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Here is a bunch of dung-dropping sweet-stealing luck-jinxing villains! 96 pages bw by Uma Krishnaswamy Soundar Chitra ...

A little polar bear Miki wanders away while his mother is diving for fish He sees a dot in the snow & rushes towards it Readers discover that the dot is a little girl But Miki has never seen a human before & the little girl has never seen a polar bear They discover more about each other as they play in the snow but then the perils of the polar landscape impel Miki to take the little girl home before undertaking the long journey to find his own mother Although one is a polar bear & one is a little girl Miki & Dot share a common experience they are both separated from their mothers when they meet Their bond of friendship gives them the strength to support each other during the course of a day that will last with them both forever This is a moving & poignant story set in a changing & challenging polar landscape perfect for the Christmas season It wraps up important themes about empathy kindness & courage The story is both simply told & affecting The gorgeous snowscapes full of real atmosphere are created with printmaking techniques by debut illustrator Fiona Woodcock ...

The flame of genius scorches every generation it touches Following a lonely upbringing in the woods of northern Michigan Milo Andret enrols as a graduate student at UC Berkeley where the faculty is the first to recognize that the young man's childhood solitude has created a prodigiously unusual mind Yet with Milo's great gifts come great risks & California in the seventies is rife with temptation The research he begins at Berkeley will make him a legend; the woman & the rival he meets will haunt him forever For it soon becomes clear that Milo's brilliance is linked to a dark need that ultimately threatens to destroy not only his work & his marriage but the lives of all his children as well A Doubter's Almanac is at once a captivatingly virtuoso illustration of the powers of the mind & a deeply moving exploration of the nature of love ambition & genius It is a novel of flawed characters & unreachable dreams of bonds that tie & passions that destroy; a major work of dazzling & seductive beauty from one of our foremost writers ...

a poignant description of Cambodia Laos & Vietnam in 1950 with all their beauty gentleness grandeur & intricate political balance intact
- Restores this lost world like a phoenix from the ashes of the Vietnam war & its aftermath
- shows the Vietnamese guerilla movement in its infancy ranged against the French colonial powers & the early affects of imported Western materialism
- a best-seller when first published & venerated by all the Saigon-based war correspondents in the '70s
- inspired Graham Greene to go to Vietnam & write The Quiet American



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Patrick Kenzie & Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators who know the blue-collar neighbourhoods & ghettos of Boston's Dorchester section as only natives can Working out of an old church belfry Kenzie & Gennaro take on a seemingly simple assignment for a prominent politician to uncover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline a black cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential Statehouse documents But finding Jenna proves easy compared to staying alive The investigation escalates uncovering a web of corruption extending from bombed-out ghetto streets to the highest levels of state government With slick hip dialogue & a lyrical narrative pocked by explosions of violence A Drink Before the War confronts a city in which institutionalized bigotry & corruption are often the norm & the true nature of 'racial incidents' is rarely clear Dennis Lehane's remarkable debut is at once a pulsating crime thriller & a mirror of our world one in which the worst human horrors are found closest to home & the most vicious obscenities are committed in the name of love ...

<DIV> An extraordinary debut who shows us how powerful an act of kindness a hint of magic & a little hope can be<DIV> 320 pages Calabrese Keith ...

Fiona's on a journey to Granny's house but who's that following her through the streets of Dublin? Travel across the city with Fiona & her fantastic friends in this modern Dublin fairytale With beautiful quirky illustrations by acclaimed illustrator Nicola Colton ...

The second title in a fantastic series of animal stories for younger readers by Waterstones Children's Book Prize-shortlisted author Helen Peters with beautiful black-&-white illustrations by Ellie Snowdon When a nesting duck is killed in a terrible accident Jasmine & her best friend Tom rescue the eggs & try to hatch them in an incubator It's a risky business but soon Button is running around getting into scrapes Until the day he gets into a scrape with no escape Brilliant storytelling that will make you laugh & cry this is Dick King-Smith for a new generation Look out for Jasmine's other adventures!A Piglet Called Truffle A Sheepdog Called Sky ...

In the first years of Kenyan independence three young women return to the East African highlands where they shared a carefree childhood Hannah is struggling to preserve her heritage at Langani Farm where a series of unexplained & violent attacks threaten her security & recent marriage Sarah is studying wildlife using her work as a salve for the death of her childhood sweetheart Camilla the international fashion icon abandons her career in London & is drawn back to Kenya by her love for a charismatic hunter & safari guide But a secret hangs over Langani overshadowing the friends' efforts to establish themselves in the volatile circumstances of a new African nation This superb sequel to Blood Sisters is a breathtaking saga of friendship soaring hope & redemption ...