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A Scandalous Man
His near death made all the news channels despite the fact that the prime minister had called an election on that very day. the prime minister regarded him as the hard man, and depended on him because he brought solutions, not problems. but the political deals he had to do had their price and someone, sometime was going to have to pay it.
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Fingers In The Sparkle Jar
Voted the uk’s favourite nature book the memoir that inspired chris packham’s bbc documentary, asperger’s and me every minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn’t do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with a kestrel, a real live kestrel, my own real live kestrel on my wrist! i felt like i’d climbed through a hole in heaven’s fence. an introverted, unusual young boy, isolated by his obsessions and a loner at school, chris packham only felt at ease in the fields and woods around his suburban home. but when he stole a young kestrel from its nest, he was about to embark on a friendship that would teach him what it meant to love, and that would change him forever. in his rich, lyrical and emotionally exposing memoir, chris brings to life his childhood in the 70s, from his bedroom bursting with fox skulls, birds’ eggs and sweaty jam jars, to his feral adventures. but pervading his story is the search for freedom, meaning and acceptance in a world that didn’t understand him. beautifully wrought, this coming-of-age memoir will be unlike any you’ve ever read.
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Dockside At Willow Lake
From the award-winning author of “summer at willow lake” comes an unforgettable story of a womans emotional journey from the heartache of the past to hope for the future. the perfect summer read.–debbie macomber. original.
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One Enchanted Evening
Prepare to be swept off your feet by the romantic and irresistible debut novel from anton du beke. london, 1936. inside the spectacular grand ballroom of the exclusive buckingham hotel, the rich and powerful, politicians, film stars, even royalty, rub shoulders with raymond de guise and his troupe of talented dancers from all around the world, who must enchant them, captivate them, and sweep away their cares. accustomed to waltzing with the highest of society, raymond knows a secret from his past could threaten all he holds dear. nancy nettleton, new chambermaid at the buckingham, finds hotel life a struggle after leaving her small hometown. she dreams of joining the dancers on the ballroom floor as she watches, unseen, from behind plush curtains and hidden doorways. she soon discovers everyone at the buckingham–guests and staff alike–has something to hide… the storm clouds of war are gathering, and beneath the glitz and glamour of the ballroom lurks an irresistible world of scandal and secrets. let’s dance…
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The Burning Answer
Our civilisation stands on the brink of catastrophe. in three generations we have consumed half the world’s oil produced over eight million generations. with threats from global warming, fossil fuel depletion and nuclear disaster, we are running out of options. solar power, keith barnham argues, is the only solution. he explains how einstein’s famous equation e=mc2 led to the widespread use of nuclear energy, while another of einstein’s equations, one that has given us the laptop and the mobile phone, has been largely overlooked. it is this equation that holds the key to exploiting energy generated by the sun. a fascinating guide to renewable technology and a critique of the energy industry, the burning answer is, above all, an impassioned call-to-arms to join the solar revolution now, before it’s too late.
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Timeriders (book 1)
Liam o’connor should have died at sea in 1912. maddy carter should have died on a plane in 2010. sal vikram should have died in a fire in 2029. yet moments before death, someone mysteriously appeared and said, ‘take my hand . . .’ but liam, maddy and sal aren’t rescued. they are recruited by an agency that no one knows exists, with only one purpose – to fix broken history. because time travel is here, and there are those who would go back in time and change the past. that’s why the timeriders exist: to protect us. to stop time travel from destroying the world . . .
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The Help
Jackson, mississippi, 1962. black maids raise white children, but aren’t trusted not to steal the silver. some lines will never be crossed. aibileen is a black maid: smart, regal, and raising her seventeenth white child. yet something shifted inside aibileen the day her own son died while his bosses looked the other way. minny, aibileen’s best friend, is by some way the sassiest woman in mississippi. but even her extraordinary cooking won’t protect minny from the consequences of her tongue. twenty-two-year-old skeeter returns home with a degree and a head full of hope, but her mother will not be happy until there’s a ring on her finger. seeking solace with constantine, the beloved maid who raised her, skeeter finds she has gone. but why will no one tell her where? seemingly as different as can be, skeeter, aibileen and minny’s lives converge over a clandestine project that will not only put them all at risk but also change the town of jackson for ever. but why? and for what? the help is a deeply moving, timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we won’t. itis about how women, whether mothers or daughters, the help or the boss, relate to each other – and that terrible feeling that those who look after your children may understand them, even love them, better than you . . .
