The big bedroom was lovely: all pale blue & white satin & muslin cool & airy the windows looking out over the garden to the creek. But to fourteen-year-old Emily beautiful though it was it was all wrong. Her stepmother's bedroom now: everything changed since her own mother had died. & stretched out on the bed: Stephanie very white & pained. The new baby on its way a month early. All of a sudden with her father away on business Emily had to take charge keep calm ring for the doctor & the ambulance. The time for looking back had gone. The Blue Bedroom is just one of Rosamunde Pilcher's magical collection of stories. Stories that will enchant everyone who has read & loved The Shell Seekers. ...

They're Young Fabulous & Fanged... And they rule Manhattan from the trendy uptown clubs to the downtown boutiques. Fifteen-year-old Schuyler Van Alen has never quite fit in at her exclusive prep school
- she's more of a vintage than a Versace girl
- but all that's about to change... Because Schuyler has just found out she's a Blue Blood. The Blue Bloods are the city's glamorous
- & secret
- vampire elite. They're young beautiful & powerful. But now they're being murdered. & Schuyler must find out who
- or what
- is behind it before she's next.





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The Blue Book of Grammar & Punctuation is filled with easy-to-understand rules real-world examples dozens of reproducible exercises & pre- & post-tests. This handy workbook is ideal for teachers students in middle school through college ESL students homeschoolers & professionals. Valuable for anyone who takes tests or writes reports letters Web pages e-mails or blogs The Blue Book offers instant answers to everyday English usage questions. ...

Recently widowed Stella Rothchild is no stranger to the ghosts of the past but the move from Michigan back to her roots near Memphis Tennessee is supposed to be about the future. Her two energetic young sons are thriving in their new school. Stella's got a great job managing successful nursery ' In the Garden' & an interesting boss & landlady in local legend Roz Harper. She even has a new friend in Hayley Phillips the feisty young pregnant woman who turns up at Harper House Stella's new home looking for a job. More than that Stella feels an instant attraction to ' In the Garden's' landscaper Logan Kitridge who gets under her skin & makes her feel truly alive for the first time in years. But there is someone at Harper House who isn't happy about Stella's growing feelings for Logan
- the Harper Bride an unidentified woman whose grief & rage have kept her spirit alive long past the death of her body. Love & loss broke her mind & in her madness she will stop at nothing to destroy the new passion that Logan & Stella have found.
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Since the end of its crippling 27-year civil war over a decade ago Angola has changed almost beyond recognition. An oil-fuelled bonanza has brought about massive foreign investment & a fabulously wealthy new elite making its capital Luanda the second most expensive city in the world. Today fortunes are being made & lost overnight & rich Angolans are eagerly buying up the assets of its former coloniser Portugal. Fascinated by this complex nation perched at the forefront of a resurgent Africa writer Daniel Metcalfe travelled to Angola to explore the country for himself. Ebullient & proud & often unwilling to dwell on its past Angola has a large army a hunger for wealth & a need to prove itself on the continent. But as Metcalfe also discovers it has some of the most grinding poverty in Africa as few Angolans have reaped the rewards of the peace. Nonetheless amid Angola's brash reality Metcalfe finds there is a place for a traveller who isn't there to make a quick buck. Crossing the country as ordinary Angolans do talking to tribal elders oil workers mine clearers & street children he encounters a place of extremes where cynicism & excess go h&-in-hand with great hospitality & ingenuity. Metcalfe also reveals a colourful history of pirates & slave traders capuchin monks syncretic Christian cults & elaborate spirit masks. This is an Angola that symbolises nothing less than a broader turning point between the continents the repositioning of the rich developed world versus Africa. It is a land that until now few outsiders have managed to unlock. ...

Twenty years ago a mysterious group called the Blue Demon committed a series of bizarre & ritualistic crimes evoking the legacy of the lost race of the Etruscans & leaving in their wake a group of dead students a murdered couple a cryptic message & a kidnapped child. Now the leaders of the G8 are descending on Rome for a summit at the Quirinale Palace. But when a politician is found ritually murdered seemingly by a strange young man dressed as an Etruscan god detective Nic Costa suspects that the old case was never really solved. The Blue Demon appear to have returned
- & planning under the leadership of the fanatical Andrea Petrakis to unleash a devastating sequence of attacks on the city. As Costa & his team start to dig deeper into the past they find that there are still too many unanswered questions -- & much more to the history of the Blue Demon than anyone wants to admit.. . Hewson is a daunting talent -- a writer who is master stylist who respects the audiences intelligence & who effortlessly keeps the thrills coming a mile a minute Jeffery Deaver
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When 12 year-old djinn twins Philippa & John Gaunt are plunged into their second fantastic adventure they need all their magical skill courage & intelligence to survive. Their adversary is the terrifying Blue Djinn who lures Philippa to a secret kingdom in ancient Babylon. John must embark on an epic journey across the globe to rescue her... ...

1942: It was towards the middle of the year when my friends started disappearing... On the island of Java the stirrings of the Second World War in Europe & the angry-looking man called Hitler seem a million miles away from Norwegian-born Lise & her siblings. Then one day her friends & neighbours start to disappear & she begins to realise that they are not safe after all. Through ten-year-old eyes Lise tells of her familys two-year imprisonment in POW camps & the brutal treatment received at the hands of their Japanese captors. For respite from the rat-infested floor of their shelter they adopt a blue door which sits on concrete posts in the ground. They live on it during the day as young Lise plots ways to protect her family from disease starvation & the desperate behaviour of fellow prisoners. This is a little girls heartbreaking tale of survival. A devastating portrayal of a childs loss of innocence to humiliating cruelty Observer ...

The forces of Hell are poised to strike... Emma's beloved John Chen is a 3000 year old Chinese god. He is becoming weaker by the day in his battle to protect her & his daughter from the Demons who pursue them relentlessly. But it is Emma who is nagged by doubts about her own nature & must find the courage to save them all... Dark Heavens Book One. Emma Donahue went to Hong Kong to become a nanny to John Chen's daughter. But John's world is different & he is no ordinary businessman
- all the gods demons & dragons in hell want him dead. & though she doesn't know it Emma holds the power to save them all... Kylie Chan's Dark Heavens trilogy is the most exciting Urban Fantasy debut of 2010. Already a smash-hit in the author's native Australia it brings a world of Oriental Gods martial arts action & romance to the genre. FILE UNDER: Modern Fantasy [ Martial arts / Chinese Gods / Magical action / Save the child!]
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Raised by Father Fujimoto a famous exorcist Rin Okumura never knew his real father. One day a fateful argument with Father Fujimoto forces Rin to face a terrible truth
- the blood of the demon lord Satan runs in Rins veins! Rin swears to defeat Satan but doing that means entering the mysterious True Cross Academy & becoming an exorcist himself. Can Rin fight demons & keep his infernal bloodline a secret? It wont be easy especially when drawing his fathers sword releases the demonic power within him! While most of the students at True Cross Academy head home for the summer break Rin & his classmates are sent to a training camp in the forest district & the right to go on a real mission is riding on their performance! Locating & recovering their objectives in the woods is tough & will require teamwork skill & more than a little magic-and Rin will have to learn to rely on his friends. But is Mephisto masterminding something behind the scenes?!
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