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The Darlings, Cristina Alger

Paul Ross accepts a job working on the legal team for his billionaire father-in-law's hedge fund and must determine where his loyalties lie when a scandal and a regulatory investigation threaten the family business.

The Snow Queen, H. C. Andersen

The strength of a little girl's love enables her to overcome many obstacles and free a boy from the Snow Queen's spell.

Once we were brothers, Ronald H. Balson

Once We Were Brothers is the compelling tale of two boys and a family who struggle to survive in war-torn Poland and a young love that incredibly endures through the unspeakable cruelty of the Holocaust. Two lives, two worlds, and sixty years converge in an explosive race to redemption that makes for an enthralling tale of love, survival, and ultimately the triumph of the human spirit.

Cemetery girl, David Bell

Tom and Abby Stuart had everything: a perfect marriage, successful careers, and a beautiful twelve-year-old daughter, Caitlin. Then one day Caitlin vanished without a trace. Four years later, Caitlin is found alive. She won't discuss where she was or what happened. And when Tom decides to try to uncover the truth for himself, he finds that nothing that has happened yet can prepare him for what he is about to discover.

The scandalous sisterhood of Prickwillow Place, Julie Berry

There's a murderer on the loose - but that doesn't stop the girls of St. Etheldreda's from attempting to hide the death of their headmistress in this rollicking farce.

The spymaster's lady, Joanna Bourne

She's braved battlefields. She's stolen dispatches from under the noses of heads of state. But Annique Villiers, the elusive spy known as the Fox Cub, has finally met the one man she can't outwit… British spymaster Robert Grey.

Psychic, Sylvia Browne

Psychic is a riveting account of how Sylvia Shoemaker, a traditional girl from Missouri, became world-famous psychic Sylvia Browne.

But enough about you : essays, Christopher Buckley

Christopher Buckley at his best: an extraordinary, wide-ranging selection of essays both hilarious and poignant, irreverent and delightful. Praised as "both deeply informed and deeply funny" by The Wall Street Journal, Buckley will have you laughing and reflecting in equal measure.

How the Irish saved civilization : the untold story of Ireland's heroic role from the fall of Rome to the rise of medieval Europe, Thomas Cahill

As Cahill delightfully illustrates, so much of the liveliness we associate with medieval culture has its roots in Ireland. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated.

One kick, Chelsea Cain

Kick Lannigan, abducted at age six, goes into a tailspin when a second Amber Alert in a month signals the disappearance of a child in the Portland area. That's when the enigmatic Bishop approaches her with a proposition. Little does Kick know the case will lead directly into her terrifying past.

Safe journey : prayers and comfort for frightened fliers and other anxious souls, Julia Cameron

Julia Cameron, bestselling author of "The Artist's Way," has a terrible fear of flying. In the wise and comforting volume, "Safe Journey," Cameron shares the prayers, tools, and strategies she uses when travelling in order to overcome her fears and to enjoy the excitement that accompanies all of life's great adventures.

Earth afire Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston

Traces the events of the First Formic War a century before the events of Ender's Game, following the unsuccessful attempt of Victor Delgado to warn sceptical Earth governments of an imminent alien invasion and the efforts of Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police to meet unprecedented threats.

Earth unaware Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston

The mining ship El Cavador, beyond Pluto, detects a fast-moving incoming object headed toward Earth. The crew decides it's probably not important, but they're wrong: it represents the opening wave of the first Formic War.

The Innocence of Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton

Father Brown's powers of detection allow him to sit beside the immortal Holmes, but he is also "in all senses a most pleasantly fascinating human being," according to American crime novelist Rufus King.

Rusty nailed, Alice Clayton

The sequel to Wallbanger, this story follows Simon and Caroline as they navigate being in a relationship, renovating a house, changes in their professional lives, and the rollercoaster of relationships with their friends.

Screwdrivered, Alice Clayton

By day, Viv Franklin is a tough-as-nails software engineer who designs programs and loves hospital corners. By night, Vivian's a secret romance-novel junkie. When a phone call brings news that she's inherited a beautiful old home in Mendocino, California, she moves her entire life across the country to embark on what she sees as a great, romance-novel-worthy adventure. But romance novels always have a twist, don't they?

Fear itself, Andrew Clements

Time is ticking as the countdown to Ben Pratt's school's total demolition continues. Ben has been given a handful of clues that could help them save the school, but they are all written in maritime riddles. It's hard to know where to begin when Ben and Jill don't even know what they are looking for.

In harm's way, Andrew Clements

Benjamin Pratt and his friends Jill and Robert want to save their school from destruction! Just when it seems they've finally gotten the upper hand over that awful Janitor Lyman, they're caught off guard by his next move: Lyman has called in reinforcements, and now Benjamin, Jill, and Robert find themselves dodging not one evil janitor, but two.

We hold these truths, Andrew Clements

The Keepers of the school - known to their friends as Ben, Jill, and Robert - have one last chance to save their school before it's torn down to make room for a seaside amusement park. But their nemeses, janitors Lyman and Wally, are just as determined to keep the kids out of the way and the demolition on schedule. One way or the other, this battle is about to come to a head.

We the children, Andrew Clements

The Boston area has been hit hard by a new wave of commercialization, and now, C. Robinson Fetchley, a shady developer, is planning to make history by breaking ground for his tenth entertainment mega-park - but he needs to get his hands on the Duncan Oakes School first. Young Benjamin Pratt is one of those rare middle schoolers who already knows what he wants to do in life: he wants to be an historian. And, right now, the only thing he likes about his educational experience is Oakes School itself. Then, one day at school Ben discovers a parchment scroll written by three students in 1791. They call themselves The Keepers of the School and it turns out, the 18th century keepers are not the only secret groups that have existed at Oakes School.

The whites of their eyes, Andrew Clements

This time next year, Ben might not be able to stand in the yard of the Oakes School and watch the harbour shake off winter. If the school gets torn down and replaced by an amusement park, the town will never be the same. But Ben and Jill are determined to keep that from happening. And the evil janitor Lyman has taken note.

Hard choices, Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Clinton's candid reflections about the key moments during her time as Secretary of State, as well as her thoughts about how to navigate the challenges of the 21st century.

Dark Skye, Kresley Cole

Though centuries have past since Thronos, Lord of Skye Hall, lost the one woman meant for him, nothing can cool his never-ending need for Melanthe. Lanthe, a once-powerful sorceress struggling to reclaim her gifts, searches for love and acceptance with all the wrong immortal suitors. With their families at war and the world burning around them, will they succumb to the brutal chaos that threatens everything they cherish? Or can the two rekindle their childhood love in time?

Robert B. Parker's Blind spot, Reed Farrel Coleman

Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone investigates the murder of a young woman and the kidnapping of a young man from a wealthy family, only to find connections to his own troubled past.

England's Lane, Joseph Connolly

Winter, 1959. Three married couples: each living in England's Lane, each with an only child, and each attending to family and their livelihoods: the ironmonger, the sweetshop owner and the butcher. Each of them hiding their lies, coping in the only way they know how.

Must love dogs, Claire Cook

Ready to put her divorce behind her, Sarah Hurlihy is not sure where she's headed, or if she'll survive the journey. It takes a few wrong men - and some tangles with a Saint Bernard -before Sarah appreciates the riotous ride she's on.

Rutherford Park, Elizabeth Cooke

For the Cavendish family, Rutherford Park is much more than a place to call home. It is a way of life marked by rigid rules and lavish rewards, governed by unspoken desires. Meanwhile, below stairs, a housemaid named Emily holds a secret that could undo the Cavendish name.

Pre-emptive love : pursuing peace one heart at a time, Jeremy Courtney

In the middle of the Iraq War, Jeremy and Jessica Courtney found themselves with their two children caught up in the turmoil, just hoping to make a difference. After an encounter with a father whose little girl was dying from a heart defect, they began to investigate options for helping and learned that untold thousands of children across Iraq were in similar need, waiting in line for heart surgery in a country without a qualified heart surgeon.

The madman of Piney Woods, Christopher Paul Curtis

Benji and Red couldn't be more different. They aren't friends. They don't even live in the same town. But their fates are entwined. A chance meeting leads the boys to discover that they have more in common than meets the eye. Both of them have encountered a strange presence in the forest, watching them, tracking them.

Cancel the wedding, Carolyn Dingman

A heartfelt tale of one woman's journey to discover the secrets of her mother's hidden past and confront her own uncertain future, this compelling, emotionally resonant novel about the frustrations of blood ties will appeal to fans of Emily Giffin and Jennifer Weiner.

Sorry, Zoran Drvenkar

Kris, Tamara, Wolf, and Frauke are four young friends running an agency called Sorry. Unfair dismissals, the wrongly accused, jilted lovers: everyone has a price and the Sorry team will find out what that is. But what they didn't count on is that their latest client would be a killer.

Styx and stones, Carola Dunn

Unflappable flapper Daisy Dalrymple’s brother-in-law, Lord John Frobisher, has received letters threatening to reveal secrets which can ruin him completely. Daisy travels to his Kent village and is soon on the hunt for a killer whose vicious pen matches a murderous heart.

There was an old woman, Hallie Ephron

A novel of psychological suspense, in which a young woman returns to the quirky Bronx riverfront neighbourhood where she grew up, only to find that her mother's house has become a hoarder's nest. As Evie digs into the events of the past few months, a bigger, more sinister story begins to unfold.

The psychopath inside, James H. Fallon

James Fallon had spent an entire career studying how our brains affect our behaviour when his research suddenly turned personal. While studying brain scans of family members, he discovered that his own showed a pattern he'd found in the brains of serial killers. Fallon’s discoveries ultimately lead to his conclusion that humans are even more complex than we can imagine.

The terror dream, Susan Faludi

In this original examination of America's post-9/11 culture, journalist Faludi shines a light on the country's psychological response to the attacks of that terrible day. Turning her observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, Faludi unearths a barely acknowledged societal drama shot through with baffling contradictions.

The third man factor : the secret to survival in extreme environments John Geiger

The Third Man Factor is an extraordinary account of how people at the very edge of death often sense an unseen presence beside them who encourages them to make one final effort to survive. Bestselling and award-winning author John Geiger has completed six years of physiological, psychological, and historical research on the Third Man. He blends his analysis with compelling human stories.

Everything and nothing, Araminta Hall

Ruth and Christian are - just - holding their marriage together, after Christian's disastrous affair a year ago. But chaos beckons, and when the family are suddenly left without any childcare, Agatha comes into their lives to solve all their problems. But Agatha is not as perfect as she seems and her love for the children masks a deeper secret.

The storyteller's Nashville, Tom T. Hall

The legendary country music songwriter known as the Storyteller delivers the genre's most bracing, hilarious, and unique memoir, bringing to life long-gone characters from Nashville's streets and bar-rooms and detailing his one-of-a-kind journey in music.

Ham : slices of a life : essays & stories, Sam Harris

The performer and first winner of Star Search presents a collection of essays about friendship, the celebrity life, and getting sober, exploring such subjects as growing up gay in America's Bible belt and attending Liza Minnelli's wedding.

The finest type of English womanhood, Rachel Heath

It's 1946, and seventeen-year-old Laura Trelling is stagnating in her dilapidated Sussex family home. Then she meets Paul Lovell - a chance encounter that will bring her a new life in pre-apartheid South Africa. Three years earlier, and many miles north, sixteen-year-old Gay Gibson's heart is set on stardom - but first she must find a way out of Birkenhead and the dreary prospect of secretarial college. When their paths cross in Johannesburg, Laura is exposed to Gay's wild life of parties and liaisons. Thrown together, each with her own agenda, the girls find their lives inextricably entangled, with fatal consequences.

Nobody's child, Libby Fischer Hellmann

A bloodstained note left for PI Georgia Davis reveals the shocking existence of a half-sister she never knew about. Her sister, Savannah, is pregnant and begging for Georgia's help. Determined to track her down, Georgia finds herself heading deep into the secretive and dangerous underworld of Chicago's illegal sex trafficking business.

Skink - no surrender, Carl Hiaasen

Carl Hiaasen debuts his first book for teens with Skink - No Surrender. Classic Malley - to avoid being shipped off to boarding school, she takes off with some guy she met online. Poor Richard - he knows his cousin's in trouble before she does. Wild Skink - he's a ragged, one-eyed ex-governor of Florida, and enough of a renegade to think he can track Malley down. With Richard riding shotgun, the unlikely pair scour the state, undaunted by blinding storms, crazed pigs, flying bullets, and giant gators.

Fortune's daughter, Alice Hoffman

Rae, unmarried and pregnant, is alone. Lila is older, happily married, a fortune-teller and unable to cease mourning for the baby she was forced to give up for adoption many years ago. They meet in Southern California during the earthquake season - the time when unexpected things happen.

Sgt. Reckless : America's war horse, Robin Hutton

Operation Paperclip : the secret intelligence program that brought Nazi scientists to America, Annie Jacobsen

Details how the U.S. government embarked on a covert operation to recruit and employ Nazi scientists in the years following World War II in an effort to prevent their knowledge and expertise from falling into the hands of the Soviet Union.

The end of innocence, Allegra Jordan

Helen Windship Brooks is struggling to find herself at the world-renowned Harvard-Radcliffe University when brooding German poet Wils bursts into her life. As they fall deeply in love on the brink of WWI, anti-German sentiments mount. When Wils is called to fight for the Kaiser, Helen must decide if she is ready to fight her own battle for what she loves most.

A song for Arbonne, Guy Gavriel Kay

The matriarchal, cultured land of Arbonne is rent by a feud between its two most powerful dukes over long-dead Aelis, lover of one, wife of the other and once heir to the country's throne. To the north lies militaristic Gorhaut, whose inhabitants worship the militant god Corannos and are ruled by corrupt, womanizing King Ademar. Into this cauldron of brewing disaster comes the mysterious mercenary Blaise, whose lineage and a claim for sanctuary by his sister-in-law sets the stage for a brutal clash between the two cultures.

Blindman's bluff, Faye Kellerman

A shooting rampage at the 70-acre compound and mansion owned by shopping mall magnate Guy Kaffey leaves Kaffey, his wife and two guards dead. A plethora of suspects and motives has Decker and his colleagues looking at Guy's family, staff and business rivals. Decker's cool professionalism is thoroughly tested when a chance courtroom encounter thrusts Rina into the case and puts her in harm's way.

Blood games, Faye Kellerman

When fifteen-year-old Gregory Hesse is found dead, a single gunshot to his head, it appears to be a tragic suicide. But it's a verdict his mother refuses to accept and eventually her pleas for an inquiry are taken seriously. Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD knows only too well what secret lives teenagers live.

The Garden of Eden and other criminal delights, Faye Kellerman

This work contains a short mystery, "The Garden Of Eden", two Decker-Lazarus short mysteries: "Bull's Eye", and "A Woman Of Mystery", nine crime/mystery short stories, including "Mummy And Jack", and several short works: two stories about family relationships, including "The Luck Of The Draw", and two essays.

Hangman, Faye Kellerman

When LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker reluctantly agrees to do a big favour for old friend Teresa McLaughlin, he knows that his involvement will bring her sociopathic husband, Chris Donatti, back into his life. But then Terry goes missing and Donatti disappears, leaving their 14-year-old son Gabe behind.

Hangman, Faye Kellerman

When LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker reluctantly agrees to do a big favour for old friend Teresa McLaughlin, he knows that his involvement will bring her sociopathic husband, Chris Donatti, back into his life. But then Terry goes missing and Donatti disappears, leaving their 14-year-old son Gabe behind.

The Mercedes coffin, Faye Kellerman

A cold case turns red hot, threatening to consume everyone it touches, when a billionaire genius sees similarities between the fifteen-years-ago execution style murder of her favourite teacher, and the recent murder of a Hollywood music producer.

Murder 101, Faye Kellerman

While Rina has adapted beautifully to their new home in upstate New York, Decker is underwhelmed and frustrated. Just when he thinks he's made a mistake, Decker is called to a possible break-in at the local cemetery. Then, a student is brutally murdered. Poking into the hallowed halls of academia to find a killer, Decker and partner McAdams are drawn deep into a web of dark secrets, cold case crimes, international intrigue, and ruthless people who kill for sport.

The first family detail : Secret Service agents reveal the hidden lives of the presidents Ronald Kessler

Since publication of his New York Times bestselling book In the President's Secret Service, award-winning investigative reporter Ronald Kessler has continued to penetrate the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, breaking the story that Secret Service agents who were to protect President Obama hired prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia and revealing that the Secret Service allowed a third uninvited guest to crash a White House state dinner. Now in The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents, Kessler presents far bigger and more consequential stories that will make headlines about our nation's leaders and the agency sworn to protect them. Kessler widens his scope to include presidential candidates and former presidents after they leave the White House. In particular, he focuses on first ladies and their children and their relationships with the presidents.

The secrets of the FBI, Ronald Kessler

Gives a firsthand look at the people who run the bureau, the methods they use, the powers they wield, and the secrets they hold.

Lady Macbeth : a novel Susan Fraser King

Lady Gruadh, called Rue, is the last female descendant of Scotland's most royal line. Married to a northern lord, she is widowed while still carrying his child and forced to marry his murderer: a rising warlord named Macbeth. Among powerful warlords and their steel-games, only Macbeth can unite Scotland - and his wife's royal blood is the key to his ultimate success.

The good girl, Mary Kubica

One night, Mia Dennett enters a bar to meet her on-again, off-again boyfriend. When he doesn't show, she unwisely leaves with an enigmatic stranger. With his smooth moves and modest wit, at first Colin Thatcher seems like a safe one-night stand. But following Colin home will turn out to be the worst mistake of Mia's life.

Mambo in Chinatown, Jean Kwok

Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong grew up in New York's Chinatown, the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a noodle maker. When she lands a job as a receptionist at a ballroom dance studio, her perspective, expectations, and sense of self are transformed. As Charlie blossoms, though, her sister becomes chronically ill and Charlie is forced to try to reconcile her two worlds - Eastern and Western, old world and new - to rescue her little sister without sacrificing her newfound confidence and identity.

An empire of ice : Scott, Shackleton, and the heroic age of Antarctic science, Edward J. Larson

Seductive poison : a Jonestown survivor's story of life and death in the Peoples Temple, Deborah Layton

From Waco to Heaven's Gate, the past decade has seen its share of cult tragedies. But none has been quite so dramatic or compelling as the Jonestown massacre, in which the Reverend Jim Jones and 913 of his disciples of the Peoples Temple perished. Just six months before, Layton had narrowly escaped from Jonestown and returned to the United States with warnings of impending disaster. Layton opens up the shadowy world of cults and shows how any race, culture, or class of individuals can fall prey to their strange allure.

Ghost month, Ed Lin

Jing-nan is shocked to the core when he learns his ex-girlfriend from high school has been murdered. She was found scantily clad and shot on the side of a highway where she was selling betel nuts to passing truck drivers. Julia Huang had been the valedictorian of their high school, and the last time Jing-nan spoke to her she was enrolled in NYU's honour program, far away in New York. The facts don't add up so he does some investigating on his own. But nothing can prepare him for what he learns, or how it will change his life.

Merknushchii svet, Stuart MacBride

The patron saint of ugly, Marie Manilla

Garnet Ferrari is known for three things: her flaming red hair, a body covered in port-wine birthmarks resembling a world map, and her occasional ability to perform miracles. Her reputation brings hordes of pilgrims and a representative of the Vatican, sent to determine whether “Saint Garnet,” as she is known locally, is truly deserving of her name. Garnet, wanting nothing more than to debunk this "gift" and send these desperate souls packing, reaches back into her family's tangled past and unspools a tale of love triangles on the shores of the Messina Strait.

The prodigal son, Colleen McCullough

Holloman, Connecticut, 1969. A very rare and lethal toxin, extracted from the blowfish, is stolen from a laboratory at Chubb University and people start dying. Captain Carmine Delmonico and his team must navigate the competitive world of academic publishing. The stakes are high: an amazing art collection, a large inheritance, old and upstanding local families, a gold-digging wife, jealous relatives and a young couple's future.

Too many murders, Colleen McCullough

On a beautiful spring day in the little city of Holloman, Connecticut, home to prestigious Chubb University and armaments giant Cornucopia, chief of detectives Captain Carmine Delmonico has more pressing concerns than finding a name for his infant son: twelve murders have taken place in one day, and Delmonico is drawn into a gruesome web of secrets and lies.

Somerset, Leila Meacham

Follows the lives of two antebellum southerners, Silas Toliver and his best friend Jeremy Warwick, as they head into a new territory known as "Texas" in search of black gold.

Ruin Falls Jenny Milchman

Liz's husband, Paul, has decided that the family should visit the farm in western New York where he spent his childhood. When her children, Ally and Reed, disappear from the hotel they stop at, blind panic slides into ice-cold terror. Now she must follow the threads of a terrible secret to uncover a hidden world created from dreams and haunted by nightmares.

The age of radiance : the epic rise and dramatic fall of the Atomic Era, Craig Nelson

A riveting narrative of the Atomic Age from x-rays and Marie Curie to the Nevada Test Site and the 2011 meltdown in Japan written by the prizewinning and bestselling author of Rocket Men. Written with a biographer's passion, Craig Nelson unlocks one of the great mysteries of the universe in a work that is both tragic and triumphant.

Netherland, Joseph O'Neill

Hans - a banker originally from the Netherlands - finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. Alone and untethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard as home, Hans stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship with a charismatic and charming Trinidadian named Chuck Ramkissoon, begins to reconnect with his life and his adopted country.

The traitor's wife : the woman behind Benedict Arnold and the plan to betray America, Allison Pataki

Socialite Peggy Shippen is half Benedict Arnold's age when she seduces the war hero during his stint as military commander of Philadelphia. Peggy watches as her husband, crippled from battle wounds and in debt from years of service to the colonies, grows ever more disillusioned with his hero, Washington, and the American cause. Together with her former love and her disaffected husband, Peggy hatches the plot to deliver West Point to the British and, in exchange, win fame and fortune for herself and Arnold.

Heroes are my weakness, Susan Elizabeth Phillips

A down-on-her-luck actress reduced to staging kids' puppet shows finds herself trapped on a remote island off the coast of Maine with a sexy horror novelist who knows a dozen ways to kill with his bare hands.

Searching for perfect, Jennifer Probst

The up-and-coming matchmaking agency Kinnections is the hottest thing to hit Verily, New York - just like Kennedy Ashe, social director for the service she owns with her two best girlfriends. Kennedy creates dream dates, encourages singles to shine, and never refuses a challenge - not even her new client, Nate Ellison Raymond Dunkle, rocket scientist and nerd extraordinaire.

A fine and private place, Ellery Queen

The nine-word clue was one of nine cryptic notes that had been sent to taunt Inspector Queen and his son Ellery nine days after the murder. Nino Importuna had been obsessed with the number. Now the killer who brought a trio of gory deaths to Nino's ninth-floor penthouse at Number 99 East was camouflaging his identity in a jungle of nines and daring Ellery to find him.

A study in terror, Ellery Queen

Ellery Queen and Sherlock Holmes are the undisputed masters of analytical deduction: their talents and methods strikingly, almost uncannily, alike. Through the strange interlocking of events past and present, the two celebrated detectives meet to focus their razor-sharp intellects - and their brilliant powers of observation - on the mystery of Jack the Ripper.

Arch of triumph, Erich Maria Remarque

It is 1939. Despite a law banning him from performing surgery, Ravic, a German doctor and refugee living in Paris, has been treating some of the city's most elite citizens for two years. Forbidden to return to his own country Ravic manages to hang on, all the while searching for the Nazi who tortured him back in Germany. And though he's given up on the possibility of love, life has a curious way of taking a turn for the romantic, even during the worst of times.

Little night, Luanne Rice

Clare Burke's life took a devastating turn when she tried to protect her sister, Anne, from an abusive and controlling husband and ended up serving prison time for assault. The verdict largely hinged on Anne's defense of her spouse, all lies, and the sisters have been estranged ever since. Nearly twenty years later, Claire’s niece, Grit, turns up on her doorstep.

Diary of a mad diva Joan Rivers

In the extraordinary tradition of The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor and George Orwell's Diaries, comes an intimate and enriching glimpse into the mind of the most illuminating woman-of-letters of her generation.

Patriot acts, Greg Rucka

After surviving an ambush, bodyguard Atticus Kodiak is mistakenly identified as one of The Ten - the world's most wanted assassins.

Walking dead, Greg Rucka

Atticus, a former bodyguard, and Alena, a former assassin, lie low and live a peaceful life in Kobuleti, a secluded Georgian town. But when their neighbours are murdered, with the exception of their fourteen-year-old daughter, who has been kidnapped, Atticus vows to rescue her, taking him on a journey from Russia to the United States.

Empire falls, Richard Russo

Miles Roby, a gentle, funny loser, runs the Empire Grill and hopes one day to own it. Meantime, though, his wife has run off with his worst customer, he's anxious about his adored teenage daughter and his one-handed brother, and his incorrigible father sponges off everyone.

She landed by moonlight : the story of Secret Agent Pearl Witherington, Carole Seymour-Jones

On the night of the 22 September 1943 Pearl Witherington, a twenty-nine-year-old British secretary and agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), was parachuted into Occupied France. Agent Pearl Witherington's wartime record is unique and heroic. As the only woman agent in the history of SOEs in France to have run a network, she became a fearless and legendary guerrilla leader organising, arming and training 3,800 Resistance fighters. While male agents and Special Force Jedburghs received the DSO or Military Cross, an ungrateful country had forgotten Pearl until soon before her death in February 2008 aged 93.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer

This novel is set in 1946 and written as an exchange of letters. Readers will fall in love with the characters, in particular Juliet, who is enthralled to discover what life was like for the islanders during the war, and Dawsey, her initial correspondent from the island. When Juliet decides to visit Guernsey and the characters finally become real for her, the impact on her own life is greater than she could have imagined.

Macbeth : a fully dramatized audio production from Folger Theatre, William Shakespeare

In 1603, James VI of Scotland ascended the English throne, becoming James I of England. London was alive with an interest in all things Scottish, and Shakespeare turned to Scottish history for material. He found a spectacle of violence and stories of traitors advised by witches and wizards, echoing James's belief in a connection between treason and witchcraft.

Othello : a fully dramatized audio production from Folger Theatre, William Shakespeare

In Othello, Shakespeare creates powerful drama from a marriage between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona. Shakespeare builds many differences into his hero and heroine, including race, age, and cultural background. Yet most audiences believe the couple's strong love would overcome these differences were it not for Iago, who sets out to destroy Othello.

