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13 little blue envelopes. Maureen Johnson

When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favourite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.

The amateur. Robert Littell

Follows the personal vendetta of cryptographer Charlie Heller against those responsible for murdering his fiancée, an endeavour that pits him against the CIA and takes him behind the Iron Curtain.

And the dark sacred night. Julia Glass

Kit Noonan's life is stalled: unemployed, twins to support, a mortgage to pay and a frustrated wife, who is certain that, more than anything else, Kit needs to solve the mystery of his father's identity. He begins with a visit to his former stepfather, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners Vermont outdoorsman. But it is another person who has kept the secret: Lucinda Burns, wife of a revered senior statesman and mother of Malachy.

Atticus Claw settles a score. Jennifer Gray

Atticus Grammatticus Cattypus Claw, the world's greatest reformed cat burglar is back. When Jimmy Magpie and his gang are busted out of jail by a mysterious villain and an evil cat called Ginger Biscuit, Atticus knows from bitter experience he's going to need all his skill and courage to catch them.

Clifford the big red dog. Norman Bridwell

Emily Elizabeth has a dog. He is big. He is red. He is Clifford.

The defection of A. J. Lewinter. Robert Littell

A. J. Lewinter is an American scientist, for years an insignificant cog in America's complex defence machinery. While at an academic conference in Tokyo, Lewinter contacts the KGB station chief and says he wants to defect. He tantalizes the Russians with U.S. military secrets he claims to possess, but is his defection genuine?

Dirty Bertie. David Roberts

Bertie used to have a lot of dirty habits, but with help from his family he has learned not to do such things as licking the dog or eating candy off the floor.

An Englishman abroad. Alan Bennett

Having disappeared from England in 1951 together with fellow diplomat Donald Maclean, spy Burgess is a wanted man. Bennett's take on the encounter is both poignant and comic, and the play examines his life in exile, his love of England and his even greater love of Russia. This full-cast dramatisation was originally broadcast on BBC World Service.

Fangs! ; &, Fetch! Alan MacDonald & illustrated by David Roberts

Dirty Bertie is back for another helping of comic chaos! Join Bertie as he attempts to reveal grumpy Mr Grouch as a vampire, finds himself modelling the latest catwalk fashions and gets a serious scare-cut at the barbers. Then he finds himself in the dog house over his new robot dog, mistakes the Queen for one of his gran's friends at a royal garden party, and is tricked into getting a girlfriend for the school disco.

Frog music. Emma Donoghue

San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the City. Deep in the streets of Chinatown live three former stars of the Parisian circus: Blanche, now an exotic dancer at the House of Mirrors, her lover Arthur and his companion Ernest. When an eccentric outsider joins their little circle, secrets unravel, changing everything and leaving one of them dead. Frog Music, inspired by true events, is an evocative novel of intrigue and murder: elegant, erotic and witty.

The glass swallow. Julia Golding

Rain designs exquisite stained glass for the windows of her city. But the law is clear - it is forbidden for girls to be part of the glassmakers' guild. To keep her secret hidden, she leaves home and travels to the strange new country of Magharna. When Peri witnesses Rain's capture by a gang of bandits, both his fate and his heart become tied to hers. They escape the outlaws, but Peri and his family of falconers are untouchables who are scorned by all, and Rain is not allowed to be part of their lives. Can Rain and Peri's love survive the prejudices against them?

I see you everywhere. Julia Glass

Louisa Jardine is the older one, the conscientious sister who is a good student, and yearns for a good marriage, a career and a family. Clem Jardine is the younger sister - the uncontainable rebel, daring and irresistible to men, and a constant source of frustration to her more reliable sister. Alternating between the sisters voices, I See You Everywhere unfolds across a 25-year span, from 1980 to 2005, beginning when Louisa and Clem are in their early twenties.

The Ionia sanction. Gary Corby

Hired by Pericles to investigate the murder of a proxenos to Ephesus, private investigator Nicolaos discovers a sobering plot to invade and destroy Athens and rescues the enslaved daughter of a powerful diplomat and infamous traitor.

The last little blue envelope. Maureen Johnson

Seventeen-year-old Ginny Blackstone precipitously travels from her home in New Jersey to London when she receives a message from an unknown man telling her he has the letters that were stolen just before she completed a series of mysterious tasks assigned by her now dead aunt, an artist.

A life like other people's. Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett's "A Life Like Other People's" is a poignant family memoir offering a portrait of his parents' marriage and recalling his Leeds childhood, Christmases with Grandma Peel, and the lives, loves and deaths of his unforgettable aunties Kathleen and Myra.

Liv, forever. Amy Talkington

Soon after an art scholarship gets Liv a place at prestigious Wickham Hall, she becomes the latest victim of a dark conspiracy spanning 150 years, but her ghost, aided by friend Gabe and boyfriend Malcolm, tries to put a stop to the killing.

The marathon conspiracy. Gary Corby

Nicolaos, Classical Athens's favourite sleuth, and his partner in investigation, the clever ex-priestess Diotima, have taken time out of their assignments to come home to get married. When they arrive in Athens, there's a problem waiting for them. The Sanctuary of Artemis is the ancient world's most famous school for girls. When one of the children is killed, apparently by a bear, and another girl disappears in the night, Diotima's childhood teacher asks her former pupil to help them. What does a decades-dead tyrant have to do with two young girls? Where is the missing child? Is a killer bear really lurking beyond the walls of Athens? And who is the mysterious stranger who's trying to kill Nico and Diotima? Can the sleuths solve the interlocked crimes and save a child before their wedding?

Men from the boys. Tony Parsons

When Harry's 15-year-old son Pat moves out to live with his mother, the hard times have only just begun. With his son gone, his job at risk and his wife unsettled by the reappearance of her own ex, their dream seems to be falling apart. Into the chaos of Harry Silver's life stroll two old soldiers who fought alongside Harry's late father in The Battle of Monte Cassino in the spring of 1944. Will these two grumpy old men help Harry reclaim his son, his family and his life?

No one writes to the colonel : and other stories. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The stories in this mesmerizing short story collection, written with compassionate realism and wit, depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys.

The once and future spy. Robert Littell

A retired Navy admiral with counterintelligence experience and a New York City operative with a passion for history become involved in the CIA's frantic search to find who leaked the plans for a lethal and highly clandestine operation.

One hundred years of solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendi a family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility - the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth - these universal themes dominate the novel.

Pain of death. Adam Creed

A woman is discovered beneath the London streets, barely alive. Soon after, DC Josie Chancellor finds an abandoned, newborn baby close to Leadengate station. DI Will Wagstaffe puts woman and baby together. Staffe ventures from Whitehall's clubland to Soho's fleshpots trying to make his way through a labyrinth of trails that leads above and below ground to another woman, seemingly forced - like Kerry Degg - to bear her child in captivity. In "Pain of Death", DI Will Wagstaffe discovers that the simplest thing in all the world - to bear a child - lies beneath the actions of the powerful and the desperate. And will he manage to rescue both mother and child in time?

The poetry of George Eliot. George Eliot

In this volume we look at the works of the Victorian Authoress and Poet George Eliot. She was born Mary Anne Evans in 1819. Her Father thought her chances of marriage were slim: he therefore invested in her education. Under the pseudonym of George Eliot that we know so well Adam Bede was published in 1859 followed by the other great novels of English literature Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner and Middlemarch. Success of course meant that her real name came out but it seemed not to affect how the public devoured her novels. Here, we look with a keen eye at her poetry.

Ruby. Cynthia Bond

Ephram Jenkins has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby, "the kind of pretty it hurt to look at," is already quite damaged, but Ephram is forcibly drawn to her. Years later, when a funeral forces her to return home, 30-year-old Ruby will find herself reliving the devastating violence of her girlhood. Meanwhile, Ephram must choose between loyalty to the sister who raised and stood by him and the chance for a life with the woman he has loved since he was a boy.

Sacred games. Gary Corby

Nico works to clear his Olympics competitor best friend of a false murder accusation when a rival is found dead, a situation that is complicated by escalating violence between Athens and Sparta.

Say something happened. Alan Bennett

A naive, inexperienced social worker calls on an elderly couple, but does she need more help than they do?

Single spies. Alan Bennett

A critically-acclaimed double bill of Alan Bennett plays, originally performed at the National Theatre and adapted for BBC Radio 4. An Englishman Abroad: It is 1958, and in a squalid flat in Moscow, double-agent Guy Burgess is hiding from the world. When he is visited by actress Coral Browne, he is overjoyed to see someone from his former life in England.
A Question of Attribution: In 1956, Sir Anthony Blunt, pillar of the Establishment and respected Knight of the Realm, is working as Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures where he frequently encounters Her Majesty as he works on her paintings. He has a special fondness for one particular Titian but the painting, like Blunt himself, is a fake.

Somebody up there hates you. Hollis Seamon

Dying of cancer in a hospice, seventeen-year-old prankster Richard has big plans for his final days.

Suffer the children. Adam Creed

London. A city where no-one feels safe and one man's crime is another man's justice. A paedophile is brutally murdered in his own home, and to protect other known offenders the police must haul the families of their victims down to the station for questioning. In this case nothing is simple, least of all Staffe's personal life. Everywhere he turns the boundaries between right and wrong have been blurred but the main question remains: just how far would you go to protect your children?

Talking heads. Alan Bennett

A complete collection of Bennett's six masterful monologues, performed by the author and five of Britain's leading actresses. In these compelling pieces, Bennett displays the wry observation, knowing irony and tender mis-understatement that have ensured his rightful place at the forefront of contemporary writing.

Two in Torquay. Alan Bennett

A middle-aged man and a middle-aged woman engage in polite conversation in a hotel on the Cornish Riviera. But neither is quite who they appear to be. Who is deceiving whom?

The uncommon reader. Alan Bennett

When the Queen chases a straying corgi through the grounds of Buckingham Palace, she happens upon the City of Westminster travelling library. One book leads to another and the Queen is soon engrossed in the delights of reading. However, the royal household dislikes the Queen's new interest; it makes them uneasy. Books are devices that ignite the imagination.

A visit from Miss Protheroe. Alan Bennett

Since Mr Dodsworth retired, he has had all the time in the world. Then he has a visitor from his old firm - Miss Protheroe, who is eager to tell him all the news …

The whole world over. Julia Glass

Greenie Duquette has a small bakery in Manhattan that supplies pastries to restaurants, including that of her genial gay friend Walter. When Walter recommends Greenie to the governor of New Mexico, she seizes the chance to take a break from her marriage to Alan Glazier, a psychiatrist with hidden issues. Taking their four-year-old son with her, Greenie leaves for New Mexico, while figures from her and Alan's pasts challenge their already strained marriage.

Willing flesh. Adam Creed

Christmas is coming and DI Will Wagstaffe is trying to make a go of it with his on-off girlfriend, Sylvie, when a murdered woman is discovered in a swanky City hotel room. Wagstaffe becomes obsessed with Elena Danya, the dead, blonde and beguiling, high-end prostitute and Wagstaffe is drawn into the whole gamut of London’s alien niches: brothels and gentleman’s clubs; banks and tenement estates. When his Chief cuts him loose, Wagstaffe becomes the hunted instead of the hunter, with grave consequences for the women who are close to him.

The wind in the willows Kenneth Grahame, dramatised by Alan Bennett

Many of the original cast from Alan Bennett’s acclaimed National Theatre production appear in this special dramatisation for BBC Radio 4.

Young Philby. Robert Littell

A work of suspense based on true-life historical characters imagines the early years and long-time Russian allegiance of double agent Kim Philby, whose 1963 defection from Britain's intelligence service to Moscow exposes the Cambridge Five double agents and raises innumerable questions about his ideals.

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Benefit from the knowledge of a lifetime of Sinology

A Bewildering History: the arrogance and nervousness of an empire in its flourishing age

Ancient Creatures

Assorted Home Dishes

The Authors XI : a season of English cricket from Hackney to Hambledon The Authors’ Cricket Club

The Authors Cricket Club last played in 1912, and included among their alumni such greats as P.G. Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle and J.M. Barrie. A hundred years on from their last match, a team of modern-day authors has been assembled to continue this fine literary and sporting tradition in a nationwide tour in search of the perfect day's cricket.

Chinese ancient civilization and technology.

Classic Traditional Recipes: the Step by Step Illustrations

Common Nutritional Dishes in One Book

Earth Quest: Explore the Earth

Economical Home Dishes

Environment and Technology

Ethereal about.

Events, dear boy, events : a political diary of Britain from Woolf to Campbell edited and introduced by Ruth Winstone.

Ruth Winstone retells Britain's history through the great diarists of the last century, drawing back the curtain on the lives of political classes, their doubts, ambitions, and emotions. She moves deftly among those in the thick of it, showing the elation, anger, doubts, jealousy, joys and fears of those such as Nicolson, Cooper, Channon, Macmillan, Castle, Clark, Benn, Campbell, Mullin and Ashdown as they record their own and the nation's triumphs and disasters.

Explore the Universe

Healthy Homemade Meals: the Step by Step Illustrations

Home Dishes From Common Food Materials

Jokelopedia : the biggest, best, silliest, dumbest, joke book ever compiled by Ilana Weitzman … [et al.] ; illustrations by Mike Wright.

Suitable for kids of all ages, this edition includes celebrity jokes, chicken-crossing-the-road jokes, puns, riddles, and, of course, knock-knock jokes.

My little mini cakes and treats book : more than 80 irresistible recipes Murdoch Books Test Kitchen

Cakes are always fancier in miniature, treats always better when shared and the smallest luxuries can transform a casual gathering into an extravagant soiree. This is a collection of recipes for delightful grown-up treats. They're pretty and indulgent, yet small enough to have two.

Nutritional Main Food: the Step by Step Illustrations

Oxtravels : meetings with remarkable travel writers introduced by Michael Palin ; edited by Mark Ellingham, Peter Florence and Barnaby Rogerson

A collection of travel writing features stories from twenty-five travel writers, including Michael Palin, Paul Theroux, Sara Wheeler, William Dalrymple, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Lloyd Jones, Rory Stewart, Jan Morris, Dervla Murphy, Rory MacLean, and others.

People's favorite home dishes

Pies, tarts & pastries : basics to brilliance: techniques, tips and trusted recipes Murdoch Books Test Kitchen

Pies, Tarts & Pastries is a collection of sweet and savoury recipes that guide the reader through the basics of pastry making to impressive results with clear instructions and step-by-step photography.

Remembrance of things Paris : sixty years of writing from Gourmet edited and with an introduction by Ruth Reichl

For sixty years the best food writers have been sending dispatches from Paris to "Gourmet." Collected here for the first time, their essays create a unique and timeless portrait of the world capital of love and food.

Sages quotations 500.

Sages quotations lifetime benefit.

Shui xiang - gu zhen - ming yuan = Village, town, garden.

The Fog of War

The Lost Treasures

The warmth of the journey : 2012 essay award entries selected from the primary school roll.

The world's ancient civilizations and technology.

Too cute kittens : Animal Planet's most impossibly adorable kittens.

Too cute puppies : nimal Planet's most impossibly adorable puppies.

Trucks and diggers one to ten.

Kids love trucks and diggers, and with the help of full colour photographs featuring rugged Caterpillar machines, these budding little contractors will love learning counting, too!

Wonderful Nature

XiWangMu legend

Never mind the bullocks : one girl's 10,000km adventure around India in the world's cheapest car. Vanessa Able

In this exhilarating story newly single travel writer Vanessa Able finds love while circumnavigating India in the world's cheapest car.

Two hands to love you. Diane Adams

Illustrations and simple rhyming text show how the guiding hands of a family are always there to love and nurture a child, from birth to the first day of school.

Americanah. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. Obinze had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.

Half of a yellow sun. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died. This novel contains the three main characters who get swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. It is about Africa, about the end of colonialism, about class and race; and the ways in which love can complicate these things.

Sweet Debbie's organic treats : allergy-free & vegan recipes from the famous Los Angeles bakery. Debbie Adler

With her son allergic to "every food in the USDA pyramid," Debbie Adler took matters into her own kitchen. If you're a vegan, diabetic, have celiac disease, a food allergy or an intolerance, or are simply interested in boosting your health via your baking tins, set the oven to "preheat" and sit down with Sweet Debbie's Organic Treats. Your sweet tooth will thank you for it.

Aesop's fables. Aesop

Telling tales. Patience Agbabi

In Telling Tales award-winning poet Patience Agbabi presents an inspired 21st-Century remix of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales retelling all of the stories, from the Miller's Tale to the Wife of Bath's in her own critically acclaimed poetic style. Boisterous, funky, foul-mouthed, sublimely lyrical and bursting at the seams, Telling Tales takes one of Britain's most significant works of literature and gives it thrilling new life.

