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By Eva Weaver. 2013
The story of Mika, a Jewish boy, who becomes a puppeteer in the Warsaw ghetto - a stunning debutI was…
twelve when the coat was made. Nathan, our tailor and dear friend, cut it for Grandfather in the first week of March 1938. It was the last week of freedom for Warsaw and for us...Even in the most difficult of lives, there is hope. And sometimes that hope comes in the form of a small boy, armed with a troupe of puppets - a prince, a girl, a fool, a crocodile with half-painted teeth....When Mika's grandfather dies in the Warsaw ghetto, he inherits not only his great coat, but its treasure trove of secrets. In one remote pocket, he finds a papier mache head, a scrap of cloth...the prince. And what better way to cheer the cousin who has lost her father, the little boy who his ill, the neighbours living in one cramped room, than a puppet show? Soon the whole ghetto is talking about the puppet boy - until the day when Mika is stopped by a German officer and is forced into a secret life...This is a story about survival. It is an epic journey, spanning continents and generations, from Warsaw to the gulags of Siberia, and two lives that intertwine amid the chaos of war. Because even in wartime, there is hope...By Kit Wilkinson, Laura Scott, Sharon Dunn, Sandra Orchard. 2014
Love Inspired Suspense brings you four new titles for one great price, available now! Enjoy these contemporary heart-pounding tales of…
suspense, romance, hope and faith. This Love Inspired Suspense bundle includes Top Secret Identity by Sharon Dunn, Wrongly Accused by Laura Scott, Perilous Waters by Sandra Orchard and Lancaster County Target by Kit Wilkinson.Look for four new inspirational suspense stories every month from Love Inspired Suspense!By Paul Torday, Piers Torday. 1946
Andrew Landford is driving home one night, along a dark country lane, when a barn owl flies into his windscreen.…
It is an accident, nothing more. However Andrew is in line to be the country's next prime minister. And he has recently been appointed to a parliamentary committee concerned with the Wildlife and Countryside Act. Barn Owls are protected species, and it is a crime to kill one. If Andrew acknowledges that he has killed the owl, he could be risking his political career.With Andrew in the car is his old Oxford friend and political adviser, Charles Fryerne. An expert in communications, Charles has just joined the team that is masterminding Andrew's route to the Tory Party leadership, and from there to No 10 Downing Street. He has spent many years quietly building up a very successful career as a strategist. But the death of the owl threatens to destroy not only Andrew's career, but everything that Charles has worked for too. Should they come clean, or hide the story and hope it goes away?By Paul Torday. 2011
From the author of the bestselling SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN (released as a film starring Ewan McGregor), a tale…
of the unexpected...Bobby Clarke arrives at a hotel on the Mediterranean shore. He is a former MP, unseated by the expenses scandal, who is now spending time abroad to recover from a major illness. The other purpose of his stay is to write his memoirs in order to demonstrate that he was unfairly pilloried for 'a minor accounting error', having valiantly served his country for 30 years. He settles into his new surroundings but soon it becomes clear that all is not as it seems. For a start Bobby seems to have no memory of the immediate past. Each time he sits down to continue his memoirs he finds only a blank page. Every morning as he comes downstairs the same scene replays itself in front of him: a young woman and her son pass him on the stairs. And what has become of his wife?By Veronica Picone, Cassie Alexandra. 2017
Jordan Steele (il Giudice) è stato assunto per fare da guardia del corpo a Jessica Winters, la nuova figliastra di…
Schianto. In genere non si occupa di sicurezza, ma non riesce a rifiutare l’offerta quando la incontra di persona. Jessica Winters non vuole avere niente a che fare con il Giudice, né con qualsiasi altro biker, se è per questo, soprattutto dopo essere stata violentata da uno dei Devil’s Rangers tre anni prima. Tuttavia, quando scopre che la sua vita è in pericolo, accetta con riluttanza di affidarsi ad un uomo che la fa tremare in più di un modo **Questo libro è rivolto ai lettori che abbiano compiuto almeno diciotto anni, per la presenza di linguaggio esplicito, situazioni di tipo sessuale e violenza che potrebbero infistidire alcuni lettori. Questa è un'opera di fantasia e non si pone come vera rappresentazione dei club di motociclismo. È stata scritta per puro intrattenimento. Questo libro può essere letto da solo, ma sarebbe meglio leggere prima gli altri due libri della serie (per saperne di più sui personaggi).By Patricia C. Mckissack, Fredrick L. Mckissack, John Mckissack. 2011
Seventeen-Year-Old Houston, a cyborg since the age of seven, and a fugitive living on the moon, joins with other cyborgs…
all over the world in non-violent protest marches to challenge the cyborg Act of 2130 and hopefully secure increased civil liberties.By Paul Torday. 2013
From the author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN, a dark tale about a failing politician and the search for…
