Bertram was not a believer in luck or superstitions. An unambitious assistant accountant, his plans for his second marriage are typically quiet: St Luke's, Maida Hill, then two weeks in Bournemouth. But then he comes to the attention of Dreuther, the director of Bertram's company, who changes Bertram's plans for him: wedding & honeymoon in Monte Carlo, on board his private yacht. Inevitably Bertram visits the casino & inevitably he loses. But then his system starts working, & his trouble really begins- ...

Bertram was not a believer in luck or superstitions. An unambitious assistant accountant, his plans for his second marriage are typically quiet: St Luke's, Maida Hill, then two weeks in Bournemouth. But then he comes to the attention of Dreuther, the director of Bertram's company, who changes Bertram's plans for him: wedding & honeymoon in Monte Carlo, on board his private yacht. Inevitably Bertram visits the casino & inevitably he loses. But then his system starts working, & his trouble really begins- ...

Born & raised at Four Corners, a thoroughbred horse farm in the green hills of Kentucky, Knox Bolling has grown up steeped in the comforting rhythms of family life & in the annual cycle of growth that transforms the foals into yearlings. Deep ties bind her to the rolling pastures & her safe if predictable life, but Knox knows the world has more to offer ...

Born & raised on a thoroughbred horse farm in the green hills of Kentucky, Knox Bolling has grown up steeped in the comforting rhythms of family life. Deep ties bind her to this safe, predictable existence, but Knox knows the world has more to offer
- excitements that her tempestuous & beautiful older sister, Charlotte, seems to have within her grasp when she marries & moves away to Manhattan's West Village.

Then disaster strikes. Nothing could have prepared Knox for the loss of her sister. But the powerful bond remains, & she finds her loyalty to Charlotte tested more profoundly & fatefully than she could have imagined. As she starts to come to terms with her elusive sister's life, Knox learns deeply moving lessons for her own...


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Melvin Burgess, Keith Gray, Patrick Ness, Sophie Mc Kenzie, Bali Rai, Jenny Valentine & Mary Hooper. Some of today's leading writers for teens are gathered here in a wonderful collection of original stories: some funny, some moving, some haunting but all revolving around the same subject
- having sex for the first time!

You never forget your first time & you'll never forget this book!


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Lisa Appignanesi was born Elsbieta Borenztejn in Pol&. Unlike other holocaust memoirs, hers is the story of how the nucleus of a family survived outside the camps, beyond the ghetto & eventually made it to the new world, where Lisa's mother found that her years of masquerading as an Aryan stood her in great stead in anti-semitic post-war Catholic Quebec. As her mother's memory fails, Lisa finds her self trying to unravel the truth about her family, searching not only for signs of her mother's lost brother
- a Jewish Schindler character, making money & saving Jews in Warsaw
- but also for the truth about how her parents managed to survive, & for her own birth certificate. It's above all the compelling story of one woman's determination not to go under, & the story of her father, who learned to make himself invisible & hide behind silent rage. This is a remarkable tale of terror, courage, deprivation, persecution, survival, & Jewish family life.

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