Anastasia Donovan knew that her gift marked her as different special
- perhaps even dangerous. She had spent years hiding herself
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Making peace with the past & friends for a lifetime. Elly is sent by her father to stay with her Aunt Dina on Sunday Island for the whole summer. With no friends Elly is bored. So when she receives a mysterious invitation for a midnight meeting she sneaks out of the house only to stumble into a bemused girl called Sierra who is just as lost as Elly. A helpful little dog leads them into an overgrown maze.. .where a grinning girl called Tash meets them. 'I thought a midnight feast would be a great start to our summer on Mystery Island!' The three girls have a lot of fun together swimming eating ice creams & exploring the isl&. By chance the girls discover that their pasts are linked. But an old mystery involving buried treasure threatens their friendship. Will the girls be able to solve the mystery & remain friends? ...

Girl 15 Charming But Insane huge bum massive ears seeks.. . Well seeks Ben Jones but failing that large Muslim-type burka garment to cover her deformities. Life can be trying when your best friend is a goddess you are a woeful underachiever & Ben Jones wont even look in your direction. Painfully spot on Girl 15 reveals with Technicolor precision the agony & the ecstasy (and the embarrassment) of being a teenager. With razor-sharp observation & deadpan humour we are offered a privileged peek at the life of Jess 15 charming but most definitely insane. This novel has a unique voice & humour that will make you want to read it again & again
- if you can bring yourself to put it down in the first place.
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As well as its advantages there are drawbacks to the enlightened village that is twenty-first-century Edinburgh where every Saturday night ears burn at dinner parties across the city & anyone requiring the investigative abilities of a philosophical soul knows where to find her. Jillian Mc Kinlay -- wife of a trustee of an illustrious school -- is the latest petitioner; she asks Isabel to look into a poison-pen letter that makes insinuations about applicants for the position of principal. Isabel's niece Cat has another new boyfriend who seems too good to be true. & when a pretty cellist with a tragic story takes a fancy to her husb&-to-be Isabel finds herself contemplating an act of heroic & alarming self-sacrifice. ...

Using Excel 2010 it's possible to create breathtaking charts graphs & other data visualizations
- & communicate even the most complex
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Jesse is on a school trip in New York when his subway carriage is rocked by an explosion. When he & three friends crawl out of the wreckage they discover a city in chaos. Streets are deserted. Buildings are in ruins. & the only other survivors are infected with a virus that turns them into horrifying predators... ...

Chasing & repousse are methods of embellishing metal objects that have been in use for millennia. With the use of punches & hammers a wide range of items from delicate jewellery such as earrings to pieces of monumental sculpture can be adorned using these techniques. The book provides clean & practical instruction that will be of use to both beginners & the more practised craftsperson. Highly illustrated the book gives a clear idea of how these methods can be used for a wide range of items. ...

If you fall too fast you just might crash... Daisy has been dumped unceremoniously jilted. Not by any ordinary guy no... Daisy has a secret in her past that she won't even tell her best friend Holly. She's given up on men
- & on her own family. But life still has to be lived & where better to recover than as far away from home as possible. Grabbing a chance to see the world Daisy packs her bags & joins the team catering to the world's highest-paid supercharged racing drivers on the Formula 1 Grand Prix circuit. From Brazil to Italy from Melbourne to Monte Carlo life passes in a dizzying whirlwind. But nothing
- & no one
- can stop Daisy from falling again...this time for a man who is prepared to risk his life & his heart for the sake of speed danger & ultimate success.


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It is fire season & the hills of Los Angeles are burning. As the Police & Fire Departments evacuate the inhabitants they find something no one expected: the days-old corpse of a middle-aged recluse who apparently committed suicide. Then comes an even more horrible discovery. Clutched in his lap is a photo album containing photographs of seven young women who have been murdered. Each photograph was taken only moments after the women were killed & could only have been taken by the killer. One murder per year for seven years their bodies found in different parts of the city. LAPD homicide detectives had never connected the seven murders. But now with the discovery of the death album there is a link. Only one suspect had been charged in any of those cases but with evidence supplied by Elvis Cole in the end he walked free. That suspect was the suicide now discovered in the fire...and now the police are out for Cole... ...

Growing up in a small town Sandy Paull dreams of something better. When she lands a job with one of Londons leading theatrical agencies her dreams appear to be coming true particularly when she meets Michael Mc Cann her handsome & dynamic boss. Ellen Shelby as a highly respected & successful agent has Hollywood at her feet. But she is as insecure with relationships as she is confident with deals. & when she meets her British rival Michael Mc Cann there is a powerful attraction between them that they are powerless to deny. But Michelle the woman Michael once loved & lost still haunts his thoughts. & when a dramatic event pulls him back into the past a nightmare of untenable proportions begins to close in on those he loves... ...