Orphan of Angel Street Mercy Hanley is abandoned at birth in the Birmingham of 1900. Her harsh foster mother soon finds out however that she has a mind of her own which threats beatings & poverty will not change as Mercy tries to create o better life for herself & her foster mother's crippled daughter. Through the years of the First World War Mercy continues her fight. When she has freedom & security she can give her love..... ...

I've told you before, & I will tell you again, if you are unable to read the Holy Book you will be punished. The teacher's face was a mask of anger. " Understand?" Born in 1975 in the UK to a Pakistani father & an English mother, Alexander Khan spent his early years as a Muslim in the north of Engl&. But at the age of three his family was torn apart when his father took him to Pakistan. Despite his desperate cries, that was the last he saw of his mother
- he was told she had walked out & abandoned them; many years later he learned she was told he'd died in a car crash in Pakistan. Three years on Alex is brought back to Engl&, but kept hidden at all times. His father disappears to Pakistan again, leaving Alex in the care of a stepmother & her cruel brother. & it is then that his troubles really begin. Seen as an outsider by both the white kids & the Pakistani kids, Alex is lost & alone. When his father dies unexpectedly, Alex is sent back to Pakistan to stay with his 'family' & learn to behave like a 'good Muslim'. Now alone in a strange, hostile country, with nobody to protect him, Alex realises what it is to be truly orphaned. No one would listen. No one would help. & no one cared when he was kidnapped by men from his own family & sent to a fundamentalist Madrassa on the Afghanistan border. A fascinating & compelling account of young boy caught between two cultures, this book tells the true story of a child desperately searching for his place in the world; the tale of a boy, lost & alone, trying to find a way to repair a life shattered by the shocking event he witnessed through a crack in the door of a house in an isolated village in Pakistan.
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Liverpool, 1940.

When nurses Nancy Kerris & Jess Williams both lose their lovers in the trenches during the Great

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When Maddy Belfield loses her family & home in the Blitz, she is sent to live with relatives in the Yorkshire Dales. En route, Maddy befriends Gloria Conley & her brother Sid, abandoned by their desperate mother. Although Maddy & Gloria are chalk & cheese, they vow to be 'forever friends'. Slowly Maddy adjusts to her new life. Eager to help the war effort, her Aunt Plum has opened up a home for 'difficult' evacuees & Maddy & Gloria quickly become part of a motley crew, including headstrong Greg & flighty Enid. The friendship endures into adulthood, until a tragic event tears them apart & Maddy flees to London. Years later, fate reunites them all. But a visit to Yorkshire reveals the truth about the past
- a revelation that has unimaginable consequences.
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Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered.

So, for that matter, are wolves & racoons. A man, once named Jimmy,

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Osama Bin Laden is dead. The President of the United States knows it. The world knows it. & SAS hero Joe Mansfield knows it. He was on the ground in Pakistan when it happened. He saw Seal Team 6 go in, & he saw them extract with their grisly cargo. He was in the right place at the right time. Or maybe, the wrong place at the wrong time. Because now, somebody wants Joe dead, & they're willing to do anything to make it happen. His world is violently dismantled. His family is targeted, his reputation destroyed. & as a mysterious & ruthless enemy plans a devastating terror attack on both sides of the Atlantic, Joe knows this: his only chance of survival is to find out what happened in Bin Laden's compound the night the Americans went in. But an unseen, menacing power has footprints it needs to cover. & it will stop at nothing to prevent him uncovering the sinister truth. ...

When Kate Allans beloved black cat, Oscar, is found lying severely injured in a field near their Jersey home, she is sure the accident-prone boy has met his end. With both hind legs severed by a combine-harvester, his life hangs in the balance; luckily for Oscar, his vet knows Noel Fitzpatrick, star of BBC Ones The Bionic Vet, who agrees to try pioneering surgery to replace his legs with specially created prosthetics. This is the amazing true account of a loving family faced with agonising decisions & unexpected twists of fate, & a courageous black feline destined to become the worlds first bionic cat. ...

Sam had a very ordinary life, until Oscar the dog arrived on his doorstep. Because Oscar has a big secret – he can talk! 

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Meet Oscar the Talking Dog! He has found a home with Sam but their adventures are only just beginning...

As Sams dad is

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The second book in a brilliantly funny new series from bestselling Dirty Bertie author Alan Mac Donald, about a boy and his incredible

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