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Coco Martin, the adored only child of wealthy parents, has lived a charmed existence. Despite her privileged upbringing, Coco's

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All That Glitters Returning to his native Pontypridd as star of the 1939 summer season, Haydn Powell has learned that stage life is less glamour than it seems. His childhood sweetheart Jenny Griffiths is confident she can win him back from the easy charms of the chorus girls by flirting with his hot-headed boxer brother Eddie ...

Featured on BBC RADIO 4's Start the Week` One might expect [this book] to be a grim read but it absolutely isn't. In All that Remains she reveals the many faces of death she has come to know, using key cases to explore how forensic science has developed, & what her work has taught her. ...

Read by Kate Burton. A killer is stalking young lovers. Taking their lives...and leaving just a tantalising clue... When the bodies of young courting couples start turning up in remote woodland areas, Dr Kay Scarpetta's task as Chief Medical Examiner is made more difficult by the effects of the elements. Eight times she must write that the cause of death is undetermined. But when the latest girl who goes missing turns out to be the daughter of one of the most powerful women in America, Kay finds herself prey to political pressure & press harassment. As she starts to investigate, she finds that vital evidence is being withheld from her
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Books Young Adult Books A dark psychological thriller about obsession, manipulation, & those friendships which take hold of you & never let you go. Tic tac toe, three girls in a row. Nine years old & inseparable. Friends for life, or so they think.  Best friends Syd, Rain & Brie grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in the stifling California desert, desperately wishing for a way out.  In the end, each of them will escape, but not in the way they expect. One will do it by dying, another by lying, a third by taking the fall. A deadly fire is set two weeks before the end of their senior year of high school & nothing will ever be the same.  With gorgeous, taut prose & shocking twists, All the Best Liars will keep you guessing to the very last page. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529510553 • Author: Amelia Kahaney • Publisher: Walker Books • Format: Paperback • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.1 x 19.8cm   ...

FBI agent Reed Markham is haunted by one painful unsolved mystery: who murdered his mother? Camilla was brutally stabbed to death more than forty years ago while baby Reed lay in his crib mere steps away.

The trail went so cold that the Las Vegas Police Department has given up hope of solving the case.

But then a shattering family secret changes everything Reed knows about his origins, his murdered mother, & his powerful adoptive father, state senator Angus Markham.

Now Reed has to wonder if his mothers killer is uncomfortably close to home.

Reed enlists his friend, suspended cop Ellery Hathaway, to join his quest in Vegas.

Ellery has experience with both troubled families & diabolical murderers, having narrowly escaped from each of them.

Far from home & relying only on each other, Reed & Ellery discover young Camilla had snared the attention of dangerous men, any of whom might have wanted to shut her up for good.

They start tracing his twisted family history, knowing the path leads back to a vicious killer
- one who has been hiding in plain sight for forty years & isnt about to give up now.

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• ISBN: 9781789090581
• Author: Joanna Schaffhausen
• Publisher: Titan Books
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 336
• Dimensions: 19.8 x 2.2 x 13 cm
























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Pithy put-downs, hard-boiled snarlings, words of love & regret... All the Best Lines presents 500 memorable movie"es, embracing both one-liners (My name is Pussy Galore) & slices of snappy dialogue from pictures as diverse as When Harry Met Sally & Pulp Fiction. Arranged under such timeless themes as Dreams, Friends, Libido & Memories, the"es juxtapose films & stars from every era & every genre. Dotted throughout the text are feature capsules focusing on themes & stories in the movies from Goldwynisms to Mae West, plus a generous scattering of cinema anecdotes, making the book both a joy to browse & an authoritative reference. Lavishly illustrated with full-colour photographs, All the Best Lines will delight & entertain you in equal measure, reacquainting you with your favourite movies & introducing you to some forgotten classics. Anyone who loves the movies will be delighted to find it in their Christmas stocking. ...

Books Young Adult Books A compelling & beautiful story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who's drawn to death -  Now a major Netflix film starring Elle Fanning & Justice Smith. Theodore Finch tries to look for good things in the world, even if sometimes he doesn't always find them. violet Markey exists for the future, counting the days until she can escape her Indiana town & its painful memories of her sister. When they meet on the ledge of a tower, what might have been their end turns into their beginning. It's only with violet that Finch can truly be himself
- a funny guy who actually wants to experience the joy in life. & when violet's with Finch, she forgets to wish away the days & starts to live them. But as violet's world grows, Finch's begins to shrink. He's trying to cling on to his bright places, but will it be enough this time? Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9780141357034 •†Author:   Jennifer Niven •†Publisher:   Penguin •†Format:   Paperbac...
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Books Contemporary Fiction Books From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, comes its astonishing & powerful sequel. Gretel Fernsby is a quiet woman leading a quiet life. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany seventy years ago or the dark post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, the commandant of one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps. But when a young family moves into the apartment below her, Gretel can't help but befriend their little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back painful memories. One night, she witnesses a violent argument between his parents, which threatens to disturb her hard-won peace. For the second time in her life, Gretel is given the chance to save a young boy. To do so would allay her guilt, grief & remorse, but it will also force her to reveal her true identity. Will she make a different choice this time, whatever the cost to herself?   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781529176131 •†Author: John Boyne  •†Publisher:†  Penguin •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 384 •†Dimensions:† 12.7 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm ...