Meet Carrie Bradshaw before ' Sex & the City!' The Carrie Diaries is the coming-of-age story of one of the most iconic characters of our generation. Before Sex & the City Carrie Bradshaw was a small town girl who knew she wanted more. She's ready for real life to start but first she must navigate her senior year of high school. Up until now Carrie & her friends have been inseparable. Then Sebastian Kydd comes into the picture & a friend's betrayal makes her question everything. With an unforgettable cast of characters The Carrie Diaries is the story of how a regular girl learns to think for herself & evolves into a sharp insightful writer. Readers will learn about her family background how she found her writing voice & the indelible impression her early friendships & relationships left on her. Through adventures both audacious & poignant we'll see what brings Carrie to her beloved New York City where her new life begins. ...

Carries War" is an unforgettable Second World War story about two evacuee children by Nina Bawden author of the Guardian Childrens Fiction Award winning novel " The Peppermint Pig". Perfect for fans of " Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian". It is the Second World War & Carrie & Nick are evacuated from London to a small town in Wales where they are placed with strict Mr Evans & his timid mouse of a sister. Their friend Albert is luckier living in Druids Bottom with Hepzibah Green who tells wonderful stories & the strange Mister Johnny who speaks a language all of his own. Carrie & Nick are happy to visit Albert there until one day when Carrie does a terrible thing
- the worst thing she ever did in her life... Based on her own childhood Nina Bawdens enchanting story " Carries War" has delighted readers for almost 40 years."
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Albert Carrie & young Nick are war-time evacuees whose lives get so tangled up with the people theyve come to live among that the war & their real families seem to belong to another world. Carrie & Nick are billeted in Wales with old Mr Evans who is so mean & cold & his timid mouse of a sister Lou who suddenly starts having secrets. Their friend Albert is luckier living in Druids Bottom with warm-hearted Hepzibah Green & the strange Mister Johnny who can talk to animals but not to human beings. Carrie & Nick visit him there whenever they can for Hepzibah makes life exciting & enticing with her stories & delicious cooking. Gradually they begin to feel more at ease in their war-time home but then in trying to heal the rift between Mr. Evans & his estranged sister & save Druids Bottom Carrie does a terrible thing which is to haunt her for years to come. Carrie revisits Wales as an adult & tells the story to her own children. ...

Carrie's Protector Bodyguard Wyatt Hawk's new mission is to protectï ½photographer Carrie Mitchell when she testifiesï ½about a terrorist plot
- instead an ambush sends them on the run. But saving Carrie from the terrorists was the easy part...because all too soon he finds himself succumbing to Carrie's seductive allure. Now all he's left unguarded is his heart. For the Baby's Sake Burned in the past Detective Sawyer Montgomery's learned to stay guardedï ½when a beautiful woman's involved. Problem is when his witness & beautiful counsellor Liz Mayfield's client suspiciously vanishes joining forces is the only option. But when Liz's life is threatened the desire between them willï ½testï ½everyï ½fibre of Sawyer's selfcontrol...
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The 40th anniversary edition of Nina Bawden's much-loved Second World War classic. Carrie & her little brother are evacuated to Wales & billeted at the home of the bullying Mr Evans & his timid sister Lou. Unhappy at home they love visiting fellow evacuee Albert at the farm of Druid's Bottom. Here they meet Hepzibah Green who knows magical stories & Mister Johnny who speaks a language all his own. But then things go wrong & Carrie takes things into her own hands
- without guessing the awful consequences. Nina Bawden was one of the Uk's best writers for both adults & children. She has often used her own childhood experiences in her books
- Carrie's War" is set in the mining valley in Wales where she lived as an evacuee in wartime. She studied philosophy politics & economics at Somerville College Oxford & finished her first novel the year after she took her degree. She won the Guardian Award for Children's Fiction for The Peppermint Pig & died in 2012."

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When her plane is delayed overnight Gaby Struthers finds herself forced to share a hotel room with a stranger: a terrified young woman named Lauren Cookson
- but why is she scared of Gaby in particular? Lauren wont explain. Instead she blurts out something about an innocent man going to prison for a murder he didnt commit & Gaby soon suspects that Laurens presence on her flight cant be a coincidence. Because the murder victim is Francine Breary the wife of the only man Gaby has ever truly loved. Tim Breary has confessed & even provided the police with evidence. The only thing he hasnt given them is a motive. He claims to have no idea why he murdered his wife.. .
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When her plane is delayed overnight Gaby Struthers finds herself forced to share a hotel room with a stranger: a terrified young woman named Lauren Cookson
- but why is she scared of Gaby in particular? Lauren wont explain. Instead she blurts out something about an innocent man going to prison for a murder he didnt commit & Gaby soon suspects that Laurens presence on her flight cant be a coincidence. Because the murder victim is Francine Breary the wife of the only man Gaby has ever truly loved. Tim Breary has confessed & even provided the police with evidence. The only thing he hasnt given them is a motive. He claims to have no idea why he murdered his wife.. .
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A stunning debut crime novel set against a backdrop of poachers witch doctors diamond smugglers & corruption... They find the ...

How do different animals carry their babies? In this book readers will discover through a series of photographs that some animals carry their young by the teeth some on their backs & others in a special pouch. * Lilac/ Band 0
- wordless book that gives information through pictures & is designed to develop understanding about how information books work. * Text type
- Non-Fiction * Photographs of all the animal babies (and a human baby!) included in the book are repeated on pages 14 & 15 to encourage speaking & listening.

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This is a Jeeves & Wooster collection. These marvellous stories introduce us to Jeeves whose first ever duty is to cure Berties raging hangover (If you would drink this sir...it is a little preparation of my own invention. It is the Worcester Sauce that gives it its colour. The raw egg makes it nutritious. The red pepper gives it its bite. Gentlemen have told me they have found it extremely invigorating after a late evening.) & from that moment one of the funniest sharpest & most touching partnerships in English literature never looks back... ...