Former Polish teenage piano prodigy Mosha Gebert is teaching when the Nazis come for her. They kill her student, but she is taken to Majdanek concentration camp. There, Commandant Josef Hanke spots her & recognises her as the pianist he fell in love with years earlier. Hanke demands that Mosha play ‘ Ode to Joy’ for him, but she refuses. She will never play in such a horrific place – or for such an evil monster. So begins a battle of wills & repeated torture. Even when Hanke causes her to lose her hearing, Mosha refuses to play.  When her sister arrives in the camp, Hanke tries to use her as leverage but Mosha is steadfast in her hatred for Hanke & the Nazis. Even when her sister is subjected to worse punishment, Mosha does not waver. Instead of playing for Hanke, she begins teaching the women camp songs. Hanke finally turns his anger on Mosha, breaking one of her fingers. She convinces prison guard Elsa to smash the rest of her fingers with a rock.  Mosha believes crippling h... ...

The clown suddenly appeared beside a group of kids at the candy floss van, bringing Kira to an abrupt halt. Then it began. The rapid heartbeat, the burst of perspiration, the gasping breath. The baby lurched inside her, as though sharing her panic. When the body of a pregnant teenager is found in a Hall of Mirrors with the full-term foetus surgically removed, forensic scientist Rhona Mac Leod is called in to assist the police. Suspicion falls on Jeff Coulter, a psychotic inmate at a nearby hospital whose hobby is making Reborns chillingly realistic baby dolls intended for bereaved parents or those unable to conceive. But how could he have orchestrated the murder from a secure mental facility? The investigation leads to a group of teenage girls who seem to have all got pregnant at the same time. Then a Reborn doll is discovered near the crime scene & a second girl from the group is found dead. Creepy, compelling & heart-stoppingly tense, THE REBORN is Lin Anderson's most powerful novel yet. ...

A newly single girl. A tall dark handsome stranger. What could go wrong? It’s 7 a.m. on a Monday & Abby Reynoldsisn’t where she wants to be. She wantsto be in her beautiful loft apartment in Manhattan, drinking a coffee with her fiancé. Instead, she’s heading back to the childhood home in rural Ireland she swore she’d never return to, with some big old secrets. Namely that she’s suddenly found herself unemployed, homeless, & absolutely 100% single. She’s feeling all out of luck. Until the first person she meets after she touches down is an absurdly hot guy called Luke, who offers her a lift home. Gazing deep into his sparkling emerald-green eyes, Abby knows instantly that he’s exactly what she needs to take her mind off everything. The perfect rebound. It’s a flawless plan. Until the next day, when Abby realizes who he actually is. Not just a stranger. He is, in fact, Luke Bailey, aka the boy next door. Luke Bailey who-so help her God-she’s pretty sure she once shared baths wit... ...

When Seren’s brother Andrew signs her up to Yorkshire Dating, only for them to recommend that she ‘gets a life’ before they find her a match, Seren has to admit that they may have a point. She loves her job cooking at an elder day centre & her little flat, but it’s fair to say her life is a little short of hobbies & friends. Since she was young Seren has felt safer close to home, but now she’s a thirty-something divorcee, it’s time for a change. Change arrives in the shape of alarmingly clever collie Kez, who Seren offers to take in ‘temporarily’, & kind but mysterious new colleague Ned. But as Ned & Kez tempt Seren out of her shell, it means facing her fears. & when Andrew finally reveals the secrets of their childhood, Seren’s need for safety suddenly makes sense. A problem shared is a problem halved, & with friends by her side, Seren might be able to get a life that she loves at last. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781836178958 • Author: Jane Lovering • Publisher: Bo... ...

