As a child Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten & starved by his mother. The world knew nothing of his living nightmare & he had nothing & no one to turn to. But his dreams kept him alive ' dreams of someone taking care of him loving him & calling him their son. Finally his horrific plight could no longer be hidden from the outside world & Dave's life radically changed. THE LOST BOY is the harrowing ' but ultimately uplifting ' true story of a boy's journey through the foster-care system in search of a family to love. The continuation of Dave Pelzer's story is a moving sequel & inspirational read for all. ...

No. 1 international bestseller & Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg's new psychological thriller
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For those who equate graffiti tagging with the cosy quirkiness of Banksy or the colourful artistry of wasteground murals
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Caroline Paul was recovering from a bad accident (she had been flying a plane when it happened) & thought things couldn't get worse. But then her beloved cat Tibia disappeared. She & her partner illustrator Wendy Mac Naughton anxiously waited for his return before resigning themselves to their loss. But weeks later Tibia waltzed back into their lives. His owners were overjoyed. They might also have been a bit jealous. All right they were very jealous! Where had their sweet anxious cat disappeared to? Had he become a swashbuckling cat adventurer? Did he love someone else more? His owners were determined to find out. Using methods as diverse as GPS technology cat cameras psychics the web & animal communicators they embarked on a quest to discover what their cat did when they weren't around. Writer Caroline Paul tells the warm & poignant story of their discoveries alongside Wendy Mac Naughton's elegant & hilarious full-colour watercolours. Lost Cat is a book for animal lovers pet owners & anyone who has ever done anything desperate for love. ...

When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952 Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the Church took him from her & sold him like countless others to America for adoption. Coerced into signing a document promising never to attempt to see her child again she nonetheless spent the next fifty years secretly searching for him unaware that he was searching for her from across the Atlantic. Philomena's son renamed Michael Hess grew up to be a top Washington lawyer & a leading Republican official in the Reagan & Bush administrations. But he was a gay man in a homophobic party where he had to conceal not only his sexuality but eventually the fact that he had AIDs. With little time left he returned to Ireland & the convent where he was born: his desperate quest to find his mother before he died left a legacy that was to unfold with unexpected consequences for all involved. The Lost Child of Philomena Lee" is the tale of a mother & a son whose lives were scarred by the forces of hypocrisy on both sides of the Atlantic & of the secrets they were forced to keep. A compelling narrative of human love & loss Martin Sixsmith's moving account is both heartbreaking yet ultimately redemptive." ...

Goose is lost. Its Christmas his parents are dead & now his dog Mutt has gone missing. Those around him arent doing much better: his uncle Franks wife has walked out & his nan is losing her mind. But then Anthony appears
- a man who seems to know everything about those he meets but nothing at all about himself. Who is he how does he know so much & can he help Goose & the others recover what theyve lost? So begins a dramatic adventure through love loss & the quest for home.
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Lost City" is a nerve-shredding "NUMA Files" novel from Clive Cussler international bestseller. Kurt Austins toughest assignment yet... The discovery of a body frozen for ninety years in a glacier high in the French Alps seems of unlikely concern to Kurt Austin & the NUMA Special Projects team. But when those on site are trapped in alpine tunnels flooding with glacial meltwater Austin can hardly ignore a cry for help. & this near tragedy proves to be no mere accident. For the body held a secret. A secret someone was prepared to kill for. Soon Austin is plunged into a mystery involving a virulent algal weed ravaging the Atlantics " Lost City" trench while he & the team face a family of astonishing greed
- who will stop at nothing to get what they want... Clive Cussler author of the best-selling " Dirk Pitt" novels " Arctic Drift" & " The Treasure of Khan" & co-author Paul Kemprecos unravel a tangled web of conspiracy & greed in " Lost City" the fifth novel of the action-packed "NUMA Files" series. Praise for Clive Cussler: " The Master is back... Cussler is in top form with this galloping tale of derring-do & world domination". (" Sunday Express"). Bestselling author Clive Cussler has kept readers on the edges of their seats for four decades with his thrilling action novels. As well as the "NUMA Files" series there are also the " Oregon Files" the " Dirk Pitt" stories (which started it all) the " Isaac Bell" adventures & the Fargo" series. The other titles in the "NUMA" files series are: " Serpent" " Blue Gold" " Fire Ice" " White Death" " Polar Shift" " The Navigator" " Medusa" " Devils Gate" & " The Storm"."
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Fresh from his adventures on Denduron Bobby Pendragon suddenly finds himself in the territory of Cloral a vast world that is entirely covered by water. Cloral is nearing disaster of huge proportions & is on the brink of all-out war. Bobby & Uncle Press must struggle to locate the legendary lost land of Faar which may hold the key to Clorals survival. ...

In 1911 Hiram Bingham a pre-historian with a love of exotic destinations set out to Peru in search of the legendary city of Vilcabamba capital city of the last Inca ruler Manco Inca. With a combination of doggedness & good fortune he stumbled on the perfectly preserved ruins of Machu Picchu perched on a cloud-capped ledge 2000 feet above the torrent of the Urubamba River. The buildings were of white granite exquisitely carved blocks each higher than a man. Bingham had not as it turned out found Vilcabamba but he had nevertheless made an astonishing & memorable discovery which he describes in his bestselling book LOST CITY OF THE INCAS. ...

Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett the inspiration behind Conan Doyles novel The Lost World was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. For years he explored the Amazon & came to believe that its jungle concealed a large complex civilization like El Dorado. Obsessed with its discovery he christened it the City of Z. In 1925 Fawcett headed into the wilderness with his son Jack vowing to make history. They vanished without a trace. For the next eighty years hordes of explorers plunged into the jungle trying to find evidence of Fawcetts party or Z. Some died from disease & starvation; others simply disappeared. In this spellbinding true tale of lethal obsession David Grann retraces the footsteps of Fawcett & his followers as he unravels one of the greatest mysteries of exploration. ...