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Rebecca Waterhouse is just 13 when she witnesses her mother's death at the hand of her father in Seaview Cottage. But what else did she see? Years later, Rebecca's daughters Iris and Jessie know their mother will never speak of that terrible night. But when Jessie goes missing, with her gravely ill newborn, Iris realises the past may hold the key to her sister's disappearance.

Marguerite Demers is 24 when she leaves Paris for the sleepy southern village of Saint-Sulpice, to take up a job as a live-in nurse. Her charge is Jerome Lanvier, once one of the most powerful men in the village, and now dying alone in his large and secluded house, surrounded by rambling gardens. Manipulative and tyrannical, Jerome has scared away all his previous nurses. 

In the early hours of Saturday, December 17th, 2011, Zoe Nolan, a 19-year-old Manchester University student, walked out of a party taking place in the shared accommodation where she had been living for three months. She was never seen again.

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Eudora Honeysett is done - with all of it. Having seen first-hand what a prolonged illness can create, the 85-year-old has no intention of leaving things to chance. With one call to a clinic in Switzerland she takes her life into her own hands. But then 10-year-old Rose arrives in a riot of colour on her doorstep. Now, as precocious Rose takes Eudora on adventures she’d never imagined, she reflects on the trying times of her past and soon finds herself wondering - is she ready for death when she’s only just experienced what it’s like to truly live?

Timeless family drama from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s hard-hitting and gripping fiction set in Liverpool continues to move readers. Under the roof of her bright, vivacious mother Elizabeth, and...

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Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient, and eager to please, she accepts this closed world where, with all the enthusiasm of the outsider, her desires and passions become only those the school permits. Her only deviation from total obedience is the passionate friendships she makes.

Mars, Snickers, Happy Cherries – wenn Emma die Späti-Regale aufstockt, sieht sie nur eins: Kalorien. Ihr Studium hat sie abgebrochen, genauso wie den Kontakt zu ihrem Vater, der vermutlich irgendwo auf einer Parkbank seinen letzten Rausch ausschläft. Und auch Emma steht kaum einen Abend ohne Müller-Thurgau durch, die Tasse unter dem Tresen hilft ihr beim Vergessen. Ist doch tutto bene, oder? Nicht. Aber dann ist da plötzlich Ingrid: fünfzehn, rotzfrech und seit Neuestem Schülerpraktikantin im Späti.

The Gambler: In the decadent spa town of Roulettenberg, Alexis Ivanovitch, tutor to a Russian family on the brink of ruin, is torn between his obsessive love for the enigmatic Polina and the consuming fever of roulette. While the General and his entourage cynically await the death of the wealthy "Baboulenka" to inherit, the matriarch appears shockingly alive to squander her fortune before their very eyes.

Their story doesn’t begin on a racetrack. It begins on their third birthday. When twins Alex and Sam receive their first tiny electric motorcycles from their Grandpa, they have no idea their entire lives have just changed. What starts as a simple birthday surprise slowly becomes a fullblown world of adventure as Grandpa builds them bigger bikes, bigger challenges, and eventually an entire track carved into the land itself. Winners: Volume One follows the twins through their early childhood — from wobbling on their first electric bikes to mastering dirt, asphalt, and everything in between.

John Haye, a sensitive and artistic teenager attending boarding school, is blinded in an accident which changes his life forever. Forced to leave school and return home, John must confront an entirely new reality – one of restricted freedom, vulnerability and inner turmoil. As John attempts to adapt to his blindness, we are provided with a profound insight into his emotional world, including his alienation from others and efforts to form a new sense of self.

Bring an appetite and your body armor and prepare yourself for Nightmare Burger, the burger that bites you back! Because losing your best friend can feel a lot like fighting a malevolent fast-food franchise from hell. For fans of Five Nights at Freddy's and My Best Friend's Exorcism! When...

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Toriumi Ningyo ha il nome di un uccello marino, vive sola con la madre e ha un padre che aleggia su di lei come un temporale. Quando incontra il giovane Arashi, un innamoramento fragile – il primo – prende forma. Solo curare la madre le farà capire che a volte l’amore è come il mare...

Anoor is the first blue-blooded ruler of the Wardens' Empire. But when she is accused of a murder she didn't commit, her reign is thrown into turmoil. She must solve the mystery and clear her name without the support of her beloved, Sylah. Sylah braves new lands to find a solution for the hurricane that threatens to destroy her home. But in finding answers, she must make a decision. Hassa's web of secrets grows ever thicker as she finds herself on a trail of crimes in the city. Her searching uncovers the extent of the atrocities of the empire's past and present. 

This is a story of something like survival. Sal planned it for almost a year before they ran. She nicked an Ordnance Survey map from the school library. She bought a compass, a Bear Grylls knife, waterproofs and a first aid kit from Amazon using credit cards she'd robbed. She read the SAS Survival Handbook and watched loads of YouTube videos. And now Sal knows a lot of stuff. Like how to build a shelter and start a fire. How to estimate distances, snare rabbits and shoot an airgun.

In 1975 Lucinda Marsh throws herself in front of a speeding train leaving her 12-year-old daughter Kitty alone, confused and abandoned – save for a selfish aunt, a violent father and her childhood sweetheart Harry Jenkins. When Kitty is sent to an orphanage after the death of her father, she meets Georgie, a lively cockney girl who, through the following difficult years, becomes her loyal friend. Convinced that her feelings for Harry will ruin the brilliant future that lies ahead of him, Kitty turns her back on his love.