In 1939, with the war having been declared, evacuees arrive in the small Welsh seaside town of St David’s Wells.

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It is World War II & Jo stumbles on a dangerous secret: Jewish children are being smuggled away from the Nazis, close to his mountain village in Spain. Now, German soldiers have been stationed at the border. Jo must get word to his friends that the children are trapped. The slightest mistake could cost them their lives. ...

Scott is an inquisitive seeker who meets a mysterious cardboard-sign-toting homeless man named Robert who has a sleepy black lab puppy at his side & a penchant for changing lives. Sparked by Robert's wisdom Scott is thrust into a spiritual adventure where he attempts to heal his past while confronting the spirit of his dead fiancee. ...

Brenda O' Donnell is turned out by her family when she finds herself pregnant at sixteen. Widowed Sid Rawlins, the rag-&-bone man, says she can come & live with him & he will give her child a name in return for her running his home & looking after his children. Despite the gossip a desperate Brenda has little choice but to accept. ...

A gorgeously written, English Patient-style novel about the real-life romance between the war photographers Robert Capa & Gerda Taro during the Spanish Civil War. Already optioned to be the next film by Michael Mann (PUBLIC ENEMIES, THE INSIDER, MANHUNTER, COLLATERAL). Love, war & photography marked their lives. They were young, anti-Fascist, good-looking, & nonconformist. They had everything in life, & they put everything at risk. They created their own legend & remained faithful to it until the very end? A young German woman named Gerta Pohorylle & a young Hungarian man named Endre Friedmann meet in Paris in 1935. Both Communists, Jewish, exiled, & photographers, they decide to change their names in order to sell their work more easily, & so they become Gerda Taro & Robert Capa. With these new identities, they travel to Spain & begin to document the Spanish Civil War. Two years later, tragedy will befall them ? but until then, theirs is a romance for the ages. Based on the true story of these legendary figures & set to be the next film by award-winning director Michael Mann waiting for Robert Capa is a moving tribute to all journalists & photographers who lose their lives to show us the world's daily transformations. ...

Driven to desperation by the hand the world has dealt him, a man attempts to buy a gun to end his life. But a computer malfunction causes a delay with the gun license: a life-saving event that sees the man questioning why he should die when there are so m ...

Everything changes for high-school senior Jeffry Dietz when he is ripped from the familiar camaraderie of suburbia & transplanted to a tiny, tourist-trap town in the upper Midwest. Jeffry's quiet desperation in this sluggish, pre-cable modem world doesn't stop him from making new discoveries, new friendships, & new enemies. ...

Beautiful. Fearless. Dangerous. They're the kind of girls you envy; the kind of girls you want to hate. Strangers in town for the summer, Penn, Thea, & Lexi have caught everyone's attention, including the eye of practical Harper. But it's her sister, Gemma, they've chosen to be part of their group. Sixteen-year-old Gemma seems to have it all
- carefree, pretty, & falling in love with the boy next door. But her greatest passion has always been the water. She craves late night swims under the stars, where she can be alone yet belong to the sea. Lately she's had company. Penn, Thea, & Lexi spend their nights dancing, singing, & partying on the cove
- & one night Gemma joins them. When she wakes up groggy on the beach the next morning, she knows something has changed. Suddenly Gemma is stronger, faster, & more beautiful than ever. As she uncovers the truth about her new mythical powers, Gemma is forced to choose between staying with those she loves or entering a dark world brimming with unimaginable secrets. ? Generated an excitement not felt in the industry since Stephenie Meyer or perhaps even J. K. Rowling? New York Times.

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Captain Gordon (John Wayne) commands the elegant schooner, the Red Witch. When the owner commands him to set sail for an East Indian island in search of treasure, Gordon complies. However, treachery is in the air, & Gordon becomes a man driven by a thir ...

Is Weed Killer more important than Killer Weed? Has LSD come to mean Low Sodium Diet? Have you joined a 12 Step Program just to get up twelve steps? Are the Grateful Dead friends of yours who have visited Dr Kevorkian? Is your next holiday at Club Med
- short for Club Medicare? This book helps you solve these.
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