteriorate, the two shape-changing super-beings who caused the problem...