Kill decision, Daniel Suarez

Linda McKinney is a myrmecologist, a scientist who studies the social structure of ants. Her academic career has left her entirely unprepared for the day her sophisticated research is conscripted by unknown forces to help run an unmanned and automated drone army. Odin is the secretive Special Ops soldier with a unique insight into the faceless enemy who has begun to attack the American homeland with drones programmed to seek, identify, and execute targets without human intervention.

A bitter truth, Charles Todd

A battlefield nurse during World War I, Bess Crawford, returning to London for a well-earned Christmas leave, finds her holiday fraught with mystery and murder when she agrees to help a bruised and battered woman return to her small village in Sussex.

The confession, Charles Todd

Troubled Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge wrestles with a startling and dangerous case that reaches far into the past when a false confession from a man who is not who he claims to be leads to a brutal murder.

An unwilling accomplice, Charles Todd

World War I Battlefield nurse Bess Crawford's career is in jeopardy when a murder is committed on her watch, in this absorbing and atmospheric historical mystery from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd. She's going to solve this mysterious puzzle, but righting an injustice and saving her honour may just cost Bess her life.

The guns of August, Barbara W. Tuchman

Lucid examination of the critical moves of August, 1914 - the carefully-planned strategies, first bloody clashes, and shocking realizations of prolonged battles.

The cold song, Linn Ullmann

Tells the story of a family who when faced with tragedy must confront their guilt, their longings, and their losses.

Lisette's list, Susan Vreeland

In 1937, young Lisette Roux and her husband, Andre, move from Paris to a village in Provence to care for Andre's grandfather Pascal. Lisette regrets having to give up her dream of becoming a gallery apprentice and longs for the comforts and sophistication of Paris.

England's mistress, Kate Williams

Emma Hamilton fought her way out of dire poverty to become a fashion icon, an Ambassador's wife, a confidante of both Queen Marie Antoinette and the Queen of Naples, and the mistress of Lord Nelson, England's greatest military hero. Drawing on hundreds of previously undiscovered letters, England's Mistress follows Emma's dramatic journey from the slums of Northern England to the Royal Court of Naples, and from the brothels of St. James's to the tragedy and glory of the Napoleonic wars.

Small blessings, Martha Woodroof

Tom Putnam, an English professor at a Virginia women's college, has resigned himself to a quiet and half-fulfilled life. For more than ten years, his wife Marjory has been a shut-in whose neuroses have left her fully dependent on Tom. But change is coming whether Tom's ready or not.

The flowers of war, Geling Yan

A schoolgirl taking refuge in an American church during the Japanese invasion of Nanking witnesses the atrocities visited upon the city and its inhabitants.

Downloadable e-books

The 39 clues, Infinity ring, and Spirit animals powerpack

Available together for the first time, three novels that each launched a blockbuster series.

Australia : outback fantasies

Baby Animals in the Wild

Baby Animals on the Farm

Big, Bigger, and Biggest Trucks and Diggers

Cut these words into my stone : ancient Greek epitaphs translated by Michael Wolfe.

Offers evidence that ancient Greek life was not only celebrated in great heroic epics, but was also commemorated in hundreds of artfully composed verse epitaphs. They have been preserved in anthologies and gleaned from weathered headstones.

If I were a kid in ancient Egypt Lou Waryncia, editorial director; Ken Sheldon, editor.

Ancient Egypt is one of the most evocative cultures for young readers. This book shows them what their lives would have been like there.

I'll fly away : further testimonies from the women of York Prison edited and introduced by Wally Lamb.

For several years, Wally Lamb has run a writing workshop at the York Correctional Institution, Connecticut's only maximum-security prison for women. With I'll Fly Away, Lamb offers readers a new volume of intimate pieces from the York workshop. Startling, heartbreaking, and inspiring, these stories are as varied as the individuals who wrote them, but each illuminates an important core truth: that a life can be altered through self-awareness and the power of the written word.

Royal bridesmaids : an original anthology

A return engagement: Lady Nell Daughtry has her hands full getting her reluctant bride sister safely married to the Prince of Lautenberg. Then she learns she's paired with Robert Knightley … the fiancé who walked away.

Royal weddings

The wedding planner: Lady Margaret is proud plan the ton's most important nuptials - including that of a prince. But it's Lady Margaret who falls in love … with dashing Gaston Devilliers!

Strawberry Shortcake. Vol. 1, no. 1

In this issue Strawberry Shortcake's solution to a tropical dilemma convinces her friends that she's taking a trip to Luau Island. But in all of the excitement, the residents of Berry Bitty City forget to check their facts before they bid farewell!

A trunkful of rhymes : from Babybug

Babies and toddlers will respond joyfully to the flying ships, wobbly jelly, and jumping bullfrogs in these simple, energetic poems.

The Ultimate Minecraft Creator

The way of the wizard edited by John Joseph Adams.

Experience the thrill of power, the way of the wizard, in these thirty-two spellbinding tales, written by some of today's most magical talents.

Alphabet house Jussi Adler-Olsen ; translated from the Danish by Steve Schein.

Germany, World War II. Two English pilots are shot down and crash land behind enemy lines. The area swarming with German troops, they ditch their clothing and personal belongings and pose as German soldiers, hiding for days in soiled, bloody beds, feigning unconsciousness. But their act is too convincing and they find themselves being transferred to a mental hospital for those damaged by war.

Our ageing brain : how our mental capacities develop as we grow older Andre. Aleman

In this groundbreaking book, Andre Aleman shows that though the decline in our mental capacities begins earlier than we think, this is not such a bad thing. In fact, older people are more resistant to the effects of stress, cope better with their emotions and with complex situations, and are - generally speaking - happier than their younger counterparts.

The code of the hills Nancy Allen

To uncover the truth, she'll have to break the code of the hills … In the Missouri Ozarks, some things aren't talked about … even abuse. But prosecutor Elsie Arnold is determined to change that. When she is assigned to prosecute a high-profile incest case in which a father is accused of abusing his three young daughters, Elsie is ready to become the Ozarks' avenging angel. But as Elsie sinks her teeth into the case, everything begins to turn sour.

Let's get lost Adi Alsaid

During her cross-country adventures following the tragic death of her family, Leila touches the lives of four strangers - Hudson, Bree, Elliot, and Sonia and discovers an important truth about herself.

Missing Karin Alvtegen

Sibylla Forsenstrom doesn't exist. For 15 years she has been one of the homeless in Stockholm and takes every day as it comes. One night she charms a businessman into paying for her dinner and room. His dead body is discovered the following morning and Sibylla is the prime suspect.

Shadow Karin Alvtegen

Gerda Persson has lain dead in her apartment for three days before Marianne is called. When she arrives, she finds the apartment tidy and ordered. Gerda's life seems to have been quite ordinary. Until Marianne opens the freezer and finds it full of books, all by Axel Ragnerfeldt, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, with handwritten dedications to Gerda from the author. What story do these books have to tell, about Gerda, and more importantly about Ragnerfeldt.

Guitar notes Mary Amato

Tripp, who plays guitar only for himself, and Lyla, a cellist whose talent has already made her famous but not happy, form an unlikely friendship when they are forced to share a practice room at their high school.

Confessions of a people-smuggler Dawood Amiri

Dawood Amiri is an ethnic Hazara who, as a young man, made the fateful decision to flee the terror being inflicted on his people, and seek asylum in Australia. He arrived in Indonesia in 2010, but was eventually captured. After a long stint in detention he escaped and began working for people-smugglers to aid his fellow asylum-seekers, and to raise money for his own passage to Australia. Amiri was eventually arrested as a people-smuggler himself, after having helped gather passengers for a boat that was recklessly overloaded by his bosses and sank en route to Christmas Island, with the loss of 96 lives including two of Amiri's best friends.

The butterfly effect : how your life matters Andy Andrews

Speaker and New York Times best-selling author Andy Andrews shares a compelling and powerful story about a decision one man made over a hundred years ago, and the ripple effect it's had on us individually, and nationwide, today. It's a story that will inspire courage and wisdom in the decisions we make, as well as affect the way we treat others through our lifetime.

Emperor Pickletine rides the bus Tom Angleberger

In this final book in the series, the seventh graders of McQuarrie Middle School and their Star Wars-inspired Origami finger puppets go on a field trip to Washington, D.C., on what proves to be a very long trip full of shifting alliances, betrayals, carsickness, and sugar rushes.

The surprise attack of Jabba the Puppett Tom Angleberger

Dwight is back - and not a moment too soon - as Kellen, Sara, and the gang face a new Menace: the FunTime Educational Program. FunTime is supposed to raise students' standardized test scores. Instead, it's driving everyone crazy. The students turn to Origami Yoda for help.

Volk Piers Anthony

Volk is a serious novel of World War II and forbidden love, featuring a romance between a Nazi SS officer and his American friend's fiancee, a pacifist Quaker lady. Politically incorrect, it covers some hard truths. Not all Nazis were evil, and the allies also kept death camps. The author was in Europe as a child, deported in 1940, and raised as a Quaker, so has some basis to address the subjects.

Hypothermia Arnaldur Indriason

One cold autumn night, a woman with a history of depression is found hanging from a beam in her summer cottage by Lake Thingvellir. But when Karen, the friend who found her body, approaches Erlendur and gives him the tape of a séance that Maria had attended, he embarks on an unofficial investigation to find out why the woman's life ended in such an abrupt and tragic manner.

Jar city Arnaldur Indriason

A man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat, and the police have no obvious leads. The man lived alone and had no family. Erlendur and his colleague Sigurdur Oli find a computer filled with pornography, and, in a desk, the photograph of a young girl's grave and the cryptic note left behind by the killer.

Esty's gold Mary Arrigan

Growing up in Ireland in the 1840s, Esty is used to hardship, but nothing prepares her for the death of her father. Now she dreams of a golden future for her family in Australia and finds the strength to get them there for a brand-new start.

In search of the Rose notes Emily Arsenault

Drawn back to her old neighbourhood and to her former best friend Charlotte when the bones of their babysitter Rose are found, Nora must revisit the events surrounding Rose's disappearance and her own troubled adolescence.

The magic key to charm : instructions for a delightful life Eileen Ascroft

You may not be beautiful, clever and rich, buy you can still change your life by using the long-lost art of charm. This book holds the secrets to serenity and elegance.

A rock is lively Dianna Hutts. Aston; illustrated by Sylvia Long

Introduces readers to rocks and minerals, describing how they are created, what they can be used for, and their different forms and types.

A seed is sleepy Dianna Hutts. Aston; illustrated by Sylvia Long

An introduction to seeds; explaining their varying shapes and sizes, where they are found, and their life cycles.

Behind the scenes at the museum Kate Atkinson

Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster, with sensible and sardonic Patrica aged five, greedy cross-patch Gillian who refused to be ignored, and Ruby… Ruby tells the story of The Family, from the day at the end of the nineteenth century when a travelling French photographer catches frail beautiful Alice and her children, like flowers in amber, to the startling, witty, and memorable events of Ruby's own life.

Case histories Kate Atkinson

Case One: Olivia Land, youngest and most beloved of the Land girls, goes missing in the night and is never seen again. Case Two: Theo delights in his daughter Laura's wit, beauty, and selfless love. But her first day as an associate in his law firm is also the day when Theo's world turns upside down. Case Three: Michelle looks around one day and finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making, with a very needy baby and a very demanding husband - until a fit of rage creates a grisly escape route… As Private Detective Jackson Brodie investigates all three cases, startling connections emerge.

Emotionally weird Kate Atkinson

On a peat and heather island off the west coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories. But strange things are happening. Why is Effie being followed? Is someone killing the old people? And where is the mysterious yellow dog?

Human croquet Kate Atkinson

Once it had been the great forest of Lythe - a vast and impenetrable thicket of green. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor. But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed. The Fairfaxes have dwindled too; now they live in 'Arden' at the end of Hawthorne Close and are hardly a family at all. But Isobel Fairfax, who drops into pockets of time and out again, knows about the past. She is sixteen and waiting for the return of her mother - the thin, dangerous Eliza with her scent of nicotine, Arpege and sex, whose disappearance is part of the mystery that still remains at the heart of the forest.

Not the end of the world Kate Atkinson

This collection of short stories explores the world we think we know whilst offering a vision of another world which lurks just beneath the surface of our consciousness, a world where the myths we have banished from our lives are startlingly present and where imagination can transform reality.

One good turn Kate Atkinson

It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident that changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a suspect.

Started early, took my dog Kate Atkinson

A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a purchase she hadn't bargained for. Witnesses to Tracy's Faustian exchange in the Merrion Centre in Leeds are Tilly, an elderly actress teetering on the brink of her own disaster, and Jackson Brodie who has returned to his home county in search of someone else's roots. All three characters learn that the past is never history and that no good deed goes unpunished.

When Will There Be Good News Kate Atkinson

In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime. Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is released from prison. In Edinburgh, sixteen-year-old Reggie works as a nanny for a G.P. But Dr Hunter has gone missing and Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried. Across town, Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person, unaware that hurtling towards her is an old friend - Jackson Brodie - himself on a journey that becomes fatally interrupted.

Fame Tilly Bagshawe

This is not 'celebrity.' This is the real deal. This is Fame. The raw, sexual beauty of Sabrina Leon demands the attention of all who come into contact with her. But Sabrina Leon has a problem. There's a YouTube sensation on the web that's set to destroy everything she's fought for!

The inheritance Tilly Bagshawe

Tatiana Flint-Hamilton's gilded cage is torn away when her estranged father dies and her family estate slips through her fingers. The old-world status of Furlings is everything the wealthy, self-made Brett Cranley has ever wanted. Along with her two children, Furlings soon becomes His wife Angela's lifeline, and one she's not going to give up easily. Tati ill do anything to get Furlings back but the fate of Furlings lies in the hands of the villagers. Let the Fittlescombe fireworks begin!

Scandalous Tilly Bagshawe

Short Stories, Big Laughs Diane Bailey Frook

The Bravest Princess E. D. Baker

Unlocking the Spell E. D. Baker

The Wide-Awake Princess E. D. Baker

Our Noise Laura Ballance

Empire of the Sun J. G. Ballard

Long Road Home Maya Banks

Xiaoyu's spring Dongni Bao

It's Tomb Sweeping Day. Xiaoyu, a little girl from Beijing, went with her father to his hometown south of the Yangtze River. In the beautiful village, Xiaoyu caught fish with her cousin, swept their grandfather's tomb, and experienced the happy village life that was all new to her. Xiaoyu's Spring is part of the Beautiful China series which will help Chinese children develop an appreciation for their own culture and will help children around the world learn more about China.

Harm's reach Alex Barclay

FBI Agent Ren Bryce finds herself entangled in two seemingly unrelated mysteries. But the past has a way of echoing down the years and finding its way into the present.

Duke of Uranium John Barnes

In the Hall of the Martian King John Barnes

Princess of the Aerie John Barnes

The Danger in Tempting an Earl Sophie Barnes

Maggie and Me Damian Barr

Bride of a Scottish warrior Adrienne Basso

Newly knighted Sir Ewan Gilroy needs a dowry and a wife, in that order. Though the widowed Lady Grace plans to enter a convent, squandering so much lush beauty and such a fortune, would surely be its own sin. Grace will not be easily wooed, despite her family's urging and Ewan's famed charm..

The cleaner Brett Battles

Meet Jonathan Quinn: a freelance professional 'cleaner'. Nothing too violent, just disposing of bodies, doing a little cleanup if necessary. But in Brett Battles' electrifying debut novel, Quinn's latest assignment will change everything, igniting a harrowing journey of violence, betrayal, and revenge.

The Wombles at Work Elisabeth. Beresford

To the wedding John Berger

The love story of Gino and Ninon, he an Italian salesman, she a Czech engineer's daughter. They meet in Verona, start dating. When Ninon learns she has the Aids virus by a man she knew earlier, she breaks off the relationship. But such is Gino's love that he proposes anyway and they marry, fully aware of what is in store for them.

Attack of the Mutant Underwear Tom Birdseye

I'm Going to Be Famous Tom Birdseye

Long Time Dead Tony Black

Echo of War Grant Blackwood

End of Enemies Grant Blackwood

Good Chinese Wife Susan Blumberg-Kason

Philip Larkin : life, art and love James Booth

Philip Larkin was that rare thing among poets: a household name in his own lifetime. When, in 1992, the publication of his Selected Letters laid bare his compartmentalised personal life, accusations of duplicity, faithlessness, racism and misogyny were levelled against him. There is, of course, no requirement that poets should be likeable or virtuous, but James Booth asks whether art and life were really so deeply at odds with each other.

The Ultimate Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook David. Borgenicht

Lucky dog : how being a veterinarian saved my life Sarah Boston

A veterinary surgical oncologist who identified her own cancer shares her experience undergoing treatment in the Canadian health care system while weaving in stories about dogs she has treated for cancer along the way.

Miss Brooks Loves Books And I Don't Barbara Bottner

Miss Brooks' Story Nook where tales are told and ogres are welcome Barbara Bottner

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne

Brightly Woven Alexandra Bracken

Treacherous Barbara Taylor. Bradford

Hawk of May Gillian Bradshaw

Legends sing of Sir Gawain, one of the greatest champions of all time. But this is not that story. This is the story of Gwalchmai, middle son of the beautiful, evil sorceress Morgawse, and gifted student of her dark magical arts. Disappointed in himself and despised by his father, Gwalchmai sets out on a journey that will lead him to the brink of darkness…

In winter's shadow Gillian Bradshaw

Never faltering in her loyalty to the king, Gwynhwyfar has stood at Arthur's side through rebellion and war. But one desperate decision could cost her all they've built. With the kingdom crumbling around them, following the Queen's heart could be the greatest threat of all.

Kingdom of summer Gillian Bradshaw

A farmer's son becomes Gwalchmai's servant and travels through Britain with this knight of the Round Table, son of the treacherous Morgawse, searching for Princess Elidan.

AEIOU Jeffrey Brown

Bighead Jeffrey Brown

Clumsy Jeffrey Brown

Darth Vader and Son Jeffrey Brown

Every Girl Is The End Of The World For Me Jeffrey Brown

Feeble Attempts Jeffrey Brown

Goodnight Darth Vader Jeffrey Brown

I Am Going To Be Small Jeffrey Brown

A Matter of Life Jeffrey Brown

Minisulk Jeffrey Brown

Undeleted Scenes Jeffrey Brown

Unlikely Jeffrey Brown

Vader's Little Princess Jeffrey Brown

I like stars Margaret Wise Brown

I like stars. Blue stars. Far stars. Shooting stars. I like stars!

In Her Day Rita Mae Brown

Rubyfruit Jungle Rita Mae. Brown

Descent into hell : the fall of Singapore - Pudu and Changi - the Thai Burma railway Peter Brune

Descent into Hell is a scrupulously researched and groundbreaking account of one of the most traumatic calamities in Australian history - the Malayan Campaign, the fall of Singapore and the subsequent horrors of the Thai-Burma Railway.

Captive Grace Burrowes

He'll never be free… Captured and tortured by the French, Christian Severn, Duke of Mercia, survives by vowing to take revenge on his tormentors. Before the duke can pursue his version of justice, Gillian, Countess of Greendale, reminds him that his small daughter has suffered much in his absence, and needs her papa desperately. Little does Gilly know, the battle for Christian's heart is only beginning.

Angels in my hair Lorna Byrne

An autobiography of a modern day mystic, an Irish woman with powers of the saints of old. It tells the story of her life, growing up in a poor family, later working in Dublin, marrying and experiencing family tragedy. It is the testimony of a woman who sees things, beyond the range of everyday experience.

Europe in the looking glass Robert Byron

A travel writing classic ready to be rediscovered, Europe in the Looking Glass describes, with a mixture of laugh-out-loud humour and perceptive commentary on art and architecture, how three rich young Englishmen cross pre-World-War-Two Europe in an old car.

Claiming the Courtesan Anna Campbell

Midnight's Wild Passion Anna Campbell

A Rake's Midnight Kiss Anna Campbell

Seven Nights in a Rogue's Bed Anna Campbell

Sins and Seductions Anna Campbell

Bear hugs Alyssa Satin Capucilli

Baby Bear decides that of all the hugs from Mama and Papa Bear, a group hug is best.

Monkey play Alyssa Satin Capucilli

Three little monkeys swing through a market in India causing mayhem as they playfully pass through the stalls.

Sleepers Lorenzo Carcaterra

The earl's mistress Liz Carlyle

Women rarely refuse the wicked Earl of Hepplewood, whose daring exploits are only whispered about. But when his new governess answers his proposition with a slap, then stalks out, references in hand, Hepplewood finds more than his face is burning.

Just a girl Jane Caro

"I do not remember when I discovered how my mother died, it seems to be something I always knew, a horror I absorbed through my skin." Determined, passionate, privileged and headstrong, Elizabeth I was born into a world where she felt she didn't belong and had to fight to survive. Using her courage to survive and her wits to confound those who despised her, this young woman became one of the greatest monarchs the world has ever seen.

Love Me Or Leave Me Claudia Carroll

Meet me in Barcelona Mary Carter

A surprise trip to Barcelona with her boyfriend, Jake, seems like the perfect antidote to Grace Sawyer's current woes, but the biggest surprise for Grace is discovering who arranged and paid for the vacation. Carrie Ann wasn't just Grace's foster sister. Clever, pretty, and mercurial, she was her best friend - until everything went terribly wrong. Now, as she flees an abusive marriage, Carrie Ann has turned to the one person she hopes will come through for her.

My sister's voice Mary Carter

At twenty-eight, Lacey Gears is exactly where she wants to be. An up-and-coming, proudly deaf artist in Philadelphia, she's in a relationship with a wonderful man and rarely thinks about her difficult childhood in a home for disabled orphans. That is, until Lacey receives a letter that begins, "You have a sister. A twin to be exact…"

The things I do for you Mary Carter

After years of supporting her husband Brad's generally ill-fated career ventures, Bailey Jordan has a job and a life she loves, working as a high profile real estate agent in Manhattan. Things are wonderful, and she's ready to start a family. Everything changes when Brad is involved in a car crash and dies for thirteen minutes. Previously an agnostic, Brad comes back to life on a mission.

Three months in Florence Mary Carter

Lena Wallace was supposed to go to Italy on her honeymoon. That was sixteen years ago. Instead, she settles for cooking spaghetti Bolognese for her two children while her husband, Alex, is on yet another business trip to Florence without her. Lena deals with his absences in the same stoic way she deals with all her responsibilities. And then comes the call that changes everything - the one from Alex's Italian mistress.

Last chance to see : in the footsteps of Douglas Adams Mark Carwardine

In the 1980s celebrated writer Douglas Adams teamed up with zoologist Mark Carwardine and together they embarked on a groundbreaking expedition, travelling the globe in search of the world's endangered animals. Twenty years later, comic genius Stephen Fry is returning with Mark to see if the species still exist. These are not just travels to the four corners of the world, but a journey in time to open our eyes to what humans have done to the Earth in the 20 years since the original Last Chance to See expeditions.

Babyland Holly Chamberlin

When an unexpected pregnancy enters the picture six months before her impending nuptials, Anna Trauslen, a thirty-seven-year-old events planner, is forced to re-evaluate her glamourous lifestyle and make some minor adjustments.

Back in the game Holly Chamberlin

Jess Marlowe always sensed her marriage had a limited run. But since her divorce became final, the surprises have been coming fast and furious. It seems no one in Jess's life is having an easy time adjusting to her newly single status. Most disturbing of all, Jess has no regrets.

The family beach house Holly Chamberlin

In a picturesque shore town in Maine, the members of a family in flux explore their ties to a beautiful beach house - and to each other.

Last summer Holly Chamberlin

Jane Patterson always felt lucky to work from home in Yorktide, Maine, next door to her best friend, Frannie Giroux, and her daughter Rosie's inseparable friend Meg. But in the girls' freshman year of high school, Rosie suffers an emotional breakdown due to bullying. Blaming both Meg and Frannie, Jane tries to help Rosie heal while dealing with her own guilt and anger.

The summer everything changed Holly Chamberlin

When Louise Bessire was living in Boston, she dreamed of another way of life, far from the phony smiles and small-talk of corporate dinners. Blindsided by her husband's affair, Louise has used her divorce settlement to buy Blueberry Bay, a picturesque bed and breakfast in Ogunquit. While Louise deals with wedding planners, her sixteen-year-old daughter, Isobel, is falling hard for local boy Jeff Otten. Yet even in the glow of golden beach days there are sudden, heart-wrenching revelations for both Louise and Isobel.

Summer friends Holly Chamberlin

Returning to Ogunquit, Maine, for an extended visit, successful businesswoman Maggie Weldon reunites with her best friend growing up, native Mainer Delphine Crandall, and together they reflect on their choices and compromises, the girls they were and the women they've become.

Captives of the night Loretta Lynda Chase

Wrongly suspected of murdering her husband, lovely portrait painter Leila Beaumont turns to the enigmatic Comte d'Esmond, a man with a secretive past, for help.

The devil's Delilah Loretta Lynda Chase

Delilah Desmond is not happy. To provide for her, her father has sold his memoirs, filled with scandalous and embarrassing exploits - effectively ruining her chances for a suitable marriage, so she can support her family while saving her father from disgrace. Can the hot-tempered Delilah and her very unwilling accomplice, absent-minded, bookish, Jack Langdon with his soft grey eyes and tousled hair, salvage the disaster?

The English witch Loretta Lynda Chase

Alexandra is being forced to marry a man she does not love and is kidnapped by one who is enamoured of her, but her troubles do not begin until she is rescued by the blond, bronzed, and dashing Basil Trevelyan.

Knaves' wager Loretta Lynda Chase

Lord Julian used his considerable skills and cunning in the war against Napoleon. Now he's obliged to use the same talents to save his young cousin from a disastrous marriage to a scheming mistress - who makes him a wager: If Julian can seduce the famously icy Lady Lilith Davenant, the lady will release his cousin from the engagement. But very quickly, Julian discovers Lilith's hidden warmth, kindness and humour. Will he be able to prove his heart to her before she learns of his recklessly shameless wager?

The lion's daughter Loretta Lynda Chase

Gorgeous, stubborn Esme Brentmor is used to a wild, dangerous life among the tribes of Albania, to whom her father is the legendary, controversial Red Lion whose death she's courageously vowed to avenge. Instead, her quest finds her rescued by the most unlikely (and very reluctant) hero!

The mad earl's bride Loretta Lynda Chase

Gwendolyn Adams isn't shocked at being asked to save a handsome earl's dying line, even when she learns the prospective bridegroom is seriously ill and possibly insane. She's quite a good nurse, after all, and her family is famous for producing healthy male children. The Earl of Rawnsley wants only to lose what's left of his mind in peace and privacy. But with Gwendolyn, his health is returning, and his resistance … crumbling.