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Eleven Minutes Late
Britain gave railways to the world, yet its own network is the dearest (definitely) and the worst (probably) in western europe. trains are deeply embedded in the national psyche and folklore – yet it is considered uncool to care about them. for matthew engel the railway system is the ultimate expression of britishness. it represents all the nation’s ingenuity, incompetence, nostalgia, corruption, humour, capacity for suffering and even sexual repression. to uncover its mysteries, engel has travelled the system from penzance to thurso, exploring its history and talking to people from politicians to platform staff. along the way engel (‘half-john betjeman, half-victor meldrew’) finds the most charmingly bizarre train in britain, the most beautiful branch line, the rudest railwayman, and – after a quest lasting decades – an individual pot of strawberry jam. eleven minutes late is both a polemic and a paean, and it is also very funny.
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How To Be Popular
Sixteen-year-old steph landry finds an old book on how to be popular and decides to change her social status by following its advice, much to the bafflement of her two best friends.
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Marshmallows For Breakfast
When kendra tamale boards a plane from australia to england she’s leaving behind a painful affair with a married man and the hideous memory of how things ended. she arrives in her home town of london, rents a room from kyle, a divorced father of two, and starts a new job. everything is going to be simple. kyle’s five-year-old twins, summer and jaxon, have other ideas and quickly adopt kendra as their new mother – mainly because she lets them eat marshmallows for breakfast. kendra eventually becomes a part of their lives, even though she has a deep, dark secret that usually makes her keep people at arm’s length. then kendra bumps into the man who shares her awful secret, and things fall apart: she can’t sleep, she can’t eat, she’s suspended from work, and the kids are taken away by their mother. the only way to make things better is to confess all about the terrible mistake she made all those years ago. but that’s something she swore she’d never do …
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The One We Fell In Love With
From sunday times bestselling author paige toon comes a heartrending tale about three sisters—identical triplets—who all fall in love with the same man. even though identical triplets pheobe, eliza, and rose look exactly alike, they couldn’t be more different from one another. phoebe is caught between a rock and a hard place. settle down and get married, or return to the french alps to pursue her passion? eliza is in love with someone who is no longer hers. in fact, he probably never was… and her dream of becoming a successful musician seems to be vanishing before her eyes. rose is out of a job and out of a boyfriend. to make matters worse, she’s been forced to move back in with her mother… but these very different girls have one thing in common. angus. the one they all fell in love with…and now sisterhood and sibling rivalry just got very complicated.
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Starter For Ten
It’s 1985 and brian jackson has arrived at university with a burning ambition – to make it onto tv’s foremost general knowledge quiz. but no sooner has he embarked on ‘the challenge’ than he finds himself falling hopelessly in love with his teammate, the beautiful and charismatic would-be actress, alice harbinson. when alice fails to fall for his slightly over-eager charms, brian comes up with a foolproof plan to capture her heart once and for all. he’s going to win the game, at any cost, because – after all – everyone knows that what a woman really wants from a man is a comprehensive grasp of general knowledge . . . starter for ten is a comedy about love, class, growing-up and the all-important difference between knowledge and wisdom. are you up to the challenge of the funniest novel in years?
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Rsvp
Four women, one wedding and a day they’ll never forget . . . anna’s world is rocked when she receives an invitation to her ex toby’s nuptials – toby was the love of her life, the one that got away. will attending his big day finally give her the sense of closure she so desperately craves? or will it only re-open old wounds? clareis anna’s best friend, the person who was there for her when she and toby split all those years ago. but little does clare know that toby’s wedding day will also change her own life forever. ella is a classic femme fatale. she loves men and leaves them without a backward glance. but the one person who’s never fallen for her charms is toby. as he prepares to get hitched, is it too late for a last-ditch attempt to win his heart? finally, rachelis the blushing bride-to-be. this should be the happiest day of her life. so how come she feels nothing but a terrible sense of foreboding?
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Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Bernadette fox is notorious. to elgie branch, a microsoft wunderkind, she’s his hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled wife. to fellow mothers at the school gate, she’s a menace. to design experts, she’s a revolutionary architect. and to 15-year-old bee, she is a best friend and, quite simply, mum. then bernadette disappears, and bee’s search for her mother reveals an extraordinary woman trying to find her place in an absurd world.
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Goodbye, Jimmy Choo
Under normal circumstances, izzie and maddy would never have met. their lives are a million miles apart – izzie is bohemian and skint, maddy is gucci-clad and loaded. but, thanks to their respective husbands’ careers, both have been dumped into the english countryside, fish out of water with five young children between them. thrown together at a ghastly women’s lunch, they quickly discover a shared longing for mucky london streets and the residents’ parking permits they’ve left behind. when tragedy hits and maddy’s world collapses, they have to make money fast. a chance discovery leads this unlikely partnership to launch a natural cosmetics company from the kitchen table, with consequences beyond their wildest imaginings. then the media spotlight turns on them, and maddy and izzie have to give up all they hold dear to embrace a lifestyle they hate. but just how far are they prepared to go?
