From best-selling author Holly Webb comes a charming wintery story just in time for Christmas The countdown to Christmas has begun & Isabelle is enjoying a family day out at the zoo As her sister watches the penguins Isabelle is the only one to catch a glimpse of a snow leopard with its beautiful spotted silver-grey coat & long fluffy tail Fascinated by these rare & endangered creatures Isabelle tries to find out what she can do to help protect them Little does she know she's about to be whisked into her very own magical snow leopard adventure where a mother & her cubs are in danger ...

Ally D' Apliese is about to compete in one of the world's most perilous yacht races when she hears the news of her adoptive father's sudden mysterious death Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home she discovers that her father
- an elusive billionaire affectionately known to his daughters as Pa Salt
- has left each of them a tantalising clue to their true heritage Ally has also recently embarked on a deeply passionate love affair that will change her destiny forever But with her life now turned upside down Ally decides to leave the open seas & follow the trail that her father left her which leads her to the icy beauty of Norway There Ally begins to discover her roots
- & how her story is inextricably bound to that of a young unknown singer Anna Landvik who lived there over a hundred years before & sang in the first performance of Grieg's iconic music set to Ibsen's play ' Peer Gynt' As Ally learns more about Anna she also begins to question who her father Pa Salt really was & why is the seventh sister missing? Following the bestselling The Seven Sisters The Storm Sister is the second book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding series based loosely on the mythology surrounding the famous star constellation


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From the acclaimed directors of The Eye comes the highly anticipated sequel to the groundbreaking action-fantasy epic Storm Riders Asian superstars Ekin Cheng & Aaron Kwok reprise their roles as Wind & Cloud two legendary warriors with the power to control the elements Their courage & skill maintains balance throughout the empire until a ruthless Japanese warlord defeats Asias preeminent swordsman & absorbs all his powers to attain invincibility To prevent this barbaric quest to conquer China Wind recklessly gives himself over to the dark side of his mystical fighting arts but as his power increases he is completely overcome by evil Now Cloud must master an all-powerful sword-style to defeat the warlord & then face his brother in a titanic duel destined for greatness Showcasing eye-popping visual effects & epic battle sequences that are nothing short of spectacular (Beyond Hollywood) Storm Warriors presents a stunning vision of a fantasy world that goes beyond your imagination & will enthral & excite you from start to finish! Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play ...

The stunning bestseller by Benji Davies now in a cased board format! Noi & his father live in a house by the sea his father ...

The stunning bestseller by Benji Davies now in a cased board format! Noi & his father live in a house by the sea his father ...

Witty heartbreaking shocking satirical the short story can excite or sadden entice or repulse The one thing it can never be is dull Now Victoria Hislop has collected 100 stories from her favourite women writers into one volume Here are Man Booker Prize-winners & Nobel Laureates feminists & famous wits national treasures & rising stars all handpicked by one of the nation's best-loved novelists Featuring an all star cast of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Angela Carter Margaret Drabble Penelope Fitzgerald Miranda July Doris Lessing Katherine Mansfield Alice Munro Dorothy Parker & Virginia Woolf The Story is the biggest & most beautiful collection of women's short fiction in print today ...

The stories that shape our children's lives are too important to be left to chance With The Story Cure bibliotherapists Ella Berthoud & Susan Elderkin have put together the perfect manual for grown-ups who want to initiate young readers into one of life's greatest pleasures There's a remedy for every hiccup & heartache whether it's between the covers of a picture book a pop-up book or a YA novel You'll find old favourites like The Borrowers & The Secret Garden alongside modern soon-to-be classics by Michael Morpurgo Malorie Blackman & Frank Cottrell-Boyce as well as helpful lists of the right reads to fuel any obsession
- from dogs or dinosaurs space or spies Wise & witty The Story Cure will help any small person you know through the trials & tribulations of growing up & help you fill their bookshelves with adventure insight & a lifetime of fun
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Elliott is a boy who likes to find things & one day he stumbles across a machine At first he can't work out what the machine is for
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Dinesh is a young man trapped on the frontlines between the Sri Lankan army & the Tamil Tigers Desensitized to the horror all around him life has been pared back to the essentials eat sleep survive All this changes when he is approached one morning by an older man who asks him to marry his daughter Ganga hoping that victorious soldiers will be less likely to harm a married woman For a few brief hours Dinesh & Ganga tentatively explore their new & unexpected connection trying to understand themselves & each other until the war once more closes over them Told in meditative nuanced & powerful prose this shattering novel marks the arrival of an extraordinary new literary voice ...

This along with The Tale of Miss Moppet was intended for very young children It is a simple tale of what befalls a rude little rabbit that doesn't say'please' before he takes something that belongs to someone else The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit is number 20 in Beatrix Potter's series of 23 little books the titles of which are as follows 1 The Tale of Peter Rabbit 2 The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin 3 The Tailor of Gloucester 4 The Tale of Benjamin Bunny 5 The Tale of Two Bad Mice 6 The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle 7 The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher 8 The Tale of Tom Kitten 9 The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck 10 The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies 11 The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse 12 The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes 13 The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse 14 The Tale of Mr Tod 15 The Tale of Pigling Bland 16 The Tale of Samuel Whiskers 17 The Tale of The Pie & the Patty-Pan 18 The Tale of Ginger & Pickles 19 The Tale of Little Pig Robinson 20 The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit 21 The Story of Miss Moppet 22 Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes 23 Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes ...