What happens when a robot designed to be a boys ideal companion develops a will of her own? This is a compulsively readable novel from a hot new talent in YA. Hello David. My name is Rose. Its a pleasure to meet you. We are now entering minute two of our friendship. According to my Intimacy Clock a handshake is now appropriate. David & Charlie are opposites. David has a million friends online & off. Charlie is a soulful outsider off the grid completely. But neither feels close to anybody. When Davids parents present him with a hot Companion bot to encourage healthy bonds & treat dissociative disorder he cant get enough of luscious red-headed Rose
- & he cant get it soon. Companions come with strict intimacy protocols & whenever he tries anything David gets an electric shock. Severed from the boy she was built to love Rose turns to Charlie who finds he can open up knowing Rose isnt real. With Charlies help the ideal companion is about to become her own best friend. In a stunning & hilarious debut John Cusick takes rollicking aim at internet culture & our craving for meaningful connection in an uber-connected world. A strong boy read that girls will love too: sexy hilarious high-tech & full of pop-culture nods to everything from Blade Runner to Buffy.
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An orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena & an artists servant girl in seventeenth-century Amsterdam snatches a moment away from her work to lose herself in tales of knights & battles. A woman reading in a Shoreditch bar catches the eye of a young ma ...

Wilhelmina Silvers world is golden. Living half-wild on an African farm with her horse her monkey & her best friend every day is beautiful. But when her home is sold & Will is sent away to boarding school in England the world becomes impossibly difficult. For lions & hyenas are nothing compared to packs of schoolgirls. Where can a girl run to in London? & will she have the courage to survive? ...

Full of fun artwork & enlivened with a modern quirky design these books offer essential information on the ups & downs of growing up. Written in a direct yet informal way these handy guides will be a useful aid for pre-teen readers. This title offers sensitive treatment of difficult but familiar issues. It features fun graphic-style artwork. It contains down-to-earth text with clear practical advice. ...

Emily feels wicked liberated daring. & bored. But her adventure begins on holiday in La Gomera when a rugged beachcomber removes the leather thong from his neck & binds her hands behind her. Crossing oceans & continents in a nether world of smugglers arms dealers & pirates she becomes the adored but captive jewel of the tough inflexible men who make a living in inhospitable landscapes. On hot afternoons on long days without number she dedicates herself to the pleasures of sex in all its shapes & forms. She learns subservience. She becomes the perfect concubine. The perfect lover. She becomes Chengi
- Girl.
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May 1941 & the island of Crete is invaded by paratroopers from the air. After a lengthy fight thousands of British & Commonwealth soldiers are forced to take to the hills or become escaping Po Ws sheltered by the Cretan villagers. Sixty years later Lois West & her young son Alex invite feisty Great Aunt Pen to a special eighty-fifth birthday celebration on Crete knowing she has not been back there since the war. Penelope George
- formerly Giorgidiou
- is reluctant to go but is persuaded by the fact it is the 60th anniversary of the Battle. It is time for her to return & make the journey she never thought shed dare to. On the outward voyage from Athens she relives her experiences in the city from her early years as a trainee nurse to those last dark days stranded on the island the last female foreigner. When word spreads of her visit & old Cretan friends & family come to greet her Lois & Alex are caught up in her epic pilgrimage & the journey which leads her to a reunion with the friend she thought she had lost forever
- & the truth behind a secret buried deep in the past...


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May 1941 & the island of Crete is invaded by paratroopers from the air. After a lengthy fight thousands of British & Commonwealth soldiers are forced to take to the hills or become escaping Po Ws sheltered by the Cretan villagers. Sixty years later Lois West & her young son Alex invite feisty Great Aunt Pen to a special eighty-fifth birthday celebration on Crete knowing she has not been back there since the war. Penelope George
- formerly Giorgidiou
- is reluctant to go but is persuaded by the fact it is the 60th anniversary of the Battle. It is time for her to return & make the journey she never thought she'd dare to. On the outward voyage from Athens she relives her experiences in the city from her early years as a trainee nurse to those last dark days stranded on the island the last female foreigner. When word spreads of her visit & old Cretan friends & family come to greet her Lois & Alex are caught up in her epic pilgrimage & the journey which leads her to a reunion with the friend she thought she had lost forever
- & the truth behind a secret buried deep in the past...


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September is a twelve-year-old girl Somewhat Grown & Somewhat Heartless & she longs for adventure. So when a Green Wind & a Leopard of Little Breezes invite her to Fairyland
- well of course she accepts (mightnt you?). When she gets there she finds a land crushed by the iron rule of a villainous Marquess
- she soon discovers that she alone holds the key to restoring order. Having read enough books to know what a girl with a quest must do September sets out to Fix Things. As September forges her way through Fairyland with a book-loving dragon & a boy named Saturday by her side she makes many friends & mistakes losing her shadow her shoes & her way. But she finds adventure courage a rather special Spoon & a lot more besides...

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September is a twelve-year-old girl Somewhat Grown & Somewhat Heartless & she longs for adventure. So when a Green Wind & a Leopard of Little Breezes invite her to Fairyland
- well of course she accepts (mightn't you?). When she gets there she finds a land crushed by the iron rule of a villainous Marquess
- she soon discovers that she alone holds the key to restoring order. As September forges her way through Fairyland with a book-loving dragon & a boy named Saturday by her side she makes many friends & mistakes. But while she loses her shadow her shoe & her way she finds adventure courage a rather special Spoon & a lot more besides...

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Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva & in England half French half British naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France it seems her hybrid status
- & fluent French
- will be of service to a greater more dangerous cause. Trained in sabotage dead-drops how to perform under interrogation & how to kill Marian parachutes into south-west France her official mission to act as a Resistance courier. But her real destination is Paris where she must seek out family friend Clement Pelletier once the focus of her adolescent desires. A nuclear physicist engaged in the race for a new & terrifying weapon he is of urgent significance to her superiors. As she struggles through the strange lethal landscape of the Occupation towards this reunion what completes her training is the understanding that war changes everything & neither love nor fatherland may be trusted. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky is both a gripping adventure story & a moving meditation on patriotism betrayal & the limits of love.

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