Viscount vagabond Loretta Lynda Chase

Max Demowery, Lord Rand, returns from the Continental War and decides to have a last fling before the formalities of the London "Season" and the drudgery of a marriage of convenience. Then he meets Catherine Pelliston.

Operation Sting Simon Cheshire

Project Venom Simon Cheshire

City of heavenly fire Cassandra Clare

Darkness has descended on the Shadowhunter world. Chaos and destruction overwhelm the Nephilim as Clary, Jace, Simon, and their friends band together to fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary's own brother.

The woman who knew too much Dana Clarins

A mysterious note leads a struggling actress to a strange murder investigation.

Fit for birth and beyond : the guide for women over 35 Suzy Clarkson

Fitness expert Suzy Clarkson uses her own experiences of childbirth at 38 and 45 to present a comprehensive and easy-to-follow fitness guide for pregnant women through each trimester and after birth.

Wheels! Annie. Cobb

Train wheels. Plane wheels. Gear wheels. Rear wheels. What if there were NO wheels? How would people go?

The broken boy Patrick Cockburn

A personal memoir of the last great polio epidemic, affecting 50,000 people, and of the author's own experience of polio. A portrait of his parents, both radicals; and the story of the epidemic in Cork, Ireland, where the author and his family lived in the mid 1950s.

Why Is Milk White Alexa. Coelho

20 ways to draw a tulip and 44 other fascinating flowers : a sketchbook for artists, designers, and doodlers Lisa Congdon

This is not a step-by-step technique book - rather, the stylized flowers, snap dragons, and zinnias, are simplified, modernized, and reduced to the most basic elements, showing you how simple abstract shapes and forms meld to create the building blocks of any item that you want to draw.

Art, Inc. : the essential guide for building your career as an artist Lisa Congdon

Lisa Congdon unveils the multiplicity of ways to make a living from art - including illustration, licensing, fine art sales, print sales, and teaching - and offers practical advice on cultivating a business mindset, selling and promoting work, and more.

Whatever you are, be a good one : 100 inspirational quotations hand-lettered by Lisa Congdon Lisa Congdon

A quote book like no other, this thought-provoking collection compiles the timeless wisdom of great original minds - from Marie Curie to Stephen King, Joan of Arc to Jack Kerouac, Oscar Wilde to Harriet Tubman - brilliantly hand-lettered by beloved indie artist Lisa Congdon.

Little Lucy goes to school Ilene Cooper

When Mum and Lucy the beagle go to school to deliver Bobby's forgotten lunch, Lucy gets loose.

Cheesie Mack Is Sort of Freaked Out Steve Cotler

The Cockney angel Dilly Court

Eighteen-year-old Irene Angel lives with her parents in a tiny room above the shop where her crippled mother ekes out a living selling pickles and sauces, whilst her charming but feckless father Billy gambles away what little money they do manage to earn. Despite having been brought up by her father to fear and distrust the police, Irene finds herself forced to collaborate with them to save her father from ruin.

A mother's wish Dilly Court

Since the untimely death of her husband, young mother Effie Grey has been forced to live on a narrowboat owned by her tyrannical, crippled father-in-law Jacob. When Jacob hires Salter and his wife to run the barge, Effie's life becomes even more unbearable. Forced to live on deck with little to shelter her and Georgie from the elements, tormented by the villainous Salter and his vile wife, Sal, Effie is driven to desperation and she steals Jacob's hidden cache of money and escapes with her son. As she begins her frantic search for her beloved brother, Effie vows that whatever happens she will make a home for little Georgie and keep him safe from harm.

Shoot to kill James Craig

When French gangster Tuco Martinez threatens Carlyle and his family, the inspector has to call on the resources and skills of Dominic Silver to try and see him off. But Dom won't do all the dirty work and so Carlyle has to go into hiding. Meanwhile, back in London, the charismatic major, Christian Holroyd, is finally spiralling completely out of control.

City of djinns : a year in Delhi William Dalrymple

Meeting an extraordinary array of characters, from the city's elusive eunuchs to the embattled descendants of the great Moghuls, from the nouveau-riche Punjabis to the last witnesses of the British Raj, and investigating the resonances of these people and their ways with the India of the past, this is a unique and dazzling feat of research and adventure by one of the finest writers of his generation.

The few Nadia Dalbuono

Detective Leone Scamarcio, the son of a former leading Mafioso, has turned his back on the family business, and has joined the Rome police force. When Scamarcio is handed a file of extremely compromising photographs of a high profile Italian politician, and told to 'deal with it', he knows he's in for trouble.

The age of Kali : Indian travels & encounters William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays. Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks parties and violent village blood feuds. 'The Age of Kali' is the fourth fascinating volume from the author of 'In Xanadu', 'City of Djinns' and 'From the Holy Mountain'.

Return of a king : the battle for Afghanistan William Dalrymple

A towering history of the first Afghan War by bestselling historian William Dalrymple. In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. The First Anglo-Afghan War ended in Britain's greatest military humiliation of the nineteenth century: an entire army of the then most powerful nation in the world ambushed in retreat and utterly routed by poorly equipped tribesmen. Return of a King is the definitive analysis of the First Afghan War, told through the lives of unforgettable characters on all sides and using for the first time contemporary Afghan accounts of the conflict.

Pride and pleasure Sylvia Day

There are disadvantages to being an heiress, as Eliza Martin knows well. Fortune hunters flock to her, acquaintances lie and pander, and lately, someone is engineering "accidents" to propel her to the altar. But Eliza will not be bullied, and she will get to the bottom of this plot. All she needs is a man to infiltrate her assemblage of suitors and find the culprit.

Immanuel's veins Ted Dekker

In 1772, Catherine the Great sends trusted warrior Toma Nicolescu to protect the Cantemir family, but when their daughter, Lucine, steals his heart, he is forced to keep silent while another lad begins courting her.

The Last Days of Dogtown Anita Diamant

Alien Bounty William C. Dietz

Galactic Bounty William C. Dietz

Imperial Bounty William C. Dietz

McCade's Bounty William C. Dietz

Sweet one Peter Docker

When a senior Aboriginal war veteran dies horribly at the hands of state government authorities, Izzy, a journalist and daughter of a war veteran herself, flies to the goldfields of Western Australia to cover his death. On the trail of the vigilantes, she finds herself embedded in a secret war that is finally, irrevocably, going to explode to the surface.

Angels of destruction Keith Donohue

Nine-year-old Norah arrives one frigid night at the home of the widowed Margaret Quinn, seemingly to take the place of Margaret's only child, Erica, who ran off years ago to join a Sixties revolutionary group, the Angels of Destruction. Set in a small Pennsylvania town in 1985.

Battleaxe Sara Douglass

A thousand years ago the Acharites drove the Forbidden from their land. Now strange sightings along Achar's northern border foreshadow their return. The Sentinels walk the land, the TreeFriend has been found, and the people of the Plough, the Wing and the Horn must set aside their differences and unite under one leader against the evil rising in the North…

Crusader Sara Douglass

The Timekeeper Demons have destroyed the Star Gate and the magic of the StarDance. Terrifying, bitter, cruel, they have resurrected Qeteb and will now destroy the StarSon and Tencendor forever. Can Drago, the StarSon, and those he has taken through death - his witches - meet with the demons one-on-one and win? If only one fails, Drago will be severely weakened…

Enchanter Sara Douglass

Having vanquished his foes, Axis heads off to the Icarri stronghold to claim his heritage, but as he learns to wield his new Enchanter powers, he once again encounters Ashure, the woman warrior, and runs afoul of his scheming half-brother, Borneheld.

The infinity gate Sara Douglass

Having raised the magic of Elcho Falling while forging new allies, Serpent Coil priestess Isabelle Brunell and Lord Maximillian assist the efforts of former god Axis SunSoar, who has revived the Strike Force after rediscovering the magical Star Dance.

Pilgrim Sara Douglass

The Timekeeper Demons burst through the Star Gate to invade Tencendor, destroying the Gate and the magic of the StarDance in the process. Enchanters and gods alike are helpless as the Demons lay waste to the land. The StarSon must eventually become the hunted in the maze - only he who has the courage to endure death can learn the secrets of the ancient Enemy - but who will it be?

The serpent bride Sara Douglass

Rescued from unspeakable horror, Ishbel Brunelle has devoted her life to a Serpent cult that reads the future in the entrails of its human sacrifices. But the Serpent has larger plans for Ishbel than merely being archpriestess, plans that call for a dangerous royal marriage balancing on the edge between treachery and devotion, and an eerie, eldritch warning: Prepare for the Lord of Elcho Falling.

Sinner Sara Douglass

The land of Tencendor has been united for more than forty years, thanks to Axis, who is the legendary Starman. He defeated Gorgrael and brought peace to the three races - and upon fulfilling his destiny, Axis and his consort Azhure retired to the ethereal sphere in the heavens, and ceded his authority to their son Caelum.

Starman Sara Douglass

Weakened by their terrible encounter with Borneheld's men, Axis and his army are forced to march north as Gorgrael breaks through Jervois Landing and invades Tencendor with ice and terror. But under a sky black with Gryphon, Axis discovers that he's confronting a seemingly invincible enemy.

The twisted citadel Sara Douglass

Can treachery and murder offer the only path to salvation? Glass turns to flesh as DarkGlass Mountain rouses from its restless sleep to walk the land and plot the downfall of the Lord of Elcho Falling. Ishbel and Maximilian, now utterly estranged, ride for Serpent's Nest. Axis once more takes command of the Strike Force, but it is not enough to save him from the gallows of Isaiah's generals, nor from the lover who betrays him. Over all hover the Lealfast, ancient creatures who hide many secrets and possess a sorcery so ancient and malignant that it threatens to curse Elcho Falling as soon as the twisted citadel rises.

You Zoran Drvenkar ; translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside

It's a late-summer night in Berlin and notorious criminal Ragnar Desche's just found his brother, Oskar, dead, frozen stiff and sitting in his home next to a swimming pool full of marijuana plants. Meanwhile, nearby, a group of teenage girls notice that the prettiest member of their clique is missing. She hasn't been seen for days, and the trouble she's found herself in is about to set all of the girls on a collision course with the Desche gang and drag them into a fight for their lives a fight that might turn out to be more evenly matched than it first appears.

The quivering quavers Ursula Dubosarsky

Coco Carlomagno is trying to avert a national disaster. La Bella Cucharita, the highly strung world-famous opera singer, is due to make her return to the stage after an unfortunate nerve-wracking incident - but a strange message has her rattled.

The Golden Day Ursula Dubosarsky

Otherbound Corinne Duyvis

A seventeen-year-old boy finds that every time he closes his eyes, he's drawn into the body of a mute servant girl from another world - a world that's growing increasingly more dangerous, and where many things are not as they seem.

Road to Tara Anne Edwards

All the lonely people Martin Edwards

Devlin’s estranged wife, Liz, is found murdered in a dingy alleyway. Determined to find her killer and prove his innocence, Harry begins a journey that takes him into the city's underworld and shatters forever his illusions about the woman he loved.

First cut is the deepest Martin Edwards

Harry Devlin is playing a dangerous game when he gets involved with the wife of Liverpool's most ruthless villain. But he has another reason to look over his shoulder after two lawyers are brutally killed and Harry discovers he is being stalked by a stranger with a secret obsession…

I remember you Martin Edwards

When Liverpool solicitor Harry Devlin watches fire destroy the studio of his client, tattooist Finbar Rogan, he suspects it is no accident. And when a bomb is planted under Finbar's car, Harry is left in no doubt. Someone hates Finbar enough to want him dead.

Suspicious minds Martin Edwards

Harry Devlin is in trouble. The wife of his best client, Jack Stirrup, has vanished and the police suspect foul play. Stirrup claims she's still alive, but Harry wonders if he has something to hide. When Stirrup's daughter and her boyfriend go missing, Harry finds himself hunting a brutal murderer.

Yesterday's papers Martin Edwards

On Leap Year Day in 1964, an attractive teenager called Carole Jeffries was strangled in a Liverpool park. Now, more than thirty years later, Ernest Miller, an amateur criminologist, seeks to persuade lawyer Harry Devlin that the true culprit escaped scot free. Although he suspects Miller's motives, Harry has a thirst for justice and begins to delve into the past. But when another death occurs, it becomes clear that someone wants old secrets to remain buried - at any price…

Novels of the Jaran Kate Elliott

Passage of Stars Kate Elliott

Black lies, red blood Kjell Eriksson ; translated from the Swedish by Paul Norlen

Police officer Ann Lindell is great at solving crimes, but she doesn't have much luck in her personal life. When she meets journalist Anders Brant, Ann thinks her luck has turned around. But then Anders disappears without a trace and a homeless man's body is found with Anders' phone number in his pocket.

The cruel stars of the night Kjell Eriksson ; translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg

Thirty-five-year-old Laura Hindersten goes to the police to report that her father, a local professor, is missing. Inspector Ann Lindell and her colleagues can find no motive for the man's disappearance. Unexpectedly, the police get help from one of the professor's colleagues, who believes there is an astonishing link between two murders and the disappearance of Professor Hindersten. But as the pressure on Lindell increases dramatically, she is shocked to discover that the killer has many more diabolical schemes in store.

The demon of Dakar Kjell Eriksson ; translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg.

In Kjell Eriksson's riveting new novel, his series detective Ann Lindell finds that one of her leading suspects in a brutal murder investigation owns half of a fancy restaurant named Dakar. His partner has been killed, and everyone who works at the restaurant is under suspicion. And then more bodies turn up.

The hand that trembles Kjell Eriksson ; translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg.

Years after the mysterious disappearance of a Swedish county commissioner, a veteran police officer stumbles on a seemingly unrelated case while Ann Lindell investigates the murder of a woman in a housing development populated by single men.

The princess of Burundi Kjell Eriksson ; translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg.

When a jogger finds a dead body in the snow, the members of Sweden's Uppsala police force uncover a victim with an unsettling history. John Jonsson, known to everyone as Little John, was a respectable family man and a local expert on tropical fish. But he had been quite a troublemaker, and his delinquent past seems to have caught up with him.

The darkest hour Barbara Erskine

In the summer of 1940, most eyes are focussed on the skies above the South of England. Evie has a glittering career as an artist ahead of her but seems to be wasting her time sketching endless portraits of pilot Tony. She wants his parents to have something to remember him by in case it all goes wrong in the war. Seventy years later art historian Lucy is trying to put the pieces of her life back together. But as she accidentally ends up stirring up a hornet's nest of history which has been deliberately obliterated, Lucy finds herself in danger from people past and present who have no intention of letting an untold truth ever surface.

Detox juicing : 3-day, 7-day, and 14-day cleanses for your health and well-being Morena Escardo

Detox Juicing provides readers with one hundred juice and smoothie recipes that will give their bodies a relief from poor food choices and hectic lifestyles, allowing them to replenish and awaken their full healing capacities.

Crimson frost Jennifer Estep

Gwen should have known that her first official date with Logan Quinn was destined to end in disaster but getting arrested mid-sip at the local coffee hangout? Gwen is accused of purposely helping the Reapers free the evil god Loki from his prison - and the person leading the charge against her is Linus Quinn, Logan's dad.

Dark frost Jennifer Estep

I've seen so many freaky things since I started attending Mythos Academy last fall. I know I'm supposed to be a fearless warrior, but most of the time, I feel like I'm just waiting for the next bad, bad thing to happen. Like someone trying to kill me - again.

First frost Jennifer Estep

I am Gwen Frost, and I have a Gypsy gift. It's called psychometry that's a fancy way of saying that I see images in my head and get flashes of other peoples memories off almost everything I touch, even guys. But even I don't want to know the secret that a girl in my class is hiding or the terrible loss that will send me to a new school.

Killer frost Jennifer Estep

I've battled the Reapers of Chaos before - and survived. But this time I have a bad, bad feeling it's going to be a fight to the death…most likely mine. Yeah, I've got my psychometry magic, my talking sword, Vic, and even the most dangerous Spartan on campus at my side in Logan freaking Quinn, but I'm no match for Loki, the Norse god of chaos.

Kiss of frost Jennifer Estep

I'm Gwen Frost, a second-year warrior-in-training at Mythos Academy, and I have no idea how I'm going to survive the rest of the semester. One day, I'm getting schooled in swordplay by the guy who broke my heart. Then, an invisible archer in the Library of Antiquities decides to use me for target practice. And now, I find out that someone at the academy is really a Reaper bad guy who wants me dead.

Midnight frost Jennifer Estep

Surviving a Reaper attack at the Library of Antiquities, Gwen Frost, still struggling with the pain of losing Logan, races against time and fights formidable Reaper adversaries to find an antidote to cure a poisoned student.

Spartan frost Jennifer Estep

I'm Logan Quinn, the deadliest Spartan warrior at Mythos Academy. At least I was - until the day I almost killed Gwen Frost. Professor Metis and Nickamedes say that I'm fine, that Loki and the Reapers don't have a hold on me anymore, but I can't risk it. So I'm leaving Mythos and going somewhere far, far away.

Touch of frost Jennifer Estep

Some weird things - worse than the usual weirdness - have been going on at Mythos Academy, a school of myths and magic. After mean girl Jasmine Ashton is murdered in the Library of Antiquities, Gwen Frost is determined to figure out what's going on, especially since she was the one the killer wanted.

The sweet spot Stephanie Evanovich

When pro baseball player Chase Walker first meets Amanda at her restaurant, it's love at first sight. While Amanda can't help noticing the superstar with the Greek-god-build, he doesn't have a chance of getting to first or any other base with her. But Chase isn't about to strike out. His hopes rally when she discovers that squeaky-clean Chase has a few sexy and very secret pre-game rituals that turn the smart, headstrong businesswoman on and into his number one fan.

A funny thing about love Rebecca Farnworth

The funny thing about love is that just when you think you've got it sorted, it turns round and bites you on the behind. Moving down to Brighton to write the TV comedy series that she's always dreamed about, Carmen meets the divine Daniel. It seems that Carmen's life is on the up again. Until, that is… love bites again. Looks like Carmen's back where she started.

Secret Lives of the Tsars Michael. Farquhar

Cole : ninja of Earth Greg Farshtey

Sensei Wu must teach the Ninjago warriors the ancient art of spinjitzu in order to defeat Lord Garmadon, but first the ninja Cole, the leader of the ninja warriors, must learn to keep his ego in check before someone gets hurt.

Kai : ninja of fire Greg Farshtey

Sensei Wu must teach the Ninjago warriors the ancient art of spinjitzu in order to defeat Lord Garmadon, but first the ninjas Kai and Zane must learn how to trust each other in the face of danger.

Zane : ninja of ice Greg Farshtey

Zane, a member of Sensei Wu's team of ninja warriors who has no memories, wants to find answers about his past, but getting them might put the whole team in danger.

Hugh fearlessly eats it all Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

To some Hugh Fearlessly-Eatsitall's concept of 'good eating' might seem a bit skewed, but to others he is a shining and shaggy beacon of good sense in a food world gone mad. Armed with a broad mind, a quick wit and a ready appetite, Hugh covers almost every area of global food culture.

River Cottage veg everyday! Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Why don't we eat more veg? They're healthy, cost-effective and, above all, delicious. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall believes that it is time to put this to rights, as he explains in this brilliant new book.

Stately pleasures Lucy Felthouse

Alice Brown has just landed her dream job: property manager at Davenport Manor, a British stately home. Unfortunately, things don't get off to the best start, when Alice finds her boss, Jeremy Davenport, in a compromising position. So when he and his best friend and head of security, Ethan Hayes, throw an ultimatum at her, she's so stunned and confused that she goes along with their indecent proposal.

Losing Logan Sherry. Ficklin

Stitch 'n swap : 25 handmade projects to sew, give & receive Jake Finch

Generation Q Magazine shows you the best way to organize and run a virtual or in-person swap.

The Great War for Civilisation Robert Fisk

The call of the wild Julie Fison

Phoebe and her boy-crazy bestie, Annabel have been invited to a party, and all the cutest guys from Highgrove College are going to be there. But then Phoebe realises it's on the same night as her Wild Club's awesome movie night fundraiser… what to do?

Peek-a-little boo Sheree Fitch

In Peek-a-Little Boo twenty-six babies and toddlers from all over the world romp and revel in the twists and turns of language, real and imagined. The story is as multicultural as the alphabet will allow it to be.

Breathing Underwater Alex Flinn

Dead giveaway Joanne Fluke

Ellen Wingate thinks she's hit the jackpot when she learns the millions she's inherited comes with a super-exclusive condo in the mountains outside of Las Vegas. But leaving Minnesota for paradise turns out to be the ultimate nightmare. … A ruthless killer has infiltrated the Deer Creek Condos. The panicked survivors band together to escape the unrelenting pursuit of a deadly intruder, but trusting each other could be their most fatal instinct …

The other child Joanne Fluke

Expectant parents Karen and Mike Houston are excited about restoring their old rambling Victorian mansion to its former glory. Unfortunately, they didn't listen to the stories about the house's dark history. It begins with a whisper. A child's voice beckoning from the rose garden. It wants something from each of them. Something in their very hearts and souls. Tonight, the other child will come out to play.

Homework for grown-ups : everything you learnt at school - and promptly forgot Elizabeth Foley & B. Coates

Swot up with this brilliantly informative and entertaining book of old-school knowledge for adults. It might just equip parents to handle their child's homework without humiliation.

The True History of the Elephant Man Peter Ford

Bees Count! Alison Formento

These Rocks Count Alison Formento

These Seas Count Alison Formento

This Tree Counts Alison Formento

Bad intentions Karin Fossum

Early one September, three friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin by Dead Water Lake. But only two of them return. Inspector Sejer leads the investigation when the body is discovered. He has an overwhelming sense that the surviving pair has something to hide. Weeks pass without further clues, and then in a nearby lake the body of a teenage boy floats to the surface.

Bare It All Lori Foster

Dash Of Peril Lori Foster

Getting Rowdy Lori Foster

Jamie Lori Foster

Just A Hint Clint Lori Foster

Murphy's Law Lori Foster

The Secret Life of Bryan Lori Foster

The Write Ingredients Lori Foster

Magic ; Mayhem Cathryn Fox, Sylvia Day

Two intertwined short stories: Magic: When good witch Brianna James uses her magic and writes a sexy, forbidden love spell on her thirty-first birthday, on the thirty-first day of October during a full moon, and conjures up a roguish, bad boy warlock, she has no idea that she'll experience a passion so deep and so intense it will forever turn her good girl days into bad girl nights. Mayhem: When Abigail Garvey steps into the local magic shop, she isn't looking for a love spell that turns her drop-dead gorgeous but long-oblivious neighbour into an aggressive alpha sex machine.

The blind side of the heart Julia Franck ; translated from the German by Anthea Bell

Amid the chaos of civilians fleeing West in a provincial German railway station in 1945 Helene has brought her seven-year-old son. Having survived with him through the horrors and deprivations of the war years, she abandons him on the station platform and never returns. The Blind Side of the Heart tells of two World Wars, of hope, loneliness and love, and of a life lived in terrible times.

Two girls staring at the ceiling Lucy Frank

In this novel in verse, two very different girls bond while hospitalised for Crohn's disease.

Princesses : the six daughters of George III Flora Fraser

King George III believed that his six daughters were perfectly content with a life of charitable works and lady-like accomplishments at Windsor. But secretly, as Flora Fraser's absorbing narrative of royal repression and sexual licence shows, the sisters enjoyed startling freedom. Scandal and intrigue often erupted within the castle walls as the sisters forged lives torn between love for an ailing father and longing for independence.

Appetite for America : Fred Harvey and the business of civilizing the Wild West - one meal at a time Stephen Fried

Appetite for America is the incredible real-life story of Fred Harvey - told in depth for the first time ever - as well as the expansion into the Wild West. As a young immigrant, Fred Harvey worked his way up from dishwasher to household name: His eating houses and hotels along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad (including historic lodges still in use at the Grand Canyon) were patronised by princes, presidents, and countless ordinary travellers looking for the best cup of coffee in the country.

The hippopotamus Stephen Fry

Ted Wallace is an old, sour, womanising, cantankerous, whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet and drama critic, but he has his faults too. Fired from his newspaper, Ted seeks a few months repose and free drink at Swafford Hall, the country mansion of his old friend Lord Logan. But strange things have been going on at Swafford. Phenomena beyond the comprehension of a mud-caked hippopotamus like Ted.

The liar Stephen Fry

Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist; unprepared to learn about the Mendax device; unprepared for more murders and wholly unprepared for the truth.

Making history Stephen Fry

A history student travels back in time to prevent Hitler's birth by dropping an infertility pill into his father's beer. The scheme backfires when a more intelligent dictator comes to power, conquering more territory and developing the atom bomb ahead of the U.S. The student, Michael Young, gets back into his time machine to allow Hitler to be born after all.

The ode less travelled : unlocking the poet within Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak and read English you can write poetry. But it is no fun if you don't know where to start or have been led to believe that Anything Goes. Whether you want to write a Petrarchan sonnet for your lover's birthday, an epithalamium for your sister's wedding or a villanelle excoriating the government's housing policy, The Ode Less Travelled will give you the tools and the confidence to do so.

The stars' tennis balls Stephen Fry

Thanks to a prank by a jealous classmate, eighteen-year-old Ned Maddstone is mistakenly arrested and imprisoned in a top-secret gulag-style asylum where MI5 disposes of unwanted operatives.

The Australian ageing generation handbook : how to care for them and yourself Josie Gagliano

With great improvements in the world of modern medicine, senior Australians are enjoying their quality of life for a much longer time. With the ageing population increasing every year, many children are struggling to cope with the responsibility of care for an older parent as well as their own children while maintaining a healthy work life balance.

Evening in the Palace of Reason : Bach meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment James R. Gaines

James R. Gaines's Evening in the Palace of Reason sets up what seems to be the ultimate mismatch: a young, glamorously triumphant warrior-king, heralded by Voltaire as the very It Boy of the Enlightenment, pitted against a devout, bad-tempered composer of "outdated" music, a scorned genius in his last years, symbol of a bygone world. The sparks from their brief conflict illuminate a pivotal moment in history.

Stone Fox John Reynolds Gardiner

Based on a Rocky Mountain legend, Stone Fox tells the story of Little Willy. Little Willy is determined to win the National Dogsled Race - the prize money would save the farm and his grandfather. Willy and his brave dog Searchlight must face off against experienced racers, including a Native American man named Stone Fox, who has never lost a race.

Goddess Kelly Gardiner

Versailles, 1686: Julie d'Aubigny, a striking young girl taught to fence and fight in the court of the Sun King, is taken as mistress by the King's Master of Horse. Tempestuous, swashbuckling and volatile, within two years she has run away with her fencing master, fallen in love with a nun and is hiding from the authorities, sentenced to be burnt at the stake. Based on an extraordinary true story, this is a compelling portrait of an unforgettable woman.

