Ada Houstons life is shattered when her brother Frank goes missing following an accident at the docks.

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A mysterious isl&. An abandoned orphanage. & a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction & photography in a thrilling reading experience. ...

In the new year of 1936, Gwen Purdy, aged twenty-one, leaves her home to become a schoolteacher in a poor area of Birmingham. Her early weeks are eye-opening: at the school she faces a class of fifty-two children, some of whose homes are among Birmingham's very poorest. One of the teachers, the elderly Lily Drysdale, proves an inspiration, & Gwen begins to understand the appalling hardships endured by the children as se is drawn into their lives. Joey Phillips, eight years old & the man of the house, looks after his dying mother & lives in fear of being sent to an orphanage. When he disappears one day to a life on the streets, Gwen is haunted by his absence. & there's Lucy Fernandez, an epileptic. Through her, Gwen meets Daniel Fernandez, the elder brother in a fatherless household. Gwen falls in love & is engaged in his battle to win rights for the working class. As the International Brigade is mobilized to fight in the Spanish Civil War, Gwen has to accept that Daniel has secrets in his past which she would rather not face up to... ...

Leys Physical Training College was famous for its excellent discipline, & Miss Lucy Pym was please & flattered to be invited to give a psychology lecture there. But she had to admit that the health & vibrant beauty of the students made her feel just a little inadequate. Then there was a nasty accident
- & suddenly Miss Pym was forced to apply her agile intellect to the unpleasant fact that among all those impressively health bodies, someone had a very sick mind.
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Leys Physical Training College was famous for its excellent discipline & Miss Lucy Pym was pleased & flattered to be invited to give a psychology lecture there. But she had to admit that the health & vibrant beauty of the students made her feel just a little inadequate. ...

In 1954, Shirley Bassey was seventeen years old. Depressed, disillusioned & four months pregnant, her dream of becoming a professional singer seemed over. A mere ten years later, ' Goldfinger' topping the charts, she had become one of the biggest stars in the world. Miss Shirley Bassey traces this extraordinary transformation, recapturing the lost landscape of Fifties Soho, with its smoke-filled jazz clubs, notorious gangsters & predatory managers, which a raw, but talented, Welsh singer fought to make her name. In this vivid & gripping book, John L. Williams shows how Shirley Bassey battled from Tiger Bay to the top. ...

One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop. The police pronounce it an accident. But Isaiah's neighbour, Smilla, an expert in the ways of snow & ice, suspects murder. She embarks on a dangerous quest to find the truth, following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow. ...

Alistair Carsington really, really wishes he didn't love women quite so much. To escape his worst impulses, he sets out for Derbyshire, where he hopes to avoid temptation. But this noble aim drops him straight into opposition with Miss Mirabel Oldridge, a ...

Janet Florin has been gone for almost a week. Her husb&, Mark, reported her missing when she failed to collect their two young children from school & a family friend, Trisha Marlowe, desperate for news of Janet, hires Sal to track her down. What could possibly have led Janet to abandon everything she holds dear? ...

Based on a true story, this is a political drama set during a military coup in South America. American political activist Charles Horman (John Shea) suddenly disappears. His wife Beth (Sissy Spacek) & his father Ed Horman (Jack Lemmon) go in search of t ...