Since her family moved to Cornwall Lizzys world has been turned upside down by the discovery that she has a long-lost brother Kes & even more amazingly that their mother is a mermaid. Now Lizzy & her new family must bravely battle the evil sea queen & her terrfying servant for Lizzy has a powerful treasure & the sea queen will stop at nothing to get it. It is exciting & full of dark mystery & suspense ideal for girls of 8-10 who love stories with an edge. ...

Naomi Noviks stunning series of novels follow the adventures of Cpt Laurence & his dragon Temeraire as they travel from the ...

EVERY LIGHT CASTS A SHADOW Gavin Guile is the Prism the most powerful man in the world. His strength wit & charm are all that preserve a tenuous peace. But Prisms never last & Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live. When Guile discovers he has a son born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power he must decide how much hes willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart. ...

The ' Black Queen' is what Billy calls his shadowy next-door neighbour. She always wears a black cloak & a wide-brimmed black hat. She lurks about her garden alone except for her black cat. Scarily for Billy the Black Queen befriends him & asks him to look after her cat while she's away. Billy can't resist the opportunity to peek inside her house. There are chessboards scattered everywhere. Who is the Black Queen & what sort of game is she playing? Billy thinks he knows... ...

Black Rabbit Summer" is an intense page-turner from award-winning young adult writer Kevin Brooks. A group of old friends affected by drugs alcohol & memories find themselves in the middle of a crime scene. Pete Boland was busy doing nothing that summer. Long stiflingly hot lazy days stretched ahead of him. Then she called. It was Nicole. ' Listen Pete.. .you know that funfair up at the recreation ground...I thought we could all meet up.. .you know for old times sake.' But where there are old times there are old tensions. & as secrets bitterness & jealousies resurface five old friends are plunged into the worst night of their lives..."A masterly writer & this book would put many authors of 'grown up' detective fiction to shame". (" Mail on Sunday"). "A compulsive atmospheric mystery". (" Sunday Times"). " Gripping disturbing.. .brilliant". (" Sunday Express"). Kevin Brooks is the award-winning author of nine gripping teenage novels usually with a thrilling detective twist. His novels " Being" "i Boy" " Killing God" (published as Dawn in the USA) & " Naked" are also available from Penguin. Kevin's brand new novel " The Bunker Diary" will be published in 2013. If you enjoyed " Black Rabbit Summer" & want to get inside more of your favourite books then check out website for exclusive author interviews competitions & much more." ...

A beautiful young woman a member of the Florentine jet set is found dead
- choked to death
- in her apartment. She has been

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A strikingly beautiful young woman is found dead in her Florence apartment. She lies on her bed naked a black rose between her legs. & the murders do not stop there: shortly afterwards a woman is burned to death in a church & a man is shot on the Ponte Vecchio. Chief Superindendent Michele Ferrara is all too familiar with the dark side of Florence. But he has never seen anything of this magnitude before
- he is up against a mysterious powerful enemy who would do anything to hide his identity & manages to controls events at every turn. As more violent deaths occur Ferrara has to face the most dangerous investigation in his entire career & must confront deadly secrets from his own past.. .
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Berlin 1933. Warning bells ring across Europe as Hitler comes to power. Clara Vine an attractive young Anglo-German actress arrives in Berlin to find work at the famous Ufa studios. Through a chance meeting she is unwillingly drawn into a circle of Nazi wives among them Magda Goebbels Anneliese von Ribbentrop & Goering's girlfriend Emmy Sonnemann. As part of his plan to create a new pure German race Hitler wants to make sweeping changes to the lives of women starting with the formation of a Reich Fashion Bureau instructing women on what to wear & how to behave. Clara is invited to model the dowdy unflattering clothes. Then she meets Leo Quinn who is working for British intelligence & who sees in Clara the perfect recruit to spy on her new elite friends using her acting skills to win their confidence. But when Magda Goebbels reveals to Clara a dramatic secret & entrusts her with an extraordinary mission Clara feels threatened compromised desperately caught between her duty towards
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- Leo & the impossibly dangerous task Magda has forced upon her.

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Ida a good-natured happy girl is looking forward to her tenth birthday when she gets on her brand new bike & sets off to buy sweets. She should be back within half an hour but she never returns. Her mother frantic with worry calls the shop friends & family but no one has seen her daughter. As the relatives reach breaking point & the media circus begins Inspector Sejer is calm & reassuring but inside he is worried: missing children are normally found within forty-eight hours. Ida seems to have vanished without a trace. ...

Miss Abigail Wendover's efforts to detach her spirited niece Fanny from a plausible fortune-hunter are complicated by the arrival in Bath of Miles Caverleigh. The black sheep of his family a cynical outrageous care-for-naught with a scandalous past
- that would be a connection more shocking even than Fanny's unwise liaison with his nephew! But Abby adept at managing her sweet silly sister Selina her lively niece & the host of her admirers among Bath's circumscribed society has less success in managing her own unruly heart. The Black Sheep is a sweeping spiritual novel that shows how Geogette Heyer became the most successful & popular writer of her generation & configures to be loved by a huge readership today.
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