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Flappers and Philosophers
By F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Wings of Gold: Aces - Book #1
By T. E. Cruise. 1988
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By Joseph Connolly. 2016
Terence is sick of people making a fuss of Alexander. His looks. His money. His fame. Who wouldn't resent so…
successful a son? Even if he is only ten years old. Joseph Connolly's brilliant new comedy of manners weaves together a domestic tableaux of characters - those with old-fashioned manners, tabloid manners, and no manners at all - in a satire on oedipal envy, neighbourly rivalry and the shameless stupidity of our fame-fuelled society.The Love Letter
By Fiona Walker. 2012
Can fate be signed, sealed and delivered?When Allegra North parted from first love Francis after a decade together, she poured…
all her regret into a letter. He didn't reply. A year later, her job brings her back to the beautiful Devon coast where romance first blossomed and she hopes that they can start a new chapter.As summer storms circle, the exes juggle rebellious parents, vengeful family members and a very reluctant celebrity author who holds the key to everybody's future . . . The Love Letter is a wonderfully warm comedy of mistaken identities, new loves and old flames.Baby Bird's First Nest
By Frank Asch. 1999
A Long Way From Paradise: Surviving The Rwandan Genocide
By Leah Chishugi. 2010
Leah Chishugi grew up in eastern Congo but, aged seventeen, she moved to Kigali, the Rwandan capital, to work as…
a model. She married and had a son. Then in 1994 she was caught up in the horrific conflict, and escaped only after being left for dead under a pile of corpses. She fled with her son to Uganda, then South Africa where she was miraculously reunited with her husband whom she believed dead. Leah finally settled in the UK where she was granted asylum and became a nurse. After her mother died, Leah decided to set up a charity to help the women and children of eastern Congo - victims of continuing war atrocities. A LONG WAY FROM PARADISE is a deeply courageous narrative of one woman's survival of personal trauma and finding a greater purpose in life through devotion to the service of others.Hound at the Hospital (Animal Ark #33)
By Ben M. Baglio. 1998
Mandy and James have been invited to spend a week at the SPCA hospital. They can't wait to see SPCA…
inspector Danny Davies in action -- along with his beagle, Sasha. But during their first day out on patrol with Danny, Sasha is critically injured.The Important Book
By Margaret Wise Brown. 1949
The important thing about The Important Book -- is that you let your child tell you what is important about…
the sun and the moon and the wind and the rain and a bug and a bee and a chair and a table and a pencil and a bear and a rainbow and a cat (if he wants to). For the important thing about The Important Book is that the book goes on long after it is closed. What is most important about many familiar things -- like rain and wind, apples and daisies -- is suggested in rhythmic words and vivid pictures. 'A perfect book . . . the text establishes a word game which tiny children will accept with glee.' -- K.Nightmare (Undercover Girl #3)
By Christine Harris. 2005
O the Red Rose Tree
By Patricia Beatty. 1972
Here is the story of a warm and lively friendship that grows among four young teen-age girls and a life-battered…
old lady. When thirteen-year-old Amanda Barnett and her three cohorts meet Mrs. Hankinson, they discover that she is an accomplished quilt maker. Her dream is to make the beautiful quilt named O the Red Rose Tree, but to do so she needs seven shades of red in materials that will not bleed. The four resourceful girls resolve to find the scarce cloth, and their search leads them into one hilarious escapade after another. Whether they are scheming to get their hands on the local doctor's red flannel chest protector or a glamorous opera singer's red petticoat, their energy and determination never flag. Patricia Beatty has created a vivid picture of a small town in the mid-1890's on the west coast of Washington. The novel, rollicking and touching in turn, gains added depth from its underlying theme that frequently the young and the old have much in common. The book cover is described.Finding Home
By Roisin McAuley. 2009
Louise and Rebecca, good friends since their BBC days in Belfast, work for a film company and are scouring the…
south of England for a suitable location to shoot a movie about Elizabeth I. As they stumble across Wooldene House, they meet Diana and Henry, who own the property. Diana, widowed, feels her life is slowly crumbling along with the house, and yearns for new romance. Diana spends her time looking after their aunt Lucy who, as she senses time is running out, begins the share the startling secrets in her past. And Henry, retired from the Army after a stint in Northern Ireland, is increasingly drawn to Louise - but their shared history, which places them on opposite sides of the troubles - threatens them both...Avalanche
By No Author Listed, Jack Drummond. 2007
NOTHING CAN STOP ITEvery year thousands flock to the exclusive ski resort of Hauts des Aigles to watch the Race…
du Diable - the most exciting and dangerous downhill race in the world. This year six champions will compete for the prize - a rare diamond worth $12 million, donated by a mysterious Russian billionaire. NO ONE CAN STAND IN ITS PATHBut it is not only the six racers who will risk their lives in the coming days. Caught up in their own secret plots and passions, visitors and townsfolk alike are oblivious to the silent killer waiting for them in the mountains. When the avalanche comes, only three things can save them. Fate. Courage. And the will to live. WHO WILL SURVIVE?The Smallest Cow in the World (I Can Read! #Level 3)
