Have you ever wanted to walk out on your life? One Friday morning, Emily realises that, somewhere in life, she has chosen the wrong path. She`s stifled by her job as a New York lawyer, she barely sees her husb&, James, & their attempts to start a family have proven unsuccessful. So Emily escapes. She walks out of the office, turns her phone off, packs a bag & leaves New York. She doesn`t even tell James she`s leaving... But when a new path leads back to her past, & an old lover, new problems arise. As Emily begins to carve out a new life, where does that leave everything & everyone she left behind? Praise for Barbara Delinksy: ” Fans of Jodi Picoult will love this.. .a poignant family story”. (” Daily Express”). ” Delinsky`s writing is fluid & makes for a hard-to-put-down book as she deftly blends tense family drama with heavy political issues”. (” Glamour”). ”...a sensitive exploration of the prejudices that many hold but few express.. .a page turner that asks serious questions about America`s relationship with its past”. (” The Times”). ”A really interesting & sometimes harrowing tale that makes for compelling reading”. (” Sun”). ...

Locked doors, high prison walls & barbed wire are formidable enough obstacles, but many escaping prisoners also face savage dogs & armed guards who shoot to kill. From Alcatraz to Devil`s Isl&, this book tells the extraordinary tales of men who risked their lives for their freedom. ...

Matt Seaton`s critically acclaimed memoir about his obsession for cycling & how that obsession was tamed. For a time there were four bikes in Matt Seaton`s life. His evenings were spent `doing the miles` on the roads out of south London & into the hills of the North Downs & Kent Weald. Weekends were taken up with track meets, time trials & road races
- rides that took him from cold village halls at dawn & onto the empty bypasses of southern Engl&. With its rituals, its code of honour & its comradeship, cycling became a passion that bordered on possession. It was at once a world apart, private to its initiates &, through the races he rode in Belgium, Mallorca & Irel&, a passport to an international fraternity. But then marriage, children & his wife`s illness forced a reckoning with real life &, ultimately, a reappraisal of why cycling had become so compelling in the first place. Today, those bikes are scattered, sold, or gathering dust in an attic. Wry, frank & elegiac, ` The Escape Artist` is a celebration of an amateur sport & the simple beauty of cycling. It is also a story about the passage from youth to adulthood, about what it means to give up something fiercely loved in return for a kind of wisdom.
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Marcos is a student of fine arts. When Jacobo Montes, the social artist of the hour, arrives in Murcia, he becomes his assistant & helps him set up his transgressive piece of art for the city. But Montes`s methods border on the unacceptable, & when theory turns to practice, things run the risk of getting out of h&. Written with a sharp approach that brings to mind Philip Roth & Don De Lillo, & a meta-literary touch that recalls the work of Paul Auster or Enrique Vila-Matas, Escape Attempt reflects on some of the big topics of our contemporary world: modern art, immigration, globalization, & more-all in relation to justice, ethics, & life. ...

Twenty-seven years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. Located about 55 miles north of Pyongyang, the labor camp is a `complete control district, ` a no-exit prison where the only sentence is life. No one born in Camp 14 or in any North Korean political prison camp has escaped. No one except Shin. This is his story. A gripping, terrifying memoir with a searing sense of place, ESCAPE FROM CAMP 14 will unlock, through Shin, a dark & secret nation, taking readers to a place they have never before been allowed to go. ` This is a story unlike any other` Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea THIS EDITION

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A gripping & heartfelt war story from War Horse author & former Children`s Laureate, Michael Morpurgo. Turned away by his own son, Cessie`s long-lost grandfather finds himself in the place he fears most
- a nursing home called Shangri-La. Only Cessie loves him & is determined to help him escape & unravel the truth of his past. A past that comes to him only in glimpses
- a lifeboat, a tin of condensed milk, a terrifying night on the beaches of Dunkirk in World War II. Former Children`s Laureate Michael Morpurgo needs no introduction. He is one of the most successful children`s authors in the country, loved by children, teachers & parents alike. Michael has written more than forty books for children including the global hit, War Horse, which was made into a Hollywood film by Steven Spielberg in 2011. Several of his other stories have been adapted for screen & stage, including My Friend Walter, Why the Whales Came & Kensuke`s Kingdom. Michael has won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children`s Book Award & has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times. He started the charity Farms for City Children in 1976 with his wife, Clare, aimed at relieving the ”poverty of experience” many young children feel in inner city & urban areas. Michael is also a patron of over a dozen other charities. Living in Devon, listening to Mozart & working with children have provided Michael with the ideas & incentive to write his stories. He spends half his life mucking out sheds with the children, feeding sheep or milking cows; the other half he spends dreaming up & writing stories for children. ” For me, the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out
- the writing down of it I always find hard. But I love finishing it, then holding the book in my hand & sharing my dream with my readers.” Michael received an OBE in December 2006 for his services to literature.