The ruby slippers. Keir Alexander

Old Rosa the bag lady shuffles along the streets of New York, stinking, silent and shunned. On the day of the St Patrick's Day Parade, Rosa is in a terrible accident. While she lies in hospital her nephew visits her squalid apartment and unearths something remarkable from the monstrous piles of junk: two glittering ruby slippers, relics of Hollywood history. In the hunger to possess the prize, will anyone stop to learn the incredible story of the woman to whom they once belonged?

And only to deceive Tasha Alexander

Emily agreed to wed Philip, the Viscount Ashton, primarily to escape her overbearing mother. Philip's death while on safari soon after their wedding left Emily feeling little grief, for she barely knew the dashing stranger. Emily's desire to learn more of her late husband leads her through the quiet corners of the British Museum and into a dangerous mystery involving rare stolen artefacts.

A poisoned season. Tasha Alexander

London's social season is in full swing, and the Victorian aristocracy are abuzz with the latest news of an audacious cat burglar. Light gossip turns serious when the owner of one of the pilfered treasures is found murdered, and the mysterious thief develops a twisted obsession with Emily. It will take all of her considerable wit and perseverance to unmask her stalker and ferret out the murderer, even as a brewing scandal threatens both her reputation and her romance with her late husband's best friend, the dashing Colin Hargreaves.

The mindfulness toolbox : 50 practical mindfulness tips, tools, and handouts for anxiety, depression, stress, and pain. Don Altman

The awareness boosting methods in this guidebook offer participants a means of reappraising and observing negative and anxious thoughts, habits, pain, and stress in fresh ways that produce new insight, positive change, and a sense of hope.

Wen wu tu = Mosquito dance chart : the best looking small novel of contemporary artists. Shiliu An

Huan le song. Di er ji = Ode to joy. Second quarter. A'nai

Huan le song. Di san ji = Ode to joy. Third quarter. A'nai

Huan le song. Di yi ji = Ode to joy. First quarter. A'nai

Huan le song. Di yi ji = Ode to joy. Fourth quarter. A'nai

Hans Christian Andersen :let the children benefit from a lifetime of world classics; Hans Christian Andersen

An ye mi qing = Mystery in the dark night. A'nnafangfang

Bing zhou mi wu = Dense fog of Bingzhou. A'nnafangfang

Mei ying wei ji = Crisis phantom. A'nnafangfang

The Grunts all at sea Philip Ardagh ; illustrated by Axel Scheffler

Mr Grunt's a man with a mission. He has to get a Person of Great Importance (or POGI) to someone called Mrs Bayliss by the twenty-fifth. And he can't tell anyone more than that, not even his lovely wife, Mrs Grunt, because there will be people trying to snatch the POGI and so the POGI must be transported in secret.

The Grunts in trouble Philip Ardagh ; illustrated by Axel Scheffler

Meet Mr and Mrs Grunt. Oh, go on. They're not that bad. No, actually, they are. But Sunny, their sort-of son, is okay. They stole him from a washing line as a baby. Sticky around and you'll also meet Lord Bigg of Bigg Manor, Bigg-hater Larry Smalls, Mimi the Bigg Manor boot boy (yup, she's a girl) and well, you'll have to read the book to find that out. But I should mention the bees. Did I warn you about the bees?

Cat says meow and other animalopoeia. Michael (Michael Peter) Arndt

Kind of kin. Rilla Askew

A compelling, funny and poignant novel about what happens when a family and an entire community are forced to confront the difference between right and wrong.

Zhen shi de Xibanya : zu qiu xiang zuo, jian zhu xiang you = The real Spain in Chinese minds. Qio Bai

The prince's boy. Paul Bailey

In May 1927, nineteen-year-old Dinu Grigorescu, a skinny boy with literary ambitions, is newly arrived in Paris from Bucharest. An innocent in a new city, still grieving the sudden loss of his beloved mother Elena seven years earlier, Dinu is encouraged to enjoy la vie de Boheme by his distant cousin, Eduard. At a distance of forty years, and written in London, his refuge from the horrors of Europe's early twentieth-century history, Dinu's memoir of his brief spell in Paris is one of exploration and rediscovery. The love that blossomed in such inauspicious and unromantic surroundings would transcend lust, separation, despair and even death to endure a lifetime. This is a work of extraordinary sensual delicacy, an exquisite novel from one of our most celebrated writers.

A fish named Glub written by Dan Bar-el ; illustrated by Josâee Bisaillon.

In this lyrical story about friendship and the power of dreams, a small and ordinary fish named Glub asks himself the big questions in life as he observes life in the diner beyond his fishbowl.

Come and tell me some lies. Raffaella Barker

Gabriella has many siblings and many more animals. Gabriella and her brothers run amuck through the attics and wilderness garden of their home Mildney. Here she experiences the triumphs and pitfalls of belonging to a wayward family; and longs for conformity. Her failure to achieve it is absolute.

Green grass. Raffaella Barker

Green Grass is a hilarious tale of bad-tempered goats, sharp-eyed teenage twins, art-world excess and frantic text messages - and of a woman's yearning for the vivid expression of life that only the countryside makes possible.

Hens dancing. Raffaella Barker

Venetia Summers appears to lead a fairytale existence with her husband and sons in her tumbledown Norfolk cottage. But when her husband walks out on them, not even the arrival of a new baby can make up for the sense of loss she feels. This novel follows Venetia's diaries over the course of a year.

The hook. Raffaella Barker

Christie Naylor's mother dies on her 17th birthday. Pursuing a fantasy, her father takes his grieving family away from the suburbs to live by a lake, which he builds himself. Coming to terms with her new life, Christie starts a disastrous affair with Mick Fleet, a charismatic Irishman.

A perfect life. Raffaella Barker

Told from the widely differing perspectives of the family members, A Perfect Life is a closely observed portrait: a wife and mother desperately keeping up the illusion that everything is fine and dandy, and a father and husband trying to distract himself from his growing sense of boredom. It's a novel about keeping up appearances, the illusion of happiness and what to do when things aren't really as perfect as they seem - and it brims with all the emotions and nuances of real life.

Poppyland. Raffaella Barker

A love story about two people who fall for each other through a series of coincidences. Ryder James meets Grace Hart the night her exhibition of paintings opens in Copenhagen. Both of them are loners, damaged by tragedy in their lives, both sceptical about love. Romantic, elegiac, absorbing and quixotic, this love story for difficult people is a testament to the power of attraction.

Summertime. Raffaella Barker

For a year, Venetia Summers has been 'buffered from single-motherhood' by boyfriend David, but when work takes him to a Brazilian rainforest, things begin to unravel. Phone lines crackle, emails languish, and high-tech, long-distance love proves bewildering and vexing. A moonlit walk takes an unexpected turn, and she finds herself with a real dilemma.

Captain Thunderbolt and his lady : the true story of bushrangers Frederick Ward & Mary Ann Bugg. Carol J Baxter

We know about Ned Kelly, Jack Donohue and the gentleman bushranger Captain Thunderbolt, but what about Australia's women bushrangers? With all the skills of a novelist, Carol Baxter takes us into the real world of Mary Ann Bugg, Australia's most successful female bushranger.

Confronting the classics : traditions, adventures and innovations. Mary Beard

Drawing on thirty years of writing about Greek and Roman history, Mary Beard takes us on an exhilarating journey through the extraordinary riches of the classical heritage, and why it still matters. She brings back to life some of the greatest writers of antiquity including Thucydides, Cicero and Tacitus and takes a fresh look at both scholarly controversies and popular interpretations of the ancient world, from "The Golden Bough" to "Asterix".

One good egg : a memoir. Suzy Becker

Traces the author's decision to have a child after years of waiting, sharing the story of how she pursued medical treatments to conceive before learning she was pregnant and ultimately marrying her true love.

Alex's adventures in numberland. Alex Bellos

In this richly entertaining and accessible book, Alex Bellos explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks. Covering subjects from adding to algebra, from set theory to statistics, and from logarithms to logical paradoxes, he explains how mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives.

Futebol : the Brazilian way of life. Alex Bellos

A passionate look at the history of the most popular sport - football - in the most romantic of countries – Brazil. Travelling extensively from the Uruguayan border to the northeastern backlands, from the coastal cities of Rio de Janeiro and Säo Paulo to the Amazon jungle, Bellos shows how Brazil changed football and how football shaped Brazil.

Smut : two unseemly stories. Alan Bennett

This title includes unexpected tales from the master of short fiction. "The Shielding of Mrs Forbes" - Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better. And her own husband would be better if she were mourning him than living with him.
"The Greening of Mrs Donaldson" - Mrs Donaldson is a conventional middle-class woman. But when she takes in two lodgers, passions that she never knew existed are aroused.

Missing Lucile : memories of a grandmother I never knew. Suzanne Berne

Even as a child, Suzanne Berne understood the source of her father's terrible melancholy: he'd lost his mother when he was a little boy. Decades later, with her father now elderly and ailing, she decides to try to uncover the woman who continues to haunt him.

The shining girls. Lauren Beukes

Chicago, 1931. Harper is a man out of time with all the time in the world to stalk and kill his shining girls. But these things have to be right. And if a girl lived to tell the tale, well, that would have to be fixed. Chicago, 1992. Kirby knows there's something strange about the man who nearly killed her - aside from being a violent psychopath. Rejected by those who should help her, she searches for the others, the girls who didn't make it.

Flora's very windy day Jeanne Birdsall ; illustrated by Matt Phelan.

When a big wind blows her annoying little brother away, Flora decides to save him despite the many tempting offers she gets for him from, among others, a cloud, an eagle, the man in the moon, and the wind itself.

The Penderwicks on Gardam Street. Jeanne Birdsall

The four Penderwick sisters are faced with the unimaginable prospect of their widowed father dating, and they hatch a plot to stop him.

The sensible sleep solution : a guide to sleep in your baby's first year Sarah Blunden and Angie Willcocks

Are you uncomfortable with the thought of controlled crying? Unwilling to share your bed with your baby for months in an effort to sleep? Parents need facts about infant sleep and development - up-to-date information based on evidence rather than myths, old wives' tales and opinion

When mermaids sleep. Ann Bonwill

When the moon shines into your room at night and casts a dreamy light, it is time to say goodnight.

The power of feng shui. Sophie Boswell

Franklin and the thunderstorm Paulette Bourgeois ; illustrated by Brenda Clark.

Franklin is afraid of thunderstorms. When a storm approaches while he is playing at Fox's house, a flash of lightning sends Franklin into his shell. He refuses to come out - even for snacks - until his friends make him laugh with their tall tales about what causes storms. And when Beaver explains what really causes thunder and lightning, Franklin begins to feel much safer.

My brother's keeper Tom and Tony Bradman

Alfie signs up for the army aged just 15, carried away by patriotic fervour at the start of the Great War. But life in the trenches is very far from his dreams of glory. It's hard, and cold, and it's boring. but when he volunteers for a raid on the German trenches, against the advice of his comrades, Alfie begins to understand what war means, and to see the value of the lives that are being thrown away on the Western Front every day.

You are here : from the compass to GPS, the history and future of how we find ourselves. Hiawatha Bray

The story of the rise of modern navigation technology, from radio location to GPS - and the consequent decline of privacy. Filled with tales of scientists and astronauts, inventors and entrepreneurs, You Are Here tells the story of how humankind ingeniously solved one of its oldest and toughest problems - only to herald a new era in which it's impossible to hide.

Kids are weird. Jeffrey Brown

The author brings his witty comic observations to terrestrial parenting in this perceptive book celebrating the more surreal moments of raising a child.

My biggest lie. Luke Brown

Liam has it all. In front of him glitters a superb career and a life with the woman he loved from the moment he saw her. But on a feverish night out he loses his job, his home and his girlfriend. He is lucky to escape with his life. Trying to leave his shame behind in London he flees to Argentina to live honestly, and to write the world's longest and truest love letter. But Buenos Aires is the most sensual, most duplicitous, city in the world. How will Liam prevent his lies from running away with him?

Accidental ironman : how triathlon ruined my life. Martyn Brunt

Having spent 10 years scaling the lower echelons of the sport, the time has come for one of Britain's least successful athletes to reveal all about how he got involved in all this nonsense in the first place. The typical training (hell) he goes through to take part in a race given he has absolutely no ability whatsoever. How triathlons ultimately caused him to sell his Mercedes, give away his expensive suit, chuck in his job in the City and become, as his father put it, a "god-damned hippy".

Shooting stars : my unexpected life photographing Hollywood's most famous. Jennifer Buhl

As a young woman struggling to make ends meet in L.A., photographer Jennifer Buhl never dreamed that a chance encounter with the paparazzi would lead her to chasing celebrities around in her bright-red, beat-up pickup truck. Shooting Stars is the first memoir to offer the inside scoop on the world of paparazzi and their surprisingly cooperative relationship with the stars.

Tang xia qu hui shu fu dian = Lying down. Kou Cao

Eleven seasons. Paul D. Carter

Melbourne, 1985. Jason Dalton sits on his bed and counts his football cards, dreaming of the day he too is immortalised in the public eye. He's young and gifted, a natural player who can do anything with the ball in his hand. If only everything else in his life was as obvious to him as playing. Gold Coast, 1991. The bottom has fallen out of Jason's life; he's now a high-school dropout, tired and wasted on the Gold Coast, with an explosive family secret still ringing in his ears. He needs to get his life back. But first he needs to find out who he is.

Winter damage. Natasha Carthew

On a frozen Cornish moor, a fourteen-year-old girl lives in a trailer with her dad and little brother. Days before Christmas, when the wind is cold and her dad's health takes a turn for the worse, Ennor packs a blanket, a map, a saucepan and a gun into her rucksack, and sets off to find her mum and bring her home. Ennor thinks she knows where she's going. But this journey will change her life for ever it becomes a battle for survival, a heartbreaking story of love and friendship, and a fable about not finding what you were looking for, but finding something more important instead.

The man who walked away. Maud Casey

In a trance-like state, Albert walks all over Europe. When the reverie of his walking ends, he's left wondering where he is, with no memory of how he got there. His past exists only in fleeting images. Loosely based on the case history of Albert Dadas, a psychiatric patient in the hospital of St. Andre; in Bordeaux in the nineteenth century, The Man Who Walked Away imagines Albert's wanderings and the anguish that caused him to seek treatment with a doctor who would create a diagnosis for him, a narrative for his pain.

Chinese culture creative operation course for 3-4 years old. One. Chang Chung

Get on your bike : stay safe, get fit and be happy cycling Rebecca Charlton, Robert Hicks and Hannah Reynolds.

This book isn't like other cycling books. It's not trying to get you into racing, or not make the next Tour de France rider. What it will do is show you how to choose the right bike, what to wear, how to cycle safely so that you will feel confident making cycling part of your everyday life and how to keep your bike going.

Excellent compositions of new Chinese modules. Grade one and two. Chen Juan

Xin bian cheng yu 365 = Children make progress every day : new idioms Quanyou Chen

The Straight Bend into Curved, Ambiguous ChenHao

The Straight Bend into Curved, Crack ChenHao

The Straight Bend into Curved, Split ChenHao

The Straight Bend into Curved, the Stalemate ChenHao

Back to butter : a traditional foods cookbook : nourishing recipes inspired by our ancestors Molly Chester & Sandy Schrecengost

Traditional foods are unprocessed, naturally raised, traditionally prepared, deeply nourishing, and decidedly unrefined. Authors Molly Chester and Sandy Schrecengost take you through the basics of a traditional diet with ease and understanding.

So that: Kipling natural animal stories Di Cold

MasterChef : the finalists. Natalie Coleman

The three finalists from MasterChef 2013 beat their fierce competition with delicious, inspiring and memorable food. Inside this beautiful cookbook, find the recipes that John and Gregg loved the most on the TV show, and discover new, exclusive meals to cook at home.

The Gamal. Ciarán Collins

Meet Charlie. Charlie has a story to tell, about his best friends Sinead and James and the bad things that happened. But he can't tell it yet, at least not till he's worked out where the beginning is. This is the story of the dark heart of an Irish village, of how daring to be different can be dangerous and how there is nothing a person will not do for love.

Iris Murdoch : a life. Peter J. Conradi

Dame Iris Murdoch played a major role in English life and letter for nearly half a century. As A.S. Byatt notes, she was "absolutely central to our culture". As a novelist, as a thinker, and as a private individual, her life has significance for our age. This is a biography of her life.

Hot dogs and cocktails : when FDR met King George VI at Hyde Park on Hudson. Peter J. Conradi

Peter Conradi recreates the rich tapestry that provides the backdrop to the royals' visit to America, analysing the political background and the media's reaction, and delving into the complex personality of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his intricate relationships with the most influential women in his life. The result is a fascinating investigation of a defining moment in recent world history.

Sacred games. Gary Corby

Nico works to clear his Olympics competitor best friend of a false murder accusation when a rival is found dead, a situation that is complicated by escalating violence between Athens and Sparta.

Fitter, faster, funnier football : everything you wanted to know about football, but were afraid to ask Michael Cox, illustrated by Miguel Francisco.

Cinderella. Kinuko Craft

This brilliant edition of a timeless story is sure to become the favourite of a generation. Readers young and old will be enchanted by the vision and mastery of Kinuko Y. Craft's luminous paintings, inspired by the lavish artwork of late seventeenth-century France and embellished with extraordinary borders and ornamentation.

Buckingham Palace blues. James Craig

When Inspector John Carlyle discovers a disorientated girl in a park near Buckingham Palace, he takes it upon himself to find out who she is and where she's from. Soon, the inspector is on the trail of a child-trafficking ring that stretches from Kiev to London, and back to the palace itself…

The circus James Craig

When the body of journalist Duncan Brown is found in the back of a rubbish truck, Inspector John Carlyle is thrown into the middle of a scandal that threatens to expose the corrupt links between the police, the political establishment and the hugely powerful Zenger media group.

The enemy within. James Craig

Yorkshire, June 1984: War is raging between the police and striking mine workers. New recruit John Carlyle is sent up from London to man the picket lines. But when seventy-eight year old rose grower and political activist Beatrice Slater is found dead, the young constable's tour of duty takes a dramatic turn.

The hand of God. James Craig

When journalist Hugh Scanlon and his wife Marjorie are murdered, veteran cop Walter Callender finds himself on the trail of rogue Secret Service agent Martin Palmer. Enlisting the help of rookie John Carlyle, Callender turns to previously unheard of technology, DNA testing, to try and trap the degenerate killer before he strikes again.

London calling. James Craig

Can you win an election and cover up murder at the same time? When Inspector John Carlyle finds a body in a luxury London hotel room he begins a journey through the murky world of the British ruling classes which leads all the way to the top.

A man of sorrows. James Craig

Hunting down a paedophile priest, Carlyle finds himself up against his old adversary Christian Holyrod. The Mayor of London is responsible for hosting an upcoming visit by the Pope and does not want any more scandals involving the Catholic church. Carlyle, however, is not prepared to let crimes side, putting him on a collision course with both the mayor and the church.

Never apologise, never explain. James Craig

Jake Haggar has been kidnapped by his father who is threatening to sell the boy to a paedophile ring. Carlyle is struggling to get him back. It's not his case but it is his problem - it was his fault Jake was taken in the first place. But Carlyle's own caseload includes the murder of Agatha Mills. Her husband, Henry, has been arrested for murder but his explanation is so outlandish that Carlyle wonders if it may just be true.

Then we die. James Craig

Inspector John Carlyle gets the shock of his life when his mother announces she is getting a divorce after 50 years of marriage. But that's nothing compared to the storm that erupts when he stumbles across an execution of a wealthy businessman in a luxury London hotel room - the latest in a line of bodies being left across London by a ruthless Israeli hit squad.

A slight trick of the mind. Mitch Cullin

It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn't even know he was asking - about life, love, about the limits of the mind's ability to know.

Almost mine. Lea Darragh

Through a wild youth of mistakes, bad choices, and self-destructive behaviour, Nick has been the one thing that Cate could count on. She knows he loves her, but she can't love him back. When an unexpected pregnancy forces them into a marriage of convenience, Cate hopes that Nick can love her enough for the both of them. But as time passes, Nick grows frustrated and finally decides to cut himself loose. Will his absence prove to Cate just how much she needs him?

Wombat & Fox. Summer in the city. Terry Denton

Three stories for beginner and developing readers, featuring a never-ending game of 'I spy', a surprising sand-sculpture competition and a search for crabs that leaves Wombat and Fox scrambling to beat the tide.

Wombat & Fox. Tales of the city. Terry Denton

Wombat & Fox don't go looking for trouble, but the big city is a surprising place and mishaps have a way of changing the course of the day for Wombat and Fox, Croc, Bandicoot, the Hippo Sisters and the mischievous Five Monkeys.

William Shakespeare's The Empire striketh back. Ian Doescher

Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. These two plays offer essential listening for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!

Drawing a veil. Lari Don

Ellie and Amina are best friends. But when Amina decides to start wearing the hijab, it attracts the attention of the bullies. Now Ellie's loyalties are being tested. Has Amina changed? Does it matter if best friends have different beliefs? Is she ready to stand up for Amina? A thought-provoking story about friendship, religion and modern life.

for fairies and other fabled beasts. Lari Don

Helen has absolutely no interest in becoming a vet like her mother. So she isn't best pleased when asked to help an injured horse. Only this horse isn't entirely normal, and nor are his friends. Without warning, Helen is thrust into an extraordinary world full of magical rituals, fantastical creatures and a dangerous, powerful beast known as the Master, who would destroy it all.

Maze running and other magical missions. Lari Don

When Yann the centaur is stabbed through the heart by a unicorn horn, the life-threatening injury needs a magical remedy. Helen and her fabled-beast friends unite, with the help of the dragons, to find a magical token with the power to heal him. But they only have until tomorrow night.

Mind blind. Lari Don

Ciaran Bane is a criminal with a special talent: he can read minds. But his skill comes at a price. Lucy's sister is dead: killed for a secret Ciaran's family wants buried. Her blood is on Ciaran's hands. Only together can the unlikely allies discover the deadly secret.

Rocking horse war. Lari Don

One sunny morning the triplets disappear, leaving only a few mysterious clues behind: an open upstairs window, three missing rocking horses and some strangely shaped marks on the lawn outside. Could they be hoofprints? A tale of dark magic and destiny set in the 1920s Scottish Highlands.

Storm singing and other tangled tasks. Lari Don

Helen and her fabled-beast friends help Rona the selkie in a Storm Singer competition. Rona must compete in three gruelling challenges against a mermaid and a blue loon, and carry an important message between the deep sea powers, which will stop them going to war.

Wolf notes and other musical mishaps. Lari Don

Helen has won a place at a prestigious summer music school in remote north-western Scotland. But her friends, the fabled beasts, prepare for battle - in the very forest where the young musicians are staying. When Yann the centaur arrives and warns Helen of impending danger, she is forced to cast her musical ambitions aside.

Zai ku, ye yao bi zi ji yi xia : 50 wei ming ren de ni jing shang xiu lian = The darkest hour comes just before the dawn : the fifty famous people's advice for success. Quan Dong

Chuan yue 2012 : zhongguo ke huan ming jia ping zhuan = Through 2012 : A critical biography of famous Chinese science fiction. Renwei Dong

Small, medium & large. Jane Monroe Donovan

A wordless picture book in which a young girl writes a letter to Santa and receives some special gifts to help her celebrate the holiday.

After Eden. Helen Douglas

Eden, sixteen, must choose between helping Ryan, a time-traveller, and her best friend Connor who, according to Ryan, is about to become famous through a significant scientific discovery that will, ultimately ruin the world.

Chasing stars. Helen Douglas

The boy Eden loves just saved her life. Now she must save his. To do so she must make a huge sacrifice. Eden can never see her friends or family again, as she travels a hundred years into the future.

William's gift : one veterinarian's journey. Helen Douglas

An anecdotal journey of self-discovery, William's Gift tells the story of one woman's life as a country veterinarian with honesty and humility. Through the trials and tribulations of learning on the job, this committed caregiver learns the ropes of caring for animals both great and small.

Red shadow. Paul Dowswell

Russia, 1940. Fifteen year old Misha's life is about to transform when his father is offered a job in Stalin's inner circle. Then as German troops advance on Moscow, the atmosphere in the Kremlin ignites. Misha and a friend find themselves at the heart of a battle against the mighty state in this powerful evocation of one of the most turbulent places and periods of the 20th century, told by a master storyteller.

The buy side : a Wall Street trader's tale of spectacular excess Turney Duff

A memoir from former Galleon Group trader Turney Duff which portrays an after-hours Wall Street culture where drugs and sex are rampant and millions in trading commissions flow to those who dangle the most enticements, exploring the dizzying temptations of making a living on the Street.

The map maker's daughter. Caroline Dunford

Sharra's world is a terrifying place. Violent seismic 'Shifts' and outbreaks of an all-consuming black fire radically alter landscapes on an increasingly frequent basis. Only the Map Makers can predict where the Shift will fall, and Sharra, daughter to one of the most famous Map Makers, yearns to join their ranks and break a cultural taboo which forbids female cartographers.

Christmas in the country. Carola Dunn

A match for the season. Lady Cecily has snared the heir to a dukedom, but it's his cousin, a mere doctor, who makes her heart beat faster.
He stoops to conquer. Lord Rusholme tries to win Prudence, an actress playing in ‘She Stoops to Conquer’ for his father’s Christmas house party, by taking the role of the oafish Tony Lumpkin.

Ginnie come lately. Carola Dunn

When Justin returns home, he finds his father remarried and that his half sister Ginnie is both attractive and annoying.

The girl from yesterday Shane Dunphy

After the death of his best friend, Shane Dunphy runs away from his life working at a special-needs crèche, and attempts to avoid his child protection instincts. However, when a part-time journalism job in rural Ireland leads him to a family in desperate need of intervention, and a young girl crying out for protection, Shane cannot stand idly by and watch.

The girl who couldn't smile. Shane Dunphy

When Shane Dunphy starts work at Little Scamps crèche, he has no idea what he has let himself in for. He had not worked in an early years setting for many years and on arriving for his first day he found that two members of staff, Susan and Tush, are at the end of their tether and on the verge of resigning. Then one afternoon, Gus, the class tearaway, receives the gift of a blue crayon - a crayon he claims is magic. And Shane begins to wonder if this magic could be the answer to all his problems.

Duckstar ; [and], Cyberfarm Hazel Edwards, Christine Anketell.

Duckstar: Duck and his friends’ farm will be closed down unless they can find the money to improve its safety features. Their big chance comes when they are asked to appear as extras in a television advertisement.
In their second adventure, Cyberfarm, Duck and his friends are going to be replaced by robots and virtual farm animals. They devise a plan to win back the tourists by performing a show.

Operatic duck ; [and], Duck on tour Hazel Edwards, Christine Anketell ; illustrations by Mini Goss.

Operatic Duck: Duck and his friends are asked to take part in a community performance of the opera Aida. In their second adventure, Duck on Tour, Duck and his friends take the show on the road, heading to the outback to perform Aida there.

Dou shi men sao re de huo = Frowsty coquettish is to be blamed. Ziluan Fang

Shiverton Hall. Emerald Fennell

Arthur Bannister has been unexpectedly accepted into Shiverton Hall, which, as it turns out, is an incredibly spooky school, full of surprises. At least there are a few friendly faces: George, who shows him around; also Penny and Jake. But not all the faces are friendly. There are the bullying Forge triplets for starters. And then there is the acid tongue of the headmistress, Professor Long-Pitt, who seems to go out of her way to make Arthur's life a misery.

The Great British Mountain Bike Trail Guide Clive Forth

The Great British Mountain Bike Trail Guide reveals the best trails to ride across the British Isles.

Before Galileo : the birth of modern science in medieval Europe John Freely

John Freely investigates the pioneering research of the first European scientists, many of them monks whose influence ranged far beyond the walls of the monasteries where they studied and wrote. Before Galileo places the great discoveries of the age in their rightful context.

Caribbean melody. Peggy Gaddis

It seemed like instant success, but Kristin knew that hard work and Leon’s driving ambition had brought them to this point. Kristin was only beginning to realise that she was Leon's ticket to stardom - and he was not going to lose her to anyone - not even to the handsome owner of the hotel who wanted to give her the world in exchange for her heart.

Secret honeymoon. Peggy Gaddis

Jealousy had shattered the happiness of Cathy and Bill's secret elopement. When Mark, the handsome man from Cathy's past, suddenly reappeared, Bill saw in their fond reunion a threat to his own love. Hurt and angered, he returned to his rich matchmaking aunt and the fortune he'd nearly lost by loving the wrong girl. And suddenly, Cathy was faced with a frightening choice - did she want the husband she'd married or the man who'd returned from her past.

Eat skinny, be skinny : 100 wholesome and delicious recipes under 300 calories. Claire Gallam

Finally a cookbook that consists of realistically healthy meals with great flavours and portions that leave you satisfied. Author Claire Gallam is a food writer and recipe developer who has worked to provide a full range of recipes that each includes nutritional information and a calorie count to help make weight management easier.

Captivate. Vanessa Garden

For the past twelve months since her parents' death, seventeen-year-old Miranda Sun has harboured a dark secret that has strained her relationship with her older sister, Lauren. Miranda's grandparents whisk the siblings away on a secluded beach holiday. But Miranda's dragged underwater by a mysterious stranger while taking a midnight swim. Awakening days later, Miranda discovers that she's being held captive in a dazzling underwater city by the King of this underwater civilisation!

Carrier. Vanessa Garden

From the day she was born, Lena has viewed the world through the jagged window of a razor-wired fence. The hundred-acre property she shares with her mother in the Australian outback may keep her safe from the Y-Carrier disease, but her mother's increasingly tight grip on her free will is stifling. Just as her curiosity blooms and her courage rises, she meets a boy through the fence. His name is Patrick and he comes with a dangerous yet irresistible invitation of adventure beyond the fence. But Lena's newfound freedom is short-lived and she soon discovers that the Y-Carrier disease is not the only enemy she faces on the outside. Her new enemies want something Lena has, and they are willing to do anything to get it…

What's normal, anyway? : celebrity stories of mental illness Anna Gekoski, Steve Broome.

Here, for the first time, ten celebrities share their experiences of conditions including depression and anxiety, bipolar disorder and OCD, eating disorders and body dysmorphia.

Lost, stolen or shredded : stories of missing works of art and literature. R. A. Gekoski

Like Sherlock Holmes' dog in the night time, sometimes the true significance of things lies in their absence. The author tells the very human stories that lie behind some of the greatest losses to artistic culture and addresses the questions such disappearances raise.

Outside of a dog : a bibliomemoir. R. A. Gekoski

A captivating account of twenty-five books drawn from the fields of literature, psychology and philosophy. Tracing the formative role books have played in his life, Rick Gekoski trains the same ironic and analytic eye on these books and their authors as he does on himself. The result is unique: a sustained, witty book dedicated to the proposition that we are what we read.

Cowgirl G. R. Gemin

Growing up on the embattled Mawr Estate in South Wales, all Gemma sees are burglaries, muggings, sadness and boredom. When her search for the scene of a perfect childhood day takes her up into the surrounding hills, Gemma is forced into a meeting with the legendary Cowgirl. Everyone at school knows she's a weirdo: six foot tall and angry, the only conversations she has are with the twelve cows on her dad's farm. But with her abrupt arrival in Gemma's life, everything starts to look different. And with her only friends in mortal danger of the abattoir, it turns out she and Gemma have a mission on their hands.

The signature of all things. Elizabeth Gilbert

Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker - a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. The story is peopled with unforgettable characters: missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses, and the quite mad. But most memorable of all, it is the story of Alma Whittaker, who bears witness to that extraordinary moment in human history when all the old assumptions about science, religion, commerce, and class were exploding into dangerous new ideas.

Stern men. Elizabeth Gilbert

On two remote islands off the coast of Maine, the local lobstermen have fought savagely for generations over the fishing rights to the ocean waters between them. Ruth Thomas is born into this feud, the daughter of one of the greediest lobstermen in Maine. As the feud escalates, she helps work the lobster boats, brushes up on her profanity, and eventually falls for Owney Wishnell, a handsome young lobsterman.

And the dark sacred night. Julia Glass

Kit Noonan's life is stalled: unemployed, twins to support, a mortgage to pay and a frustrated wife, who is certain that, more than anything else, Kit needs to solve the mystery of his father's identity. He begins with a visit to his former stepfather, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners Vermont outdoorsman. But it is another person who has kept the secret: Lucinda Burns, wife of a revered senior statesman and mother of Malachy. An unforgettable novel about the youthful choices that steer our destinies, the necessity of forgiveness, and the surprisingly mutable meaning of family.

I see you everywhere. Julia Glass

Louisa Jardine is the older one, the conscientious sister who is a good student, and yearns for a good marriage, a career and a family. Clem Jardine is the younger sister - the uncontainable rebel, daring and irresistible to men, and a constant source of frustration to her more reliable sister. Alternating between the sisters voices, I See You Everywhere unfolds across a 25-year span, from 1980 to 2005, beginning when Louisa and Clem are in their early twenties.

Three Junes. Julia Glass

Three Junes is a novel set on both sides of the Atlantic during three fateful summers in the lives of a Scottish family. In June of 1989, Paul McLeod, the recently widowed patriarch, becomes infatuated with a young American artist while travelling through Greece and is compelled to relive the secret sorrows of his marriage. Six years later, Paul's death reunites his sons, where Fenno, the eldest, faces a choice that puts him at the centre of his family's future. Elegantly detailed yet full of emotional suspense, often as comic as it is sad, Three Junes is a glorious triptych about how we learn to live, and live fully, beyond incurable grief and betrayals of the heart.