two missing children. Includes Reading Group Notes.Norman Stokoe has just been appointed Children's Czar by the new government. He sells his flat and moves up north to take up the position. However before his first salary cheque has even hit his bank account, new priorities are set for the government department for which he works. The Children's Czar network is put on hold but it is too late to reverse the decision to employ Norman. So he is given a P.A. and a spacious office in a new business park on the banks of the Tyne.He settles down in his new leather chair behind his new desk, to wait for the green light to begin his mission. The green light never comes. What does happen is that two children go missing. As Children's Czar, surely this case should fall within his remit, but Norman has built a career on doing nothing, on stamping pieces of paper with 'send to the relevant department'. Now, faced with a campaigning journalist and a distraught mother, he is forced to become involved. The search will take him to dark places and will make him ask questions about the system he is supposed to uphold.By F. G. Cottam. 2010
Martin Stride is a retired rock star, enjoying the quiet life with his young family on their beautiful estate. On…
the edge of his grounds lies a derelict Edwardian railway station waiting room once used to transport troops in The Great War. Silent for many years, it has become a playground for Martin's children but now they won't go near it. Strange occurrences in the waiting room lead Martin to seek the help of TV's favourite ghost-hunter Julian Creed. But Creed's psychic ability is a fabrication to gain viewers. He doesn't believe in the paranormal. Until he spends a night in The Waiting Room.By Bill Knox. 2011
Webb Carrick of the Scottish Fisheries Protection Service latest adventure takes him on a North Atlantic shark hunt in the…
waters of the storm-tossed Hebrides.Webb Carrick finds he has inadvertently strayed right into the middle of a smouldering feud between a renegade band of shark hunters and some vengeful local fishermen, angered by the drowning of a young girl - a feud which threatens to ignite when he boards a wrecked fishing boat and finds her skipper dead on deck.As furious charges and counter charges are hurled, murder and arson come to the islands with stealthy suddenness.But when the final stormtide breaks even Webb Carrick is staggered to discover how much is at stake in terms of life and death.By Sven Hassel. 2004
A sudden curtain of silence fell over the burning city. All that could be heard was the steady crackling of…
flames...Hitler's penal regiments advance on Poland. Himmler has given the order: Warsaw must be razed to the ground. But the Polish Home Army are not willing to give in to the German troops so easily. As the city erupts into an inferno of flames and gunfire, Sven and his comrades find themselves caught between the sadism of the SS and the guerrilla warfare of the Polish Resistance...REIGN OF HELL is a gripping insight into the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, and the bloodshed that ensued as the Polish tried desperately to liberate themselves from the German occupation.By Rani Manicka. 2010
A breathtaking and absorbing novel set in Malaysia propelled by the superb storytelling instinct of the author of THE RICE…
MOTHER.Parvathi leaves her native Ceylon for Malaya and an arranged marriage to a wealthy businessman. But her father has cheated, supplying a different girl's photograph, and Kasu Marimuthu, furious, threatens to send her home in disgrace. Gradually husband and wife reach an accommodation and the naïve young girl learns to assume the air of sophisticated mistress of a luxurious estate. She even adopts his love child and treats Rubini as her own daughter - a generous act which is rewarded by a long-wished-for son.But it is a life without passion and Parvathi dreams of loving - and being loved - with complete abandon.When the Japanese invade Malaya in WW2, they requisition the estate. Marimuthu dies and Parvathi is forced to accept the protection of the Japanese general who has robbed her of her home. For the first time she experiences sexual ecstasy. And gradually, her sworn enemy becomes the lover she has always yearned for . . .By Peter Helton. 2011
DI Liam McLusky, freshly transferred from Southampton and just recovered from having been injured in the line of duty, has…
not time to settle in before he is pushed in at the deep end in a new and unfamiliar city. Everyday objects, transformed into explosive devises by a man trying to revenge himself on the world for reasons unknown, are being left across Bristol, maiming or killing those who pick them up.Apart from the challenge of finding the perpetrator McLusky has to cope with new colleagues - especially his new right hand man DS James 'Jane' Austin - new superiors, new relationships... and the prospect of having his ex-partner move into the city to study there - and keep tabs on him...By Belinda Hurmence. 1980
By Emily Rodda. 2002
This new series features a spellbinding cover treatment and trading cards inside. Lief, Barda, and Jasmine, heroes of the quest…
for the Belt of Deltora, must now find a weapon powerful enough to combat the Shadow Lord's magic.By Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Kimberly Kirberger. 2002