Bestselling author & home cook Sally Bee is back with a collection of deliciously simple recipes that show how easy it is to follow a healthy diet for life. Many of us know the principles of healthy eating but actually incorporating them into daily life is much harder. Whether it's eating more fruit & vegetables, reducing fat without losing flavour or feeding a family after work without the aid of a take-away menu, Sally Bee explains how to make good food second nature. Sally isn't a dietician, but a busy mum who knows how tough it can be to change eating habits. Her down-to-earth advice & realistic approach is borne from her own experience of life-threatening heart disease, from which she recovered thanks to her own delicious & easy-to-follow eating plan. Sally understands how real people eat & how recipes must be quick & made with affordable, readily available food. Her plan won't leave you feeling deprived or hungry, but means that you can enjoy many of your favourite foods in a balanced way. Recipes for Life offers refreshingly simple advice & tasty dishes that will change your eating habits & help you enjoy a healthy mind & body
- not just for a few weeks, but for life. Recipes include: Chicken Korma Healthy Chinese Chicken Wraps Smoked haddock & leek pie Healthy Fish Chips & Mushy Peas Roast Monkfish with Olives & Capers All-in-one Lentil & Sausage Casserole Spanish Pork & Bean Stew Caramelised Veggies with Sausages & Baked Sweet Potato Winter Salad Asparagus & Artichoke Salad with Wild Rice & Basil Dressing Pumpkin & mushroom lasagne Broccoli & Leek Bake Apricot & Pistachio Tart
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The reckoning is coming... In an isolated house by Dugort pier a body is found. DS Lucy Golden is shocked to discover that the victim, Sandra Byrne, is a sister of one of her old school friends. To further complicate matters, Ben Lively, one of Lucy's colleagues, is the chief suspect. Lucy must put aside her bias in order to uncover the truth. But the deeper she digs into Sandra's life, the more the past starts to unravel & the less she seems to know. How do you solve a murder when all you have are lies? As Lucy desperately tries to sort out what is true from what is not, Rob, her ex-husband & ex-con, makes a reappearance. & when the reckoning for past mistakes finally arrives, nothing is what it seems. Product Information:  •†ISBN:†9781408718841 •†Author: Martina Murphy •†Publisher: Constable •†Format:   Paperback •†Pages:†384  •†Dimensions: 12.6 x 3.4 x 19.6cm ...

Books Thriller Books Detective Billy Harney exposes an evil lurking deep within his city
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Read With Biff, Chip & Kipper is the UK's best-selling home reading series. It is based on Oxford Reading Tree which is used in 80% of primary schools. Read With Biff, Chip & Kipper Level 4 Phonics storybooks have been specially written to allow children to practise their letters & sounds as they do at school. Fun plots, familiar characters & carefully levelled text create the perfect combination to build children's confidence & enjoyment of reading. The Level 4 stories practice long vowel sounds such as 'ee' & sounds made from two consonant letters such as 'sh', as well as revising single letter sounds. These are introduced at Level 4: ee oa oo er sh ng ch. The stories provide lots of opportunity to combine sounds to read two & three syllable words containing these focus sounds. Each book also

Includes:: practical tips & ideas for you to use when you reading with your child & fun activities. This series also provides essential support for parents through www.oxfordowl.co.uk. Visit the Oxford Owl for practical advice for helping children learn to read, all you need to know about phonics & lots of fun activities & free e Books. With plenty of support available inside the book & online phonics practice at home has never been so fun or so easy!

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Read by Janet Mc Teer. When the body of a young girl is found dumped on the banks of the Thames, even the police are shocked by the brutality of her murder: horrifically mutilated, severed in half & drained of blood, her death is a terrifying mirror image of a 1940s case in Los Angeles knows as ' The Black Dahlia'. That case was never solved, but now Detective Inspector Anna Travis must race against time to catch this 'copycat killer', dubbed ' The Red Dahlia' from the flower his victim wore in her hair. But there are no suspects & a media frenzy is spiralling out of control. Anna needs help from the brilliant & volatile Detective Chief Inspector James Langton, but the frictions of their romantic relationship are complicating the case. A second girl is murdered & as Anna & Langton close in on the prime suspect, they uncover a terrifying web of sadistic sexual evil & a family's murderous secrets. ...

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