Bright bookish Oscar Lowe has escaped the urban estate where he was raised & made a new life for himself amid the colleges & spires of Cambridge. He has grown to love the quiet routine of his life as a care assistant at a local nursing home where he has forged a close friendship with the homes most ill-tempered resident Dr. Paulsen. But when he meets & falls in love with Iris Bellwether a beautiful & enigmatic medical student at Kings College Oscar is drawn into her world of scholarship & privilege & soon becomes embroiled in the strange machinations of her brilliant but troubled brother Eden who believes he can adapt the theories of a forgotten Baroque composer to heal people with music. Edens self-belief knows no bounds & as he draws his sister & closed circle of friends into a series of disturbing experiments to prove himself right Oscar realises the extent of the danger facing them all... ...

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Respectable people... What bastards! Unjustly deported to Devils Island following Louis-Napoleons coup-detat in December 1851 Florent Quenu escapes & returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old Marche des Innocents has been knocked down as part of Haussmanns grand programme of urban reconstruction to make way for Les Halles the spectacular new food markets. Disgusted by a bourgeois society whose devotion to food is inseparable from its devotion to the Government Florent attempts an insurrection. Les Halles apocalyptic & destructive play an active role in Zolas picture of a world in which food & the injustice of society are inextricably linked. The Belly of Paris (Le Ventre de Paris) is the third volume in Zolas famous cycle of twenty novels Les Rougon-Macquart. It introduces the painter Claude Lantier & in its satirical representation of the bourgeoisie & capitalism complements Zolas other great novels of social conflict & urban poverty. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

Abandoned by her parents Sameem Ali spent six & a half years growing up in a childrens home. When she was told that her family wanted to take her back she couldnt wait to start her new life with them. Instead she returned to a dirty house where she was subjected to endless chores. Her mother began to beat her & her unhappiness drove her to self-harm. So Sameem was excited when she boarded a plane with her mother to visit Pakistan for the first time. It was only after they arrived in her familys village that she realised she wasnt there on holiday. Aged just thirteen Sameem was forced to marry a complete stranger. When pregnant two months later she was made to return to Glasgow where she suffered further abuse from her family. After finding true love Sameem fled the violence at home & escaped to Manchester with her young son. She believed she had put her horrific experiences behind her but was unprepared for the consequences of violating her familys honour.. . Belonging is the shocking true story of Sameems struggle to break free from her past & fight back against her upbringing. ...

Terrible unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of her baby who died nameless & whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. ...

This book follows the author through his experiences from the end of his apprenticeship in 1961 with The London Graving Dock Co. on the Isle of Dogs now generally known as Canary Wharf his time in the Merchant Navy as an engineer. Those were the days of what could be considered the last generation of hands-on engineers who maintained the ships engine rooms by the senses of sight sound & feel often with a bit of blood & always plenty of sweat. In those days the working conditions down below would have given todays health & safety brigade apoplexy. However it would be hard to find a ships engineer from those halcyon times that didnt consider his time at sea as the happiest time of his life. ...

Tell Sherry April called." A simple phone message that shakes Joe Picketts oldest daughter Sheridan & the rest of the family to the core. To Joe it doesnt seem even remotely possible that April could have survived the massacre described in Winterkill six years before. He was there & he was unable to save her. But Sheridan starts to believe theres a chance that April is still alive & her suspicions are confirmed when the person sending texts to her cellphone is able to recall family incidents only April could know. Joe however remains wary of the messages. But when the texts start to refer to "bad things " & when Marybeth discovers they come from locations throughout the West where vicious murders have taken place alarm bells go off. Desperate to discover if April is still alive & to save her from possible danger Joe Sheridan & Nate Romanowski take to the road to connect the texts with the crimes. Meanwhile a dying Chicago mobster named Stenko & a much younger girl cross the country. Hes on a mission to reconcile with his extreme environmentalist son before he dies. His son is less interested in reconciliation than in getting his father to repent for the environmental crimes hes committed during his lifetime. He wants his father to become not just carbon neutral but to reduce his carbon footprint to below zero
- as if hed never even existed. As the path of Stenko & his companions starts to cross with Joe Sheridan & Nate the question is raised: Is this young girl April or are the Picketts the victims of a cruel hoax?"
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' It's amazing how some people can light up a room just by stepping into it. Ben was twenty-one months old & full of smiles. He spread happiness simply by being there.' In 1991 Kerry & her son Ben followed Kerry's parents to live on the Greek island of Kos. On 24 July she was at work when her mum Christine arrived crying uncontrollably. Ben had been playing outside & then disappeared. Someone had taken Ben. In her heartbreaking memoir Kerry describes the agony of being initially suspected by the police which meant the closure of airport & ferry terminals were delayed the early sightings that raised their hopes & the hoaxes which dashed them completely. & the unbearable pain of knowing her baby boy was alone somewhere without his mum. Back in the UK the long years of waiting & hoping have been difficult on the whole family. Kerry has raised her daughter Leighanna while following up more than 300 leads. In 2011 they had a breakthrough when South Yorkshire Police agreed to work with the Greek authorities to reopen the case. The chance that Ben will read about himself & come home becomes more real every day. All of Kerry's royalties from the sale of this book will go toward the Help Find Ben campaign. ...

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