The whole world over. Julia Glass

Greenie Duquette has a small bakery in Manhattan that supplies pastries to restaurants, including that of her genial gay friend Walter. When Walter recommends Greenie to the governor of New Mexico, she seizes the chance take a break from her marriage to Alan Glazier, a psychiatrist with hidden issues. Taking their four-year-old son with her Greenie leaves for New Mexico, while figures from her and Alan's pasts challenge their already strained marriage.

The wind in the willows. Kenneth Grahame

This timeless story opens with Mole leaving his spring-cleaning and going above ground to explore the world beyond his burrow. Making friends with Ratty, the two become inseparable and together they spend long summer days enjoying the delights of the river and its banks. Then they meet the impetuous Toad and the distinguished though slightly stern Mr Badger and find themselves caught up in a series of adventures to rescue Toad from his own reckless behaviour and return him safely to Toad Hall.

Carnegie teaches you how to be a happy woman. Guo Rui

Artists, writers, thinkers, dreamers : portraits of fifty famous folks and all their weird stuff. James Gulliver Hancock

This cultural who's-who illuminates 50 famous figures, from Leonardo da Vinci to Coco Chanel, through the fascinating trivia of their lives.

Dead lions. Mick Herron

London's Slough House is where disgraced MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their washed-up careers. They have one thing in common: they all want to be back in the action. And they'll do anything to get there - even if it means cooperating with one another.

Down Cemetery Road. Mick Herron

Sarah Tucker becomes obsessed with finding a little girl who disappears after a nearby house is destroyed by a massive explosion. Soon she is on a journey with a troubled ex-soldier who is on the run from murderous enemies.

The last voice you hear. Mick Herron

Still struggling to deal with having killed a man in self-defence, Zoë Boehm heads to London to investigate the supposedly accidental death of Caroline Daniels, who "fell" under the wheels of an oncoming train, as well as the case of twelve-year-old Wez, killed by a fall from a tower block, and finds herself in pursuit of two elusive killers.

Reconstruction. Mick Herron

When a man with a gun breaks into her school, nursery teacher, Louise Kennedy knows there's not likely to be a happy ending. While an armed police presence builds up outside, he'll only talk to Ben Whistler, an MI6 accountant who worked with his lover, Miro. Miro's gone missing with a huge sum of money intended for reconstruction work in Iraq.

Slow horses. Mick Herron

Slough House is Jackson Lamb's kingdom; a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who've screwed up. They're the service's poor relations - the slow horses - and bitterest among them is River Cartwright, whose days are spent transcribing mobile phone conversations. But when a young man is abducted, and it's threatened that he'll be beheaded live on the Internet, River sees an opportunity to redeem himself.

Why we die. Mick Herron

When Tim Whitby checks into a hotel, he's not intending to check out again - but then he meets Katrina Blake, a woman in need of rescue. When Arkle, Baxter and Trent inherit the family business, they're not planning on making a go of it - there are quicker ways of getting rich, if you're not squeamish about the violence involved. And when Zoe Boehm agrees to track down the masked men who robbed Harold Sweeney's jewellery shop, she's hoping to pay off the taxes she's avoided. She's not expecting to wind up in a coffin. But Arkle has a crossbow; Tim has a life that's run out of purpose, and even battered Katrina has her secrets. And death, like taxes, can't be avoided forever.

Amy. Mary Hooper

After Amy falls out with her friends she starts to spend time in a chat room and, defying all common sense, she decides to meet the very interesting Zed, who strikes up a friendship with her there. The day they spend together in his seaside village near London is frightening rather than romantic.

At the house of the magician. Mary Hooper

Fearing abuse by her drunken father, Lucy has been forced to run away from home. She is hired as a maid at the house of Dr. Dee, the court magician, a man on whom Queen Elizabeth relies heavily. Lucy has a nose for intrigue and soon she has more than enough to satisfy her, for she is convinced she has discovered a plot to assassinate the queen. Now she has to find a way to warn her.

At the sign of the Sugared Plum. Mary Hooper

Hannah is excited about her first trip to London to help her sister in her shop "The Sugared Plum". Hannah does not however get the reception she expected from her sister. Instead of giving Hannah a hearty welcome, she is horrified that Hannah did not get her message to stay away.

The betrayal. Mary Hooper

In this follow-up to "By Royal Command," Lucy is asked to continue her work on behalf of Queen Elizabeth I. But will her romance with Tomas, the queen's fool, get in the way? There's also Mistress Juliette, the mysterious new lady-in-waiting. Could she be a threat to the queen? Or is Lucy simply jealous of the attention that Tomas is paying her?

By royal command. Mary Hooper

Lucy has become a firm fixture in the household of Dr Dee, court magician to Queen Elizabeth 1. Lucy, in return for saving the queen's life, has been told that she is to work as a spy for Her Grace and that she is to remain with the Dee family and await further instruction … And then Lucy hears unexplained cries in the Dee house, and finds a young girl imprisoned there. What is Dr Dee doing?

Chelsea and Astra : two sides of the story. Mary Hooper

Chelsea and Astra are like chalk and cheese. But even so, they are the best of friends. They do everything together. Until something happens. That something is a boy. And for the first time ever, Astra and Chelsea are fighting against each other. Will their friendship survive?

The disgrace of Kitty Grey. Mary Hooper

Kitty is living a happy, carefree life as a dairymaid in the countryside. And then, of course, there is Will, the river man who she thinks is very fond of her, and indeed she is of him. Then one day Will disappears. So when Kitty is asked to go to London Kitty leaps at the chance to track down Will. But it is barely a moment before eagle-eyed pickpockets have spotted the country-born-and-bred Kitty and relieved her of her money and belongings.

Holly Mary Hooper

Holly starts receiving anonymous gifts at the café where she works but when Holly finds out the identity of her admirer she is in for a shock - her admirer is not a potential boyfriend: her admirer is her father. Holly has to come to terms with the fact that her father is not the man who lives at home with her, who she loves and calls her father. Her father is a man who has lived all her life on the other side of the world, not even knowing of her existence. Holly and her mother have some talking to do.

Megan. 3 Mary Hooper

Megan loves her baby Jack very much, but life is leaving her behind. So she resigns herself to studying for her A-levels and looking after her baby. And then something threatens Jack.

Petals in the ashes. Mary Hooper

Hannah and Sarah escape London, leaving behind plague and death as well as their sweets shop, and when it is safe, Hannah and her younger sister Anne return, only to face the city's Great Fire of 1666.

Poppy. Mary Hooper

Poppy is young, beautiful and clever - and working as a parlour maid in the de Vere family's country house. But Poppy's life is about to be thrown dramatically off course. The first reason is love - with someone forbidden, who could never, ever marry a girl like her. The second reason is war. As the lists of the dead and wounded grow longer, Poppy must do whatever she can to help the injured soldiers, knowing all the while that her own soldier may never return home.

The remarkable life & times of Eliza Rose. Mary Hooper

Eliza is ousted by her new stepmother from her family and finally makes her way to London - only to be thrown straight into prison for stealing a mouthful of bread. She learns to survive the sordid prison life, is rescued by a woman she has never met before pretending to be her aunt and befriends Nell Gwynn who introduces her to the courtly intrigue, politics and glamour of the court of King Charles.

Velvet. Mary Hooper

Velvet is a laundress in a Victorian steam laundry. Then Velvet is noticed by Madame Savoya, a famed medium, who asks Velvet to come to work for her. Velvet is dazzled at first by the young yet beautifully dressed and bejewelled Madame. But soon Velvet realises that Madame Savoya is not all that she says she is, and Velvet's very life is in danger …

Zara. Mary Hooper

Ella and Zara are best friends, and have been since they started school - They both want to be part of the popular crowd, but soon, Ella wonders whether Zara will go to any length to gain popularity, even to the point of betraying their friendship.

Choose the right word : an entertaining and easy-to-use guide to better English - with 70 test yourself quizzes Robin Hosie & Vic Mayhew.

A miscellany for word lovers : origins, meanings and quizzes Robin Hoise and Vic Mayhew.

Bi yu guo guo = Jasper grasshopper zhuan wen, Huang Beijia ; cha tu, Li Lizhu

Hua er yu shao nian = Flowers and young zhuan wen, Huang Beijia ; cha tu, Tang Matao.

Lie ren Hailibu = Hunter Haili cloth zhuan wen, Huang Beijia ; cha tu, Li Dan, Fan Bowen.

Lugu Hu de er nu = Lugu Lake children zhuan wen, Huang Beijia ; cha tu, Hou Aijun.

Mei li de Zhuang jin = Beautiful brocade zhuan wen, Huang Beijia ; cha tu, Gao Jingjing.

Niulang Zhinu = Cowherder and weaver girl zhuan wen, Huang Beijia ; cha tu, Liu Tengqian.

Qin qin de She lang = Kiss the snake zhuan wen, Huang Beijia ; cha tu, Li Dan.

Approach the problem. Huang Xiao-lin

Here I am : the story of Tim Hetherington, war photographer. Alan Huffman

Tim Hetherington, one of the world's most distinguished and dedicated contemporary photojournalists, was killed while covering the Libyan Civil War. This book is a compelling portrait of Hetherington's life and career, exploring the risks, challenges, and thrills of contemporary war photography.

Gently at a gallop. Alan Hunter

The strange death of Charles Berney, savaged and trampled to death by a horse on a windswept stretch of moorland, came as he had apparently settled down with an attractive young wife and was concentrating on developing his business. How did he get there? The answer comes only after Gently has unravelled one of the most bizarre cases of his entire career.

Gently by the shore. Alan Hunter

In a British seaside holiday resort at the height of the season, you would expect to find a promenade and pier, maybe some donkeys, kiss-me-quick hats, candyfloss and kids building sandcastles. You would not expect to find a naked corpse, punctured with stab wounds, lying on the sand. Chief Inspector George Gently is called to investigate the disturbing murder. No one wants to think that there is a maniac on the loose in the town but with no clothes or identifying marks on the body, Gently has a tough time establishing who the victim is, let alone the killer.

Gently continental. Alan Hunter

The popular Hotel Continental built its reputation on its Viennese cuisine and Austrian style but when one of the guests is found dead at the bottom of the nearby cliffs bearing the wounds of a man who has been systematically tortured, Gently brushes aside the hotel's facade of respectability. International intrigue and a dark secret that stretches from Nazi-occupied Austria across the Atlantic to the back streets of New York leave Gently juggling with a deadly conundrum.

Gently does it. Alan Hunter

The Chief Inspector's quiet Easter break in Norchester is rudely interrupted when a local timber merchant is found dead. His son, with whom he had been seen arguing, immediately becomes the prime suspect, although Gently is far from convinced of his guilt. Locking horns with the local law is a distraction Gently can do without when he's on the trail of a killer.

Gently down the stream. Alan Hunter

The staff at Stoley's Boatyard were used to holidaymakers returning their pleasure cruisers a little late. They were not used to finding their yachts burned almost beyond recognition with the charred remains of a client still aboard. Taking on the investigation, Chief Inspector George Gently faces an enquiry like no other he has ever handled.

Gently floating. Alan Hunter

Gently wades through a torrent of suspects when a body is found floating face down in the river. Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing - that's if you can call having too many suspects, too many potential murderers, 'a good thing'. What Gently has to work out is which of them had the cold blooded nerve to smash the victim's skull and dump him in the river.

Gently French. Alan Hunter

She was the most alluring murder suspect he'd ever dealt with, but Gently knew Mimi Deslauriers was key to the execution of an underworld crime boss, and he was determined to prove it.

Gently go man. Alan Hunter

A five-mile stretch of arrow-straight road outside Latchford acts like a magnet to beatnik bikers using the road like a drag strip. When one of the bikers is killed in an accident, most people regard it as an inevitable consequence of the kids using drugs and racing bikes for kicks. But the evidence points to the young man's death being something more sinister than a mere accident and George Gently is drawn into a world populated by disaffected teenagers, with a jazz soundtrack and a background of murder.

Gently in the sun. Alan Hunter

The heat is on when a beautiful young woman is found dead on a beach at the height of summer. Gently joins the throngs of summer visitors on their annual pilgrimage to the seaside in the midst of a summer heat-wave - and as the temperature soars, the mystery deepens. The long-buried skeleton of a woman is unearthed close to where Rachel's body was found and Gently suddenly has the riddle of two mysterious deaths to solve.

Gently in trees. Alan Hunter

This was no suicide, however it looked - too many people wanted Adrian Stoll dead. From an embarrassment of suspects, Gently had a very tangled tale to unravel.

Gently instrumental. Alan Hunter

Following the death of a young musician, George Gently is assigned to the case, mainly because his boss is such a fan of the composer, Walter Hozeley. Things look bad for Hozeley when details emerge of a vicious argument between the composer and the murdered clarinettist, Terence Virtue, who was also Hozeley's lover.

Gently north-west. Alan Hunter

There's blood in the heather and a murderer on the loose when Gently pays a quiet visit to the Highlands of Scotland. For Gently, it's all in a day's work and his holiday is put on hold while he stalks a murderer in the mountains, with Brenda by his side.

Gently sahib. Alan Hunter

An escaped tiger that terrorizes a little market town is shot dead by a police marksman, having caused nothing more than a minor panic. A year later, a man is found mauled to death and neatly buried in his own back garden. The only thing Gently can be sure of is that the tiger didn't bury the body, so who did?

Gently through the mill Alan Hunter

When small-time gambler and petty crook Steinie Taylor turns up dead in a hopper of flour at a country bakery, Gently has to figure out not only how he got there, but also why his prime suspects all appear to have a dark secret to hide.

Gently to the summit. Alan Hunter

Mountaineer Reginald Kincaid was believed to have died during an expedition to climb Mount Everest. It comes as a shock to his fellow climbers when he turns up again 22 years later and the mystery is compounded by the death of Arthur Fleece, Kincaid's climbing partner on the Everest attempt. Fleece falls to his death on Mount Snowdon in an apparent accident, but the feud that had developed between Fleece and the resurrected Kincaid sparks a murder investigation for George Gently with a 'dead' man as the prime suspect.

Gently where she lay. Alan Hunter

There was no sign of a struggle, no wounds or bruises. To Gently, it looked like Vivienne had simply lain down and died, yet he knew she had been murdered.

Gently where the birds are. Alan Hunter

Who has been murdered? Where is the crime scene? Where is the body? All Gently has to go on is an anonymously delivered photograph of a corpse. Is it some kind of cruel hoax or has a hideous murder been committed at a woodland beauty spot? The camera never lies, but it seldom tells the whole truth, either.

Gently where the roads go. Alan Hunter

A man's body had been found in a van parked in a lay-by. Gunned down, he was not a pretty sight. Superintendent Gently tries to find out why this Pole with a haulage business should be the target for murder.

Gently with love. Alan Hunter

Gently sets out for the north of Scotland to help clear one of his oldest friends of a murder charge and reunite him with the woman he loves. Despite the fact that the evidence weighs heavily against him, Gently cannot bring himself to believe that his friend committed murder, even if the victim was a hated love rival. Highland hospitality, however, doesn't always extend to cooperating with a murder investigation.

Gently with the innocents. Alan Hunter

When an old man is found dead at the foot of the staircase in his rambling old house, a hint of murder and the lure of hidden treasure draw Gently into the case. Gently has plenty of suspects for the old man's murder. When the murderer strikes again, Gently has a high profile case on his hands and faces a night of sheer terror alone in a house whose secret has claimed at least two lives.

Gently with the ladies. Alan Hunter

A police man-hunt fails to find the husband of a brutally murdered woman - until he turns up in Gently's office. The hunted man is, in fact, a far-distant relative of Gently and throws himself on the Chief Inspector's mercy. Gently will have none of it and is ready to hand the man over to his colleagues in charge of the investigation, but there are some intriguing elements to the case.

Gently with the painters. Alan Hunter

The death of a young artist leaves Gently desperately piecing together the portrait of a murderer. The prime suspect appears to be the woman's husband, a former bomber pilot with a guilty secret, but the other members of the woman's art group also have strong views about her and her controversial final painting Dark Destroyer.

Landed Gently. Alan Hunter

Having been invited to spend Christmas in the country fishing for pike, Gently finds himself hunting a completely different predator when a guest at Merely Hall, a nearby stately home, is found dead at the foot of the grand staircase on Christmas morning.

The original Inspector George Gently collection. Alan Hunter

This first volume of the Inspector George Gently Collection comprises the original two novels that established Gently as one of Scotland Yard's fictional finest.

First thunder : an adventure of discovery. Maharishi Sadasiva Isham

The sales staff favorite PPT presentations. Ji Wu

Eden : a Sandra Mahoney mystery. Dorothy Johnston

Eden Carmichael, a politician, is found dead in a brothel on a hot afternoon. Sandra Mahoney mulls over a demeaning photograph showing Carmichael in a dress and blonde wig. When a lobby group asks her to investigate a company producing filters for the internet, Mahoney is surprised to discover a trail that others have ignored.

The fourth season : a Sandra Mahoney mystery. Dorothy Johnston

When the body of young female environmental activist and science student, Laila Fanshaw, is found floating in Lake Burley Griffin, private investigator Sandra Mahoney's life is turned upside down, not least because her partner, Ivan, was in love with Laila. It takes all of Sandra's ingenuity and courage to steer herself, and her family, through the dangers that lead to an eventual unmasking of the truth.

The white tower. Dorothy Johnston

Niall Howley had been spending a lot of time playing an interactive computer game when he is found dead at the bottom of the Telstra tower in Canberra. His death mimics a death scripted in the game and his mother calls in computer crime consultant Sandra Mahoney to help her understand what really happened.

Shylock's daughter : a novel of love in Venice. Erica Jong

A modern-day actress finds herself transported back in history and into the arms of a passionate young bard in Erica Jong's sensuous spin on Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Originally published as Serenissima, Erica Jong's Shylock's Daughter is a magical tale set in a magical city's wonderfully imaginative and delightfully uninhibited love story that transcends time.

The Bread Classroom Kang Liang

Packing up : further adventures of a trailing spouse. Brigid Keenan

Brigid Keenan was a successful young London fashion journalist when she fell in love with a diplomat and left behind the gilt chairs of the Paris salons for a large chicken shed in Nepal. Now, in her further adventures, we find Brigid in Kazakhstan, where AW, her husband, contracts Lyme disease from a tick, the local delicacy is horse meat sausage and Brigid's visit to a market leads to a full-scale riot from which she requires a police escort.

Smoke portrait. Trilby Kent

It's 1936. Glen Phayre writes letters to a Belgian prisoner which are received instead by teenager Marten Kuypers, who replies to Glen in the guise of the grown-up prisoner she expects to hear from. Gradually they come to depend on each other, and their pen friendship proves to be crucial when events in their real lives take on a darker, more threatening turn in the shadow of the impending world

Stones for my father. Trilby Kent

Corlie Roux's farm lfe in South Africa is not easy but she finds comfort in her friend Sipho, and in Africa itself and in the stories she creates for her brothers. But Corlie's world is about to vanish: the British are invading and driving Boer families like hers are rounded up and sent to internment camps. Will Corlie's strength and devotion to her country sustain her through the suffering and misery she finds in the camp at Kroonstad? That may depend on a soldier from faraway Canada and on inner resources Corlie never dreamt she had…

How to fight Islamist Terror from the missionary position. Tabish Khair

Funny and sad, satirical and humane, this novel tells the interlinked stories of three unforgettable men whose trajectories cross in Denmark: the flamboyant Ravi, the fundamentalist Karim, and the unnamed and pragmatic Pakistani narrator. As the unnamed narrator copes with his divorce, and Ravi falls deeply in love with a beautiful woman who is incapable of responding in kind, Karim, their landlord, goes on with his job as a taxi driver and his regular Friday Qur'an sessions. But is he going on with something else? When a “terrorist attack” takes place in town, all three men find themselves embroiled in doubt, suspicion, and, perhaps, danger.

The thing about thugs. Tabish Khair

In a small Bihari village, Captain William T. Meadows finds just the man to further his phrenological research back home: Amir Ali, confessed member of the infamous Thugee cult. With tales of a murderous youth redeemed, Ali gains passage to England, his villainously shaped skull there to be studied. Only Ali knows just how embroidered his story is, so when a killer begins depriving London's underclass of their heads, suspicion naturally falls on the "thug." With help from fellow immigrants led by a shrewd Punjabi woman, Ali journeys deep into a hostile city in an attempt to save himself and end the gruesome murders.

The good life. Susan Kietzman

Between workouts, charity events and shopping Ann Barons keeps her days as full as her walk-in closets. She shares an immaculate house with her CEO husband, Mike, and their two teenagers, Nate and Lauren - which is why Ann is wary when her elderly parents ask to move in temporarily. Ann prepares in the way she knows best - but nothing can prepare her for the transformations ahead.

Recipes and dreams from an Italian life. Tessa Kiros

Tessa Kiros celebrates the heritage of the country she has chosen to call home. With accessible, delicious recipes ranging from robust family dishes to quirky cakes and old-fashioned sauces and preserves, this book is a precious heirloom for today.

My Crazy Century Ivan Klâima

Czech writer Ivan Klima masterfully recounts, first, what it was like for him as a Jewish child confronting with his family the inhumanities of the Theresienstadt concentration camp situated at the edge of their hometown, Prague. Then, more fully, he painstakingly recalls what it was like for him and his countrymen after the Nazi thugs were driven out by the Soviet Army and replaced for four decades by the Communist thugs.

Newspaper blackout. Austin Kleon

Presents a collection of poetry constructed using a newspaper and permanent marker, including sections on how the author got started, how to make a newspaper blackout poem, and contest winners.

Steal like an artist : 10 things nobody told you about being creative. Austin Kleon

Offers advice and encouragement to help readers foster creativity and be artistically productive in a wide variety of endeavours.

A heartbeat away. Harry Lee Kraus

Even with her success as a respected surgeon, Tori finds herself alone in her moment of desperation - dying on her own operating table. Tori needs a heart transplant, but what she receives is far more than just a donor organ. Tori experiences flashes of terrifying events she never witnessed. Soon she leaves her controlled world and starts investigating a homicide only she believes happened. Is she hallucinating? Or will someone believe her in time to stop a murderer from killing again?

The elves and the shoemaker Jim LaMarche

A poor shoemaker becomes successful with the help of two elves who finish his shoes during the night.

Sui shen er mo = The passing years. Lanziqinhui

Equal affections. David Leavitt

Family matriarch Louise Cooper, mother of gay siblings April and Danny, suffers one medical malady after another, while Nat, her computer scientist husband, enjoys a long-term affair on the side. As Louise's condition deteriorates, tensions mount and family members attempt to define and justify their conflicting feelings.

My Paris kitchen : recipes and stories. David Lebovitz

A collection of stories and 100 sweet and savoury French-inspired recipes from Chez Panisse pastry chef turned popular food blogger David Lebovitz, reflecting the way modern Parisians eat today and featuring lush photography taken around Paris and in David's Parisian kitchen.

Zi Bali yi lu nan xia = Way south from Paris. Lei Lei

The last bride. Beverly Lewis

Set in Amish country's beloved fictional Hickory Hollow, Tessie Miller, the youngest of her Old Order parents' five daughters, followed her heart, and the unthinkable has happened. Will she find a reason for hope, in spite of her desperate plight?

Secret places : Deep Hiking Adventure in Xinjiang Li Jingyang

Afanti Story: COMIC 1 Li Qiang

Afanti Story : COMIC 2 Li Qiang

Afanti Story : COMIC 3 Li Qiang

Afanti Story : COMIC 4 Li Qiang

Afanti Story : COMIC 5 Li Qiang

Afanti Story : COMIC 6 Li Qiang

Afanti Story : COMIC 7 Li Qiang

Afanti Story : COMIC 8 Li Qiang

Afanti Story : COMIC 9 Li Qiang

Afanti Story : COMIC 10 Li Qiang

The extra fourteen Li XiMin

Practical business English course. Primary. Li Yuping

Practical business English course. Advanced. Li Yuping

Wake wealth around : full-activate your relationships. Li Zhifei

Gui qiang : chang pian xuan yi xiao shuo = Soul shooter. Ximin Li

Hao nu = Good women. Ximin Li

Excellent compositions of new Chinese modules. Grade three. Liao Hong

Diggers go. Steve Light

Come to the construction site and read about the eight construction vehicles that rumble and boom their way through this book.

Trains go. Steve Light

Trains grumble, roar, and squeak their way through this board book.

Trucks go. Steve Light

Seven popular vehicles grumble, roar, and crunch their way through this very simple, graphically appealing book. Perfect for the young truck enthusiast.

Legends Robert Littell

Struggling with disjointed memories about his past identities with the CIA, former field agent turned private detective Martin Odum wonders if he can trust his CIA psychiatrist and struggles to retain a hold on his sanity.

A nasty piece of work. Robert Littell

Former CIA agent Lemuel Gunn left the battlefield of Afghanistan for the desert of New Mexico, where he works as a private investigator from the comforts, such as they are, of a mobile home. Into his life comes Ornella Neppi, a thirty-something woman making a hash out of her uncle's bail bonds business. Emilio Gava, was arrested for buying cocaine, jumped bail and now she's about to pay the price for it. Curiously, no photographs of Gava seem to exist. And once Gunn begins his search, for $95 a day plus expenses, it becomes unclear whether Gava even existed in the first place.

The Stalin epigram. Robert Littell

A riveting, fictional rendering of the life of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century - and one of the few artists in Soviet Russia who daringly refused to pay creative homage to Joseph Stalin.

Young Philby. Robert Littell

A work of suspense based on true-life historical characters imagines the early years and long-time Russian allegiance of double agent Kim Philby, whose 1963 defection from Britain's intelligence service to Moscow exposes the Cambridge Five double agents and raises innumerable questions about his ideals.

Home herbal : cultivating herbs for your health, home and wellbeing. Maureen Little

A wealth of easy-to-follow advice and achievable projects on: cultivating and using herbs for your health, first-aid, wellbeing and beauty; growing and using herbs to enhance your surroundings and living spaces; how to grow, harvest, dry and look after your herbs; the best designs for your herb garden space; and a comprehensive A to Z of first-aid, cosmetic and household herbs.

The kitchen herb garden Maureen Little

This is a herb book with a difference. It shows you how to grow and use your own fresh, home-grown, kitchen herbs throughout the gardening year. In a really user-friendly format, it follows the changing seasons to provide guidance, inspiration and practical advice on cultivating a kitchen herb garden, in whatever space you have available.

Ni zao gai cheng wei man hua gao shou Mei shao nu = You should have become a master of comic girl papers. Liu Gang

The sea of bath. Bob Logan

A sleepy old seafarer navigates a mysterious sea! Join him as he explores the curious sites on his voyage.

Bizarre London : discover the capital's secrets & surprises. David Long

A fascinating tour of London's strangest and most intriguing locations. Ranging from architectural evidence of past incidents and stories of life beneath the city, to anecdotes of magic, mystery, and murder, this is a perfect companion for anyone curious about London.

Hidden city : the secret alleys, courts & yards of London's Square Mile. David Long

To a great degree the real London - the fascination of extraordinary goings-on during its long history, of famous Londoners past and present, and of some of its finest and most diverse architectural treasures - is often to be found not in its more famous streets and squares but in the small and obscure places which so many of us simply miss. David Long uncovers these forgotten locations and brings to life their fascinating history in his own inimitable style.

Spectacular vernacular : London's 100 most extraordinary buildings. David Long

Lifting the lid on London, Spectacular Vernacular reveals the stories behind its 100 strangest and most enigmatic buildings.

Tunnels, towers & temples : London's 100 strangest places. David Long

Tunnels, Towers & Temples takes a sideways look at London, revealing the hidden stories, curious histories and sometimes comic associations behind dozens of often quite familiar places.

Sylvia Long's Thumbelina. Sylvia Long

A girl no bigger than a thumb is stolen by a toad and subsequently has many adventures and makes many animal friends, before finding the perfect mate in a warm and beautiful southern land.

Twinkle, twinkle little star. Sylvia Long

Cherished for nearly two centuries, the traditional lullaby "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" continues to send children off to dreamland. In this tenderly illustrated edition of the classic rhyme, award-winning artist Sylvia Long touches the hearts of reader yet again.

The remedy. M. R. Lovric

One unforgettable night in 1785, in a theatre in Drury Lane, the heady alchemy of love and murder suddenly fuses the lives of Mimosina Dolcezza, a Venetian actress, and Valentine Greatrakes, prince of London's medical underworld.

Carnevale. Michelle Lovric

Richly imagined and as irresistible as its magical setting, Carnevale evokes the three great loves of the painter Cecilia Cornaro: Casanova, Byron and La Serenissima herself.

The floating book. Michelle Lovric

1468. The young brothers Wendelin and Johann von Speyer make the tortuous journey across the Alps to the fabled city of Venice. There, in a fondaco on the edge of the Grand Canal, they introduce the spark and tinder of a cultural revolution: Gutenberg's movable type. Across the canal, a beautiful yet heartless Dalmatian woman named Sosia Simeon is making her mark on the city, driven by a dark compulsion to steal pleasure with men from all walks of life. Before long, a love triangle develops.

Yinshencao de mimi = The secret of concealing grass. Ping Luo

Angela Nicely. Alan MacDonald

Angela might look like she's made of sugar and spice and all things nice, but nothing could be further from the truth! Angela knows best! Whether it's trying to succeed as a top model, proving that her head teacher wears a wig, or finding herself out of her depth on a spa weekend, she's determined to make a splash!

Arrrrgh! Slimosaur! Alan MacDonald

Iggy is excited as he sets off with Dad on his first hunting trip. More so when they find a set of footprints too large even for a mammoth. Alongside are a heap of bones and a pool of slime the colour of egg white. Iggy wants to hunt the creature, but Dad is suddenly anxious to get back. Later, Iggy's Grumma tells him about the Slimosaur - a great scaly beast which coats you in slime before devouring you in one go.

Booom! Alan MacDonald

Old Grumbly, a massive volcano that looms over the Urk valley, has begun to rumble and many Urks fear The End of the World is nigh. They agree that the only way to avoid catastrophe is for someone to climb the volcano and make an offering to the ancestors.

Burp! Alan MacDonald

Bertie drags a reluctant Whiffer to dog training classes, stink-bombs his sister's sleepover and rebels against Miss Beansprout's all-new healthy school dinners.

Crackers! Alan MacDonald

Join Bertie for three comically chaotic Christmas stories as he makes his very own Christmas crackers, performs in the school nativity play and has to dress up as an elf to help out at Santa's Grotto.

Ditherus Wart, accidental gladiator. Alan MacDonald

Euuuugh! Eyeball stew! Alan MacDonald

Iggy discovers a young member of the Henna tribe lost in the jungle. The girl is wearing some rare and precious firestones, which mesmerise the Urks, especially Borg, who devises a new and devious plot to become Chief Urk.

Fangs! Alan MacDonald, illustrated by David Roberts

Join Bertie as he attempts to reveal grumpy Mr Grouch as a vampire, finds himself modelling the latest catwalk fashions and gets a serious scare-cut at the barbers.

Fleas Alan MacDonald, illustrated by David Roberts

Three wickedly funny stories featuring a flea-ridden Whiffer the dog, a naughty dare at school and a shiny red fire engine.

Honesty Wart, witch hunter Alan MacDonald, illustrated by Mark Beech

Life for Honesty and his sisters Mercy and Patience is not a bundle of laughs. His family are strict Puritans and singing, dancing and anything that sounds like fun is forbidden. Life, Honesty thinks, can't get much worse when Christmas is cancelled by order of the government. But he is wrong - the real problem is Gran who has one tooth, a hooked nose, a very hairy chin and a pet toad called Merlin.

Mud! : stinky stories Alan MacDonald, illustrated by David Roberts

Join Bertie in three hilarious new stories as he faces a barrage of footballs as the school's new goalie, battles to stay clean for the school photographer and has a spookily terrifying sleepover.

Oi, caveboy. Alan MacDonald

Iggy is different from the rest of his tribe, the Urks. He's always daubing on the walls of his cave or coming up with infuriating new ideas. According to his dad: "We don't need new ideas - we have plenty of old ones." Iggy's latest invention is a primitive scootalong or Stone Age skateboard.

Ouch Alan MacDonald, illustrated by David Roberts

Dirty Bertie - the boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits - is back for another helping of comic chaos! Join Bertie as he comes a cropper in A&E, goes swimming without his trunks, and takes part in an inter-schools quiz against Poshley Primary!

Pants! Alan MacDonald, illustrated by David Roberts

Dirty Bertie's facing the shame of losing a dare with Know-All Nick and having to wear his pants at school, playing the part of the dog in the local amateur dramatic society's production of Oliver! and taking Whifferto Royston Rich's birthday party, where Whiffer leaves a very unwelcome present.

Pirate! Alan MacDonald, illustrated by David Roberts

Join Bertie as he samples life as a swashbuckling pirate, cooks up a storm in the poshest restaurant town, and teams up with Dad at the School Day in an attempt to beat Royston Rich.

Pong! Alan MacDonald, illustrated by David Roberts

Join Bertie as he attempts to bath a rather smelly Whiffer, gives Miss Boot the fright of her life on a school trip, and enjoys having a sneaky hand in the design for the new school uniform.

