A brilliant memoir from the celebrated Chilean novelist on friends, family & life in California, her adopted home. Isabel Allende has sold more than 50 million copies of her books worldwide. The most beloved & successful of her books, ' The House of the Spirits', was based on her Chilean childhood, & other autobiographical works include the deeply moving ' Paula' -- a family history written at the bedside of her daughter while she lay in a coma -- & the fascinating ' My Invented Country', which explored the events of her native Chile where she lived until Pinochet's military coup. Now, in ' The Sum of the Days', we have Isabel describe in an exceptionally vivid, human & deeply personal way her life in California where she has lived for more than 25 years. The first page picks up from where Paula ends -- her daughter never did wake up from her coma & died in 1992 -- when Allende recounts spreading Paula's ashes in her favourite part of the woods by their home. It is fair to say that Isabel has never recovered from losing her daughter but has managed to survive by keeping her husb&, son, grandchildren as well as close friends -- kindred spirits -- central to her life. The book is particularly illuminating & revealing about her working life -- she must begin every new book she writes on January 8th or else abandon it for a year. ' The Sum of the Days', based on Allende's own journals & daily correspondence with her mother in Chile, reveals the author to be a dazzling, generous, warm & hysterically funny matriarch within her swirl of family & friends. ...

When young British agent John Kirby comes to Russia in 1911 he is there to work & to explore a new & exciting country. He does not expect to fall in love, but an invitation to a ball from the Tsar changes all that &, after an evening of dancing & romance, John & the Tsar's eldest daughter, Olga, are totally captivated by one another. Soon John is spending more time with Olga & her family, wonderful, long peaceful summers of tennis parties & picnics. But just as love begins to blossom between the pair, a cruel blow is dealt, John is forced to return to England & Olga & her family are caught up in the bitter & bloody war of 1914. Will John & Olga ever be reunited? Can their love survive the odds? Or will tragedy, pain & longing destroy them both? ...

In the year 1704, dairy maid  Elen Griffiths' immunity to the smallpox plaguing England should be a blessing.

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It's the summer holidays, & Charlie forms a gang with best friends, Hannah, Izzie & Xa. They call themselves the C.H.I.X. after the first letters of their names. Together they promise to keep each other's secrets, & have the best adventures ever! Even when a bunch of boys puts their friendship to the test. ...

A secret love that will haunt a family for ever England 1918. Lady Helen believes her parents when they say she will never find a better husband than Richard, but when he returns to the Front, she begins to wonder just who it is she has married. His letters home are cold & distant
- & Helen realises that she has made a terrible mistake. Then Oliver Donovan enters her life & they begin an affair that leaves Helen pregnant & alone
- she is forced to surrender her precious baby. Over twenty years pass & a second war is ravaging Europe, but that is not the only echo of the past to haunt the present. Laura Drummond is caught in a tragic love affair of her own & when she is forced to leave London during the Blitz, she turns to the mother she never knew.

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In the gloriously hot summer of 1936, a group of people meet at a country house party.

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“ Destroying other people isn’t going to make you feel any better.” “ That suggests you’ve never destroyed an enemy before. It’s actually quite fulfilling.” EMMY Elliott Springs has small-town values, cobblestone streets, perfect scenery. These are things I don’t care about. What I do care about is... Revenge. & no matter how compelling I find Liam Doherty-the guy focused on saving Elliott Springs-I’m going to get it. LIAM What do you call a woman who wants to destroy everything you love, yet the sight of her sets you on fire? Nemesis or future wife... & since she can’t wait to leave California, I guess I know which one she is. Emerson Hughes wants to be the villain in our town’s history, & the more I learn about her past here, the more I understand it. I wanted to save Elliott Springs. I think I want to save her even more. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780349440798 • Author: Elizabeth O’ Roark • Publisher: Piatkus Books • Format: Paperback • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 19... ...

Meet your new favourite couple in the breathtaking next book of the angsty SUMMER series – perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover & Mia Sheridan. I wanted her out of my house. Now I can’t imagine her leaving at all. Once upon a time, my buddy’s younger niece was following me around the beach with stars in her eyes. Now Daisy’s twenty-one, the loveliest thing I’ve ever laid eyes on, & blackmailing me into letting her stay for the summer. If she’s not bent over on my deck in yoga pants, she’s in a bikini that covers far less. She makes me laugh when I want to stay pissed off & forces me to remember all the things I used to love. If only she weren’t so damn young & so incredibly off-limits. The sizzling tension between us is getting harder to resist, but giving in would destroy some of my oldest friendships. Worst of all, though? It might destroy Daisy too. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780349440811 • Author: Elizabeth O' Roark • Publisher: Little Brown • Format: Paperback • Page... ...

Books Children's Fiction Books There's a feeling of relief that comes just after you've robbed a bank... Rex's parents have split up &, to make matters worse, he has to spend his summer holiday on a remote & rainy Irish island
- with only unruly sheep for company. The only upside: he'll be staying with his strange & brilliant Uncle Derm. Then Rex discovers Uncle Derm is about to execute his most hair-brained plan yet... To rob the island's travelling bank! Like the local legend of medieval Pirate Queen Grace O' Malley, Uncle Derm plans to redistribute the money to local needy causes on the isl&. & he needs Rex's help...   Product Information:  •� ISBN:�  9780241683866 •� Author: David O' Doherty  •� Publisher:�   Puffin •� Format:�   Paperback •� Pages:�  304 •� Dimensions:�  12.9 x 1.8 x 19.8 cm
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CALEB I came to the lake to be left alone, to lick my wounds. I wasn't counting on neighbors & I especially wasn't counting on her. Lucie was a little kid the last time I was here. Now she's grown-and God, did she ever grow up-with two little kids of her own. She's everywhere I look, no matter how hard I try to avoid her. I'd forgotten all the things I used to want, used to dream about. She's reminding me...and making me want every last one of them again. LUCIE From the moment I first saw Caleb when I was six, I knew he belonged to me. & I knew I'd have to save him-because how else does the girl nobody wants win over the boy beloved by all? Nothing about his life or mine has gone to plan. He's isolated & miserable. I've got a vindictive ex & more problems than I can count. But what hasn't changed is this: it still feels like he's mine. & I still think I may need to save him. Product Information:  •� ISBN: 9780349440699 •� Author: Elizabeth O' Roark •� Publisher: Piatkus •�.. . ...