Friends. You gotta have 'em, but sometimes they drive you crazy. You love 'em, but sometimes they make you mad.…
They'll help you through a crisis...unless they are the crisis. So What's The Deal? Friends are more than just the people you hang out with. They make you laugh, they keep your secrets, they offer advice (some good, some bad), they give you a shoulder to cry on. Sometimes they move away, or betray your trust, or flake out, but mostly they are the people who are always there for you. And they know you'll be there when they need you most. Because that's what it means to be a friend. Sometimes friendship is overwhelming, sometimes it's confusing, sometimes you feel like you don't have a friend in the world, buy don't worry, it's like that for everyone. That's what the stories in this book are all about. They're from real teens, and they're about the bizarre, difficult and wonderful things that really happened to them and their friends. Put that together with weird facts, cool graphics, fun advice and quizzes designed to help you figure what you and your friends are all about, and you've got the real deal on friendship.By Ruth Sanderson. 1990
By Jostein Gaarder. 2005
From the author of SOPHIE'S WORLD, a modern fairy tale with a philosophical twist.'My father died eleven years ago. I…
was only four then. I never thought I'd hear from him again, but now we're writing a book together'To Georg Røed, his father is no more than a shadow, a distant memory. But then one day his grandmother discovers some pages stuffed into the lining of an old red pushchair. The pages are a letter to Georg, written just before his father died, and a story, 'The Orange Girl'. But 'The Orange Girl' is no ordinary story - it is a riddle from the past and centres around an incident in his father's youth. One day he boarded a tram and was captivated by a beautiful girl standing in the aisle, clutching a huge paper bag of luscious-looking oranges. Suddenly the tram gave a jolt and he stumbled forward, sending the oranges flying in all directions. The girl simply hopped off the tram leaving Georg's father with arms full of oranges. Now, from beyond the grave, he is asking his son to help him finally solve the puzzle of her identity.By Kunal Basu. 2002
An epic first novel chronicling the fortunes of the opium trade by a talented Indian writer Kunal Basu's panoramic first…
novel follows the vagaries of Hiran's life, and the flow of the opium trade, from Calcutta to Canton. Disguised as a missionary, he survives cholera, piracy and war in China, arriving back in India to find his homeland on the verge of another rebellion. And he finds himself suddenly father to a half-caste son, the child abandoned by the Englishman and his wife when they fled back in disgrace to Britain. As Hiran dedicates himself to the education of his new son, the cycle of regeneration continues. Douglas, now an adult, neither black nor white, flees India himself for the Orient, again carried along on the flood of opium, this time to Borneo, to Sarawak: the land of the White Rajahs.By Kei Miller. 2009
From the WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2014, a 'humorous, bittersweet fiction, combin[ing] the fantastical realism of…
Marquez with the domestic comedy of Andrea Levy' INDEPENDENTIt all begins with the theft of Tessa Walcott's panties...After the hurricane of 1974, Jamaica is devastated. Imelda Richardson is sent to England, without a place to stay or a plan of what to do. Luckily sheis taken in by Purletta Johnson, a member of the ex-pat bourgeoisie who has decided to become more Jamaican than any Jamaican: sucking her teeth, sporting a gold tooth, and growing ganja on her balcony. But when her mother dies Imelda returns to Jamaica. When Tessa Walcott's panties are stolen, she and Imelda set up a Neighbourhood Watch. But they haven't counted on Pastor Braithwaite who denounces them in Church. The church-goers turn on Imelda, and when the river suddenly floods her home it is seen as a punishment from God. A Pentecostal fervour sweeps through the village of Watersgate, fuelled by Evangelist Millie. In her last great crusade, Miss Millie organises 'fire to burn their sins away', equipping the villagers with kerosene as they set about burning everything. Now they are marching on the gay man's house and only Imelda can save him.By Kunal Basu. 2003
'A tale of immense originality and intrigue. The Miniaturist is every bit as perfect and detailed as a Mughal painting…
should be. Well crafted in all its details of colour and texture, it is an intensely passionate creation' ObserverSet in the court of the Emperor Akbar in 16th-century India, this is a richly detailed and sensuous tale of art, sex and political intrigue. Bihzad is the son of the emperor's chief artist and as such, he is groomed to follow in his father's footsteps. A child prodigy, Bihzad is shielded from life as he grows up in the stunning fortress town of Agra. But soon word of his talent - his wild, imaginative drawings free from the normal restrictions of court painting - spreads. When the emperor decides to move the court to Fatehpur Sikri, Bihzad is favoured among the other artists and musicians. In his spare time he paints a series of richly, erotic scenes. But as his fame increases, he begins to make enemies who are jealous of his success and who will use his hidden drawings to destroy him.