Sir Bigwart, Knight of the wonky table. Alan MacDonald

When King Eggnog rashly offers the hand of his daughter Princess Miranda in marriage, Sir Bigwart sets out on a daring quest with his faithful squire Toby in tow - to bring back a tooth of the Ogre of Ghastly Fell.

Snow! Alan MacDonald

Join Bertie as he takes on the challenge of beating Know-all Nick in a sledge race, breaks a revolting world record, and changes the course of history during a battle re-enactment.

Worms! Alan MacDonald

Three brilliantly funny stories featuring Bertie trying to get out of a pink party, Bertie trying and failing to be polite for a whole day and a really rubbish entry into the summer fair's flower arranging competition.

Yuck! Alan MacDonald

The world's grubbiest trouble-magnet strikes again! In Yuck!, Bertie devises a new scheme for making filthy lucre, has a sickly time at the fairground and manages to teach a toddler her first word: Bum!

Spork. Kyo Maclear

His mum is a spoon, his dad is a fork, and he's a bit of both: he's Spork, a utensil who just doesn't seem to fit into the regimented world of the cutlery drawer, and this is his "multi-cutlery" tale, a humorous commentary on individuality and tolerance, that capture the experience and emotions of all who have ever wondered about their place in the world.

50 Harbor Street. Debbie Macomber

Corrie McAfee and her husband, a private investigator, solve a mystery from their past, while their daughter Linette moves back home and opens a new medical clinic and finds unexpected romance.

Caroline's child. Debbie Macomber

Who's the father of Caroline Daniels's child? Everyone in town wants to know, but no one's ever asked - or ever will. The people of Promise are protective of Caroline and five-year-old Maggie. They care. Especially rancher Grady Weston, who's beginning to realize he more than cares….

Country bride. Debbie Macomber

Luke Rivers was a man of his word. He'd agreed to marry Kate Logan - but she knew it was only out of pity. Only because she'd been so devastated when Clay Franklin, the man she'd always loved, married someone else. Worse, he told Kate she didn't love Clay, she loved HIM.

Dr. Texas. Debbie Macomber

They call her Dr. Texas. She's Jane Dickinson, a newly graduated physician from California who's working at the Promise clinic - but just for a couple of years. They call him Mr. Grouch. Cal Patterson was left at the altar by his out-of-state fiancée, and he's not over it yet. Too bad Jane reminds him so much of the woman he's trying to forget!

A little bit country. Debbie Macomber

Rorie Campbell has a pleasant, predictable life in San Francisco, where she's seeing a pleasant, predictable man. Then her car breaks down on vacation and a handsome horse rancher comes to her rescue. A handsome -- and already engaged horse rancher.

Navy brat. Debbie Macomber

Erin MacNamera, the headstrong daughter of a career navy man, determined early that she would never fall for a navy man, until handsome Lieutenant Brandon Davis showed up and she found that resisting him was not as easy as she thought.

The assistant. Bernard Malamud

Frank Alpine, a drifter fleeing from his past, runs straight into struggling Brooklyn grocer Morris Bober. Seeing a chance to atone for past sins, Frank becomes Bober's assistant and keeps shop when the owner takes ill. But it is Bober's daughter, Helen, who gives Frank a real reason to stay around, even as he begins to steal from the store.

The fixer. Bernard Malamud

Kiev in 1911. When a twelve-year-old Russian boy is found stabbed to death, his body drained of blood, the Jews are accused of ritual child murder. Yakov Blok, a handyman, is blamed and then arrested and imprisoned without indictment. As the accusations against him mutate and multiply and public involvement intensifies his suffering, acquittal comes to seem as terrifying as conviction.

Bird box. Josh Malerman

Something is out there … something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from. Five years late, living in an abandoned house near the river, Malorie has long dreamed of fleeing to a place where her family might be safe. But the journey ahead will be terrifying: twenty miles downriver in a rowboat - blindfolded - with nothing to rely on but Malorie's wits and the children's trained ears. One wrong choice and they will die. And something is following them.

Susan Mallery's Fool's Gold cookbook Susan Mallery

Celebrate the seasons with the folks from Fool's Gold. New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery invites you to taste the local cuisine of her beloved fictional town and share in a year's worth of deliciously seasonal recipes. You'll also find favourite recipes from popular characters in the series, such as: Heidi's Arugula, Corn and Cherry Tomato Salad with Goat Cheese ; Liz's Spaghetti for the Girls ; Denise's Summer Berry Pie.

The first true lie. Marina Mander

'They always tell you that you shouldn't tell lies, but without lies I'd already be in an orphanage. This, in any case, is my first true lie'. Luca and his mum are like two peas in a pod in their special, fragile world. Then, one winter morning his mother doesn't wake up. Luca goes along to school every day, pretending everything is as it always has been. But he returns home every night to a cold, dark house. So he begins to build a protective bubble with the memories of his mother, the words and stories he so loves and his cat Blue against the truth on the other side of the bedroom door.

One love Cedella Marley, illustrated by Vanessa Newton.

This heart-warming picture book adapted from one of Bob Marley's most beloved songs brings the joyful spirit and unforgettable lyrics of his music to life for a new generation.

Quick & easy paleo comfort foods Julie and Charles Mayfield

Lose inches while enjoying pan-seared steak? Restore your health and boost your energy through chipotle mashed sweet potatoes and sautéed Brussels sprouts? Absolutely.

A girl is a half-formed thing. Eimear McBride

This incredible debut novel tells, with astonishing insight and in brutal detail, the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour. Touching on everything from family violence to sexuality and the personal struggle to remain intact in times of intense trauma, McBride writes with singular intensity, acute sensitivity and mordant wit.

At home with Modern June : 27 sewing projects for your handmade lifestyle. Kelly McCants

Whether you're moving into a new home, launching a home makeover, or just sprucing up a room, this book provides plenty of ideas on how to infuse individuality into every room in the house.

Like my mother always said : wise words, witty warnings, and odd advice we never forget. Erin McHugh

Offered up in quips and short anecdotes, all the kinds of nurturing and nutty information we glean from our mothers is divided into chapters such as Questionable Wisdom, Unconditional Love, Good Manners & Bad Behavior, and Wise Words.

The Dalai Lama's cat. David Michie

In her exotic home, the Dalai Lama's cat encounters Hollywood stars, Buddhist masters, Ivy-league professors, famous philanthropists, and a host of other people who come visiting His Holiness. This title discovers how instead of trying to change the world, changing the way we experience the world is the key to true contentment.

The Dalai Lama's cat and the art of purring. David Michie

Before leaving for a teaching tour to America, the Dalai Lama poses a challenge to his beloved feline, HHC (His Holiness's Cat): to discover the true cause of happiness. Little does she know what adventures this task will bring!

The gilded edge. Danny Miller

1965. Vince Treadwell investigates the seemingly unrelated murders of a playboy aristocrat from Belgravia and a young black nurse from the wrong side of town. As he digs deeper, Vince finds himself embroiled in a world of espionage and corruption, where the underworld mixes easily with the aristocracy, and no one is innocent.

Kiss me quick. Danny Miller

Set in Brighton over the bank holiday weekend of 1964, an ambitious and handsome young detective named Vince Treadwell is sent down to solve a murder and catch the elusive and powerful gangster, Jack Regent. In the tangled web of the crime, Vince falls for Jack's beautiful girlfriend, Bobbie LaVita, and discovers the truth about their own dark pasts.

Excellent compositions of new Chinese modules. Grade four. Min Qun

Shadow of the rock. Thomas Mogford

A humid summer night in Gibraltar. Lawyer Spike Sanguinetti arrives home to find an old friend, Solomon Hassan, waiting on his doorstep. Solomon is on the run. A Spanish girl has been found with her throat cut on a beach in Tangiers and he is accused of her murder.

Sign of the cross. Thomas Mogford

A domestic dispute has escalated into a bloodbath. When his uncle and aunt are found dead, Spike Sanguinetti must cross the Mediterranean to Malta for their funerals, leaving the courtroom behind. But the more he learns about their violent deaths, the more he is troubled by one thing: what could have prompted a mild-mannered art historian to stab his wife before turning the knife upon himself?

More bears! Kenn Nesbitt

Talented poet Kenn Nesbitt's picture book debut will have you laughing while shouting "More Bears!" along with the story's disruptive audience.

Wei nu shi er nian = Twelve years as a slave. Solomon Northup

Black powder war. Naomi Novik

After their fateful adventure in China, Captain Will Laurence of His Majesty's Aerial Corps and his extraordinary dragon, Temeraire, are waylaid by a mysterious envoy bearing urgent new orders from Britain. Three valuable dragon eggs have been purchased from the Ottoman Empire, and Laurence and Temeraire must detour to Istanbul to escort the precious cargo back to England. Yet disaster threatens the mission at every turn.

Blood of tyrants. Naomi Novik

Shipwrecked and cast ashore in Japan with no memory of Temeraire or his own experiences as an English aviator, Capt. William Laurence finds himself tangled in deadly political intrigues that threaten not only his own life but England's already precarious position in the Far East.

Crucible of gold. Naomi Novik

For Laurence and Temeraire, put out to pasture in Australia, it seems their part in the war has come to an end just when they are needed most. Newly allied with the powerful African empire of the Tswana, the French have occupied Spain and brought revolution and bloodshed to Brazil, threatening Britain's last desperate hope to defeat Napoleon. So the British government dispatches Arthur Hammond from China to enlist Laurence and Temeraire to negotiate a peace with the angry Tswana, who have besieged the Portuguese royal family in Rio and as bait, Hammond bears an offer to reinstate Laurence to his former rank and seniority as a captain in the Aerial Corps.

Empire of ivory. Naomi Novik

Laurence and Temeraire made a daring journey across vast and inhospitable continents to bring home a rare Turkish dragon from the treacherous Ottoman Empire. Kazilik dragons are firebreathers, and Britain is in greater need of protection than ever, for while Laurence and Temeraire were away, an epidemic struck British shores and is killing off her greatest defence - her dragon air force is slowly dying. The dreadful truth must be kept from Napoleon at all costs.

Temeraire Naomi Novik

Captain Laurence is a satisfied man with a respectable commission aboard the ship Reliant. Months before the battle of Trafalgar, on patrol in the Atlantic, The Reliant takes a small French frigate, storm-damaged and possessing a fierce crew unwilling to surrender as easily as they should. On board Laurence finds a dragon egg - a great prize as England is in sore need.

Throne of jade. Naomi Novik

Captain William Laurence of the British Air Corps and his dragon, Temeraire, begin their slow voyage to China, fearful that upon landing they will be forced to part by Imperial decree. Temeraire is a Celestial dragon, the most highly-prized of all draconic breeds; famed for their intelligence, agility and most of all for the Divine Wind - their terrible roar capable of shattering the heavy timbers of war ships, shattering woodland and destroying other dragons mid-flight.

Tongues of serpents. Naomi Novik

Convicted of treason despite their heroic defence against Napoleon's invasion of England, Temeraire the dragon and his friend and rider, Capt. Will Laurence, are transported to the prison colony in Australia. They carry with them three dragon eggs intended to help establish a covert in the colony.

Victory of eagles. Naomi Novik

It is a grim time for the dragon Temeraire. On the heels of his mission to Africa, seeking the cure for a deadly contagion, he has been removed from military service - and his captain, Will Laurence, has been condemned to death for treason. Separated by their own government and threatened at every turn by Napoleon's forces, Laurence and Temeraire must struggle to find each other amid the turmoil of war and to aid the resistance against the invasion before Napoleon's foothold on England's shores can become a stranglehold.

Financial management : interest is the king. Jermaine O'Neal

The man who loved dogs. Leonardo Padura

The story of Ramon Mercader, the assassin of Trotsky. Moving seamlessly between Cuba where Mercader lived out the last years of his life, Mercader's early years in Spain and France, and Trotsky's long years of exile, it is the story of revolutions fought and betrayed, the ways in which men's which men's political convictions are continually tested and manipulated.

The ADHD handbook : what every parent needs to know to get the best for their child. Stuart Passmore

'The ADHD Handbook' draws on the most up-to-date research from around the world to present a comprehensive look at ADHD, covering everything from how it is diagnosed to the common myths surrounding what causes it, from the brain anatomy implicated in the disorder to the pros and cons of the various types of medication, and from the most effective psychotherapies to the best parenting techniques.

The earl. Denise Patrick

During a magical childhood summer, a gypsy woman gave Lady Amanda Cookeson a black panther statuette, promising that the man who came to claim it would also claim her heart. If he wasn't the last of his line, Jon Kenton, Earl of Wynton, wouldn't marry at all, however, he is compelled to search for the statuette his great-grandmother promised him. Amanda is perfect countess material: lovely, admirable and - he thinks - statueless. Their passion is unquenchable… until the gypsy magic Jon thought he'd buried nearly destroys his future with Amanda.

Family scandals. Denise Patrick

Lord Marcus Waring married Corinna Houghton with the best of intentions - to protect her should anything happen to her brother while both he and Marcus are serving in India. News that his wife has died in a carriage accident stabs him with regret, but with no reason to question the report, he extends his stay until another near-scandal brings him home - eight years after his secret marriage.

The importance of Almack's. Denise Patrick

In Regency England, lineage and vouchers to Almack's are everything, but Pamela Clarkdale has neither. Kitt Covington has sworn off Almack's and marriage but knowing he caused Pamela to be thrown out of her home, he proposes a sham betrothal between them to ease his conscience. When the twenty-year-old web of lies and deceit begins to unravel, will Pamela and Kitt discover that Almack's isn't really that important after all?

The marquis. Denise Patrick

Lady Christina Kenton's life is turned upside down when her gypsy great-grandmother gives her a pendant, along with a deathbed request - Tina must promise to marry only the man wearing its mate. But Tina cannot bring herself to make the promise, for her late stepfather has already pledged her hand to his long-absent heir. Jay Collings, now the Marquis of Thanet, returns to England after an eighteen-year absence to honour a promise to a gypsy who once aided him, only to discover he must break his vow in order to secure his inheritance.

The scarred heir. Denise Patrick

Just two more months and Sarah Standish will be twenty-one and free to come out of hiding. Not long ago she was on the brink of marrying the man of her dreams - until she discovered his complicity with her uncle's plan to gain control of her missing father's substantial fortune. A wounded man appears at the inn where she lives under an assumed name, and she's shocked to discover it's her would-be groom.

Clucky in the Garden of Mirrors. Mar Pavón

The clumsy and clueless Clucky decides to take her three chicks camping in the magical Garden of Mirrors. There, her children discover a thrilling surprise: when they look into the crystal lake, they see the image of their father who lives far away.

Clucky the hen. Mar Pavón

Though clumsy and sometimes clueless, Clucky is a sympathetic and loving hen. Her three chicks love her unconditionally and would not trade her for the world; but when a malicious rumour begins to circulate in the henhouse, the chicks' understanding and compassion are at stake.

The crusades of Cesar Chavez : a biography. Miriam Pawel

Cesar Chavez founded a labour union, launched a movement, and inspired a generation. He rose from migrant worker to national icon, becoming one of the great charismatic leaders of the 20th century. Two decades after his death, Chavez remains the most significant Latino leader in US history. Yet his life story has been told only in hagiography - until now. In the first comprehensive biography of Chavez, Miriam Pawel offers a searching yet empathetic portrayal.

The unlikely settler. Lipika Pelham

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seen by an outsider who craves to make sense of herself, her marriage, and the city she lives in. The Unlikely Settler is a young Bengali journalist who moves to Jerusalem with her English-Jewish husband and two children. As she tries to navigate the complexities and absurdities of daily life in Jerusalem, often with hilarious results, Pelham achieves deep insights into the respective woes and guilt of her Palestinian and Israeli friends.

The one-way bridge. Cathie Pelletier

Welcome to Mattagash, the last town in the middle of the northern Maine wilderness. The road dead-ends here, but Mattagash's citizens are fiercely proud. Yet this simple town connected by a single one-way bridge is anything but tranquil. While neighbours bicker publicly over trivialities such as offensive mailbox designs and gossip about suspicious newcomers, they privately struggle to navigate deeper issues - scandals, loss, failed ambitions, the scars of war… and a mysterious dead body in the woods.

Taiwan in the Eyes of the Mainland's Reporters Peng Yu Bing

Kumar's family cookbook. Lunch. Kumar Pereira

At the request of his sons, Kumar Pereira created beautiful handwritten and illustrated recipes for them to cook from while he and his wife were away from home. When friends saw these lovely handcrafted designs they wanted copies too, of course, and Kumar would recreate them as gifts.

The edible atlas : around the world in thirty-nine cuisines Mina Holland

The Edible Atlas is a book for intrepid cooks. Mina Holland explores what and why people eat as they do across the world, demystifying the flavours, ingredients, techniques and dishes at the heart of thirty-nine different cuisines.