This house of grief : the story of a murder trial Helen Garner

On the evening of 4 September 2005, Father's Day, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three sons home to their mother, Cindy, when his car left the road and plunged into a dam. The boys, aged ten, seven and two, drowned. Was this an act of revenge or a tragic accident? Helen Garner tells the story of a man and his broken life. She presents the theatre of the courtroom with its actors and audience, all gathered for the purpose of bearing witness to the truth, players in the extraordinary and unpredictable drama of the quest for justice.

Little seeds Charles Ghigna

Simple rhyming text follows a child who plants flower seeds in a garden and loves to watch them grow.

See Jane score Rachel Gibson

While covering the Seattle Chinooks hockey team, reporter Jane Alcott meets career-focused goalie Luc Martineau, but their relationship is threatened by Jane's other occupation - writing the scandalous "Honey Pie" adventures.

Simply irresistible Rachel Gibson

Georgeanne Howard leaves her fiancé at the altar when she realises she can't marry a man old enough to be her grandfather, no matter how rich he is. Hockey superstar John Kowalsky unknowingly helps her escape, and only when it's too late does he realize that he's absconded with his boss's bride.

Truly madly yours Rachel Gibson

Arriving in the town of Truly, Idaho, for the reading of her stepfather's will, her plan was to pay her respects and then leave again as fast as she could. But the will has some unexpected conditions - like the one that says if Delaney wants her three million dollar inheritance she needs to stay put …for a year!

The Cavanaugh quest Thomas Gifford

Backwoods treachery links a string of grisly Minnesota murders. Reporter Paul Cavanaugh is coming home from an afternoon tennis match when he sees an ambulance outside his building's door. A half hour earlier, the mild-mannered Larry Blankenship walked into the lobby, said hello to the doorman, and blew his brains out in front of the elevator bank, leaving behind a note apologising for the mess.

The Glendower legacy Thomas Gifford

It's January, 1778, and William Davis is arrested, tried, and executed for treason as part of a monstrous cover-up to protect the identity of the officer who tried to sell out the American Revolution: General George Washington himself. Two centuries later, a descendent of Davis finds evidence of Washington's betrayal. Before he can announce his findings, he's murdered and the crucial document vanishes. The only man who can secure it is Nat Underhill, a Harvard professor who truly must publish or perish.

Guilty parties Thomas Gifford

At the apex of the New York art world, murder is the newest fad. Harry and Sally, Belinda and Jack-two couples, four best friends at top of the New York arts scene. But as Harry and Belinda's careers take off, Jack's stalls. Unable to complete a second novel, his attitude becomes poisonous until Belinda is forced to throw him out. Single again for the first time in decades, she finds that in a city full of wolves, her husband may have the sharpest teeth.

Hollywood gothic Thomas Gifford

Convicted of murder, a screenwriter gets a chance to clear his name. The police find Toby Challis clutching his bloodstained Oscar statuette, his wife dead at his feet. He claims innocence, but the jury doesn't buy it. To transport Challis to prison, the state provides only an old prop plane. A freak blizzard hits it hard, knocking it out of the sky and killing everyone else. Challis escapes into the woods, to find the man who killed his wife and plan what every script needs: a Hollywood ending.

Kiss me once Thomas Gifford

At the start of World War II, a football star fights gangsters on the home front.

Kiss me twice Thomas Gifford

As the dust settles on World War II, detective Lew Cassidy's German wife has come back from the dead: the US Army finds her in Bavaria, stricken with amnesia and married to Manfred Muller, an SS swashbuckler at the top of the army's most-wanted list. When Muller disappears in the wilds of Maine, the army gives Cassidy a chance to serve his country. To catch the Nazi, he'll use his wife as bait, and hope he doesn't lose her a second time.

The man from Lisbon Thomas Gifford

In 1916, Alves Reis left Portugal for Angola, where he discovers his true talent: forgery. He falsifies diplomas, government documents, currency, and countless cheques on his way to perpetrating one of the greatest frauds of the twentieth century. Inspired by the true story of a master swindler, Gifford brings to life a breathtaking international scam.

The Saberdene variations Thomas Gifford

On his first day at Harvard, working-class student Charlie Nichols is instantly charmed by the debonair rake Victor Saberdene. He hasn't thought of his old friend Saberdene in years when he reads of the Anna Thorne killing. A beautiful young Massachusetts stagehand disappears after a fling with the handsome, dangerous Carl Varada - who might have escaped had Anna not been Saberdene's sister-in-law. Saberdene puts Varada behind bars, but years later the killer earns early release. When Varada sets his sights on the great lawyer's family, no amount of charisma can stop him.

The suspense is killing me Thomas Gifford

When rock star J. C. Tripper died, only his brother Lee was by his side, and in the decades since, Lee has been devilled by questions of what really happened that night in Tangier. He thinks he knows the truth, but his recollection of that final drug-soaked bender is about to be called into question.

The wind chill factor Thomas Gifford

Decades after Hitler's fall, Nazis are still trying to kill John Cooper. His marriage destroyed by drinking, John Cooper returns to Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is just beginning to piece his life together when he gets a telegram calling him home to Minnesota. The message comes from Buenos Aires, and with Cooper's family history, that can mean only one thing: The Nazis are staging a comeback.

Nickel-bred Patricia Gilkerson

Piper and Addie, looking for another horse, find the perfect one in Nickel, but discover the owner is part of a gang of criminals. Nickel's life is in danger. Can the girls save him from the slaughterhouse? Will they be able to save their friends and family as the vicious criminals take revenge?

The penny pony Patricia Gilkerson

Piper Jones has always loved horses, but little did she know what would happen when she and her best friend, Addie tried to help a neglected pony. A little old lady from Piper's past steps up to help and a suspected liar proves he's not a bad guy at all. But as the girls try to solve a mystery involving the suspicious owner, will they be forced into crime themselves in order to save their new-found pony friend?

Off the sidelines : raise your voice, change the world Kirsten Gillibrand with Elizabeth Weil

Fourteen years before Kirsten Gillibrand succeeded Hillary Rodham Clinton as senator from New York, she heard her future mentor say these life-changing words: 'Decisions are being made every day in Washington, and if you are not part of those decisions, you might not like what they decide, and you'll have no one to blame but yourself.' Off the Sidelines is a playbook for women who want to step up, whether in Congress or the boardroom or the local PTA.

The spiritglass charade Colleen Gleason

Seventeen-year-old Willa Aston is obsessed with spiritual mediums, convinced she is speaking with her mother from beyond the grave. What seems like a case of spiritualist fraud quickly devolves into something far more menacing: someone is trying to make Willa "appear lunatic," using an innocent-looking spiritglass to control her. It will take all of Mina's wit and Evaline's muscle to keep London's sinister underground at bay.

Memoirs of a geisha Arthur Golden

Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha.

In the beginning was the sea Tomas Gonzalez

The young intellectuals J. and Elena abandon the parties, the drinking and the money of the city, and start a new life on a remote tropical coast. Gradually paradise turns into hell, as brutal weather, mounting debts, the couple's brittle relationship, and the sea itself threaten to destroy them.

This is ridiculous, this is amazing : parenthood in 71 lists Jason Good

Good delivers a laugh-out-loud reminder that everything is easier and more fun when approached with a sense of humour - especially parenting. Each list captures a perfect (or perfectly terrible) aspect of parenthood while wholeheartedly embracing every moment.

52 cool tricks for kids Lynn Gordon

Grab that magic wand! This popular deck of easy-to-perform magic tricks and kid-friendly sleights of hand has been updated with new activities and illustrations.

52 rainy day activities Lynn Gordon

Features an array of enjoyable and imaginative things to do. This fun pack is ideal for children (and their parents) stuck inside on a rainy day.

After the exhibition : a Jack Haldean mystery Dolores Gordon-Smith

Jack Haldean expected Lythewell and Askerns' exhibition of church art in Lyon House, London, to be a sedate affair. After all, Lythewell and Askern, Church Artists, were a respectable, old-fashioned firm, the last people to be associated with mystery, violence and sudden death. Or so it seemed until after the exhibition.

As if by magic : a Jack Haldean murder mystery Dolores Gordon-Smith

George Lassiter is destitute, ill and desperate enough to break into the kitchen of a stranger's house where he witnesses the murder of a beautiful girl. But when the police search the house they find nothing and decide that its a hallucination born of delirium. Even his friend and rescuer Jack Haldean believes it's a nightmare but the consequences of that nightmare will plunge Jack into a tangle of theft, lies and obsession as George hunts for his inheritance - and Jack hunts a ruthless killer.

A hundred thousand dragons : a Jack Haldean mystery Dolores Gordon-Smith

'A hundred thousand dragons lie, underneath an Arabian sky.' How do a few lines of poetry, a chance encounter in a London hotel, and a death in Sussex lead to a lost city of Arabia, and to the tombs of the Whispering Dead? Jack Haldean has evaded the truth for years, but now, enmeshed in the web of murder, theft and deception, he must find the answer and face up to the truth - a truth as deadly as any dragon.

Mad about the boy : a Jack Haldean murder mystery Dolores Gordon-Smith

It's the height of summer, 1923. At a ball in Sussex, former Royal Flying Corps pilot Jack Haldean investigates an apparent suicide, but everything is thrown into chaos when a group of Russian revolutionaries becomes involved in the affair. In a case involving deception, greed, jealousy, kidnapping, torture, and more murder, Jack will face an agonizing choice.

Off the record : a Jack Haldean mystery Dolores Gordon-Smith

Charles Otterbourne's company should have been the perfect partner for Professor Alan Carrington's radical new gramophone. But when murder is the result of their meeting, Jack Haldean takes up the case, in a desperate bid to save a man from the gallows. …

Trouble brewing : a Jack Haldean mystery Dolores Gordon-Smith

A missing man leads Jack Haldean straight into danger. Mark Helston, was the rising star of Hunt Coffee Limited, yet he walked out of his Albemarle Street flat and disappeared. Desperate to know what happened to Mark, his uncle appeals to Jack Haldean. And then Jack finds a body.

The miraculous makeover of Lizard Flanagan Carol Gorman

Twelve-year-old Lizard Flanagan can't believe it when her best friend, Mary Ann, wears a skirt on their first day of middle school. All Lizard wants to do is throw around a football and hang out with her buddies, but something terrible has happened: They've all started "the Change," and they've left her behind! Lizard finds herself lost in a strange new world of tights, makeup, and middle school dances. How can she grow up and still be herself?

Bad moon rising Edward Gorman

A hippie commune has invaded Black River Falls. As usual, lawyer and private investigator Sam McCain finds himself in the middle of the controversy, especially when the teenage daughter of Paul Mainwaring, one of the town's wealthiest men, is found murdered in the commune's barn. A deeply troubled young man (and Vietnam vet) named Neil Cameron is immediately charged with the crime, but Sam has serious doubts.

Breaking up is hard to do Edward Gorman

Black River Falls used to be a boring small town, but at the pinnacle of the Cuban Missile Crisis, nowhere in America can be boring anymore. As the country awaits nuclear annihilation, Iowa gubernatorial favourite Ross Murdoch has a crisis of his own: There is a dead woman in his bomb shelter. As the nation's nuclear paranoia reaches a fever pitch, McCain searches for a killer and learns that there are certain kinds of disaster for which even the finest bomb shelter is no match.

The day the music died Edward Gorman

Sam McCain makes a living as a PI, doing odd jobs for an eccentric judge - whose nephew, it seems, has a problem only a detective could solve. His trophy wife has been murdered, and as soon as Sam arrives, the nephew kills himself, too. The police see this as a clear-cut murder-suicide, but Sam wants to know more, diving into a mystery that will get dangerous faster than you can say "bye-bye, Miss American Pie."

Everybody's somebody's fool Edward Gorman

Small-town lawyer and private detective Sam McCain is enjoying a cocktail party, dancing with a lovelier specimen than his five-foot-five-inch frame usually attracts, when the hostess confronts him with a problem the likes of which Good Housekeeping has never seen. There is a corpse in the backyard gazebo, and the party is definitely over.

Fools rush in Edward Gorman

Black River Falls, Iowa, 1963: the violence of the civil-rights era lurks behind the double murder of a Peeping Tom photographer and a handsome black lothario, David Leeds, who was dating the daughter of a white Republican senator. Young Sam McCain, a lawyer and sometime private detective, is on the case.

Save the last dance for me Edward Gorman

Fundamentalist preacher John Muldaur isn't afraid of snakes - he uses them every week in his services - but he's convinced that the Pope is trying to kill him. Iowa lawyer Sam McCain, the poorest attorney in a thriving town, listens patiently to the self-declared reverend's outlandish theories about being targeted by a papal hit squad, and agrees to investigate the matter simply to get Muldaur out of his office. But that night at a wild religious service, McCain sees Muldaur proven right.

Wake up little Susie Edward Gorman

Sam McCain, a young lawyer with a private investigator's licence, becomes embroiled in the case of Susan Squires, a young woman whose body was discovered in the trunk of one of the local Ford dealer's brand new Edsels.

Will you still love me tomorrow? Edward Gorman

A liberal who served faithfully under Roosevelt and Truman, only to be slandered as a red during McCarthy's witch hunts, Conners has begun getting death threats written in blood. He hires private investigator Sam McCain to protect him, but no sooner has Sam taken the case than Conners turns up dead.

The man who risked it all Laurent Gounelle

Looking down from the Eiffel Tower, Alan Greenmor stands on the edge, determined to end it all. As he prepares to jump, his thoughts are interrupted by a cough. This is Yves Dubreuil. Dubreuil convinces Alan to reconsider his plans, with one caveat: instead of ending his life, he will give his life over to Dubreuil. In return, Dubreuil promises to teach Alan the secrets to happiness and success.

The man who wanted to be happy Laurent Gounelle

At the end of a holiday in Bali, Julian, an unhappy schoolteacher decides to meet a renowned local healer, Samtyang. Through daily sessions at the wise man's house, he begins to identify the source of his unhappiness as a series of simple questions and answers point to his own limiting beliefs and fears.

Secret daughter Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Interweaves the stories of a baby girl in India, the American doctor who adopted her, and the Indian mother who gave her up in favour of a son, as two families - one in India, the other in the United States - are changed by the child that connects them.

The business of design : balancing creativity and profitability Keith Granet

The Business of Design debunks the myth that business sense and creative talent are mutually exclusive and, unlike other lackluster business books, is written and illustrated to captivate a visually thinking audience.

The God argument : the case against religion and for humanism A. C. Grayling

There has been a bad-tempered quarrel between defenders and critics of religion in recent years. Both sides have expressed themselves acerbically because there is a very great deal at stake in the debate. This book thoroughly and calmly examines all the arguments and associated considerations offered in support of religious belief, and does so in full consciousness of the reasons people have for subscribing to religion, and the needs they seek to satisfy by doing so.

Amandine Adele Griffin

Her first week at a new school, shy, plain Delia befriends Amandine, not anticipating the dangerous turns their friendship would take.

Dive Adele Griffin

Young Ben finds that he is happy in the stable life provided by his stepfather despite his uncertain relationship with his moody and troubled stepbrother and his mother's growing restlessness in her new marriage.

Hannah, divided Adele Griffin

In 1934, a thirteen-year-old with a gift for numbers is offered the chance to leave her family's dairy farm to spend one term at an exclusive Philadelphia girls' school preparing for a scholarship exam.

The other Shepards Adele Griffin

Teenage Holland and her younger sister Geneva, having always lived under the shadow of siblings who died before they were born, struggle to establish separate identities and escape from the oppressive weight of their parents' continuing grief.

Overnight Adele Griffin

Gray hopes that going to a slumber party with the "Lucky Seven" at her private school will take her mind off her mother's cancer, but when she is taken from the party by a deranged woman, both she and the other girls discover things about themselves and each other.

Rainy season Adele Griffin

In 1977, twelve-year-old Lane, living with her family on an army base in the politically tense Panama Canal Zone, tries to cope with the aftermath of a fatal car crash.

Sons of liberty Adele Griffin

When thirteen-year-old Rock helps his friend Liza run away from home, he wonders whether escaping from his own troubled family would be an act of patriotism or of treason.

Split just right Adele Griffin

After living her life in her actress mother's world of make-believe, ninth-grader Dandelion comes to realize that it is better to face reality.

The unfinished life of Addison Stone Adele Griffin

When a celebrated New York City teenager, known for her subversive street art, mysteriously dies, her life is examined in a series of interviews with her parents, friends, boyfriends, mentors, and critics.

Hunting the hunters : at war with the whalers Laurens de Groot

Laurens de Groot was a detective for the Dutch police, specialising in organised crime and environmental pollution but became increasingly disillusioned with failed prosecutions and minimal prison sentences. Laurens leaves his job, sells up, travels to Australia and joins Sea Shepherd, an international organization protecting marine wildlife. He soon finds himself in the middle of the war against the Japanese whaling fleet operating in the Antarctic whale sanctuary.

The sentinels of Andersonville Tracy Groot

Near the end of the Civil War, inhumane conditions at Andersonville Prison caused the deaths of 13,000 Union soldiers in only one year. In this gripping and affecting novel, three young Confederates and an entire town come face-to-face with the prison's atrocities and will learn the cost of compassion, when withheld and when given.

The magicians Lev Grossman

When Quentin Coldwater turns up for his entrance interview to Princeton he finds his interviewer dead - but a strange envelope bearing his name leads him down a very different path to any he'd ever imagined to a world that seems to answer all Quentin's desires. But the idyll cannot last - and when it's finally shattered, Quentin is drawn into something darker and far more dangerous than anything he could ever have expected …

How to lose a duke in ten days Laura Lee Guhrke

Ruined American heiress Edie proposes a marriage of convenience to the devil-may-care Duke of Margrave and becomes an English duchess. Five years later, she's delighted with their arrangement, especially since her husband is living on another continent. But when a brush with death impels him home, he decides it's time for a real marriage with his luscious American bride.

Scandal of the year Laura Lee Guhrke

From their very first meeting, Julia knew that Aidan Carr, the oh-so-proper Duke of Trathen, had a bit of the devil in him. So when she needed to be caught in a compromising situation, Aidan was the answer to her prayers.

Trouble at the wedding Laura Lee Guhrke

The last thing Miss Annabel Wheaton learned the hard way that love makes a woman foolish and leads only to heartache. That's why she agreed to marry an earl who needs her money. There's only one problem … Christian Du Quesne, Duke of Scarborough, thinks the stubborn heiress is about to make the biggest mistake of her life, and he's determined to stop her.

Wedding of the season Laura Lee Guhrke

Lady Beatrix Danbury had always known she would marry William Mallory but when she made him choose between their life together or his lifelong dream, Will chose the latter. Will has no illusions that Beatrix would welcome him back with open arms, but six years did not dim his love or desire for her. The only problem is, she's about to marry someone else.

A concise Chinese-English dictionary for lovers Xiaolu Guo

Written in short chapters, each the definition of a word, this book pokes fun at England and China, explores the endless possibilities for misunderstanding between East and West and paints a portrait of a relationship that everyone will understand, no matter what their nationality.

Snow falling on cedars David Guterson

In 1954 a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat, and a local Japanese-American man is charged with his murder. In the course of his trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than one man's guilt. Above all, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbours watched.

In a rocket made of ice : among the children of Wat Opot Gail Gutradt

The story of a woman who volunteers at an orphanage in Cambodia, set up by a Vietnam War vet for children with and/or orphaned by HIV/AIDS.

Gabriel Finley & the raven's riddle George Hagen

How can twelve-year-old Gabriel find his missing father, who seems to have vanished without a trace? With the help of Paladin - a young raven with whom he has a magical bond that enables them to become one creature - he flies to the foreboding land of Aviopolis, where he must face a series of difficult challenges and unanswerable riddles that could lead to his father… or to his death.

Dinosaurs : the complete guide for beginners : Triassic to Jurassic Shannon Hale

Just thinking about dinosaurs is enough to make your imagination run wild. Join us for a journey of 100 million years - journey from the Triassic to the Jurassic - where you'll encounter dinosaurs from all around the world.

Flying carpet : adventures in a biplane from Timbutu to Everest and beyond Richard Halliburton

Thirsting for a new adventure and announcing that 'an adventure not in the air is obsolete', Richard Halliburton hired pioneer aviator Moye Stephens in 1931 and fearlessly set out to circle the world in an open cockpit biplane optimistically named The Flying Carpet. True to form, his journey was breathtakingly audacious.

Social suicide Gemma Halliday

Hartley Featherstone's first big story for the school paper takes an unexpected turn when she discovers the girl she's supposed to interview dead in her swimming pool.

One perfect spring Irene Hannon

Keith Watson is a results-oriented workaholic with no time for a social life. As the executive assistant to a local philanthropic businessman, he's used to fielding requests for donations. But when a letter asking for help finding the long-lost son of an elderly neighbour arrives he digs reluctantly into this complicated assignment.

Being of the field Traci Harding

At the university on Maladaan, Taren believes there is an ocean of microscopic vibrations connecting everything in the universe to every other universe - an inter-dimensional field theory. Unbeknownst to Taren, her research and hidden psychic talents are the reason she is called on by the prestigious AMIE space project to investigate an ocean planet and its strange light phenomena. However, there are conflicting agendas within the organisation and she is the only one who begins to suspect that foul play might be afoot …

The light-field Traci Harding

Ten years in Maladaan's past, Taren Lennox seizes the opportunity to secure personal financing for the AMIE Project and base the building on Frujia. But when the MSS develop a weapon, from a patent of one of Taren's inventions she begins to doubt her ability to keep her ever-growing psychic army a secret. For this new photon-camera can identify a psychic from the more inept by the unmistakable brilliance of their light-field.

The universe parallel Traci Harding

Taren Lennox and Lucian Gervaise, floating adrift through space on AMIE, are rescued by the immortal psychics of a utopian planet. But their saviours believe Taren and Lucian to be incarnations of their great ancestors, come to help them remove this new, aggressive neighbour from their universe. Aided by her new allies, Taren seeks to retrieve her lost memories from the Maladaan Secret Service's memory banks - discovering the way to return Maladaan to its rightful universe and future lies ten years in her past …

Archangel Robert Harris

Fluke Kelso is a dissipated, middle-aged, former Oxford historian, who is in Moscow to attend a conference on newly-opened Soviet archives. Kelso is visited at his hotel by an old NKVD officer and bodyguard, who claims to have been at Stalin's dacha on the night Stalin had his fatal stroke.

Imperium Robert Harris

Marcus Cicero, a brilliant lawyer and orator, was one of the most fascinating figures of the Roman era. This book is a recreation of a masterpiece created by Tiro, the confidential secretary of Cicero, on his life. It presents Cicero as an immensely sympathetic figure and the world's first professional politician.

Lustrum Robert Harris

A novel set in 63 BC, the year when Cicero is consul. Most of his time is devoted to thwarting a conspiracy to overthrow the state. Underlying this is the rivalry between Cicero and Caesar. As Caesar's power grows Cicero must face the compromises that come from holding power - is it justifiable to use illegal methods in order to save the Republic?

Verdict of the court Cora Harrison

Mara and her scholars are spending the festive period in her husband's principal court, the castle of Bunratty in Thomond. However, in the midst of celebrations, the Brehon of Thomond is found dead, slumped across a table with a knife protruding from below his shoulder blade, while all around him Turlough's relations and friends dance and feast. Mara's difficult task in probing the motives of the multiple suspects is interrupted by a dramatic attack on the castle.

Before you Amber Hart

Faith Watters has a picture-perfect life but she's living a lie. Diego Alvarez hates his new life in the States, but staying in Cuba is not an option. His only concern is his secret past, a past, which if it were to surface, would cost him his life. Everyone knows that Faith and Diego don't belong together. But fate has its own plan.

The complete book of butchering, smoking, curing, and sausage making Philip Hasheider

Here is a must-have book for all hunters and small-scale farmers who plan to process meat of any kind. Everything you need to know about how to dress and preserve meat is right here, from slaughtering to processing to methods of preservation, such as smoking and salting.

Little Witch goes to school Deborah. Hautzig

Little Witch goes to school for the first time and takes her classmates on a broomstick ride.

Return of the hungry hamster Sam. Hay

Little does Joe know that he has volunteered to help the undead pets of his town! Dumpling the hamster came to a dusty end inside a vacuum cleaner … and now he needs Joe's help to reveal the truth behind his demise.

Revenge of the phantom furball Sam. Hay

Bonsai the pug chases Pickle the cat into the street, where she is flattened by a car. Now Pickle is worried that Bonsai will pursue her sister Pebble into an early grave too, unless she and Joe teach the dog a lesson.

Spring surprises Anna Jane. Hays

A rhyming tribute to the wonders brought by spring.

The biggest cookie in the world Linda Hayward

While waiting for his cookies to bake in the oven, Cookie Monster daydreams about his favourite subject.

Superdad speedbible : the toolbox for men with young kids Ryan Heffernan

Inspired by one Dad's calamitous entry into the peculiar cosmos of arch parenting, SuperDad SpeedBible is a big fun, no-nonsense, fast-paced, effective source of information on child health and safety, your health and safety, diet and nutrition, entertainment, sleeping, behaviour, milestones, balancing work and parenting, finding good childcare and plenty more.

Doubleback Libby Fischer Hellmann

Little Molly Messenger is kidnapped on a sunny June morning. Three days later she's returned, apparently unharmed. A few days later, the brakes go out on Molly's mother Chris's car. Not convinced that his daughter is safe, Molly's father hires PI Georgia Davis to follow the money and investigate Chris's death.

Easy innocence Libby Fischer Hellmann

When pretty, smart Sara is found bludgeoned to death, it's easy to blame the man with the bat. But Georgia finds a much different darker answer on Chicago's North Shore - privileged schoolgirls have learned just how much their innocence is worth to hot-under-the-collar businessmen.

Nobody's child Libby Fischer Hellmann

A bloodstained note left for PI Georgia Davis reveals the shocking existence of a half-sister she never knew about who is pregnant and begging for Georgia's help. Georgia finds herself heading deep into the secretive and dangerous underworld of Chicago's illegal sex trafficking business. She soon discovers that trafficking is just a small part of the horrifying and deadly situation in which her sister is caught up…

Gandhi & Churchill : the epic rivalry that destroyed an empire and forged our age Arthur Herman

Ostensibly on opposing sides of India's struggle for independence, Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi nevertheless shared some commonalities, which historian Arthur Herman details in this dual portrait. Though they began their careers with similar educational backgrounds and world views, they would eventually come to differ on their opinions of the British Empire and its role in India.

