Etienne Argeneau can turn one human into a vampire in his lifetime
- an honour his kind usually reserved for their life mates to
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The twins are travelling to Transylvania! Olivia's really nervous because she's meeting her vampire family for the first time (there's a lot at stake). Plus it doesn't help that she'll be there for Valentine's Day & her new boyfriend Jackson the hot movie star doesn't seem bothered that he won't be with her. But it turns out it's Ivy who feels out of place despite being surrounded by vampires! & Olivia's been noticed by Prince Alex a smooth-talking handsome vampire with an eye for non-vamps. Could it be love at first bite? & what about Jackson?! Sink your teeth into Olivia & Ivy's sixth fright-time adventure. ...

Many if not most parents feel that their children may have missed out in some way during the early years. Offering a simple relatively trouble-free self-help method for putting that right is what parents were waiting for. This book is written in highly accessible language assures Oliver James. The method is explained as simply as possible illustrated with cases. Love Bombing is a very simple technique which helps most children from aged three to early teenage. Because so many parents are or have had periods of living very busy or miserable or complicated lives most of us need to reconnect with our children from time to time. Love Bombing does the job explains James. Originally he developed the method as part of his work presenting three series of parenting programmes on ITVs This Morning. The entry point for parents will be the particular kind of problem their child has. Each chapter will be about Love Bombing this specific difficulty illustrated with cases. Problems described include temper tantrums hyperactivy clinging or even shyness. Along the way the author brings in scientific evidence regarding the issue its causes & solutions. The method works equally well whatever nation you are in because the fundamental needs of children are the same everywhere says James. This book has a genuine international feel as the author has already been contacted by more than eighty mothers all over the world who have tried the method & have given positive feedback. ...

In 1980 three schoolgirls visit St. Valentines shrine in Dublin to write their petitions for love. Years later Abby Vonnie & Diana have discovered that finding love was the easy bit
- its what you do with it once youve found it thats tricky.. . When Vonnie returns home unexpectedly from her life in California all three women are forced to examine their choices loves & lives which have proved surprising & in some ways precarious. So much for St. Valentine
- if the saint has taught them anything about love its be careful what you wish for.. . But real love is always a work in progress & even life-long friends must learn to open their eyes
- & especially their hearts
- because St. Valentine has some unfinished business with them.. .



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Fourteen-year-old Trixie Jackson hoped she had a future to look forward to. But when she is sacked from the local factory she is forced to work as a housekeeper for one of her father's friends
- a man she instinctively dislikes. Kept under lock & key her life soon becomes a living hell. But in her haste to escape she injures herself & ends up in hospital. However her troubles are only just beginning. When her mother is involved in a tragic accident & dies Trixie & her younger sister Cilla are left at the mercy of their bullying father. All too quickly he brings his mistress Daisy into the house. & she will stop at nothing to make the girls' lives utter misery.
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France 1918. Sophia the rebellious daughter of a distinguished German general is on her way to the town of Douai to elope with the man of her dreams
- a young army officer
- against her parents wishes. On her way she witnesses a dramatic battle in the skies that leaves an English pilot without a plane & under the misapprehension that Sophia is on his side. She has no choice but to agree to assist him in his attempt to avoid capture & he joins her in the family car she has stolen trailed by both the German Army & a staff officer under strict instructions from Sophias father to bring her home. With their pursuers hot on their heels how will Sophia explain her behaviour protecting a man she is supposed to hate? & after sharing so many adventures will she be able to turn the flying officer in when the time comes?

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France 1918. Sophia the rebellious daughter of a distinguished German general is on her way to the town of Douai to elope with the man of her dreams
- a young army officer
- against her parents' wishes. On her way she witnesses a dramatic battle in the skies that leaves an English pilot without a plane & under the misapprehension that Sophia is on his side. She has no choice but to agree to assist him in his attempt to avoid capture & he joins her in the family car she has stolen trailed by both the German Army & a staff officer under strict instructions from Sophia's father to bring her home. With their pursuers hot on their heels how will Sophia explain her behaviour protecting a man she is supposed to hate? & after sharing so many adventures will she be able to turn the flying officer in when the time comes?

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This is a Greek (island) tragedy? When Poppy & Graham are whisked off to a Greek island to watch musician Bill Strummer marry his much younger girlfriend in the celebrity wedding of the year they are expecting sun sea & a hint of scandal. But things begin to turn sour when Bill's distressed ex-wife turns up proclaiming that he's still in love with her. Then wedding guests start to die of 'natural causes' & Poppy & Graham are forced to investigate. It would seem that one member of the wedding party will stop at nothing to disrupt the celebrations... ...

The announcement of a grand Treasure Hunt sets the Lodes Valley ladies hearts aflutter. The cash is only part of the appeal: a win could solve several romantic dilemmas. Pixie Guinness sees the quest as a route back to her wayward husband while Pheely is spurred into a covert affair. Faith hopes to snare true love Rory; & Liv
- well Liv just wants distraction from the boredom of country life. But it is Trudy who finds the trail of clues leads her in quite a different direction & one closer & closer to temptation. Is she chasing a rainbow or just chasing her own tail? As the hunt reaches its climax the competitors find they are fighting for the highest prize of all
- their own happy ending.

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In one of the wittiest novels of them all Nancy Mitford casts a finely gauged net to capture perfectly the foibles & fancies of the English upper class. Set in the privileged world of the county house party & the London season this is a comedy of English manners between the wars by one of the most individual beguiling & creative users of the language. ...