Ren li zi yuan guan li = Human resource management Qiao Rui, Fan Zhiyong zhu ban

Liu li sui = The broken glass. Qingyu

The man who never returned. Peter Quinn

Judge Joe Crater's disappearance in 1930 spawned countless conspiracy theories and captured the imagination of a nation caught in the grip of the Depression. Fifteen years later, Fintan Dunne, the detective encountered in Quinn's novel Hour of the Cat, recently retired and bored, answers a summons to New York where he is asked to solve the old case for a newspaper magnate only interested in making a profit from the story.

Around India in 80 trains. Monisha Rajesh

In 1991 Monisha and her family uprooted from Sheffield to Madras in the hope of making India their home again. But fed up with soap-eating rats, severed human heads, paying bribes, and the creepy colonel across the road, they soon returned to England, determined never to go back again. But twenty years later, Monisha takes a page out of Jules Verne's classic tale, turns to a map of the Indian railways and embarks on an adventure around India.

Jin he huan ai ren = Acacia lover. Ranko

"—And that's when it fell off in my hand". Louise Rennison

The fifth instalment of Geogia Nicholson's humourous diaries, in which Robbie the Sex God has gone off to Kiwi-agogo land, leaving Georgia all alone, on her lonely.

Are these my basoomas I see before me? Louise Rennison

Ohmygiddygodspyjamas! The tenth marvy book in the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson is here! Get ready to laugh like a loon on loon tablets.

Dancing in my nuddy-pants : further confessions of Georgia Nicolson. Louise Rennison

Phoned Jas. "Jas?" "Oui." "Do you ever get the urge?" "Pardon?" "You know, to flow free and wild." She was thinking. "Well, sometimes, when Tom and I are alone in the house together?" "Yes?" "We flick each other with flannels." "Jas, you keep talking on the telephone and I will send out for help." "It’s good fun? what you do is?" "Jas, Jas, guess what I am doing now?" "Are you dancing?" "Yes, I am, my strange little pal. But what am I dancing in?" "A bowl?" "Jas, don’t be silly. Concentrate. Try to get the image of me flowing wild and free." "Are you dancing in? your PE knickers?" "Non? I am DANCING IN MY NUDDY-PANTS!!!" And we both laughed like loons on loon tablets.

It's OK, I'm wearing really big knickers. Louise Rennison

Fourteen-year-old Georgia continues her diary in which she records her misadventures trying to reclaim the attention of seventeen-year-old Robbie, while coping with her friends, family, and dog-like cat Angus at the same time.

'Luuurve is a many trousered thing--' : fab new confessions of Georgia Nicolson. Louise Rennison

Sound the Cosmic Horn! Georgia Nicolson's 8th book of confessions are here!

"…Startled by his furry shorts!" : fab new confessions of Georgia Nicholson. Louise Rennison

Teenager Georgia continues her diary entries as she searches for the perfect boyfriend among the sexy Italian Masimo, the fun-loving Dave, and her ex-love Robbie.

Stop in the name of pants! : fab new confessions of Georgia Nicolson. Louise Rennison

"…Then he ate my boy entrancers" : more mad, marvy confessions of Georgia Nicholson. Louise Rennison

“Shut up. Go on then, tell me your plan.” “OK, this is it: when I go to Hamburger-a-gogo land - you come with me! Do you see? We will be like Thelma and Louise!” “We’re not called Thelma and Louise.” “I know that, I’m just saying we will be LIKE THEM!” “And we’re not American. And neither of us can drive.” “Oh dear God. Jas, your spaceship has arrived. Please get in." Laugh your knickers off at Georgia’s tales from her trip to Hamburger-a-gogo land (the US) and her attempts to entice Masimo, the Italian stallion.

Withering tights : the misadventures of Tallulah Casey. Louise Rennison

The misadventures of Tallulah Casey! Hilarious new series from Queen of Teen - laugh your tights off at the (VERY) amateur dramatic antics of Talullah and her bonkers mates. Boys, snogging and bad acting guaranteed!

66° north. Michael Ridpath

Iceland 1934: Two boys playing in the lava fields that surround their isolated farmsteads see something they shouldn't have. Iceland 2009: the credit crunch bites. Grassroots revolution is in the air, as is the feeling that someone ought to pay… ought to pay the blood price. And in a country with a population of just 300,000 souls, in a country where everyone knows everybody, it isn't hard to draw up a list of exactly who is responsible. Iceland 2010: As bankers and politicians start to die, at home and abroad, it is up to Magnus Jonson to unravel the web of conspirators before they strike again. But while Magnus investigates the crimes of the present, the crimes of the past are catching up with him.

Edge of nowhere. Michael Ridpath

Iceland, midwinter: detective Magnus Jonson has been sent to an isolated fishing village in the West Fjords to investigate the possible homicide of a road construction worker. The locals are adamant that Iceland's legendary huldufolk - hidden people - had a hand in the death. Magnus finds their superstition suspicious.

Fire and ice anthology : Where the shadows lie Michael Ridpath

Where the Shadows Lie: Amid Iceland's wild, volcanic landscape, rumours swirl of an eight-hundred-year-old manuscript inscribed with a long-lost saga about a ring of terrible power. A rediscovered saga alone would be worth a fortune, but, if the rumours can be believed, there is something much more valuable about this one. Something worth killing for. Something that will cost Professor Agnar Haraldsson his life. Untangling murder from myth is Iceland-born, Boston-raised homicide detective Magnus Jonson.

Meltwater Michael Ridpath

Operation Meltwater: FreeFlow, a group of internet activists committed to the freedom of information have video evidence of a military atrocity in the Middle East and have chosen Iceland as their HQ while they prepare to unleash their greatest coup on the world's media. On the glacial rim of erupting volcano Eyjafjallajokull, they christen their endeavour Operation Meltwater. Minutes later, in the steam and mist, one of them is murdered. Magnus Jonson has a long list of suspects but he's getting precious little help from FreeFlow for an organisation dedicated to the transparency of information, they're a secretive bunch.

Sea of stone. Michael Ridpath

Oli and Magnus Jonson spent years trying to escape from the shadows of the brutal violence they endured at the hands of their grandfather. When Constable Pall Gylfason gets a dispatch call to investigate a suspected homicide in a remote farmstead, he is surprised to find that Detective Magnus Jonson is already at the scene. Magnus identifies the dead man as his estranged grandfather. Before long, Magnus is arrested for the murder of his grandfather. When it emerges that his younger brother, Oli, is in Iceland after two decades in America, Pall begins to think that Magnus may not be the only family member in the frame for murder…

Traitor's gate. Michael Ridpath

Conrad de Lancey has seen enough of evil: the shadow of fear on the faces of innocents; the roar of tanks through empty streets; the sudden lull before the slaughter begins. Arriving in his mother's country, the now Nazi Germany, Conrad is sick at heart. When Conrad is arrested by the Gestapo on suspicion of spying, he is rescued an old friend, now a lieutenant of the Wehrmacht. Together they are drawn into a world of danger and deceit, of plots, paranoia and intrigue where the brave few are united by a single ambition: to free the Fatherland from the Fuhrer.

Where the shadows lie. Michael Ridpath

Amid Iceland's wild, volcanic landscape, rumours swirl of an ancient manuscript containing a long-lost saga about a ring of terrible power. The manuscript, which is believed to have inspired Tolkein's Lord of the Rings, exists… but why is it worth killing for? Untangling murder from myth is Iceland-born, Boston-raised homicide detective Magnus Jonson.

Autism solutions. Ricki G. Robinson

Provides proven solutions for parents to help maximize their autistic child's health and well-being, and covers such issues as developing creative solutions and communication.

It takes two to tangle. Theresa Romain

Henry Middlebrook is back from fighting Napoleon, ready to re-enter London society where he left it. Wounded and battle weary, he decides that the right wife is all he needs. Young and beautiful, war widow Frances Whittier is no stranger to social intrigue.

Season for scandal. Theresa Romain

Jane Tindall’s gifts are more subtle: a mind like an abacus, a talent for play-acting - and a daring taste for gambling. But all the daring in the world can't help with the cards fixed against her. And when Edmund Ware, Baron Kirkpatrick, unwittingly spoils her chance to win a fortune, is her reputation ruined too?

Season for surrender. Theresa Romain

Alexander Edgware, Lord Xavier, has quite a reputation - for daring, wagering, and wickedness in all its delightful forms. But the wager before him is hardly his preferred sport: Xavier must persuade a proper young lady to attend his famously naughty Christmas house party - and stay the full, ruinous two weeks.

Season for temptation. Theresa Romain

Julia Herington is overjoyed when her stepsister, Louisa, becomes engaged - to a viscount, no less. But with his wry wit and unconventional ideas, Julia feels James is perfect for Louisa. She can only hope to find a man like him for herself. Exactly like him, in fact. As the new Viscount Matheson, James wished to marry quickly and secure his title. Kind, intelligent Louisa seemed a suitable bride … until he met her stepsister.

Call it dog. Marli Roode

Jo returns to South Africa after ten years in the UK to cover the riots sweeping the Jo'burg township of Alex. Nico, her estranged Afrikaner father, reappears and asks her to help prove his innocence in the murder of a black man abducted by the security forces decades earlier. As they set off on a road trip, Jo begins to wonder whether she is his accomplice, or his captive.

The Auschwitz escape. Joel C. Rosenberg

As World War II rages and Hitler begins implementing his "final solution" to systematically and ruthlessly exterminate the Jewish people, Jacob Weisz must rely on his wits and a God he's not sure he believes in to somehow escape from Auschwitz and alert the world to the Nazi's atrocities before Fascism overtakes all of Europe.

Divergent. Veronica Roth

In the world of Divergent, society is divided into five factions - Candor, Abnegation, Dauntless, Amity and Erudite. Every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice Prior, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is. Her choice shocks everyone, including herself.

The colour of heaven. James Runcie

A romantic historical quest set in Renaissance Florence and China surrounding the search for ultramarine. Runcie presents the fictional account of artist and adventurer Paolo de Fiesole who travelled to China with Marco Polo and returned with lapis lazuli.

The discovery of chocolate. James Runcie

A young Spaniard sets off for South America in 1518 with Cortez and the Conquistadors in search of a treasure for his love that no man or woman has ever seen, but instead falls in love with a native woman who gives him a magical chocolate elixir.

A dream come true. Chloe Ryder

It's Sports Day on the magical island of Chevalia and, although desperate to watch, Pippa knows that she and Princess Stardust have a more important task. Pippa has helped her Princess Pony to find one precious horseshoe, but time is running out and seven are still missing.

The disinherited : a story of family, love and betrayal. Robert Sackville-West

In the small hours of the morning of 3 June 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. The man, Henry Sackville-West, had shot himself minutes after the death of his wife from cancer; but Henry's suicidal despair had been driven equally by the failure of his claim to be the legitimate son of Lord Sackville and heir to Knole.

Club sandwich. Lisa Samson

Ivy Schneider runs an ad in the paper to find folks like herself: women of the 'sandwich generation' squeezed between the demands of raising young children and caring for an aging parent. Soon she and the other women of Club Sandwich are building uncommonly deep friendships, witnessing the reality that in fact no woman can be everything to everybody.

He jiang ting : he jiang pavilion. Sasa

The brain-dead megaphone. George Saunders

Saunders' first foray into nonfiction is comprised of essays on literature, travel, and politics. At the core of this unique collection are his travel essays based on his trips to seek out the mysteries of the Buddha Boy of Nepal.

The brief and frightening reign of Phil. George Saunders

Citizens waiting to enter the country of Inner Horner, a strange land that is only large enough for one resident at a time, fall prey to the tyrannical rule of the ambitious and power-hungry Phil, igniting an outbreak of injustice and mass hysteria, in an unusual novel by the author of Pastoralia.

Home. George Saunders

Family Snapshots gives us a fresh, empathetic and moving insight into the meaning of family.

Devils in the sugar shop. Timothy Schaffert

The lives of a failed erotic novelist, a hostess of prim marital-aid parties, an artist and bookshop owner - all members of the artsy crowd in Omaha, Nebraska - collide one snowy winter evening, the week before Valentine's Day. During an extravagant evening of wildly innocent sex parties, wives and lovers plot to hold onto their families, friendships, and personal lives and may only be saved by their own children, a timely fire, and perhaps a return to their senses.

The singing and dancing daughters of God. Timothy Schaffert

Newly divorced and feeling the pain of separation from his family, Hud Smith channels his regret into writing country-western songs, contemplating life on the lam with his 8-year-old daughter, and searching cryptic postcards for news of his teenage son who has run off with The Daughters of God, an alternative Gospel-punk band of growing fame. Then he finds himself inching toward reconciliation with his ex, tossing his whole talent for misery into question as they head off in a borrowed school bus, hoping so very tentatively to bring the entire family together again.

The giraffe's neck. Judith Schalansky

Adaptation is everything. Inge Lohmark is well aware of that: after all, she's been teaching biology for more than thirty years. In this dwindling town in the eastern German countryside, there are fewer and fewer children. Their daughter, Claudia, emigrated to the United States years ago and has no intention of having children. When Inge finds herself experiencing intense feelings for a ninth-grade girl, her biologically determined worldview is shaken. And in increasingly outlandish ways, she tries to save what can no longer be saved.

Bright before sunrise. Tiffany Schmidt

Jonah and Brighton are about to have the most awkwardly awful night of their lives. For Jonah, every aspect of his new life reminds him of what he has had to give up. All he wants is to be left alone. Brighton is popular, pretty, and always there to help anyone, but has no idea of what she wants for herself.

The Norway Room. Mick Scully

Meet Ash, thirteen years old, saying goodbye to his father before he goes to serve a stretch in prison. His dad's friend Kieran helps get rid of social services and then school's out for ever. But when his father's house begins to fill with stolen goods and armed gangsters, it's easy for Ash to get into trouble.

Broken verses. Kamila Shamsie

Fourteen years ago, famous Pakistani activist Samina Akram disappeared. Two years earlier, her lover, Pakistan's greatest poet, was beaten to death by government thugs. In present-day Karachi, her daughter Aasmaani has just discovered a letter in the couple's private code - a letter that could only have been written recently.

A god in every stone. Kamila Shamsie

July, 1915. Qayyum Gul is returning home after losing an eye at Ypres, his allegiances in tatters. Viv is following the mysterious trail of her beloved. They meet on a train to Peshawar, unaware that a connection is about to be forged between their lives - one that will reveal itself fifteen years later, on the Street of Storytellers, when a brutal fight for freedom, an ancient artefact and a mysterious green-eyed woman will bring them together again.

In the city by the sea. Kamila Shamsie

Hasan is eleven years old. One early summer morning, while lazing happily on the roof, Hasan watches a young boy flying a yellow kite fall to his death. Soon after, Hasan's idyllic, sheltered family life is shattered when his beloved uncle Salman, a dissenting politician, is arrested and charged with treason.

Kartography. Kamila Shamsie

Soul mates from birth, Karim and Raheen finish one another's sentences, speak in anagrams and lie spine to spine. They are irrevocably bound to one another and to Karachi, Pakistan. As the years go by, a barrier of silence is built between them, until they are eventually brought together.

Salt and saffron. Kamila Shamsie

Aliya may not have inherited her family's patrician looks, but she is as much a prey to the legends of her family that stretch back to the days of Timur Lang. Like salt and saffron, which both flavour food but in slightly different ways, it is the small, subtle differences that cause the most trouble in Aliya's family. The family problems and scandals caused by these minute differences echo the history of the sub-continent and the story of Partition.

Du LiangYe's mood for love. Shen CangMei

Back to back to see the love : high school students reading for the soul story. Sheng Deng Yu

Make a flower friend. Sheng Deng Yu

The mind of high school students reading for the story and life retractor life volume. Sheng Deng Yu

Garden. Lorena Siminovich

Turn the pages to find the baby animals matched with their parents, and learn some early concepts along the way.

The boat cookbook : real food for hungry sailors. Fiona Sims

For anyone with a tiny galley kitchen, there's good news: no more bland leftovers aboard. These delicious and easy recipes, all made with minimum fuss and maximum flavour, will allow you to spoil yourself in harbour and keep things simple at sea - not to mention rustle up a mean rum punch.

Bear and bird. James Skofield

An old bear and a young bird become friends and spend several years together until the bear's death. The young bird is comforted by memories of their time together

Trying not to try. Edward G. Slingerland

We've long been told that the way to achieve our goals is through careful reasoning and conscious effort, but recent research suggests that many aspects of a satisfying life are best pursued indirectly. The early Chinese philosophers knew this, and they wrote extensively about how we can achieve wu-wei (ooo-way) - an effortless, spontaneous way of being in the world.