Rhyming boy Steven Herrick

A novel about a young boy's search for his identity. Jayden Hayden doesn't have a dad - just a mum obsessed with footballer Jayden Finch and an embarrassing name that earns him the nickname, Rhyming Boy. Then a school father-son event sends him on a quest to find his father.

The simple gift Steven Herrick

When the paths of a runaway teenage boy, an old hobo, and a rich girl intersect in an abandoned train yard, each carries their own personal baggage. Over early mornings, long walks, and cheap coffee they discover, no matter how big or small, that it is the simple gifts in life that really make a difference.

Slice : juicy moments from my impossible life Steven Herrick

Darcy means what he says. He just shouldn't say it aloud. Darcy can cope with parents, parties and punch-ups. He can handle his infatuation with the beautiful Audrey, spending quality chess-time with his nerdy friend, Noah, even the misadventures of kayaking on a school excursion. He's a teenage boy, he can deal with it. If only he'd learn to keep his mouth closed.

Untangling spaghetti : selected poems Steven Herrick

Each day after school, Steven's sons would come home and tell him about their day. These stories became poems and these poems became fodder for the many school talks Steven gives around the country each year. Topics include food, animals, school, friends, sport (esp. soccer!), dogs and anything and everything relevant to kids. For this new book, Steven has taken poems from three of his well-known collections and themed them together for easy access. From footy, to kiss-chasey, to brothers and sisters, there is something for everyone!

Crater Homer H. Hickam

In the twenty-second century, sixteen-year-old Crater Trueblood, who mines the moon for Helium-3 to produce energy for a desperate, war-torn Earth, undertakes a deadly mission that could mean the difference between life and death for every inhabitant of the moon.

Crater Trueblood and the Lunar Rescue Company Homer H. Hickam

The Earth is devastated and the worst elements of humanity are determined to take over the moon. It's up to the settlers of the harsh, gray moon to fight back.

Crescent Homer H. Hickam

Crater Trueblood, doubting the justice of the war he fights and the evil of enemies he was trained to hate, brings Crescent, an apparently female Crowhopper, to Moontown as his prisoner but soon both are fugitives, fleeing prejudice and cruelty in hostile territory.

Travels with a Mexican circus Katie Hickman

Katie Hickman went to Mexico looking for magic. She found it in the circus - Big Top, clowns, elephants and all. Gradually adjusting to the harsh ways of the circus's nomadic lifestyle, she soon became absorbed into this hypnotic new world, at first as a foreigner but later as 'La Gringa Estrella', a performer in her own right.

The golden sandal : a Middle Eastern Cinderella Rebecca Hickox

An Iraqi version of the Cinderella story in which a kind and beautiful girl who is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsister finds a husband with the help of a magic fish.

Waiting on you Kristan Higgins

Colleen O'Rourke is in love with love… just not when it comes to herself. Ten years ago, Lucas Campbell, her first love, broke her heart. But a family emergency has brought Lucas back to town, handsome as ever and still the only man who's ever been able to crack her defences.

All because of you Melissa Hill

Tara Harrington's life seems perfect - a successful career as a life coach, the flashy sports car to match, and a happy home with Glenn. But when her difficult younger sister Emma announces she's pregnant, and refuses to divulge who the father is, suspicions are aroused all round.

The house is full of Yogis : the story of a childhood turned upside down Will Hodgkinson

A witty memoir about the trials of adolescence, the tribulations of family life and the embarrassment that ensues from having larger-than-life parents. Neville and Liz Hodgkinson bought into the Thatcherite dream of home ownership, aspiration and advancement. Then a disastrous boat holiday led to the search for a new way of life. Nev joined the Brahma Kumaris, who believe evolution is a myth, time is circular, and a forthcoming Armageddon will make way for a new Golden Age. Liz took the arrival of the Brahma Kumaris as a chance to wage all-out war on convention, from announcing her newfound celibacy on prime time television to writing books that questioned the value of getting married and raising children. By an unfortunate coincidence, this dramatic and highly public transformation of the self coincided with the onset of Will's adolescence.

VO : tales and techniques of a voice-over actor Harlan Hogan

Not only does veteran actor Harlan Hogan offer a fascinating personal account of the crazed clients, practical jokes, and amazing coincidences encountered during his twenty-five year career, he also provides a wealth of tested tips for surviving and thriving as a voice-over actor.

The normal kid Elizabeth Ann Holmes

Told in their separate voices, fifth-graders Sylvan, whose parents' divorce causes him stress, and Charity, who lived in Kenya for the past five years, both strive for normalcy at school and start a petition to keep their teacher, Mr. In, from being fired.

In pieces Nick Hopton

Si is 28 and unsure of what he wants - in his job, his love life, even just for dinner. The only thing he's certain of is his friendship with Jimmy, a late-twenties professional footballer in a career he fears has stalled. Through their uncertainty and just plain lethargy, the two men anchor each other with regular catch-ups at their local, The Feathers. But little do they know that The Feathers is more than just a great place for a pint and a chin-wag; it's also a hub for a London-based IRA cell.

Dog boy Eva Hornung

In late 20th-century Moscow, a little boy, about four years old, has been abandoned by his family and his community. In search of food, and almost without thought, he follows three feral dogs, for he is smart enough to know that dogs can find food without having money. In doing so, he crosses a line of sorts, and leaves the human world behind. For the next two years, he survives as part of the pack, hunted by other feral dogs and by the military, who must rid the streets of homeless and dogs alike. Though it is a quick read, written in forthright language, it is also an emotional, brutal, and heart-rending story. The feral dogs are depicted extraordinarily realistically, but this novel is really about what it means to be human.

Taking the lead : lessons from a life in motion Derek Hough

Season after season, millions of fans tune into Dancing with the Stars to watch Derek Hough, the talented, consummate competitor whose skill and commitment have made him the show's all-time champion. Now, for the first time ever, Derek opens up about his transformation from bullied little boy to accomplished performer and coach who lets nothing - and no one - stand in his way.

Half way home Hugh Howey

Less than sixty kids awaken on a distant planet. The colony ship they arrived on is aflame. The rest of their contingent is dead. They've only received half their training, and they are being asked to conquer an entire planet.

The hurricane Hugh Howey

Daniel Stillman has 42 Facebook friends. His cell phone contains 18 contacts, two of them for pizza delivery. Six people follow him on Twitter. Four readers subscribe to his blog; he's pretty sure one of them followed him by accident. And now a category 5 storm is about to wipe all this away. In its wake will be left a single girl, a neighbour he never knew, and a new reprieve from the digital maelstrom of his life, a great silence like the eye of some terrific storm.

Sand Hugh Howey

This is the incredible new novel and brand new world from the international bestselling author of the Wool trilogy. The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this land of howling wind and infernal sand, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost.

Sister wife Shelley Hrdlitschka

In the isolated rural community of Unity, the people of The Movement live a simple life guided by a set of religious principles and laws that are unique to them. Polygamy is the norm, strict obedience is expected and it is customary for young girls to be assigned to much older husbands. Celeste was born and raised in Unity, yet she struggles to fit in. She wants something more for herself, yet feels powerless to change her destiny because rebelling would bring shame upon her family. Sister Wife is a compelling portrait of a community where the laws of the outside world are ignored and where individuality is punished.

Becoming Chloe Catherine Ryan Hyde

A gay teenage boy and a fragile teenage girl meet while living on the streets of New York City and eventually decide to take a road trip across America to discover whether or not the world is a beautiful place.

The girl in red story and pictures by Roberto Innocenti ; written by Aaron Frisch

The illustrations of award-winning artist Roberto Innocenti offer a modern take on the centuries-old tale of an innocent girl in a red riding hood who meets a wicked wolf in the dark woods.

The empress lover Linda Jaivin

Peking, 1944: Sir Edmund Backhouse is a man of many parts. A genius of perversity, a forger, arms salesman, occasional spy and fantasist. Also, if he is to be believed, the onetime lover of the redoubtable Empress Dowager of China. Beijing, 2014: Linnie is an Australian woman of uncertain provenance struggling to make a living in Beijing. A Sinophile, a translator of film subtitles, the author of an unpublished novel about Backhouse called The Empress Lover. One day, she receives an intriguingly old-fashioned and formal invitation from a Professor H, an invitation that promises to reveal long hidden secrets of her family… And so two worlds collide.

Fic - why fan fiction is taking over the world Anne Elizabeth Jamison

Fic is a groundbreaking exploration of the history and culture of fan writing and what it means for the way we think about reading, writing, and authorship. It's a story about literature, community, and technology - about what stories are being told, who's telling them, how, and why.

Damage control Judith A. Jance

Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady investigates the death of handicapped woman who had wandered away from a care facility with a suspicious track record and the deaths of an elderly couple who were presumably consenting partners in a suicide pact.

Dead to rights Judith A. Jance

In Arizona, when a house burns down with its veterinarian owner inside, suspicion falls on the husband of a woman whom the veterinarian ran over. But after talking to the suspect, Sheriff Joanna Brady's feminine intuition tells her the man is innocent and she sets out to find the real killer.

Dead wrong Judith A. Jance

As if juggling a family, including the impending birth of a second child, a career and a staff shortage at the Sheriff's office aren't enough, Sheriff Joanna Brady has to deal with two serious crimes. The first is the dead body of an ex-con who was found in the desert with all his fingers severed. The second is the brutal attack of one of her officers while on unauthorized stakeout. Being a sheriff is what she is and Joanna will stop at nothing to get the job done.

Devil's claw Judith A. Jance

Sheriff Joanna Brady is about to be married and is dealing with her preteen daughter, meddlesome mother, and new in-laws. The sudden death of her dear friend Clayton Rhodes creates further turmoil and makes Joanna the target of Clayton's irate daughter, who makes accusations of a murder cover-up.

Exit wounds Judith A. Jance

A body lies lifeless in an airless trailer, surrounded by seventeen others. It is a crime unspeakable in its conception and execution - a nightmare strangely connected to a grisly slaughter in a neighbouring state, where the corpses of two women are found tied up, naked, and gruesomely posed on a rancher's land. A day that started out hot has already turned blistering for Joanna Brady, the sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, for terror has moved into her small town to stay.

Judgment call Judith A. Jance

When her daughter, Jenny, stumbles across the body of her murdered high school principal, Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady's personal and professional worlds collide, putting her in the difficult middle between being officer of the law and a mother. While investigating murders often means discovering unpleasant facts and disquieting truths, the experienced Joanna isn't prepared for the knowledge she's about to uncover.

Outlaw mountain Judith A. Jance

Sheriff Joanna Brady of Cochise County, Arizona, investigates the death of the mayor and his mother. The probe leads to a drug ring involving highly placed people in town.

Partner in crime Judith A. Jance

When the Washington State attorney general's star witness is brutally murdered in Arizona - Sheriff Joanna Brady's turf - the AG sends his newest investigator, former homicide detective J.P. Beaumont.

Rattlesnake crossing Judith A. Jance

A gun dealer has died violently, and his stock of high-powered weapons has been cleaned out. Suspicion falls upon rancher Alton Hosfield, an armed separatist at war with the federal government and the local law - with everyone, in fact, whom he perceives as a threat to his independent way of life. Sheriff Joanna Brady suspects the solution is not so cut-and-dried. But Joanna's preoccupation with bringing a murderer to justice could take a terrible toll on her private life.

Remains of innocence Judith A. Jance

While investigating two separate cases, Sheriff Joanna Brady must discover if the death of a family friend whose body was found in a limestone cavern is linked to the discovery of a fortune in $100 bills hidden in the house of a hoarder.

Skeleton Canyon Judith A. Jance

It was love that brought young Brianna "Bree" O'Brien to Skeleton Canyon for a romantic tryst with her adoring boyfriend, Ignacio Ybarra - a rendezvous the beautiful teenager would never live to experience. It was love also that compelled Joanna Brady to seek-and win-the office of Cochise County Sheriff; love of her murdered policeman husband, whose memory she was honouring; of her little daughter, Jenny, for whom she was now solely responsible; and for justice and truth.

Tombstone courage Judith A. Jance

In Arizona, Joanna Brady runs for sheriff, an office held by her late husband who was killed by a drug dealer. It's not a walkover, in addition to looking after an overbearing mother and a fatherless son, Joanna has to combat sexism in the police department.

Waiting Ha Jin

For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in his traditional home village lives the humble, loyal wife his family chose for him years ago. Every summer, he returns to ask her for a divorce and every summer his compliant wife agrees but then backs out. This time, after eighteen years' waiting, Lin promises it will be different.

The kissing season Rachael Johns

It's no surprise to anyone when Hannah Elliot makes the spontaneous decision to marry a stranger in Las Vegas. But when she finds herself pregnant and her new husband files for an annulment, she is determined to put her baby's needs ahead of her own. This means putting her wild past behind her and accepting a job back in the family business… while keeping her pregnancy a secret! Except, when gorgeous Matteo Della-Bosca walks through the shop door, Hannah finds her resolve slipping fast…

Man drought Rachael Johns

Imogen Bates moved to the small rural town of Gibson's Find to start a new life for herself after the death of her husband. Tired of being haunted by the painful memories of her old life, Imogen set her last remaining hopes on the little town and poured her heart and savings into restoring The Majestic Hotel to its former glory. But while the female-starved town might be glad to see a young woman move in, not everyone is happy about Imogen's arrival.

Outback blaze Rachael Johns

Ruby Jones was always an optimist, but the trauma of her past had made her wary. So when she flees to the small rural community of Bunyip Bay to start afresh, she has her sights firmly set on establishing her horse-riding business and rebuilding her life. When Police officer Drew investigates a suspicious fire at Ruby's parents' business, he finds himself feeling strangely protective of the girl with the flowers in her hair. As the details of Ruby's past emerge and she comes once more under threat, Drew realises he will do all in his power to save her.

Outback dreams Rachael Johns

Faith Forrester is at a crossroads. Single, thirty and living on a farm in a small Western Australian town, she's sick of being treated like a kitchen slave by her brother and father. For as long as he can remember, Daniel 'Monty' Montgomery has been Faith's best friend. When he was ten, his parents sold the family property and moved to Perth and ever since, Monty's dreamed of having his own farm. When Faith embarks on a mission to raise money for a charity close to her heart, and Monty's dream property comes on the market, things seem like they are falling into place for them both.

The ten most beautiful experiments George Johnson

George Johnson tells the stories of ten beautiful experiments which changed the world.

Ice dogs Terry Lynn Johnson

Victoria Secord, a fourteen-year-old Alaskan dogsled racer, loses her way on a routine outing with her dogs. With food gone and temperatures dropping, her survival and that of her dogs and the mysterious boy she meets in the woods is entirely up to her.

50 ways to make Google love your website Steve Johnston and Liam McGee

This easy-to-follow guide not only explains how Google sifts the billions of pages of information its index contains, but also shows you how you can improve the performance of your own website in Google's search results, giving specific and detailed instructions about the priority issues you need to address.

A lady cyclist's guide to Kashgar Suzanne Joinson

It is 1923 and Evangeline English, keen lady cyclist, arrives with her sister Lizzie at the ancient Silk Route city of Kashgar to help establish a Christian mission. Lizzie is in thrall to their forceful and unyielding leader Millicent, but Eva's motivations for leaving her bourgeois life back at home are less clear-cut.

The Plantagenets : the kings who made England Dan Jones

Eight generations of the greatest and worst kings and queens that this country has ever seen from the White Ship to the Lionheart, bad King John to the Black Prince and John of Gaunt this is the dynasty that invented England as we still know it today great history to appeal to readers of Ken Follet, Bernard Cornwell, Tom Holland.

Beloved enemy : the passions of Eleanor of Aquitaine Ellen Jones

"Aquitaine is mine. It will never belong to anyone else." With these words, fifteen-year-old Eleanor seals her fate. Eleanor, the Duke of Aquitaine's eldest daughter, knows she must wed Prince Louis in order to insure the future of her beloved duchy. Fiercely independent, filled with untapped desire, the woman who would be queen must provide Louis VII, her monkish husband, with heirs. But it is young Henry of Anjou who catches Eleanor's eye and sets fire to her heart.

Fatal crown Ellen Jones

From shadowy intrigues at court and church, to battlefields where there are no victories, Maud and Stephen accept the destiny that forces them to surrender their love for a crown.

Gilded cages : he trials of Eleanor Aquitaine Ellen Jones

Tumultuous. Passionate. Timeless. The marriage between Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry Plantagenet was like no other, born of power, politics, and an all-consuming, fiery love. Within two years of their wedding, Henry conquered England and together they ruled a vast kingdom. Eleanor, an accomplished ruler in her own right, steps in to help Henry quell the rebellions across their lands. But when she learns of her husband's secret romance with the fair, young Rosamund de Clifford, it shatters her heart and ignites a bitter vengeance that will engulf their family in treachery and betrayal.

Wild Boy Rob Lloyd Jones

Wild Boy has been covered in hair since birth; he's the missing link, a monster, a sideshow spectacle. Condemned to life in a travelling freakshow, excluded from society and abused by his master, he takes refuge in watching people come and go at the fair and develops a Sherlock Holmes style talent for observation and detection.

Wild Boy & the Black Terror Rob Lloyd Jones

A new sensation grips London a poisoner who strikes without a trace, leaving victims mad with terror and then dead. Is there a cure for the Black Terror? To find out, Wild Boy and Clarissa must catch the killer.

A good debutante's guide to ruin Sophie Jordan

Declan, the Duke of Banbury, has no interest in ushering Rosalie Hughes, his stepsister, into society. Dumped on him with nowhere else to go, he's determined to rid himself of the headstrong debutante by bestowing on her an obscenely large dowry - making her the most sought-after heiress of the season. But Rosalie isn't about to go along with Declan's plans.

Good without gluten : delicious food gluten-free Frederique Jules, Jennifer Lepoutre, Mitsuru Yanase

The chefs at Parisian restaurant and grocery store No Glu create delicious, gluten-free food with all the style, finesse and passion for baking excellence that makes French patisserie world-renowned.

A round-heeled woman : my late-life adventures in sex and romance Jane Juska

Inspired by Eric Rohmer's film "Autumn Tale", a smart, energetic divorcee, decided she'd been celibate too long, and placed a personal ad in "The New York Review of Books". The response was overwhelming, and Juska took a sabbatical from teaching to meet some of the men who replied.

Sailing to Sarantium Guy Gavriel Kay

The first part of The Sarantine Mosaic, Kay's sweeping tale of politics, intrigue and adventure inspired by ancient Byzantium. Rumoured to be responsible for the ascension of the previous Emperor, his uncle, amid fire and blood, Valerius the Trakesian has himself now risen to the Golden Throne of the vast empire ruled by the fabled city, Sarantium. Valerius has a vision to match his ambition: a glittering dome that will proclaim his magnificence down through the ages. And so, in a ruined western city on the far distant edge of civilization, a not-so-humble artisan receives a call that will change his life forever.

Blindman's bluff Faye Kellerman

A shooting rampage at the 70-acre compound and mansion owned by shopping mall magnate Guy Kaffey leaves Kaffey, his wife and two guards dead. A plethora of suspects and motives has Decker and his colleagues looking at Guy's family, staff and possibly business rivals. Decker's cool professionalism is thoroughly tested when a chance courtroom encounter thrusts Rina into the case and puts her in harm's way.

The burnt house Faye Kellerman

A plane crashes in unexplained circumstances and the mystery deepens when police investigate. The owners know nothing of the four bodies found in the wreckage. So who are these unidentified passengers?

Cold case Faye Kellerman

A cold case turns red hot, threatening to consume everyone it touches, when a billionaire genius sees similarities between the fifteen-years-ago execution style murder of her favourite teacher, and the recent murder of a Hollywood music producer.

False prophet Faye Kellerman

LAPD Detective Peter Decker doesn't know quite what to make of Lilah Brecht. The beautiful, eccentric spa owner and daughter of a faded Hollywood legend, Lilah was beaten, robbed, and raped in her own home - and claims to have psychic powers that enable her to see even more devastating events looming on the horizon.

Grievous sin Faye Kellerman

When a respected nurse vanishes along with a newborn from the hospital nursery, Peter and Rina fear for the safety of their own precious child - especially when the missing nurse's car is found at the bottom of a cliff … with a corpse inside. In pursuit of justice, Decker follows a twisted path that winds through a sinister maze of hospital politics, misplaced passions, and torturous mind games that can all too easily lead to murder.

Justice Faye Kellerman

The cruel and bizarre slaying of a beautiful teen leads Detective Decker into the dark heart of an exotic subculture: the seamy, sometimes violent world of Southern California's rootless, affluent youth. But even the confession of a disturbed kid with cold "killer eyes" cannot soothe Decker's inner torment. For he knows in his gut this crime goes much deeper and higher than anyone expects - and that true justice, brutal and complete, has yet to be done.

Sanctuary Faye Kellerman

In the comfortable suburbs of Los Angeles an affluent Jewish family disappears. The father's trade is diamonds, a risky international business. Sergeant Pete Decker senses danger - a danger that stems from a network of ruthless international politics that threatens to spill on his own doorstep.

Racing Savannah Miranda Kenneally

He lives in the estate house, and she spends most of her time in the stables helping her father train horses. In fact, Savannah has always been much more comfortable around horses than boys. She knows the rules: no mixing between the staff and the Goodwin family. But Jack Godwin has no such boundaries. With her dream of becoming jockey, Savannah isn't exactly one to follow the rules either.

Things I can't forget Miranda Kenneally

Kate has always been the good girl. But this summer she's a counsellor at Cumberland Creek summer camp, and she wants to put the past behind her. This summer Matt is back as a counsellor too. He's the first guy she ever kissed, and he's gone from geeky songwriter who loved The Hardy Boys to a buff lifeguard who loves to flirt… with her.

Honoring grief : creating a space to let yourself heal Alexandra Kennedy

Written by psychotherapist and grief expert Alexandra Kennedy, Honoring Grief provides powerful and compassionate advice for dealing with loss.

State of the Union Douglas Kennedy

Hannah is a great disappointment to her famous radical father and painter mother. Because instead of mounting the barricades and embracing this age of profound social change, she wants nothing more than to marry her doctor boyfriend, and raise a family in a small town. But once installed as the doctor's wife in a nowhere corner of Maine, boredom sets in, until Hannah is forced into breaking the law. For decades, this one transgression in an otherwise faultless life remains buried. But then, in the charged atmosphere of America after '9/11', her secret comes out and her life goes into free fall.

Earthquake shock Marlane Kennedy

When a sudden earthquake hits during a visit to the skate park, Joey and his friends are trapped on opposite sides of a collapsed overpass and must rescue each other while enduring aftershocks and making their way safely home.

The sandman Lars Kepler

During a cold winter night in Stockholm a young man is found walking alongside a railway bridge. The hospital discovers a death certificate stating that the man has been dead for over seven years. The man was a victim of the serial killer Jurek Walter, who was arrested by Detective Inspector Joona Linna. But where has this man been during all these years? Due to an unexpected testimony the case is reopened.

The secrets of the FBI Ronald Kessler

Gives a firsthand look at the people who run the bureau, the methods they use, the powers they wield, and the secrets they hold.

The calligrapher's daughter Eugenia Kim

In early-twentieth-century Korea, Najin Han, the privileged daughter of a calligrapher, longs to choose her own destiny. Smart and headstrong, she is encouraged by her mother - but her stern father is determined to maintain tradition, especially as the Japanese steadily gain control of his beloved country.

Brunelleschi's dome : the story of the great cathedral in Florence Ross King

This narrative tells the story of the artist and architect Fillippo Brunelleschi and the design and construction in the 1430s of his dome and cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence - one of the most magnificent achievements of the Italian Renaissance.

Shopaholic & sister Sophie Kinsella

Rebecca Bloomwood is happily married to Luke Brandon, and all her problems seem to be at an end. But suddenly into her life steps a sister, of whose existence Becky had been completely unaware. Becky is only too anxious to welcome her into the family. There's only one snag - she hates shopping!

Over on Sesame Street : a counting rhyme Naomi Kleinberg

Buddy Kate Klimo

A German shepherd describes her life as the first guide dog trained to serve the blind.

Dash Kate Klimo

English springer spaniel Dash and his furry friend Mercy - a mastiff - travel with their master, John Goodman, in search of the New World.

Ginger Kate Klimo

Born in a puppy mill, Ginger the golden retriever looks back on her life and the various people who have "owned" her. Abruptly separated from her mother, littermates, and the wire cage that was her whole world, Ginger is shuttled from one harrowing situation to another until she finally escapes, living as an outlaw with a pack of wild dogs. But freedom doesn't feel so good once she becomes hungry and cold and sick. Will Ginger ever find a furever family to call her own?

Togo Kate Klimo

When a diptheria epidemic breaks out in isolated Nome, Alaska, in January 1925, the only way to get life-saving serum to the town is by using dog-sled relay teams. Twenty teams participate, and the dog who inevitably gets credit for saving the town is Balto, lead dog on the final team which delivered the serum. But few people have ever heard of 12-year-old Togo and his musher Leonard Seppala, who carried the serum for almost double the length of any other team, and twice violated warnings to avoid perilous Norton Sound and instead ran straight over the frozen ice!

Charlotte in Giverny Joan Knight

While living in France in 1892, Charlotte, a young American girl, writes a journal of her experiences including those among the impressionist painters at the artist colony of Giverny. Includes profiles of artists who appear in the journal and a glossary of French words.

Charlotte in London Joan. Knight

Charlotte, a young American girl, keeps a journal as her family leaves the artist colony of Giverny, France, in 1895 and travels to London, England, where they meet famous writers and artists and learn of the city's history. Includes biographical sketches of painters and reproductions of artworks.

Charlotte in New York Joan Knight

In 1894, Charlotte records in a journal her impressions of a family trip from Giverney, France to New York, where her father's paintings will be featured in an exhibition. Includes biographical sketches of painters and reproductions of artworks.

Charlotte in Paris Joan Knight

The young daughter of American artists living in Giverny, France, in 1893, records in her journal her exciting trip to Paris to attend an Impressionist art exhibition. Includes biographical sketches of the artists featured in the story.

Yoga and breast cancer : a journey to health and healing Ingrid Kollak, Isabell Utz-Billing

A guide to yoga for breast cancer patients that provides poses aimed at helping manage stress, relieve pain, gain strength, and improve awareness of one's body, thoughts, and feelings.

One zentangle a day : a 6-week course in creative drawing for relaxation, inspiration, and fun Beckah Krahula

One Zentangle A Day is a beautiful interactive book teaching the principles of Zentangles as well as offering fun, related drawing exercises.

