A call to action by one of America's longest serving & most respected legislators arguing the current Bush administration's lack of regard for the role of the Congress, its invasions into the privacy of the American public & the gradual elimination of public participation in & understanding of government. ...

An autobiography of iconic entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson that features his take on his business ventures, personal achievements & intrepid adventures. It presents insights into this very public figure's personal life as well as his business successes & the lessons he's learned along the way. ...

In this third & final volume, Bowlby completes the trilogy Attachment & Loss, his work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health & examines the ways in which young children respond to a temporary or permanent loss of a mother-figure & the expressions of anxiety, grief & mourning which accompany such loss. ...

Bullied. Taunted by everyone around her, 15 year-old Mavis Jackson is devastated when her only ally, her father Ron, leaves home to beat his gambling addiction. Forced to walk the streets in search of junk to sell, the future seems bleak. Bribed. Until an unexpected fairy godmother arrives in the form of invalid Edith Pugh. She needs help around the home & sees Mavis as the perfect solution. especially as she has ulterior motives... Blamed. Meanwhile, Ron has fallen off the wagon & disappeared. Best mate Pete doesn't know where he is & has to break the terrible news. But does he have another reason for his sudden interest in the Jackson family? Betrayed. Back at Edith's, Mavis revels in her new job. But when she learns of Edith's true motives, she faces a monumental decision, one which could change her life forever... ...

Details: In the heart-warming Lost & Found, discover tales from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home that celebrate the power of
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In Cambridge a little shop stands where thousands of sheets of beautiful paper & hundreds of exquisite pens wait for someone who, with Clara Cohen's help, will express the true emotions felt to correspondents alive, estranged or dead. When Clara discovers a cache of wartime love letters, she follows them on the start of her own journey. ...

Raleigh doesn't have a soul. A cat stole it
- at least that's what she tells people
- at least that's what she would tell people

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Lost Between Worlds is based on a journal written between 1940 & 1945 when Edward H Herzbaum was in his twenties. It is a first-hand account of his horrendous wartime experiences, both physical & psychological, published for the first time: the journal had been lying in a suitcase for 65 years until it was discovered & translated. ...

Winifred Rudge is a writer who is struggling to get beyond the runway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. When she arrives in London she discovers that her step-cousin John Comestor has disappeared & a ghostly presence has invaded his home. Winifred has to investigate & finds herself the unwilling audience for a drama of spectres & shades. This book is 19.7cm in height & 12.9cm wide with 401 pages. ...

After the oil company that employs Arthur Dashwood fails to protect him from a kidnap attempt in Baghdad, he returns to his traumatised family in London. But everything is not as it should be. Having quit the blistering heat & swimming pool luxury of Saudi Arabia for fear of terrorist attack, Arthur finds that danger is closer to home. Arthur's young son Timothy is struggling in the hostile terrain of his new public school. Bullied by other pupils & neglected by his preoccupied parents, he withdraws into a fantasy world, a hybrid of computer-generated guerrilla warzone & exotic dreams of his time in Saudi Arabia, a place where boys can fight & escape their teachers & families. As one middle-class boy from Timothy's school & then another disappears, so evidence emerges of an extreme & disturbing rejection of the adult world. & then it is Timothy's turn to disappear. Haunted by memories of post-Saddam Baghdad, Arthur embarks on a terrifying search for his son, one that will reveal his own complicity in the brutal consequences of Western power. ...