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A graphic story of intense current events. From the pen of former Lebanon Star reporter Samya Kullab comes a breathtaking & hard-hitting story of one family`s struggle to survive in the face of war, displacement, poverty & relocation. ` Escape from Syria` is a fictionalized account that calls on real-life circumstances & true tales of refugee families to serve as a microcosm of the Syrian uprising & the war & refugee crisis that followed. The story spans six years in the lives of Walid, his wife Dalia, & their two children, Amina & Youssef. Forced to flee from Syria, they become asylum-seekers in Lebanon, & finally resettled refugees in the West. It is a story that has been replayed thousands of times by other families. When the family home in Aleppo is destroyed by a government-led bomb strike, Walid has no choice but to take his wife & children & flee their war-torn & much loved homel&. They struggle to survive in the wretched refugee camps of Lebanon, & when Youssef becomes fatally ill as a result of the poor hygienic conditions, his father is forced to take great personal risk to save his family. Walid`s daughter, the young Amina, a whip-smart grade-A student, tells the story. As she witnesses firsthand the harsh realities that her family must endure if they are to survive
- swindling smugglers, treacherous ocean crossings, & jihadist militias
- she is forced to grow up very quickly in order to help her parents & brother. Kullab`s narrative masterfully maps both the collapse & destruction of Syria, & the real-life tragedies faced by its citizens still today. The family`s escape from their homeland makes for a harrowing tale, but with their safe arrival in the West it serves as a hopeful endnote to this ongoing worldwide crisis. Beautiful illustrations by Jackie Roche
- whose work on the viral web-comic, Syria`s Climate Conflict, covered prominently in Symboliamag.com, Upworthy.com & Motherjones.com, among others
- bring Kullab`s words to life in stunning imagery that captures both the horror of war & the dignity of human will.



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Two brothers face cruelty, hardship, & hope, on the ultimate journey in search of freedom. Eleven-year-old Tenzin hasn`t seen his older brother, Pasang, in five years, so he is thrilled when Pasang unexpectedly returns to their Tibetan village late one night. Now eighteen, Pasang is an educated monk whose return from India provokes the suspicious & ever-watchful eyes of the Chinese authorities. Unbeknownst to Tenzin, Pasang has conspired with their mother to leave again
- taking his younger brother with him, this time, in search of a better life. At first Tenzin is thrilled to embark on such an adventure with Pasang. But crushing homesickness soon sets in as the brothers eke out a meagre existence begging in the unfamiliar streets of Lhasa, often narrowly dodging the police. They finally scrape together enough money to begin the most harrowing part of their journey: the physically excruciating, dangerous, & illegal trek to a new country on the other side of the Himalayan mountains, where they can be granted refugee status & begin to rebuild their lives. Along the way they suffer abuse at the hands of border police, meet fellow Tibetans from whom they draw strength, & have a chance encounter with a film crew that will change their lives. Based on the true story of the brothers` 1994 journey first made into an acclaimed documentary by Nick Gray, Escape from Tibet is a riveting tale of courage, adventure, & triumph. The outpouring of support for the boys that resulted after the documentary aired on ITV in 1997 led to the brothers moving to London, where they live today. Only now do they feel that the full story of their daring escape can be told. A foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama & an introduction provide historical context. Black & white photographs of Nick Gray`s travels through Tibet vividly evoke the boys` homel&, & a timeline, glossary, & maps further contextualize the Tibetans` controversial & ongoing struggle with China.
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