Where men win glory : the odyssey of Pat Tillman Jon Krakauer

Pat Tillman was an American football star who walked away from fame to join the Special Operations force after the 9/11 attacks. A year later he was killed - apparently in the line of fire - in Afghanistan. News of Tillman's death shocked America. But the US Army concealled the truth: that it was a ranger in Tillman's own platoon who had fired the fatal shots.

Creative block : get unstuck, discover new ideas : advice and projects from 50 successful artists Danielle Krysa

This book is chock-full of tools to help artists overcome the dreaded and unfortunately universally crippling, feeling of creative block.

My happy life Rose Lagercrantz

Story of a young girl with a lot of optimism, even though events in her life sometimes make it hard for her to be happy.

My heart is laughing Rose Lagercrantz

This is a story about Dani, who's always happy. She's unhappy too, now and then, but she doesn't count those times. But she does miss her best friend Ella who moved to another town. Since then no one is allowed to sit at Ella's desk. Otherwise where would Ella sit when she came back? "Ella is not coming back," said the teacher. "You never know," said Dani. She's not one to give up hope, even when everything seems hopeless.

The eye of the sheep Sofie Laguna

Told from the mesmerising point of view and in the inimitable voice of Jimmy, this is an extraordinary novel about a poor family who is struggling to cope with a different and difficult child.

The turning tide C. M. Lance

A novel of secrets, mate-ship and betrayal, set against a dramatic backdrop of wartime Australia a sweeping saga that will be enjoyed by readers who crave action and adventure with a little bit of spice.

Over the water William Lane

Seduced by the sights, sounds, and magic of Indonesia, Joe finds himself unwittingly drawn into the lives of three women.

A beautiful mess happy handmade home : painting, crafting, and decorating a cheerful, more inspiring space Elsie Larson, Emma Chapman

A beautiful mess photo idea book : 95 inspiring ideas for photographing your friends, your world, and yourself Elsie Larson and Emma Chapman.

This title includes advice on lighting, backdrops, posing and styling, all with an infectious love of lifestyle photography. 100 easy tips and ideas for turning real life into creative, eye-catching photos using any camera (including camera-phones).

The economics of just about everything : the hidden reasons for our curious choices and surprising successes in life Andrew Leigh

A fun and illuminating book full of surprising facts and amazing insights about how the laws of economics affect our everyday lives. Insights from behavioural economics can help us make better decisions. If you like fresh facts and provocative ideas, this is great train and weekend reading. You'll soon see the world and the people around you in a new light.

The lagoon : how Aristotle invented science Armand Marie Leroi

Acclaimed biologist Armand Marie Leroi recovers Aristotle's science. He goes to Lesbos to see the creatures that Aristotle saw, where he saw them, and explores the Philosopher's deep ideas and inspired guesses as well as the things that he got wildly wrong. Leroi shows how Aristotle's science is deeply intertwined with his philosophical system and how modern science even now bears the imprint of its inventor.

Hyde Daniel G. Levine

In this reimagining of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from the monster's perspective, Hyde makes a hero of a villain. Mr. Hyde is hiding, trapped in Dr. Jekyll's surgical cabinet, counting the hours until capture. As four days pass, he has the chance, finally, to tell the story of his brief, marvellous life. We feel the horror of lost time, the helplessness of knowing we are responsible for the actions of a body not entirely our own.

Ghost month Ed Lin

Jing-nan, a young man who runs a food stand in a bustling Taipei night market, is shocked to the core when he learns his ex-girlfriend from high school has been murdered. She was found scantily clad and shot on the side of a highway where she was selling betel nuts to passing truck drivers. Julia Huang had been the valedictorian of their high school, and the last time Jing-nan spoke to her she was enrolled in NYU's honour program, far away in New York. The facts don't add up so he begins to investigate.

High heels & bicycle wheels Jane Linfoot

Meet Bryony: she's a fun-loving, very single TV production assistant whose idea of sport is the Jimmy Choo sales scrum. Meet Jackson: Cycling's bad boy superstar. Injured and out of a certain race this summer, without his training, he's looking for another distraction… Bryony's facing a triple whammy her last single friend just named the day, her mother's offering to have her eggs frozen, and the guy she's loved from afar, forever, has just got hitched. So she's more than happy to accept the offer of a totally out of character but seriously steamy one night of no-strings fun.

How to win a guy in 10 dates Jane Linfoot

The 10 date challenge… Day 1: Take one loaded commitment-phobe explosives expert, embarking on the impossible - a challenge to have ten dates with one woman. Day 5: Add in a fiercely independent and feisty burlesque teacher who has sworn off men. Day 10: She's so not his type and he's so not in her life-plan. But the heat is sizzling and the attraction is explosive. And they're fighting it all the way…

The right side of Mr Wrong Jane Linfoot

When determined singleton Shea Summers is persuaded to become the "wife" of the Lord of Edgerton Manor, the last thing she wants to do is play house with a stranger. Brooding playboy Brando Marshall, is far from happy when Shea turns up at his sprawling estate with production crew in tow. Surely she's just another woman after his wallet?

Six feet over it Jennifer Longo

Leigh sells graves for her family-owned cemetery because her father is too lazy to look farther than the dinner table when searching for employees. Sarcastic and smart, Leigh should be able to stand up to her family and quit. But her world's been turned upside down by the sudden loss of her best friend and the appearance of Dario, the slightly-too-old-for-her grave digger. Surrounded by death, can Leigh move on, if moving on means it's time to get a life.

Edward's menagerie : over 40 soft and snuggly toy animal crochet patterns Kerry Lord

Get ready to spend some time with a suave high-flying rhino, a lovesick elephant who knows her way around a kitchen and a seriously chivalrous tiger. These cute animals with larger-than-life personalities are made using simple crochet techniques and the step-by-step instructions.

The language of houses : how buildings speak to us Alison Lurie

Offers a meditation on architecture and how it speaks to human experience, looking at what buildings and the spaces they contain say about the people who inhabit them, as well as the effects that those spaces have on them.

Save : your money, your time, your planet : inspired uses for common household items Shannon Lush & Jennifer Fleming

These days, once we've finished with something, we tend to throw it away rather than consider if it has another use. SAVE takes you through your house room-by-room with a raft of ideas for finding an uncommon use for things you commonly use.

Speedcleaning : a spotless house in just 15 minutes a day Shannon Lush & Jennifer Fleming

Filled with brilliant practical advice, non-toxic cleaning methods and good old-fashioned commonsense, SPEEDCLEANING will show you how to clean your house, top to bottom, room by room (and outside) as well as providing excellent advice on Spring and Autumn Cleaning, Organisational Dos and Don'ts - and of course more tips on stain removal!

Spotless. 2 : more room-by-room solutions to domestic disasters Shannon Lush & Jennifer Fleming

Taking you through your home room by room, SPOTLESS 2 provides simple and environmentally friendly solutions to hundreds of new stains, smells and scratches.

Spotless A-Z : the ultimate guide to stain removal Shannon Lush & Jennifer Fleming

Shannon's tried and true remedies have rescued many an accidental stain maker, and now solutions are even easier to find in this A-Z guide.

Spotless : room-by-room solutions to domestic disasters Shannon Lush & Jennifer Fleming

SPOTLESS is the essential book for the kitchen bookshelf. Each chapter addresses the stains, cleaning and household problems that may come about in each room of the house: the kitchen, laundry, bathroom, bedroom, children's room - even outdoors on a deck or a patio.

Stainless Shannon Lush & Jennifer Fleming

Using her encyclopaedic knowledge of stain-fighting formulas and chemical reactions, Shannon guides you through all you need to know to be able to diagnose and treat stains safely and effectively.

Heir of fire Sarah J. Maas

Noble destiny Katie MacAlister

Lady Charlotte Collins has set her sights on Alasdair "Dare" McGregor - one deliciously handsome and brilliantly inventive Scottish earl. Charlotte doesn't accept that the McGregor family fortune is a sham and Dare is working desperately hard to find a way out. She has no intention of giving up one iota of either the success or the connubial bliss they both so clearly deserve. She will simply have to take their destiny into her own hands… with explosive results.

Blind eye Stuart MacBride

Aberdeen's growing Polish community is under attack from a serial offender who leaves mutilated victims to be discovered on building sites - eyes gouged out and the sockets burned. Detective Sergeant Logan McRae is assigned to the investigation, codenamed Operation Oedipus, but with the victims too scared to talk, it's going nowhere fast.

Dying light Stuart MacBride

It starts with Rosie Williams, a prostitute, stripped naked and beaten to death down by the docks. For DS Logan McRae it's a bad start to another bad day. Across the city six people are burning to death in a petrol-soaked squat, the doors and windows screwed shut from the outside. And despite Logan's best efforts, it's not long before another prostitute turns up on the slab.

Shatter the bones Stuart MacBride

'You will raise money for the safe return of Alison and Jenny McGregor. If you raise enough money within fourteen days they will be released. If not, Jenny will be killed.' The demand appears in all the papers, on the TV, and the internet, telling the nation to dig deep if they want to keep Alison and Jenny alive. Time is running out, but DS Logan McRae and his colleagues have nothing to go on: the kidnappers haven't left a single piece of forensic evidence.

Nobody's secret Michaela MacColl

One day, fifteen-year-old Emily Dickinson meets a mysterious, handsome young man. Surprisingly, he doesn't seem to know who she or her family is. And even more surprisingly, he playfully refuses to divulge his name. Emily enjoys her secret flirtation with Mr. "Nobody" until he turns up dead in her family's pond.

City kid Mary MacCracken

Already Luke had been picked up 24 times by the police. He'd set over a dozen major fires, and had a staggering record of thefts. No adult could reach him, no teacher could control him, and no policeman could cow him. All this - and Luke was only seven and a half years old. Trying to help Luke was Mary MacCracken's job - and a seemingly impossible challenge. This is the remarkable story of how the impossible came true.

The bishop's man Linden MacIntyre

Father Duncan MacAskill has spent most of his priesthood as the 'Exorcist' - an enforcer employed by his bishop to discipline wayward clergy and suppress potential scandal. He knows all the devious ways that lonely priests persuade themselves that their needs trump their vows, but he's about to be sorely tested himself.

Stalin's nose : across the face of Europe Rory MacLean

Author's humourous account of traveling through eastern Europe with his Aunt Zita and Winston the pig.

Under the dragon : a journey through Burma Rory MacLean

After the brutal suppression of an unarmed national uprising, which cost thousands of lives, Rory MacLean seized the chance to visit Burma. Travelling from Rangoon to Mandalay and Pagan, into the heart of the Golden Triangle, he heard stories of freedom fighters, government censors, basket weavers, farmers and lovers - ordinary people struggling to survive under one of the most brutal and repressive regimes in the world.

Family Planning Karan Mahajan

Wild Alex Mallory

Cade, a teen raised alone in the wilderness, is thrust into civilization in this modern retelling of Tarzan.

The patron saint of ugly Marie Manilla

Garnet Ferrari is known for three things: her flaming red hair, a body covered in port-wine birthmarks resembling a world map, and her occasional ability to perform miracles. Her reputation brings hordes of pilgrims and a representative of the Vatican, sent to determine whether “Saint Garnet,” as she is known locally, is truly deserving of her name. Garnet, wanting nothing more than to debunk this "gift" and send these desperate souls packing, reaches back into her family's tangled past and unspools a tale of love triangles on the shores of the Messina Strait.

The assassination of Margaret Thatcher Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged, summoning forth the horrors so often concealed behind everyday facades.

The Shadow King Jo Marchant

Twixt Firelight and Water Juliet Marillier

A dance with dragons George R. R. Martin

The struggle for the Iron Throne continues. On all sides bitter conflicts are reigniting, played out by a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves. The tides of destiny will inevitably lead to the greatest dance of all.

Chicken joy on Redbean Road : a Bayou country romp Jacqueline Briggs Martin

With art as fun as waltzing on the moon and with words as lively as a fiddle, this rhythmic story set in the bayous of Louisiana captures the power of music to heal and of friendship to endure. Full colour.

In paradise Peter Matthiessen

From the two-time National Book Award winning author of The Snow Leopard and Shadow Country, a short, powerful novel about an American professor of Holocaust Studies who, over the course of a weeklong spiritual retreat at Auschwitz, is forced to grapple with his own past and a family secret: the Jewish mother abandoned to her doom by his Gentile father.

Acorna : the unicorn girl Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball

She was just a little girl, with a tiny horn in the centre of her forehead, funny-looking feet, beautiful silver hair, and several curious powers: the ability to purify air and water, make plants grow, and heal scars and broken bones. A trio of grizzled prospectors found her drifting in an escape pod amid the asteroids, adopted her, and took her to the bandit planet Kezdet, a place where no questions are asked and the girl might grow up free. But Kezdet has its own dark secret. The prosperity of the planet is based on a hideous trade in child slave labour, administered by "The Piper" - a mystery man with special plans for Acorna and her powers. But free little girls have a way of growing into freedom-loving young women, and Acorna has special plans all her own…

Acorna's quest : the adventures of the unicorn girl Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball

Found as an infant drifting in space, Acorna, the Unicorn Girl, has become a young woman. But Acorna has strange dreams of a gentle folk who mind-speak by touching horns and sets off to find her people. No sooner does she leave than a mysterious craft appears, piloted by the Linyaari, a gentle race with telepathic powers. The Linyaari are roaming the galaxy, spreading the alarm about the deadly Khleev - And searching for a beloved little girl they had given up for lost, long ago…

Loom Magic John McCann

Angel Colleen McCullough

It's 1960, and twenty-one-year-old Harriet ignores her father's warning that “only fools, Bohemians and tarts live at Kings Cross” and moves into Mrs Delvecchio Schwartz's rooming house. There she learns about men, love, and tarot cards. But it is mute four-year-old Flo who captures Harriet's heart, and who teaches her that protecting those you care for most can be hardest of all.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough

Passion, politics, love and death combine in a novel of the legendary love triangle between the three leaders of Rome: Cleopatra, Mark Antony and Octavian, from the bestselling author of 'The Thorn Birds.'

On, off Colleen McCullough

After an animal lab technician finds a partial corpse in the Hughlings Jackson Center for Neurological Research (aka "Hug"), police lieutenant Carmine Delmonico discovers that this murder is only one of many 'with more to come' committed by a meticulous serial rapist/killer who saves the heads of his victims.

The song of Troy Colleen McCullough

As urgent and passionate as if told for the first time, Colleen McCullough re-tells the 3000-year-old tale of the Trojan War. As the unforgettable story unfolds, the narrative passes from one character to another: Priam, King of Troy; the Greek princess Helen; the Trojan prince Paris; the haunted fighting machine, Achilles; the subtle and brilliant Odysseus; Agamemnon, King of Kings.

Tim Colleen McCullough

Mary Horton is content with her comfortable, solitary existence … until she meets Tim. A beautiful young man with the mind of a child - a gentle outcast in a cruel, unbending world - he illuminates the darkness of Mary's days with his boyish innocence. And he will shatter the lonely, middle-aged spinster's respectable, ordered life with a forbidden promise of a very special love.

I Want to Live Lurlene N. McDaniel

Last Dance Lurlene N. McDaniel

My Secret Boyfriend Lurlene N. McDaniel

No Time to Cry Lurlene N. McDaniel

Six Months to Live Lurlene N. McDaniel

So Much to Live For Lurlene N. McDaniel

Why Did She Have to Die Lurlene N. McDaniel

Until Angels Close My Eyes Lurlene. Mcdaniel

The Mermaids Singing Val McDermid

After this Alice McDermott

Alice McDermott's powerful novel is a vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Witty, compassionate, and wry, it captures the social, political, and spiritual upheavals of those decades through the experiences of a middle-class couple, their four children, and the changing worlds in which they live.

At weddings and wakes Alice McDermott

Twice a week, Lucy Dailey leaves suburbia with her three children in tow, returning to the Brooklyn home where she grew up, and where her stepmother and unmarried sisters still live. Aunt Veronica, with her wounded face and dreams of beauty, drowns her sorrows in drink. Aunt Agnes, an acerbic student of elegance, sips only from the finest crystal as she sees Aunt May, the ex-nun, blossom with a late and unexpected love.

A bigamist's daughter Alice McDermott

Elizabeth Connelly, editor at a New York vanity press, sells the dream of publication. Stories of true emotional depth rarely cross her desk. But when a young writer named Tupper Daniels walks in, bearing an unfinished novel, Elizabeth is drawn to both the novelist and his story - a lyrical tale about a man in love with more than one woman at once.

Charming Billy Alice McDermott

The late Billy Lynch's family and friends gather at a small bar and grill in the Bronx to remember better times. On Long Island one summer years ago, Billy fell in love with a beautiful Irish girl working for a wealthy Park Avenue family. Billy wanted to marry Eva, but then she went back to Ireland and died of pneumonia. Billy never got over it. Anybody who knew him would tell you so. Billy began courting Maeve not long after, but for the rest of their lives they shared a hidden, twisted grief.

Someone Alice McDermott

The story of a Brooklyn-born woman's life - her family, her neighbourhood, her daily trials and triumphs from childhood to old age.

Betrayal Fiona McIntosh

Deep in the folklore of Tallinor lies a dark legend of a powerful sentient called Orlac who almost destroyed the entire land. Even now, many centuries later, any sentient who is discovered is subjected to the barbaric practice of bridling and branding. But in a village far from the royal city a young scribe, Torkyn Gynt, blazes with untold power and healing abilities which go undetected. Tor agrees to be apprenticed to the Royal Physic Merkhud and with that decision Tor takes the first step towards his destiny.

Destiny Fiona McIntosh

The Paladin are reunited in the Heartwood and the Trinity is revealed at last. But what is the key to the secret which will unlock their power? Tor and Alyssa are surrounded by danger. The battle lines are drawn for the final confrontation between the two most powerful sentients ever to walk the Land.

Revenge Fiona McIntosh

Only the Trinity can stop the vengeful god Orlac from destroying the Land. Yet the Trinity itself remains a mystery. Meanwhile, the Paladin gather around those they protect, unaware that a new terror is emerging to threaten the Trinity and the Land…

Andrew Draws David McPhail

Baby Pig Pig Talks David McPhail

Baby Pig Pig Walks David McPhail

Bella Loves Bunny David McPhail

Ben Loves Bear David McPhail

Peter Loves Penguin David McPhail

The Searcher and Old Tree David McPhail

Waddles David McPhail

The day she died Catriona McPherson

Jessie Constable has learned the hard way to always keep herself safe. But meeting Gus King changes everything. Before she knows it, Jessie is sleeping at Gus's house, babysitting his kids, becoming a part of his family. And yet, she can't ignore the unsettling questions. Who does she keep seeing from the corner of her eye? Why are strange men threatening her? Most importantly, what really happened to Gus's wife?

What We See When We Read Peter Mendelsund

Beneath the lion's gaze Maaza Mengiste

Beneath the Lion's Gaze opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother's prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the violence that has wracked his family and country. His father, Hailu, a prominent doctor, has been ordered to report to jail after helping a victim of state-sanctioned torture to die. And Dawit, Hailu's youngest son, has joined an underground resistance movement - a choice that will lead to more upheaval and bloodshed across a ravaged Ethiopia.

How to lose a lord in 10 days or less Elizabeth Michels

After years hidden away from the mockery of the Ton, proud Andrew Clifton, Lord Amberstall, is finally ready to face Society again. But when his horse is injured on the road to London, Andrew finds himself literally thrown at the feet of the beautiful, infuriating, and undeniably eccentric Katie Moore.

Must love dukes Elizabeth Michels

Lillian Phillips could not imagine how her quiet, simple life had come to this. Blackmailed by the Mad Duke of Thornwood into accepting one wild dare after another… all because of a pocket watch.

Holiday Stanley Middleton

To escape the death of his son and the death-throes of his marriage, Edwin Fisher retreats - to a place where he had once known the unqualified happiness of childhood. But as painful memories rise unbidden and uncontrolled, Edwin must confront each in turn and realise that without a past there can be no future.

Spurt : a balls and all story Chris Miles

Jack Sprigley is about to start the last term of year nine and puberty is still a total no-show. Worse yet, his friends are now so far ahead of him that they've started hooking up and getting girlfriends. Jack is screwed. But then he comes up with a plan to catch up and win his friends back. And his plan is perfect: he just has to fake puberty.

Whales : the genle giants Joyce Milton

A colourful book for children on whales packed with fascinating information.

Hitler's last witness : the memoirs of Hitler's bodyguard Rochus Misch, Roger Moorhouse

After being seriously wounded in the 1939 Polish campaign, Rochus Misch was invited to join Hitler's Schutzstaffel (SS) bodyguard. There he served until the war's end as Hitler's bodyguard, courier, orderly, and, finally, chief of communications. On the Berghof terrace, he watched Eva Braun organise parties; he observed Heinrich Himmler and Albert Speer; and he monitored telephone conversations from Berlin to the East Prussian Fuhrer Headquarters on 20 July 1944 after the attempt on Hitler's life. Towards the end, Misch was drawn into the Fuhrerbunker with the last of the 'faithful'.

Maps Rose Mitchell

Underwear Mary Elise Monsell

Bismark the Buffalo is grumpy and unlovable until his friends teach him how to laugh and show him that wearing colourful underwear can be great fun.

Catwatching Desmond Morris

Every single feline pet carries an inheritance of amazing sensory capacities, vocal utterances, body language and territorial displays. By answering such questions as 'what does a cat signal with its ears? 'why does a cat rub up against your leg?' and 'why does a cat swing its head from side to side when staring at its prey?', Desmond Morris decodes the private world of the cat.

The human zoo Desmond Morris

This study concerns the city dweller. Morris finds remarkable similarities with captive zoo animals and looks closely at the aggressive, sexual and parental behaviour of the human species under the stresses and pressures of urban living.

Owl Desmond Morris

From ancient Babylon, to Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" and the grandiloquent, absent-minded Wol from Winnie the Pooh, to David Lynch's "Twin Peaks", owls have woven themselves into the fabric of human culture from earliest times. Desmond Morris explores the natural and cultural history of one of nature's most popular creatures.

The Last Weekend Blake Morrison

Surviving the Angel of Death Eva Mozes Kor

David's world : a picture book about living with autism Dagmar H. Mueller

"Sometimes I do not like David. He is so different. He speaks a different language… David is my brother." Thus begins a moving story about David, who has autism, and his older brother, who is trying to understand the world David inhabits.

Let Them Eat Kale Julia Mueller

101 Great Gifts Kids Can Make Stephanie Mueller

Full tilt : Ireland to India with a bicycle Dervla Murphy

When Dervla Murphy was ten, she was given a bicycle and an atlas, and within days she was secretly planning a trip to India. At the age of thirty-one, in 1963, she finally set off and this book is based on the daily diary she kept while riding through Persia, Afghanistan and over the Himalayas to Pakistan and India.

In Ethiopia with a mule Dervla Murphy

In 1966 Dervla Murphy travelled the length and breadth of Ethopia, first on a mule, Jock, whom she named after her publisher, and later on a recalcitrant donkey. The remarkable achievement was not surviving three armed robberies or the thousand-mile trail, but the gradual growth of affection for and understanding of another race.

A month by the sea : encounters in Gaza Dervla Murphy

Bombed and cut-off from normal contact with the rest of the world, life in Gaza is beset with structural, medical and mental health problems, yet it is also bursting with political engagement and underwritten by an intense enjoyment of family life. Dervla develops an acute eye for the way in which isolation has shaped this society.

Tibetan foothold Dervla Murphy

After her epic journey from Ireland to India by bicycle, Dervla Murphy immersed herself in the life of the sub-continent, working for six months in an orphanage for Tibetan children in Northern India. Alongside her enchantment, Dervla became a perceptive witness to the realities of aid work: the corruption, smug piety and power struggles of the bureaucrats, and the dangerous, long-term side effects on the recipients - cultural enfeeblement and dependency.

Luigi's Freedom Ride Alan Murray

A prayer for Blue Delaney Kirsty Murray

Colm was one of many orphans enduring the cruelties of life on Bindoon Boy's Home - He seizes his chance to escape and teams up with an old man, Billy Dare and his dog Rusty - Together they travel through Western Australia and form a strong friendship that strengthens them both.

The secret life of Maeve Lee Kwong Kirsty Murray

Maeve's safe world is torn apart when her mother dies in a car crash. Sent to live with her strict Chinese grandparents, she fights to hold onto the things she loves most - her two best friends, her dancing, her baby brother Ned.

The death of pie : a Pennsylvania Dutch mystery with recipe Tamar Myers

When a bestselling novelist falls face-down dead into Magdalena Yoder's prize-winning apple pie during the village of Hernia's 110th Annual Festival of Pies, there is no shortage of suspects in the subsequent murder investigation. Hopelessly out of his depth, Hernia's inexperienced young Chief of Police requests Magdalena's help in uncovering the guilty.

L8r, g8r Lauren Myracle

Throughout their senior year in high school, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela continue to share "instant messages" with one another about their day-to-day experiences as they consider college, sex, the importance of prom, and the inevitable end of their inseparable trio.

Ttfn Lauren Myracle

Now high school juniors, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela continue to share "instant messages" with one another as one of them experiments with marijuana, another gets her first boyfriend, and the third moves three thousand miles away.

Ttyl Lauren Myracle

Chronicles, in the form of email messages, the day-to-day experiences, feelings, and plans of three friends, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela, as they begin tenth grade.

Ready? Set. Raymond! Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Raymond likes to do everything fast - from brushing his teeth to going to school to making new friends. In three easy-to-read stories, readers follow Raymond on a typical super-fast day, see him make a new friend, and run a race!

Knockout Games G. Neri

Amsterdam stories Nescio

No one has written more feelingly and more beautifully than Nescio about the madness and sadness, courage and vulnerability of youth: its big plans and vague longings, not to mention the binges, crashes, and marathon walks and talks. No one, for that matter, has written with such pristine clarity about the radiating canals of Amsterdam and the cloud-swept landscape of the Netherlands.

A merry dance around the world Eric Newby

A collection of writing from eleven books by Britain's best-loved travel writer, A Merry Dance around the World is the culmination of a lifetime's adventures, from the birth of Eric Newby in 1919 at the 'ghastly hour' of 3:45am, to Herculean cycling escapades in his seventies through the wiles of the Irish winter.

On the shores of the Mediterranean Eric Newby

'Why don't you start in Naples and go clockwise round the Mediterranean instead of dashing off in all directions like a lunatic?' Fortunately, Eric Newby followed his wife Wanda's advice, and so begins the wonderfully madcap adventure, 'On the Shores of the Mediterranean'.

A short walk in the Hindu Kush Eric Newby

It was 1956, and Eric Newby was earning an improbable living in the chaotic family business of London haute couture. Pining for adventure, Newby sent his friend Hugh Carless the now-famous cable - CAN YOU TRAVEL NURISTAN JUNE? - setting in motion a legendary journey from Mayfair to Afghanistan, and the mountains of the Hindu Kush, north-east of Kabul.

