Bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street & feels impelled to return it to its owner The bag contains no money phone or contact information But a small red notebook with handwritten thoughts & jottings reveals a person that Laurent would very much like to meet Without even a name to go on & only a few of her possessions to help him how is he to find one woman in a city of millions? ...

Racketeers gangsters the occasional power-mad supervillain
- all have fallen before the iron resolve of the city's masked protectors
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Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in the Guardian' Maggie Nelson's short singular books feel pretty light in the hand But in the head & the heart they seem unfathomably vast their cleverness & odd beauty lingering on' Observer In 1969 Jane Mixer a first-year law student at the University of Michigan posted a note on a student noticeboard to share a lift back to her hometown of Muskegon for spring break She never made it she was brutally murdered her body found a few miles from campus the following day The Red Parts is Maggie Nelson's singular account of her aunt Jane's death & the trial that took place some 35 years afterward Officially unsolved for decades the case was reopened in 2004 after a DNA match identified a new suspect who would soon be arrested & tried In 2005 Nelson found herself attending the trial & reflecting with fresh urgency on our relentless obsession with violence particularly against women Resurrecting her interior world during the trial
- in all its horror grief obsession recklessness scepticism & downright confusion
- Maggie Nelson has produced a work of profound integrity & in its subtle indeterminacy deadly moral precision

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Masterful linked short stories by Nobel prizewinner John Steinbeck author of The Grapes of Wrath The Red Pony is one of The Originals from Penguin
- iconic outspoken first Young Jody Tiflin lives on his father's California ranch He is thrilled when his father gives him a red pony & later promises him the colt of a bay mare Both these gifts bring joy to Jodi's life
- but tragedy soon follows As Jodi begins to learn the harsh lessons of life & death he starts to understand what growing-up & becoming an adult really means The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults From political awakening war & unrequited love to addiction teenage pregnancy & nuclear holocaust The Originals confront big issues & articulate difficult truths The collection

Includes:: The Outsiders
- SE Hinton I Capture the Castle
- Dodie Smith Postcards from No Man's Land
- Aidan Chambers After the First Death
- Robert Cormier Dear Nobody
- Berlie Doherty The Endless Steppe
- Esther Hautzig Buddy
- Nigel Hinton Across the Barricades
- Joan Lingard The Twelfth Day of July
- Joan Lingard No Turning Back
- Beverley Naidoo Z for Zachariah
- Richard C O' Brien The Wave
- Morton Rhue The Red Pony
- John Steinbeck The Pearl
- John Steinbeck Stone Cold
- Robert Swindells


















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'A little masterpiece' New York Times Jody Tiflin is a ten-year-old boy living on his father's ranch One day his father brings home a small pony He's Jody's if the boy will learn to feed clean stable & care for him But Jody learns through the colt & through his other adventures on the ranch that with responsibility can come sacrifice & pain Joy may swiftly turn to tragedy & he also discover that the simplicities of childhood must eventually turn into the complications of adulthood The Red Pony is Steinbeck's brilliant & sometimes brutal celebration of adolescence with a stunning new cover by renowned artist Bijou Karman ...

Percy Jackson fought Greek Gods Now the Gods of Egypt are waking in the modern world'I GUESS IT STARTED THE NIGHT OUR DAD BLEW UP THE BRITISH MUSEUM 'CARTER & SADIE KANE'S dad is a brilliant Egyptologist with a secret plan that goes horribly wrong An explosion shatters the ancient Rosetta stone & unleashes Set the evil god of chaos Set imprisons Dr Kane in a golden coffin & Carter & Sadie must run for their lives To save their dad they embark on a terrifying quest from Cairo to Paris to the American South-west & discover the truth about their family's connection to the House of Life an Egyptian temple of magic that has existed for thousands of years The pharaohs of ancient Egypt are far from dead & buried & so unfortunately are their gods ...

Percy Jackson fought Greek Gods Now the Gods of Egypt are waking in the modern world'I GUESS IT STARTED THE NIGHT OUR DAD BLEW UP THE BRITISH MUSEUM 'CARTER & SADIE KANE'S dad is a brilliant Egyptologist with a secret plan that goes horribly wrong An explosion shatters the ancient Rosetta stone & unleashes Set the evil god of chaos Set imprisons Dr Kane in a golden coffin & Carter & Sadie must run for their lives To save their dad they embark on a terrifying quest from Cairo to Paris to the American South-West & discover the truth about their family's connection to the House of Life an Egyptian temple of magic that has existed for thousands of years The pharaohs of ancient Egypt are far from dead & buried & so unfortunately are their gods ...

The land outside of the Old City was supposed to be green lush hopeful But the verdant fields are nothing but ash-and hope is nowhere to be found Still Alice & Hatcher are on a mission to find his daughter a quest they will not Forsake even as it takes them deep into the clutches of the mod White Queen or into the realm of the twisted & cruel Black King The pieces are set & the game has begun & each move brings Alice closer to her destiny ...

The second book in Philippa's stunning new trilogy The Cousins War brings to life the story of Margaret Beaufort a shadowy ...

Rose Ella Marta & Carla In another life we might all have been friends together But this was Birchwood For fans of The Diary of Anne Frank & The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas As fourteen-year-old Ella begins her first day at work she steps into a world of silks seams scissors pins hems & trimmings She is a dressmaker but this is no ordinary sewing workshop Hers are no ordinary clients Ella has joined the seamstresses of Birkenau-Auschwitz as readers may recognise it Every dress she makes could mean the difference between life & death & this place is all about survival Ella seeks refuge from this reality & from haunting memories in her work & in the world of fashion & fabrics She is faced with painful decisions about how far she is prepared to go to survive Is her love of clothes & creativity nothing more than collaboration with her captors or is it a means of staying alive? Will she fight for herself alone or will she trust the importance of an ever-deepening friendship with Rose? One thing weaves through the colours of couture gowns & camp mud
- a red ribbon given to Ella as a symbol of hope
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