Jenny Hannigan might be a good-time party girl but all she secretly craves is a life of domestic bliss & solid respectability. So when she crashes into the arms of Richard Allam
- the young, handsome, recently-separated politician hotly tipped to lead his party to victory in the upcoming election
- she thinks she's found exactly what she is looking for. But Jenny isn't exactly politician's-wife material so Richard recruits the intensely private but charismatic publicist Dev Tennant to 'spin' Jenny to the Party... & the public. As the election gathers momentum, it turns out Jenny has more than one skeleton in her closet & Dev is working overtime to try to keep them there.

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Takes you on a journey across the prairies where Jacob Armstrong uncovers some uncomfortable truths about himself & his attitude towards people who are different. This novel explores how tolerance, understanding & a positive sense of self-worth can grow & develop from unexpected encounters. ...

The First Body is a Mystery. She's young. She's beautiful. & her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Kat Novak, betrays no secrets
- except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff h&, seven numbers scrawled inside. The Next Body is a Warning. Then a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the streets. The police are sceptical. The mayor won't listen. & Kat's chief suspect is one of the town's most prominent citizens. The Final Body.. . Might Be Hers. With the death toll rising, Kat races to expose a deadly predator who is closer than she ever dreamt. & every move she makes could be her very last.
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One rainy morning Commissario Brunetti & Ispettore Vianello respond to an emergency call reporting a body floating near some steps on the Grand Canal. Reaching down to pull it out, Brunetti's wrist is caught by the silkiness of golden hair, & he sees a small foot
- together he & Vianello lift a dead girl from the water.
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When Isabella's friend disappears, she volunteers to guide the search party. As a mapmaker's daughter, she's equipped with elaborate ink maps & knowledge of the stars, eager to navigate the island's forgotten heart. But beneath the mountains a legendary fire demon awakens, & her journey is fraught with danger... ...

Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. ' Jess & Jason', she calls them. Their life
- as she sees it
- is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy.

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An orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena, & an artist's servant girl in seventeenth-century Amsterdam snatches a moment away from her work to lose herself in tales of knights & battles. A woman reading in a Shoreditch bar catches the eye of a young ma ...

When Shane Dunphy starts work at Little Scamps cr?che, he has no idea what he has let himself in for. He had not worked in an early years setting for many years & on arriving for his first day he found that two members of staff, Susan & Tush, are at the end of their tether & on the verge of resigning. The children themselves are completely out of control. At the centre of this chaos Shane finds Tammy, a pretty, doll-like five-year-old who is a mystery to everyone: she does not talk, or even smile, yet shows signs of remarkable intelligence. Through the course of the year, Shane attempts to bring order to this motley group & we learn the stories of some of the other children in the cr?che: Milandra, an angry, violent four year old, the daughter of a Nigerian father & Irish mother; Rufus, a gypsy child who is direly neglected; Julie, a tiny, painfully shy little girl with Down's Syndrome. How is Shane ever to find a way to communicate with & ultimately befriend such diverse & challenging personalities? Then one afternoon, Gus, the class tear away, receives the gift of a blue crayon
- a crayon he claims is magic. & Shane begins to wonder if this magic could be the answer to all his problems. Shane Dunphy's moving portrait of a year at Little Scamps is a testament to the redemptive power of love & nurturing, of finding oneself through the care of others, as well as finding the secret of a girl who couldn't smile.
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It has been a long time since young September bid farewell to Fairyl&, & she is excited to see it again; but upon her return she is shocked to find that her friends have been losing their shadows, & therefore their magic, to the kingdom of Fairyl&-Below... ...

Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists are murdered & Salander's fingerprints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable behaviour makes her the official suspect, but no-one can find her. Salander may be an expert at staying ...