Slowly down the Ganges Eric Newby

On his forty-forth birthday, Eric Newby sets out on an incredible journey: to travel the 1,200-mile length of India's holy river. In a misguided attempt to keep him out of trouble, Wanda, his life-long travel companion and wife, is to be his fellow boatwoman.

Something wholesale : my life and times in the rag trade Eric Newby

Eric Newby is well-known for his travel writing. However, less known are his adventures during the years he spent as an apprentice and commercial buyer in the improbable trade of women's fashion. 'Something Wholesale' is Newby's hilarious and chaotic tale of the disorder that was his life as an apprentice at Lane and Newby.

Her fearful symmetry Audrey Niffenegger

When Elspeth Noblin dies, she leaves everything to the 20-year-old American twin daughters of her own long-estranged twin, Edie. Valentina and Julia, as enmeshed as Elspeth and Edie once were, move into Elspeth's London flat and through a series of developing relationships a crisis develops that could pull the twins apart.

Crystal Gryphon Andre Norton

Gryphon in Glory Andre Norton

Horn Crown Andre Norton

Jargoon Pard Andre Norton

Scarface Andre Norton

Spell of the Witch World Andre Norton

Wheel of Stars Andre Norton

Zarsthor's Bane Andre Norton

Cold-blooded kindness : neuroquirks of a codependent killer, or, Just give me a shot at loving you, dear : and other reflections on helping that hurts Barbara A. Oakley

This is the true story of Carole Alden, a brilliant, yet eccentric mother of five, who evinced a deep and abiding need to help society's outcasts. In this searing exploration of deadly codependency, the author takes the reader on a spellbinding voyage of discovery that examines the questions: Are some people naturally too caring? Is caring sometimes a mask for darker motives? Can science help us understand how our concerns for others can hurt everything we hold dear? This gripping story brings extraordinary insight to our deepest questions. Is kindness always the right answer? Is kindness always what it seems?

Baby Parade Rebecca O'Connell

An Only Child and My Father's Son Frank O'Connor

Flight command John Oddie

By turns heart-warming and poignant, the story of an Australian farm boy who carved a military career encompassing service in two international wars.

Fun With Washi! Jessica Okui

Cow Jules Older

PIG Jules Older

Telling Time Jules Older

The dog Joseph O'Neill

Distraught by a breakup with his long-term girlfriend, a young man leaves New York to take an unusual job in the strange desert metropolis of Dubai at the height of its self-invention as a futuristic Shangri-la where he struggles with his new position as the "family officer" of the capricious and very rich Batros family.

Origami for children : 35 easy-to-follow step-by-step projects Mari Ono

Divided into six sections, the projects cover a range of themes, from classic origami designs such as animals to party decorations and modern vehicles. There is even a project showing how to create the classic Japanese arcade character Pacman. You will be amazed at how much you can create with a few simple folds. Every stage is described in a series of clear step-by-step photographs, showing all the techniques you will need to complete each of these great designs.

Rescue on Nim's Island Wendy Orr

When Jack invites a group of scientists to visit, they bring their children as well. But two of the scientists have plans other than studying algae… By the time Nim discovers what they really want, and what they will do to get it, the children are in grave danger. And so is the island! Nim must choose between saving a natural treasure and saving someone's life.

Diary of a naked official Yu Ouyang

Anonymous, the keeper of the diary, deputy director of a publishing company in a nameless city in China, is a happily married man with a daughter until he succumbs fully to his sexual desires, forever searching for new erotic experiences and secret liaisons. Anonymous buys permanent resident status for his wife and daughter in the West while he stays behind in China, a situation commonly referred to as a naked official in contemporary Chinese terminology, one who has nothing to fear when exposed because his family is safely installed overseas with all his money.

The English class Yu Ouyang

At the end of the Cultural Revolution in China in the late 1970s Jing, an educated youth (zhishi qingnian) who has spent a few years as a peasant in the countryside, becomes a truck driver in a provincial shipyard. He manages to teach himself English in adverse circumstances while driving his truck, eventually passing the examination to get into the English class at Donghu University. There, he meets with classmates from vastly different cultural backgrounds and falls in love with Deirdre, the estranged partner of Dr Wagner the English teacher.

Loose Yu Ouyang

This unique narrative takes place around the turn of this century, partly in Australia and partly in China and its provinces, where Ouyang Yu's brother Ouyang Ming, a famed Falungong practitioner who was tortured to death, enters the story.

Begums, thugs and white mughals Fanny Parkes Parlby

Fanny Parkes, who lived in India between 1822 and 1846, was the ideal travel writer - courageous, indefatigably curious and determinedly independent. Her delightful journal traces her journey from prim memsahib, married to a minor civil servant of the Raj, to eccentric, sitar-playing Indophile, fluent in Urdu, critical of British rule and passionate in her appreciation of Indian culture.

Man and Boy Tony Parsons

Man and Wife Tony Parsons

Men from the Boys Tony Parsons

Joss Whedon Amy Pascale

From the cult favourite Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which netted four million viewers per episode, to the summer blockbuster The Avengers, which amassed a box office of $1.5 billion, Joss Whedon has made a name for himself in Hollywood for his penchant for telling meaningful, personal tales about love, death, and redemption even against the most dramatic and larger-than-life backdrops. This biography follows his development from a creative child and teenager who spent years away from his family at an elite English public school, through his early successes which often turned into frustrating heartbreak in both television (Roseanne) and film (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) to his breakout turn as the creator, writer, and director of the Buffy television series.

9th judgement James Patterson with Maxine Paetro

A psychopathic killer targets San Francisco's most innocent and vulnerable. A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is left with only one shred of evidence: a cryptic message scrawled across the windshield in blood-red lipstick.

Alex Cross's trial James Patterson and Richard DiLallo

Detective Alex Cross tells the story of an ancestor, Abraham Cross, and his experiences with lawyer Ben Corbett, recounting one man's pursuit of justice in the face of the resurgence of Ku Klux Klan racism and violence in 1906 Eudora, Mississippi.

Don't blink James Patterson & Howard Roughan

New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons - the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting an interview when he accidentally captures a key piece of evidence, landing him in the middle of an all-out war between Italian and Russian mafia.

Worst case James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge

The son of one of New York's wealthiest families is snatched off the street and held hostage. His parents can't save him, because this kidnapper isn't demanding money. Instead, he quizzes his prisoner on the price others pay for his life of luxury. In this exam, wrong answers are fatal. Detective Michael Bennett leads the investigation.

Postcard Killers James Patterson

Silent Witness Richard North Patterson

The Tulip Anna Pavord

Notorious John Pearson

The death of Lomond Friel Sue Peebles

When Rosie, a successful radio presenter, hears that her father has had a stroke, her life is thrown into disarray and she finds herself making reckless decisions that make little sense to those around her. Exploring the impact of memory and conscience, it tackles a family at a time of crisis, delving into the complexities of emotions and family history with compassion, humour and grace.

The unprejudiced palate Angelo M. Pellegrini

First issued in 1948, when soulless minute steaks and quick casseroles were becoming the norm, The Unprejudiced Palate inspired a seismic culinary shift in how America eats. Written by a food-loving immigrant from Tuscany, this memoir-cum-cookbook articulates the Italian American vision of the good life: a backyard garden, a well-cooked meal shared with family and friends, and a passion for ingredients and cooking that nourish the body and the soul.

Cybersexism Laurie Penny

Meat Market Laurie Penny

Unspeakable Things Laurie Penny

With intent to kill Hugh Pentecost

Manhattan's charitable circles know no finer place for a fundraiser than the stately Beaumont Hotel, whose brilliant manager Pierre Chambrun will do whatever it takes to make Good Samaritans feel at home. This means that after popular singer Stan Nelson has completed his annual twenty-four-hour telethon for cancer research, Chambrun is loath to wake the crooner from his well-earned sleep. But there has been a murder in the hotel's pool, and that means no good deed will go unpunished.

Cinderella Charles Perrault ; illustrated by Roberto Innocenti

In her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect, Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper.

The Midwife Jolina Petersheim

Conner's Courage S. J. D. Peterson

Jess's Journey S. J. D. Peterson

Quinn's Need S. J. D. Peterson

Ty's Obsession S. J. D. Peterson

Blood Wounds Susan Beth Pfeffer

My new boy Joan Phillips

A little black puppy acquires a boy, teaches him some tricks, and finds him when he is lost.

Heroes are my weakness Susan Elizabeth Phillips

A down-on-her-luck actress reduced to staging kids' puppet shows finds herself trapped on a remote island off the coast of Maine with a sexy horror novelist who knows a dozen ways to kill with his bare hands.

Fives and twenty-fives Michael Pitre

It's the rule - always watch your fives and twenty-fives. Fives and twenty-fives mark the measure of a marine's life in the road repair platoon. Dispatched to fill potholes on the highways of Iraq, the platoon works to assure safe passage for citizens and military personnel. Their mission lacks the glory of the infantry, but in a war where every pothole contains a hidden bomb, road repair brings its own danger. Returning home, they exchange one set of decisions and repercussions for another, struggling to find a place in a world that no longer knows them.

Mrs. Katz and Tush Patricia Polacco

A long-lasting friendship develops between Larnel, a young African-American, and Mrs. Katz, a lonely, Jewish widow, when Larnel presents Mrs. Katz with a scrawny kitten without a tail.

Bury this Andrea Portes

An impressionistic literary thriller about the murder of a young girl in small-town Michigan in 1979. Beth Krause was by all intents a good little girl - member of the church choir, beloved daughter of doting parents, friend to the downtrodden. But dig a little deeper into any small town, and conflicts and jealousies begin to appear. And somewhere is that heady mix lies the answer to what really happened to Beth Krause.

Mathematical Curiosities Alfred S. Posamentier

Rules For Old Men Waiting Peter Pouncey

Carpe jugulum Terry Pratchett

Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be priest. He thought he'd come to Lancre for a simple ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches. Mightily Oats knows he has a prayer, but he wishes he had an axe.

The carpet people Terry Pratchett

The Carpet is home to different tribes: there's Fray, who sweeps a trail of destruction, and two Munrung brothers, who set out on an adventure when their village is flattened. The story will come to a terrible end if someone doesn't do something about it.

The dark side of the sun Terry Pratchett

Dom Salabos has a lot of advantages. As heir to a huge fortune he has an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday sub-circuitry), a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as a godfather and a security chief who even runs checks on himself; and on Dom's home world even death is not always fatal. Things just couldn't be better. Why then, in an age when prediction is a science, is his future in doubt?

Diggers Terry Pratchett

A group of small creatures called nomes, whose families have lived for generations hidden in a department store, are forced to flee to a country quarry, where they struggle against harsh weather, destructive humans, and dissension among themselves.

The folklore of Discworld Terry Pratchett & Jacqueline Simpson

Legends, myths, fairytales: our world is made up of the stories we told ourselves about where we came from and how we got there. It is the same on Discworld, except that beings which on Earth are creatures of the imagination - like vampires, trolls, witches and, possibly, gods - are real, alive and in some cases kicking on the Disc.

Going postal Terry Pratchett

Moist von Lipwig is a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. Is there a shot at redemption waiting in the mad world of the mail for a man who's prepared to push the envelope?

A hat full of sky Terry Pratchett

A real witch never casually steps out of her body, leaving it empty. Eleven-year-old Tiffany does. And there's something just waiting for a handy body to take over. Something ancient and horrible, which can't die …

I shall wear midnight Terry Pratchett

For Tiffany Achiny being a good witch mostly means tending to the locals’ minor aches, pains, and kerfuffles, but to become a great witch, she’ll have to contend with the malevolent ghost of an ancient witch-burner. Yet even that might not be as terrifying as trying to keep the peace between the humans and the wee Nac Mac Feegles and, shudder, getting wrapped up in the wedding of her childhood friend, who is suddenly a very myopic baron.

Jingo Terry Pratchett

'Neighbours…hah. People'd live for ages side by side, nodding at one another amicably on their way to work, and then some trivial thing would happen and someone would be having a garden fork removed from their ear.' Throughout history, there's always been a perfectly good reason to start a war. Never more so if it is over a 'strategic' piece of old rock in the middle of nowhere. It is after all every citizen's right to bear arms to defend what they consider to be their own. Even if it isn't.

The Johnny Maxwell trilogy Terry Pratchett

From a computer game in which the aliens want Johnny to negotiate a peace treaty for them, to the inhabitants of a cemetery who are just discovering how much fun being alive can be, to the time of the Blitz, join Johnny Maxwell and his friends in these three terrific tales from the master of comic fantasy.

The light fantastic Terry Pratchett

'What shall we do?' said Twoflower. 'Panic?' said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival. As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld could do with a hero. What it doesn't need is a singularly inept and cowardly wizard, still recovering from the trauma of falling off the edge of the world, or a well-meaning tourist and his luggage which has a mind (and legs) of its own. Which is a shame, because that's all there is.

Night watch Terry Pratchett

Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he's back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck.

Only you can save mankind Terry Pratchett

When the aliens on Johnny's computer game want to surrender rather than be blown up, Johnny has to learn to wage all-out peace and save them from destruction.

Sourcery Terry Pratchett

All this books and stuff, that isn't what it should all be about. What we need is real wizardry. There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we'd better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son …a wizard squared …a source of magic …a Sourcerer. Unseen University has finally got what it wished for: the most powerful wizard on the disc. Which, unfortunately, could mean that the death of all wizardry is at hand. And that the world is going to end, depending on whom you listen to. Unless of course one inept wizard can take the University's most precious artefact, the very embodiment of magic itself, and deliver it halfway across the disc to safety.

Strata Terry Pratchett

THE COMPANY BUILDS PLANETS. Kin Arad is a high-ranking official of the Company. After twenty-one decades of living, and with the help of memory surgery, she is at the top of her profession. Discovering two of her employees have placed a fossilized plesiosaur in the wrong stratum, not to mention the fact it is holding a placard which reads, 'End Nuclear Testing Now', doesn't dismay the woman who built a mountain range in the shape of her initials during her own high-spirited youth. But then came discovery of something which did intrigue Kin Arad. A flat earth was something new…

Thud! Terry Pratchett

Koom Valley - that was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago. But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office.

Unseen academicals Terry Pratchett

Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork - not the old fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go going when you drop them. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else.

Good Sports Jack Prelutsky

The Paper Sword Robert Priest

Women who seize the moment : 11 lessons from those who create their own success Angela Priestley

Women Who Seize The Moment addresses the common issues that many women face in their careers. In our society it is not uncommon for people to dislike their job but still work extremely hard. There is an assumption that we will get that raise, eventually, we will get promoted, eventually, I will get my dream job, eventually. Turning Points reveals 10 steps women should take to stop waiting for these turning points and make them happen.

My Year of Epic Rock Andrea Pyros

What Happens in London Julia Quinn

Step this way Tish Rabe

Sally and Nick are having shoe trouble. Sally can't stand up in her mom's shoes, and her dad's are too big for Nick. Not a problem, says the Cat. Feet come in all shapes and sizes, and to demonstrate, he takes them on a trip in the Thinga-ma-jigger to visit some friends: a duck with flat, wide feet good for swimming; a lemur with long, grasping toes good for climbing; and a gecko with tiny hairs on his feet that keep him from slipping.

The Patience Stone Atiq Rahimi

Thoughts on design Paul Rand

One of the seminal texts of graphic design, Paul Rand's Thoughts on Design is now available for the first time since the 1970s. Writing at the height of his career, Rand articulated in his slender volume the pioneering vision that all design should seamlessly integrate form and function. This facsimile edition preserves Rand's original 1947 essay with the adjustments he made to its text and imagery for a revised printing in 1970, and adds only an informative and inspiring new foreword by design luminary Michael Bierut.

Arlene Sardine Chris Raschka

The Blushful Hippopotamus Chris Raschka

Can't Sleep Chris Raschka

Cowy Cow Chris Raschka

Crabby Crab Chris Raschka

Lamby Lamb, Snaily Snail, Goosey Goose, and Doggy Dog Chris Raschka

Seriously, Norman! Chris Raschka

Simple Gifts Chris Raschka

Whaley Whale, Moosey Moose, Sluggy Slug, and Wormy Worm Chris Raschka

Everything is wonderful : memories of a collective farm in Estonia Sigrid Rausing

In 1993-94 Sigrid Rausing completed her anthropological fieldwork on the peninsula of Noarootsi, a former Soviet border protection zone in Estonia. Rausing's conversations with the local people touched on many subjects: the economic privations of post-Soviet existence, the bewildering influx of western products, and the Swedish background of many of them. She lived and worked amongst the villagers, witnessing their transition from repression to freedom, and from Soviet neglect to post-Soviet austerity.

Fairies! : a true story Shirley-Raye Redmond

Fairy fans and beginning readers will delight in this easy-to-read look at fairy folklore and sightings through the ages.

Sorceress Celia Rees

Witch Child Celia Rees

Stephane Reynaud's gourmet hot dogs Stephane Reynaud

Featuring 60 easy, tasty hot dog recipes, prepared with passion in gourmet French style, Stephane Reynaud's Gourmet Hot Dogs is peppered throughout with light-hearted, quirky illustrations of cute canines, each with their eye on a tasty hot dog morsel.

The Final Curtsey Margaret Rhodes

Watercolor Sujean Rim

Finding Everett Ruess David Roberts

Traces the life of the early twentieth-century adventurer, writer, and watercolour artist, describing his early years as a child prodigy, his solitary journeys through the American Southwest, and his mysterious 1934 disappearance in Navajo country.

Wallflowers Eliza Robertson

In the opening story of Wallflowers, a girl is cat-sitting for her neighbour, sleeping in the neighbour's house. It's nearly identical to her mother's nearby - in the Copper Waters subdivision, they all are - but she likes it here, eating boiled eggs and watching TV, feeling out her freedom as heavy rains fall. And then a nearby dike fails.

Whale Shines Fiona Robinson

The Tattooed Duke Maya Rodale

How I Rescued My Brain David Roland

Inside the Whale Jennie Rooney

Women in dark times Jacqueline Rose

Jacqueline Rose's new book begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by family tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe. Together these women have a shared story to tell, as they blaze a trail across some of the most dramatic events of the last century.

Huff and Puff Claudia Rueda

Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie

The Return of Brody McBride Jennifer Ryan

The Curl Up and Dye Sharon Sala

Eleven years ago, LilyAnn Bronte was the Peachy-Keen Queen of Blessings, Georgia. Then Randy Joe was killed in Iraq, and somehow LilyAnn just let herself go to seed. Ruby, Mabel Jean, Vera, and Vesta of the Curl Up and Dye have been itching to give LilyAnn a makeover, but she knows it would make more than a new hairstyle for her to get her life back. Until a handsome stranger roars into town, and LilyAnn has a revelation.

A field of poppies Sharon Sala

Two families. One secret. Separated by a river and twenty years of lies. Five minutes changed Poppy Sadler's life forever. Tick. The hospital called. Her mother's battle with cancer was finally over. Tock. The police showed up at her door. Her father's body has just been pulled from the River. Tick. Murdered. Tick, Tock. Five minutes and a secret is coming undone.

To marry a Scottish laird Lynsay Sands

Highlander Campbell Sinclair is no stranger to battle, so when he sees a lad attacked by bandits, he jumps into the fray. He didn't count on being stabbed. Grateful to the boy for nursing him back to health, Cam offers to accompany Jo safely to his destination. But when he accidentally comes across the lad bathing in the river, Cam discovers that Jo is actually Joan … with the most sinful of curves.

Lowly worm meets the Early Bird Richard Scarry

Early Bird looks and looks, but he can't seem to find a worm to play with. A jumping frog and a tiny field mouse try to help out, but there just aren't any worms to be found. Early Bird is about to give up when he meets a friendly fellow in a funny hat - it's Wiggly Worm!

Cat on the mat Susan Schade and Jon Buller

Cat has a dream. She runs. She flips. She jumps. She slips. Will Cat make the team?

Rough crossings : Britain, the slaves and the American Revolution Simon Schama

In response to a declaration by the last royal governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves escaped from farms, plantations and cities to try to reach the British camp. Schama details the odyssey of the escaped blacks through the fires of war and the terror of potential recapture at the war's end, into inhospitable Nova Scotia, where thousands who had served the Crown were betrayed and, in a little-known hegira of the slave epic, sent across the broad, stormy ocean to Sierra Leone.

The great book of snores Michiel Schimmel

Snoozer is a friendly creature who looks everywhere in the forest, to find hidden tales and stories, to write down in his Great Book Of Snores. When Winter comes, he visits all animals to help them through their wintersleep and read them a bedtime story. But what if Snoozer himself can't seem to fall asleep?

Favorite wife : escape from polygamy Susan Ray Schmidt

Susan was fifteen years old when she became the sixth wife of Verlan LeBaron - one of the leaders of a rogue Mormon cult engaged in a blood feud with his brother that, from 1972 to 1988, claimed up to two dozen lives. In this… book, Susan Ray Schmidt tells the story of growing up on the inside and of her ultimate escape.

Kick with my left foot Paul Seden & Karen Briggs

I pull the sock on my left foot. I pull the sock on my right foot. I lace up the boot on my left foot. I lace up the boot on my right foot … It's time for footy!

The unofficial guide to Las Vegas, 2014 Bob Sehlinger

Nevada should make The Unofficial Guide to Las Vegas the official guide to Vegas because there is not a better one. With insightful writing, up-to-date reviews of major attractions, and a lot of "local" knowledge, this book has it all.

The unofficial guide to Walt Disney World, 2015 Bob Sehlinger with Len Testa

Compiled and written by a team of experienced researchers whose work has been cited by such diverse sources as USA Today and Operations Research Forum, The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World digs deeper and offers more than any other guide.

The sweetest spell Suzanne Selfors

Scorned in her Flatlands village because of a deformed foot, Emmeline Thistle's life changes when she is taken in by Wanderlands dairy farmers and discovers her magical ability to make chocolate, which is more precious and rare than gold or jewels in the kingdom of Anglund

I, migrant : a comedian's journey from Karachi to the outback Sami Shah

An intelligent, hilarious and moving memoir - from Karachi to Western Australia. Read I, Migrant and laugh ‘til you cry. Despite nearly being killed by a kangaroo and almost lynched and run out of town after his comedy was taken far too seriously, Sami Shah is very happy to be living in Australia.

Husband and wife Tseruyah Shalev

One morning, without warning and out of nowhere, Na'ama Newman wakes up to a new reality. Her husband, until then a healthy, active tour guide, announces that he cannot get out of bed. Reminiscent of Kafka's Metamorphosis, we have full view of the relationship between Udi, who has gone on "strike" and his wife, who tries to cope with the crisis in their marriage.

Love life Tseruyah Shalev

When Ya'ara meets Aryeh, her father's boyhood friend, she is instantly drawn to his archly assured presence. She quickly forsakes her devoted and well-meaning husband for this powerful and mysterious older man, but as their heated affair intensifies, Ya'ara finds that the things in Aryeh that attract her also repel her with equal intensity.

The remains of love Tseruyah Shalev

Hemda Horovitz is nearing the end of her life. As she lies in bed in Jerusalem, memories from the past flood her thoughts: her childhood in the kibbutz spent under the gaze of her stern, and her own two children one she could never love enough, and the other whom she loved too much. Zeruya Shalev's electrifying new novel is at once a meditation on the state of modern Israel and a profound exploration of family, yearning, compromise, and the insistent pull of the past.

Since we're friends Celeste Shally

A boy describes his friendship with Matt, whose autism spectrum disorder causes him to behave strangely at times, and how he make things easier for Matt at school and in their neighbourhood.

The art forger Barbara A. Shapiro

On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover that there's more to this crime than meets the eye.

Lorde Your Heroine Marc Shapiro

Pom-Pom goes to town Sandra Christina Shaw

Pom-Pom loves to go to the market with her mama. The well-meaning little bear enjoys the bustle of the town on market days, when there are so many exciting and colourful things to see. Today she particularly wants to find a present to take home for her papa, but as usual poor Pom-Pom cannot keep away from trouble.

The locust and the bird : my mother's story Hanan al-Shaykh

New York, 2001 As Hanan al-Shaykh travels through the streets of Manhattan to her daughter's wedding her mind is elsewhere. Remembering own secret ceremony some thirty years ago, her thoughts turn to her mother, Kamila, who was sacrificed into marriage: her absent mother who, in recent, reconciled years, has pleaded with Hanan, her daughter the writer, to tell this, her story. Told in a voice that is entirely distinctive and authentic, this unique portrait of the life of one woman gives us an astonishing insight into the lives of many others in the Arab world.

One thousand and one nights Hanan al-Shaykh

Erotic, brutal, witty and poetic, One Thousand and One Nights are the never-ending stories told by the young Shahrazad under sentence of death to King Shahrayar. Written in Arabic from tales gathered in India, Persia and across the great Arab empire, these mesmerising stories tell of the real and the supernatural, love and marriage, power and punishment, wealth and poverty, and the endless trials and uncertainties of fate.

Women of sand and myrrh Hanan al-Shaykh

Little is known of what life is like for contemporary Arab women living in the Middle East. One of the few literary voices speaking out from that still closed society is Hanan al-Shaykh, whose novel The Story of Zahra was banned in most Arab countries. Now available for the first time in the U.S. is her newest novel, a story of four women treated to every luxury but freedom.

Freewheelin Favorites Dennis Shealy

I'm a Truck Dennis Shealy

After daybreak : the liberation of Belsen, 1945 Ben Shephard

When British troops entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945, they uncovered scenes of horror and depravity that shocked the world. But they also confronted a terrible challenge - inside the camp were some 60,000 people, suffering from typhus, starvation and dysentery, who would die unless they received immediate medical attention. After Daybreak is the story of the men and women who faced that challenge - the army stretcher-bearers and ambulance drivers, medical students and relief workers who worked to save the inmates of Belsen - with the war still raging and only the most primitive drugs and facilities available.

I'll Be Right There Kyung-sook Shin

Female tommies : the frontline women of the First World War Elisabeth Shipton

This book tells the story of women in the First World War at the front line, under fire, and in combat. Through their diaries, letters and memoirs, meet the women who defied convention and followed their convictions to defend the less fortunate and fight for their country.

Beastly rhymes to read after dark Judy Sierra

In the macabre spirit of the Halloween season, funny rhymes range from "Parasite Lost" to "Leap Halloween", and are illustrated with gruesome graphics.

The sleepy little alphabet : a bedtime story from Alphabet Town Judy Sierra

Sleepy letters of the alphabet get ready for bed.