It ends with revelations. Dodie Smith

During a summer festival in an English spa town Miles Quentin, a distinguished actor, and his devoted wife become friendly with the local MP Geoffrey Thornton, and his young daughters Robin and Kit. This leads to an unconventional love story in which loyalty may prove more important than love.

Little known facts : a novel. Christine Sneed

The people who orbit around actor Renn Ivins long to experience the glow of his flame. His children are both drawn to and repelled by the man who overshadows every part of them. This novel offers a clear-eyed story of the fallout of fame and fortune on family members and others who can neither fully embrace nor ignore the superstar in their midst.

Portraits of a few of the people I've made cry. Christine Sneed

The ten stories in this debut collection examine the perils of love and what it means to live during an era when people will offer themselves, almost unthinkingly, to strangers.

Weird files, Volume 1: Emotion Series Sou YiZhe

Weird files, Volume 2 : Emotion Series Sou YiZhe

Night boat. Alan Spence

At the foot of Mount Fuji amidst curls of incense smoke Iwajiro chants the Tenjin Sutra, an act of devotion learned from his mother. On the side of the same mountain, twenty years on, he will sit in perfect stillness as the summit erupts. This man will become Hakuin, one of the greatest teachers in the history of Zen.

The pure land. Alan Spence

The year is 1858. Thomas Glover is a restless young man who takes a posting as a trader in Japan. Within ten years he amasses a great fortune, learns the ways of the samurai and helps overthrow the Shogun. His love affair with a courtesan would form a tragedy so dramatic as to be immortalised in the story of Madame Butterfly. The Pure Land relives in fiction the arc of Glover's true-life rise and fall, and forges a hundred-year saga that culminates in the annihilation of Nagasaki in 1945. The novel spans the feudal and the atomic ages, East and West, global history and private passion.

Lillipilly hill Eleanor Spence, illustrated by Susan Einzig.

Harriet loved her new home in Australia, but not so her mother, Mrs Wilmot and her dainty sister Rose-Ann. In the face of the difficulty of the harsh land and the ever present threat of bush rangers it seemed almost certain that Mr. Wilmot would be persuaded to take them back to England, but Harriet, determined to stay, sets about establishing the family so completely in the Barley Creek community that they would no longer want to leave.

The story of before. Susan Stairs

On New Year's Eve, eleven-year-old Ruth and her brother and sister sit at a bedroom window, watching the garden of their new Dublin home being covered in a thick blanket of snow. Ruth declares that a bad thing will happen in the coming year - she's sure of it.

Bride gone bad. Sabine Starr

Not many people can keep a secret from Lucky Devereaux. He's a triple threat of outlaw, treasure hunter, and Native American mystic. But something in Tempest Templeton's beautiful, heartbroken eyes intrigues him, and he's determined to unravel the mystery.

How Asia works : success and failure in the world's most dynamic region. Joe Studwell

This is a provocative look at what has worked and what hasn't in East Asian economics. Joe Studwell explores how policies ridiculed by economists created titans in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, and are now behind the rise of China, while the best advice the West could offer sold its allies in south-east Asia down the economic river.

Life radius : worldly wisdom of life. Sun Jianhua

The most happiest day. Sun YouJun

Stringer : a reporter's journey in the Congo. Anjan Sundaram

In the powerful travel-writing tradition of Ryszard Kapuscinski and V.S. Naipaul, a haunting memoir of a dangerous and disorienting year of self-discovery in one of the world's unhappiest countries.

Bad influence. William Sutcliffe

Ben and Olly are best friends, and it's Ben who tells the story of what happened that autumn, starting at the end of the summer holidays: how Carl moved into the street and everything changed forever. Carl was different: he talked back to adults, skipped school and played with knives and matches.

The wall. William Sutcliffe

Joshua is a troubled boy who lives with his mother and stepfather in a divided city, where a wall and soldiers separate two communities and the rubble-strewn residue of their broken world gives hints of the old life before the wall was built. An act of kindness from a girl saves his life, but leads to a brutal act of cruelty and a terrible debt he's determined to repay. And no one, no one must find out that he's been there or the consequences will be unbearable.

Whatever makes you happy. William Sutcliffe

Matt is a serial dater. Paul is an experienced hand at lying to keep his life choices a secret from his mother. Daniel spends his Saturday nights alone in his flat reading novels, pining for his ex-girlfriend. Their mothers decide to launch a co-ordinated attack: they will arrive, without warning, to man-handle them back onto the right path.

Yi ge ren zou shi jie : da xue 4 nian 200 cheng de lu xing = A person walking world : four years of university 200 city travel. Renli Tang

A cat in the window : tales from a Cornish flower farm. Derek Tangye

The second title in the Minack Chronicles, this tells in more detail the story of Derek and Jeannie's beloved ginger cat Monty. From the first moment Derek, who was not until then a cat-lover, met a tiny bundle of fur with Jeannie, through to the pet's old age when he would still walk down to the stream to make 'Monty's Leap', this is a touching story of friendship between two people and their cat.

A donkey in the meadow : tales from a Cornish flower farm. Derek Tangye

The fourth title in the Minack Chronicles tells the story of how Derek and Jeannie acquired two donkeys, Penny and Fred. From the first steps and learning all about donkey foibles, through to picnics in the meadows, this is a further charming instalment in the tales of the Tangye's life at Minack

A drake at the door : tales from a Cornish flower farm. Derek Tangye

The third title in the Minack Chronicles, which tell the story of how Derek and his wife Jeannie left behind their London home to establish a flower farm on the coast of Cornwall. This book takes a closer look at some of the animals who shared the Tangye's home and surroundings, especially Boris, the Muscovy duck.

A gull on the roof Derek Tangye, sketches by Jean Tangye

The first title in the Minack Chronicles, which tell the story of how Derek and his wife Jeannie left behind their London home to establish a flower farm on the coast of Cornwall. From inauspicious beginnings, this book includes tales of the couple's first animals, including Monty the ginger cat, and takes us through trials and tribulations until the arrival of a gull on the roof provides the first augury of better times to come.

Busy bunny days : in the town, on the farm & at the port. Britta Teckentrup

The Bunny family has a busy and exciting day on a family outing in town, on a farm, and at the port.

Run home, little mouse. Britta Teckentrup

Little Mouse must cross the dark woods to get home. But there are many dangers lurking. Can Little Mouse find his family? Or will he be caught by the bright-eyed creatures hiding along the way?

Dear sunflower. Teng Yu

Afro-vegan : farm-fresh African, Caribbean, and southern flavors remixed. Bryant Terry

A groundbreaking cookbook from beloved chef-activist Bryant Terry, drawing from African, Caribbean, Southern, Afro-Brazilian, Afro-Asian, and Afro-Cuban food to create 100 enticing vegan recipes.

Where do camels belong? : the story and science of invasive species. Ken Thompson

Where do camels belong? In the Arab world may seem the obvious answer, but they are relative newcomers there. This is a classic example of the contradictions of 'native' and 'invasive' species, a hot issue right now, as the flip-side of biodiversity. Ken Thompson puts forward a fascinating array of narratives to explore what he sees as the crucial question - why only a minority of introduced species succeed, and whether our fears could be getting in the way of conserving biodiversity, and responding to the threat of climate change.

Gu shi li de shi = Story thing : the best looking small novel of contemporary artists. Hongbo Tian

Wen wu bei hou de Zhongguo li shi = Chinese historical relics behind. Lu Tian

Micro History: The Different Perspectives of the Opium War Ma Mi Ting

Reboot Amy Tintera

Wren 178 is the deadliest Reboot in the Republic of Texas. Now seventeen years old, she serves as a soldier for HARC (Human Advancement and Repopulation Corporation). Wren's favourite part of the job is training new Reboots, but her latest newbie Callum is the worst she's ever seen - practically human. His reflexes are too slow, he's always asking questions, and his ever-present smile is freaking her out. When Callum refuses to follow an order, Wren is given one last chance to get him in line - or she'll have to eliminate him.

Xin bian yu yan 365 = Children make progress every day : new parables. Chengji Tong

Mary Poppins. P. L. Travers

When the Banks family advertise for a nanny, Mary Poppins and her talking umbrella appear out of the sky, ready to take the children on extraordinary adventures. Mary Poppins is strict but fair, and soon Michael and Jane are whisked off to a funfair inside a pavement picture and on many more outings with their wonderful new nanny.

Animals. Emma Jane Unsworth

Laura and Tyler are two young women who have been tearing up the city streets for ten years, leaving a trail of angry drug dealers and spent men in their wake. Tyler wants to keep the party going, but Laura is torn between the constant temptations provided by her best friend and the promise of a calmer life on the horizon.

Tommy's war : the Western Front in soldiers' words and photographs. Richard Van Emden

For the first time ever the soldiers' experiences of the First World War are recorded in their own words and pictures. Shortly after images of the famous Christmas Truce of 1914 found their way into national newspapers in Britain, the military authorities banned the private use of cameras on the Western Front. A considerable number of soldiers continued to use them illicitly to record life and death in the front line trenches.

Chinese culture creative operation course for 3-4 years old. Two. Wang Du Xia

Chinese culture creative operation course for 4-6 years old. One. Wang Du Xia

Chinese culture creative operation course for 4-6 years old. Two Wang Du Xia

Chinese culture creative operation course for 6-7 years old. One. Wang Du Xia

Chinese culture creative operation course for 6-7 years old. Two. Wang Du Xia

Kunlun Midao : Formulating an Appropriate hiking adventure notes Wang Tie Nan

Jiu xing ren ge : fa xian zui hao de zi ji = Enneagram : find the best of themselves. Lichuan Wang

The ghost of the trenches : and other stories for the First World War Helen Watts & Taffy Thomas

As the Great War raged, and in its aftermath, people created hundreds of legends and stories round it, to speak of the sadness, the heroism, the deaths. Author Helen Watts and storyteller Taffy Thomas bring together this compelling, moving collection of ghost stories and mysteries from both sides of the conflict, from the haunted U-boat to the ghost of the trenches.

One day in Oradour Helen Watts

On a hot summer afternoon in 1944, SS troops wiped out an entire French village of 644 men, women and children. Just one child survived. This book tells the story of what happened in Oradour, and imagines what drove both the SS officer who ordered the massacre, and the seven-year-old boy who escaped it.

Bill for the use of a body. Dennis Wheatley

The opening of the story is macabre; a Japanese father regarding the severed head of his son which had been sent to him in a box. Of that, the lovely half-English, half-Chinese Merri Sang knew nothing, neither did Julian Day nor Bill Urata, both of whom were head over heels in love with her; but the father's thirst for revenge brought all three of them into deadly peril.

The launching of Roger Brook. Dennis Wheatley

Brook, in 1783, is setting out to seek his fame and fortune. In doing so he becomes involved in the secrets of French foreign policy, i.e. a spook. While not quite yet a 007, he shows all the signs of becoming one.

The shadow of Tyburn Tree. Dennis Wheatley

The Shadow of Tyburn Tree tells the story of Roger Brook - Prime Minister Pitt's most resourceful secret agent - who, in 1788, is sent on a secret mission to the Russia of that beautiful and licentious woman Catherine the Great. Chosen by her to become her lover, Roger is compelled to move with the utmost care, for if it was known that he was spying for two countries he would meet certain death.

The sword of fate. Dennis Wheatley

September 1939 - 27 April 1941. In the battle-scarred days of 1940 Julian Day finds himself in Alexandria - in a whirlpool of intrigue and spy-rings. Driven by conflicting loyalties, he sets sail for Greece and the ill-starred campaign of 1941, and, determined to sheath the Sword of Fate, he journeys into the heart of enemy-held territory.

Kuai le wang zi = The happy prince. Oscar Wilde

The Happy Prince: Kuai le wang zi Oscar Wilde

Boy and man. Niall Williams

It continues the journey of the boy Jay as he volunteers in Ethiopia and leaves the world of adolescence behind. In keeping with the magic of Boy in the World and following in the tradition of Dickensian storytelling, Boy and Man, comes together like a masterful jigsaw.

Boy in the world. Niall Williams

Draws us into life in a village in Ireland where a boy is growing up and making his first steps to becoming a man. When his guardian gives him a letter from his long-dead mother, he learns that his father is not dead. This book presents the tale of this young boy trying to find his way in a changing world.

John. Niall Williams

A lyrical reimagining of John the Apostle in the final years of his life.

The death of the poet. N. Quentin Woolf

John Knox falls passionately and irrevocably in love with Rachel McAllistair the first time they meet. She is abusive and cruel and yet he stays. Even when she does something so awful that his life is changed forever. And that point, on which his life turns, leads him to an unexpected connection with a man who suffered a terrible injury in the First World War.

Learning Methods and Thinking Skills That Smart Children Around the World Are Using Wu Dongmei

Chinese History: The First Decade of the Cultural Revolution, Volume 1 Xiao DongLian

Chinese History: The First Decade of the Cultural Revolution, Volume 2 Xiao DongLian

Every place has red ash Xie Xiaohe

Ting Kanaiji jiang xing fu : rang nu ren xing fu yi sheng de 24 tang ke = Carnegie's outlook on happiness. Yuanzhen Xie

In the search of lost childhood. Xu Lu

Tears on canvases. Xu Lu

Where the geese fly to. Xu Lu

She jian shang de zhi hui : shuo hua zhe jian shi hen zhong yao = Wisdom on the tongue it is important to speak. Wenying Xu

Tu shuo can yin guan li = Illustrated restaurant management. Xue yong gang

Listen to paradise. Xuexiao Kang

Dream big, little pig! Kristi Yamaguchi

Poppy is a waddling, toddling pig with big dreams. She wants to be a star! But she soon discovers that's not as easy as it sounds.

Zhe ge he shang you dian meng : Yancan fa shi ren sheng dui hua lu = This monks is adorable : the life dialogues of Master Yancan. Fa shi Yancan

Sri Lanka train Yang Yu

Lao zu zong chuan xia lai de yu er zhi hui = The parenting wisdom of ancestors. Xiang Yi

Primary school students reading ancient poetry Chen Yi, Xu GengYun.

One, two, buckle my shoe : a counting nursery rhyme. Salina Yoon

The familiar nursery rhyme teaches counting from one to ten.

Who do I see? Salina Yoon

Who Do I See? is a lively guess-the-animal book that features different colours and animal patterns in a fun and instructional way. Each animal sports a pattern with a different set of colours, and young readers are invited to guess who the animal on the next page is.

Gloria. Kerry Young

Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act changes her life forever. As all around them the city convulses with political change, Gloria's desperation and striking beauty lead her to Sybil and Beryl. Sybil kindles in Gloria a fire of social justice which will propel her to Cuba and a personal and political awakening that she must reconcile with the realities of her life, her love of Jamaica and a past that is never far behind her.

Pao. Kerry Young

As a boy, Pao came to Jamaica with his mother and brother in the wake of the Chinese Civil War. Pao becomes a powerful man, but he's not a typical crime boss. He is sensitive at heart and guided by the principles of Sun Tzu's Art of War, even though, as he discovers, the wisdom of the ancient Chinese sage can be tough to interpret when applied to the criminal predicament he faces.

Excellent compositions of new Chinese modules. Grade five. Yu Xiuhong

Shi jie de naduan = The world Cabanatuan : the best looking small novel of contemporary artists. Debei Yu

Cheng ren li = Mitzvah : the best looking small novel of contemporary artists. Bingfa Yuan

Zeng guo fan jia shu = Zeng letters Zeng guo fan, dong li.

The wind runner. Zhang Guo Long

A Master Teach You How to Play Chinese Chess Zhang Mingliang

Golden Recipes for the Family Zhang Mingliang

The Home Cooking Essentials Zhang Pentium

The lover of Robert Hart. Baitian Zhao

Excellent compositions of new Chinese modules. Grade six. Zhou Gongquan

Unter den Linden the Ganges Water = A college student's trip to India : meeting with India's magical negligent unexpectedly. Zhou li qun

Mathematics for primary students. Grade five. Jiansong Zhou

Mathematics for primary students. Grade six. Jiansong Zhou

Mathematics for primary students. Grade three. Jiansong Zhou

Mathematics for primary students. Grade two weekly exercises. Jiansong Zhou

Mathematics for primary students. Grade four. Jiansong Zhou

Mathematics for primary students. Grade one weekly exercises. Jiansong Zhou

Younger next week : your ultimate guide to reverse the clock, boost energy and look and feel younger in 7 days. Elisa Zied

Acclaimed nutritionist and wellness expert Elisa Zied shows you how to jump-start weight loss, reduce stress, improve sleep, banish mood swings and love the vibrant woman you see in the mirror.

Manage their employees with this recipe. Zonqquan

961213 yu 961312 = 961213 and 961312. Zouzou

Before dark Zouzou

Qi shi ta bu gou ai ni = In fact, he is not in love with you. Zouzou