'I can tell you how it happened. It's easy to say how it happened. He walked past a building, & a huge chunk of ice fell off the roof, & it hit him in the head. This is Chaplinesque, right? People start to laugh when I tell them-' As Jay Berman lingers in a coma, his young wife, Lainey, is the only one who believes he will recover. While he lies motionless, she hopes to reach him by offering reminders of the ordinary life they shared
- sweet-smelling flowers, his softly textured shirt, spices from their kitchen. & throughout her ordeal, Lainey is sustained by her relationship with two very special women, each of whom teaches her about the enduring bond of friendship & the genuine power of hope.
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Can sworn enemies fight side by side to save their lives & their kingdoms?

Just as spring approaches & Will & Evanlyn

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As the Kingdom of Araluen prepares for war against Morgarath, Will & Horace accompany the Ranger Gilan on a mission to Celtica. But Celtica's villages are silent. Only an exhausted & starving girl called Evanlyn can tell them why: Morgarath has sent his foul creatures to enslave the Celts. While Gilan rides swiftly back to report this news to the King, Will, Horace & Evanlyn discover the true purpose behind Morgarath's actions. The Kingdom is sure to be defeated in a surprise three-sided attack
- unless they can find a way to prevent it.
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Will & Evanlyn are bound for Skandia as the captives of the fearsome Skandian wolfship captain, Erak. Halt has sworn to rescue Will, & he will do anything to keep his promise
- even defy his King.

Expelled from the Rangers, Halt is joined by Horace as he travels through Gallica towards Skandia. On their way they are constantly challenged by freelance knights
- otherwise known as thieving thugs. Horace knows a thing or two about combat, though, & he soon begins to attract the attention of knights & warlords for miles around with his uncanny skill. But will they be in time to rescue Will from a life of slavery?



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Will is small for his age, but fast & quick-witted. All his life, he has dreamed of becoming a great knight like the father he never knew, so he is devastated when he is rejected by Castle Redmont's Battleschool. Instead he is apprenticed to Halt, the mysterious Ranger whose uncanny ability to move unseen is thought to be the result of black magic. Reluctantly, Will learns to use a Ranger's secret weapons: a bow & arrow, a mottled cloak & a stubborn little pony. It may not be the sword & battlehorse he longs for, but when Will & Halt set out on a desperate mission to prevent the assassination of the King, Will finds that a Ranger's weapons are not so useless after all... ...

Five years have passed, & Will has finally become a Ranger, with his own fief to look after. He soon learns that even sleepy little island fiefs have problems enough to keep him on his toes.

Then he & his old friend Alyss are thrown into a terrifying new adventure, investigating the truth behind rumours of sorcery in a remote northern fief. As he stands in the forest, hearing eerie voices, with the horrific figure of the Night Warrior looming in the fog, Will must ask himself one question: is there a rational explanation... or does sorcery really exist?


This is the fifth book in the enthralling Ranger's Apprentice series.




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1950s Punjab
- a secret affair goes terribly wrong & the bride commits suicide after her lover is attacked by her family. The two
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Outside the gates of a Californian prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years & vows to redeem himself in the eyes of the young daughters he left behind. Simultaneously, Carl Waters, a convicted murderer, is set on the path of freedom. Three hundred miles south in San Francisco, police detective Ted Lee comes home to a silent house; for twenty-nine years, he has been living for his job
- & slowly falling out of love with his wife. Across town, in exclusive Pacific Heights, Fernanda Barnes faces a mountain of debt, a world destroyed, & a marriage lost.

Within weeks, the lives of these four people will collide in ways none of them could have foreseen. For Fernanda, whose life had once been graced by security, success, & stunning wealth, the death of her brilliant husband four months earlier was already too much to bear. Now, a devastating crime rocks her family & brings Detective Ted Lee into her life.

A man of unshakable integrity, Lee becomes the one person who tries to save Fernanda




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