We love our school! : a read-together rebus story Judy Sierra

This picture book about the first day of school, featuring a frog, a duck, a mouse, and a snail, combines a story in rhyme with colourful graphic rebuses, making it a fun book for parent and child to share in the reading.

Pets Lorena Siminovich

Match the baby animals to their parents, and learn some early concepts along the way.

You Are My Baby Lorena Siminovich

Green men & white swans Jacqueline Simpson

From the King & Tinker, named after a traditional tale in which a disguised monarch surprises a local craftsman, to the Eagle & Child, commemorating 'the Lathom legend', many British pub names and signs are steeped in local legends and ancient beliefs. In "Green Men & White Swans", Jacqueline Simpson, one of the UK's leading folklorists, explores the stories behind the names, showing where they originated and tracing how they have evolved over the years.

Picture perfect Holly Smale

"My name is Harriet Manners, and I'll always be a geek." It's the hilarious third book in the Geek Girl series! Harriet Manners knows more facts than most. But she knows nothing whatsoever about modelling in the Big Apple and how her family will cope with life stateside. Or "becoming a brand" as the models in New York say. And even more importantly, what to do when the big romantic gestures coming your way aren't from your boyfriend. Does geek girl go too far this time?

Edge of nowhere John E. Smelcer

When Seth and his dog, Tucker, are washed overboard from his father's fishing boat during a torrential storm, they are assumed drowned. But by good fortune, Seth and Tucker make it safely to one of the hundreds of islands that line the Alaskan coast. Over many months, the boy and his dog make their way, island by island, towards home, while Seth's desperate father never gives up hope. Along the way, Seth learns many hard lessons about survival, and even harder lessons about himself.

Fatty O'Leary's dinner party Alexander McCall Smith

His loving wife Betty plans a trip to Ireland for his 40th birthday and almost immediately things go wrong: the seats in economy class on the plane are too small; Irish bathroom furniture is not as commodious as he'd have liked. And all the time Fatty must put up with the unthinking cruelty of strangers.

Amethyst Lauraine Snelling

Jeremiah McHenry returns to Medora to make a new life. Will he be able to convince Amethyst that he is the kind of man she's been looking for?

Blessing in disguise Lauraine Snelling

Her first mistake was emigrating alone. Was this one even worse? Augusta Bjorklund, after discovering her intended bridegroom married someone else, decided to leave her broken heart in Norway and start a new life in America. But knowing no English, Augusta misunderstands a ticket agent's directions in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in the harried confusion, she boards the wrong train. When she arrives at the end of the line, she is met by a handsome young rancher, Kane Moyer, waiting for his Norwegian mail-order bride….

A heart for home Lauraine Snelling

Astrid Bjorklund is on the Red Bud Indian Reservation in South Dakota trying to stop a horrific epidemic. The elders are suspicious of her, but when some of their people begin to recover, they allow Astrid to continue caring for the sick. Upon returning to Blessing, she learns that the man she thought she loved cannot accept that God has called her to be a doctor. Heartbroken, Astrid fears she may have to give up her dream of marriage and family.

A land to call home Lauraine Snelling

It had taken four long, difficult years to tame the virgin prairie of Dakota Territory. Looking back through all the heartache and the body-breaking labour, Ingeborg Bjorkland knew that God had been with them every step of the way. Dreams that had turned into veritable nightmares had been reshaped with the promise of a new day rising, and her marriage to Haaken had been its sure sign.

A measure of mercy Lauraine Snelling

18-year-old Astrid Bjorklund has always dreamed of being a doctor. But will she have to give up love to pursue her dream?

More than a dream Lauraine Snelling

Thorliff's goal of becoming a writer is within reach. Working for a newspaper in Northfield, Minnesota, he is busy writing articles and stories for the Minneapolis Tribune and Harper's Magazine. But his idyllic world comes to a sudden halt when an epidemic hits the town of Blessing, North Dakota, following the Red River flood of 1897. Thorliff returns home to help family and friends recover from the aftermath of the disasters and rebuild their town.

A new day rising Lauraine Snelling

The dream of their own farmstead and a good life in America had brought Roald and Ingeborg Bjorklund across the Atlantic to pioneer the virgin prairie of Dakota Territory. But Roald's tragic disappearance in a winter storm had turned Ingeborg's dreams into a living nightmare.

No distance too far Lauraine Snelling

When she is called home unexpectedly to help in a family medical emergency, physician Astrid Bjorklund learns of a deadly measles outbreak on the nearby Indian reservation. She immediately senses the Spirit tugging her to help the Indians and wonders if her "mission field" is not so far away as she had imagined. But if she follows God's call, will love pass her by?

Opal Lauraine Snelling

Dove House has burned to the ground, Ruby and Rand have married, and now Rand's ranch is home for them all. Ruby's younger sister, Opal, is taking to ranch life like a hummingbird to sugar water. Ranching has clearly stolen her heart. When a young minister arrives from the East, he is amazed to find himself falling in love with Opal, even though she is not a woman anyone would think of as a pastor's wife.

Pearl Lauraine Snelling

Ruby plays matchmaker between the lovely but hidden Pearl and the carpenter Soren, who longs to uncover the beauty in Pearl that seems to be damaged by a tragic childhood. Ruby's own heart is torn by loyalty to the major and a surprising new suitor. But when a disaster threatens their future, will these jewels of the prairie be forced to abandon their dreams for the security of the east?

A promise for Ellie Lauraine Snelling

After graduating in May of 1900, Andrew Bjorklund and Ellie Wold of Blessing, North Dakota make plans to marry once the harvest is over and their new house is finished. They spend the summer working hard, and the Lord seems to shine on and in them in a special way. Everyone rejoices in their happiness. Everyone except for Toby Valders, who is determined to get even for all the drubbings he has taken from Andrew through the years.

The reaper's song Lauraine Snelling

Ever so slowly Dakota Territory is being transformed from a vast prairie into rich farmland. With the coming of the railroad, the small town of Blessing begins to prosper, and the Bjorklund family is reaping the promised harvest that had lured them from their beloved home in Norway. But for Ingeborg and Haakan, realizing their dreams will not come without a struggle.

Rebecca's reward Lauraine Snelling

Nineteen-year-old Rebecca Baard has experienced more than her share of sorrow, and now she is afraid to open her heart to love. Rebecca's friends set out to remedy the situation, concocting social events to attract all the eligible bachelors in Blessing, and advising her in the use of her feminine wiles.

Ruby Lauraine Snelling

Ruby Torvald and her young sister, Opal, have received an inheritance from their long-lost father who left home years ago to seek his fortune in the Black Hills. When they leave their comfortable situation in Chicago and arrive at the mining town of Medora to claim their inheritance, the sisters discover that rather than the legacy of gold they expected, their father has left them a shocking bequest.

Sophie's dilemma Lauraine Snelling

When 17-year-old Sophie abandons her North Dakota family in 1901, she never dreams tragedy will turn her again toward home. But she fears the loved ones she hurt will reject her - and that she'll never love again.

Tender mercies Lauraine Snelling

Mary Martha MacCallister comes to Blessing from Missouri to visit her brother. She volunteers to help at the schoolhouse and, with her gentle southern charm, quickly wins the affection of all. She never intended to stay. So why is leaving so hard?

A touch of Grace Lauraine Snelling

Surrounded by her family's love and the townsfolk's kindness, 18-year-old Grace Knutson finds all she could want in Blessing - except for a sweetheart. But when God brings a rich New Yorker into her life, Grace fears a deaf girl won't find acceptance in his privileged world.

An untamed land Lauraine Snelling

The promise of free land lures Roald and Ingeborg Bjorklund from their beloved home high above the fjords of Norway, and after three long years of scrimping and saving they finally arrive at the docks of New York City. This new land promises a rich heritage for their children, and here they hope to build a good life. After a long journey by train and then by covered wagon, the Bjorklunds finally arrive in Dakota Territory.

Briar Patch Linda Sole

The Lie Linda Sole

Promise Made Linda Sole

Winners and Losers Linda Sole

Sisters of Sinai Janet Soskice

Country doctor : hilarious true stories from a country practice Michael Sparrow

Have you ever had to decide what to do with a very large dead body on a Mexican beach, or an unidentified corpse by a Devonian cowshed when the herd is due in for milking? If you are a GP it seems these are routine matters. From coping with the suicide of a colleague to the unusual whereabouts of a jar of Coleman's mustard, this is the story of one rural doctor's often misguided attempts to make sense of the career in which he has unwittingly found himself.

Repeat prescription : more riotous stories from the country practice Michael Sparrow

Dr Sparrow guides us through the daily rounds of the weird and wonderful in his practice on the Devon/Cornwall border. What would you do if faced with the unsuccessful resuscitation of the wrong patient, being held at gunpoint as a suspected terrorist or confronting a blind man who refuses to stop driving?

Atheists : the origin of the species Nick Spencer

The clash between atheism and religion has become the defining battle of the 21st century. Books on and about atheism retain high profile and popularity, and atheist movements capture headlines with high-profile campaigns and adverts. However, very little has been written on the history of atheism, and this book fills that conspicuous gap.

The Donut Chef Bob Staake

Tender buttons : objects, food, rooms Gertrude Stein

The Cairo affair Olen Steinhauer

Sophie Kohl is living her worst nightmare. Minutes after she confesses to her husband, Emmett, a mid-level diplomat at the American embassy in Hungary, that she had an affair while they were in Cairo, he is shot in the head and killed. Stan Bertolli, a Cairo-based CIA agent, has fielded his share of midnight calls. But his heart skips a beat when, this time, he hears the voice of the only woman he ever truly loved, calling to ask why her husband has been assassinated.

Creature Teacher R. L. Stine

Dr. Maniac Will See You Now R. L. Stine

Frankenstein's Dog R. L. Stine

How I Met My Monster R. L. Stine

Planet of the Lawn Gnomes R. L. Stine

Son of Slappy R. L. Stine

Zombie Halloween R. L. Stine

The Ninth Wife Amy Stolls

Zombies hate stuff Greg Stones

Zombies hate clowns. They also hate hippies, not to mention zip lines, penguins, moon penguins, nudists, weddings, sharing, and kittens. They really hate unicorns, strangely don't mind Canadians, and love YOU. Each of Greg Stones's ghoulishly colourful paintings reveal funny and unexpected scenes of zombie disgruntlement, cataloging the stuff that really riles up the walking dead (astronauts, rain, bagpipes, re-gifting, and more) with wit, humour, and, of course, brains.

Zombies have issues Greg Stones

Zombies have issues with yoga, bad hair days, chopsticks, the morning commute, touch-screen technology, and more. They kind of enjoy skunks, gardening, and acupuncture, but they have major issues with banana peels, Renaissance fairs, bear traps, and bunnies. In the face of such adversity, all zombies really want is a cure.

Cracked Clare Strahan

At fifteen, Clover is finding the going tougher than she expected. Her life is close to being derailed on the rocky terrain of family, friendship, first love, acts of defiance and a planet on the brink of environmental disaster. Can Clover pull herself together - or will she spiral further out of control?

The suspicions of Mr. Whicher : or, The murder at Road Hill House Kate Summerscale

In 1860, the Kent family wakes to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. The household reverberates with shock, not least because the guilty party is surely still among them. Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, faces an unenviable task: to solve a case in which the grieving family are the suspects.

In Real Life Lawrence Tabak

The Makioka Sisters Junichiro Tanizaki

A Question of Guilt Janet Tanner

Banjo Paul Terry

A timely re-examination of the life of Australia's best-loved poet and storyteller - the man whose works captured the essence of the Australian spirit.

Loom magic! Charms : 25 cool designs that will rock your rainbow! Becky Thomas & Monica Sweeney ; designs by Neary Alguard

Bored of creating the same old designs on your loom? This unofficial book will teach you cool new designs to show your friends.

We Are Not Ourselves Matthew. Thomas

After the Rain Nicola Thorne

Old friends, new friends Margaret Thornton

It's 1970, and 18-year-old Debbie Hargreaves is heading to agricultural college in Leeds, where she'll be sharing digs with three girls she's never met before. Over the coming months, the four flatmates will share tears and laughter, drama and heartbreak, and the excitement of new romance. Debbie is loving her new-found independence and the male attention she attracts. But is she in danger of neglecting her family and friends back in Northumberland, and forgetting her roots?

Cast the First Stone Margaret Thornton

Families and Friendships Margaret Thornton

The Maharani's pearls Charles Todd

Living with her family in India, young Bess Crawford slips away from the cantonment to visit the famous seer in a nearby village who warns her of danger. Bess is summoned back for an afternoon tea with the Maharani, a close friend of her parents, but this visit is more than a social call. Her husband has political enemies, and she has come to ask Bess's father, Major Crawford, for help. As the Maharani is leaving, Bess notices that there is something amiss with the royal entourage. Major Crawford sets out after them - but will he be in time? And what will happen to Bess, and the household left behind, when a vicious assassin circles back to take hostages? Here is an extraordinary glimpse into the childhood of the Bess Crawford we know from her service in the Great War.

An unwilling accomplice Charles Todd

Home on leave, Bess Crawford is asked to accompany a wounded soldier confined to a wheelchair to Buckingham Palace, where he's to be decorated by the King. The next morning when Bess goes to collect Wilkins, he has vanished. Then comes disturbing word from the Shropshire police, complicating the already difficult situation: Wilkins has been spotted, and he's killed a man. If Bess is to save her own reputation, she must find Wilkins and uncover the truth.

Born into the Children of God : my life in a religious sex cult and my struggle for survival on the outside Natacha Tormey with Nadene Ghouri

Natacha Tormey was born into the infamous religious cult known as The Children of God. Abused, exploited, and brainwashed by 'The Family', Natacha's childhood was stolen. Natacha was brainwashed to believe that she was part of an elite children's army bestowed with superpowers that would one day save the world from the Anti-Christ. Torn away from their parents, Natacha and her siblings were beaten on a daily basis and forced to sing and dance for entertainment in prisons and malls. Natacha never expected to live to adulthood. At the age of 18 Natacha escaped, but quickly found herself hurtling through a world she had no understanding of.

Erika's story Ruth Vander Zee, Roberto Innocenti

In 1995, the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II, Ruth Vander Zee and her husband were in Germany where they met Erika, a German Jew, and listened to her story. Between 1933 and 1945 six million Jews were killed. Starved, shot, burned, gassed. Erika survived.

Alarm girl Hannah Vincent

When 11-year-old Indigo and her older brother Robin arrive in South Africa to stay with their father, they find a luxury lifestyle that is a world away from their modest existence back in England. But Indigo is uneasy in the foreign landscape and confused by the family's silence surrounding her mother's recent death. Unable to find solace in either new or old faces, she begins to harbour violent suspicions in place of the truth.

Voluntary madness : my year lost and found in the loony bin Norah Vincent

Norah Vincent has always suffered from depression but at the end of a book project she felt that she was a danger to herself and was committed to a 'loony bin'. As a result of this traumatic experience Norah came out resolved to go back undercover to report on a range of mental institutions - three difficult, pressurized and very different environments - and to experience first hand their effect on the body and mind. In analysing the peculiar, sometimes damaging and occasionally transformative relationships between patients and their caregivers, her consummate, fearless and darkly funny reportage makes for riveting reading.

The where, the why, and the how : 75 artists illustrate wondrous mysteries of science Jenny Volvovski, Julia Rothman, and Matt Lamothe

Explore the wonders of science through the eyes of artists. A science book like no other, The Where, the Why, and the How turns loose 75 of today's hottest artists onto life's vast questions. The result is a whimsical celebration of the wonder that inspires every new discovery, and a breathtaking tour of new work by contemporary visionaries, that will pique your curiosity and make you marvel at the power of both science and art.

Lisette's List Susan Vreeland

The crooked maid Dan Vyleta

Vienna, 1948. Anna Beer returns to the city she fled nine years earlier after discovering her husband's infidelity to find him and, perhaps, to forgive him. Travelling on the same train from Switzerland is 18-year-old Robert Seidel, a summoned to his stepfather's sickbed and the secrets of his family's past. As Anna and Robert navigate an unrecognizable city, they cross paths with a war-widowed American journalist, a hunchbacked young servant girl, and a former POW whose primary purpose is to survive by any means and to forget.

Salvage the Bones Ward Jesmyn

Abandon the night Joss Ware

From the raging fires, five men emerge with extraordinary new powers. They are humankind's last hope … but they cannot survive this dark, ravaged world alone. Quentin Fielding had everything - money, power, women - but now that civilization is all but annihilated, Quent wants only one thing: revenge. Zoe Kapoor is on her own quest for vengeance, searching for the monstrous fiends who murdered her family. Soon she and Quent join together, journeying through the ruins of the world they once knew as a desperate desire builds between them.

Beyond the night Joss Ware

When Dr. Elliot Drake wakes from a mysterious fifty-year sleep, the world as he knew it is gone. Cities are now desolate, and civilisation is controlled by deadly immortals. Stranger still is Elliot's extraordinary new 'gift' - he has the power to heal, but it comes with fatal consequences.

Embrace the night Joss Ware

Simon Japp will never forget his violent past. But when civilisation is all but destroyed, he sees his chance for redemption. Blessed with a strange "gift," he's determined to help the resistance against the Strangers, the mysterious force that stalks them at every turn. He can't afford to get distracted, even by the stunning, soft-spoken woman fighting by his side.

Night betrayed Joss Ware

The Change that devastated the earth did not destroy Theo Waxnicki. It made him something more than human - eternally young, eternally beautiful … but not immortal. When he dies on a mission against the Strangers, he is lost to the darkness … until a miracle lady brings him back. Responding to Selena's tender touch, Theo starts to live again, to feel and desire again.

Night forbidden Joss Ware

Somehow Bruno 'Fence' Washington survived the apocalypse, emerging from a Sedona cave into a strange and terrible new world… Fifty years later. Now, scouring the ruined earth for answers about the malevolent Strangers, the former extreme sportsman encounters an Amazonian beauty who calls to his every desire, but whose secret could mean his end.

Night resurrected Joss Ware

With his family gone and the world nothing more than ash, thanks to The Change, Wyatt is ready to give up until he meets Remington Truth. Faced with zombies, the Strangers, and the desolation of the crumbled world around them, Wyatt and Remy find something more than comfort in one another, something that may be worth fighting for.

Loot : how to steal a fortune Jude Watson

When Alfie McQuinn, the notorious jewel thief, is killed on a job, his last words to his son, March, are to "find jewels" and this instruction leads the boy to Jules, the twin sister he never knew he had and the perfect partner to carry on the family business.

Patient Ben Watt

Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend Melanie Watt

The secret history of the Mongol queens : how the daughters of Genghis Khan rescued his empire J. McIver Weatherford

A history of the ruling women of the Mongol Empire, this work reveals their struggle to preserve a nation that shaped the world.

For better for worse Pam Weaver

As Britain recovers from WWII, Annie Royal is looking to the future. Recently married to Henry, and with a baby on the way, she and her new husband are happily settled in the seaside town of Worthing. But a knock at the door brings Annie's world crashing down. On her doorstep stands Sarah and her two young children. As they talk, Sarah reveals that she is Henry's wife.

The Abandoned Puppy Holly Webb

Alone in the Night Holly Webb

Harry the Homeless Puppy Holly Webb

Lucy the Poorly Puppy Holly Webb

Max the Missing Puppy Holly Webb

Misty the Abandoned Kitten Holly Webb

The Rescued Puppy Holly Webb

Sam the Stolen Puppy Holly Webb

Sky the Unwanted Kitten Holly Webb

Smudge the Stolen Kitten Holly Webb

The Snow Bear Holly Webb

Timmy in Trouble Holly Webb

Dragons of Autumn Twilight Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman ; poetry by Michael Williams

Lifelong friends, they went their separate ways. Now they are together again, though each holds secrets from the others in his heart. They do not speak of their secrets. Not until a chance encounter with a beautiful, sorrowful woman, who bears a magical crystal staff, draws the companions deeper into the shadows, forever changing their lives and shaping the fate of the world.

Dragons of Spring Dawning Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman ; poetry by Michael Williams

The war against the dragon minions of Queen Takhisis rages on. Armed with the mysterious, magical dragon orbs and the shining, silver dragonlance, the companions bring hope to the world. But now, in the dawn of a new day, the dark secrets that have long shadowed the hearts of the friends come to the light. Betrayal, treachery, frailty, and weakness will nearly destroy all that they have accomplished.

Dragons of summer flame Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

Primed for a battle between good and evil, Raistlin, the corrupted mage, returns to the Dragonlance series along with a new generation of characters, the inheritors of the fabled Heroes of the Lance.

Dragons of Winter Night Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman ; poetry by Michael Williams

Now the people know that the dragon minions of Takhisis, Queen of Dragons, have returned. The people of all nations prepare to fight to save their homes, their lives, and their freedom. But the races have long been divided by hatred and prejudice. It seems the battle has been lost before it begins. As the darkness deepens, a disgraced knight, a pampered elfmaiden, and a rattle-brained kender stand alone in the pale winter sunlight.

The stinky giant Ellen Weiss and Mel Friedman

Pepper and Jake love herding sheep in the little valley where they live. But there's a problem - Urk, a giant who lives on a nearby mountain, is big and stinky and doesn't care that dumping dirty laundry water in the nearby stream causes a flood down below every single week. So Pepper and Jake hike to Urk's mountaintop lair to confront him

Are We There Yet Rachael Weiss

Me, Myself and Prague Rachael Weiss

Chalcot Crescent Fay Weldon

The Cloning of Joanna May Fay Weldon

Darcy's Utopia Fay Weldon

Down Among the Women Fay Weldon

Female Friends Fay Weldon

The Heart of the Country Fay Weldon

Leader of the Band Fay Weldon

Life Force Fay Weldon

Little Sisters Fay Weldon

Long Live the King Fay Weldon

The New Countess Fay Weldon

Polaris Fay Weldon

The President's Child Fay Weldon

The Shrapnel Academy Fay Weldon

Splitting Fay Weldon

Make up or break up Kate Welshman

A pick-a-path series giving the reader the chance to make the decisions, and choose how the story goes! Ally has always let her bossy bestie Cat call the shots in their friendship. And now they're in high school, it looks like Cat will continue to get her way.

The $50 home makeover : 75 easy projects to transform your current space into your dream space - for $50 or less! Shaunna West

Desperate measures Dennis Wheatley

The Irish witch Dennis Wheatley

The Hell Fire Club is being revived - by a sensuous wanton who calls herself the Irish Witch. Once more the titled of the land are being sucked into its vortex of vice and degradation. And among them is Susan, Roger Brook's young and lovely daughter. Soon it will be Walpurgis Night. Soon a ruined castle will echo to the baying of initiates as Susan is led towards an altar - there to be ritually violated by the Priest of Satan.

Cherry : a life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard Sara Wheeler

A biography of Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959), one of the youngest members of Captain Scott's final expedition to the Antarctic. Cherry's life was a terrible struggle against depression, breakdown and despair, haunted by the possibility that he could have saved Scott and his companions.

Eyes on you Kate White

After two years of fighting her way back to the top, television host Robin Trainer becomes the target of an enemy with a dark agenda and must figure out who is responsible.

Hush Kate White

Fox and Crow are not friends Melissa Wiley

Fox and Crow can agree on two things: their love of cheese and loathing of each other. These cagey animals will do whatever they can to outwit their sworn enemy and claim sole possession of the prized cheese. But they are too caught up in their plotting and planning to realise they've picked the wrong house to steal from - since the mother of the house is one fed up Mama Bear who knows exactly how to contend with freeloaders.

Beetle Boy Margaret Willey

Messenger of truth Jacqueline Winspear

London, 1931. On the night before the opening of his new and much-anticipated exhibition at a famed Mayfair gallery, Nicholas Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The police declare the fall an accident, but the dead man's twin sister, Georgina, isn't convinced. When the authorities refuse to conduct further investigations and close the case, Georgina - a journalist and infamous figure in her own right - takes matters into her own hands.

Jeffrey and Sloth Kari-Lynn Winters and Ben Hodson

Jeffrey can't think of a thing to write, so he doodles instead, only to have his doodle begin to order him about. Jeffrey struggles with the situation until he discovers that the most strong-willed doodle is powerless against a well-told tale.

The complete slow cooker Sally Wise

A bumper edition of recipes from the best known, best loved and the biggest selling author of books on slow cooking, Sally Wise.

Leftover makeovers : quick and fabulous food from your fridge and pantry Sally Wise

Using up leftovers can mean significant savings to our household food budgets. As well as the financial benefits, there are also moral and environmental reasons why we need to be creative with the food we already have in our fridge or pantry.

Slow cooker Sally Wise

Drawn from a collection created over thirty years of preparing tasty, economical and nutritious meals for her family, they include soups, mains - beef, lamb, chicken, pork and vegetables - and delectable desserts.

Slow cooker. 2 Sally Wise

Featuring 128 brand-new recipes, tips on how to cook many of the dishes for smaller families or for households of one or two, and many more recipes for vegetable and fish dishes, this is an essential cookbook for everyone needing everyday inspiration and ideas for delicious, nutritious meals.

Winter food Sally Wise

From warming soups to hearty pies and tasty curries and casseroles, there's something for everyone in Winter food.

Gone Fishing Tamera Will Wissinger

Little Puppy and the Big Green Monster Mike Wohnoutka

I'll Get By Janet Woods

Lady Lightfingers Janet Woods

Paper Doll Janet Woods

Salting the Wound Janet Woods

Secrets and Lies Janet Woods

Straw in the Wind Janet Woods

Tall Poppies Janet Woods

Cherish Sherryl Woods

A Daring Vow Sherryl Woods

Honour Sherryl Woods

Kate's Vow Sherryl Woods

Love Sherryl Woods

A Vow To Love Sherryl Woods

Fluent forever : how to learn any language fast and never forget it Gabriel Wyner

The ultimate rapid language-learning guide! For those who've despaired of ever learning a foreign language, here, finally, is a book that will make the words stick. With empathy for the language-challenged and abundant humor, Wyner deconstructs the learning process, revealing how to build a foreign language in your mind from the ground up. This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.

Miss Chopsticks Xinran

The Wedding Date Liz Young

The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Rui. Zafon

Dark matter Juli Zeh

Sebastian and Oskar have been friends since university, but after their graduation, their lives took very different paths; while Oskar holds a prestigious research post in Geneva, Sebastian worries that he hasn't lived up to his intellectual promise, having chosen marriage and fatherhood as an exit strategy. Sebastian leaves his son sleeping in the back seat while he goes into a service station. When he returns, the car has disappeared. His phone rings and a voice informs him that in order to get his son back he must kill a man. As Sebastian's life unravels, the only person he can safely reach out to is Oskar…