By Katherine Paterson. 1991
Frog Friends (Animal Ark Pets #16)
By Ben M. Baglio. 1999
Each spring, frogs come to Farmer Jessop's pond to lay their spawn. But when the frogs arrive this year, they…
find the pond has been filled up! They must find another pond so their tadpoles can survive.Alternative 3
By Ken Mitchell. 2003
Conspiracy theories. You've heard them all before, right?But what if you came across clues that made you think otherwise? On…
parole for cyber hacking, Curtis Hatch has been offered a million bucks to find the origins of two mysterious video clips posted on a conspiracy theory website. Easy money for someone with his unique talents. But soon two people close to him are dead, and the babe he's falling for seems to be packing more than just a few secrets. Curtis learns a couple of things fast: when powerful people are hiding something this big, the only person you can trust is yourself. And that sometimes the best form of defence is attack. This heart-thumping suspense thriller weaves Nazis, UFOs, end-of-the-world prophesies and government cabals into the mother of all conspiracies. And like its hero with an MP3 player and an attitude, Alternative 3 won't let you go ... until the truth is finally revealed.Shieldwall
By Justin Hill. 2012
A Sunday Times Book of the Year 'Justin Hill's Shieldwall . . . superbly evoked the wordplay of the period's…
poetry as it unfolds a compelling story of Earl Godwin's battles against the Norse'The year is 1016 and England burns while the Viking armies blockade the great city of London. King Ethelred lies dying and the England he knew dies with him; the warring kingdoms of Mercia, Wessex and Northymbria tremble on the brink of great change. One man lives to bear witness to the upheaval: Godwin, barely out of boyhood and destined to become one of his country's great warriors.When Ethelred's son Edmund takes the throne, determined to succeed where his father failed, he plucks Godwin from domestic peace to be right-hand man in his loyal shield wall. Godwin must traverse the meadows, wintry forests and fogbound marshes of Saxon England, raising armies of monks, ploughmen and shepherds against the Viking invader. With epic courage and ferocity, Godwin and Edmund repel the butchering Danes in three great battles. But an old enemy, the treacherous Earl Eadric, dogs Godwin's footsteps, and as the final battle approaches, around the valiant English the trap begins to close.Girl Underwater
By Claire Kells. 2015
An adventurous debut novel that cross cuts between a competitive college swimmer’s harrowing days in the Rocky Mountains after a…
major airline disaster and her recovery supported by the two men who love her—only one of whom knows what really happened in the wilderness. Nineteen-year-old Avery Delacorte loves the water. Growing up in Brookline, Massachusetts, she took swim lessons at her community pool and captained the local team; in high school, she raced across bays and sprawling North American lakes. Now a sophomore on her university’s nationally ranked team, she struggles under the weight of new expectations but life is otherwise pretty good. Perfect, really.That all changes when Avery’s red-eye home for Thanksgiving makes a ditch landing in a mountain lake in the Colorado Rockies. She is one of only five survivors, which includes three little boys and Colin Shea, who happens to be her teammate. Colin is also the only person in Avery’s college life who challenged her to swim her own events, to be her own person—something she refused to do. Instead she’s avoided him since the first day of freshman year. But now, faced with sub-zero temperatures, minimal supplies, and the dangers of a forbidding nowhere, Avery and Colin must rely on each other in ways they never could’ve imagined.In the wilderness, the concept of survival is clear-cut. Simple. In the real world, it’s anything but.Pool Boys
By Erin Haft. 2006
The Search for Snout (Rod Allbright and the Galactic Patrol)
By Bruce Coville. 1995
Somewhere Snout is waiting.Rod Allbright and his alien friends face the biggest mystery of their lives: Where in the wide,…
wide galaxy is their missing friend Snout, the Master of the Mental Arts? Their death-defying search for their friend leads them across the stars to the Mentat, the mysterious home of the Mental Masters. But the clues they uncover there only deepen the mystery -- and the danger. For Rod and his friends have stumbled into something far bigger and more dangerous than any of them had ever dreamed. At stake are their honor, their lives, their sanity, and (just possibly) the fate of the universe.Once Upon a Time There Was a Traveller: Asham Award-Winning Stories
By Various. 2013
Virago Press and the Asham Award, the foremost prize for stories by women, present a collection of tales to send…
you to places you've never been before . . . Here are tales of people who travel far and those who stay at home and dream; of strange things in suitcases; of roads that should not have been taken; of exotic cities and shabby towns. Some are running away, and some are travelling to come home. With new stories from well-known writers, including Helen Dunmore, and an Angela Carter fable, this is a book to tuck in your backpack, your valise or to enjoy, deep in your armchair, for no one can fail to be hooked by those beguiling words: once upon a time there was a traveller . . .